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SENT TO JAIL AGAIN.
Judges Copenhayen and Lyons
Recommitted by Judge
Philips.
Kansas City, Mo., May 10. B. R.
F. Copenbaver and George LyoriH,
judges of the St. Clair couuty court,
were this morniug again committed
to the Jackson county jail by Judge
Philps of the United States Circuit
Court, "until such time as they
comply with the writ of mandamus
heretofore issued in the case of the
Ninth National Bank of New York
against St. Clair couuty." Judge
Thomas D. Nevitt received the same
sentence as his two colleagues, and
he will come to Kansas City and
give himself up to Marshal Stewart
as soon as his wife, who is quite ill,
recovers sufficiently for him to leave
her. Immediately after the sentence
had been imposed court adjourned
for the day and Judge Philips re
tired to his chambers, where he was
met by Judge Copenbaver, and the
matter of the St. Clair county bond
case was fully discussed. Judge
Philips stated that the interview
was amicable and very satisfactory.
He will make an effort to get the
bondholders and the county .judges
together in a short time to try to
agree upon some basis of settle
ment that can be submitted to the
voters of the county. Judge Copen
baver expressed himself as being
willing and anxious to submit auy
sort of a reasonable compromise
proposition to his constituents.
The judges marched off to jail
with as much composure as if they
were going on a holiday trip instead
of to a dreary imprisonment that
will probably last for months.
"There is nothing for us to do but
to go to jail," said Judge Lyons, "we
simply would not dare to face our
constituents if we consented to make
the levy ordered by the court. The
feeliug now among St. Clair county
people is strongly against any ef
fort looking toward a compromise.
Governor Stone's message, with
which you are familiar, has done
more to defeat a satisfactory com
promise thau anything else in years.
But fcr that message I am satisfied
the matter would have been adjust
ed ero this. The people were be
ginning to come to the conclusion
that a compromise should be made
wheu the governor's message stirred
them up again like a hornet at a
camp meeting."
A Woman i.'liitreii With Hog Stealing
Nevada, Mo., May 10. Mrs. Delia
llarkless was arrested here last
night charged with stealing bogs
nud selling them. This morn
ing she was released on a bond of
$500. She has been for a loug
time a resident of Vernon couuty.
and at the date of her alleged crime
was liviug with her husband at
Sandstone. Seven hogs were taken
from John Flagg, a neighbor. Six
of them were sold to Mr. Bridewell,
of this city for $&S.80, and one was
sold to William Davis. "When the
hogs were missed the owner tracked
them to the Havkless home. The
indications pointed to the fact that
they had been loaded iuto a wagon
and bau'ed to town. The clew was
followed up and Mr. Flagg recover
ed part of his hogs aud received
cash for the others. They had been
sold to the buyers by a woman
whose face was concealed by a veil.
About the time of the theft Hark
less and his wife are said to have
gone to the Iudian Territory, and
shortly afterward the mother of
Mrs. Harkless took their three chil
dren and went to them. A few days
since the woman returned to Vernon
county with the children and Sher
iff Scroehen made the arrest. The
woman denied the theft.
Specimen Cases.
S. H. Clifford, New Cassel, Wis ,
was troubled with neuralgia and
rheumatism, his stomach was disor
dered, his liver was affected to au
alarming degree, appetite fell away,
and he was terribly reduced in tlesa
and strength Three bottles of
Electric Bitters cured him.
Edward Shepherd, Harrisburg,
111., Lai a running sere on his leg of
eight y a-s standing. Used three
bottles of Electric Bitters aud seven
boxes Bucklens Arnica Salve and his
leg is souud aud well. Johu Speak
, er, Catawba, O , had five large fever
sores on his leg, doctors saicthe was
. ; -incurable. One bottle Electric Bit-
tew and one box Bucklen's Arnica
": Salve cared him entirely. Sold by
- H. L. Tucker drugstore.
DEACON BROS. & CO.
arduare
DEEEING
The best on earth, with new telescoping platform, will go through
a nine foot gate without trucks, change made iu ten minutes.
The New Deering Mowers, all Steel Whiteley Mowers, a Car Load Binder Twine
All Steele Sulkey Hay Rakes, Largest Line of Machine Oils.
