The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, July 23, 1903, Page 3

eee Direct from Cut Out The gra ~ ened ote = the fay Middle Man. Nine tenths of the people are looking for this. Now we have the largest Harness and Saddle Factory In Southwest Mo, and can duplicate any goods in leather line--offered by cat- alogue houses. So come and see us and let us show you, Keep your money at home. We keep every thing that horse owners need. Double wagon harness from $10 to $30. Single’ harness $7.50 to $25. Second harness $3.00 to $15. Saddles of all styles and prices from the cheapest to the steel fork cow y and sole leather spring seat saddles, Lap robes, horse blankets, dusters and fly ne’ harness oll and soaps, limi- ments for man or beast, coach oils, axel grease, tents, wagon covers, men’s canvass leggings, trim buggy tops new and repair old ones. Bring in yourold harness and trade them for new ones, We have the largest Retail Harness and Saddlery Store in the Southwest and our harness are all made at home. We also onrry afall line of BUGGIFS, SURRIES, ROAD AND SPRING WAGONS. McoFARLAND BROS., Butler, Mo, POOPOPO—ODO, HDL ODEAAEOS If you know Malaria, you certainly don’t like it. If you know Ayer’s Malaria and | Ague Cure, you certainly do like it. 23g aad Tne University of Missouri School of Medicine, The annual announcement of the Department of Medicine of the Uni- A versity of Missouri at Columbia is at hand. The facilities and course of study show a marked improvement } over last year. ' A laboratory costing $40,000 has just been completed and new appara- tus is now being installed. Every- thing will be in order for the begin- ning of school September 8. Extensive improvements have been ; made in the Busch Clinic. It is prob- able that no school in the west now possesses better clinical facilities. Parker Memorial Hospital built at @ cost of $40,000 was opened to 4 patients last year. New apparatus has been installed and the furnish- ings completed. Thecourse of study showsimprove- 4 ment. It is now four years, thirty- sixth months in length. Clinicaland laboratory work are improved, and emphasized. One purpose of the hospital is to furnish clinicai instruc- tion to the students of the Medical department in order that by the ob- servation and study of diseases, they } may be fitted to practice medicine in- ql telligently. All the laboratories are in charge of men that are supported by salaries and who devote them- selves to teaching, writing and re- search. By a proper arrangement of ld courses a student may receive both an Academic and a Medical degree in } six years. A training school for { nurses, connected with the hospital, offers a systematie course of study extending over three years to young women desiring to become profes- sional nurses. Both men and women ate admitted to the medical depart- ment. The expenses for room, board, Young Girl Holds Troops at Bay. Jackson, Ky., July 18.—Once more the residents of Jackson are expect- ing a tragedy. “Sandy” 0’Connor has become involved in trouble with the soldiers and has resisted arrest. It is not believed that he can be tak- enalive. The soldiers haveannounc- ed that they propose to place O’Con- her under arrest, O’Connor is regarded as one of the most desperate of the many bad men who infest Breathitt county. In the effect on the part of the militiamen to maintain order in Jackson they came in conflict with O'Connor, A warrant was secured for O’Connor’s arrest on the charge of disorderly conduct. This warrant was given to one of the non-commissioned officers to serve. He took with him five pri- vates and went to O'Connor's house. O'Connor was not at home, so his daughter said, but the soldiers insist- ed on searching the house. She re- sented this, and, stepping inside the door, reappeared with a Winchester shotgun, which she leveled at the soldiers. They persisted in entering, when rhe snapped the gun at them. Fortunately it was not loaded, and no one was hnrt, but the soldiers re- treated, as they could not shoot at the girl, and yet were exposed to dan- ger at her hands. O'Connor, while the daughter held the soldiers at bay in the front, got away, and is still at large. CASTORIA. ‘Sinan The Kind You Hava Aways Bought é New Army Commissions, Washington, July 18.