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BUTLhR WEEKLY TIMES J. I. ALLEN Editor. J. D. Allen & Co., Ptoprietors. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: The Weekly Times, published every Thursday, will be Rent to any address one year, postage paid, for $1.00. Chairman Carter of the national republican committee, favors the free coinage of silver. A vote on the silver question will be taken iu congress next Monday, and then the leal war will be on. The Atlanta, Ga., Evening Jour nal, Secretary of the Interior Smith's paper, has come out in favor of silver. The Iowa democrats will present Gov. Boies' name before the conven tion as a candidate for United States senator. Four intruders on the strip put ting up hay were killed by soldiers Friday for refusing aud resisting the order to leave the government land. Dr. S. S. Laws, ex president of the Missouri state university has been elected professor of natural science at a South Carolina semin ary. Chas. Walton, a negro, was lynch ed at Morganfield, Ky., Friday night for cutting the throat of Sam Keith, a white boy, and then robbing him of $4. Senator Vest cares very little what the eastern gold standard men think of his free silver speech, so long as he receives the plaudits of his con stituents. In three counties iu Ohio, Ed wards, Wayne and Clay, cattle are reported dying from a disease known as anthrax. The farmers burn the carcasses but it is stated the disease is spreading. The bill offered by Mr. Voorhees to allow national banks to increase their circulation to the par value of bonds deposited, has been blocked by Senator Cockrell, who enters his objections. Crazed by liquor Douglass Curtis, a switch thrower in the employ of the Western Indiana railroad, Chi cago, shot and killed his wife and 7 year old child and then sent a bullet through his own brain. The bone of contention in Iowa is prohibition, and the declaration iu their platform, ''prohibition is not a test of republicanism," is cre ating great dissension in the party of that state and a split is liable to take place. Hoke Smith has arranged to effectually do away with the land shark, speculator and professional boomer in the opening of the Chero kee strip. Under the rule every munis compelled to register before entering the race and no one will be allowed to enter land that does not intend .to become a bona fide settler. The Washington correspondent of the Republic has it from a source that he considers perfectly reliable, that Mr. Cleveland will Bign a free coinage bill only as a last resort in the effort to repeal the Sherman bill If the repeal can be effected without free coinage, then, the writer says, the president can be induced under no consideration to sign a free coin age measure. Ex. E. M. Donaldson, late of Kansas City, secretary of the late suspended Union Trust Co. of Sioux City and president of a number of banks in Iowa and Kansas, has skipped the country taking with him upwards ot $600,000 in cash stolen from the dif ferent institutions he represented. 'The papers represent him as the cleverest thief of the age, and his too sue and pen have served him well at the expense of the people o ' many states. Forgery is only one o many charges against him, and for this a warrant lias been issued and a deputy marshal is now looking for him in Mexico, Kansas people have suffered at his hands to some extent people of Iowa more, while the bur den of loss will be shared by capital ists of New England and the east. Donaldson is about 25 years of age, of medium height and slender build and formerly of Kansas. A BIT OF HISTOSY- i In the fall of 1890, the union labor I party, professing great virtues j aud deeply deploring the corruption j of the two old parties, succeeded in electing the county officers, and in capturing a majority of the town ships, in Bates county. They sue eeeded in electing union labor of ficers in one township v. hose name very much resembles a southern river, made famous iu negro song. Unfortunately for these officers elect the laws of the state provided that they should keep a record. We have no doubt if they had had full control of the legislature they would have aboliehed a law which repre sented so much labor and trouble and kept their acts as evidence against them. The Biblical declara tion that"by thy words thou shalt be condemned,"i3 made significantly ap plicable in this instance. Last fall the two corrupt old parties were again successful in that township and the records were turned over to a good old republican trustee. On exami nation the startling fact was disclos ed that a union labor board had allowed a union labor collector $15 a year for making out his tax receipts, a proceedicg which the laws of the tate had neglected to provide for. But more startling still was the dis covery that the board had made it a practice to meet at the residence of the clerk and after partaking of ex cellent dinners, prepared by the good woman of the house, would draw warrants upon the township funds to pay for same. Their premises, that the good womau aud her prom inent husband should be paid for their trouble and eatables, is no doubt correct, but