The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, September 20, 1906, Page 5

IEES’S DEATH NATURAL. Report ofjTwo Doctors Who ~ Examined the Body. %. Louis, Sept—An sutopey ‘the body of Colonel Frederick founder of the Blees military my at Macon, who was found din a room at the Southern hotel indicated that death was dueto causes. It was sald bysome i$ Colonel Blees had killed himeelf. Phe verdict of the examining phys!- Dr. Henry Lioyd avd Dr. J. A. pann, was that death had re- d from @ disease of the heart. coroner’s inquest will be to-mor- fe said that the’ colonel carried vy life insurance. One estimate hat his policies will aggregate { Mon dollars. olone! Blees was recently made de- sdant in a suit for $180,900, filed relatives from Germany, who ned thas he had not properly ac- ounted for that eum out of certain tates inherited by him and others. Colonel Blees was known to have been greatly worrled about the mat- . He is said to have property orth 14 million dollars, Heinherit- d two estates in Germany and had prospered in all his enterprises in Macon county. Patrolman Kills Watchman. Joplin, Mo., September —Benjamin Collier, 48 years old, a private watch- man, was shot and killed by W. J. Geter, 23 years old, a patrolman of he local force, in the Mascot saloon at 10 o'clock, following a short quar- rel, said to have been over a woman. Cofer was arrested by his uncle, Jake Cofer, the deputy marshal of theelty, and taken to the police statior. There was only one witness to the shooting. Only threeshots were fired and Collier was instantly killed. Cofer has a wife and one child. Collier has a wife, but they separated & few years ago. Sam Jones on Bryan. “There was never more priceless character in the world than Bryan. William Jennings Bryan was too far advanced for the times. Roosevelt is paving the way, and is sure to be succeeded by Bryan as president of the United States. Under Bryan’s administration this will be thegreat- est country the world has ever seen Iwill tip my hat to Bryan. I belleve in the resurrection of the dead, and the democracy 1s coming to thefront once more.” A Fire at Lee’s Summit. Lee’s Summit, Mo., Sept. 17.—Fire broke out in the mule barns of W. E. Maxwell & one Friday afternoon, destroying the barns and spreading to the barns of M. A. Rider, which were only partially destroyed. At the time the fire broke out both barns and yards were full of mules, but these were transferred to the stock yards without loss. The loss of Maxwell & Sons was $5,000 and that of M. A. Rider $1,500. Dr. Brooks Injured by Fall. While at work in his barn just back of his drug store Friday, Dr. Brooks lost his balance and pitched head- long into @ manger on the ground floor, He was found in an uncon- eclous condition by L. M. Stevenson and RB. N. Word, who pulled him out and stretched him on the floor, where he soon came to. He had one ri cracked and was badly shaken up, but was-able to be at his store Sat- .—Amoret Post. CASTORIA ~ For Infants and. Children. PRESIDENT STICKNEY AGAINST DELAY Case Involves the Union Pacific Railroad Company Which is Accused of Giving a Monopoly of Their Grain Business to the Blevator Company—Other Western Roads are Interested, Chicago, Sept. 17.—Membtrs of the interstate commerce commission Mon- day-reopened the old Peavey elevator case after listening to a long dispute between the various lawyers repre- senting the parties to the suit rela- tive to a supposed agreement for a continuance The dispute ended abruptly after President A. B. Stickney, of the Chi- cago Great Western railroad, declared that he most vigorously protested ahy further delay in the hearing. President Stickney ts one of the pe- titioners for the reopening of the case which involves the Union Pa- cific Railroad company, the Peavey Elevator company and the Trans- Mississippi Elevator company. One of the chief allegations in the case is that the railroad company granted rebates to the Peavey Elevator com- pany and gave it a monopoly of the grain business along the ratlroad. Beside the Chicago Great Western railroad the petitioners are the Chi- cago, Burlington & Quincy and the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe rail- roads, The rebating is sald to have been done at Omaha City, ‘ The first heartng of the case was in St. Louis ia July, 1905, and ft was then closed. The three railroads tiled their petitions for a rehearing, declaring that new evidence had been discovered. When the bill of complaint had been read by Attorney Severance for the Great Western road, Attorney | Baldwin, acting for the Unton Pnact- fic, declared that the only new evi- dence contained in the complaint ts the charge that the Peavey Elevator company had been given a few ship- ping factlities by the rallroad and this assertion, Mr. Baktwin declared, he was ready to disprove. and Kansas Former Kanaan Killed, Catro, I., Sept. 17.