The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 18, 1909, Page 3

STRIKE ON N PARIS: FIVE THOUSAND TELEGRAPHERS VOTED UNANIMOUSLY TO GO OUT. TELEPHONE OPERATORS ARE INCLUDED The Strikers Say Their Action is a st Against the Present Arbi- Aa? And Tyrannical Administration i ‘ ; ; ; J | ; } ' | ) ) F } | ] j E ; : } ) } J | j 4 j | J ; | j q j } ) ) } ] af Secretary Simyan is Especially | Obnoxious to the Men. Paris, Mar. 16.—A general strike of the telegraphers of the postoffice de- partment was declared Monday even- lag following a meeting of the general | association of post telegraph employes, | at which 5,000 were present. The reso- lution to strike was voted without @ single dissenting voice and orders | were issued immediately for the with- | drawal of all opeators employed in the | Telegraphic bureaus of the depart- | ment. The resolution recites that the | strike action is taken as a protest) against the arbitrary and tyrannical administration and that the decision Was precipitated by an insult address , ander secretary of | phs, to ihe oiticials of prior to posts and tele; the association, Some tine taking vote th general associa: tion of employes issued a statement | protesting v rously agi M. Sim- yan's charge that the movement was anarchistic; they declared that it) was designed solely to protect their interpsts, e resolution adopted also pledges the members of the association to re- sistance until all measures of repres sion have been withdrawn and pro: | vides that an urgent appeal shall be is- sued to the telegraphers in the pro- vinces to join in the movement, The meeting broke without — dis- | turbance of any kind, and the services | of a heavy force of reserves of police and mounted municipal guards about the building were not required, The committees of the various branches of | the service immediately decl selves “permanent” and — be tive work in organizing the at Nevertheless the general opinion was, | as the men and women returned to their homes, that the strike would on- ly be partial, and that it would prob- ably be short lived. Many of them} admitted that it was simply a demon- stration. At the meeting of the gene ciation all tie speee the indignation of was dir tary Simyan, popular, not only with the po graph employes, but with the publi tl ed prinempally who is exceed on account of the execrable tele phone servico | ers in this country to write } The gir’ «p rs empl 1 in the telephone noon lad unanin decisi: e840 rail| Way luail cierks due io ledve on ont Going trains during the cor of the | sevening also decided to await that} decision. : | Los Angeles Grand Jury Called. Los Angeles, Mar, 16.—Judge W. P | his favorite pi James of the superior court Monday called the speci names of 30 elegible drawn from the jury jurymen box. Deputies were immediately despatened with sub- . poenaes to trict Attorney Frederic | ne began the preparation of a list} Music barred as a reason for getting of Ritnesses who will give testimony in the mone: ‘ them, D the same summon KS at regarding the charges of graft. Among these is said to be E. T. Karl, pro- prietor of the Evening Express, who secured the information which is al-| leged to have caused the resi of Mayor Harper. A Three Cent Rate in Missouri. Chicago, Mar, 16.—The resumption of a three cent passenger rate in Mis- souri to replace the present two cent rate, which was declared confiscatory by Judge McPherson, was decided up- on Monday at a meeting of executive and traffic roads held in the office of President B. L, Winchell, of the Rock Island line. It was stated by an executive after the meeting that the action of the con- ference was unanimous. No conclu sions were reached, it was stated, re garding litigation in other states. No More Gambling There. Carson City, Nev., Mar. 16.—By a unanimous vote, the senate Monday passed the anti-gambling bill as amended by the judiciary committee of the upper house. The chief changes) made in the bill by the senate are the extension-of the time to October 10, 1910, when it shall go into effect and vision placing bridge whist and all other games of chance played for money or prizes in the same category as faro and roulette and the other prohitited gambling games. Entertained Rhodes Scholars. London, Mar. 16.—Ambassador and Mrs. Reid entertained the American Rhodes scholars at luncheon Monday. The students were accompanied by Dr. and Mrs. George Robert Parkin and - several Oxford professors. The mem: Ders of the American embassy also ‘Were present. | doomed, the scuttling of those impres: sive vessels will be postponed awhile. 