The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 19, 1903, Page 6

MISSOURI LEGSkATURE. NERYBODY WAS PUY Thermometers Weat Lower Tues- day Morning Than Any Previ- ous Time This Winter. House Appropriates $375,000 for As- ent and Cellection of Taxes —County Agricultural Schools. } | | Jefferson City, Mo. Feb. 17.—The house passed a bill appropriating $375,000 to pay for the assessment and collection of the state revenue for the coming ten years. It takes about ten per cent, of the state revenue to pay for collecting it. The house passed a bill by Davidson to authorize justices, when their con- stables are interested in suits, to dep- utize some one else to serve the neces- sary process. The senate committee on railroads reported on a maximum freight rate bill with the reeommendation that | the bill do pass, Representative Colden introduced | a bill in the house yesterday to re- quire county assessors to make their assessments in April and May of each year, The assessors now begin work | June 1. He would have them finish by that date. A bill by Senator Young is to pro- tect the illiterate voter by requiring the election judges to be separated at a distance of ten feet from the voters and forbidding the judges to give the voter any card or marked pa- per which would indicate to a person on the outside of a voting booth how the man had voted. A bill by Senator Young makes no property owned by persons having sheep-killing dogs exempt from exe- cution issued on a judgment secured against them by the owner of the sheep. A bill by Senator McIndoe provides for the establishment of county schools of agriculture and domestic economy. A bill by Senator Fields is aimed at the telephone smasher. It provides that any person who destroys tele- graph or telephone wires or poles or interferes in any way with the trans- mission of messages shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. The legislature will have $500,000 more for appropriations this year than two years ago. This comes in the main from the beer tax. The deficiency bills are about $200,000 less than 1901, due to light criminal costs. The house committee on appropria- tions favors $100,000 for the state militia, The bill changing the name of the Boonville reform school for boys to the state manual training school was passed by the senate, In the house a bill was introduced by Colden, of Nodaway, cutting down the fees of the excise commissioner of St. Louis from 40 to 25 per cent. of the total amount of fees collected. At present the office pays about $17,- 000 a year. Another bill provides that inebri- ates shall be confined in the Fulton insane asylum until cured. Haynes’ bill compelling manufactur- ers of fertilizers to print the formula on the outside of the bag or box was sent to engrossment. The appropriation bills providing for the expenditure of $487,000 in the re- demption of the outstanding state bonds and setting apart one-third of the general revenue fund to the sup- port of the public schools, passed in the house a few days ago, were signed by the governor, The freight rate bill introduced by Senator Dickenson was reported to the senate by the committee qn. rail- roads with the recommendation that It pass. NO SECTION OF COUNTRY ESCAPED, From Kansas to Boston Zero Weather Pre- valied—Pittsbarg, Pa., Had Both Storm and Flood—At Loulsviiie, Ky., 8 Record- Breaking Snowfall Followed a 87-Hour Rain— Warmer Weather Predicted. Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 17.—At eight o’clock Tuesday morning the official thermometer at the government weather bureau registered nine de- grees below zero. At six o'clock it was 12 below, the coldest of the sea- son. The prediction for Wednesday is for-warmer weather. Serious Coal Famine im St, Louls. St. Louis, Feb. 17.—Because of lack of fuel at the city hospital, the lives of 700 patients, some of whom are at the point of death, are endangered by the cold. Since the cold snap struck St. Louis the hospital has been with- out enough coal and the authorities have been compelled to economize in the use of what they had. An insuf- ficient supply of coal at the court house resulted in the closing of the courts and offices there to-day. There seems to be plenty of coal in the city, but owing to the condition of the streets and the cold weather it is ex- tremely hard to deliver. Cold Kills Southern People. Atlanta, Ga., Feb. 17.