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BUTLER, MISSOURI, THURSDAY NOVEMBER o, 18W5.
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OF BUTLER, MO.
CAPITAL -SURPLUS
FUND
855,000.00
2,500.00
ELECTION IN DOUBT. j be couldse it constantly, and, going
homo in the evening, he carried it
earetuiJv with him. At !jiLt :t
I !ii!ic;1 o:i
Sio'.vover,
Point to
Frohnb"- Kleclion of Jl Kinlev.
TWO S ! A I I S WILL I)K1'II)E.
Mic!;i.i.i u I Indiana Set tie the
iiiiinal (ontfst
Beivet Deposits, Loans money, Issues Drafts and does a general Banking liusincss.
W aollcit the account of Farmers, Merchants and the public generally promising a
itfe Depository for all funds committed to our charge. We are prepared to extend
liberal accommodation in the way of loans to onr customer".
Or. T. C. Iloalware Bootter Powell
Geo L 6mlth II H PIggott
John Ueerwester C R Radford
J R Jenkins TJ Wright
Thanking the puldic for their confidence and liberal patronage during th past fifteen
years, we solicit a continuance of the time promising honest and conservative roan
sgement, with strict attention always to the wants of our customers.
FranU II VuriB
J M Christy
R G West
Wrn E Walton
J. E. JENKINS,
Cashier.
Wm. E WALTON,
Presidut.
Mitli f ii! i "i Indiana as t l!ie
i:-;v itia iilnt tnt, but
S- tni,Ud!i Nervous
Alsti'H lIlH !Ittl
The following summary of the
A l.
elect io;i leturus is taken iroin me
K-tnaa-i City Times Thursday morn
in and i-t the very latest, at time of
!iii)- to urea- with the Times 1
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The indications at midnight were
that McKinlev had curried Indiana
stauts on a little t:i'o!e clone to Ms j
bedside, where he cm fee it leadily
whea he wakes i
The. longer those who knew him j
watched this performance the more j
mysterious did it seem, and thu more
lively was their curiosity.
One day last spring tiome fallow
laborers thought to play a joke ou
Lsbr by removing the curium little
can when its owner was not looking:!
and hiding it When the usually
quiet and received sunn discovered
that the precious object was gODe it
changed bi:u it.to something like a
madman. The two culprits, alarmed j
by his excited state, eonftssed their j
joke and returned the can. j
If it had not been for the inter i
ference of others Lihr might have
gone to the gallows fur that day's
. OFFici'ns
I. N. THOM t'SON , Trco.
K. A ISKNNr.Tr, V. fres.
K. 1. KUt, Cashier.
FARMERS
BANK
BUTLER. MO.
Cnpital JStock $.".0,000 00
Siii')1iim Fuml $r..00(HH
We Want Your Business.
W. Newberry
rrait Wau
AMUtsnts.
Virginia Item:?.
In writing news for the Timks this
yea-
lt will be things we see and hear,
ind if we get them wrong or mixed
Frionds forgive us for this is 'DO.
I 1 T e 1 1 i : i.i
and West Virginia, both of which worn, ueiuiv ruip cum reaeii icem
I 1 t 1 l r 1 1 . 1 I.
at the school were essential for the success of owu iwiaa ov au irou
Brvan. Unless later returns chauge bar thAt ou handy, and, as it was
DinECTOHS-
Ml. J. EVER1XGUAM.
JNO E SHIT1T.
V. G rt'lUOI.
J J. McKKK.
CLARK W1V.
H M GAll.KY.
JKO. S1KELK.
JAS. M. McklBBEN.
gy Sunday morning
liouse.
I'Olcoinl) spoKe nere Jiorw ay - ,r.Tr.t,. ...;n thouffht at th time, fatally iin'ared.
n reiiKOIiHh V UUia ieHUIt Jll'lVilliev vvni unmuii i j
ibey recoveied alter ward, but the
niffht of this week to
Wesley and Thomas Hensley of In
jrpence', Mo., visited their father,
imanzer Hensley, who has been s-iek
orsoiue time.
MrnS M Coulter, who has been vis
iting relatives in Ohio for few weeks,
returned home Friday.