—In jumping from a moving train Monday R, J. Thistlewood, a wealthy grain dealer of Cairo, who formerly was a prom- inent real estate man of Wichita, Kan., fell and broke his neck, deatn resulting almost {nstantly, Mr. This- tlewood in company with his brotner, Capt. N. D. Thistlewood, former com- mander-in-chief of the G. A R. of Illi- nois, started for Chattanooge, Mon- day. Finding they had boarded the wrong train after it had got under way, both jumpéd from the platform. Capt. Thistlewood was uninjured. Fatal Explosion in Havana. Havana, Sept. 17.—A_ violent ex- plosion occurred here Monday morn- ing and wrecked two brick buildings. Six persons were killed and many were wounded. An investigation is being made. The explosion is thought to be the work of incendiar- ies. The buildings at once caught fire. Dead and wounded are still be- ing taken from the wreckage. The buildings were insured. Some alco- hol was in storage in one of the dam- aged buildings but the force of the explosion causes the belief that de- liberate use of dynamite wag mada Discovered a New River. New York, Sept. 17.—A special ca- ble to the Herald from Marseilles says that the Duke of Ambruzzi wha has ar- rived there, has just made announce- ment that one of the most important scientific results achieved in his lat- est explorations in the interior . of Africa was the discovery of a river never before described In any geog- raphy. He marked its course ard measured its volume and flow. Dowie Going to Mexico, Chicago, Sept. 17.—John Alexander Dowie, who, according to general be- lief in Zion City, is in an extremely low condition of health Sunday un- nounced a farewell service at Shiloh house for next Sunday. Immediately after this service he will leave for Mexico, if his physical condition will permit, and it is not expected that he will ever see Zion City again. Taft's Western Trip Postponed. Washington, Sept. 17—One result of Secretary Taft's mission to Havana is the indefinite postponement of a trip of inspection which he intended to make with Gen. Bell, chief of staff, They were to have left Washington about the end of the present month for Chickamauga and then go west- ward to Forts Sheridan, Snelling sid Riley. Struck Wife With Window Weight. Canton, Ohio, Sept. 17.—James Cor- nelius, a well known contractor, is in jail charged with the murder’ of his wife. He admits striking the woman with a window weight in a quarrel. Carlists Active Again. San Sebastain, Spain, Sept. 17.—The recurrence of Carlist agitation im Catalonia province has caused the civ. fl and military authorities of that province to adopt most severe meas ures for suppresson. © cruise to Bjorko, at 5 o'clock Satur- day afternoon retired to his cabinet to rest and gave orders that he should not be disturbed until dinner was served. When at half past 7 o’clock dinner was announced, Gen. Trepoff did not answer the call, and finally a member of his staff at 8 o'clock knocked at the door of his cabinet. .Receiving no reply, he en- tered and found the general lying stretched out at the foot of his couch with a newspaper in his hand, dead. It was plain that he had died shortly after he retired to the cabinet and had been lying for three hours where he fell. Although he died a natural death, the threat of the revolutionists last winter that he would not die by being shot or blown up with a bomb, but would be killed in his own bed, is clearly brought to mind. Gen. Orloff, who was Gen. Tre poff's temporary successor while Trepoff was taking a short rest re- cently, will be succeeded by Gen. De Dioulin, ex-prefect of police of St. Petersburg, as temporary command- ant of the palace, the emperor hay- ing telegraphed this orfer from Bjorko. The appointment, however, fs tn no wise permanent. MAY HAVE LOCATED THE POLE. Captain Amundsen Who Discovered the Northwest Passage Talks of his Ob- servations in the North. Seattle, Wash., Sept. 17.