The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 15, 1904, Page 3

: ‘ome LEGAL BATTLE. WITH WIFE MURDER |*™, of 3,600 Acres of Valuable Ohio Land to Be Contested. @ HAVE YOU | @ ATIBITION Part of an Estate Left te Slaves by Joha Randolph of Reoaave- Is to Be Fought For ima the Courts. Former Mayor of Charlotteville, Va., is Placed Under Arrest DETAILS OF THE TRAGEDY Charlotteville, Va., Sept. 10.—For- mer Mayor J. Samuel McCue was ar- rested to-night on a warrant issued Farmers in the southern part of Mer- cer county, O.,are considerably exercised over a copy of a will recently filed at Celina in the probate court by a colored attorney, John Beam, of In : Ind., laying the foundation for a legal battle for the possession of 3,600 acres of You'll need capital—and the successful policemen to do their duty, and that he woukid not blame them. According to Mr. McUue’s story of the tragedy, be and Mrs. McCue were going to bed last Sunday night, when man rushed into the bedroom car- trying a baseball bat. McCue seized his shotgun, but before he could raise it, he says, he was struck down by — — eommmmmeee |the intruder and rendered uncon- zs scious. Seizing the gun the intruder YALE’S LAW DEAN | Work of Train’ Wreckers? [scot Seizing she ann the Matrudes IS FOR PARKER| Portsmouth, Va., Sept. 9.—Four killed her. persons were killed and thirty-five] The theory of an attempt at rob- were injured early today when the ne - not accepted by the common | train on the Seabord Air Line rail-|Wealth’s attorney, who also rejects Mr. Rogers in an Address Says road, consisting of an express car, & the assertion that the alleged intrud- Mr. Roosevelt Isn’t Safe. mail car, two day coaches and a] sought revenge for some fancied sleeping car, was derailed at a tree- grievance he had against Mr. McCue, tle just south of the Catawba river] because it was Mrs, McCue who was 3 New Haven, Conn., Sept. 10.—A|in South Carolina, and was run into] the victim, not her husband. y ' vigorous address by Henry W. Rog-| by @ locomotive and caboose that Her nose was broken, her ear bruis- ers, dean of Yale law school, was the | followed. The dead: Engineer E. Y. ed, her throat compressed until the notablé feature of the evening last | Barksdale of freight locomotive; | fingermarks remained, and her breast night at the Democratic state con-| Fireman Ed. Roberts of passenger; pierced by a shot fired at such close somewhere in the United States and to give each of his slaves ten acres. Wil- liam Leigh finally decided to purchase this land in Marion, Franklin, Granville and Jefferson townships, and locate the Randolph slaves in the southern part of the county. Leigh had the title of the land put in his name as executor and had, it is said_ Intended to deed ten ccres to each slave after locating them. Leigh started with his 360 odd slaves on canal-boats up the Miemi and Erie canal and when the people of the south- ern part of this and Auglaize county heard of it they met the slaves at New Bremen, O., drove them back and would not allow them to land, Most of the slaves returned to Virginia, but some of them afterward located on some of the land purchased for them, Only a few of the families are there now. Now it is claimed that William Leigh had no right under the bill to take title in his name as executor, but that title should have been given to the slaves as described in the will, and that the peo- ple who purchased this land from either William Leigh or the squatters have no good title. A petition will shortly be filed In the Mercer commn pleas court by Attorney at this bauk. Depo sound Banking rules, ISSOURI STATE BANK, BUTLER, MISSOURI. [MISSOURI STATE BANK, | Capital - - $55,000.00 Surplus Fund, . - 8,500.00 Receives Deposits subjectto Check and always has money to loan. Issues Drafts and does a General Banking busi- ness. With ample resources and 23 years successful expler- ons ABSOLUTE SAFETY for their with sits and every accommodation Wesley Denton, Clerk and Bookkeeper, man of the fature is the young man who instance y k _ . é at the ins = ot commonwealth 8! Mercer county land, valued at over $250,- ——DIRECTORSte— eeps a bank account now and adds to it attorney Frank Gilmer, charging 000. Dr. T,C. Boulware J. R. Jenkins, Frank M. Voris, : rugulariy. him with the murder of his wife op) John Randolph, of Roanoke, Va., who John Deerwester A. B, Owen, Wm. E. Walton : Sunday evening last. The arrest | Was & wealthy slave owner, died in 1836, Dr, J. M. Christy C, R. Radford Dr. N. L. Whipple He has the capital when the “onportun- took place at Mr. MeCue’s fine reai- leaving a large estate. Willlam Leigh C, H. Dutcher RB. P. Powell T. J. Wright. ity? Pangan Mi Mec 1a the| %8S made executor of his will and was Sam Levy ‘ | ity” comes, One dollar opens an account