SUTLER WEEKLY TIMES
J. D. ALLEN Editor.
J. D. Allen & Co., Proprietors.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION:
The Weekly Times, published every
Thursday, will be 6ent to any address
.ie year, postage paid, for $1.00.
Ex secretary Charles Foster don't
aeom to be in the swim of Ohio pol
itics this year.
The republican representatives in
congress voted almost to a man
against silver.
Gov. Stone spent several days in
Iowa last week making speeches aud
assisting governor Boies in his cam
jpaign.
If the Sherman purchasing act
was the root of all evil it is out of
the way now. Let prosperity follow
or down goes the promises.
The report put in circulation that
tianator Vest had said that he would
retire at the expiration of his present
term is denied by that gentleman.
A general strike on the Big 4 rail
road has taken place. With the
thousands of men now out of em
ploy ment it is a bad time for a
trike.
To havo made McKinley make 160
peeches in 120 days, and visit
seventy counties out of eighty-eight
and only taking special trains twice,
-all indioates that Neil, the demo
;ratic candidate, was tramping on
the old man's coat tail.
A. crank from Henry county,
named Elmer E. Raub, on his way to
Washington to take the office of
vpresident of the United States, was
locked up in Kansas City Sunday,
-and his mother was notified of his
whereabouts and condition.
A boiler of a freight engine explod
ad .Friday evening just south oi St.
.Louis ou the Iron Mountain road
ud -George Scheadef, engineer and
'Ed Eophe and Tom Scott brakemen,
were instantly killed. The damage
nd loss to the railroad will reach
$75,000.
In the wiuding up of the world's
air, grand old Missouri walked off
with the best premiums to be had
.and more of them than any other
Antate in the union. We had the best
horses, the best cattle, the best hogs,
the best flour and the best beer.
.What more could we ask.
'Consul General to Mexico, ex-gov--ernor
Crittenden, is in Washington
this week working up the idea of
free trade with Mexico. It is said
that the president and the Ways and
Means committee have been seen by
'irira on the matter and that his sug
gestions have been so favorably re
ceived that action on the matter may
.be expected in the near future. Free
trade with Mexico will be a bonanza
for western farmers.
- Senator Vest haB this early inform
ed a number of his Missouri friends
that he will retire from public life at
the expiration of his present term,
hich will be March 3. 1897. Roch
port Commercial.
'Senator Vest has never informed
anybody that he would retire from
the senate at the close of his present
terra. There are just two agencies
possible for the retirement of Vest
.the Almighty and the Republican
uartv. While Vest lives and Mis
souri has a democrat legislature,
vVeet will be senator. The only way
to beat Vest is to elect a republican
legislature. St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat.
The annual report for the Normal
school at Warrensburg, puts the to
tal enrollment for the year at 1,045.
.Classified as follows: Normal depart
ment, gentlemen, 376; ladies, 511; in
dhe training department, boys, 58;
jirls, 97. Sixty-nine counties are
represented in the enrollment for
1893. The report says: "The school
was organized in 1871 with an ere
rollment of 87, in 1872 there were
graduates. Total since the orgam
nation 1,106. The number of stu
dents from Missouri this year is 873
from other states, 17; pledged to
teach in Missouri, 860; students re'
porting themselves as Belf-depen
dent number 365; those following
the occupation of farming, 565
TUESDAY'S ELEUTI05S
The returns of the election in the
m
states voting Tuesday, show that
the Republicans have held their own
aud in some instances have gained
over two years ago. McKinley has
carried Ohio, and Gov Russell loses
Massachusetts. The Democrats car
ry New York, (with the exception of
Judge Maynard.) Kentuckey and Vir
ginia. In Michigan both parties are
claiming the victory and the result
will not be kuown until the returns
mm 1 1 I
are in. xne jropuusis nave oeen
routed in Kansas and the indications
are the Republicans have elected a
arge majority of the county officers
in the state aud the election is con
ceded to be a republican victory.
The republicans carry Pennsylvania
as usual. ioth parties ciaim xse
raska,aud the official vote will be re
quired to determine the matter
Stricken With Paralysis.
Mexico, Mo., Nov 5. Ex Con
gresBman A. W. Buckner to-day suf
fered a stroke of paralysis from
which it is thought he will not re
cover, lie was attacked wnile at
the breakfast table. He bad about
finished saying grace when, ic a
moment, he was deprived of his
power of speech, and was unable
to explain to his family what ailed
him. His condition is now regard
ed as extremely critical. Judge
Buckner has not been in good health
for a year. He said six months ago
that there was no circulation in his
ower limbs. "
Must Step Down And Out.
