The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 24, 1903, Page 1

«Che Butler Weekly Times. VOL, XXVI. SEES s HILL’S CASH. STORE Wishes you all a Merry Christ- mas and aharpy and prosper= ous New Year. ee we ae a We thank all of our friends for helping us to make this our most prosperous year. Vi ee ee ee We enter 1904 with a determination to make it more to your interest than ever to trade with us, Look out for our RED'TICKET SALE «> IN JANUARY. «2a HILL’S CASH STORE. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1903. (SAA AL A SALDHRAAN\MLALLLLD LALA ——— VISAS AS IAS Sa BRANT BROS. Successor to F. E. MOSIER AT JIM’S OLD STAND, are new men in the burg and havecome to atay. We shall increase our stock of goods. We carry a full line of fancy groceries, also the celebrated WHITE LOAF FLOUR. According to the actual test makes from 10 to15 more loaves of bread than any other flour on the market. We also handle all of Power Bros. Flour, Meal, Graham, Buck- wheat, Bran, Shorts, Corn and Hay. 8 loaves of bread 10c; 2 thé ginger anapa Le; 2 cans cling peaches 25¢; good can corn 10c per can; puck brand tomato 15c; flax rock tomato 10c; krout 10c per quart; Arbuckle coffee 2 packages 25c; Lion coffee 2 packages 25°; 1000 matches 5c; the finest strained honey you ever saw only 10c a pound. CHRISTMAS CANDIES The finest varietyin the town. In nuts we have all kinds of Almonds, English Walvute, Brazile, Pecaus and Peanuts which is the finest assortment in the town. Come and get acquainted. We want to see everybody in Batescounty. We have something to show you. We always give 16 ounces for every pound, either going or coming. BRANT BROS. GROCERY. (SLL IL ILS LAL SGISASS A A Ballard Items. The teachers meeting at Fairview Friday night was well attended and several interesting questions discuss- ' ed The pu-ils of the school deliver- _ eda short, but interesting literary program. Jobn Sanders, apiano agent of Creighton, wasin Ballard one day last week He has just returned from & visit. to his old Kentucky home. Clarence Teeter is nursing a sprain- ed ankle. Walnut Grove Sunday school is preparing an entertainment and din- ne-for the children, Christmas day. airs, Powell has so far recovered as to be able to return to her home in Buuer. Miss Lulu Warford entertained * about twenty young friends last Sat. urday evening in honor of her birth ~ day. Refreshments were served and €n enjoyable time reported. We hope the weather man will send _ Ssnow, eo Santa Claus will come in his sleigh. Pansy, Chief of Police O'Neill orders that “all picketing by striking liverymenat funerals be stopped, regardless of what the courts may do. —_— _—__——_,, Bilious? izzy? rp amo Pain reyes? It’s your liv nl Use Ayer’s Pills. Gently laxative; all vegetable. Virginia Items. We heard it and jotted it down, Sunday. Santa Claus will sure be there. Church Tuesday night next, 29th. convalescent. chief litigant opposing the will. Fight Will be Bitter. Those who will persis their ears the commenda‘ of Dr. King’s troub! of Beall, Mise., has togay: ‘ my wife had every 6; sumption. She took Dr. Discovery after everything . Improvement came at once cated ber.” under it soo! and four bottles en What happened in and out of town. Mies Mary Braden attended Sun- day School at Christian Church last Frank Erwin moved Tuesday to Vernon county, near Moundville. Both churches are making great preparations for Christmas Eve. Don’t forget the supper given by the Ladies Aid society at the M. E. Dec. Measly folks about Virginia are all Nicholas Adame, who has been very ill for some time with pneu- monia, is reported to be getting well. Aaron, Litigation has so eaten up the es- tateof Railway Magnate Corbin that scarcely $300,000 remains of the $4,000,000. His daughter is the New York officers accuse a Swedish sailor of murdering a woman whose mutilated body was found in a hotel. t in closi: continual 4 New jong. and biter fight wieh tel a an bles, if not ended earlier by fatal dumping the occupants, or a hun termination. Read what T. R. Beall had . 8 8 4 : The Deed of Roscoe W. Derby in Cleveland, Ohio. An Impoverished Purse aod the Near Approach of Christmas Led to the Crime—Wrote a Friend of His Intentions, Cleveland. O , Dee 20 —Because of he impoverished condition of the fim ly puree and the near approach of Christmas, Roseoe W. Derby, a machinist, extermiataed his family to-day by shooting his wife, his three children and then himeelf. The crimes were extraordinary in their thoroughness and there waa, evidently, no mishap in their enact- ment. The wile was killed first while sleeping at her husband’s si te in bed; two of the children were killed as they ran hither and thither through the house in the darkuess of the ear- ly morning, endeavoring to escape their merciless parent, The third child was killed in its bed after its elder brother and sister had been killed, Derby had been down town late at 11 o'clock last night ostensibly