1 grand jury and the! elimbed were | shot four ignation | officials of the interested | Funny, isn’t it, that what turns the | DANGER OF WAR i8 ACUTE. | A Chicag leaves red leaves us blue? Sess It's better to occupy a thatched cot- ‘ tage than a marble mausoleum. OCC"">=== i The man who isn't satisfied until he is married isn’t always satisfied then. ——_ ES Ee Hope has been described as a “life preserver with most of the cork out of it.” The only thing wrong with money is that there isn’t enough of it to go round. Few of us have shoulders that will not droop under. the weight of imag inary troubles. A craze for aeroplan But that is a business which is liable to frequent drops. Ieeland is r for home rwe, In other words, its people want their own icemen to be Who was it that said the new fem inine hat wasn’t to be t rand more umbrageous than ever Every time Alfred Austin bursts inte song a series of critical explosions o¢ curs all over the world The proper siady of mankind = is man, but the most talked of one just at present is tuberculosis. About this time riamilias gets Stalled with questions from Young Hopeful on school subjects. Maybe the airship will oust the war- ship, but it will have to take several feeds of gas or gasoline first. The man who prides himself on al ways saying what he thinks seldom succeeds in saying anything any one else wants to hear Aeroplanes of the Wright pattern are to be on the market soon at about $4,000 each, Take a few home to amuse the children, The Bocootawanankes Canoe club was recently organized at Pawtuxet R. I. Imagine a girl trying to work that name onto a sofa pillow! Now that it has been discovered that sweet potatoes make an excellent brain food some philanthropist: should “| work to have the price reduced. A whistling buoy adrift is) searing mariners on the wide Atlantic, But if it only refrains from “The Merry Widow,” et al., all may yet be well, —_— And now some one claims that a girl knows two weeks before a man even | admits to Himself that she is rather attractive what hour he will propose Though it is foretold by aeroplane manufacturers that the battleships are It is easier now for stranded Rritish me for ion ap ins in. Eng money, The same happy cond plies to stranded Ame hy the | land. Will the broken-down) English no bleman who marries a poor girl at home instead of an American heiress be given an annuity from the Carnegie hero fund? Emperor Joseph still enjoys time of hunting at spite of his 7S years 5,000 feet the other day and Ischl, and in Andrew Carnegie has now estab | lished a hero fund of $1,250,000 for Scotland, with listening to bagpip: | The navy wants an will float as well as fly. N understand that {t is entirely to be in the air and in deep water at one and the same time. 7 hip) which 1 experts King Edward, though a gracious sov- ereign, is a busy man, and probably never will find time to make a lord out } of our distinguished ex-countryman, | William Waldorf Astor. | _—_—_——_. | A French countess, noted as a hun | ter of big game, has been lost in the wilds of Africa. It is to be hoped that the lions she started out to find | did not find her sweet enough to eat. The Wright brothers between them | have established the fact that flight | like a bird is possible, but also that it is very difficult.. It requires no merely good flying machine, but a good operator. However, says the Brooklyn Eagle, once a man _ learns | how to fly with freedom, he will have thousands of rivals. The human part of the problem is easy, and on its mechanteal side it ts approaching so- lution. —_—_—-: Two-thirds of the habitual inebri- ates under some form of public care in Great Britain are mentally defec- tive, according to the recent report of the royal commission on the care and control of the feeble-binded. This conclusion conforms to that drawn by many thoughtful persons in America. The man who permits him- self to become incapacitated through the gratification of any appetite is deficient, either mentally or morally. The school children of llinois, or a majority of those who voted on the question, have chosen the meadow violet as ‘the state flower. Thirty- three states now have such floral fa- vorites, possible | 8ix Jurors In Nine Weeks, dopted by the children or San Francisco, Mar. 16.—With nin€| nameq by the legislature. But al- weeks of proceedings entered upon the! though the rose is the flower of New records of the court and but six jurors) yor, and the wild rose that of Iowa Sworn to try the case, the trial Of/anq North Dakota, no state has yot Patrick Calhoun, president of the! peen inspired to pay a graceful trib- United Railroads, accused of bribery| gto to itself and its daughters by se made little progress Monday. Ted) jeeting as ite emblem the American talgamen were discharged, Situation Between Austria And Servia is Critical. Berlin, Mar. 16.