Washington, D. C, Nov. 6 Chief
Justice Fuller in the Supreme court
to day denied the applications of Par
sons and Niuiger, district attorney
and marshal for Northern Alabama
for leave to fight petitions of manda
ui us commanding the Alabama Dis
triet court to reinstate them iu the
offices'from which they were remov
ed by President Cleveland. These
men claimed that they could not be
emoved until their terms expired
he court did not go into the merits
of the matter, saying simply that the
cases were not properly presented
or its consideration,
Seeks Divorce at 72.
Mexico, Mo , Nov. 2. On October
4 Robert Swan of Ralls county and
Mrs. Adeline Luenberry of Audrian
were united in marraige iu this city
by Justice Winscolt The day be
fore the marriage they met for the
first time. The groom is seventy
two .years old, but wealthy, and he
Jt.i bride who is 15 vears his
fiiiiior, to a nice home in Ralls eoun
ty but the bride did not remain long.
She and her mother in law, who is
03, quarreled, and she came home
to her folks in this county. To day
Swan came to Mexico and filed a
petition for a divorce charging his
wife with desertion and other indig
nities.
Now we'll hear a kick from the
Gov. of Florida. Corbett and Mitch
ell have transferred their fighting
grounds to Jackonville. If nothing
will do these two brutes but fight
they should select some uninhabited
island in the sea where society would
not be injured and they could pound
each other to their hearts' content.
Ex Governor Campbell, who has
taken the stump in Ohio, is certain
that Larry Nj?al is going to be the
next Governor of the Buckeye state.
The Republicans on the other hand
are talking all the way from 50,000
to 75,000 for McKinley. It is a plain
case that somebody is going to get
badly fooled. Kansas City Star.
Joplin, Mo., Nov. 6. Mrs. Byron
D. Mowry, wife of the Mayor of
Carterville, spread some butter mix
ed with strychnine on a piece of
bread today to feed rats, but the
bread fell into the hands of her 10
year-old son, who ate a portion of it.
The boy died within a short time
The St. Joseph Gazette is aiding
the country papers in fighting the
fire insurance trust. The Gazette
has a habit of talking on the right
side of a question at the right time.
The great metropolitan moulders of
public opinion are too busy trying
to bulldoze Missouri representatives
in congress into voting in the inter
ests of the London-New Engl
money sharke to discover that the
citizens of the state are being rob
bed by a fire insurance trust. Jef
IST0AEDWAD8 MAD
HE IS ARRESTED WHILE PRE
SUMABLY TRYING TO ROB
A BANK-
Very l!emnrkitbl KscHpade of Kansas
City's Ex-Asoessor.
Harrisonville, Mo, Nov. 3.
Thomas H. Edwards, for four years
assessor of Kansas City aud for two
terms assessor o; Jackson county,
once a wealthy man and prominent as
a Republican politician occupies a
cell in the county jail here. The
charge agaiust him is that of assault
and battery, but he was captured
after what is supposed was an at
tempt to rob the First National
bank of Harrisonville, and that in
broad daylight
It was high noon to-day that
Thomas Edwards entered the First
National bank and, claiming to be
cold, was allowed to go to the stove
in a rear room. Assistant Cashier
G. M Houston, who alone, was in
charge of the bank at that time, ac
companied Mi. Edwards to the back
room aud as he leaned over to stir
up the fire Edwards seized a poker
and struck him on the neck with it.
Houston's coat collar partially broke
the force of the blow, and instead
of being knocked senseless, he was
only partially stunned. Edwards
instantly closed iu on the cashier,
striking him repeatedly. Houston,
although a very small man, struggled
desperately, and fiually freeing him
self run back into the bank for his
revolver, which lay iu a drawer uu
dtr hi counter.
Ed vards, who seems, was unarm
ed sav- for the poker, instantly dash
ed ou at the side door into the
street, .md ran for his life. He was
folio-.' ed by Saloon keeper Boland,
and when almost to the Gulf, depot
Boland collared him and knocked
him down with the butt of a pistol.
A fierce encounter followed, Edwards
fighting for liberty, but he was over
poweied and taken to jail. There
he heeuied dazed, but answered
questions readily. He gave his
name aud told of his wife and child
ren in Carthage. He told how he
made and lost fortunes in Kansas
City, and how he had been city
assessor of Kauaas City and county
assessor of Jackson county. Fur
ther he proved his identity by tell
ing how he had been elected county
assesor one term, and had been de
feated for re election by W. H.
Moore of Independence, the Demo
cratic nominee, aod how two years
later he had defeated Moore by 1,
500 votes, leading the ticket.