they were faulty iu their deduction that the township hould pay for them. Such a pio- ceediusr had never been heard of be- ore from any township iu the state, and only representatives of a very pure party would have been so in genious. It is the duty of the present town ship board to bring suit on the bonds of these defunct officers and recover the money wrongfully taken from the township treasury. VEST REITERATES. e iteailirms His Attitude Toward the Silver Ratio. United States Senate i.i City of Washington Angust a, ity; Mv Dear Sir Yours of Aug. 5 has just been received. I have always voted for the free coinage of silver at the ratio of 1G to 1, and am ready to do so again, but it is nonsense to alk of passing such a law while Mr. Cleveland is president. It is well known that he will veto auv such bill, and it is therefore useless to talk about it, for we haye not enough votes in either house to pass it over his head. If you prefer the ratio of 10 to 1 or nothing, then you will get nothing or four years to a certainty, and by that time it will not be much use to discuss ratios. The senators here rom the silver-producing states are willing to take free coinage at a ratio of 20 to 1, but the gold men oppose it. Between the extremists on both sides, those who want 16 to or nothing and those who are de termined to have a gold standard or nothing, the only chance is to make some compromise by which silver can be preserved as a metalic basis am trying to do the best I can for the whole country, but if every man is to sit down on his opinion and concede nothing, adjustment is sim ply hopeless. Very truly, etc., G. G. Vest, N. P. Black, Esq., No. 621 W ain right Buildiag Strange Death ot a Miser. Shelbyville, 111., Aug. 21. Last February there came to this city an old man who gave his name as John Hogan. lie was almost Diina and very deaf. Yesterday the old man was found dead in his house with two revolvers and a large file beside him. The latter had blood on it but there was no mark on the corpse to show that Hogan had been struck with it. On the le:t arm, sewed up, was $1,300 in greenbacks. An administrator was appointed and the property turned over to him. Later in the day, the lat ter, with a number of neighbors was eroin? through the dead man's effects, and in an old trunk foun $21,356 in bank notes and checks on different banks and fourteen $20 gold pieces. SURPRISED BY CRISP Some Comniittee Appointments Entirely Unexpected. Washington. D. C, Aug. 21. The interest in the financial discus sion to day was dwarfed in the greater interest that everyone felt in the announcement of the commit tees. The speaker had kept his in tentions so secret that surprises were expected, but no one was prepared for the radical chancres mada in the jrsonntl of some of the important committees. Springer, of Illinois, gives way to Wilson, of West Vir ginia, ou the ways and means com mittee, and Spriuger is now chair mau of the committee on banking and currency. Hoi man of Indiana, the venerable "watch dog of the treasury," is deposed from the com mittee on appropriations in favor of Sayers of Texas, and goes into the committee on Indian affair". 5IISSOURI FAKED WELL. Everything went Missouri's way in the make-up of committees as an nounced by Speaker Crisp to dav. ler delegation got everything it asked for, and more than it had rea son to expect. Three chairmanships of good committees and two coir mittee places which are considered the equivalent of chairmanships, went to Missouri congressmen By increasing the size of the com mittees, the Speaker was enabled to give places which otherwise might have been refused,but he left Bland, latcb, Heard andTarsuey, all work ers, o i good terms with themselves, and lone of the others are dissatis fied. Of the chairmanships, Bland retains his old place as head of coin age, weights aud measures, and Hatch of agriculture. There was a hard light between Richardson of Tenn ssj e and Heard over the Dis trict .f Columbia chairmanship, but Heard landed a winner. This place a good thing. It is a sort of a own council and board of public works melted into one, where indig nant taxpayers do not grumble be cause of improvements, and the possibilities are boundless. Tarsuey got his much coveted place on the ways and means committee, and is shaking hands with himself over the bold stand he took when Crisp want ed to be speaker last term. He is the first Missouri member to serve on this committee since the time-of Johu S. Phelps. Dockery got third oa appropriations, second on ex penditures and is chairman of the oint committee to investigate the executive departments. Cobb got a place on banking and currency, and so did Hall. DeAimond was given a place ou naval affairs and also on elections, Morgan on military af- airs, Burns postoffice and post road and malitia, Arnold territories and education, Fyan on invalid pensions and Clark on pensions and claims. Thirty-two chairmanships go to the Soutn aud twenty-two to the North. This number includes the chairmen of the four committees previously appointed rules, mileage accounts and enrolled bills. After November, when Mr. O'Ferrall will resign to enter upon the duties of governor of Virginia, J. B. Brown of Indiana will go to the committee of elections and the totals will be 31 and 24. By states the chairmanships are as follows: Alabama, 3; Arkansas, 1; Connect icut, 1; Georgia, 4; Illinois, 4; Indi ana. 3; Kentucky, 3; Louisiana, 1; Maryland, 1; Mississippi, 2; Missou ri, 3; Michigan, 1; New Jersey, 5; New York, 5: North Carolina, 2; Ohio, 2; Pennsylvania, Rhode Island 1; South Carolina, 1; Tennessee, 3; Texas, 3; Virginia. 