The Free Methodists will hold their
district quarterly meeting at the Jes
tlerode. school house commencing
Thursday night, Nov. 5, and contin
uing over Sabbath. The Sabbath
1 arvice will be at 10 o clock. .1 II
Hiesins, district elder of bpringheld,
will be present.
John llusbey, the city carpenter
built a fine hen house for MrsMcNutt
list week.
The quilting at Mrs J W Me Fad
den's a pleasant affair; those present
wre Mesdames W 1 Orear, li F Jen
kin?, 11 0 Wilson, (ieo Jenkins, John
Husaey, Dr Lamb and Miss Icy Jen
kins. John Nance built a flue for Win
Oldham and other repair work on his
houne last week.
Ernest Judy and wife, who have
been visiting "her folks at Warrens
burg for a week, returned home Sab
bath. 0 rand pa Kinney went to Kansas
City last week to visit his daughter,
Mrs Smith.
Mr Campbell of Lynn county, Kan.,
jpent Sunday night in our city.
I'Mlq. Mediation, son win, aim
his grandson, Ed Hones of Rich Hill,
visited his brother in-law, James aic-
Dale, at Fontanna, Kan., last weeK.
John Classen and wife of near Bar
nard, Kan., visited Henry Kswien
Saturday ami Sunday.
Kev Corkell ana wiie ami sou oi
Butler, brought Presiding Elder
Hunt out Satardav. Rev (ialbreth
tot him to take charge of the quar
terly meeting in bis place. Elder
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nunt preacneu aturuay iugni nnu
Sabbath at eleven; the meeting was
well attended.
Sam Dobbins, who has been sick,
is op and around again, while Frank
Smith, who was taken sick about the
me time is improving slowly.
P M Faniuliner was somewhat ex-
fited Sabbath morning when he went
to the buggv shed to get his buggy
and could not find it. He was about
tosret mi a searching party when
wine one told him that last night
was Hallowe'en and bis buggy was
standing in front of V C Henderson's
house.
Mrs (' F Sehad of Hutler, who has
been visiting her stater Mrs W r
Coulter returned hotne Fridav.
The Hallowe'eners visited our
quiet little city Saturday night, and
one of our townsmen found his bug-
good crowd of democrats, on the sil- have 239 votes in th electoral col N-ey recovered
ver question He read Mr Mnton s neeessarv incident showed more clearly than
letter of withdrawal from the can- lege, or lo more tban are necestary J
PAl!,vit,ir ;rn i ho ever me inieusiiv oi ijeui s ieeuiis
vafs. it ma not jjotiown wun aiitne u0 elect mm
!!.r..?rf: J:i,!,H;r.tlJirf S"? States which have certainly gone for about the mysterious cm
UtM II IIIT-ll liu.-r."' , iniiir; a nuiuuci " It. . ,i
' 1 I I r tk.km a -.! I n t t I. A in n f rr
sav that they were sold out, and now McK n ev: iU " ai'b"ca "' : J
thev will not have any home except ,.,,.,.,..,,, tained the ashes of Lis dead wife. At
WZ;neSlZ if X I"-'3 f, her aeath .h. had requested that
democrats elect the majority in con- , her body be cremated. Lthr carried
gressthey w.il get free silver coin- Mla8a(.hll80tu is out hfr wish 6nj heartbroken at
aw. Whether thev cet more silver . ... il
or not thev can live on the consola- ' . .. ...... 10 br Jcatb, deterti)ined never to be
tion they get of having democrats in N Y :w S(.nal.at(,(j frr)U. htr ttSi,,c This ac
ot.il roniiltlienriu rtnt. ft c oak . . . I 1
a. in .Tuesday as we send to press. ..1 c mntB for his constant euro of the
we can see the fincies rolling in from ,,,, ,M,n(, 4 rftn ft. lirn HS has moved to be.
