The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 17, 1903, Page 2

emer serie wm tee a re RA ne Bir ae 4 phe AP SMOOT CASE SATURDAY. Senate Committee Gave It Searching Consideration and May Unseat Mormon. OBJECTIONS ARE USED. Believed Attempt to Prove He is Poly- gamist Will Fail, But Other Strong Point May Be Made. Washington, Dec. 12.—Chairman Burrows, of the Senate Committee on Privileges and Elections, bas call- eda meeting of the committee for Saturday to consider whether any action shall be taken on the protests and petitions for the expulsion of -_ Senator Reed B. Smoot from Utah. There is a mass of petitions, coming from forcy different States. That a thorough investigation of the subject will be made by the com mittee now appears to be beyond doubt. By those who are pressing the investigation, it is said it will be more comprehensive aud searching than any similar inquiry ever bas been. An effort will be made to ascertain accurately the attitude of the Mor- mon Church toward the Government of the United States and to learn whether or not a member of that or- ganization fs bound by any pledge or oath the taking of which is incom- patible with his oath as a Senator of the United States. It is believed by some, at least, of those who are opposing Senator Smoot, thatany effort made to prove he is a polygamist would result in failure, and, while that point cannot be said to have been abandoned absolutely, it is quite certain the op- position will ccncentrate ite endeay ors to prove that the position he holds in the Mormon Church is in compatible with the oath of allegi- ance he has taken to the United States. That proof must be ample, in the opinion of Senators, before he can be unseated. As to the ability of the opposition to Senator Smoot to establish such a proposition, there is a wide diver- gence of opinion among the Senators, but there is a pretty general agree ment that, if it should beestublished, its result would be the unseating of the Utah Senator. Grover Didn't. Like Joe’s Hot Scotch. New York Times. While Joseph Jefferson was brewing a toddy for himself and his distin- guished guest, ex President Cleve land, he descanted at length upon the high art of preparing hot Scotch, “Iti do say it myself,” observed the host, “I have an especial gift for serving hot Scotch. Billy Florence used to say I ought to have been a barkeeper. Now try this, Mr. Cleve- land, and let me know your verdict.” Several times Mr. Cleveland tested the steaming liquid thoughtfully, naming the ingredients as he identi- fied them. ‘‘Nutmeg—lemon—water —sugar,” be mused approvingly. “But | don’timagine you would hold a position as barkeeper very long.” “What's wrong?” queried Mr. Jet- ferson anxiously. “You might be a great success as attendant in a hot water hospital,” said the ex-President. ‘But as & compounder of delectable drinks you're certainly a failure. You've forgotten to pourin the Scotch.” CSCABTORIA. Siaae The Kind You Haw Always Bought @ Their Father a Convict. Greenville, Mich., Dec. 12 —Two girls, who were brought up at the state public school at Coldwater and had always supposed their father dead, were presented to their parent tn the Jackson prison last Sunday. ‘The prisoner is Elias Taylor, former- ly of this city, who wae given a tife sentence for murder fourteen years ago when the daughters were babies. Ballard’s Horehound Syrup Immediately relieves hoaree, croupy cough, oppressed, rattling, and difficult breathing. Henry have been eelling Ballard’s Hore- hound Syrup for two years, and have never had & that has given better n. I notice that when I eell a bottle, they back for more. I can honestly rec- ommend it. 25c, 50c and $1.00 at H. L. Tucker’s Drug Store. «| old boy who shot Delos Alyea, anoth- ae ay 30. varg, Wis" | or emall boy, last spring, while tiah- kaarencaareaanal AKINS STEPS INTO jed at the sensation. My friend had bat one fault, and I did not thinkit KEREN’S SHOES. | sufficient grounds for a divoree. Oc | 5 and 6 per cent casionally—say two or three times a @ year—he’d go out with the boys and} His Appointment is Regarded a8 |get hilarious. But I was sure that j during these sprees he never abused a Turndown of the his wife, and I could not understand tor the