The large carriage repository is now filled with the choicest line of
TOP BUGGIES. SPRING WAGONS AND ROAD GARTS
Ever brought to Butler. Domestic Sewing Machines. Porters Hay Carriers, Buckeye Pumps, Barb
wire, Itope, Griudstones, Washing Machiuns, Churns, Screen wire. Screen Doors, Builders Hardware
Iron, Steel, Nails, and Wagon Wood Work. A complete line of fresh
The highest market price paid for Butter, Eggs, &c.
UATTLE WITH A MAD DOG
It Invades an Old Orchard ltesi
deuce and is Still at Large
St. I.ouis Chronicle.
John H. Wilhuseu had a terrible
encounter with a mad dog at his
I
home near Old Orchard Saturday j
afteruoo:i. Mr. "Wilhuseu was the
owner of a very large setter which
had been the pet of his children for
a year of two. Unknown to the fam
ily the animal had been bitten by a
mad dog that was running wild in
the neighborhood. The dog was
lying on the floor in the kitchen, and
when Mrs. Wilhuse and little child '
entered the room it sprang up and j
nttn.fcnd tlipin. Airs. ilhiisen man-
aged to keep the beast at bay until
her screams brought her husband.
Mr. Wilhuseu grasped the dog by j
the collar aud attempted to choke aud every one of them carried ar
tbe brute. The dor was powerful I eus.
and iu the struggle Mr. Wilhuseu
was bitten in the left arm. Mrs. Wil
husen had gone in search of her hus
band's pistol and returned ust as
the man through pain and loss of
strength loosed his hold. She fiiei
and succeeded in wounding the ani
mal which ran out of the house and
disappeared.
Owing to the heavy coat Le had
on at the time Mr. Wduusen's !
wound is not as serious as it might
otherwise have been. He had the
injury cauterized. The dog is still
loose and the people of Old Orchard
are much alarmed
A Kansas editor and a rich widow
were engaged to be married, when
the neighbors began to talk about it,
charging that he was marrying her
for her riches. The young editor
was vexed at this, of course, aud in
order to show up its truthfulness,
he persuaded his affinity to turn all
her worldly peif over to a grown
daughter aud that he would prove
to the world the sincerity of his af
fectious. Th trusting widow did
60, and the first night thereafter the
editor and the young girl eloped,
aud in the morning the widow pied
the forms iu the office and would
have pied the editor, could she have
found him. Ex.
Avery t Hans May 24.
Jeft'erson City, May 9. Governor
Stone disposed of the Amos Avery
case yesterday by granting a stay to
May '2i to allow him to prepare for
death on the gallows at Lamar. At
the same time the governor declared
that he would not interfere as he
was convinced that Avery was not
insane.
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STEEL
D.iiiug !Viiiuii Fraud!.
Washington, May 10. An attorney
o" Norfolk, Va., named Drewey, now
uuder arrest, is charged with secur
ing fraudulent pension claims by the
wholeah, using as his instruments
ii i
ta many cases, coioiea women ana
men who could uot read or write
Several mouths ao Sacretary No
ble ordered thiee cases dropped
from the pension rolls that bud
been s curd by Drewey and later
he was debarred from practice.
When the pi t sent administi atiou
came into power a thorough inves
tigation was made into the cases
that Drewev had stcused and, when
it was discoveied that ubout OS per
cent of the casus he had handled tin
der the act Oi June 'It, 1S5.M, were
secured through
false declarations.
tie tiling of
Oae huadred
and sixty -six cases were granted
SapsrvUiug Examiner A. D. Al
bert, with several assistants, were
& once sent to Norfolk where they
are pursuing their investigations
In Drewey 's ofiioe was a notary pub
lic named Richardson. When he
went out of office Drewey used the
nitar's seal attesting the false evi
dence which ho had prepared atd
forwarded the papers to this city.
Attacked by a Convict.
Jefferson City, Mo., May 9. A
desperate cutting affray occurred in
the frhp of A. Priesmeyer this af
ternoon, iu which John Lallis a ne
gro convict, slashed aud stabbed
Fred Brown, another negro convict,
five times. Brown's wounds are all
serious, but it is believed that he
will recover.
