The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, April 6, 1916, Page 1

} N S45," 7a? -. } State’ Historical Booi- ~aty, VOL. XXXVIII. BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1916. GENERAL NOTES Six inches of snow fell last night and today at Marfa, Tex., which is 175 miles southeast of E] Paso. ~Congress has appropriated $8,- 600,000 to finance the Mexican expedition. It will enable the war department to recruit the army up to full strength and pur- chase needed aeroplanes and motor trucks. 2 James B. Angell, president emeritus of the University of Michigan, died at his home at Ann Arbor, Mich., Saturday. He had been critically ill. for more than a week. He was 88 years old and had been connected with Ann Arbor since 1871. Joseph W. Allison, second lieu- tenant of the 13th cavalry, is the first commissioned officer to lose his life as the result of the pursuit of Villa. He was brought back to the base hospital at Ft. Bliss suffering from a cold which’ de- veloped into pneumonia, THe died last Thursday. The hospital ship- Portugal has been sunk in the Black Sea by a German torpedo boat or submar- ine, with a large number of wounded aboard, according to an announcement of the — official press burean, It is said that the - Portugal had Red Cross signs con- spicuously displayed. While testing a coast offense mine at the Norfolk navy yard Friday, W. W. Dillimooth, a hélp- er, had his head blown almost completely off. The mine was be- ing tested with compressed air to determine the highest pressure it could stand under water, when it exploded. The building only slightly damaged. was Dr, I’, Rittmann, inventor of a process for obtaining a greater yield of gasoline from crude oil, has resigned as chemical engineer of the Interior Department's bu- reau of mines to become vice-pres- ident and active head of a new corporation now being organized in Pittsburg to manufacture gaso- line. Paul Lloyd, &-year-old-son of Garfield Lloyd, a machinist of Abiline, Kas., who died of the hoof-and-mouth disease after a two months’ illness, was buried Thursday. Specialists who diag- nosed atter the child had been ill seven weeks attributed it to the anthrax bacili, contracted by the child in playing-with the family cat. In the blizzard of ‘Tuesday night last; between forty'and for- ty-five bluejackets belonging. to the British light eruiser, Con- quest, lost their lives while at- tempting to return to the ship. The men were being towed out in a large cutter when the hawser broke. The cutter drifted away and presumably capsized. Two hundred and fifty thous- and dollars worth of — stored oil in’ the Heraldton, Okla., field has been burned. — Sev- eral small oil tanks washed away and bridges on the Oklaho- ma, New Mexico & Pacific rail- road are out. Streams are bank full and threatening destructive overflows. That is the result of a continuous 24-hour downpour of rain over Southern Oklahoma. Missouri Convicts Will be Segregated. Jefferson City, April 3.—Segre- gation of the prisoners was under- taken yesterday when 390 con- viets were removed to Honor hall, the new dormitory a the state penitentiary. The change partly relieved the congestion. The pris- on population now is about 2,900. Each illiterate prisoner will be placed in a cell with two educat- ed persons, who will agree to teach him. The ‘‘first termers’’ with clean prison records were placed in Honor hall. A playground is be- ing constructed... There will be tennis and basketball courts, a football field and a swimming pool. BRANDEIS WINS IN SUB-COM- MITTEE BY VOTE OF 3 TO 2. Republicans Are Against, Him— Confirmation in Senate Practically Assured. Washington, April 1-—By a straight party vote the subcom- mittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee today recommended the confirmation of Touis D. Brandeis for Asociate Justice. There is little doubt that the nomination of the Jewish lawyer will be confirmed by a majority in excess of 62 of the 66 members of the Senate when a vote is tak- en, He will receive every one of the 56 Democratic votes and at least seven and possibly those of 10-of the Republican Senators. The vote by which the Judic- iary Subcommittee decided today to report favorably