The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 26, 1903, Page 1

> Che Butler Weekly Times. VOL. XXVI. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1903. ‘A Oo K.N.EF. OVERCOAT POD COPPOLA 009 OREO POO COS. Fit Style and Quality are the predominant features of the Clothes we sell. Our Men, Boys and Childrens Suits and Overcoats are made with the idea of pect to the highest class tuilor made apparel. PRICES NO HIGHER THAN THE COMMON KIND. "4 3 Conductor showing Clothing that is equal in every re- | 40) | WRECK KILLED THIRTY-ONE. | silts Freight and Work Traiin on “Big. Four” Collided Near Tre- | mont, Illinois. of Freight Should Hav Stopped at Mackinaw. Pekin, IL, Nov, 20.—A west bound Low as - - Low as - - Childrens Suits and paying us a visit. Mens Suits and Overcoa's Boys Suits and Overcouts $2 50 Over- coats low as - We only advertise facts. Soe Meyer, * S550 — Be convinced by Che Clothier. j 5 and 6 per cent Money to Loan. Close Loans at once. Abstracts furnished. MILES §. HORN, Attorney at Law, BUTLER, MO. East Side Squire. TWENTY-EIGHT ITALIANS BURN PAST RECOGNITION. \ ; ] Italian Lodge Shanty Catches Fire When Bunks Are Filled With ‘ the Sleepers. Johnstown, Pa., Nov. 21.—Twen- ty-eight bodies, charred and black- ened beyond all possibility of identi fication, lie to-night in the ruins of what was once an Italian lodging shanty, located on tbe line of the Pennsylvania railway twenty miles east of this city and three fourths of * amile west of Lilly. © In addition to the list of dead, there are thirty-two men who have been removed to hospitals and sever- 6) of this number cannot recover. | The fire started early this morning while the men were still in bed. The men who escaped from the Pphanty alive are very reticent about she matter, refusing to give any in- ormation as to the origin uf the According to the story of one who caped, the fire started from an ov- heated stove. The stove became d hot, it is said, and the interior of he ehanty, which was lined with in- mmabie tar paper, caught fire. The shanty was 93 feet long and bout 24 feet wide. I¢ was occupid by 65 men, mostly jalians, employed on Pennsylvania road improvements between Lilly Portage. On each side of an aisle which ran own the center of the structure, was row of bunks, three high. To these bunks were piles of straw. Awakened suddeuly and confused the sudden alarm, the occupants ‘the shanty were unable to cuntrol | of the men escaped, but afew followed @ rush of men into » buildii pensough the lower door | consti ajo ity ‘of those. who entered ler again saw the outeide world. Appe Append? GROWTH OF OKLAHOMA. | Governor Ferguson’s Report to the Secretary of the Interior. Washington, Noy. 28 —Oklahoma according to the annual report—o Governor Ferguson to the Secretary of the Interior made public to day has a population 650,000 and taxa ble property worth not less than 400 million dollars. The growth and development of the territory hus been so remarkable that its governor has taken 70,000 words to acquaint the public with what he been accom- plished since tho first lands were oned to settlement, April 22, 1889. In 1890 the population of Oklahoma was in round numbers 60,000; in 1896 it was 275,000; in 1900, 400,- 000 and in 1903 it is 650,000, “Oklahoma is entitled to state- hood,” says Governor Fergusun, “entitled to it now. Thereare in the territory 650,000 intelligent Ameri- can citizens who are deprived of the Ballard Itews. Quarterly meeting was held at Oak Hill Sunday, conducted by the pre- siding elder, Rev. Appleby. Rev. Barrett, aformer pastor, was also present. Mr and Mrs, John Greer and sone of Cleo, Okla., are visiting Mrs. G.’s parents, Mr. ank Mrs. L A. Crow. The house occupied by Will Griffin on the old E.lwards farm, was burn- ed Tuesday morning of last week. Mrs. Douglass and Mis. J. W. Cole visited Mrs. Kepner in u rich last week, Mra. Vest and Mrs, Day visited rel- atives northeast last Sunday. A teachers institute will be held at li Freeze Out next Friday night. teachers and those interested in pub- lic eechool work invited to attend. J. 8. Arbuckle has sold bis farm— the home place—to Mr. Adams of Adrian, and the south eighty to J. A. Warford, We understand Mr. Arbuckle will quit farming. Miss Mayme Kenney makes two trips to Ballard each week in the in- terest of her music class, M.N. Teeter is setting out fruit right ofself-government. A consery-| trees ative estimate of the wealth of Okla- homa places it at 400 million dol- ars, There are seven educational insti- tutions of higher learning under the control of the territory, besides nu merous high schools and colleges under the control of religious denom- iaations. Our people are in every respect entitled to that which is dear to the heart of every progressive American—the right to govern them- selves. Doesn’t Respect Old Age. It’s ashame when youth faila to show proper reapect for old age. but just the contrary in the case of Dr. King’s New Life pills. They cut off maladies vo matter how severe and irrespective of old age. Dyspepsia, jaundice, fever constipation all yield to this verfect pill. 25c, at H. L. Tucker’s drug store. Gentry Brothers’ Heavy Loss. Sedalia, Mo, Nov. 28—A horse and cattle barn, 60x60 feet, at the Gentry brothers’ Yarm near here, burned last night. A $2,000 regie- tered bull, ‘“‘Waterloo, Duke of Cedar- vale,” which was t» have been exhi- hited at the World’s Fair, burned. Five registered cows, among them on tan Duchess XXI,” and a team valued at $500, also burned. Gentry Bros. had « large sale of stock afew days ago. Otherwise theirlors would bave been much larger. The logs on the barn was $5,000. There was $550 insurance. Dizzy? ‘ongue coated? Head ache? reve your liver! ares = are liver pills, all Thanksgiving is here and the small boy will hunt to-day. Pansy. WANTED—trustwortny Lapy or gentleman to manage business in this county and adjoining territory for house of solid financial standing $20.00 straightcash salary and ex- penser paid each Monday direct from headquarters. Expense money ad- vanced: position permanent. Ad- dress Manager, 605 Monon Bldg., Chicago. 