—The Presi- dent has gi-en directions to prepare commissions for the following promo- tions in the army: Major General Young to be lieu- tenant general, vice Lieutenant Gen- eral Miles, who retires August 8. Brigadier General 8. 8. Sumner to Old Age is No Bar te a Place. W July 18.—President Roosevelt issued an order elimi- nating old age as & valification for eligibility to appoin as la- borers in the government 5 The physical qualifications, however, | “° must be met. CABSBTORIA. Bears the The Kind You Have Sigzatere DID NOT KILL HER BABY SISTER. KNAPP, WHO STRANGLED FIVE WOMEN, MUST DIE. — | —enseene | Maude Jordine Released in Illinois and | Convicted of First Degree Mur- the Detectives Wiseed. | | der After a Hard Fight on Plea Bloomington, Ill, July., 16 a! That His Mind Was Diseased Mande Jordine walked out of the | [Mekeen county courtroom a free, When Crimes Were Commit-| woman this afternoon. Justice A. ted. R. Heineman declared her not guilty of the charge of murdering her baby sister last Thursday evening. The hearing lasted less than two hours. There was a sensational climax when the result was announced. Hisses and howls greeted J. P. Butler, the veteran detective who made the ar- rest, and there wers cheers and con- gratulations for the fair prisoner. There was some fear expreesed that over excited friends of the girl might offer personal violence to the officer, but fortunately nothing of the kind took place. He took his defeat cooly and said that he was just as thoroughly satisfied as ever that his course was right and that if his wit- nesses had told on the stand what they had told him and others that the outcome would have been differ- ent. The state presented twenty-four witnesses, although not all were placed on the stand. The evidence presented was calculated to show that Maude had expressed her loath- ing of the task of caring for the baby and that she did not intend to keep up this sort of work always. Nothing had been learned as yet about the new suspect but some developements are anticipated by to-morrow. The police and sheriff's department pre- fer to make no important move un- til the conclusion of the hearing of the sister. His Career of Murder Extended Over Ten Years. Hamilton, 0., July 16.—Alfred A. Knapp was convicted of muder in the first degree for killing his wife, Hannah Goddard Knapp, by a jury in Judge Belden’s court to-day. The jury stood 10 for conviction without merey, and two for convie- tion with merey, being unanimously for sruilt, The verdict is received with great satisfaction by the public. Knapp’s sister and mother were much affected when they heard the verdict. The case will be carried higher on the usual appeals, but it is generally believed that Knapp will now be electrocuted. Not since the finding of the head- less body of Pearl Bryan on the Locke farm, back of Newport, Ky., hassuch a shock been given the coun- try at large as that produced by the confession of Alfred Knapp, to the murder of five persons, In police annals his like is not to be found, for while in appearance mild and harmless as a child, he is, according to his own assertions, a criminal that can only be described as a monster. Devoid of all the finer sensibilities; cruel to a degree beyond the savage; brutal in the motives that actuated him, and cunning as the breast of the judge, he stands alone. Five lives he admits to have sniffed out in his murderous clutch, Three of his victims were women and two were innocent children. In each in- stance, he saye, his hands alone were his implements of murder, each of his victims having been choked to death, The story of the bringing to justice of this archfiend whose work of slaughter extended over a period of nearly 10 years, uninterrupted, reads like a chapter from fiction. That Knapp had killed his third wife in Hamilton was suspected by Knapp’s brother-in law, E. F, King, the day that Knapp put in an ap- pearance at his house, inquiring if his wife had been there. King also suspected that Knapp killed Ida Gebhard, Mary Eskart and his eec- ond wife, Jennie Conners, but for family reasons he refrained from at- tracting the attention of the police to his suspicions, Knapp’s plea that he was insane when-the crimes were committed and that his diseased mind prompted him to find gratification in murder, failed utterly