was 3 to 2. The votes of Senators Walsh, Chilton and Fletcher, Democrats, were favorable to Brandeis, while those of Senators Cummins and Works, Republicans, were against him. The report of the subeommit- tee will be made to the full Judi- ciary Committee on Monday. Each member ofthe subcommit- tee will be expected to file a re- port giving his personal reasons to justify his vote. The report of the Jidiciary Committee to the Senate will probably not be made for a week or more. clusion that it will be favorable to Brandeis. > Recent farm-management — sur- veys indicate that the farmer with but little. capital can, as a rule, make a better living by renting and operating a compara- tively large farm*than by putting his money into a small farm which he can buy outright. It is a foregone con-: Lynch Negro. Idabel, Ok., April 3,—Osear Martin, a negro, was taken from the court room at 11:30 a. m,, to- day and hanged from the porch railing of the court house, in which he had been having a pre- liminary hearing charged with a statutory offense against a 13- year-old white girl. . With a girl companion, the child had been gathering wild onions in the woods near Bismarck, MeCurtain county. About 500 persons were in the mob, They had been listening to the testimony, While the Justice of the Peace was preparing to an- nounce his decision the mob rushed the sheriff, overpowered him, took the negro and carried him to the porch on the second floor of the court house, A rope was tied around the negro’s neck, one end of the rope was tied to the-porch railing and the neero | pushed over. He dropped 12 fect and strangled. A few pistol shots were fired, but the crowd almost iimmediate- ly dispersed. Tn the afternoon the excitement had died down. The vietim’s girl friend had tes- tified she ran to some other ne- groes after Martin seized — the child, but the negroes ignored her appeal for aid. A Fine Lime Stone Grass Cattle | Ranch Sale 600 acres in Greenwood county, | Kansas. Good fencing, good| ranch improvements, lots of fine living water. About 100 acres in) cultivation, balance all fine lime; stone grass, good sod. If sold in 20 days $20 per acre will buy it. $6000 cash balance time and| terms to suit. We can suit a man for any kind and sized farm or) ranch, Ask for i W. A. Nelson & Son, 13-t£ Fall River, Kansas. iday or night. GERMANS HAMMER AWAY AT VERDUN. Artillery Such as Reduced Namur and Liege Harasses- De- fenders. to batter down the French forts before Verdun is being made by the Germans. : most powerful in the world, are | g being used. the guns the kaiser s forces had to of Namur and Liege. of the fortress. driving Hard against the French | works, but, despite small gain Fwhielh the French have admitted, | oor [there is no alarm felt here over! come the cutcome of the fight The heaviest of losse ing inflicted on the who are forced brine up fresh troops to fill the; gaps in their lines, The German | losses are said to be five to.one | heavier than the French | German artillery is never silent , are be- The smoke of the thiek, bh bursting she Dies Trying to Save Boy. | Kirksville, Mo., April 3A. terday in a vain effort to save | Merle Viee, 11 years old, from drowning in the city The bodies were recovered. : | ‘yguping plant. term. ly po ‘hesitate to say that unanimity of sentiment _ Germans, out the county in favor of -his re- continually 10 jomination McA J.) John reservoir, | Attorney of Paris Ed- ling Attorney of Monroe County. wards was engineer of the — city 1 He was elected to the State Sen- Judge Calvird. Judge C. A. Calvird, who was in Warsaw this week qholding the regular March term of the ‘cir- cuit court, is a candidate for re- ; = nomination and election as circuit Paris, April 3.—A final effort! judge. With the close of this year he will have completed He has given entire satis- : faction in Benton county, and we Forty-two centimeter guns, the }are informed he has given like a . ‘satisfaction in other counties of Those are the size of | the circuit. Judge Calvird’s splendid legal use to demolish the Belgian forts} attainments eeiuny i ’ vine {form courtesy and fairness in the z Hy ee be is ah oe administration of the Taw, ¢om- J. in Caillette wood south of Fort} end him to the voters r A a ae are lens | of party alfiliations. The oxperi- than’ five miles from the city ef) ence he has acquired during his Verdun, on the northeastern side | first term will Tae him to per- }form the duties. of The forty-third day of the bat- pore acceptable during his second tle of Verdun finds, the Germans | topyy, his tis the duc and so far as the ze, there is and eleetion.