3 8t. Quantrell's Mother Dead. Springfield, O., Nov. 24.—Mre Car- oline Quantrell died Monday at the Ohio Odd Fellows home in this city, atthe age of 80 years. She had been at the home three years, coming from Eastern Ohio. She was the mother of the noted guerilla leader, William C. Quantrell, who, with a band of border raiders, burned and pillaged Lawrence, Kan, August 23, 1863, when 183 persons were killed. Itwas the old lady’s greatest grief that her son had run away from home to join the rebel army and that he had been identified with the bloody scenes in the Kansas troubles. Killed Two Cars of Stock. Olathe, Kan., Nov. 21.—A freight train collided with the ear end of a} stock trainin the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe yards here this morning. The caboose, containing a dozen Prseengers, aud two freight cars fill- ed with cattle, were wrecked. Most of the cattle were killed. R M. Ollis, @ stockman of Edgerton, wascaught between the caboose and a freight car. One leg was cut off below the: knee and the foot of the other leg in-! jured so that amputation will be necessary. Others in the caboose eecaped with slight injuries, A Ri naw .y Bicycle, Terminated with an uglycuton the leg of J. B. Orner, Franklin Grove, ee: TL. Tt oo @ stubborn ulcer doctors or jour 5 = Then Bucklen’s cus Gales eared, Ray just ia good if L. Tucker's drag barns, ecalds, piles. Qh, at HL. ‘EONOCOteee Cor-eeeeeer ~ ber ee oro freight train and a work train on the | Cleveland, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis (Big Four) railway collided head-on between Mackinaw and Tre- mont yesterday, killing thirty-one men and injuring fifteen more. The wreckage is piled thirty feet high on the tracks and it took hours of work to extricate the dead. The bodies are mangled so that several are unrecognizable. The dead and most of the injured were on the work trsin. The crews on both loco- motives jumped in time to save their lives, When about two miles from Ninert and entering @ cut, both engineers saw the approaching train and real- izing it was impossible to stop, threw ou the emergency brakes, whistled twice and then leaped from their cabs. One of the last bodies recovered was that of Wm. Bailey, who had been thrown thirty feet in the air and held in place by two steel rails which had been pushed up between the locomotive and tender of the work train. Gut of the thirty-five men who con- stituted the crew of the work train only four are living and two of these are dangerously injured, Wreckage is strewn along tle track for 200 Al feet. Passaic Items. Lotspeich and Mlgin shipped cattle and hogs to Kn: vs City last week A “Tacky” party at the home of HU. W. Jenkins furnished = much smiusement and was wellattended by the members of the the Passaic “$00,” Mr. Wineland, father of our village blacksmith, died at his home near Adrian last Thursday, of pneumonia, Che funeral took place Friday from Mt Olivet church, Rey. Stewart, after an absence of a couple of weeks, holding revival meetings, has returned and is again at his post wit hthelumbercompany. Jim Tathwell was in K, C. Wednes- day. Geo. Crews, head clerk in Packer's depot store, spent lust Sunday at che county seat, Rumors of au early spring wedding are in the air. We wonder if it means an addition to Passaic society. Mrs. Alfce Zimmers, the popular superintendent of our public schools, attended the teachers convention at Butler last week We are willing to wager that the children will have to tue the mark now. J.E. Wilson his moved into’ his new house on th rd street. Sabbath school every Sunday morning at the church, Epworth League at night. We visited the ax handle factory over the Tathwell & Fouts Elevator} Co. store lately, and found Mr. Sher- wood, the polite general manager, | busy turning out the finished prod- uct. "Lote of new corn cominginto town now. John Krimm. bookkeeperfor Tath- well & Fouts, was in — or We know what all good doc- tors think of Ayer’s Cherry Pecto Ask your own doc- tor and find out. He will tell Cherry Pectoral you how it quiets the tickling a heals the inflamed lungs, Ss controls the lest of coughs. eae Cart tects Pectoral is well known in it + ~ > > dpeaang nO aloe 5 Petaluma, Cal. PS ne FOR THE FEET We carry everything that it takes to make a good shoe store QUALITY HIGH——PRICE LOW. Potfenbarger & Edwards, & ONE LOW PRICE TO ALL, TA ANANISSSSSA TIGA SAS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSTSISSSSIAPS SSS Te I. y % SLSLLLSSSLSALSSSSSLS SY % We will Make you Some Special Prices on MILLINERY GOODS} Lt ee et et ee et For the next few days In Both STREET and Dress HATS. We also carry Ladies, Misses and Childrens Underwear. Ladies, Misses and Childrens Hosiery. Corsets, Notions and kid Gloves. SLALLAGLAACASAGASAMYGLALLAD (IMAADADAA dod Our prices are always right. Our stock is always complete. Silas W, Levy, North Side Square. ee | LLL AEN L AY SLL ALAA SCALA JULIA MARLOWE Shoes for Ladies, Ld} pas SAAS | ia a THEYRE RIGHT a aes oe Right in Fit y Right in Finish, fe Right in Wear, Right ia Price. : ‘‘They’re made on lasts to fit the feet, The women say they look so neat, When one is walking down the street. W. L. DOUGLAS §& Shoes for Wen. eS