—The severest weather of the winter prevails over the south, following Monday's storms which killed two people and injured several. In Atlanta, all records for high winds were broken when the gale blew at the rate of 60 miles an hour. This velocity was maintained at several other places, The tempera- ture was two above at Nashville, six at Memphis and nine at Knoxville. In Birmingham, the mercury has fallen 59 degrees in 12 hours and in New Orleans 43, Communication with Louisville is cut off. Colder weather is the forecast for Florida. Chicago Isolated for a Time. Chicago, Feb, 17.—Chicago is shiv- ering in the coldest weather of the season, The cold wave increased in severity throughout the night. The intense cold practically cut the city off from telegraphic communication with the outside world during the early part of the day. Storm and Fiood at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, Pa., Feb, 17.—Pittsburg is im the grip of a cold wave, heavy snow and a flood. Luckily, the high water missed the danger point aad beyond flooding the lowlands and causing inconvenience to owners of plants along the river front, no dan- ger was done, During the night a fierce snow and windstorm developed and there is a half foot of snow on the level and zero weather prevails. At Schenectady 15 Inches of Snow. Schenectady, N. Y., Feb. 17.—Sinee Monday afternoon more than 15 inches of snow have fallen and it is still snowing hard. The interurban trolley systems are greatly impeded and the local railroad service has been tied up almost completely. Storm at Boston Ties Up Shipping. Boston, Feb. 17.—The worst snow- storm of the winter thus far is pre- vailing here. Railroad and street car service is badly hampered and ship- ping effectually tied up. Twelve Below at Topeka. Topeka, Kan., Feb. 17.—Following the heaviest snowstorm in years the temperature also started out to break the record. It succeeded in reaching 12 degrees below during the night, Remarkable Weather io Loutsviile. Loulaville, Ky., Feb. 17.—Following @ 36-hour rain and a half-day’s record- breaking snowfall, Louisville Tuesday experienced the coldest weather of the winter—one above zero. GREATEST OF MONOPOLISTS. doha D. Rockefeller, of Standard Ol! Fame, Made Eight Million Dollars in One Day. New York, Feb. 17.—John D. Rocke- feller went down to his office at No. 26 Broadway yesterday, and a few hours later emerged $8,000,000 richer than when he entered. Standard oil had deciared its quarterly dividend of $20 per share. The cost of refin- ing oil having been reduced to one- half the former cost, it was predicted in Wall street that this would be the greatest money-making year that the greatest of all monopolies has. ever known. The forecast has proved cor- rect. Standard oi] shares rose six points, to 741, on the curb upon the announcement of the dividend. Ex-Marshal Louls G. Bohle Dead. St. Louis, Feb. 17.—Louis G. Bohle, former Untied States marshal and a well-known republican pelitician of St. Louis, is dead as the result of an operation for cancer. He was ap- pointed in 1896 by President McKinley and served four years. Hay and Bowen “Sign Up” Washington, Feb. 17.—Secretary Hay for the United States and Minis- ter Bowen, for Venezuela, Tuesday signed a protocol providing for the adjustment of United States claims against Venezuela by a commission to meet at Caracas. WANT CASH OR REVENGE. Chicago Investors in Tarf Investment Companies Crowd the Prosecutor's Of- fice to Offer Evidence of Fraud. Chicago, Feb. 17—Nearly 100 per- sons claiming to have been made vic- tims of the “get-rich-quick” turf con- cerns here whose offices were raided last week, gathered at the Harrison street police station to attend a meet- ing called by the police. At the time the meeting was called, it was an- nounced that plans for prosecuting the arrested men would be discussed and means of getting back invest- ments decided upon. As fast as the persons arrived they were told to go to Inspector James Stuart, at the post office, or to the offices of the state’s attorney, where plans of prosecution would be discussed. An- ticipating federal action against them, the concerns whose places were recently raided have- given orders that their mail be delivered to other addresses. After sorting over the ma- terial taken in the second raid of Harry Brolaski’s place, the police as- sert that evidence was found that in- vestors lost at least $17,500 in ad- dition to the $20,500 known to have been lost when the first raid was Will James Take Younger'’s Placet Lee’s Summit, Mo., Feb. 17.—Frank James is going on the stage. He is to take the part selected in a drama for Cole Younger. Younger and James were in conference for sev- eral hours yesterday. It was the first time the two men had met for sears. Missourian Frozen to Death. Browning, Mo., Feb. 17.—J. H. Thrasher, aged 60 years, was found dead in a barn at his place, 15 miles east of here. It is supposed he was frozen to death while doing his morn- Joplin Postal Clerk in Trouble. Joplin,, Mo.,~ Feb, 17.