The Butler weekly times., 1896-05-07

Miss Hattie DeArmond entertain
ed number of her young friends
last Friday evening at her home
with masquerade calico party. The
ladies all wore calico dresses and /
the gentlemen, calico neckties, vests,
and some even full calico suits. All |
were masked, and a Jolly good time
was had. Elegant refreshments
were served.
The democratic central committee |
Of this county has been called to
meet IN Butler Saturday, May 18th.
It will be an important meeting of |
the committee and every member |
should make it incumbent on himself
to be present, as business of import.
ance to the party and candidates will
be brought up. Don't fail to attend.
Watt Reed, on trial at Platt CITY
for killing Newton Winn, was given
50 years in the penitentiary. Reed
and Winn were nelghbor farmers,
living in Clinton county They went
to law over hog and during the
trial Reeds lawyer made some cut.
ting remarks against Winn, who re-
sented the insult by attacking the
attorney in the court room. As they
were scufiing Reed drew his pistol
and shot Vim to death Reed was
rich and the legal fight to save his
neck was among the hardest ever
made in the state.
Gov. Stone has commuted the
death sentence of Thomas Punshon,
convicted at Joseph of the murder
of wife, to 20 years in the peniten-
tiary. There was grave doubt as to
whether the woman was shot by her
husband or committed suicide.
Hence the commutation. Punshon
and his wife had separated on the
day of the murder he had gone to
the home of his mother in law in a
carriage where his wife was stopping
aud forcibly made her accompany
him away. The shooting took place
in the carriage and Punshow claim
ed that his wife slipped the pistol
from his pocket and shot herself be-
fore he could prevent the act.
Populist orator Bohannon, of St
Louis, and self.announced candidate
for president on the populist ticket,
in his openining speech in st. Louis
asserted that the populists did not
want the free coinsge of gold or
silver. What they want, said be,
is the free and unlimited application
of mind and muscles to the resources
of the earth, He also stated that il
the populist party would give his
family 500 month to live on and
pay him 81 day and travelling e1
penses he would throw himself into
the breach and carry the country fol
the popu!ist ticket and elect himself
president Now, At. here is mighty
good chance to trik bargain and {
sure thing. Cancel your dates ane
take him up.
1t looks like petty spite in Bro
Austin to assail the county court be
cause a couple of prisoners sawed
their way out of Jail. The jail bull
in Butler is as substantial as an,
, Jail in the country and it has beer
demonstrated on thousands of occa
slons that no Jail is proof agalns
desperate criminals with prope
tools. Hedgepeth cleared the iro
bars in St Louis and the Taylor
, did likewise at Carrollton, right un
der the very nose of two armet
guards, and while in Kansas Cit
: every precaution had to be taken t
guard against escape. Even wit
the most experienced men as jailer
aud trained guards day and night,
search of his cage on two occasion
revealed tiuely tempered saws whicI
han been handed in. Without prope
tools to cut steel bars there is II
, danger of a prisoner, no matter hoy
. shrewd Or desperate, ever MAXIM
: his escape from the Butler Jail, an
with proper tools no Jail built wi
hold them. Iu the construction Q
. the Jail the county court was limite