Thomas H. Edwards is a well
built man, of about 5 feet 10 inches,
weighs 175 pounds, aud is about
45 years old. Major G. M. Houston
the assistant cashier, is a small mas
of only 5 feet 6 inches, and who
weighs only about 130 pounds, and;
the battle, although won by Major
Houston, was au unequal one. Maj;
or Houston stated to-night that, in
his opinion, Edward was perfectly
sane and that it was bis intention to
rob the bank. The fact that Ed
wards did not demand money, did
not make a show of weapons and did
not so far as is known make an at
tempt to seize amy money forbade
any charge except that of assault by
the Harrisonville officials.
The prisoner was arraigned Satur
day afternoon on charges of assault
and battery with attempt to kill and
to rob. He plead guilty. He said
he did not want bond fixed, as he
could find no bondsmen.
Henry Starr, the noted robber, is
to be hung at Ft. Smith, Arkansas,
Feb. 20th. In passing the sentence
the Judge said: "I do not believe
that you yet have even begun to ap
preciate the enormity and wicked
ness of the act you have committed.
You do not realize what you have
done. In fact, when we consider
the number and character of the
great crimes which have been prov
en to have been committed by you,
your young life becomes a marvel of
wickedness. Here you are scarcely
arrived at majority, with a conscience
stained with larceny, with highway
robbery, and with what is worse
still, the great crime of having wick
edly, deliberately and with malice
aforethought taken a human life
the life of one who was seeking to
check you in your wild, mad, reck
less career of crime by having the
might be brought to it sense of vour
true condition. By your wicked
and bold career of crime you show
that you possess a heart void of so
cial duty and a mind fatally bent on
mischief. These deeds committed
by you show you to be the personi
fication of the man of crime, aud in
this age of terrible and wicked
crimes, when innocent human life is
so cheap, and just punishment so
rare, you seem in your short career
Uo have even excelled the most wick
ed and the most criminal iu the veiy
atrocitv of vour crimes "
Murdertsl Hi! Father.
At 5 o'clock M nday evening, Jo
seph Meyer, Sr , a farmer who re
sides five and one half miles north
of Sedali8, was brained with a hatch
et in the hands of his son Joseph
Meyers, Jr., au unmarried man aged
31 years. Father an son reside on
the same farm, and last evening they
quarreled over the rigging out of
a wagon that was to be used ic
hauling rock, wheu the son picked
up a hatchet and dealt the old gen
tleman, who is 83 years of age, a
powerful blow over the left eye.
The comer of the hatchet penetrated
the skull, carrying with it a piece of
the skull, which was forced upon the
brain, producing a wound of the
brai- itself. After committing the
crime the son proceeded leisurely to
the farm of a neighbor, where he
reported what had transpired and
remarked:
"You had better go over and see
how badly the old man is hurt "
To-day the son came to town and
retained au attorney, after which he
was art e ted. He refuses to be in
terviewed, but claims that he acted
in self-defense. The death of the
injured man is momentarily expect
ed. Cliutou Democrat.
Working Johnson County Farmeis.
The farmers of Johnson county
have been thoroughly worked by
plow swidlers aud the scamps are
now ready to Beek green fields and
pastures anew.
Their plan of operation was uni
que. They would sell a farmer a
bill of goods and take his Dote for
the auiouut. They would agree to
board out $10 of the amount and
give credit for thi sum on tbe back
of the note, spelling the word "teuM
out. Whtu the note turned up, the
"Ten" had been couverted into a
"Five" putting a cross on the capi
"T," chauging the to an "i7" and
adding an "e "' This was only one
of their nmiy trieks and shifts to
trap tb unwary farmer Ex.
Of eourse the rxt county tkee
rascals- visit will b- Bates, but We
hardly think there is a farmer in
thiscouaty who cou)l be gulled by
such a trick. If then is he ought
to take h'iu medicinn without squeal
ing-
Greenup, III., November 5. This
evening about 6 o'clock Miss Mari
etta Wheat, a 16 year old girl of this
city who ws the possessor of lux
urious audi beautiful growth of raven
DiacK ntiir. was seized dv au un
known person, who cut oh her hair
close to tbe head. No clew can be
obtained to perpetrator.
-a
TSSm Ik Ik CASHES.
Stricken Down with Heart Disease.
