The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, March 18, 1909, Page 9

a ST. PATRICK'S DAY. ‘\\ Q MINISTER AT WASHINGTON CON. FERS WITH SECRETARY KNOX REGARDING SITUATION, MAY ADJUST A LONG-STANDING CLAIM Notwithstanding Assurances of the Minister That Military And Naval Activity in Nicaragua is for Defen- sive Purposes Only, More Warships Will Be Sent to Those Waters. Washington, Mar, 16.—Nicaragua, through her minister here, Senor Es- pinoza, protested to Secretary Knox Monday that the military and naval activity now in progress in that coun- try is destined entirely for defensive Purposes; that she does not contem- plate making any attack on her sister republics, and that conditions are quiet | within her borders. 5 The minister went to the state de- partment armed with a bundle of dis- patches from his government and spent a half hour with the secretary, during which he discussed also the | the two Emery claim, which has been source of dispute between the countries for years, Both the secretary and the minister, | after the conference expressed the hope for a satisfactory adjustment of the claim and a peaceful solution of the whole situation. Natwithstanding the minister's as- sertion of Nicaragua's peaceful inten- tions toward her neighbors, the ad- ministration has decided to argument the naval force in Central American waters to a total of six vessels. In addition to the Yorktown, route for Amapala, Honduras, the arm- ored cruisers Maryland and Washing- ton are to remain on the West Coast, the former going to Acajutla, Salvador and the latter to Corinto. The most significant news that reached the state department Monday was that about 6,000 Nicaraguan troops are near the Honduran frontier, the chief scene of activity in the neighborhood of Corinto, where are also concentrated four gunboats and other auxiliary craft. A feature distasteful to the state department is the manner in which John H. Gregory, the secretary of legation at Managua, who has been ordered to Washington, is being treated. From the dispatches it is gathered that the Nicaraguans are doing nothing to make his position agreeable, but that on the contrary there are evidences of hostility to him, and it is understood here also that some of his dispatches have not reach- ed him as promptly as they should. The whole situation is inexplicable and irritating to the state department, which is not disposed to act hastily and is seeking the views of the vari- ous capitals in Central America through its representatives in those places with whom it has acquainted fully every step that has been taken. By Wireless 3,000 Miles. Washington, Mar. 16.—By an agree- ment reached Monday between Secre- tary Mayer and representatives of the National Electric Signaling company of Pittsburg, the naval establishment is tu be furnished under contract, with wireless apparatus which will transmit messages for a distance of 3,000 miles day or night and two ships are to be furnished with similar. ap- paratus capable of sending messages for a distance of 1,000 miles. The ap- paratus, it is said, will be 30 times as powerful as those in ordinary use. This will enable the department to communicate with its vesseis practi- cally across the Atlantic ocean and if successful will mark one of the great- est achievements in naval practice. Castro Going Back. Dresden, Mar. 16.—Cipriano Castro, the former president of Venezuela, will leave here on March 20 for Bor- deaux. He will remain at Cologne for two or three days on his way. enor Castro has again declared his in- tention of proceeding to Venezuela. NCARAGUA 1 OUT now en) being | HARRIMAN HAS HOPES, |He Expects Congress to Open Way for Big Merger, | Pasadena, Cal, Mar, 16.—Notwith- | Standing all the efforts that have been made to prevent combinations among | tailroads there is evidence that KB. HH. Hairriman has in mind a scheme to | bring about a mutual understanding in regard to traffic arrangements between Ml the railroads of the country and a uniformity of rates that will be great- ly to the benefit of the stockholders, and that the conference which is to be held at Pasedena while Mr, Harriman is here will be concerned more or less with the plan. Mr. Harriman evidently expects that congress at the special session will ‘make some amendment to the laws governing the interstate commerce commission's work which will permit of the merger he now has in mind. He seemed surprised Monday over the fact that mention of the matter had not been made before, RELATIONS RESUMED. The Trouble With Venezuela Settled and Minister Russell Goes Back. Washington, Mar. 16.—Pedro Eze- juial Rojas, one of the men driven }out of Venezuela by President Castro j Will be accepiable to the United states as minister from that country, according to official statements mad» Monday. He has been living in New | York until recently and is well regard- jed in Caracas. Mr, Rojas is about 65 years old. His {designation to the post at Washington follows the successful results of the | mission of Special Commissi i ‘anan to Venezuela in basis of settlement of the iween the two coun disputes be- Kansas Cases A peka, Mar, 16, vekson, tttorney general, ha i » Wash ington to argue the Pullman and West ‘rm Union ouster cases in the United |States Supreme court thes : ‘were decided against the companie |the Kansas supreme Neither ic pany took out a Kar jand neither has a right in the state, Oust jto drive the compani jor make them pay the charter fees of | $19,000 for the Pullman company and | $20,000 for the Western Union ‘Tele- | graph company. The Kansas court or- }dered both companies to pay, and the | cases were appealed. court, o do business suits were brought A Stopover Point Now. Kansas City, Mar. 16.