life of me, what the woman meant by her radical, ill-advised action. The case came on to trial, and the husband let the suit go by default. The woman made a very fair case, alleging drunkenness asthe cause of her plea for separation from her husband. I was well acquainted with her as well as ber husband, so I stepped down off the bench, and en- deavored to persuade her to with- draw her sult, and go back to her husband, but my efforts were perfect- ly futile, She burst out crying and deciared that for years ber husband had humiliated her by his periodical | druvks and she just couldn’t stand it any longer Deeply disappointed I went back to the bench and issued the decree, granting her the divorce which she sought, Next day she came, gota copy of the decree and left for a town over in Kaheas. A few days later she came back bringing with her $7,000 in cold cash which she had inherited from an aged female relative. Then in a few days sheand her former husband were again unit- ed in marriage. Everybody's eyes stuck out and everybody’s tongue Hog Killed in Court Room. G Ws (4 immediately began to do the 2:40 Louisville, Ky., Dec, 12.—A large (roves ontstipaies trom carly te thomersing hog was killed in a Louisville court-| ‘nie signature is on -very box of the genuine = untila good late bed time. Soonthe house in order to demonstrate a Laxative Bromo-Quinine tem y story came out. The woman had Lointin the auit of the heirs of R.C.| ‘™* remedy thet eneee mn ealt in ome day \ bad an eccentric female relative, who Wayne for $200,000 insurance. Gputal Lend Buyers’ Mavudians bitterly hated her kinswoman’s bus- BS The plaiatifl eald @ shotgun die- Will run to the new lands of Greet band, The rich old lady had left her 1 inet th: relative $7,000 to be paid when she ye gb — — yor us county, Oklahoma, and other seo- HOLIDAY GOODS. All of our goods are mark- Dolls, ed in plain figures and the Wooden toys, lowest possible price to all. Bee We will be pleased to show ae you, as most of you will be Pictures, from Missouri. Come in. oll Don't Fall to See our Bromcbey, 10 Cent Counter. Vases, Umbrellas, Tool chests, og chairs, AW thy i nives, Collar and Cuff boxes, Toilet cases, Glove and Hdkf. boxes, And a great variety of 46 6 other goods too numer- Money to Loan. Hanna Element. HOW WASHINGTON REGARDS IT. Close Loans at once. Abstracts furnished. MILES $. HORN, Attorney at Law, Akins, Waroer and Hitchcock Will BUTLER, MO. Take Care of Federal Appoiat- meats in Missouri. East Side Square. manneitescinemnenssnt BUTLER FREE. ‘ Washington, Dee 12 —It was an- nounced from the White House this morniog that Thomas J. Akins was to be appointed eubtreasurer at St. Louis, Tis means that he will re tire very soon from thechairmanship of the Missourl state central commit- tee and a new man be elected to his place. He will have nothing to do with practical politics as long as he remains in oftive. It is understood that promises to this effect were re- quired at tle White House before the selection was made. While the appointment was prac- tiealiy decided upon a few days ago it is given temporary significance coming ut this time. Washington is full of reports of one kind or another to the effect that the differences be- tween Seuator Hanna and President Roosevelt are becoming of political significance. While there is no one thing which indicates that there is anything of national importa ce in these reports there are so many of them that they attract daily attention and are the The Supreme Court Reverses the Case of the St. Louis Boss Convicted of Boodling. Jefierson City, Mo., Dec. 9 —The Missouri supreme court to-day ren dered an opinion reversing the con viction of Edward Butler ofSt, Louis and ordering him discharged. Butler was convicted in the Boone county circuit court on a change of venue from St, Louis on the charge of attempting to bribe Dr. Henry N. Chapman of the board of health to vote for the award of the city garb- age reduction contract to the St. Louis Sanitary Co. West Side Square. ous to mention. HH PIES jb AA Anda bid Db D ub ‘The opinion, written by Judge Fox. | subject of most of the capital talk at] W488 20 longer Mr so-and 80's wife, body. The defense denied this. tions of the great Southwest