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Ilie iimuereu cuuiiirv, ituti mai Vermont
makes me feel easy that the finance Uyisconsin . .. .. . a
question win ue seriieti mis tiay, diu M . , 8
we are not sure tnat w e win an oe
made millionaires. ToM u
It will be sad news to many to hear In addition to these certain states
ber l. flir nrown sertieti in uaies ximes at. miunigci, muiuaiu iuo m
also carried
county in i?W5 ne oougm my aure ui ....ui:--,,,,
1,,4 hlf-,.iil east of Viririnia. He P'caL9 uava
4 Cyclone" Davis Rappetl tin the Mead.
Pittsbari?, Tex . Nov. 2 J. II
("CycloBe") Davis addressed a large
audience on a street comer to day,
and was anawer d bv Senator Cran-
ford. In Davis' rejoinder he assail
THE CABINET DIVIDER. ! Negr..f-s Amtmlutl.
j Birmingham, Ala , N.iv. 3. Whilo
Some Members tif .Mr. ClevfUntl's : Jeff Jackson, John Aditus, William
Household Failed ta Vote. j Taylor aud Robert Allison, negro
Washington. D. C.Nov. 3 .An ! borers, were working at a sugar
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by
maiorities for following ou u"""l.T
ana 6taiea tnac in me ueiuw
moved from here in 1881 to Christian reduced
county, where he has since lived. He I Bjatef .
servea iwu lerms t presiuiuK juuc. i
He leaves a wife and four children. m-'
Aaron. P10"""""11"
Michigan
Ilaanwatai' llaniw. I West Virginia..
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inuiana - u. aeb siaica luai it ncoauj
4 crats seated 0Neil, of Cass County,
3 in the State Lerislature,when Frost,
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6 ropuhat, ot UaBs was t-iecteo. d.
1T!vn In V.s-y m fitiAoL'in of Trwriuf nu'ti
last Monday night. Total prouawe jueKiuu-y " uie uooest oi luat uouy uy eajiu
Preaching at the Methodist cnurcii umcial returns may cuauge me there waa fraud, that Davis was a
SUAlita',U,,nd "i8ht by figures in Michigan, West Virginia H wWeupon Daws struck at
Mr K Kash sold his farm last week and Indiana, and Chairman Jones K Someone at. the same time
to Mr McKlwane for $25 P m and eii,, to concede the election Bt.rnek Davis over the head with a
w i i nor rfit'a iinwuuuuin i iiiiiii m hi i it' i i - - -
Thft Oak crove iterarv is prorress- ro;iowm is usi ui biuico iui
ing nicely and have large attendance rjetj y Bryac
a ueuuuuruci. !i.i.,. 11
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j stick, inflicting an ugly wound, that
bled profusely.
Mr rlali .Tneksnn and wife of El-
j i .. ot- v.:., rtl.i-'u 1 Arkansas
,.L- W T..Ueksnn. near Johns. Colorado
v I California
r.'t it Vowli ,nn.I n flvino- trin to I "'orida
Hutler one day last week on business. , "
c . o i :n: .. v;i ,a siiii. i
il t SSlS Ocilll llllllfllltlliv 11 iiiir uin
ton attended the " Oak grove lyceum
Fridav nicrht.
Hoiiowe'en night was observed by
the Johnstown boys,
(eonre Wells will occupv the John
Bowden farm in the spring, and Mr
Howden and family will move to lid
dorado.
Protracted meeting will commence
at the Christian church at Johns
Kansas ...
Kentucky .
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri ..
Montana . .
Nevada
Nebraska.-
North Carolina
South
Hit. Hoy Is Lost.
Nevada Post.
Edwin Wood is a little boy only 9
years o!o- He wsr firm Jopnn and
10 watt adopted nbout a jear ago bv J
I . i, i i tt- it IT,
A., vxoraon, Ol aiKei. jjlo no ou
H interesting little fellow end seemed
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well pieasea wun uis uuuie,
s On Sunday last he lelt tne name
h tr flnnlon. einfe wVlieh time DO
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Carolina o tiding of him has heard The
unusual proportion of government
officials in the higher offices remain
ed in Washington and did not vote.