—Kansas City who writer Somethir cht to be done to en guishing umbrella in If Alfred Austin possessed a sense of humor he might have a great deal of fun reading his own works The Vienna Academy of Scien®es has spent nearly $9,000 in working ten tons of uranium ore for radium. ——— Some correspondence school could make a hit by instituting a course in what letters to burn and what not to write. _—— Now it is announced that locomotor ataxia is curable. The science of the twentieth century is evidently going to be epoch-making. —— EE Count Zeppelin now has half a mil lion dollars at his disposal for airship experiments. The recent destruction of his apparatus proved a good adver- tisement after all | ———SE By performing a few more deeds of heroism during the next six months Kermit may succeed in making his own stories from Africa worth one or two dollars a word, | __ The latest explosion on a French armored cruiser again demonstrates the tremendous efficiency of the war- ships of France in wrecking them- : selves and killing off their own crews, ———_—_—_—_—_—_— ay with publie love-making & western town has passed an or dinance requiring young peaple to be at home by nine o'clock. Well, it's getting dark earlier now, and much ; can be done before curfew ' ' ; To doaw lO i A Gotham ex-multi-millionaire and king of Wall street, after having won and lost two fortunes, is now working ona salary, This fairly illustrates the | ups and downs of speculation, except j that all ex-speculator kings are not | lucky enough to get the salary job. _—_—————_—— 1 Experiments have shown that oxy- gen administored to athletes increases thelr capacity for short dashes and spurts of muscular prowess, It may how be necessary to add to the al- ; ready solemnly involved rules of ath- letic warfare a clause against this use of stimulants, just as jockeys are for- bidden to give drugs to horses, i A man in New York has sued his wife for divorce on the ground that she gives him either raw or burned steak, and that this constitutes cruel and inhuman treatment. Which prac- tically indorses the contemptuous view of the masculine sex in the recipe, given at a club meeting to make a husband happy: “Feed the brute.” | Everybody will be deeply pained to! know that Russell Sage's estate’ amounts to only a little over $64,000,- 000. Up to the time of this discovery | it had been popularly believed that the old gentleman in his lifetime was , pretty well heeled. But even a poor | man can, by his extravagant living, | give the impression of boundless ' wealth. This year’ enlor wranglership” at the University of Cambridge, England, | gave great honors to a young Russian! Jew. The result of the “mathematical tripos" shows that Selig Brodetsky, | whose father had sought an asylum in England from Russian oppression, had been bracketed with Mr. Ibbotson scholar of Pembroke, for the coveted British blue riband of mathematics. | Philip Snowden, the English te who has been visiting us. t every intelligent woman in and is a partisan of one political party or another, Mr. Gilbert's Private Willis put it rather more neat- ly and sweepingly than that when he pointed out that every little boy and girl that’s born into the world alive is either a little liberal or else a little conservative. Pennsylvania Railroad Company me chanics have lately equaled the in genuity of the automobile owner who jacked up his car and used the motor to run a circular saw. They have equipped 17 locomotives in the Pitts- burg yards with hose and pumping machinery so that they may be used as fire engines. A system of signals has been arranged for calling the en- gines in case of need. es , Shown their Conn., has the disti first town to arrest an air isorderly conduct... \ Chicago burglar broke into a hos- ! and took everything but the ] ents’ temperatures, we presume. ere Some one has reported seeing a sea ‘ewport, but maybe, after st the back bone of winter ito place oman was men ) ing that ince? Is she ar board wants Of course that but not any t out of a spell of it. \ man in Chicago has been ordered t easier by the court not to speak to his wife wo Weeks or allow her to speak to} h one was the plaintiff? What is to. be done when the wor supply of whalebone is ex han inquires a contemporary The contlemanly purveyors of celluloid will have something just as good. The daughter of Lombroso is com ing to this country to study our pris ons. We may be thankful, after all the other fulminations against it, that she isn't coming to study our society All the world is ready to admire the taste of the man who fell in love with a young woman