in No- all the other judgesconcurring, holds} this time. “It was a good deal of money,| pho bog was taken into court and vember and December, via the Frisco that the board of health had no} The appointment of Akins is re and the husband and wife discussed killed in the presence of the jurors System. authority to letthegarbagecontract but that this power belonged to the board of public improvements The board of health having no authority to award this contract, Butler, it is held, could not bribe a member to do something which he had no authority to do. The court quotes many decisions sustaining his position, and holds that the trial court in which the late Judge Hock- aday presided, should have sustain- ed the demurrer to the indictment. The court holds also that, as the ordinance under which the contract wae to be awarded was not signed until Sept. 17, 1901, by the mayor, it was not in effect and no bribery could have taken place, as the evi- dence showed that the attempt was made Sept. 16, 1901. The trial court, it is declared, fail- ed to give proper instructions on this point, and thisis another ground for the reversal of the case. various plans by which they might getit. First they thought of trying to brewk the will, but there wae dan- ger of losing a suit of this kind; final- ly they decided to become divorced, thus fulfilling the ‘conditions of the will and getting the money. It was @ very sensational plan of procedure, but it was also a sure one, They sparred a good deal over who wasto get the divorce, She insisted that he should bring the suit, Finally hecon- vinced her that as he didn’t haveany grounds on which to base his claime, —_ and as = could go into court and choked to death ‘early yesterday Pree ag oe phe ze mbes let, prove what a drunkard he was, it] morning at his home, in the presence K B' Ci y J ei g serv’ washer place to bring the euit. Well, | of his wife and child. He contracted a Sond = — F — as I said, they got the money, and | aslight cold a few days ago and paid | tjanta, will be ineegenanel b the they’ve been living happily ever Sete aeekens ineaee cone Frisco System and will be continued aince,’” ing which continued for some time. ba ao Teted wots ins u His wife sent for a physician but be-| Kansas City as 6:30 p. m pt with Roosevelt. fore he could arrive, another cough: | making the run to Jacksonville ings Even though Akins retires from the tre, age sent _ ——_ hours. ; state chairmanship he will be expect- The Great Cause of Illness, Says Prof, | Democrat, Dee. 1, 1901.” Ballard's In addition to through sleeper to Jacksonville this train carries ele- egg bs tp ay ey one gantchaircars and Observation Cafe d car, operated by Fred Harvey. Tucker's Drug Store. No other line offers such superb garded as. a turndown of the old Me: Kinley element and the present Hannaelement, if such a thingexiste, n Missouri politics, aud theappotnt ment would not have been made had here not been a disposition to let Hanna people kuow that they bad no influence with the administration so far as Missouri affairs are concerned. There has been no special fight along this line, Senator Hanna him- velf taking no interest whatever in the appointment, but in former days of the Roosevelt administration he would have given it careful attention, He sees the futility of longer trying to protect or advance his friende, and has given up trying. The Akins appointment is regarded as one of the incidents of Hanna’s decadent in- fluence and of the widening breach Are you looking for rich and fertile held ~ Bh dhe sgt Rey gil the farming landsin the Southwest which trigger was pulled youcan buy for from one-fourth to Tes wcknd was small and round | me-tenth the cost of lands of the and served to prove the point made East and North? They produce as aha-diliaes,—Dhe-aalusdli ‘much acre foracre. Here is achance pe Br effort to save its life. It ran to better your condition and adda into the jury box and upeet one of — rr unt ss your pocket book. the jurora and could not be killed or full particulars sod epee wa itil ted eocursly. railroad rates apply at once to R. 8, Lemon, Secretary Frisco System Im- migration Bureau, St. Louis, Mo. 8-76 Coughing Spell Caused Death. “Harry Duckwell, aged 25 years, “PEOPLE BATHE TOO MUCH.” eJ to participate in ruuning thecom- mittee just the same, He will be associated with Mnj. 