Xr. JRIee MeHeal C:, MUUkmrt, Zd,
GKrauanoe: I feel It bit duty, m well &s e.
pleasure, topnblish, unsolicited, to the world the
benefit received from pa. Miles- nceroemve
(cotes. 1 was stricken down with Mrmrt
xHmn ana its com plications, a. rapid poise rary
ins; from 90 to 140 beat., er minute, a choking or
burning wmattnn ia the wind pipe, oppression
THOUSANDS-
gion of the heart and below lower rib, pain in tbe
an&s, shortness of breath. ateepteafDesa, weakness
and general debility. The arteries in my neck
would throb violently, the throbbing of my heart
coold be beard across a large room and would
hake my whole body. I was so nemos that I
could not bold my hand steady. I m
I nmtmvmt pmmttetmma.
hmwrtU. A friend
TnmnAmA mr nmediea.
iea. soe
was cored by Dr.
jtuear remedies. intiuiiA waak
three bottles of your CURED
HmtC Pnr and two bottles W W 1
Merrine. My poise is normal. I here no more
noieni tnroooing oi ins nan, its stu
I atDcerely recommeoa erery one wun
of Heart Dieses to ftafce Or. Miimf
Gypsum City. Kens.
U L Cauna.
TIlANKStJIVIXU DAY
President Cleveland's Prm-laiHHtion
Fixing Upon Thursday, Nov. 30.
Washington, D. C-, Nov. 3. The
president to-day issued the follow
iDg Thanksgiving proclamation:
By the president of the United
States of America A proclama
tion. While the Americau people should
every day remember with praise and
thauksgiviug the divine goodness
and mercy which have followed
them siuea their begiuniug as a ra
tion, it is fitting that one day in each
year should be especially devoted to
the contemplatiou of the blessings j
we have received from the baud of
God aud to the grateful ackuowiedg
ment of His loving kindness.
Therefore, I Grover Cleveland,
President of the United States, do
hereby designate and set apart Tuts
day, the 30th day of tha present
mouth of November, as a dy of
Thanksgiveng and praise, to be kept
and observed by all the people of
our land. Oa that day let us forego
our ordinary work and employments
and assemble iu our usual places of
worship, where we may recall all
God has done for us, aud where
rom grateful hearts our united tri
bute of praise and song may reach
he throne of grace. Let the reunion
of kindred and the social meeting of
friends lend cheer and enjoyment to
the duty, and let generous gifts of
charity for the relief of the poor aud
needy prove the sincerity of our
thanksgiving.
By the President:
GnoviR Cleveland.
W. Q. Gresham, Secy of State
A groundless scare was ou last
week at Nevada, over the report that
the Franklin school building of that
city was not safe.
fl E t Irl
The OAK GARLAND Makes No Clinkers
It has an Air-tight base and will keep fire longer than any other
seove of same pattern. It is made of heavier material and will
wear longer than other stoves. It has cold air flues which keep
up a circulation of air, thereby producing more heat than any oth
er stove of same size. It has a large ash pan which is a great
convenience in taking out ashes and makes no dust or dirt. The
nickel trimmings and urn are very heavy and handsome. We
guarrntee every Garland Stove we sell to give perfect satisfaction
or money refunded.
Bennett-Wheeler Merc. C
GEJTL AGENTS for Bates Co.
eu la
Our fall stock of Millinery has arrived and is now ready for
inspection. We have the very latest designs in all the nov
elties in millinery goods and our
Fall Supply of
Is not to be surpassed for quality and attractiveness. Our
line is large and a visit to our store will convince you that our
Prices Are the Lowest.
We spent several weeks in the east investigating the styles
and can assure the ladies desiring Fall Millinery that the
very latest novelties will be found in oar store.
Gall and see us before baying.
Harper & VanCamo.
Xearlv 1 00 Conversion.
Sedalia, Mo.. Nov. 1. A series of
successful revival meetings were con
cluded last night at the Pleasant
Grove Cumberlaud Presbyterian
church south of Knob Nosier" John
son county. The ministers in charge
were Pastor Poteet and Rev. Sharp
of Boonville Ax u result of the
meeting there were nearly 100 con
versions, seventy-five going to the
Cumberland Church and the remain
der to other denominations.
WW-
KNOWLEDGE
Brings comfort and improvement and
tends to personal enjoyment when
rightly uaea. The many, who live bet
ter than others and enjoy life more, with
less 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, Svrup of Figs.
Its excellence is due to its presenting
in the form most acceptable and pleas
ant to the taste, the refreshing 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 acts on the Kid
neys, Liver and Bowels without weak
ening them and it is perfectly free from
every objectionable substance.
Syrup of Figs is for sale by all drug
gists in 50c and $1 bottles, but it is man
ufactured by tbe California Fig Syrup
Co. only, whose name is printed on every
package, also the name, Syrup of Figs,
and being well informed,you will not
accept any substitute if offered.
BUTLER, MO.
Hats and Eoaaets
luilneru
Sett em a Feetttre Gwaxaatee.
ca sioiitv nrrwantB-
othr occupations, 323."
ferson City Tribune.
law lay its hand on yon that yon