here, r. McCue to | directed to purchase 3,600 acres of land J. R. Jenxrys, Cashier. = b 3 5 en arg norte | [THE WALTON TRUST CO. OF BUTLER. MISSOURI. Capital, Surplus Fund and Profits - + $80,726.02 Always has ready money on hand to be loaned on farms inBates, Vernon, Barton, and cedar Dade Counties, Mo, Very Lowest Rates of Interest. on one, three, five or seven years time, and allow bor- rowers to pay back parteach year if desired, Every land owner wanting & loan should oall and get our low rates and liberal terms, Money ready &s soon as papers aresigned, Wehave a full and complete abstract of title to every aore of land or town lot in Bates Connty from the U, 8 patent and showing all deeds af trust, Sheriff's deeds, tax titles or other conveyances that have heen racorded in Bates county. Our Abstract books were began by our Mr. Wm. E. Walton 84 years ago and are written up daily from the county records, We furnish reliable Abstracts at reasonable prices and are respon- ible for their correctness, Interest Paid on Time Deposits. If you have idle money for six months or longer the Walton Trust Company will pay you interest on it, vention held nominate a state ticket | Mra, Black and unidentified woman. |Tabge that the gunwads were found . DIRECTORS—— . r 4 ,. | Beam, who is also one of the alleged to be voted on at tho fall election,| The injured all live in the South|in the wound, The commonwoalth’s | heirs, to reclaim this land for the helrs Wm. E. Walton, J, Everingnam, J. R. Jenkine, The temporery organization was | and the most part were noteeriously attorney points out that if Mr. Me-] of the Randolph slaves. This land has 5 a Legos Hel bi ME i Tike T. 0, Boulware, effected with Dean Rogers as chair-|hurt. J. M. Barr, first vice presi- Cue was knocked down by a blow it] become very valuable for its oil and gas bg evy eres T. J ‘Wright. urhocramasinian Levys hoe ’ deposits, was 80 light that {t left no discolora- tion and only slightevidence of rough treatment. The bathroom is about twenty feet away from the entrance to the bed- room. It seeme certain that Mrs. McCue was shot in the bathroom, by the door, of which the gun wasfound etanding after the tragedy. Within the bathroom was the baseball bat. The injuries on Mrs. McCue’s nose, ear and throat, the physicians say, were inflicted before the shooting. The prosecution {s proceeding on the theory that Mr. McCue, in anger, struck and choked his wife; that she went into the bathroom and washed her bruises; that it was her weeping man and the various committees. | dent and general manager of the The real work of the convention will | road, said to-day that there was be taken up to-day. , {evidence of a malicious attempt to Dean Rogers devoted much of the | wreck the train, a number of joints address to state issues. He paid | having been found disconnected. The high tribute to Judge Parker, term- locamotive of the passenger train ing him a sane and safe man. He| passed over the trestle and went did not consider President Roosevelt | down the embankment. A locamo- safe, he sald. tive and caboose which had been A reference to Grover Cleveland in| passed by the passenger train a the speeker's consideration of the|short distance east of the point money question brought out cheers. | where the accident occurred ran into ) A demand for reciprocity with Can- | the damaged trestle and fell on top ada in raw materials for New Eng- | of the passengor train. . land wae well received. His closing denunciation of militarism in this country brought the speaker a long | A Soldier’s Sense of Humor continued round of cheers and 4Dp- | paitimore Herald. CZAR WANTS SHIP CANAL. Project to Connect the Black Sea with the Baltic by the Means of Long Artificial Ditch, The czar has avyroved a_ gigantic project for a canal to connect the Biack sea with the Baltic. The course will be 1,200 miles long ayd the cost is esti- mated at $40,000,000. The pian is to follow the Dwina river until near the swamps at its head waters, then dig through the forests of Minsk until the headwaters of the Dnieper are reached. It will be a far greater undertaking than was the Baltic canal dug by Ger- many, but the reasons for it are sim- ilar. The principal object talked about is Dockery World's hibition. No More Bull Fights. A Rush to Cleveland, Oklahoma. Jefferson City, Sept. 10-.Followlng | Cleveland, Ok, Sept. 7.