and married her because she thanked him when he gave her his seat and when she turned and sat down “her waist and skirt did not separ m A Philadelphia man left his son-in law 5) cents with which to buy a rope to hang himself. The beneficiary will probably forego the bequest rather | than comply with its conditions, but it is certainly a terrible tale to come from the City of Brotherly Love. Prof. D. C. Jackson of the Mas chusetts Institute of Technology has been retained by the Massachusetts highway commission to make a report! regarding the telephone situation with special reference to the practicability | of a reduction in rates and a higher efficiency of service The official denial of the Abruzai-Fl- kins engagement will shatter a ro- mance in which two continents were deeply interested, and many will re- fuse to give up the hope that the path of true love may yet be smoothed for the royal lover and the beautiful American girl of his heart. The recent refrigeration congress in Europe has reminded a student of his- tory that Francis Bacon made the first experiments in the use of snow for the preservation of meat. The people of New Zealand, who have been largely dependent on refrigerated meat, have ion of Pon's discovery by erecting a statue of him suitably inscribed | appre A minister recen paper be- | fore a Congregational church confer: | ence in Boston in which he called at- tention to the faet that in the mem bership of 56 chureh: n that vicinity only one child to each church was born duri th Hi clusion was that Congregational tf ceasing to perpetuate ther that Puritan stock is dying out dent Roosevelt ought to look into this. At the recent dedication in Bath of a tablet to Edmund Burke, Whitelaw Reid spoke in behalf of Americans in honor of their best friend in Great Britain, Burke has become almost a national hero in America, and it: was he who phrased most eloquently many principles that are part of our tradi tion. His “Speech on Concillation” is a difficult piece for schoolboys, but it ought always to be a part of the pre- scribed reading of young America. The Ohio-M which persists to-day, is one of the - ‘ter, of Colorado, are visiting Bates ssippl coal trade, | county relatives and friends. | ever paid the cause of justice and the PURE SEED POTATOES The Car of Seed Potatoes is Here. Northern Ohio Potatoes at only $1.25 Red River - - $1.35 $1.25 $1.40 Red River Rose - Early Triumph Potatoes PUREST OF GARDEN SEED AT REASONABLE PRICES. The Car of Old Glory Flour Is here The Car of White Goose Flour Is Here The Car of The Cane Sugar Is Here A CAR OF EACH Now we will Save You Money Norfleet & Ream Phone 144 TheOnly Independent Grocery and Hardware Store, White Front BUTLER, MO. West Side Square Hobson Praised By Negroes. _ Praises Confederate Home. Mobile, Ala, March 15 —In their! anxiety to show him apprectation, living negroes of Alabama are helping dig many of them grandmothers and Truth will prevatl. The old ladies at the Confederate Home, 3 , A sh. Rreat-erandmothere, express thelr tho political grave of Captain Rich thanks to the Daughters of the Con- mond P. Hobson, in the optnion of | federacy and all who have taken part those who keep an eye on the signe {np providing this home so comfort of the times, able and restful to thelr declining “No more deserving tribute was Years. Thetr appreclatign is not measurable fn words. Col. Pace and his wife, who are in charge, leave doctrine of equal rights than shat poghing undone in thetr power to do paid by Richmond Pearson Hobson, for the afflicted. As a natural thing when he registered his vote in the there are some who wouldn’t be con. House of Representatives a few days tent inthe garden of Eden, which Inf tthe selantatementot has resulted In sowe complaint of ago ln favor of the reinstatement Ol jase But | asa visitor feel Impreea- the negro soldiers, whom Roosevelt ‘ad to state to the public that tind and Vaft dismissed from the Unite’ all the inmates comfortably cared State army without trial and with for and the ladies seem content and out honor,” says the editor of the happy With the exception of a few Golotedeatatact Palenivoinne. chronic complainers. May kind Jorea Alabamian, 0 eomery. | Providence bless the pattens workers The paper prints a double column | with health and strength to continue half tone picture of Hobson, saying their good work ao much apprectat- he was the only Congressman from jed by Inmates and friends,—Miss the whole South who voted with Susle Ogden In Sedaliy paper. oe Elocutionary Entertainment. Prof. G. A. Thielman will give an elocutionary entervatnment under the nuspices of vhe public schools, at he Opera Houre in Butler on March ith, Prof. Thielmar fs an elocu- tlontst of rare ability, an artist in Ballard. We hope the recent cold wave has uot injured the fruit crop. Several from here sold horses in y Adrian Saturday. Geo. Woods, from Blatrstown,| his line and gives a splendid enter- moved on the Barker place lass} tiinment, entitled to a liberal patron- Weck age ofthe public, He ts well known and has many friends In Butler and surrounding country The proceeds of the entertainment will {nure to the benefit of the High