4; West Virginia 2; Wisconsin 2. St. Louis Republic 2-2. If Mr. DeArmond returns from Missouri, where he is at present in attendance on a sick pon, it is prob .u. tv.al At- -Rni n;n..n. i : for Mm in the closing discussion on Saturday. Mr. DeArmond is look ed on as one of the strongest speak ers on the free silver side, and Mr. Bland is anxious that his argument should be heard by the house before voting is begun. DeArmond is on naval affairs and on the committee on election of president, vice presi dent and congress. The assign ment of Mr. DeArmond was some thing of a surprise to the delegation. TT . j t ne is one oi me real aoie men in the house and desired to be on the judiciary committee, for which he is eminently qualified. SOON OF SEPTEMBER 16 At That Hour Homeseeker May Cross into The Strip. Washington, D. C, Aug. 22 President Cleveland's proclamation openiug to settlement the 6,500,000 ! acres of laud between Kansas and i Oklahoma known aa the Cherokee j Outlet was forwarded from Gray j Gables to the Stcretarv of the Inte- j rior this morning. The President in his proclamation opening the Cherokee strip to settle ment fixes the hour at 12 o'clock noon, central standard time. Septem ber 16. All the lands except those especial ly reserved, recently acquired from the Cherokee Indian nation and the Ponca and Pawnee tribes iu the Indian Territory known as the Cher okee Outlet are included in the proc lamation provision. With a view to preventing one person from obtaining any advan tage over another iu making home stead settlement, rules aud regula tions have been prescribed sub stantially as follows: A strip of land 100 feet wide around and immediately within the boundaries of the lands now opened is set apart aud entrance upon said strip is permitted prior to the day for the opening of the lands. Upon this strip booths are to be located and clerks, from the general land office detailed to take charge of them. The booths will be conveni ently located upon the regular lines of travel, five on the northern and five on the southern bouudary of the outlet, and will be opened for busi ness at noon of September 10 aud be kept open each business day from 7 a. in. to 12 o'clock, and from 1 to G p. m. until discontinued by direction of the Secretary of the Interior. Each party desiring to enter upon the lauds for the purpose of making a homestead entry, or soldier's de claratory statement, or settling upon a town lot, will be required to first appear at one of the booths and there make a declaration showiug his or her qualifications to make such entry or statement or to settle upon a town lot. If the declaration proves satisfactory to the officers in charge of the booth, certificates will be issued by such officers permitting the party who makes the declaration to go in upon the Outlet at the time fixed for the opening. Parties mak. ing these declarations will be re quired to make oath before the dis trict officers or other officer who may take their homestead affidavits, that all the statements contained in their declarations are true iu every particular. TARIFF REVISION Chairman Wilson Shvs His Committee Will Take It Up. Washington, D. C. Aug. 22. Those Democrats in the west who pinned their faith to an adjustment of the tariff by the present adminis tration will not be disappointed. Mr Wilion of West Virginia, who was yesterday made chairman of the ways and means committee, has called a meeting of his committee for to-morrow when an organization will be enected. lnen work on a tariff bill will at once begin. The selection of Mr. Wilson for the chairmanship of the ways and j means committee was unquestion ably in accordance with a suggestion from President Cleveland. After the financial legislation has been dispos ed of, the work of this committee will engage the attention of the country. It was stated in the Pres ident's message to congress that had he not convened this body in August he would have called an extra ses sion in September to consider the tariff question. But the assembling of the present session will advance rather than retard work on the tariff. In the preparation of a tariff bill there is an endless amount of work for the committee. With a chair man in full sympathy with the ad ministration and a clearly defined idea of the work to be performed, there is nothing in the way of a speedy solution of the tariff question inaccordance with the Democratic platform. There is a universal opinion pre vailing among Congressmen that no time should be lost in pushing a tariff measure. The speedy solution iBENKETT-WHEELER MERE. CO, i DEALERS IX Hardware, Groceries, Stoves iOueensware, Studebaker, Schuttler and Moline Farm Wagons, Im