The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, December 8, 1904, Page 4

TARIFF REVISION GOES GLIMMERING. | |<JiM CUMMINGS” DIES AT LEAVENWORTH. | President Persuaded By “Stand-' Committed One of the Most Dar- Patters” Not to Call Extra Sessien For That Purpose. The Republic Bureau. 14th St. and Peanaylvania Ave. Washington, Dec. 4.—President Roosevelt has been so overwhelmed in the last few days with anti tariff revision opinions that the “stand- pattere” says he has practically abandoned all ideas of urging any change in the present schedules for atleasta year. Certain it fs that Senators and Representatives who have been at the White house in the last two days have nearly all ex- pressed the opinion that there will be to extra session of Congress for the purpose of tariff revision. “And if there ie no extra session,” siid Representative Hall, of Iowa, “there will be no tariff revision.” The same members of Congress including Spenker Cannon and Sen- ator Hale, who have opposed, in conference with the President, an extra session, are also opposed to any tarff revision whatever during the present administration. ThePresidené him self,while inclined to lean toward some reviston of the tariff, Insisted at the start that he would form no decisive opinion until he had had an opportunity to con- fer with members of congress fron all parte of the country. Senate lenders, in public interviews and in conversation with the President, have not hesitated to say that they woul] combat any tariff revision to the bitter end. Speaker Cannon was almost as emphatie in his arguments againet an extra session. The Presi dent was told that ifthere was any public issue at all in the last cam- psign it was the tariff, and that the country voted to continue present conditions. He is therefore now inclined to yield to th!s opinion, and the chances tonight are very strongly against any important tariff revision in the next two years. Should business continue good, the “stand patters” will make this same fight at the end of two years, with hope of carrying over any action under another ad- ministration So strong were some Republi in their sentiment against revision that they told the president that ifit was insis'el on by him as the party leader there would be grave danger of disruption. On this account, it is now believed that the tariff revis- fon question will be at once “har- moniously” settled, wi h the “stand- patters” complete masters of the situation. ans To Enjoin Her From Talking. Chicago, Dec. 6.—An injunction to prevent his wife from talking was asked to-day in the circuit court by Thomas P. Woods, a carpenter. In defending his own name from alleged scandal Wood also asserts that he is acting for the good of a Mrs. Mar- garet Watson. He fears, he says, that his wife will tell things about him to members of secret societies to which they belong. He also seeks to stop oral utterance of his wife in Newtonville, O., and Muncie, Ind. In her “overheated imagination,” Wood alleges, his wife has conjured certain visionary and absurd scan- dals. The complainant separated from his wife four years ago when he says she became poseersed of “‘cer- ‘tain religious delusions and theolog- ical vagaries.” Ina létter submit- ted to the court Mrs. Wood threat- ing Train Robberies of Long Missouri List. Restored All of The Money. Leavenworth, Dec. 2.—Fred Witt- rock, whocommitted one of the most daring train robberies io the long history of that species of crime in Missouri, died here last night of la grippe. Wittrock, in his brief career asa train robber, was known as “Jim Cummings.” His firat and last robbery was committed fifteen years ago when single handed and alone he robbed the Iron Mountain express from St Louls to Texarkana, Texas, of near ly $25,000 in currency and gold. He was captured several months later at his home here and moat of the money was recovered. For his crime he was sentenced toserve twenty five years in the Missouri penitentiary, but was pardoned out after three years on the plea that he was dying of consumption. Wittrock’s robbery was as ingen- ious as it was daring. He forged the name of the Pac‘fi: express superin tendent at St. Louis to an order allowing him to enter express cars to learn the duties of a messenger. He made one or two trips over the Iron Mountain. One night, learning that a large amount ot money was in the safe, he entered the car. The mesaen- ger suspected nothing. About fifty miles out of St. Louis