with the majority of the jurors. That it made some impression on the two of them, however, is evident from their wish to recommend mercy for the prisoner. KNAPP’SCONFESSION TO FIVE MURDERS On June 21, 1894, I killed Emma Littlmann in @ lumber yard on Gest street in Cincinnati, and on Aug. 1, 1894, I killed Mary Eckert, on Wal- nut street, opposite the Y. M. C. A. building in Cincinnati; and on Aug. 7, 1894, I killed my wife, Jennie Knapp, under the canal bridge, at Liberty street, and threw her in the canal, in Cincinnati. In July, 1895,1 killed Ida G. Gebhart in Indianapolis. I killed my wife, Hannah Knapp, on Dec. 22, 1902, at 339 South Fourth street, in Hamilton, O., and threw her in the river, out by Lindenwald. This is the truth. 1 made this state- ment by my own free will and not by request of any officer or anyone else. ALFRED A. Knapp. Hamilton, 0., Feb. 26, 1904. The confession wae sworn to in the presence of Chief Kummerling, Capt. Lenehan, Sheriff Biedor! and Mayor Boesch. SUPREME COURT AFTER EDITORS FOR CRITICISMS, Missouri Tribunal Cites Two News- paper Men for Charging That its Decision in Railroad Case Was Influenced by Bribery. Jefferson City, Mo., July 16—In behalf of the Supreme Court of Mis- souri, Attorney General Crow today inaugurated proceedings for con- tempt against J. M. Shepherd, pub- lisher of the Standard-Herald at Warrenburg, and John J. Cundiff, publisher of the Sedalia Capital, . at Sedalia, The petition alleges that these two papers during the last month pub- lished editorial on the decision of tle supreme court in the case of R. H. Oglesby sgainst Missouri Pacific Railroad, charging the supreme court and members thereof with bribery and corruption in connection with the action of the court in its disposi- tion of said case, and that Shepherd and Cundiff by said editor inlsdefam- ed, degraded and insulted the sup- reme court, and are, therefore in contempt of court. Chiet Justice Robinson of the court at chambers issued the order citing Shepherd and Cundiff to appear be- fore the court here July 22 and show cause why they should not be pun- ished for the offense. The editorial in question appeared in the Standard-Herald on Juve 19 and was reproduced in the Sedalia Capital with comments. The Oglesby case’ was before the supreme court for many years and was twice reversed and sent back for new trials. It was a damage suit against the company for persor- al injuries. The supreme court last May decid- ed the case in favor of the railroad company. A New Secretary of War. Washington, July 15—It is said among officials of the war depart- ment that the name of Robert Shaw Oliver, who has just been appointed t secretary of war, will favor- ably considered for secretary of war when Root retires from the cabinet to resume the practice of law in New Seven Years For Lehman. York. St. Louis, July 18.—In the case of} Itie not definitely known when Julius Lehman, ex-member of the| Secretary Root will resign as he will house of delegates, charged with | Dot discuss the matterin any way. bribery in connection with the pas-| It is known. however, that just as sage of the city lighting bill, the jury | important matters on which he {s returned a. verdict of guilty yester-| now working are completed he will day afternoon. The punishment was | tender the president his resignation. fixed at seven years in the peniten-| Secretary Root returned from Oyster Bay last night, where he has been in conference with the president on various war department matters. He will announce a number of army promotions and retirements in a few days. The sentence is the maximum punishment under the law, and isthe longest term yet inflicted in any o, the boodle of $15,000 and his attor, neys gave notice of an appeal. RPP LPP PLP POODLE LLLLL LAP RL LP DPD APPL DLP MISSOURI STATE BANK, BUTLER, MISSOURI. CASH CAPITAL : - $55,000. Surplus Funds and Profits, - 9,820. Established A. D. 1580. Total Deposits April 15,1903, $234,264.35. Receives deposits, loans money, makes collections and does a general banking business. e solicit the business of mer- chants, farmers, stock dealers, and the public generaliy, promising them absolute security for deposits and every pos- sible accomodation consistent with safe banking rules, Always have money to loan. IRA PEI EPA AIF APP RPRI PPAR PPIIPAPR ——DIRECTORS:—— “i Dr, T.C. Boulware J. R. Jenkins, Frank M., Voris, John Deerwester A. B, Owen, Wm. E, Walton Dr. J. M. Christy C. R. Radford Dr. N. L, Whipple C, H. Dutcher J. R. JENKINS J. B. WaLron Cashier. Ass't, Cashier. Geo. L. Smith § President. PPR PPLI RP LD DP AP APP PL IPP PIAL ALP PIELER ARLE PLO ws T J. Wright. Wn. E, Watton REE BAI BRAG OR, THE WALTON TRUST CO. OF BUTLER MISSOURI. Capital, - : : : . $55,000 60, Surplus and Profits . - - 19,348. 