proved Indiana Grain drills, Sulky and Gang plows, Top Buggies, Road Carts and Spring wagons, Wind Mills, Pumps and all kinds of Pipe Fittings, Grass Seeds, Barb Wire and Salt. We always pay HIGHEST MARKET PRICE in CASH or TRADE for all kinds of Country Produce. Bennett-Wheeler Merc. Co. BUTLER, of the financial question, which is now promised, gives the tariff ques tion prominence, and it is freely dis cussed and along with it too, comes the question a graduated iucome tax. Unless the expressions of Con gressmen in debate aud iu private conversation count fur nothing, there is a preponderance of senti meut iu favor of this income tax. Mr. Voorhees voiced it to dav in the Senate, and a dozen or more Con gressmeu have pledged their support in the House -debate. This, too, will come before the ways and means committee for consideration, and a radical reduction iu the t iriff tax, in the opinion of many, makes some such provision a necessity.'1 Kilted a i temper iiito- Mexico, Mo , Aug. 22. -At Port land, Callaway county, last night Pred Neff, a desperado, attacked George Martin with a revolver, beat ing him over the head with it. Mar tin, after he had received several blows, finally wrenched the weapon out of NefTs Land and shot him dead Neff accused Mart in of having him indicted for gambling. Shortly af ter the killing Sheriff See of Mont gomery county arrived in Portland with a warrant for NefTa arrest, charging him with murder iu Gas conade county. Neff has killed three men, but always escaped the gallows. He served a five years' term in the penitentiary, for robbing a Mr. Wolferman in Montgomery county. When killed he bad two revolvers and a big knife on his person. Brings comfort and improvement and tends to personal enjoyment when rightly used. The many, who live bet ter than others and enjoy bfe more, with lesa expenditure, by more promptly adapting the world's best products to the needs of physical being, will attest the value to health of the pure liquid laxative principles embraced in the remedy, Syrup of Figs. Its excellence is due to its presenting in the form most acceptable and pleas ant to the taste, the ref reding and truly beneficial properties of a perfect lax ative ; effectually cleansing the system, dispelling colds, headaches and fevers ana permanently curing constipation. It has given satisfaction to millions and met with the approval of the medical profession, because it acta on the Kid neys, Liver and Bowels without weak ening them and it is perfectly free from every objectionable substance. Syrup of Figs ia for sale by all drug gists in 50c and f 1 bottles, but it ia man ufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. only, whose name ia printed on every package, also the name, Syrup of Figs, and being well informed, you will not accept any substitute if offered. MO. VIRGIN I AS N KXT GOV KKN'OR. He Was Nominated by the Demo cratic Convention at lUchmond Yesterday. Richmond, Va , August 17. The Virginia Democracy met in con vention at noon to day to nominate candidates for governor, lieuleueut governor, and attorney geueral. For Governor. John Rhea of Bris tol nominated Charles O'Farrell; Major Charles S. Stringfield of Richmond nominated A. S. Buford; Judge Waller R S. Staples of Mont gomery nominated Major J. Hoge Tyler The roll being called to vote resulted as follows: Whole number cast 16G5 of which O Forrell receiv ed 1.U6; Tyler, 3G0; Buford, 15I. Necessary to a choice, 833. The nomination of O'Ferral was made unanimons. R. C. Kent of Wythe was nomi nated for Lieutenant Governor by acclamation. Ureal Livpi Stock Show. Chicago, 111., Aug. 20. The great live stock show at the World's fair will open tomorrow aud it promises to be the largest ever held ia Ameri ca. Nearly every breed of horses aud cattle in the world will be repre sented. There will be horses from the imperial stables of Germany and from the stables of the Czar of Rus sia. The finest horses of England, France and Arabia will be there and alongside them will be the thorough breds from the blue grass regions of Kentucky. Each day there will be a grand parade of fine horses and cattle in the big pavilion, which has a seating capacity of 25,000. Already there are 1,200 horses in the stables at the White City and 1,000 head of cattle Hundreds of people visited the stables to-day and took a look at the stock. Chairman Carter U for Silver. In au interview with Chairman Carter, of the National republican committee, he says: "While the great west and the people in it un questionably favor a repeal of the Sherman silver law, they would not agree to its total extinguishment without some additional legislation favoring a bimetallic standard. I am a bimetallist, a3 western republi cans are generally, and we tnink that not only ourselves but the eountry at large will be best served by a bi metallic standard. My plan would be to withdraw all of the present issue of bank notes under $10 and substitute silver for them. This would increase the circulating medi um by $100,000,060. The United States ia old enough, and strong enough to transact its own business without assistance or dictation from foreign governments.