—Ernest W. Hinman, a general delivery clerk of the Joplin post office, is under arrest, charged with obtaining several hun- dred dollars under false pretenses. President Roosevelt has expressed a desire to have Dr. W. D. Crum, the negro, confirmed for collector of the overpowered the turnkey and escaped at eight o'clock last night. PRLUMEA ESI With Great Eclat King Edward Set the British Law-Making Body in Motion. ‘lin the coming national election. The EXPENDITURES WILL BE INCREASED, Taxpayers Given Warning That the Boer War Bilis Have Not Yet Been Liquidat- ed—Parliament Must Tackle the Irish Land Question, London Education and Sagar Bounties. ' London, Feb. 17.—King Edward, ac- companied by Queen Alexandra and surrounded by the court and all the officers of state, opened parliament Tuesday afternoon. Early in the morning the vault of the houses were searched for imaginary conspirators, as usual, by the yeomen of the guard carrying ancient lanterns and useless halberds, The royal procession, con- sisting of six state carriages, escort- ed by life guards, left Buckingham palace at 1:30 p,m, Their majesties were seated in the last carriage, which was drawn by the eight Han- overian horses which have figured in all the recent royal ceremonies. ‘The king and queen reached the Victoria tower through the mall, the horse guards and Whitehall, All the great officers of state, in varied uniforms, were assembled at the royal entrance of the house of peers to receive the king. The procession, which was iden- tical with that of the previous similar ceremony, formed and headed by the Pursuivants and heralds, marched to the robing room. After the robing the processfon re-formed, and with a blast of trumpets advanced to the peers chamber, the duke ef Devon- shire, lord president of the council, preceding their majesties with the imperial crown, which he carried on acushion, The king then seated him- self on the throne with the lords bearing the cap of maintenance and the sword of state standing on his right and left. The queen sat on the left of the king and the prince of Wales on his right. The members of the house of com- mons were tien summoned and on their arrival the lord high chancellor, Karl Halsbury, kneeling, handed the king the speech, which his majesty read from the steps of the throne, as follows: “My relations with all the foreign powers continue friendly, ‘The blockade of the Venezuelan ports has led to negotiations for the ad- justment of all thee matters in dis- pute. I repoice that’ a settlement has now been arrived at which has justified the blockading powers in bringing all hostile naval operations to an immediate close, Negotiations have taken place for an adjustment of the questions which have arisen in regard to the boundary of my pos- sessions in North America and that of the territory of Alaska.” After referring to the Kano (Nigeria) expe- dition and the India durbar, the king said: “I am glad to be able to state that the latter imposing ceremony coincided with the disappearance of the drought and a great distress in western India and that the prospects for both agriculture and commerce throughout my Indian empire are more encouraging and satisfactory | than for some time past.” The speech concluded with an intimation that the budget estimates of the expend- itures would inevitably be large and with promising the introduction of bills dealing with the Irish land ques- tion, London education, sugar boun- ties and the London docks. In regard to the Irish measure, the king said: “It will, I trust, complete the series of measures which have already done much to substitute single ownership for the costly and unsatisfactory conditions still attaching to the ten- ure of agriculture over a large por- tion of Ireland.” No Wemen’s Building. New York, Feb. 17—A meeting of the women managers of the Louisi- ana Purchase exposition was held here yesterday. The subject of the proposed women’s building at the ex- position was taken up. After an ex- ecutive session Mrs. James L. Blair announced that there would be no women’s building and that the deci- sion had been reached unanimously. Risked Life to Save Train. Cairo, Ill, Feb. 17.—S. S. Glass- cock, a farmer, faced a blizzard in his shirt sleeves for more than an hour yesterday to save 100 passen- gers on the Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis railroad. Glass- cock was frozen so badly that he had to be carried into the cars after he flagged the train near Harrisburg. Gives L:brary to United States. Rochester, N. Y., Feb. 17.