Brown is from Grundy couuty ul
der sentence of thirty years for mur
der, aud Lallis is from Randolph
county under sentence of five years
for assault with intent to kill. Brown
was fearfully slashed and presented
a horrible appearance when rescued
from the bands of his would-be mur
derer by the guard in the shop.
Killed by an Elertric Wire.
Nevada Mo., May 10. The body
of J. W Knott, an old citizxu of thig
place, was found on North Man
street this morniug. The coroner's
inquest devolved the fact that his
death was caused by an electric
shock received while shaking a win
hoisting rope attached to the elec
tric light in rder to make it burn
about midnight.
The village of North Galvston near
Warsaw Ind., was destroyed by fire
anp a family of five persona perished.
(ukhinery
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BINDERS,
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DEACON BROS. &, CO.
A NEUKO LYNCHED.
The Usual Punishment For the
Usual Urime.
Columbia, S C . May 10. Auoth
er negro rapist met his fate to day.
HeySard Barksdal, a young negro,
haviug coufessed to the criiu9 of tt
tempted rape, was hanged to a tree
near the town of Laurens about 5
o'clock this afternoon. Monday af
tern on the two young daughters
of a farmer named James Wham were
going through the woods oa their
way from school wheu Barksdale
seized the elder and attempted to
assault her He was frightened off
without accomplishing his purpose.
Birksdale was promptly identified
by th" girls The crowd of i00 per
sons carried him to the seei e
of the attempted rape aid
swung him to a tree, tying his arms
a id placing a cap over his face, with
no tiring ami no unnecessary u jise.
The scene of the crime is within a
mile of the residence of United
States S3nator Irby, and he is said
to have beea a spectator and to have
urge! the crowd to be temperate
aud not fire into the body.
Tragedy On the Staire.
Vienna, lay 10. In the theater
at Lemberg, capital of Austrian Ga!
licia, last night, Heir Dalezuk, one
of the actors, drew a revolver on the
I stage, placed the weapon to his heid
I and blew out his brains. It was sub-
, il 1 1 iL-i 1 .IT-
was prompted by jealousy.
Iu the company was a young ac
tress of whom Dalezuk was deeply
enamored aud it is supposed that
his love was reciprocated but duriDg
i the progress of the play he saw her
flirting with a man in one of the
stalls and at the end of the act up
i braided her for her perfidy. She
treated the matter lightly and again
when she went on the stage resum
ed the flirtation. His suicide fol
lowed. Mr. Bister first Assistant.
Washington, May 10. Frank H.
Jones of SpriDgfieM, III, was to day
appointed first assistant posimasUr
genera!, vice H. Clay Evans, resign
ed. He is a native of Springfield,
II!., and is 39 ytars of age. He was
graduated from Yale in the class of
"75 and immediately tcofe up the
study of law Siie his admission
to the bar he has been engased in
the active practice of his profession.
He was a member of the last Illinois
general assembly for the Springfield
of the league of democratic clubs of
Illinois and was a delegate to the
last democratic national coavention.
EI STOKES A CITIZEN.
His Punion Was Such as to Remove all
Consequences othis Crime.
New York. May 10- Argumtut j
; was heard to day before Judge Cow-!
1 ing in the court of general sessions:
in the libel suit of Edward S. Stokes i
of the Hoffman house against W. E.
D. Stokes and Lawyer William K.
Martin Ex-Mayor Oakey Hail, rep-j
respiting Mr. Martin, moved to!
quash the indictment The affidavit j
of Mr. Martin was read, in which it S
was claimed that Edward S. Stoke j
having be en convicted and sentenced i
for the crime of homicide m shoot- i
ing J;m Fisk, was civilly .lead, and j
the charges brought by him against '
W. E. D Stokes a-id himself (SUr- !
tii!) could not be entertained i
Coirwl for Mt. E Iw.ir I Stores,
thereupon created a sensation m the
court room bv handing up t the
court a pardon of the state to E I
ward S. Stokes, elated December 1.