The list iucluded Presideut Cleve
laud and Private Secretary Thurber,
who were at the White House most
of the daj; Secretaries Olney, Car
lisle (who lost his vote by a techui
cality of the Itw), and Mortot; Solic
itor General Holmes, Conrad of Vir
ginia, Assistant Attorney Geieral
Thomas, Assistant Secretaries Itock
hill, Dabney and Sims, and a numbtr
cf bureau chiefs, some of whom,
however, have lost their votes by
reason of long resideLCiu Washing
ton. Among those who did vote
were Secretaries Francis, lleibert
and Lamont, Pes! master Genual
Wilson, Attorney General ilarmou,
Assistant Attorney General Whituey
of New York, Assistant Attorney
General W. W Baldwin of the State
department, Assistant Secretaries
Hamlin, Curtis and Wike of the
Treasury department, Comptroller
Eckels,Assistant Secretary Reynolds
and Assistant Attorney General
Iiionberger and Land Commissioner
Lamoreaux of the Interior depart
ment. Assistant Postmaster Generals
Jones, Craig and Maxwell. Assist
ant Secretary McAdoo of the Navy
department went to New Jersey, but
may And his right to vote has been
lost. Civil Service Commissioner
Proctor paired with a Kentucky free
eilver friend, and Commissioners
Rice and Harlow voted in Albany
aud St. Louis, respectively.
cane mill, near Wild Fork. Monroe
county, last night, they were fired
upon from the darkness by unknown
persons. All but Taylor were in
stantly killed. He will die.
It is supposed to have been done
by a gang of Whiteeaps who have
been engaged in running all negroes
out of that section. John Middle
ton, employer of the victims, bad
been ordered to discharge them,
but he did not heed the warning.
Jut-kMott Ami Walling.
Covington, Ky., Nov. 2 Sign
are pointing to a confession by Jack
son and Walling or at least to a get-
ing at the truth of (he murder of
Pearl Bryan. For two weeks Jack
son and Walling have been kept iu
separate cells aud a bitterness ia
growing up between them. Yesterday
Walling said to Turnkey Maurer:
"Why should I be bauished for a
crime I did not. commit I did not
murder Pearl Bryan. JackBon is the
man who cut her head off."
Maurer asked why he had not so
testified, but Walling declined to
answer.
town Nov. 10, and is to be untier the South Dakota
.
control of of Rev Lemon:
The triple wedding at the Catholic
oimreli hist Tuestiav was largely at
tended.
James Ofti'il has nearly completed
his cellar.
Jesse Blizzard and wife of Pleasant
Gap. were visitors in IVepwater
townshin Sunday.
Eldrid.-e Kash has the largest bog
in the count v weighing between
and 7 hundred pounds.
Rosk.
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Virginia
Washington ..
Wyoming
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HER ASHES IN A CAN.
Pitched Catt'.s.
Guthrie, Okla , Nov. 2 Urited
States Deputy Marshal Thomas and
Widower l.elir Carries the remains of
Ilis Wife Wherever He Goes.
For several years Louis Lehr, a
laboring man of Memphis, Tenn.
has carried with him as his constant
closest inquiry has failed to learn 1
any clue to his whereabouts. Mr
Gordon and family are very anxious
about his whereabouts and any ir
formation It-adiug to the discovery
of the boy left with the Evening
Post cr communicated to Mr. Gcr
don will be very thankfully received
Eiwin is an average sized boy of
that age and is a blonde.
Shot, Tliem ISoth.
Wheeling, W. Va., Nov. 2. Jeal-
llold Hanna
Pott-Dlspatch,
Ten days ago the Post Dispatch
warned the Chicago p Jice to pre
vent the escape of Mark Hanna from
Chicago at the end of the campaign.
KnowiDg the woik Hanca was en
gaged in, it foresaw that it would
be necessary to have him where the
Grand jaries can reach him.