—Captain Ranold Amundsen, discoverer of the northwest passage, reached Seattle Nax- urday on the steamship Saratoga from Nome. He was met by a committee oft the chamber of commerce and the lo- cal Norwegian societies. Owing to his desire to reach the government ob- servatory at Sitka so as to complete his magneti¢ observations, Capt. Am- undsen sailed for Sitka on the steamer Jefferson a short time after his arriv. ‘al “My observations extend over a per- fod of three years and ft will take three years to calculate them out,” sald he,. “Until that time, it is utter- ly impossible to say positively what I have accomplished by my observations, I believe, however, that I have located the north magnetic pole. I cannot say as yet whether it is a shifting point or extends over a large area. We also took careful observations of the aurora borealis and I belleve my observations wilt show that this phenomena has a marked effect upon the compass, Our zoological and ethnological collectiion has been carefully attended to and is fairly complete.” New York Freak Dead. New York, Sept. 17.—Born without a bone in his body and absolutely helpless, Antonio Congro, of Brooklyn, lived for 21 years, He died on Friday and was buried Sunday. His case st- tracted much attention from medical men, who frequently visited the home of his father to examine him. From the day of his birth until his docth, Antonio was never out of a cradle. He could sea, but could neither hear nor talk. He was powerless to move hand or foot, and yet was perfectly formed, except for the fact that he had no bones. Antonio was 20 inches in height and his body was broad. Despite the absence of bones, tor years he apparently enjoyed the best of health, He Stood by Americans. Gibraltar, Sept. 17—Rear Admiral Sir Edward Chichester, who com- manded the British squadron at Ma- Nila during the Spanish-American war died here Monday morning of pneumonia after an illness of a few days. Sir Edward’s wife arrived here from England Sunday night. It was Sir Edward Chichester who, according to report, stood by the Americans in Manila Bay at a time when friction between Admira] Dewey and the Ger- man commander seemed likely to lead to serious consequences. | Her Sentence Commuted. Leavenworth, Kan., Sept. 17.—Liz- zie Cardish, a 15 -year-old Indian girl, serving a life sentence in the federai prison for burning the pulldings or the Wisconsin Indian school at Me- nominee was commuted by the presi- dent and the girl was taken to the Industrial School at Geneva, IIl., by United States Marshal Mackey Mon- day. The fire Was started by the girl because she was refused a trans- fer to the Carlisle school in Penn- sylvania and caused a loss of $50,000. United States Consul Injured. Marshalltown, lowa, Sept. 17.—8.C. McFarland, United States consuf at Reichenberg, Austria, who is here on a vacation trip, was injured Monday while hunting and ‘will not be able to return to his post for two or three months. . Dead tn Street Car Collistor. San Francisco, Sept. 17—Two per- sons are dead, three seriously injured, - |) RULES FOR "AUTOMOBILE PGUESTS HE FOLLOWED THE DOCTOR'S Always tell your host that his is the finest machine you ever rode in. Ask him if & isn't the best make re is. Ask him what really makes ft go. Listen when he tells you. Ask him if he Isn't swiftly. golng very Express surprise when he says the machine ts merely getting warmed up, and for you to wait. Watt. Remark thet automotiling is the poetry of motion. And that you never before knew what it meant to really live. And that yon feel an exquisite, in- explicable elation. Admire hie motoring get-up. Tell htm how well he looks In auto mobile togs. Ask him if yon may suggest a name for his machine, Ask him what are the spark plugs. Look wise, Ask him to spell cartmretor. Express po surprise at hts reply. Say that you would be afraid to go 60 fast if anyone else were driving. Ask to have all the parts tn sight explained to you. Inquire minutely about the others. Introduce no subject save automo- biles Disparage all others and praise the Ome you're tn. Keep it np.