The Butler weekly times., 1895-03-14

WHO HAS Decu spenulnR the winter IN
Washington, aud an intimate friend
came home with Bruce Starke to
spend few weeks.
United in marriage on March 1lth i
1895, in the parlor Of the Laclede |
Hotel by VIM. NJ. Dalton, Judge of /
Probate court, Mr.. F. NJ. Morley of |
Kansas and Miss Emma Rink of /
Adraln Mo.
Scarlet fever has broken out in |
Nevada. In the neighborhood in
which the disease has made its ap
pearance the school board decided
to close the school to prevent the
further spread of the disease
The democrats of Howard town
ship nominated the following ticket,
Trustee, r. B. White; collector, w
A. Williams; assessor, J. Wesley
Badgett; constable, Geo. Ellsworth
justices. 0. Mitchell, and J. D. Kicks.
Jackson Corder, one of Independ
ence, Mo, most substantial and
wealthy citizens, spent Saturday in
the city. He had sold large tract
of land east of town to Sculleys' and
was here for the purpose of making
transfer of the papers.
The Butler public schools are the
most economically managed schools
in this section of the state. This
year the board will only ask for an
additional levy of Is cents making
a total levy for maintaining the
schools SIS cents The tax in other
towns in this section ranged from 80
cents to 81.
A young man from Stotesburg,
Mo, named Green, handled butch
er named Carver, from Richards,
pretty roughly at Hume, Saturday
last, by slashing him with knife.
The butcher was severely cut about
the face and head and he may die.
1t seems the young man was, in a
measure. justifable, as no arrests
were made.
The constitutional limit of seventy
days for the Missouri legislature
ended Tuesday and from that date
until adjournment the members will
receive but one dollar per day.
| fnr th,o "a
provision of the constitution the leg
islature would have remained in ses
sion until the sprouting of the corn
crop. The boys soon find way
to adjourn on dollar a day, rabbit
or no rabbit
Henry Tilson, of Usage township
called eL the TIMES. He said he had
sold 40 acres of land and came up
to make a transfer of the papers
He said he expected to SOW 10(
acres of oats this spring and in the
fall would put the ground in Englisf
blue grass. The seed from this grass
he said, was worth 50 per bushe
and after cutting would then pasture
the land. If the grass did well b.
expected to SOW 200 acres, as he be
iieved it was the best and sures
,, crop farmer could raise, and fo
. pasture could not be beat and b.
could get all the stock be wanted a
$1.50 per head.
3 While chopping in the timbe
Wednesday of last week, our esteem
!, ed citizen Frank Voris, living soutl
of town, met with very serious an,
D painful accident, and one which i
calculated to conine him to his be-
: for several weeks. He was choppinI
/ near his house when the tree Of
: which he was standing rolled AM
caught his right leg, dislocating tn
. limb at the knee and badly laceratin,
the ligaments. The wound is so ba,
it is probable Mr.. Vcris will be lef
with a stiff leg and a permanen
cripple. He was held fast by tn
tree until his cries brought hel
when he was released and take
home
The mystery of the murder {
) Benjamin Mccullough, for II year
I paying teller in the State Saving
} Bank, at St. Louis, and one OF tn
\ best known men in that city. wh
was mysteriously murdered at hi
} home May 19, 1898. has just bee
: cleared up by the confession of Jill
} Murray, anegro in the Clayton ia
, under sentence of death, who make
, the confession of the murder, impl
} eating three other parties Murra
by so doing, hopes to get a respit
from the governor. The persons b
= duplicates in the murder are Cha'
) William, VIM. Hensley and Henr
Shelton, all negroes.
The West Point democrats nom
potoJ tha foltouipD Ticket fo