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The Butler weekly times., 1896-02-06

V. l.. BANKERS Lie Ass H.,
205 Sheidley Bldg, X. G. Mo.
Dear Judge
am in receipt of yours OF May
and the proposition you make thesl,
is very wide of the proposition Iun1I
derstood you to be contending fof.
What understood you to want xul
IL clause in your policy providing f9|
the payment of half the policy In the
event of total disability, but the prop
osition you make now is in the event
of total disability, at the request 81
the policy-holder, to pay half in abl
solute discharge of the policy. Such
H condition rs that in your policy h
beneiicent and wise. Beneicent Ia
that it gives to the policy holder ah
! in his EXTREMIST need, and wise N
! that it enables the company to settk
an approaching total loss at fiftypei
cent. think such a condition n
that in your policy is wise proyiaol
and as quoted by you in your letta,
| could urge no objection to 1t Whist
ever. | do not regard this rs an y
cident provision at all; it may 8ris
from sickness, may come from oE
age, may come from sudden stroke q
paralysis, a confirmed case OF rheu
| matism, CT it may arise from an accs
dent, and it is not paying an acciden
claim to make such a settlement !
is an adjustment or compromise .
the whole amount of the policy b
paying half at the time when tn
policy-holder most needsit. This,
/ have before stated | regard bot
wise and beneficent.
Very respectfully,
The Butler weekly times., 1896-02-06
THE
New York World,
IHRICE-A-NEEK EDITION.

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The Butler weekly times., 1896-02-06
Friday, February 14th, 1896,

between the hours of nine O'Clock in the fore.
noon and I've o o'clock in the afternoon of tina
day. for the purpose of satisfying said debt
interest and costs. J. ID. ALLEN.
"a Trpa.aa
The Butler weekly times., 1896-02-06
25 e. e u II s !

The Presidential Campaign will Already signs
point 70 most exciting You
that prints al the Of all the parties
The Times has fully prepared itself to print campaign
Tran any paper west Of Ne" York Special correspondents will tel
truth and keep you fully posted from day to day.
Exclusive Washington especially engaged
the work Can afford to be without this 25
viii keep fully and faithfully advised long
Don't delay This ofer will not last long.
REnENBER The CAMPAIGN RATE---T CENTS FOR FOUR H0Al
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21
.sLabor Crucified. "

The London Times has the fol-
lowing, which laboring men, pro-
ducers, and business men should
read carefully:
"If the single gold standard
can be forced upon South America
and Asia, as it has beer since 1878
forced on North America and Eu-
rope, gold must inevitably appre-
eiaee toat least four times its pres
ent absurd value, or to put it otn-
orwlss, commodities must decline
to fourth of the present price
and labor all the world over be
crucified as 1t was never crucified
before-in days of medieval serf-
dom or even chattel slavery. Such
is the contest. If the money lords
can force monometallism upon the
whole word, they will succeed in
establishing the most gigantic
moneyed aristocracy among the
rich, and the worst system of peo-
mage serfdom among the masses
that has, ever cursed the hapless
sons of men,"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21
Amount of Taxes.

Be prepared to meet Treasurer
Caughman, who is now on the
grand rounds, and pay your taxes
The levy for the present isca]
year in Edgefeld County is as fol,
lows:
For State, Al mills; School,
mills; Ordinary County, u mills;
Jurors and Witness, 8 of one mill
Roads, Bridges and Ferries, ( OF
one mill; Past Indebtness, s OF
one mill. Total, 1o8 mills.
There is q special tax of !! mills
in Cooper Township to pay attor-
ney's fees in railroad litigation
against said township. A tax of
II mills extra viii be levied Oh all
property in the corporate limits
of the town of Edgefeld including
railroad property to pay interest
on the bonded debt of the town.
Also a special tax of 3 mills to
liouidate bonds and interest in la
vor of Carolina Cumberland Gap
Railroad on all property in Shaw
Township And special tax of
2 mills for school purposes on all
property in Plum Branch Town
ship, situated in Mccormick
School District.
SALUDA COUNTY.
For State 4 IL mills, School 3
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21
Bryan on Immortality.

On the occasion of the death of
the Hon. Geo. w. Houk, one of
Bryan's colleges in the House of
Representatives, he used the fol-
lowing claste and beautiful I'm
guage;
"If the Father designs to touch
with divine power the cold and
pulseless heart of the buried acorn,
and make it to burst for h from
its prison walls, will He leave neg
lected the soul of mau who was
made in the image of the Creator?
If He stoops to give to the. rose
bush, whose withered blossoms
float upon the autumn breeze, the
sweet assurance of another spring
time, will He Withhold the words of
hope from the souls of men when
the frosts of winter come? If mat
ter, mute and inanimate, though
changed by the forces Of nature
into multitude of forms, can nev-
er die, will the spirit of man suf-
fer humiliation after it has paid
brief visit, like a royal guest, to
this tenement of clay!
"Rather let US believe that He
who in His apparent prodigality
wastes not the raindrop, the blade
of grass, or the evenings s sighing
zephyr, but makes them all 10 car
ry out His eternal plans, has given
Immortality to the mortal and gath
cred to Himself the generore spirit
of our friend"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21

mills; Ordinary County 2 mills /;
Jurors and Witness ! of one mill; !;
Roads and Bridges ! of one mill (;
Court House bonds 1 1-2 mills;
Surveying County and other ex-
penses / of of one mill Total 124
mills. Also a special tax of 2 mills
for school purposes on all property
in the Ridge Spring School Dis
trict including railroad property.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21
MEDICAL NOTICE.