—Carolyn Wells, in Lite. “ALL SORTS. Many a fellow's wife Is too rch to agree with him The widow believes that a husband is better “late” than never. Lots of things look easy until you try to do them; also lots of men. Teacher — “Willie Fresh, you are just as bad as you can be.” Willie Fresh—"Huh, I guess you don't Know how bad I can ba” Sunday-School Nel -"So Jack and Maud are mar ried. She always sald he was the last man in the world she would marry.” Belle—"Well, I guess he ” was. Netl—“Miss Antique says her land. lady treats her like a mother.” Belle is old a grand- —"Gracious! Miss Antique enough to be treated lke mother.” Old Gentleman—“Why are you sad, Little Boy—"If you had to wear your father’s made-over trousers, I guess life even to you would seem a dreary expants.” little boy?” MERE OPINION. Jealousy might be willing to listen to reason if it could be convinced that there was any such thing. It ts foolish to give advice on bur- den bearing to people who want you to bear their burdens for them. Twetve million silk hats are sold every year in England. Yet some people wonder why the English are not more humorous. Pt always makes 4 women restless to eee her husband with a cigar in his mouth and his feet cocked up on a level with bis _ Ones, tt 1s said, there was o prin- cess from whose mouth a pearl fell every time she spoke. Of course the story is untrue. This fact is proved by the scarcity of pearis. In China every man's first object fm life is to purchase a coffin for him- velf. This probably accounts for the comparative scarcity of capitalists in China. Think of the interest the peo- ple over there lose. ABOUT>VALUABLE STONES. The bieck diamond {!s so hard that ft cannot be polished. An uncut diamond looks very much Tike a bit of gum arabic. The diamond, in sufficient heat, will bura like a piece of charcoal. Every gem known to the lapidary has been found in the United States. The ieland ot Ceylon is the most remarkable gem degpository in the world. The carat used in estimating the wetght of gems is a grain of Indian i When a fine ruby fs found in Bur mah a procession of elephants, gran- @ee: and soldiers escorts i to the PF-APENED N il) ANG MAY HAVE BEEN POISONED. bs General Trepoff, the Most Hated Man in i Bussia, Found Dead in | y His Cabinet. Interstate Commerce Commission] St Petersburg, Sept. 17—Gen. Tre-| tore is. Takes Up the Peavey Elevator | Pott, feeling on pend trying duty of protecting imperial mas- though! he | Case at Chicago. ter, who left last Thursday on a Pd — a oo sae - ee j INSTRUCTIONS. “Gracious, man!” exclaims the doc- tor when Mr. Glubbins calls him in a hurry. “Your temperature is rioting | near the danger point, and | you—" “And I'm worse off than I ever was before, all through the diet you pre scribed.” “Impossible, Mr. Glubbins. I told you distinctly to confine yourself to such foods as would be taken by @ three-year-old chili.” “And didn’t I follow orders? I ate apple cores and dog biscuits and ends of burned matches and scraps of po tato peeling and everything else I could pick up while no one was look- tng—and here I am pretty near dead.” Hastily reflecting upon the gastro- nomical tendencies of the average three-year-old child, the doctor tells Mr. Glubbins that he has been over- doing the diet and will have to sub- sist on soft toast and hot water for a week.—Life. Housewifery. When Mrs. Flatleigh chose the re frigerator with the mirror in the front door of It, Flatleigh laughed. “Of course,” exclaimed Mrs. Flat- leigh, bridling at once, “a man has no interest in saving his wife's steps.” “Steps, my—" “But possibly he can appreciate the advantage of her being able to get dinner half again quicker through not having to run to some other part of the house every time she wonders how her hatr is looking, or her apron behind, or something!"—Puck. Revealed. The young man was brought before the magistrate. “Have you ever asked the latter. “No, sir," was the reply. “Have you ever been in this court before?” “No, sir.” “Are you stre?” “Yes, sir.” “Your face looks decidedly familiar; where have I seen you before?” “I am the barman in the hotel op posite the court, sir."—Cassel's. been arrested?” Mike's Distinction. “Now, let's see how much you've learned at school,” said little Albert's father. “Can you tell me who was America's greatest man?’ “IT guess,” replied the bright, thoughtful child, “it must ‘a’ been Mike Huntry. At least, he’s the one they sing about the most.”"—Chicago Record-Herald. Feminine Way. “I understand,” said the parson “that you young ladies held the first meeting of your debating club last night. What was the subect of your discussion?” “Really, I do not remember,” an swered the maid with the dimple, “but anyway the subject had nothing to do with what we talked about.”—Chicago Daily News. At the Races. Frten@—-I bet on your horse yes terday and fost. Horse Owner—That’s where you were foolish. I bet against him and wonl—Detroit Free Press. Human Nature. The path of duty leads, ‘tls safd, To self-approral. But A lot of people strive each day To find a shorter cut —Chicago Daily News. True Reciprocity. Clarence—I told the minister he might kiss you. Cordelta—And what dtd he say? Clarence—He thanked me, and said that under the circumstances he would forego the usual fee.