School Monte Hurt and family, of Mingo, | Library fund. Mrs. Howard Gilbert and daugh is to be stopover point for passengers traveling on through tickets after April 1. This coverted privilege has been granted by the Western Passen- ger association. The order is that a stopover of ten days will be allowed Hopeful visions of the future are al- ways valuable, if they serve only to stimulate the Imagination. The sec- retary of the Postal Progress league looks forward to a time when the : greatest single movements of cargo in “ i the world, From Pittsburg to New |Spent Sunday with relatives tn Bal- Orleans is 2,000 miles, all downhill. | lard. Coal in 1,000-ton barges is rafted into Rey. Smith filled his appointment fleets and towed down this distance at Fairview Sunday, morning and by powerful steamboats at a cost of | evening. HESS here on all tickets. This applies to the colonist rates now in force to Pacific coast points; the homeseexers rate, effective the first and third Tuesdays in each month; the all-year tourist rates effective June 1, and all other special one way or round trip rates that are now or may later be in force. The order is effective the first week in April. Seized Bogus Paintings. Paris, Mar. 16—The police have seized 30 paintings which bore the al- leged forged signatures of Jean Jac- ques Henner, Narcisse Diaz, Gustave Courbet and Felax Ziem, all noted French artists. The paintings were disclosed. © One Rebate Fine Sustaine: St. Louis, Mar. 16.—Judge Ad is in the St. Paul federal court, which fined cer Grain company of Milwaukee. destined for sale at New York. The identity of the exporter who, it is stat- ed will be prosecuted, has not been the United States circuit court of ap- peals Monday sustained a decision of rural delivery shall convey to the “man at the sources” electric power for mechanical purposes, freight and passengers, and shall furnish tele. graph and telephone service. Stran- ger dreams have come true. H came from the ballads of Oliver Bas- selin, who was born and flourished in the Val de Vire in Normandy. The Val de Vire ballads came to be known as the vaudeville ballads, and these and similar sprightly songs consti- tuted the vaudeville entertainment. It fs a long stretch from this to dan- ces, acrobatic feats, dramatic sketch- es and Johnny Hayes telling how it feels to be a Marathon winner in the Olympic games. : | _—X According to Richard Croker it 1s American money which seems to be keeping Egypt going. “Two-thirds of the visitors,” says Mr. Croker, “I met j all around came from America, and | they represented all parts of the states. They provide the people with { a lving not only in the hotels, but in the Wisconsin Central Railroad $17,000 | the streets. I never saw such people for granting rebates of half a cent per bushel on grain shipped by the Spen- for begging. As soon as an Egyptian | child is born it seems to ask for back- | sheesh, and Egyptians are king for money all the time,” less than 75 cents a ton, against a | railroad rate of about four dollars and | fifty cents—from Pittsburg to Mem- | visited relatives tn the vicinity Sat- phis for 43 cents, against a rail rate | urday and Sunday. of $2.70. “When Justice Brewer,” said a Kan- | around Ballard. sas lawyer, “was on the Leavenworth circuit as a criminal judge he had no patience with the pleas of hypnotism and such new-fangled notions that then were coming to the fore. Once, I remember, a man was being tried be- fore him for shop-lifting. A witness said he thoughf the prisoner had klep- tomania. ‘I presume, judge,’ he added, ‘you know what kleptomania is, eh?’ ‘Yes,’ said the judge, ‘I do. It is a disease that I am sent here to cure.’” ———————E—— The president of th niversity of Illinois has announced that dismissal will in future be the punishment of hazing, which he denounces as a vio- lation of the right of individuality, provocative of public disorder, in its milder forms nonsensical, and tn its coarser forms vulgar, brutal, always demoralizing and sometimes danger- ous. Hence, he says, the university cannot countenance or tolerate It. Such a stand in the opinion of the In- dianapolis Star generally will soon end the practice. imitated, Chas. Warford, of Pratt, Kansas, DRUG STORE. The place to trade. You get your money's worth every time. Mumps are quite in the style Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Irvin Gloyd March 11, a boy. BELLE. Amsterdam Items. From the Enterprise. Shirley Weeks reported having landed a 13-inch black base from Sugar Creek last Sunday. * , Mrs, Walter Carpenter and chil- Tworegistered druggists: dren, accompanied by Miss Swannte| to fill your prescriptions Gwin, who had been visiting them, came up from thelr home in Carl} No matter how small ; unction age gee rye a +e 7 your purchase Hess er parents, Mr. . W. W. Gwin. . wants your trade. J. C. Graham left Sunday for Omaha, Nebraska, where he will meet tO Ww. HESS, his brother, Will, who {s shipping five car loads of fat cattle from Buffalo, DRUGGIST. Wyoming, to Omaha. Will will re- ie : turn home with Charley for a visit Butler Missouri with relatives and old friends. We are Specialists on prescription work.