at a lonely water tank Wittrock suddenly over- powered the messenger and, after rifling the saf», jamped from the car. He might never have been caught but for hisirrepressa ble desire to have fun with the express officials and the officers who were hunting for him, wrotea number of letters to them making sarcastic references to their efforts to locate him, telling them where he was and where the money was hidden. He went fromst. Louis toChirago and then to Leavenworth, From here he wrote more letters and they finally led to hiscapture and the recovery of most of the money, which wasin the hands «-ffriends, who, how- ever, knew nothing of his exoloit. Atter his release from the Jefferson City penitentiary he retursed to Leavenworth aud the late Col. DR. Anthony, a life long friend, who had aided in securing his pardon, gave him 4 position on the Leavenworth Times, He finally became circula tion manager of the paper and held the place until his death. He was 44 years old and unmar- ried. He leaves a widowed mother and two alsters. It is said that Wittrock had $12, 000 of the money concealed under the floor of the dinning room in his home. After his arrest, while seated at the table with the offivers around him, it was said that he promised to return the money, providing the ex- press company would assume the mortgage for $2,000 on his mother’s home. This, itis said, the express company’s representative agreed to. After the papers were signed Witt- rock got under the table and lifting officers. robbery until the arrest was made. Seek’s Farris’s Release. a board, pulled up « box containing $12,000, which he handed to the He then told where the rest of the money was. The family knew nothing of the money under the table nor did they know anything of the St. Louis, Dec. 83 —When the case of State Senator Frank Farris,under indictment on charges of bribery A REPULSE FOR STOSSEL. Arr Fr Fire Concentrated on} The Lost Position and a Dash| Made—Tokio Reports That|§ the Assault Was Repulsed. |{ Tokio, Dec. 4 —It is reported here that the Russians have attempted to retake 203 Meter hill. They as sembled a strong force and assaulted the position, but were repulsed with heavy loss. The Japanese have found sailurs among the Russian dead and believe that if men from the fleet are employed in making sorties the complement of the force must be falling short. The Russians centered the fire of all their beavy artillery on the Jap anese who occupied the hill, The Russians say that the Japanese losses since they took the position are almost as large as they were from the beginning of the attack un til the Russians were driven from the last line of defenses, The Russians are said to be changing the positions of the vessels in the harbor, as if to avoid exposing them to the fire of the commanding positions captured by the Japanese. Those familiar with the situstion at Port Arthur say that once heavy Japanese guns have been mounted on the hill there will be no safety for the Russian vessels in the iuaer harbor and they will be forced to either make another attempt to break through the block ailing fleet or to be destroyed at their anchorage. The latter alterna- tive will, itis believed, be the one chosen by the Russians, because to adopt the tirat plan would be doom- ing a large number of the present de- fenders of the garrison to certain death before the guns of Admiral Togo’s flet. Mystery Only Deepens. New York, December 4.—The Chad- wick mystery deepens, Somewhere far from the surface some powerful influence is moving to shield the wo- man who admits that she has borrowed possibly 1 miliion dollars on mysterious security, She is sued, but at a word the men who sue her accept her word that they will be paid—aud the suit is postponed, The Oberlin bank loans ber a large sum of money on the same mysteri- ous security. The bank failse—and the secret influence behind Mrs.Chad- wick seals the lips of president and directors Other mysterous securities are de- posited with Iri Raynolds, secretary and treasurer of the Wade Park Banking company of Cleveland. What are the mysterous securities? Mayor Carter of Oberlin, O, a di- rector of the bank that failed, when asked as to the character of the mysterious securities, exclaimed: “My God, I wish no one would ask those questions.” President Beckwith of the Oberlin bank was asked about the securities. He started from his sickbed in terror, exclaiming: “Never, to my dying day, will I tell He is bound by an oath, it is said, not to reveal the names of the men who signed the securities. Tri Reynolds, who has the key to the Chadwick deposit vault, declares he will die ‘before he will reveal the Mrs. Chadwick ‘has borrowed so many hendred thousand dollars. : st ARE OR Nevada’s Postoffice Fight. Nevada, Mo., Dec. 4.