—tllus- trated Bits. Compared. “I hope my vocal lessons do not | disturd you, Mr. Singleton,” said the, young lady boarder. “Oh, no,” replied the old bachelor. “Your vocal practice isn’t any more annoying than the practice of that| alleged painless dentist next door."—; Chicago Daily News. | Rotlo’s Debts. “So, my son, you left a lot of col- lege debts behind you? Well, how much do you owe?” H “As wuch as you'll stand for pay- ing, dad.” For Rollo was an honest child, but! no pig.—Cleveland Leader. Unsightly. Guest—Look here, this mirror is 80 fearfully dirty that I can’t see my face in It. | Hotel Servant—It strikes me you) ought to be thankful for that instead of making trouble about it.—Tit-Bits. dudging by Looks. Bacon—She says she is 28 years \ “eet | ‘Well, she looks as if she would say she was about that old— Yonkers Statesman. WILSON FOR TARIFF REFORM. Taft Hesa New Supporter in the Cabinet. Washington, Sept. 17.—Secretary Wilson,of the Department of Agricul ture, hitherto reckoned a stand-pat- ter, has joined hands with Secretary Taft in advocating tariff changes. He has been identified factionally in Towa with Secretary Shaw, chief of the stand-patters, but now he veers around end goes farther than he has ever done before toward indorsing the Cummins tariff views. Secretary Wilson does not intend to take the stump thie fall, although in previous campaigns he has been one of the administration’s staunchest sup- porters. He gives asa reason that he is too busy getting the meat in- spection and pure food laws into operation to get away from Wasb- ington. “T donot think any votes are to be made for the Republican party,” said Mr. Wilson, “by defending the policy of selling goods cheaper abroad than at home. Some good Republicans disagree with me and are frankly admitting and defending {s. Well, I do not think a mejority of the American people will ever agree that {tis right to do that, and the sooner the party recognizes that fact and corrects the situation the better, In my opinion.” Gantt Expects Greatest Missouri Veteran’s Reunion. Jeffereon City, Mo., Sept. 17.—Su- preme Court Judge James B. Gantt, commander inchief of the United M tesouri Confederates, is actively at work to make asuccess of the re union to be held at voplin, Septem- bor 2426. Hots in recetpt of com- munications from so many camps in the organization, assuring him of their intention to attend, that he feels safe ia saying {t will be one of the best meetings which have yet been held. Commander Gantt an- nounces that all the raflroade {n the state will make # special rate of one fare, plus 50 cents, for the round trip to this reunion. (tlle Helped a Dying Victim. Ashland, Kas., Sept, 17 --The re- port reached here of the killlug of Frank Jones and the serious wound- ing of I. C. Jones, his father, by George Freeman. The killing was at the Jones farm {in (Okishoime, twenty-five miles south of here. The cause of the trouble was the elder Jones’s appointment as Democratic central committeeman of hls town- ship over Freeman, who formerly held the place. The elder Jones dis- armed Freeman, who then helped carry the dying boy into the house, said he was very sorry and would leave. He then disappeared. An Indian Territory editor says: “It 1s more fun to see & man read & puff on bimself in a newspaper than $0 see a fut citizen slip on a banana peel. The narrow minded man reads {t over seven or elght times and then goes around and begs all the copies he can. The kind hearted one goes home and readsit to his wife and then goes around to the office and pays what he owes. The successful business man, who advertises regu- larly and makes money by it, imme- diately starts out to find the editor, and then the two walk silently down the street and the business man takes sugar in hie’n and both eat a clove or two and life is sweeter, and peace settles down on their lives for @ moment. Such is the experience of a mustard seed that falls on dit- ferent ground.” There is a remedy over sixty years old—Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. Of course you have heard of it, probably have used it. Once in the family, it stays; i the one household remedy for f coughs and hard colds on the g chest. Ask your dgctor about it. The best kind of a testimonial— “Sold for over sixty years.” Meo mantieetuters of ‘We have no secrets! We publish formulas of all our mediciries,