The first Grand jury indictment
against Hanna has been found at
Dallas. Tex. But there will bo oth-
m i jni,ii
posse came in lruiu me ut vuu . , , . ,-k
' , . companion a cau looking much like
try, having been in search of -'Dyna- ria
ousy caused a terrible tragedy three j (rfi No CDe who La, tljG 8!jfcte6t
miles west of this city, all the par- ! fcnowiedge of Hanna's campaign
ties being from Wheeling. Scott j hods doubts for a moment that
Linton shot "Dot"' Gray, who is said h8 La9 Bent plenty of other tele
to have been his wife, aud also Wil- ( grarna nke thceo for which he has
Iiam Metzger, with whom be found j been indicted in Texiif. A campaigt
her. With both lying at his feet he j q boojjH arjij bribery cannot Le car-
fired a bullet into Lis own Drain, and j i otl jrj any State without corn-
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duvall. &i;per:ival,
eutler,:mo
''"PAIIM LOAN'S.
taevtoloan on farms at reduced rates of
"jreat. Your notes are payable at onr office
IjooAnd them hers when dne. We fttve
privilege to pay any time.EMoneySrfddy
fr&n at papers ara signM, S"!tf
mito Dick' and his gang of outlaws,
who looted Carney and the Sao and
Fox agency. They brought with
them a team of mules loaded with
plunder ani a saddle horse which
they captured
They came upon three of the out
laws as thev were leading their
boisea up a ravine and a pitched
battle ensued. It was getting dark
and over a hundred shots were fired.
Nobody was hurt, the outlaws es
caped iu lb dark.abacdoning mules
baggage and one horse. There is
DO ClOUDi HWUli men uc-iujj iud
ney gang leal by "Dynamite Dick. '
A cyclone at South McAllister, I
T. FriJay blow down several houses
and one man was picked up by wind
aad carried 150 yards.
an ordinary paint or oil receptacle,
with a top which screws on, but
which, so fr as anyone knows ha
never been removed.
If ho had beeu stea with the can
only once or twice, or a dozen times
it might not have attracted attention,
but wheu those wEo know Lfhr
found that this commonplace object
was the constant companion of his
life, t:igh: and day, they began to
wonder what it contained. Some of
them asked him about it, now jok
ingly and again eeriously, but he
never bad anv satisfactory answer to
give.
The first thing when he got up in
the morning Lehr got the can. He
carried it to the various points about
the city where his duties called him.
He stood it, while he worked, where
Jefferson City, Mo , Nov. 2 Lon
V. Stephens, the Democratatic can
d date for Governor, was r.ot able
to vote. Although Mr. Stephens
built a fine residence in this city, he
has retained his citizenship at Boou-
ville, and up to a week ago expected
to go there to vote. Some days ago
Some days ago his right eye, which
had escaped the disease that attacked
the left, becime very painful and
swollen, and tday Mr. Stephens
was couCoed to his bei in a d
oA rnnm. under strict orders
u: t.:.;un to rpmain thereat least 1 McKiney.
uia uc'-'-"
a week. The disease is not danger-
ouf, but it is extremely painful and
makes Mr Stephens very feverish.
Mrs. Stephens is also sick, having
sufferel a severe atteck of rheuma
turn- -; -11
tisrn Mr. and iira. atepnens win
probably go to Hot Springs after
Mr. Stephens recovers sufSciently to
transact some important business
demanding hia attention.
disclosures where the
died almost instantly. ibe woman . igi ,
J ) Grand janes are vigslaiit.
1,1,1 " Hann-i in t-triped clothee would
Vje a fitting "object lesion" for the
dose of the Wall Street campaign.
Seymour, Ind., Nov. J A i.u.im i The penitentiary yawns for him and
Itefiised to Lse Hf Vote,
Ind., Nov. 2 WMi.im
Gray, residing near Chestnut Rvle, ; j3 e0Cfi Jiale.
his county, was dea t to ol! appear
ances, and' his friends made prepay i ;0tice of Final Settlement,
tions for the funeral. 1 or boars he ;
lay apparently without breathing. nto?X tS
when he suddenly startled the , G w cow'.ev,fJeceaed, that I, J N Cham
mourners by rising from bin bed j bers, admini'trator of aid estate, in-
He informed them thit be had heard tend to make final settlement thereof, at
i all they had ea d, though unable to nei1 lcr.,u " u'c " v I
arken move, and that he did not propese j Missourii 0 be ne;d at Butfei, or. the
from i to be buried until Le n&l vatea icr j mh day ot November, is.
J. N. rjiAMiiE.il, Administrator.
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Highest of all in Leaversm
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