—Private advices re- ceived here from Vienna represent the situation between Austria and Servia as one of extreme gravity. It is said | in authoratative quarters that Austria will send within a few days an ulti- | matum to Belgrade, fixing a very short period for an answer to her representa- jtions. If the answer is unsatisfactory, | it is declared, war is inevitable and may break out at the end of the week, The Berliner Tageblatt learns that tne Russian foreign minister, M. {swolsky, has issued instructions to the Russian minister at Belgrade to warn the Servian government to avoid carefully everything that might be in- terpreted as a challenge to war, Never- theless diplomats here regard the dan- ger of war as most acute Rockefeller and Carniegie to Finance Movement to Uncover Graft. New York, Mar. 16—A_ Leo Weil, president of the Voters’ league of Pittsburg, Pa, who has been tn Now York for several days, conferving t members of the research and othe ested | an cily government, us the report that a movement is under way to the organization of civic throughout the United strates purpose shall be to uncover ere purify city polities, Tw large cities in the c¢ be in the organization John D, Rockefeller, Andrew Ca vegie, Jacob H. Schiff and others will finance the undertaking, it is said y or more untry will Dolley to Take Offic Monday. Topeka, Kan., Mar, 16.—4. N. Dolley vill become bank commissioner of Kansas next Monday, He is bn now winding up the islature and it) will take week to get all of the records straisht e out and everything tived ups he can leave the affairs of the le most of the ollice of Spoaker o the house of representative ile wil make his appointments for his new of fice force and examiners the last of next week, ‘ Another “Rebellion” in Cuba, Havana, Mar. 16.--A sergeant. and seven privates of the rire Ward state tioned at the town of Vu in Santa Clara province, have mutinied and taken to the woods with their horses and arms. It appears to be their intention to make start an uprising 8 ments of the rural guard cent garrisons have been sent in pur suit of the mutineers, n effort to ne from ¢ Death in Burning Leaves. Springfield, Mo. Mar. 16. burning leav wher yard br While Agnes Roach ears old iter burns which in her ea 0 ld of fa: tha $ mother were afire. As she ran toward her home a | by caught her and tore off her dress. Mrs {terribly burned, er and three children Roact’s legs were he leaves a widow Said to Have Forged in Many Cities. Chicago, Mar. 16.-—Robert ©. For » answer 10, } by Bo: cently a 0 have op lin this co Bishop Lillts Won't Serve. fr Hishop T Topeka, Kar N F. hillis of ik ‘of the Leave ( of the ned the vureh rlie point: ito as a member of the ‘sas state text book board. The ap] | poir t ' ssion of j the ke firmed by the senate Lion Tamer Dies cf Pn a. Colorado Springs, Col. \! 1t— | Amos MeCos 5 years old lely } known to circus throughout the country as an acrobat and liow tamer, died in this city pneumonia, Me y Was employed at| eae zoo as caretaker, h come * west some time ago, broken in health. ager Tnesday of Rich St. Louis Manufacturer Dead. San Diego, Cal, Mar. 16.—Henr Timken, the millionaire carriage man- | ufacturer and capitalist of St. Louis : Canton, O., died suddenly Tues- day morning, 78 years old. For the last two years he had made his home His wife died four Two children survive. in San Diego. months ago. Kansas Dentists to Meet in Wichita. Wichita, Kan., Mar. 16.—The Kan- sas State Dental association will meet here May 11, 12 and 13 for its an- nual meeting. One of the matters that is to be determined will be-the association's attitude toward what it terms “quack” dentists. Allowed Train to Kun Over Him, Wichita, Kan., Mar. 16—William Me Farland of Attica, Kan., committed sui- cide in West Wichita Monday after noon by sitting on the Missouri Pacific traek and allowing a train to run over him. He has been sick and was de spondent. An Old Macon, Mo., Merchant Dead. Macon, Mo., Mar. 16.—Col. R. M. J. Sharp, 79 years old, the oldest mer- chant in the county, died here Mon- | day night. that the cut in postage from tt lar—not a Bookmaking h ir year, both the racetrack and luxe variety Wilbur Wright is gett | contracts and Orville is getting well which is as it ought to be. Even Russix now. Science death has eve s able to beat cholera the stoutest toe The edit a Chinese newspaper is named Li Sum. Which would indi cate that the per is a typical yellow journal. If Explorer Peary has a motion pte- ture machine the public may be able some day to objain a near view of the aurora borealis in ¢ —_—_—_— New York siness that the supply of office the right sort is running short too, calls for conserva complain oy timber of This, King Edw " wel try has been + vide only on letters not on souven!