—Susan B. Anthony has decided to give all of her collection of books to the United States. They will be placed in an alcove in the congressional library at Washington, dedicated to her, and will contain the largest collection of woman suffrage literature and his- tory in the world. Tee on the Cab Window. % Emporia, Kan., Feb. 17.—A wreck occurred on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas railroad south of town Sun. day night. The engineer was unable to see a red light on a train, because of the ice on the cab window. The engines and several cars were wrecked, but no one wag injured. For Rock Island Grading. Topeka, Kan., Feb..17.--The Rock Island yesterday let their contract for grading 112 miles of proposed new track from Tucumsari, I. T., to a ers the Choctaw divi- G2TTING ON PARKER. fu Wall Street » Wager of Sive to 100 That He Will Be the Democratic Nomiace. New York, Feb. 17.—Talk about Judge Parker, of the court of appeals, as a possible presidential nominee al- ready has developed a betting interest is often hanging in the balance when a physi- cian writes a prescription. If the compound- ing is inaccurate, or if the drags supplied are lacking in purity or strength, who shall an- swer for results? We recognize our responsibility in these matters. We regard every prescription as one requir- ing the utmost care as to ac- curacy, and demanding the highest grade of drugs that money will buy. Our ideal’ prescription service costs you nothing extra—we always strive to give the best of everything at prices that are absolute= ly fair. H, L, TUCKER, Best. Drug Store in Bates Co., Butler, Mo. first wager was recorded in Wall street to-day. The principals to the bets were wealthy brokers. One wager was $100 to $200 that Judge Parker will receive the democratit nomination for president,- and the other was $200 against $1,000 that if Judge Parker is nominated he will be elected. Bets of this character are unusual prior to the nominations by either party, and may indicate heavy wagers if Judge Parker is the candi- date of his party. HELPING MRS. LILLIE. ‘Diatrict Judge Ruled Out All the Evidence That Would Conviet Her for Kill- log Her Hasband. David City, Neb. Feb, 17.—The de- fense in the Mrs. Lillie murder trial gained its first point Tuesday. Judge tiood ruled out the testimony of the defendant, Mrs, Lillie, before the cor- oner’s jury held immediately after the murder of her husband, Harvey Lillie, last October. Mrs. Lillie did not go on the stand in the preliminary trial. Her evidence before the cor- oner’s jury had been damaging in that the prosecution was attempting to prove her story untrue, The weak- ness of her own story was the strong- est evidence against her and with this ruled out the other evidence may not be sufficient to convict. Cook Stove Explosion Hurt Two. LLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL LLL PS Kansas City, Mo., Feb. 17.—The cold weather last night caused the hot water pipes to freeze in the home of Mrs, A. C, Jones, at 1513 Lydia avenue, When a fire was started in the kitchen range it thawed the ice in the pipes and they burst, tearing the range to fragments, breaking the window glass and injuring Miss Lulu Sparks, a visitor, and Orr Jones, the young son of Mrs. Jones. STEWART ATCHESON. S. G BEVINGTON, Farms bought and sold, New Strength System Tried. Cambridge, Mass., Feb, 17.—The first official strength test in Hemmen- way gymnasium at Harvard to es- tablish a record under Dr, Sargent’s new system has been made by E. W. Foster, who ran a relay race. He scored a total of 230,170 foot pounds, The new system does away with ap- paratus and a test has to be com- pleted in 30 minutes, City property for sale or exchange. Properties handled for non-resi- dents and taxes paid. We want you to call and get acquainted. If you have anything you want to sell get it in Mrs, Roosevelt Btust Rest. Washington, Feb. 17.—Mrs. Roose- velt’s physician says he is glad the Lenten season is approaching. The president’s wife has been ill for a week. She left her room yesterday but she is still far from well. The physician says she has been enter- taining too much and that she has overtaxed her strength. catalogue for this year. Corn Belt Land Co., North Side Square. ATCHESON & BEVINGTON. Machine to 1@ Money. New York, Feb. 17.—In a trial pro- gressing in the county court in Brooklyn the district attorney had occasion to show the workings of a machine used to catch persons sus- ceptible to the influence of the green goods idea, and by which, it was said, at least $50,000 had been obtained. RLLPLLP LLL ELLE L LO PLE LLL IPL LEIP LLLP LS Gsuuunnsussssssssssssssssssas BHSEEEHEEEDESESSEESESSSEBSS Cortelyou to Be Secretary. Mysterious Circumstance. Washington, February 14—The| One was pale and sallow and the partm other fresh and rosy. Whence the Carnival Week at New Orleans, as i i ee difference? She whe is blushing with New Orleans, Feb. 17.