16, Always has ready money on hand to heloaned on farms in Bates, Vernon, Barton, Cedar and Dade counties, Mo, Very Lowest Rates of Interest. on five years time, allowing borrower to back part each year if desired, Every land owner wanting a seh should oall and get our rates before borrowing of others, Having on hand a large amount of idle money we are making low rates, We have a ful! and complete abstract of title to every aore of land or town lot in Bates County from the U, 8. patent down to date, that'we keep up with the records daily, reasonable prices, Interest Paid on Time Deposits. —— DIRECTORS We furnish reliable Abstracts at Ww. E. Walton, J, Everingham, J.R. Jenk!ne, John Deerwester, Wm, W. Trigg, —T. C. Bon! ware, Frank M, Voris, QO, H. Dutoher, O, R. Radford, Sam Levy, T. J. Wright, ie FRANK ALLEN, Sxcy, Wx. E, WALTON, Prxs, |) RP PP PP PPG RL PPPPLPLP RPPLPPRPLPP PLL LAI PI RAL APPA OB lal IWANT. Your old Iron and all Kinds of Junk # Also am buying Wool, Hides, new and old Feathers. Nasuifersd Seep peed ta Bee Doy’r Forget I handle pure Anthracite, Arkansas Anthracite and Semi Anthracite and soft coal. J. M. SALLEE. w West Uhio Street. 31-3m WOODOOOTOOSOOOOOOOOOOOOOC a a PIONEER - DRUG - STORE SAM WALLS. Opposite Court House. : ¥ West Side Square, BUTLER, MO. : § ¥ Relknap on First Ballot. Kalamazoo, Mich., July 1s,—Will- | Louisville. Ky., July 17—The Re- iam G. Pattison of this city is dead | PUbliean state convention yesterday as she result of the excessive use of | 70™nated Morris B. Belknap of tobacco, He was 89 years old. Hie, Lowsville for governor. The nom- tobacconist, of whom he bought ex. | tion was made on the first ballot. clusively, wave out the statement, Former Governor Bradley was his after Mr. Pattison’s death, that in only opponent in the race. Belknap twelve years. Mr. Pattison emoked | 8 ® wholesale merchant, and is well more than 48,000 cigars, which cost known al! over the United States. $4,800. In his early life he was an Before adjourning the convention even more constant emoker than in |®4°Pted Platform praising the his declining years, and cigar men present administration and con- here estimate that in the last twenty gratulating the people of the United years of his life he had smoked 100,. | States upou the reignof prosperity. 000 of his favorite brand, which would cost him $10,000. German Syrup. Mr. Pattison was a pioneer stage| we want to | coachman in the middle West. He| that Boschee’s Guman Sytap oper established the first stage line be-| tively the only Preparation on the tween St. Paul and St. Anthony, —_ et to-day J nog | relieve and Minn., along one bank of the Misste- consumption. I* contains the sippl river. Ho also established the | Chums ete, etch here nee firat stage line between St. Paul and highly. endorsed for the cure of colds, Grand Rapids and thie city. coughs and consumption by the great medical congresses The con- Figures More Appalling. sumptive, whether hie disease is in the throat or lungs, must have rest Chicago, July 17.—The Chicago | at night, and be free from the spasm Tribune's list of Fourth of July|of dry and racking cough in the deaths grew forty yesterday. The|™orning. The dieeased parte want figures follow: Lockjaw deaths pre. | Test healing and soothing treatment, d the patient need: good viously reported, 117; deaths report- | racer a. Geask esd “J Rive ed yesterday; 40; killed on the Fourth | free and easy expectoration in the Dead of Tobacco at Xy. 52. Total lives sacrificed, 209. The | Morning with speedy and permanent ge Uh relief. Small bottles, 25 cente: regn- largest one day's list of the dead | lar size, containing nearly four times from lockjaw as the result of Fourth | much, 73 t of July wounds appears in the Trib-, we pe ‘ee Av H. L. Tuck. une this morning. | G. G. Green, Woobury, N, J. Se es 4) Be