® post Mme. Louis ind and Mme nes Menard h graduate docto medicine, act as ship's physicians on two of the Yrgest) Mediterranean steamers The Pruss benefiting by illustrates the fact of the great millionaires A French oter has ordered 50 Wright airs! This is an artistic order, It is aman who termined to ser pt for his plans y of Sefence, 00,000 legacy, again that science is one the modern multf vty of atmos Statistics there are 15,200 stenographers in New York, What a state of affairs would arise if they should all corresponden in -betraying office The barber o! itish steamer was arrested at Phila yhia, charged with smuggling. It may have been from the force of habit that he was merely try: ing to shay Wh EXpenses ee Airship improvements are progress ing with a ra y that ought toat ford Walter Wellman new encourage ment in his cherished project of reach ing the north pole by means of flight ee" New York is to have a school to tn struct office boys in their duties, The curriculum will not include a course in whistling of the ragtime melo dies to a maddeni tent. Such a course {fs totally unne ry. The ‘report of the inl commissioners of the year ending Mareh 31 last—in which the lower tax on earned incomes below £2,000 per annum came into force--shews that the = it tan yielded Cst1,st 241 incomes class from £10,000 to CON, and SIT In the 000 60 £10,000, revenue ritain fe reported in ely the University IMatt of that an impor have not “Woman’ of Berlin,’ eity, “has already tant one, although her rig yet beer fully recognized cording to the late en were entered school hi the winter ferred on in philosc beeom Last year you Mr. Astor was ) given an automobile by his indulgent father because he was not at the foot of his ¢ This year it is wonderes what form the award of merit wil take. Another mobile® Oh per haps a nice, pretty ray rut aeropl would serve to jol! Tt is dreadfal, thor soon the list of de can be exhausted in his Ase As 4 precaution agains! coal dust ex plosions Prof. William Galloway said that if the coal dust in roadway a mine were regularly strewn with a sufficient amount of salts containing large quantities of water lization, or with much lat tions of the dusts of stone, chalk or othe i at would be rendered quite as innocuous as if it were damped with water, of crystal ger propoi ate, lime. ubstane Tt would be hard to find two men more different in their way than the two Jameses of Kentucky—Ollie M. James, a Democrat, and Addison James, a Republican. Ollie is a law- yer, and Addison a doctor. Repre- sentative James is a man of immense frame, big voice and spirited, charac- , teristic of the lawyer; Representative Addison James is quiet and: unassum- ing, like the modest doctor that he is. Veenzuela has 13 railroads, the long: | est 111 miles long, and no other as much as 50. They are for the most part lines which climb the hills from the sea toward the interior and have steep gradient. On one line for 21% miles there is a grade of 440 feet a mile, worked by a cogwheel system, and there are other grades of 213 feet, ; 185 feet and 148 feet. Few of the lines connect With others, and there are a oumber of different gauges. One of the most remarkable freak newspapers ever printed was the La- | Who had tried all the flours in the known world and was not pleased. Th “MOSES tried a sack, liked it, en she heard of * BEST” told her neighbor about it and the neighbor liked it--told Ae» neighbor, and so the story traveled. You can get this MOSES BEST at J. E. Wil- liams’, and we are sure you'll like it. We also have in a car of Feed Shorts and Bran Come and get prices. We have too Pure Cane Sugar just from New Orleans. going up. Come and ge higher. Early Ohio seed potat¢ You know that sugar is t a sack before -it goes 2eS $1.35 per bushel. Early Rose seed potatoes $1.25 per bushel. Barb wire and poultry We are making exc dried fruit. 3 pounds dried peache 3 pounds dried apples... 4 pounds raisins....... VY onion sets and garden k and package. each, c each, netting, eptional good prices on 2S @ DOUNGS Gried AMTICOIS... 6.66 ccs cscceas 25c Imported figs.... Packages raisins and __ Pere arpa neuen We have almost anytl of Breakfast loods--all fresh, currants, 2 packages or COR OC Reeder ereree oot ling you want in the way Post toadies, 3 packages, for.............25¢e E. C. Cornflake, 3 pac Mother's grits, 3 packages, for Vigor, 3 packages, for 2 packages shredded ren. 25c 9G el Wheat biscuits for 25c Highest market price for all kind®6f produce Red, white and yellov seed of all kinds, both bul Good garden hoes 25c Good garden rakes 25 Steel spades 60c each | J. E. WILLIAMS. 