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BUTLER, MISSOURI. THURSDAY AUtxUST 3, 1893.
NO. 37
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Missouri
OF BUTLER, MO.
Receives Deposits subject to Check, Loans Money, Makes Collections and
does a General Banking Business.
OlIEF.UTOIts.
Frank. Voris,
(Near iceeder,
It. ii. VVeHf.
II. IP. I'isoir,
Hooker Powell,
J. IK. Itadronl.
T. IU BiMilware,
Joliu Deenvester.
II. C. Wyatt.
WJ1 E. IVALTOS.
J. It JKMil.Vn, l
Italian! Items.
W li Cole lixed that bride.
M L Kiubree is cutting flax.
Jim Cole wants torent hhiiiiII farm.
(' I) (ireer is feeling better of late.
McCleimey stacked oats this weeks.
John Nelson was in town Wednes
day. (Stock hoys and calves are in de
mand. J It Kay sold to S 1 Kvans a span
of mules.
Unburn has yone to Henry Co. with
his thresher.
A number of ood mule colts in the
neighborhood.
The late rains will assure us an
abundant crop.
Airs Sidney Graham was quite
poorly a few days.
W 8 Hurt & Won are helping stack
the Starke wheat.
Milt Anderson and hands are at
work on the church.
Mr. Walls, we are glad to hear, is
able to be out again.
It A Chenoworth has our thanks
for favors conferred.
Mrs. R J Starke will have a sale
soon, we are informed.
Charley Arbuckle is preparing him
self for a Virginia doctor.
A J Ousley's quarry furnished some
nice sandstone for the bridge.
II I) Heatty fenced his yard and
turned his horses on the grans.
Judge C I) Cole returned from the
south Tuesday with some swine.
Miss Mamie Kenney has recovered
and is at her musical post again.
Milt l?eatty seems to have trouble
getting a cook for harvest hands.
Ice cream at T N Hendrix' Friday
night Aug. 4th, so Charley reports.
Mesdames Ida Heatty and Cora
Fowler drove to Clinton Saturday.
Ogburn theshed !S0( bushels of
wheat off .10 acres, for Will Heatty.
Ice cream at Lakeys night of the
7th. Dr. Miller & Co. will furnish it.
Frank Patrick and Milt Heatty
were hauling rock for W H Cole, Fri
day. Mrs. U. J. Starke is having her
wheat stacked, as Hud is at Jefferson
City.
Mr. and Mrs. TiUlen Kay, with
their sons, spent Sunday with Mrs.
Anna McFarland.
Judge LaFollett and Jack Moore
attended the Odd Fellows supper at
Hutler Friday night.
J K Kay and Nip Kvans bought
some hogs a few days since of Mr.
Murray, wholeavesforthe west syuii.
Mrs. Heaman of Pettis Co., visited
her brother C 1 (ireer, from here to
Summit township to see her mother.
Messrs. T M Starke, W F LaFoLIet.
.las. Ashberry ami A J Ousley were
transacting business in Hutler Tues
day. Frank Hants & Co. got t") or CO
loads of rock for the church founda
tion and Messrs. Moshier and Heatty
hauled them.
Dan Kiubree and his brother came
out frbni Hutler, where they are at
tending the Institute, to be present
at the Cloud-Buck nuptials.
I.ant Cloud and Miss Fannie Huck
were married at the residence of the
bride's parents, on Wednesday even
ing. Julv 26th. Rev. W. A. Walker
officiating. We extend congratula
tions. Jack.
Virginia Items-
Mrs. Oldham was out calling Friday.
Drvsdales of Hutler, was out Sun
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$110,000.
C. II. Duicl r,
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Win E. walton,
J. ItJ. Jeiikiu.
President
aeliier.
day.
Jim Hays and Ed Dudley made a
horse trade.
Horn, to the wife of Luther Judy,
a fine girl. ,
Jerd Flemming of the far we.-.-t, is
home on a visit.
John Hedges is talking of making
a visit at Austin, Cass Co.
Mr. Sefe Kaybourn and family
was at Pat Malony's visiting Sunday.
In tlie Craig and Samson suit at
Justice ('anion's; verdict in Craig's
favor.
We are glad to see so much interest
taken in the disposal of the school
money.
Wiley Comiford and wife will soon
start fur Eldorado Springs for Mr
C.'s health.
Miss Ida Hell Moore ami Isaac Por
ter were married one day last week.
The boys of Miami to chivarie.