shop- ping, but in all probability securing ammunition for his revolver. When he got home his wifeand he talked with a neighbor who had been call- ing, over the approaching festival Derby seemed pale and nervous Shortly after his arrival home the neighbor left and the Derby family went to bed. The crime is belived to have been committed about 4 o'clock this morning. Mrs. Derby was shot to death in bed, two bullets having been fired into her forehead and a third, presumably fired after the children had been exterminated, in the back of the neck. Mrs Derby probably wae killed during sleep,.the express- ion on her face showing no sign of a struggle. Twoof the children, however, prot - ably had a struggle with their in- furiated parent because they had been awakened by the noise of the revolver being fired and sought to escape him, but without avail, Har- old’s body was found lying in a pool of blood in the kitchen and that of Alice in the dining room with her face to floor and a@ bullet in her breast. Harold may have been chased by his father, as there was evidence of flight in the manner in which the furnishings of the kitchen were thrown about From the loca tion of the bullets in his head the boy evidently was caught by his fatherin astrong grasp and held while the weapon was placed aguinst the little fellow’s forehead and the bullets sent into his brain. There was also evidence of a struggle ov Alice’s part. The last of the children to die was Thomas, aged 5. He had remained in bed, probably still asleep and also received bullets in bis head, dying quickly. After theextraordin- ary crimes had been committed, the perpetrator of them went into the bedroom where his wife had been kill- ed aud, lying down at her side, fired a bullet inte bis own brain, and died at his wife’s side. Several poolroom race checks were found about the house, showing that Derby had been trying his luck on betting. The first knowledge of the crime was communicated in a letter written by Derby yesterday to a friend who lived not far away and which was sent him by special de- livery. The letter was to the effect that when it had been received the Derby family would be dead. When the friend hurried to the house thie morning all that had been promised was seen to have been fulfilled. A Frightened Horse, Running like mad down the street dred other accidents, areevery day It behooves hs ap and be a none as good as Bucklen’s saws aod. ples Gaeppenr any eczema ppear qn fing effect. 25c at ra L. Tucker's drag store. A portion of the business section of convincing der are out of order, derful cures of the most distressi If you need a medicine you should best. Sold by druggists in.50c. gg a wonderful and a book that tel more about it, both sent rv rove a by mail. Pagan . Kilmer Sapulpa, I T.,; was wiped out by fire. ; tion for $12,666 against a brother physi cian, Dr. J. J. Lawrence, of New York or attending the New Yorker's son The Missouri Healer’s Case Dis- |forty days. missed in Washington. United States Supreme Court Declared It Had uo Jurisdiction in the Ne- vada, Mo., Man's Suit With a Minister, Washington, Dec, 21.—The United States supreme court dismissed for want of jurisdiction the case of S. A. Weltmer and J. H. Kelly ve. C. M. Bishop, today. The case grew out of the publication by Bishop of an article which Weltmer and Kelley al leged to be libelous. They are magnetic healers with headquarters at Nevada, Mo, and at one time had an income of $1,000 per day. Bishop made a printed at- tack on their business, The supreme court Of Missouri refused to find the article libelous on the ground that Weltmer and Kelly had failed to show that their business was entitled to the protection of the law. To day’s opinion has the effect of attirm ing that decision. The article complained of was written by the Rev. Mr. Bishop of Nevada, in 1900, and was printed in the Christian Advoe.te of St. Louis It was an attack on the methods of the healers, The Bates county cir- cuit court awarded Weltmcr, who sued for $25,000, a judgment of $750, The Missouri supreme court reversed this finding. To-day's deci sion probally will end the case The story of Weltmer and his “American School of Magnetic Heal ing’ isa sirange one. Before the United States stepped in and practi- cally destroyed a large part of their business, Weltmer and Kelly operat- ed one of the most successful “get tich-quick” schemes that was ever attempted, It increased the volume of busiucss at the postottice in Ne vude to such an extent that it jump ed from the fourth class to a first class office. Weltmer is repo. ted to have made as much as 4, million dol- lars a year. The stream of money that tlowed into his coffers can be gauged by the fact that during three weeks that the government held up his mail while his case was being in- vestigated, $50,000 in registered letters, money orders and postal notes addressed to Weltwer, accu- mulated, Indians Want Two States. Durant, I. T., Dec. 20.