10c per pound Mingo and North East Bates. Everybydy is rejoicing over the pleasant’ weather of the list few days KS. Snow went to Creighton last Saturday and brought’ ou’ a new dise harrow. The members of the Christlan chureh wet last Saturday .afternoon to make some arrangements about getting apreacher for the coming year, but nothing definite was done, J. H. Douglass and Walter Hen- drickson went to Crelyhton list Sas urday. L. Staley fs preparing bo pus up sme hog fence Tie new bridge in Grand River bottoms has not yet been made pass able. 4 Mr. Guy has gone to North Mis} sourl on business. Mrs. Sterling Harness is visitiog tn Nevada. Frank Brown is working for Wes ley Dale. Joe Mills fs reported sick at this writing. John Blake and family will leave shis week for Arkansas where they will make thelr future home. = Arch Middleton has hired to R. k Godwin, The people of this vicinity were shocked to hear of the sudden death ot J. A. Dudney which occurred last Monday. He fell dead while at work {n the timber. His bereaved family have the sympathy of the entire community. Miss Iva Dale began her spring term of school at White Oak last Monday. Mrs. Robinson will continue her school to the close with out {ntermis sfon. W. L. Yeates hus not yet complet- ed his new house. B. F. Gregory brought outa load of woven tence from Urich last Sat- urday. . A number from this vicinity at- tended the spelling contest at Urich last Saturday evening. The contest| was reported very interesting. The ‘first, second and third prizes being divided equally among threecontest- ants who spelled through the book. minaara, published in Madrid. It was; Che three were from different schools printed with ink containing phospho- rus, so that the paper could be read ao the flag, which was to have been in the dark. Another curiosity was igiven to the school represented by called the Regal, printed with non- the pupil who remained on the floor poisonous ink on thin sheets of dough, | longest, was not awarded but will be which could be eaten, thus furnishing | kept until next year when {t will be nourishment for the body as well as ‘offered again. mind. Le Bien Etre promised those who subscribed for 40 years a pensioa Charley Dale made his usual Sun- day trip to “these parts.” and free burial. The Baptist church held a busfnose meeting after Sunday School fase Sanday as which a “eall” was + tended to Rev. Wade Jobnsor { Urieh so be their pastor forthe er suing year. Avy? JiMins From an Old Bates Co, Boy. Cenpracia, Mo, March 141006 Eorron Berner Weekby Tints Dear Str: Your paper came so my desk yesterday, the Ith, a: brought us a message from our and yet beloved count jty Mo 1 j ving in the old neigh ‘ | sod west of the Morris cemesery soush of the Miami creek Comtig as we did from [inois to Bates county Mo, in August IS74, landing the ty at Johnstown th: day the Kansa- Mrasshoppers aft vy. Dates many Hew names which many of the old people will r jcall, as they literally destroyed 4 jxreen Vewttasion as they came to fs Tthought thenas Ido now, shat sates counby is as pretty a country we the sun ehfnes on. [bhad ther thousands of neres of land unfenced (prairie virgin soll.) busier was shen a small town but besutifully situas ed on high ground on the wess side of Mound Branch. Rich Hill inex had one store, three dwellings, one school house and not even a black smith shop. AsT went to school at Rich Hill the winter of IS74 and 1875, many pleasant recollections of the town and people still remain with me. George Rlef was the store keep- er, and the citizens were Martin \ Perry, Wm Weir, Mr. Ratekin and J M. Brown, the teacher, I notice sev- eral familiar names in the paper One was the death of Joseph Whin- ery. which I was very sorry to learn. | Wm. Hardinger was my wite’s near nelghbors. She was Mise Marsha Coffelt, daughter of John Coffels. Z. M. Hamptoy Where Hobson Slipped Up. Life, Our good friend R. P. Hobson, M. C., has made a mistake in not stuk- fog more of his reputation on eartbd- quakes and less of {¢on war. If he keeps yelling “War!” long enough his judgment will doubtless be vindl- cated, but think whata reputation he would have had as a seer if he had begun, eight or nine years ao, to bid the country and all the world prepare for earthquakes! Theessence of successful forecasting 1s to hit the season right. Mr. Hobson has offer- = war in Ka has turned out to be greatest earthquake 10) modern times, = te 1 OBE T MALI hull cok