The Butler weekly times., 1894-11-22
The dispatches say thousands Of

The dispatches say thousands of
negroes are preparing to leave the
south and settle IN Liberia.
Now that the Republicans have
catrled the day. the SedalIa Gazette
annouces that there will be no more
soup houses. Ia other words the
poor tramp will have to find work
o. starve. Alas, for Coxey's men.
J E. Arnold will have exclusive
charge of the grocery department of
his sous store. On the south side Of
the square Nlr Arnold is SO we'll
known by our people he needs no
from the TINES, and
his name being connected with this
new firm insures fair treatment to
customers. Cali and see him.
For years. saws the New York
Sun. "DeArmopd has nursed and
coddled a plan for the removal o.
the capital from Washington 10 St
Louis" But now, continues the
Sun, the plan is knocked in the
head by Mr. DeArmond's defeat"
Judge DeArmond is elected, the
Sun is informed We have lost much
in Missouri. but the Western Ithuriel
whom Washington leeches fear most
will be in the Fifty fourth Congress
70 trouble them. Louis Repub-
lie.
Professor c. V Riley, of tie
Smithsonian Institution, formerly
professor of the University Of the
State OF Missouri and now perhaps
The most distinguished entomologist
in America, will deliver at Columbia
eight lectures on etomology, begin
ming January I and ending Januar y
10, 1895. They form part of the
Farmers Lecture Course" but will
be open 10 the general public. Stu.
tents in the college of Agriculture
will be relieved of an equivalent
amount of other work and will be
required to attend this series of lee
tures.
We learn from John f. Ingram
hat John Fl. Williams. liv
ing six miles southwest of town
lost his barn by fire about l:
o'clock Monday night, In the barr
was a fine stallion, a Jack, three
mares, two colts, about 200 bushels
of corn, Q tons Of bav, two wagons
harness. saddles, and several hun
bred feet of walnut lumber whicl
,erisned in the flames. The famil
had retired to bed aud when awak
ned by the fire the barn was falliu,
down and nothing could be done t
save the stock or contents Th
horse aud Jack were valuable au
lruals. as well as the mares and Will
Mr. Williams is well-to farmer b
feels the loss he has sustained quit
severely. He had no insurance an,
IS the barn is something like thre
hundred yards from his dwelling h
= Of the opinion that the barn va
set on file by an incendiarv
". NJ Durburrow anl Jim Franz
lin were coveted in the Federal coul
at Kansas City last week of burglar
izing the Butler post office. Dul
burrow was given sixty days IN ia
and Franklin was sentenced to th
peniteutiayy for one year and on
day. On Sunday night, the 18th {
last March, the poet Office at tn
place vas broken into. the sal
blown - pieces and the content
taksD, amounting to S540 worth {
stamps aud between fifteen AL
twenty dollars in money aud sou
registered mail The private papeI
Of the postmaster were found ne:
day concealed uuler a cu!yett.
track was found at the edge of tt
culvert into which Jim Ffankiiu
; shoe fit perfectly. Frankhn w
: known not to have had any mon,
j on Saturday and on Monday he W
flush. ani could not SATISFACTORY
explain where he got the none
= besides other strong circnmstaDti
. evidence which pointed to his gri