1 will be at my Office in the viii
lage every first Monday and re-
main there one week, to partially
resume the practice of my profess
sion- have made a speciality of
chronic and contagious diseases of
women.
1 thank my friends for past pat
ronage and solicit a continuance
for the same.
Office Edgefeld z. H., at T.
Whites Hotel.
w. D. JENNINGS SR.,
Sept. 29, '96. NJ. D.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21
The 0cnnee News saws: 8

The 0conee News says: "W. II
Yeldell Of Edgefeld is The choice
of the State press for speaker Of
the House of Representatives. He
has been member of the House
for several years, and has made 8
most enviable record and he is
likely to prove a formidable can.
didate.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21
What Shall the Harvest Be.

We have been asked to state in
the ADVERTISER what we think
about the national elections. The
next Senate will be democratic snd
forfree silver of course. The House
of Representatives will be more
probably democratic than that
Bryan will be elected President.
ard this is from republican sources
here, there, and everywhere.
AS to Bryan's election, the
chances in our judgment at this
writing are as follows:
Solid South, except MARYLAND,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21
Gov. Altgeld's Views.

Gov. Altgeld Of Illinois, spoke
at Cooper Institute New York on
last Saturday. Previous to the
speaking he was interviewed by
the Times and gave the following
as his judgment of the situation in
the west:
aTo elect Bryan" he said, in an
swer to a question, Eve need only
the South and Minnesota. Well
get those States sure. We don't
need Indiana, Michigan, Wis,ou-
sin, or Illinois. We have a fine
chance for Indiana. Michigan is
dead certain. l am sure of Illinois,
and even Ohio is likely to repudi-
ate Hanna's tool"
"What is your idea of the West
ern situation?" the reporter asked.
"Hanna has gone into it with
the determination to buy every
thing in sight," was the reply,
He has money unlimited. Why
when he has spent carload he
Just comes right back to New
York. gets from The money kings
another load of 'bar'ls,' and ships
it West.
"He has agents in ever factory
and every boarding house, and
they all have money to burn
His emissasies are coercing work
ingmen in the shops and are re-
sorting to every catch-vote device
that ingenuity can invent. Manu-
facturers compel their. men tc
join souhd-money clubs and to
parade.
"Free passes to places where de,
monstations are to be held are Civ
en- to workingmen with the intima-
tion that they had better go, and
in at least one instance, in Joliet
all the men i'll a factory were or,
dered to report at a train that took
them to parade in Chicago.
"In Springfield they even went
SO far as to give every man they
could get hold of a hat, a cane, and
a campaign shirt.
"Our people are not spending
money. They have'ntlt to spend
but two days registration in Chica,
go shows that they don't need it
for 100000 men put their names
on the lists, and most of them are
ours.
"We're going 10 bury the Han
Ia crowd under 10000 votes in
Illinois. They can and probably
will buy up 10000 votes in the
State, and they will use on others
the,kind of moral suasion 20 resent
which means the loss of job
But that won't make a difference.
81 tell you that Hanna will lie
swept off the American continent
He cam. get anything unless he
can buy it.
"He hasn't a bitof show un,
less he buys the earth, and the tur-
tie under it,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21
Summer Diarrhoea Cured.

G. w. Clark, McGrogor, Texas,
says: "Our little baby daughter
has been cured If a violent case of
summer dlarrhn from Tee,hing,
BY the use of Or. Kings Royal
Germetuer. She had been reduced
to a skeleton. The first dose
of Germetuer helped her, and now
is we'll and fat"
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21

The Indians ,ut West have pass.
ed resolutions against the associa.
tion of their race with the Yale
students on account of Yale's in.
suits to Mr.. Bryan. We don't
suppose the Indians will eyer gel
within thousand miles of Yale
College, but we applaud their
spunk all the same.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21
BURNED TO DEATH
TN A WRECK
Most Hearr-rendering Acct
dent on the Southbound.
Engineer Misread His Order and
Collision Resulted.
One Man Burns to Death Before the
Eyes of All.