A "rain bow" supper at the M. E.
church Friday night. Refreshments
will be served. Evervbodv and their
girls have a first-class bid.
Miss Ella Durst gave her mother a
birthday supper. Aunt Amanda was
GfJ years old. Ice cream ami cake
was served, and a general good time
was had.
The ice cream social at C H Morri
son's July 28, under the management
of Warren Ayes, together with the
hearty welcome accorded them by
Mr. M.'s family, is reported to have
been one of the most enjoyable event
of the season.
DiKl): At the home of Carr Dud
ney, July 25, the infant son of Fred
and Rosa Nestlerode. Funeral ser
vices were held at the Christian
church conducted by Rev. West, of
Adrian. J he remains were laid to
rest in the Virginia cemetery. The
bereaved parents wish to thank their
many friend for their kindess in their
time of grief.
X. M. Nksti.kkoih:.
W1UTTKX 1JY KDWARl) 1H D1.KY.
lovely one has gone .
To join the angel band,
Hut yet we hope to meet our babe
In the far and better land.
Tis hard to break the tender cord
When love has bound the heart
'Tis hard, so hard for us to know,
That on earth "we now must part.
We mourn our loss while we are here
Hut life will soon be pa.-t,
And then we go to meet our babe,
Wltwre all is joy at last.
Then let us aii in future life
Strive to do our best,
So when we are called to go.
The Lord will give us rest.
Wantkd: A merchant or individ
ual to take orders in this City of Hut
ler for the largest tailoring establish
ment in the world. Pants to order
from $4.50 and upwards, suits to or
der from $18.00 and upwards, large
assortment of fabric, superior styles,
tine workmanship. Profitable business
connections can be had by right party.
Address Nicoll the Tailor, 710 aiid
712 Olive St., St. Louis, Mo. i-25).3t.
Mrs. D. Faylor left Hume Satur
day evening for her home one and a
half miles northwest at 6 o'clock p.
m., apparently iu good health and
excellent spirits. At 8 o'clock, two
hours later, she was a corpse. Heart
trouble was the cause. It was quite
a shock to all living in that vicinity.
Hume Telephone.
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DUVC.l.K I.YXCHINO.
Horrible To.-:.!? of Tvi N'eicro Assail
ant A 'i'liiitl (lHtis;inr Kxpevteil.
Columbia, S. C. July 30. A
double lyucliii.g took place at Gas
tou to-do, which for brutality and
sav tgenes-t surpassed aiming; ever
euacte J iu t-ii Stat. Both victims
were neg'.oea who committed au as-
sau t upj i Mis. Subtler, of GastoD.
The lirst one etptured was Will
Thonit)soij, ovci-giVAU 1G year
old ueero. He was caught near
Columbia, and wis taken back early
this morning where his captors were
met by a mob of 200 persons, who
were joined by 100 men from this
city. Thompson was plied with
questions and confessed that he and
Tom Preston aud Andy Kaigler,
both colored, committed the crime
on 3 week ago.
The crowd was terribly enraged,
aud Hom-i wanted to nail hi.n t a
turpentine barrel and burn him.
The man begged them for God's
sake not to kill him that way- Some
cool men iu the crowd pi evented
such a tragedy, and Thompson was
taken to the railroad, 100 yards dis
tant, to a small tree, where he was
to be hung. Before this took place
Aich Sightler, Lusbiud of the out
rage woman, with the consent of the
crowd, laid fifty laches upon the
wretch's b;n e back with a heavy
buggy trac, every blow bringing
blood. When he got tired another
mm took his pla.e ani coutinued
the whipping. Thompson could not
yell, for a rope around his neck
choked him. When the whipping
ceased Sightler kicked the victim in
the face aud bead, knocking out his
teeth and almost one eye. A plat
form of cross-ties was erected and
the negro was made to get upon it-
The rope was put over a limb and
around his neck and tue lies were
knocked out one by one. The ne
gro's struggles were terrible to wit
ness, but the. crowd seemed delight
ed at his sufferings. After hatiging
for two minutes, 100 meu tired into
his bo ly with pistols, shotguns and
riiles. Hardly a square inch of his
body escaped a bullet. A ball cut
the r.pe and the body fell like lead,
but was again pulled up and the
crowd continued shooting for some
minutes into his lifeless body.
The cruwd then went to search for
Preston and to get Kaigler out of
Lexington jail. At 11 o'clock Tom
Preston was captured seven miles
from Gaston aud was at once taken
to the scene of the early morning s
tragedy. Here all the horrors of the
Thompson lynching were re-enacted.