1SS4. and signed by Glover Cleve
lind, the n governor, releasing Stokes
from all consequences of bis crime.
This introduction of the pardon is
the first information that has ever
been given as to the restoration of
Mr. Stokes to citizenship. Judge
Cowing took the papers in the suit
and reserved his decision
I am au old man and have been a
constant sufferer with catarrh for
the last ten years. I am entirely
cured by the use of Ely's Cream
Balm. It is strange that so simple
a remedy will cure such a stubborn
disease. Henry Billings, U. S
Pension Att'y, Washington, D C.
For eight years I have suffereel
from catarrh, which effected my eyes
and healing; have employe-el many
physicians without reln-f. I am now
on my second bottle of Ely's Cream
Balm, aud feel couhdeut of a com
plete cure. Mary C Thompson,
Cerro Gordo, 111.
A Deputy Sheriff Shot
Helena Mont., May 11. Details
have bt-en received here of a tragedy
near Castle yesterd ly. Deputy Sher
iff Willia.u Rider, of Meager county
tried te arrest William Gay, chargeel
with setting fire to the oflice of the
Castle Reporter. The attempted
arrest was made at the ranch of liar
ry Gross on Warm Spring, six miles
from Castle Baler drpve to the
ranch with a co npauion and called
on Gay to surrender. Gay drew a
gun and Rader sh t anel wouneled
him Gross then shot Rader
through the heart killing him instant
ly. R ider's companion elropped his
gun and ran mid Gross and Gay es
caped. They were seen near Castle
this morning. A posse is in hot
pursuit. Both are desperate men
and came here from Sun Dance Wyo.
which place, it is said, they left
between days Giy has also killed
a man in the Black Hills. More
killing is feared before the men are
captured Rader was a very popu
lar man anel was formerly Sheriff
off Meager county.
Jopliu, Mo., May 10. Th-- pr.p
osition submitted to the voters ys-
teidny to builel court houses at
Jcphu and Caithage was carried,
the majority over two-thirds beiug
in excess of l.'iUO A. J. Gammon
and Cal St. Chir A Web Citv were
aiif-ste l for illegal voting.
The General Electric imployees
charged by the Westicghouse com
pany with stealing plans waived a
hearing by a Pittsburg magistrate
and gave bail for their appearance at
court.
Every Man whose watch
has been rung out of the bow
(ring), by a pickpocket,
Every Man whose watch
has been damaged by drop
ping out of the bow, and
Every Mai of sense who
merely compares the old pull
out bow and the new
will exclaim: "Ought to have
been made long ago ! "
It can't be twisted off theca.se.
Can only be had with Jas. Boss
Filled and othercases stamped
wim tins trade mark
Ask your jeweler for pamphlet.
Kcptoae Witci Caw Co,
Philadelphia.
BATES COUNTY
National Bank,
BUTLER, MO.
THE OLDEST BANK
TII". MR(iIr am tiii:
ONLY NATIONAL BANK
IN BATES COUNTY.
CAPITAL. - - $ 125.000 00
SURPLUS. - - i.00O 00
F. J. TYGAKD, - - - PieMJent.
mon. j. 15. :vnEl:R , Vu-e-Prc.
. C.CLARK. - - Cashier
wyerH.
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Will pr.utue in Hates i.d adjoining
CO tllitU-N.
COST O flic e over lijto Co. Njt'l Bank.
13ARKINSON JE GRAVES,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW.
Office West ivide Square, over Lan&-
down's Irug Store.
DK. J. M. CHRISTY,
HOMOEOPATHIC
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON,
Office, tront room over P. O. All call
answered at office ttay or night.
bpecial attention given to female dis
eases.
MH C. UOULWARE, Phyician and
J. Surgeon. Office north fcide square,
Butler, Mo. Diseases of women and chll
en a specialty.
DR. F. IY1. FULKbRSON,
BUTLER, - MISSOURI.
Office, Southeast Corner Square, over
Deacoun, Sons A Co. store
FranzBernhard
I On the north elile of the square,
! Butler, - Missouri.
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j For the next twelve months.
Vs a watch maker of ,Yi years experiences
can and will pive joa satisfaction.
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