The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, June 2, 1904, Page 2

HE PUBLIC! rs) 4) The Bates Co. Monthly Sale Co., < under management of f 2 A.L. Fox & H.H. Harshaw @) wishes to announce that they will conduct a monthly » Auction Sale of Live Stock, C4) beginning TUESDAY, JUNE 7th, and continned on the first by} Tuesday in each month at the Feed Yard, Butler, Mo., §) k asthe Gailey Feed Yard, having secured exclusive commission will be charged. our “ad” — ar eR righvol this yard on these days. a market to bring the seller and the buyer together and through our “ad” methods will be of great advantage to the small dealers and breeders as well as the large ones. Good accommodations will be furnished, aud reasonable Parties having stock to sell in order to get full benefit of will iat them with us not later than MAY 2 H. H, HARSHAW wishes to announce he has both wr wow SOME NOTED SIEGES IN WORLD'S HISTORY Port Arthur's Condition Very Much Like That Which Provalled al — soot Our purpose is toestablish of the mo-t notable occurrences of the reports are true that the Russian «arrison is provisioned for a year the place will not he easily taken, for ite Sth, 1904 SS SSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS defenees are well-nigh impregne ble to ® Cattle and Hogs oo : 4 : ae Inehortness and decisiveness it will yeontribute to this aa er | 7 > ! be difficult to beat the record of Alex- 4 £9 ‘ee Larce Bills and Cate lognes on and after MAY 25, 1904 indria ped ci pg aie | > Correspond nee will receive promt attention by addressing tually silenced within 10 hours by the ; 9 A, 1, FOX &, H. H, HARSHAW, British flees under Admiral Seymour. 4) j 4 ; i But these few hours witnessed euch a = Ap of HAS. BEARD and FRANK LaPOLLETTE Butler, Mo ¢) destructive deluge of shot and shell 4 GP — Auetionvers, and General Assistants, 20 2t as might well have laid a big city in Sssossooosssosseessccsose: ruins, No fewer than 10,000 projec- tiles were hurled against the forte of Alexandria, many of them monsters of 1,700 pounds weight, fired from siuerati su of $1,200, Sant was to ota carried down south. The start was Sl-ton guna. kind in modern military history. It} A stood impregnable against all the | assaulte of Spain and France for) 8 S74 days, although week after week | }.000 shells were hurled at it every | day, and in spite of the combined at- teek of 46 sail of the line, a countless tieet of gun and mortar boats and floating batteries which had cost »00,000 pounds to construct. Richmond, Va., was defended by jon. Lee through a year of : fighting until the seizure of his lines iton April 2, 1865: Lacknow held | {G out for 86 days, when Gen. Havelock | [fj went to ite relief, and Strasburg, 72. Gaeta 77 and Chitral fort 46 days. | {1 mnech closer parallel to the siege of | [fp Port Arthur can be found in the] j& bombardment of Santiago during 5] the recent war between America and| = Spain, The United States warships | qa hells Into it with such dendly «fleet that, although the gunnerscould not see their target, 75 ‘Yoxas, Indiana and Brooklyn opened tire on the town at @ rane of eix wiles and for three hours poured \ 75 buildings were wrecked and set on fire and it was iid that a few hours’ would have laid the whole place in ruins, Even more effective was the demoralization caused by the bom- bardment, which directly led to the surrender of the town, nore th ESE FALLING STARS. (ececryor. emote 4 following night. Assisted by several prominent citizens, the Reavis boys ih ir u Nt th herr apa ni i L the braddy landing, There he was handcuffed and tied and kept hidden | InTyh aoe) LIULII rried him to Singularly enough, this murderous hail of iron did little damage to the fortifications, the ma- jority of the shell selves harmlessly in the parapets of sand which had been raised to pro- Race War on Near M Muscogee Muskogee, I. T, May 27.—James | Van Hook, a resident ment, eight miles north of Muskogee, bury of Sodom settle. | _ Solonel Switzler, of Columbie Tells Remarkable Story of Antebellum Days, % ‘The story of how falling stars set a Boone county negro free is often voldin Boone county. Colonel W.F. Switzer, the veteran journalist, is i ae of the few men living who were ft an Boone county at the time the inci- dent oceurred. Colonel Switzler tells it as follows: “Tn 1818 Isham Reavis started | from Kentucky to Missouri, taking | with him his family, household effects and a negro woman with a family of s/veu children, all his slaves. He , wags one of the first of the multitude | of Kentucky and Virginia immigrants who afterwards filled whatare known asthe “Bourbon counties” of Mis- sour, “Hearing that an Indian uprising was imminent in the new country, Jieavis stopped in Ilinois, remaining there six months, The slavery ques- tion was just then being agitated | a ind, although he was not aware of “, Reaves’ short residence in Illinois iad given his slaves their freedom. e moved on to Missour! and locat- din Saline county, where he died ome time in the late twenties, leav- eug fis slaves to his heira. The viegroes were divided among thesous aud daughter, and Sant, a valuable | young buck, fell as the apportion- sniles froin Columbia, i" ABLE COUNSEL, i “By some means the negro heard — of the Lilinois incident and on attain- ; ing the age of 21, determined to sue ment of Mark Reavis, living a iad bated had declared free, | vent of the boat with shouts of de- under guard all the next day. tect the batteries. But so terrible was the havoc and slaughter wrought among the adher- ents.cf Arabi Pusha by the flying fragments of the shells which explod- ed that the forts were quickly evacu ated, while some of the shells etarted @ fire which destroyed almost the whole of the town. WAIT IN THE WOODS, “That night they sat in the silent Waited eagerly for the ar rivalof the steamboat, Atthattime whistles on steamboats were un- known, and the weary waiters had no way of learning tne approach of the boat but by listening to the wheezing of the engines or churning of the paddle wheels in the water. At last the long vigil was over, and the captors rushed to the bank with the shivering negro, hailing the ad PARIS MAINTAINED ITSELF 132 DAys, Sebastopol, with ite grim, masrive forts, defended by 700 guns, many of them of heavy caliber, held out against the combined armies of France and England tor 327 days. When, however, the place was ev@cu- ated it was found that the town was in ruins, and to complete the work of destruction such docks and forts as still remained standing were blown up by the engineers of the allied forces. 1t took 132 days for the Germans to bring Paris to her knees a genera- tion ago. During January, 1871, no fewer than 10,000 shells were rained into the doomed town every day, and of these 500 fell into the city proper. During a single day, Janu- ary 8, the Prussians hurled 25,000 projectiles at Paris at @ cost of $350,- 000. The havoc they wrought was fearful, and the resultant fires threat- ened to destroy whole districts. Dur- ing the siege no fewer than 40,000 of theinhabitants succumbed to disease and hunger. For ninety four days Plevna defied the pick of the Russian army, al- though its defenders wore bopelessty outnumbered, and on December 10, 1877, after the last grain of rye hod been eaten the indomitable Turks sallied forth and tried to hew their way through the Russian legions Osman Pasha cominanded his gal lant remnant in person; three lines of trenches were pierced, but the odds against them were too great. light, But just then something happened the like of which has not ocenrred again in these seventy years, Of a sudden, earth, sky and even the river itself seemed afire They looked up and the very atars themselves were falling from their sockets in the December nightskies— not one, two or a half dozen, but by thousands. The woods behind them were a sheet of living fire, whileCamp: lin’s steamboat stood midstream in a shower of hissing flame and the hills beyond loomed ghostlike in the supernatural light. “Terror struck every heart, and the negro, falling to his knees, began praying fast and loud. The white men were good farmers, but their astronomical education had been neglected. In their simple ignorance they believed the judgment day had come unexpectedly and caught them at Terrapin Neck at an unearthly hour of the night and engaged in the questionable business of “running south” miserable negro whom the TORE SHACKLES OFF, “It took but an instant for fear and remorse combined to work out the result. They tore the shackles from the negro and told him to go, ae for bis liberty. He employed Peyton determined not to be caught red- Surrounded by almost countless came in last night after officers say- ing that there was a race riot at this place. He, on coming home had found his effects thrown out of the house; anda notice on the door giving him twentyfour hours’ notice to leave. Sodom is a settlement comprised principally of negroes, and the troubleis over the fact that the white people of that part of thecounty have participated in the huntforthe negro who committed an an assault on the white woman at Wagoner last week. The negroes of Sodom are sending their familles out of the place and both whites and blacks are armed, Hook himeelf had a shotgon and a six shooter in his possession when he came to town. The whites are in- censed over the deed committed by the negro at Wagoner and if he is found they will undoubtedly lynch him. Bryan Talks to Texans. Fort Worth, Tex., May 28.