- iw Enterprise. ney General. burning wood. | Paris, Mo. April) 2.—Former lands and houses, mingled with | state Senator Frank W. MeAllis- k fumes from the /yoy has officially announced 1 s, forms a pall over! candidacy the whole battlefield. Inomination for Attorney General. {In 1912 he was defeated for the nomination by for the Democr the T. Barker. and |ate in 1904-08. first with his uni- Fdless office Judge Calvird is deserved- yular both as a man and as De- wey of Benton county is con- d, the Enterprise does: not through Wan lister Candidate for Attor- incumbent, The latter won Sdwards, 65 years old, died yes-|by a plurality of 1425 out ofa total of 2IS.817 votes. McAllister has served as City Prosecut- MOOSE STATE CONVENTION Decide for a Full State Ticket. Elect Delegates to National Convention. Resolutions were passed at the Progressive state convention: in Kansas City Monday — asking Judge Nortoni to make the race for United States — senator; Joseph P. Fontron for Col C. C. Bell, Boonville, lieu- tenant governor; Charles W. Kear, Joplin, auditor, and M. E. Morrow, West Plains, attorney general. ; M. Burrus of Kansas City, and Krank Wyman, St. Louis, were chosen as presidential elee- fors-at-large. . The delegates-at-large to the national convention elected are: Albert D. Nortoni, St. Louis: LR. Kirkwood, Kansas City: George W. Schweer, Windsor, and A, M Hyde, Princeton, The alternat Paul Janis, St. Louis; G. O, Na- tions, “Flat River; Paul Ewert, Joplin, and Charles «Geiger, St. Joseph. The following dele ternates to the nationa governor; es and al- conven- tion, from this district were se- Hected: Delegates, Clark Wix, Bates county; Charles 11. Williams, Henry county. Alternates, W. 1. Wageoner, St. Clair county: Frank Heiber, Cass county, Pres- idential elector, Sheridan B. Pyle, 5} Dade county. ie MclIndoe Files for Governor. Jefferson City, Mo., April 3.— Hugh Melndoe of Joplin today filed official declaration of — his candidacy for the Republican homination for Governor with the Seeretary of State . Roach. MeIndoe is the fourth Republican to file for the race, The others are Col, Charles D, Morris of St. Joseph, former Judge — Henry % Sam Levy Mercantile Company ~- $20.00 © Quyright 1916 e House of uppenheimer, » ized. 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Medimgey of Springfield will file. and the same is true of John Schmoll of St. Louls. | Horse Sense. | A horse that-refrains from eat- Ig is using the horse sense meth- od of curing itself of some intes- tinal trouble. Nature sometimes fails, so take no chances but go to the aid of nature as soon as you see something wrong with your horse and give it a dose or two of B. AL Thomas Stoek Rem-~ edy. Ef it does not respont at once, this medicine costs you noth- ing and its just-as sure with cows or sheep. We give your money hack 25 0. kK. M. Tm CLC. Rhodes | Farm House Burned. | The home of C.F. Benton, Fabout six miles northeast of town }was burned to the ground: Mon- day. * | Mr Fenton was in Butler and Mrs. Fenton was at one of the jueighbors and the fire was not discovered antil the house was al- most entirely consumed. Neigh- | hors managed to save the contents of one room. This will he a heavy ‘loss to Mr. Renton as he anky car- ried a sinall amount of insurance. It is thought the fire caught from a defective flue. | A Quiet Election. The city election in’ this city Tuesday was a quiet affair as there was only one ticket in the field. The following ticket) was : Mayor, OL AL Heinlein: . W24.) Bullock: Police : Collector, Attorney, Smith: Ass yA, Councilmen, First Ward, Chambers: Second Ward, E. Ivers and Dr. J. S. Newlon; Third Ward, S. W. Barr; Fourth Ward, H. L. Clinkenbeard. Eggs for Setting. Thoroughbred S. C. Rhode Is- land Reds. $1.00 per 15. 18-tf Tel. 126 = Mrs. J. B. Boulware.