—At a spe- cial election held in this precinct yesterduy, the Choctaw Indians were & unit in voting that the chiefs of the five tribes call a convention and draft resolutions asking Congress to admit the Indian territory without the an- nexation of Oklahoma. Advices from other sections are practically the same. (Great interest was mani- fested among the fullbloods upon the proposition, They are very anxious for double statehood and want {t in 1906. Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and Don’t Know it. How To Find Out. Fill a bottle or common glass with your water and let it stand twenty-four hours; a sediment or set- tling indicates an 3 unhealthy condi- neys; if it stains your linen it is ev! kid- ney trouble; too oe back is also that the kidneys and blad- What to Do. re kidneys, the urinary passage. to hold water and scalding pai passing it, or bad effects following use of liquor, wine or beer, and overcomes that unpleasant poncery during t during the night. The mild and the extra- <7 effect of Swamp-Root is soon ize of being compelled to go often ¢ day, and to get up many times it stands the highest for its won- cases, we the You may have a sample bottle of this disco & Home of Swamp-Root, ton, N. Y. When writing men- this generous offer in this paper. Manila, Dec. 17.~An agreement has been reached between General Taft and the friars, by which the | United States will acquire the friars’ lands for $7,210,000 in gold, New York, Dec, 16 —Owners of stock in the Standard Oil company and Consolidated Gas company, mainly Rockefellers and associates, are richer today by $13,000,000, | representing the quarterly dividends declared by thesecompanies, Checks on National City bank were sent out by tirst mail to fortunate ones, NO. 8 KILLED FAMILY AND SELF A RULING AGAINST WELTMER! Dr. M. P. Morrell secured » verdict] Little James Creech, 3 years old, | seated in a high chair, was serious'y burned, as the reeult of piaying with a match, despite bis 4 year old ++ | ter’s efforts to extinguish the James. | | Revolution Imminent. A sure sign of approaching revolt and serious trouble in your system is nervousness, sl eplessness, or ‘etomach upsets. Electric Bitters | will quickly dismember the trouble sume causes, It never fails to tone | the stomach, regulate the kidneys and bowels, stimulate the liver and jclarify the blood Run down sys | tems benetit particularly and all the usual attending aches vanish under its searching and thorough effective ness Electric Bitters is only 30 and that is returned if it don’t give yerfect satisfaction. Guaranteed by 1, L, Tur ker, druggist. J. E. Williams A + ep GROCERY Candies, Nuts and Fruit. Come t) Ed Williams store to buy your candies, nuts, oranges and all the fruits of the season, We have just received the lar gest assortment ever handled in the city and have en supply the whole county. quality and low in price. where for the money Imported China. ugh ta They are just what you want, fine in You can't get a better quality else We want again to call your attention to our large line and fire £ d assortment of Imported China and dtcorated ware. We have not space to tell you here of all the nice and pretty patterns we have in this line of goods. them. You will just have to come and se Come soon before the assortment is broken, 10 xt cent discount on all Chinaware and Lamps to Jan. Ist, 194 Lamps! Lamps! Lamps! Our lamps are going fast but we have» large stock on hand Take a look at them as you pass our show window. They at the nivest patteras we ever sold. We bought them right and are selling them right, which means lower prices than we ever could sell them before. One of « Christmas present. u fine lamps will make a mighty nie Our Water Power Flour. We have just received another var load and it seems as though the last one is better than any we have had before. Just try eack from this lot. Our Coffee. We are headquarters for the best coffee. You have heard us say that before and we are going to keep saying it to you and to everybody right along, because we know that we have ab- solutely the best coffee for the price that can be bought any- where. Its good enough for the President, or the Governor and we sell it for 12\c, 15c and 20¢ per pound. You May Not Know it, but have a large line of fine cutlery, silverware, etc.. and if you want something nice just come in and we will show you. Remember this is our clearing up month, as we always clean up our large stock as close as we can before the first of the year so as tosave time and labor in invoicing. To do this we make the lowest possible prices and you should take advantage of them. Bring us Your Produce, butter, eggs, chickens, turkeys and anything you have to sell 'n exchange for what you need in groceries or hc liday goods. We need @ large amount of farm produce to supply our city trade every week and we always pay the highest market price for it. J. E, WILLIAMS North Side Square.