—The dis- a conference with the attorney gen- | covery of ofl here and the bringing eral, Mr. Crow, today, Governor in of the first commerclally produc- FRANK ALLEN, Skcy, Wm. E, WALTON, Prusa, ELPA PPI LER AP LIP IAM, RE PP PLP IAPR PL LPPPIVPPLPALAP PIPPI directed the sheriff and) tive well in Oklghoma has drawn prosecuting authorities of St. Louis speculators and prospectors from county to stop the bull fights, which, | outside states and given a boom to accvording to the management's an- | land values. Unlike the field in nouncement, are to be held daily | Indian Territory, there are no re- hereafter until the close of the) strictions here upon development, | Fair. Governor Dockery | other than making contracts with expressed surprise at Sheriff Henck- | the owners of the land, In Indian en’s failure to prevent Sunday's ex-| territory the land is owued mostly by Indian citizens, and to secure a plause. - The late Rear Admiral Henry C. which a negro heard across the street | to develop trade and save the enormous] «y}] fights are contrary to the | lease requires long and tedious trans- Taylor often cited as an example of nem 9 returned to me bedroom te ma yrange A sia og law of Missouri,” said the governor, | actions with the Secretary of the In- A Reign of Murder. ghastly humor an incident that befell | UPOTS" her husband; that shecar-| ot vs siterranean, ‘ “and under no circumstances will |.terlor, Many speculators in the 2 @ young woman during the civil war. ried the baseball bat to defend her-|" put the main ihing the Russian gov- | they be tolerated.” Bartlesville district‘are coming here, Meridian, Mias., Sept. 10.—Lawand “She was good and kind,” he would sel’; and that sho retreated to thelernment has in mind ts to be able to! Mfr, {Crow said: “Unless the au-| Practically all the land within a order organizationsare being formed | gay, “and during the war she visited bathroom, whither her buband fol- in ana ago ge bans ys, erst horities give prompt and satisfac | radius of ten miles of this place is lowed and shot her. throughout this state because of @/ 44, hospitals dail: distributi reign of murder that has resulted in| tutte flewere and tracts, ™ 569 killings in thelast eight months.) 4 morning on her rounds a Judge Miller of this place, who ts ac- young soldier, immediately after she tivein the reform work, says the had paseed him, set up a loud laugh people have too much money With | “ghe turned and looked at him in which to buy whigkey and gamble. surprise, He seemed a pitiful case. This ie & prohibition state, but | nothing of him but his face was visi- there le much tilictt liquor selling and | 15 on the little white bed, and this this ia one of the reasons assigned for young tace was sadly thin and pale. the reign of crime. Others are boom | Nevertheless, he laughed like one towns and gambling. Most of the possessed. His mirth resodnded victims and also the slayers are ne- through the gruesome room. arene: The visitor returned to him. - ‘Will you tell me what amuses you?’ fleet, which now is practically impris- oned by Turkey's control of the only out- let through the Dardanelles. force the “Bob” Taylor Weds Again. Bristol, Tenn., Sept. 7.-Ex-Govern- or Robert L. Taylor was married to Miss Mamie St. John of Chilhowle, Va. this afternoon. Mr. Taylor has been married three times, having been di vorced only a few months ago from hia second wife at Knoxville, Mr. and Mra. Taylor willlive here. Robert L. Taylor was three times Governor of Tennessee, one term rep- resentative in Congress from the First district and known throughout the she sald. country as a lecturer on ‘‘The Fiddle ‘Why ma’am,’ sald he, ‘here youjand the Bow” and “Yankee Doodle [NHERIT have given mea tract on the ein of | and Dixie.” : _ | dancing when I have got both legs} For fifty years the Taylors have Mi ' 4 shot off.” been active politically in Tennessee. | { ‘ Few families have been more fortun- Neck Broken in Fall|te thanex-RepresentativeN. @. Tay- x cesan ihc Ta lor and his two sons. Robert L., Tuscola, Ill., Sept. 7.—A fatal ac-|«FiGdling Bob,” three times gover- LOVE DOGS BEST. Canines in District pe Colambia Ob- jects of More Affection Than Human Beings. Hume, Dogs are loved better than man, wom- brought an and child in the District of Columbia, according to Secretary Wilson's testi- mony quoted by Mr. Burleson, of Texas, in the house the other day when the agri- cultural appropriation bill was under consideration. The secretary is quoted as having said: “We are pushing this work with the theory that if we can prevent blackleg it will die out, It is the same with rabies. If you muzzle every dog in the District of Columbia and allow no other dog to come in the rabies will not come in. You could not do that. The love for the pup is stronger than the love for man, woman or child in the District of Columbia, and dogs cannot be muzzled here. That is the theory on which we the glands the are trying to éxperiment with blackleg, and after cident occurred at the Douglas coun-| nor of Tennessee, and Alfred A. Tay-| and we are succeeding.” APPENDICITIS CONTAGIOUS. ty fair this evening. Jceeph Eisle of ior, formerly a member of Congrese. Lonisville, Ky., was almostinstantly |The second Mrs. Taylor was Mrs. killed while making @ descent in &} Alice Fitts Hill of Tuscaloosa, Ala , parachute. September 28, 1901. Both had Eisle had ascended in a balloon, |children by former. marriages and and when at the height of 200 feet, | they, it is alleged, caused the unhap- wag shot from acannon. He caught in thé top ofa tree ‘when near the ground and fell 100 feet, hie neck The Disease Declared to Be Due to Germ by Dr. C, S. Sheldon, of Madison, Wis, Boys Save a Train. Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 9.—Two 10- year-old boys, waving cornstalks yesterday, prevented a Burlington : Jasna’ train from plunging through a burn- ; Peers bridge which spans the Platte Russia's New Minister. von Ha investigation disclosed St. Petersburg, Sept.—Prince Peter | that three bents of the bridge, which Sviatopolk-Mirsky, the new minister |{s @ mile long, had been burned. The o Vilna and| train was the Portland limited. It will remain there until after the un-|contained ten coaches. Traffic was veiling of the monument toCatherine| heavy and every seat was occupied. ft “Reptember 25, when he|The boys disappeared after giving assume active direo-| the signal which saved the train and |could not be found, although the . wished to reward them. the Burlington are seek- e the boys in order to them. Trampe are be set the bridge on fire. ease is of microbic origin and that the only rational explanation of it is that it is the result of a germ that can be trans- ferred. The prevalence of the disease, He says there is an epidemic of appen- dicitis In this country. tion for many years. A Missouri! Love Letter. The “devil” of a north Missouri paper received a love letter the other day, and the foreman got hold of it and read it. This is what it said: “Dearest of All— self don’t come to me soon I'll die. I that box of chocolates or I'll black bothe 'yure eyes. Now mind. Yure lovelng Lizzie.” : 1 a] ee eee ey BRADFIELD’S Female Regulator The most invigorating menstrual regulator At last I know you are thee onley per- | in th Id, It relieves son on earth for me. Darling, ou Shred eeppresed mension THE BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO,, ATLANTA, GA. | 25¢; regular size, 75c. tory assurances that they will en- under lease. law I shall at once apply to Deposits in local banks have in- the circuit court at Clayton for an | creased seventy-five per cent since injunction to prevent the proposed | the ofl excitement began, bull fights.” Many persons here believe that more substantial benefits will be de- Ears of Corn 13 Inches Long. | rived from the enormous supplies of Mo., Sept. 9.—W. E. Coon natural gas than from the oil. The to town to-day some corn flow of gas seems inexhaustable, and whose ears measured thirteen inches. | much of the power in operating drills They contained thirty rows of grains | comes from gas in well No.1. There ps edie - 2 i led are vast deposits of brick shale and only three times to raise fewer than ° fitty bushels to the acre. it is proposed to use the gas in man- | ulacturing brick tiling and glass, glass sand in the neighborhood, and The “Katy” and Frisco railroads are tributary to the local field and in direct connection with the lead mines at Joplin, Mo., where mineral for manufacturing glass, ete., could be secured as easily as in Kansas fields. Miner Hayes Fatal Fall Down a 100 Foot Shaft. Joplin, Sept. 8.—Diik Hayes, a Wf Galena miner aged about 25 yeurs, oie Um was instantly killed yesterday after- noon at 4 o’clock by falling down a . Dr. C. 8. Sheldon, one of the leading THE THIEF OF BEAUTY shalt at Tanyard Hollow, about physicians of Madison, Wis, has made Is Captured ‘by 100 feet and his neck was broken. theastounding declaration that appendi- Bredfield’s Regulator. aa citis is contagious. Hesaysthatthedis-| -Tpousandsof young women areawaking | MILLIONAIRE’S POOR Si to the fact that inherited comliness has mirdatete yepetaes been stolen, and instead of glowing cheeks and bright eyes, the tell-tale “ene in have “pe — a he believes, substantiates his theory. ese are the warning feelings! Weak | 41 yvils attendant on the possession and tired in the morning, no life to enter | of great wealth. But millionaires are upon their former pleasures, irritable, cross, dull headaches, general dispi ited Dr. Sheldon is a graduate of Yale and | feeling, sleepless nights, cold feet, ‘‘bear- has been a practicing physician for the | ing down” pains. All these ptoms | is far greater among the tuilers. Dys- last 40 years. He has been secretary of | indicate deranged and weakened organs, | pepsia and indigestion ere. rampant the Central Wisconsin Medical associa- | and exhaus — ened condition of the surely as night follows day. 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