--Carnival | P! 8 . | healt uses Dr. King’s New Life Pills week in New Orleans opened with the | becomes a law as soon as the presi-| to maintain it. By gently arousin; city crowded with visitors. The open- | denteigne it, will be submitted tothe | the lazy organs they compel go ing event of the week was the Atlan- | attorney general for hie approval be- | digestion and head off constipation. teans ball at the French opera house. | tong the executive signe it. Try them. Only 25c, at H. L. Tuck- Miss Alice Roosevelt and Miss Root, The president then will appoint er, druggist. daughter of the secretary of war, ac- : cepted invitations, George B, Cortelyou as secretary of Tax Payers. pi na commerce and labor and the ninth} You are hereby notified that unless Los A M. E. Conf J r Rew York, Feb, 17,The ME. book | Member of the cabinet, At the same | your taxes dre payed within a short committee decided that the next|time William Loeb, jr., who is now time I will be compelled under the mesting of the qreteennial conters assistant eecretary to the president, — pola pte _ by distraint 5 at s Angeles i 5 4 4 s0b4, “4s Sb ngeies in ““Y> | will be appointed to fill Cortelyou’s | 10.6t* . D, RAPER, Collector, 3,000,000 Methodists y in all countries will be represented in Place as secretary to the president. WanTEp.—All the old feather beds iy _ county. Lez CuLven, ti the conference by 750 delegates. ei lhe! cet ga Better That Gold. Botanist for the Transvaal. West Side Square. Berkeley, Cal., Feb. 17.—Joseph B.| “I was troubled for eeveral years ——___ Davy, instructor in botany at the | With chronic indigestionand nervous} The Missouri State Bank has a University of California, has been ap- | debility,” writes F J. Green, of Lan | large amount of idle money to loan. pointed chief agrieulturist and | caster, N H. “Noremedy belped 1} Purties wanting to buy stock or de- botanist of the Transvaal government | Until [ began using Electric Bitters, | siring money for other purposes can at an initial salary of $5,000 a year | which did me more good than all the | be accommodated. 51-tf end expenses. ps os ipa used. They have Pension for Rample’s Widow. Page gh od i Desirable city and suburban prop- Washington, Feb. 17—A house bill | are just splendid for female troubles, | °'tY' 8/80 farms for sale at was passed by the Senate granting a| that they are a d tonic andin | «. Harr & Eprinaron, pension of $30 per month to the vigoratorfor weak, run down women. 12-1m West side equare, Butler. widow of the late Congressman John N. W. Rumple, of Iowa, who was a No other b arg Ay a onytee captain of volunteers in the civil war. Piano Tuning. To whom it may concern: This certifies that the bearer, F. M. Skaggs, has done considerable work for us, and we always found Iowa County Officer Acqnitted. Knoxville, la., Feb. 17.—The trial of Ss t ‘ G. W. Vanderwelt, retiring county: The House Vote Was 241 to 6. auditor of Marion céunty, cuaveen . his tuning and repairing with altering the returns so as to| Washington, Feb. 13.—The Elkins |done. Weconsider him an accomplish his own re-election, re-|rebate bill, an anti-trust measure, sulted in acquittal. has passed the House by a vote of To Reproduce “Rest Cattace.” 241 to 6. Those voting in the nega- Alhambra, Ill, Feb. 17.—The Ii-|tive were: Cochran and DeArmond nois W. C. T. U. has voted to have an ‘issouri. exhibit at the world’s fair. The pee — ot Vingiala, Bool building probably will be roduc. |¢" Of Mississippi, Klutz of North Caro- tion of “Rest Cottage” - Sratien, lina and Neville of Nebraska. Il., the home of Miss Willard. Rtephens Land Bill Killed. Trigger Caught in a Fence, Ust Your, Property, Washington, Feb. 17.—The house,| Warrensburg, Mo., Feb. 14.—Dode|. If you want to by a decisive vote, refused to th fgrm, let me sell it for bill urged by Mr. Stevens, of ‘Teaaa| ge orogens ee to open 505,000 acres of land in the} M Kiowa-Comanche reservation and dis- | 4eutally hot and killed himeelt yee- pose of it at public auction. terday.. He was returning from the ‘ tield with gun in band and in getting Eighteen People Reported Drowned. Elizabeth City, N. C., Feb. 17.--The | through a barbed wire fence the trig- steamer Olive was lost during the] get of the gun caught on the wire gale aoe Eighteen people are| and discharged: the gun. Caldwell’s 4] \rhe eighty-third- birthday of Su- The accident was witbin 200 yards B, Anthony, February 15, was cel-|of his home. He carried $9,000 in- es. at her_home at Rochester, surance on his life.