The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, February 4, 1909, Page 6

WHISKY STOPS DUEL. Judge Fagg Relates Good Result of Too Much Drinking. That there two sides to the } which promises to {quor question disturb the equilibrium of the present legislature, !s demonstrated by an interesting story told by Judge Thomas J.T. C Fagg, one of the sidest lawyers in Missouri and judge of the supreme court immediately after the Civil war. The story is oi a duel which was averted in this state because the partles began drinking freely {na village saloon in Louisi ana, and, after being filled with the “eplirite of the hands and Yeclared the tragedy vif.’ Judge Fagg tells the story thus “In November, 15235, abouts night, at the close of the month, two groups of strangers were bo enter the iistaun ind pus up at the tavern kept by Marshall Mann, on Mato street “As all , they at tracted attention, espectally as the) were a well dressed, geuteel looking set of men separate groups at the supper table, at the village bar and wherever they went “Afser supper they began to in- quire about crossing the Mississippi early fn the morning. They finally obtalned two boatmen who promis ed to take them across the river at daylight It began to be apparent that their object incrossing the river Was to fight aduel. Lt was to avoid the penalty of the Missourl statutes against dueling “The drinking continued at regu lar intervals during the evening un Wit became apparent that both squads were becoming {ntoxicated Finally, as one group was lining up and about to approach the bar for the purpose of drinklng agaln, one of them called out “Gentlemen, | was ralsed in the state of Kentucky, and I don’t pro- pose to drink this way any more. In my country It’s customary to invite all in the room to drink, and 1 pro pose that we will be good friends from this on,’ day,” they shook ybserveu village of I » atrange They were observed in “And so they made friends in the! old village tavern in shat elsy and averted what might have been & tragedy. “The settlement of this duel was the only good thing that [ have known tocome ous of & drunken frolic.” Man Charged With Robbing Cigar Store Made Desperate Trial For Freedom. San Franciseo, Feb —After nine- teen duy’s imprisonment {p a cramp- ed underground passage way beside a cigar store, which he is charged with having twice robbed, Edward R Rand, a civil engineer, who says he is a graduate of the Kentucky State University, was arrested when t it the burrow. Rend crawled {nto the tunnel near. ly shree weeks azo and before hecould get out again the -police discovered signs Indicating that the man who had twice robbed Guntz’s cigar store had made his entry through the cel- lar. They at once posted a guard and Rand’s retreat was cut off, though his presence or the existence of she tunnel was uaknown, Rand burrowed until he reached a saloon next door bo tie cigar store, There he stole blanksts, food, maga zines and an eleetric iight, which he connected to filuminate his ander. ground prison For 19° nights a policeman satin the dark tn the cel inr where Rand’s bat was found. Being unable to escape by daylight because of his suaptcious appearance, and afraid to attempt it at night be- cause of the presence of the officer, Rand finally crawled ous of bis hole and surrendered He says he did not rob the safe of the cigar store, us ts charged, but that this was done by a companion, who discovered the combination of the strong box by watching through a hole inthe floor as !t was opened each morning. Sheriff's Sale {n Partition Laura Catharine Murphy, Geo. A, Geneva, Dennis A. Geneva and Neta Geneva, John Geneva versus Wm. J, Johnston, Ss, M, Tillery, Samaria Nor- ris, Tina Winfrey, John Johneton and Rich- ard R. Johnston, In ‘he Cireuit Court of Bates Co., Missourl. 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J., THOUGHT NEGROES ed, for she thought she saw a negro jin her room, On hearing the scream Good horses were worth $20 to $24, oxen $15 to $20 per yoke, milk cows | HAD THE ROOM. | coming from the direction of the bed | trom $7 to $10 each and good calves |A Falling Flue Laid The Scene | For a Comedy of Errors, | Nevada Post, jhe turned around and then he com- | menced to make his get away for he | saw a colored person {n the room. About this time the lady of the | house arrived and the mistake was |discovered. The soot had spreac $1.25 per head. 37\c per hundred was pald for making rails; a ne }man would hire by the year for $ and two sults of cotton of linen clothing and two blankets. The best class of work hands got $8 per has, by writing his record on the, During the wind storm laet night | rapidly over the room and bad made | month and common ones $3 to $4 walls of his cell, lessened the work | 4 flue was blown down In one of the everything black shat {t touched. per month, All our clothes, shoed, that the grand jury will have to do| prominent boarding houses in this| The soot had so completely covered |ete., were home made, and yet those in his case, He says he was impelled |clty. A man and his wife, whose | the faces of the couple that at a were among our happiest days, even to do 1% by order of his dead mother, | names will not be mentioned, were | glance a person would have taken {! we didn’t have blecults but once a whom he saw fn a viston, Pointing to the writing when hid flew was blown down. When the flue cell door was opened in the morning, | Came down {t brought a large quan- | he said to the police sergeant: “If you need anything to.send me up, Sarge, there {¢ ts, You'd never have pulled it out of me. She came | sleeping in a room next to where the | them for colored people. Old Times in Missouri. week and that on Sunday morning. Venison, wild turkey with old-fash- ioned corn bread, johnny cake, etc., | tty of soot with 16. The soot settled) Wesee quail juoted at $3.00 per’ was good enough for us and made over the room, | Early this morning the house maid entered the room ofthis man and | dozen in St. Louls. We well reunem | ber when @ boy selling dressed quail jin Hannibal at 15 cents per dozen. life worth Hving. When we tell how we and our younger brother were run out of the to me in the night, my mother—are | ils wife to call them for breakfast. At that time rabbits’ ekins would felq by droves of wild deer one hesl- you -wile?—and> when she was through I put the whole equeal on the wall before I got me nerve back |As she entered she turned on the | electric light and then gave a scream jand ran down statrs and told the bring 50 cents per dozen at the hat- ter’s shop, and how there {s no sale for them. In those days we killed I couidn’t think of the dates and she | people that there were two colored | our hogs in the woods where they gave them to me, As soon as I pip- | people sleeping in Mr. and Mrs. So fastened on the mast and could have ed her I knew what she come for, She always wanted me to be square, bus; Mr. So andSo heard the house | 4 large bee tree in winter. We well I wouldn’t see it. SEES HIS OLD MOTHER “] was in me bunk when I glanced | about that time and then sheacream-| worth three bits (37kc) per bushel. | up and there was the old lady, look- in’ as me like she used to, when the bulls chased me tn the house years ago when I first went bad. “ Johnny,’ she gez, ‘you've got to drop this game and straighten up,’ and she went to put her hand on me. I wouldn’s stand for that, though. I ain’t fit to have her touch me now. I’m wise to that. “‘Johnny, she sez. ‘tell ’em all about 1s and serve your time, then you can get out and be clean again.’ “Sure, I'll do {¢, old woman,’ I sez, ‘ll spout the whole game to the judge in the mornin’, so help me.’ But she couldn’t see 16. “*You got chalk in your pocket, Johnny,’ she sez, ‘and you better write a confession before you get wild again.” I tried tu give her another stand-off, but it was no good, and | put it all down while she stood be- hind me. “You musn’t feel hard agin’ the cops that pinched you,’ she sez,’ so I stuck in @ good word for Jailer Frank Lehman and Detective Buck Ward, who copped me In New York. They got all they wanted agin’ me, and now I’m goin’ to take me medi- cine just like she told me to.” How’s This? Woe offer One Hundred Dollars Ro ward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F, J. CHENEY & CO., ‘Toledo, O. We. the undersigned, have known F, J. 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