—W. J. Bryan spoke here last night. He ex- pressed his opposition to the Parker movement, which he regards as au abject surrender to the money pow- er. He said he intends to carry his fight honestly and earnestly to the St. Louis convention, but it would end there. “The get together and win plan,” he said, “will not prevail, as there is no middle ground. “Suppose,” said he, “the Wall street crowd is strong enough to eorapel the repudiation of the Kan- sas City platform, The same influ- euce might force the party to declare ji fivor of trusts, national banks sud imperialism. I would not want to say in advance that I would sup- port such action.” Yazoo City, Miss., Burning. phone message just received here from a suburb of Yazoo City, Miss., 060060905000060055330000 ene a No. 2129. Winner of Blue Ribbon at Iowa State Fair, In- Jackson, .Miss., May 28—A tele-| diana State Fair and American Royal Horse Show, Kansas City. Now owned by ee eo eo oe NeW Buggies, We have just received a shipment of spring wagons, bike wagons, buggies and run abouts, also single and double harness. We still claim the BEST SPRING WAGON ON WHEELS If you are thinking of buying anything in this line call and examine our stock. While we have not as large a stock as some, we claim as good values as anyone and if you will give us a opportunity we will take our chance on making the sale for we are sure the goods and price will suit you. Notice our prices on CULTIVATORS. Spring trip walking cultivators... Combined riding and walking.. Hamock seat cultivatore........ i Superior Stoves and Ranges Quick Meal Steel Ranges Moon’s Steel cooks and ranges. Gasoline stove sennon Is here and the Quick Meal is acknowledged bv all te be the bewt, We have them, d Hordware Stocks always complete ‘uve wanted Yours Truly G. E. CABLE, *“ fone: 2 CABLE, oi rv Cotten. Robinson. ~~ +e. —- Have you tried ZEST the new breakfast food, a cup and saucer in each package. —_—<+e-—__. We have a large linc of HEINZ’S Pickles, large, medium, dill and sweet. WHITE LOAF FLOUR BEATS THEM ALL. THE GASH GROCERY, FARM LOAII s, | To be able to borrow money on real estate on long time, with the privilege of making payments before due, is an advan- tage which the frugal borrower appre- ciates. We loan money in this way and at a low rate of interest. DUVALL & PERCIVAL, BUTLER, MO. The Imported German Coach Stallion SIMSON a Hayden, of Boonville, then one of |/handed, The exultation of freedom j the most famous lawyers in the state, | overcame the nergo’s fright, and he to conduct his case. The astonished | went one way as fast as they went master realized that he had a fight|another. It was not until the next -on his hands and retained for his | day, when they found the earth and «counsel Austin 8. King, Ablel Leon- | sky still intact and that the stars sand and John Gordon. King was | didn’t really fall, that the white men a@terward Governor of Missouri, and | told the story, about which their Leonard. one of the ablest Supreme | friends never ceased to twit them. Judges the state ever had. Gordon! ‘What became of the negro? The stood at the head of the Boonecoun- | next heard of him he was with Mar- sy bar. ney and Hicks in the first of the ex- “The case was tried before Judge | peditions over the old Santa Fe trial, Wevid Todd in Columbia in Decem-| and the last known of him he had ber, £833, and attracted widespread | married a Mexican woman and was Antereet. It aroused all the intense | the richest mulatto in the whole ‘and bitter passion then responsive | southwest. hordes of the enemy, his men mowed down by sweeping torrents of bullete and shells, the brave leader at last yielded to fate and allowed the white flag to flutter from the roof of the hut near which he was lying mutilat ed and in agony. Khartoum withstood the mahdi and his hosts for 341 days under the} . brave direction of Gordon, and in Kare Gen. Williams, with 15,000 men'with provisions for three months and ammunition for three days, kept and investing army of 50,000 atbay from June to November. MOURAVIEFF'S TRIBUTE TO GENERAL says a fire which started there at 9 o’clock this morning is still burnt The German Horse Co., Butler, Mo., but is under control. Chamble| Will make the season at the LAKE PARK BREEDING White was killed, and Mayor Holmes STABLES. « badly injured while fighting the flames. The Illinois Central passen. s ger depot fe on fire together with Any one interested in good horses wishing any infor- many cars in the yards. The lose is estimated at 2 million|™ation enquire of T. J. Day, Sec’y. dollars. The fire destroyed every- thing for twelve blocks long and three blocks wide. All the banka, busi houses, newspaper offices, posto! courthouse, city hall and other build- ings were destroyed. A Cudahy Plant Burned, Bates County Investment Co, i 'BUTLER, MO.: Oapital, = = $50,000. Ta tall pence antovtate, at low rat rates. Abstracts of WILLIAMS. conciitinn tek ies hand vd tore sale. os Abetrwct ft to any agitation of the slavery ques-| ‘But there is another part of the ¥ a F ways ou hand ‘or of title. tion. However, in epite of the bitter | story that terminated differently.) ‘Gen. Williams,” wrote Mouravieff,| Los Angeles, Cal., May 28.—Fire pee ianen” examined and all kinds of real estate the Russian general to his gallant destroyed the branch packing house prejudice, the negro received a fair}Solomon Reavis, another brother F.2. Hox. J. B. New: 1.6. Ex was finally set free. But|living at Georgetown, the present | fc aon ede} rely py dno, 6, Ravn, Abstractor. vierFreidiat, sr ch a : Jor fi d at the endurance, the vison entiel.| age and the which thts : has in the remains a runnere ofan army. ‘Let us arrange a capit- k eae ulation which will satlaty the de-| for to him, the haf without disgracing |2)- ; . Pasir Gibraltar, as all the crag knows, | "t end the matter. The | townotSedalta, owned en ar cd paps yan ted raced ed to treedom.