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Blood sttracted by the skin gives up products that should be left to seek a natural out- let and soils the skin.” Prot. Robertson asserted that the theory that the closing of the pores of the skin would result in death is false. He also opposed the habit of taking “dry” baths. The rubbing of @ rough towel over the skin, accord- ing to Dr. Robertson, removed the natural scales of the skin or the “false” skin. This, he said, conduc- ed to the growth of bacteria upon the skin. The doctor concluded with an incident of an Eskimo brought from Greenland to Boston, who had ——— never been ill in his life. He was RU given a bath, bad pneumonia and U / died in two days. paring a Case Against Ruth Bryan’s Husband. Newport, R. 1, Dec. 12.—Rumors have been current here for several weeks that a notable breach of prom- ise case was pending, but not until to day did they take definite form. Now friends of Miss Minnie Cook, an accomplished musician and mem- ber of a well known family, say she is about to beginan action against William Olmer Leavitt, artist who recently wedded Miss Rath Bryan, daughter of William J. Bryan. For some mouths prior tothe mar- riage of the artist to Miss Bryan his attentions to Miss Cook are said to have been marked. Then Mr. Leavitt was called to Lincoln, Neb., witha commission to paint the portrait of Mr. Bryan. While he was on this mission he fell in love with the daughter and the marriage followed soon afterward, although, it is said Mr. Bryan gave only reluctant consent. As a group of lawyers were sitting about recalling interesting legal ex- periences at the hotel in Greenfield Monday morning,’ said the Hon. Thomas W. Martin, “a gentleman who is judge, in a circuit some little distance from here, told thefollowing story: “Sometime ago the wife of a promiuent citizov, near the county seat where I live, filed her petition for divorce. The whole community was more or less shocked by the proced- ure, asall knew the woman's husband to be one of the kindest and best of men. I was grieved as well as puzzl- 4 ark Missouri Boy Hurt in College Fight, | Appleton, Wis., Dec, 12.—The first- “The most loathsome and repulsive of all Miss Cook says this marriage was class ‘‘scrap” of the year at Law- living things is the serpent, and the vilest and * : most d Raby seer Se vorpal Se > 0 Blood Poison. @ great surprise to her. When seen rence university occurred last night| serpent sinks its fan; the flesh and almost instantly the poi at her home to-day she said: ig ts fangs into id alm tly the poison p when the members of the freshmen! through theentire body. Contagious Blood Poison, fanis, ith a li clase attempted to give a sleigh ride} Ulcer, Soon contaminates every drop of blood and pl throughout the’ without fi ri whole system. Painful swellings appear in the a red rash and © ret procuring the ion groins, of the u a . copper colored splotches break out on the body, the mouth and throat pper class men. A nymberof} become ulcerated, and the hair and eye brows fall out: but these students were injured, ong the| are mild compared to the wretchedness and suff i the most serious being L. E. Wilcox, Jef- po ag of the disease when it attacks the bones and more vital ofthe . : ii its tumors “For the present I must decline to say anything. Neither can I give the name of my lawyer—if I have one You must seemy father about it all.” ferson City, Mo., who was struck up- It is then that Contagious Blood Poison is seen in all hideous- 'qm the head aad rendered uncone- ae. ioe. np ating ulcers and ‘cious, remaining in that condition Carthage, Mo., December 12.—The trial of Chester Maddox, the 9-year. and si ferseveralhours. A half dozenfresh- men weretied up in fraternity houses and several were bound in the city hall. They were kept in ropes until ing in Spring river, came to abrupt ending this afternoon by the judge instructing that the boy was too young to have an intent, and to ac- midnight. ‘ st quit him, The evidence showed that Sate set on Ee regince ged our home treatment Maddox shot the Alyea boy because vice or This will