Preston was stripped and pinioned
to the sa me pile of cross-ties which
had served as a scaffold for Thomp
son. Arch Sightler with the same
heavy buggy-trace beat the uufor
tunate wretch until his strength be
came exhausted. The whipping was
continued by others of the mob un
til the negro's entire body was a mass
of scarified, bleeding flesh. At 1
o'clock, after Preston had regained
consciousness, he was swung up to
the same limb to which Thompson
had been hanged four hours before,
and his body literally riddled with
bullets. Preston declared his in
noncence to the last.
A 9 o'clock to-night the mob at
Lexington Court House had swelled
to 1000 persons, and an attack upon
the jail, where Kaigler is confined, was
momentarily expected. It is not be
ttered that the Sheriff will effer any
serious resistance to the mob, so it
is a foregone conclusiou that ere to
morrow's sun the third of the assail
ants will have paid "the penalty of
their crime.
Children Cry for
Pitcher's Castoria
Children Cry for
Pitcher's Castoria.
Children Cry for
Pitcher's Castoria.
Tremendous
Drop in
the Price of
Wheat.
St. I.ouig Chronicle Aug 1.
Never in the history of the St.
Louis grain markets has there been
such prices as prevailed to day.
And what is more, there is no real
cause for the present condition of
things.
Wheat has been declining steadily
for two or three months. There
would be a faint rally, but the mar
ket was heavy and prices would just
slump away without any support.
Since last Monday prices have de
clined rapidly and from lc to 3c a
day.
From personal recollection of one
of the oldest grain men in the city,
No. 2 red cash wheat sold G4c, the
lowest it ever reached previous to
this year Ou August 1 last year
cash wheat sold ou this market at
73aje, and on the same day 1891 it
sold at 86c
Today it sold at 52ic a decline of
33c below the price of 1891, 20jafc
below last year and 12gc below the
lowest point before 1893.
The average cost of raising a bush
el of wheat is from 25 to 30 Cicts.
By the time the farmer gets it to
market, at the present prices, he re
eeives from 1 cent profit to less than
it cost to raise, the distance it has to
come governing the profit or loss.
Futures are also very much uuder
the weather, to day September
wheat Bold 18c below August 1,
1892, and 30jjc below the same day
in 1891.
Reliable statisticians make the
crop of 1893 at about 383,000,000
bushels of wheat, which, addid to
the surplus from last year, will make
less thau 450,000,000 bushels
England will probably want 250,
000,000 bushels aud the home trade
needs 370,000.000. The crop this
year will run about 130.000,000
bushels below last year. The ex
ports to Europe nave been running
large and it is reported that Euro'
peau buyers are taking American
wheat rapidly but quiety.
ltu this in view it would seem
to the average grain man that wheat
is very low aud ought to be purchas
ed.
A grain man said to day that i
farmer had better feed his grain to
cattle than sell it at present prices
The real cause though it is not
considered a good cause is the
liquidation at Chicago. The market
there is in the hands of the grain
gamblers, and the present financial
difficulties have helped the bears
break what has been unprecedented
prices.
For the past three days Chicago
banks have called in their loans on
wheat. That point has a big sur
plus of wheat, and the throwing of
this market is in order to realize and
take up bank paper.
This wheat thrown on to au al
ready overburdened market has
broken it to pieces, and no one is
able to tell just how much further
it will go.
Everoue says wheat is a purchase,
and the man who buys it will make
money, but not a dealer can tell
where the bottom is or when is the
proper time to buy.
Siam Surrenders
Siam has yielded to the demands
of France and a war between the
two governments is at an end. The
terms of concession are these:
1. A recognition of the rights of
Anam and Cambodia on the left or
eastern banks of the Me Kong river,
as far north as the twenty-third par
allel of latitude.
2. The evacuation within a month
of the forts held by the Siamese on
the east bank of the river.
3. Full1 satisfaction for various
Siamese aggressions against French
ships and French sailors on the
Menan river
4. The punishment of the culprits
and provisions for the pecuniary in
demnity of the victims.
5. An indemnity of 2,000,00 f races
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Cash Capital,
COUNTY DEPOSITORY
OF BATES CO.
O S. THOMPSON PTtlent
.?. K. ROSIER Vice-Pn-khlenl
E. A BENNETT id Vice-President
K. 1. Kiel- CMhiel
lWUKlTolts.
Clark Wix. ;M. S, Kiersey, John E. Shutt. R. .1 IlnrUv John Steele
M. G. Wilcox. E. A. Bennett, l N. Thompson. T W. l.e
J.J.McKee, H. M Gailev. I. K Kotier, E. l Kii.i.