—The local ene ber husband withexposure unless} and prejury in connection. with the postofiice fight is growing warmer: he complies with certain demands es/alum baking powder scandals, was| Three: of the candidates for post- to te, i amtcenia his place of residence. Unrequited Love Love oe Johasoy Sassen BeMit opt ar eae teat: Leads To Murder ron Thareaay and the body of James oa Taylor, betore whom Pars - Williams by her side. Mrs. Johnson | was originally 2 ee the head | nioned to testity as to the — a ‘over. wna arraigned, will besum-| taken up before Judpe Foster of the) master, H.E. Errett, Charles Kick- criminal division of the circuit court] pert and Wallace Kreck have with- to day, Attorney Jourdan, repre-| drawn and will not go. before, ‘the senting the defendant, filed a motion to correct the court records in the Dee.6.-Mrs, Jonnie John-| case, a plea in bar, which is in effect December 15. ie Need be myatery in the securities upon which | I DR. H. M. CANNON, BG kere Dentist, BUTLER, - MISSOURI Will be in Adrian every Tues- day and Friday prepared to do all kinds of dental work. THE GRINDSTONE OF LIFE. Qne day, when I, a boy, bewailed the wealths to me denied, 1 recollect my Uncle Hiram taking me aside To chide me for my petulance end whispered in my rar A bid of homespun logic and some facts design. ed to cheer. ‘My boy,’ he said, ‘‘im after years you'll recogn'ze that strife, Unceasing toil and poverty equip one best for life; For men, like tools, don’t get an edge on things a8 smooth as wex. It’s jost the grindstone’s roughness, lad, that sharpens up the ax.’’ ** *Twas Lincoln’s task of gplitting rails, bis buffeting by fate In early life that made him fit to steer the ship of state. A towpath life proved Garfield’s steel a tanyard’s pleasure scant, And weary round of work brought out the best there was in Grant. The wearied stones of fate that seem your pro- gress to retard You’tl some day bless, and thank the world for bearing down 80 hard, The grit that puts an edge on is just what euccess exacts-- It’s just the grindstone’s roughness lad, tha sharpens up the ax!’’ »—Success, To Murder All Foreigners. Berlin, Doe, 4—A new danger threat ens in the Far East, which is causing the government no little anxiety. From nearly all German con- sular agente in China, official reports state that the Boxer movement is growing at an alarming rate. China is in a state of agitation caused by the agents of the Boxere, who say that the Japanese have shown the way to beas the hated foreign devils a large part of the army is pledged to support the Boxers and papers which have fallen into the hands of a German Offielal show that ona cer- tain day, which is yet to be named, every Exropean living in Chine will be murdered The kaiser is reported to be about tolay the consular re porte before the representatives of all foreign powersin this city to arrange for joint action —_ the Boxers. CSCABSTORIA. Bears the Me Kind You Have Always Bought of Mi Changed His Mind. From December Lippincott’s, A tramp, dirty and ragged to the last degree, called at a house on the door of which was a doctor’s sign. A large, rather masculine-looking woman opened the door. “Scuse me, lady,” said the tramp, had any old clothes he'd let mehave. kind o’ clothes, an’ I’d be much obleeged fer anything the doctor could let me have, an’ I ain’t pertick- Isr as to the fit.” The woman emiled and made re- ply: ‘I am the doctor!” “Sufferin’ Moses!” ejaculated the tramp as he made beeline a for the “but I jist called to ask if the doctor | You eee I’m kind o’ bad off fer all}j x <ntiglciebitincinieietiack a ee HAVE YOU ara cons OP MISSOURI STATE BANK, | BUTLER, MISSOURI. Capital - - - $55,000,00 Surplus Fund, - - 8,500.00 Receives Deposits subjectto Check and always has mone to loan. Issues-Drafts and does a General king busi- ness, With ample resources and 23 years successful expier- ence, we promise our patrons ABSOLUTE SAFETY tor thelr Deposits and every accommodation that is consistent with sound Banking rules, ——DIRECTORS:— Dr. T.C. Boulware J. R. Jenkins, Frank M. Voris, John Deerwester A. B, Owen, ‘m. 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