J. EVERl.Niill.VM. secretary
Receives Deposits subject to check, Lones Money, issues Drafts and
transacts a general Banking business. Your patronage respectfully
Solicited.
for various damages sustained by
French subjects.
0. The immediate deposit of 3,
000,000 francs to guarantee the pay
ment of the fourth aud fifth claims,
or the assignment of the taxes in
certain districts iu lieu of thedtpos-
it of 3,000,000 fraucs
This was sent on July 19, and 48
hours were allowed for Siam to an
swer it.
Ou July 21 M. Pavie, the French
Minister to Bangkok, presented the
ultimatum to Prince Devougse, the
Siam foreign minister.
On July 23 Siam replied, stating
that the King was at a loss to un
derstood what the rights of Anatn
and Combodia were on tue left bauk
of the Me Koug river. The king ex
pressed his willingness to abandon
all the territories over which the ex
istence of these rights could be
proved, and called atteution t ) t'i )
fact that five months previously he
had proposed to submit all the con
tested territorial questions to inter
national arbitration. In the inter
est of pt ace, however, the king of
fered to surrender the teriitoiy as
far north as the eighteenth degree
of latitude, but no further, aud pro
posed that the islands in the Me
Koug river be used in common by
Siam and France.
All the other points of the ulti
matum were conceded.
This answer was not satisfactory
to France, aud subsequently M.
Payie withdrew from Bangkok ou a
gunboat, and the French warships
in tlie Mpnnn river went, to Knl.ei.
Chaug, an island near the head of
the Gulf of Siam, where they joined
the French fleet uuder the command
of Admiral Humann. France then
determined to blockade the Siamese
coast.
I,a!t of tlie Sunday Opening
Chicago, 111., July 27. Chief Jus
tice Fuller today decided the case of
the World's Columbian exposition
aginst the United States of America
in the Circuit Court of Appea's by
reversing the decree of the lowtr
court, and remanding the cause for
further proceedings. In the United
States Circuit court Judges Woods
and Jenkins had granted a prelimi
nary injunction closing the fair on
Sundays. Judge Grosscup, dissent
ing, delivered an opinion favoring
the opening of the fair. The order
of the day leaves both sides free
from any legal ties. Application can
now be made by the government to
the Circuit court for a permanent
injunction and a final hearing had.
From the decision then rendered
another appeal could be taken. The
proceedings would occupy consider
able time, and more than probable
the fair would be closed long before
the end was reached.
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West Plains Mo , July 30 About
the first of the month Hunter Single
ton o? Shannon cou'ity left the house
where she wan staying with the in
tention of gathering huckleberries.
She failed to return, and search was
made but without iiVet uutil thus
week when her body was fouud in
the woods terribly mutilated. It had
apparently bee-i been there for some
time and h id been p trti dly eaten by
hogs and birds. S me of her boms
could not found.
The second vohme iu tlie "Distaff
Series" of bo. -kg uiitten, edited aud
mad - by women, 'aHI be published
by Harper it Brothers on August 1
under the title, "The Literature of
' Philanthropy." Its editor U Mrs.
' Francis A. Good ale It will be fol-
lowed iu the mid be of August by
Early Pros-and Verse edited by Mrs.
Alice Morris Eaile and Mis. Emily
Ellsworth Ford.
Washington, D. C, July 27. The
secretary of the interior to-day made
a requisition upon the secretary of
the treasury for $12,500,000 on ac
count of pf rsiouo. The money is
to be distributed among the secotd
group of agencies, where quarterly
payments begin August 4, as fol
lows: Topeka, Kan, .3,G00,O00,
Philadelphia, $1,900,000; New York,
81,700,000; Knoxville, Tenn., $1,
000,000: Louisville, Ky., $1,200,000;
Indianapolis, 2,700,000.
Executor's Notioe.
Notice is herebv eiven that letter ci
testamentary on the estate of John C
McKibben deceased, were granted to the
undersigned on the 31st day ot Julv
by the probate court of Bates coun
ty, Missouri All persons hiving claims
againt said estate are required to exhib
it them tor allowance within one year
after the date of said letteis, or they rna v
be precluded fiom any benefit of said
estate; and it said claims be not exhibit
ed within two years from the dale ot this
publication.thej shall be forever barred.
This 31st Jv ot J.j!v 1893.
JAMES M.'McKIBBEN,
Executor.
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