Savannah, Ca, Oct. 14-Passen-
ger train No. So from The north
due here at 4.50 a. M, and train
No. 36, leaving here last night al
1925 on the Florida Central and
Peninsula railroad came togethe
noar Swansea, 120 miles from here
this morning at 3.05 o'clock. il
was head end collision and both
engines were totally wrecked. The
combination mail and baggage Cal
on train No. 35 turned over and
pinned down in the debris Bag.
case Master Lines and Mail Clerk
Thomas. The car caught fire, and
they being unable to extricate
themselves, were burned to death,
None of the passengers was seri-
ously hurt, though many were
bruised and badly shaken, up.
ONE MAN MISSING.
w. E. Ulmer fagman, is miss
ir,g and is undoubtedly amoug the
killed. Ulmer was last seen stand
ing between n the first and second
class coaches. He was doubtless
caught in one of the telescoped
cars and burned up in the wreck,
together with Linas and Thomas.
Thomas is supposed to have
been killed outright, as he was in
tie forward end OF, the con1bina-
ti3n mail and passenger coach,
Which was telescoped by being
driven upon the tender.
THEY SAW HIM BURN.
Lines death was horrible one.
He was not killed outright, but was
caught under trunks and other
wreckage. His cries for help at
trscted attention aad al effort was
made 10 rescue him. The cars
burst into flames almost immedi.
ately after the wreck occurred and
before beIp could reach Lines he
was surrounded by flames. a
barred window prevented the res
GU RS from rearhing Lines and
while they were trying 10 pry open
the bars, he fell back i'll the flames
The hcrrified passengers listened
tc his screams without being able
tc render any assistance.
NO PASSENGERS INJURED.
The engineers and 6remen of the
two trains jumped aud escaped
without injuries, Mail Clerk James
Express Messenger T. G. Farmel
and extra Express Messenger F
w, Price suffered slight injuries
Not single passenger was injur-
ed. There were very few passen.
gers in the day coaches. nearly all
the passengers being in the two
Pullman cars-one Pullman being
in the rear of each train. The
Pullman cars were not damaged
Although the accident occurred, in
a high embankment not single
car left the track, not even the
wrecked cars.
MIsREAD THE ORDERS.
Train No. 35 left Columbia ovel
all hour late and was instructed tc
wait at Swansea, twenty three miles
south of Columbia, for 40. Sc. The
engineer of No. IS read his orde,
Sweden" a station thirty miles
further on, instead of Swansea
Before the conductor, who read the
order properly, could ring him
down, the collision occurred.
News of the wreck was telegraph.
ed Savannah and Columbia. PLY.
sicians were sent down from Co.
lumbia to attend the wounded and
a wrecking train was sent up from
Savannah.
The passengers of train No. 81
arrived in Savannah on special
at 80 o'clock to-day.
The road was clear at 8 o'clock
tonight.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21
Solid South, except Marylal
will give
Total for Bryan

The whole number of votes in
the Electoral College is 447, SO that
224 just gets him : in by one vote
This is close figuring but is
enough, and we like to be)accurate.
Next week we hope to be able to
squeeze out a few more votes for
Bryan, as only one majority in
these great big United States Is
rather close.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21

While sick the other week Cor
nelius Vanderbilt, the multi-mil-
lionaire, lost $1o,ooo,ooo in one
day by shrinkage il. his railroad
stock. What pity it is to be rich
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21

We believe it is fact that
Bryan can only be defeated by the
wholesale purchase of votes. We
also believe that this is what is be-
ing done.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21

In only one county in the State
Georgetown does the colored
registered vote outnumber the
whites. The colored majority is
placed at AZ.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21
There Was No Proyocation fol
Their Terrible Slaughter.
Two officers Dead Two Dying-one
Murderer Killed, the Other Captured.

Columbus, Ca, Oct. 14.-About
2:30 o'clock this afternoon j. A.
White, a shoemaker and Henry
White, his son, foully murdered
two policemen ON Thirteenth street,
this city and fatally wounded an
other on Sixteenth street, shortly
afterward. There was no cause
for the commission of the crime
other than the fact that both men
had been summoned to appear be-
fore the recorder tomorrow for
some trivial offense.
SHOT WITHOUT WARNING.
Richard Adams was the officer
who summoned the two men to
court and Immediately after he
presented them with the subpoe-
Las, both men armed themselves
and returned to Rumsey's bar on
Thirteenth street near where Ad-
ans was standing. 'The elder
White deliberately leveled the
Winchester with which he was
armed and shot Adams just above
the heart, killing him almost in
stantly.
ANOTHER UNsUsPECTING VICTIM.
Officer William Jackson, who
was patrolling the adjoining beat
heard the shot and ran to the
scene. He was met by both the
Whites who began firing on him
as he turned the corner from First
avenue. He was shot four times
but lived until Z o'clock tonight.
After the commission of the Sec
ond murder the two men walked
leisurely up First avenue to their
home on Sixteenth street, where
Officer Charles Roberts went to ar
rest them.
THE THIRD MAN FALLS.
In answer to his knock upon the
door. Roberts received a bullet
from Whites Winchester, through
the stomach. He staggered to the
street mortally wounded and at
the hour, though alive, no hope is
entertained for his recovery.
By the time the third policeman
had fallen a crowd Of over five
hundred armed men had reached
the scene and the murderer's house
was surrounded. Tom Jackson,
marshal of Girard, and Zeno Pick
ett, an expolicemen of this city,
volunteered to run White out of
his house. Four other brave men
offered 10 follow them, and the
crowd charged on the house, fir
ing hundreds of bullets into the
windows and the doors. When
the fusilade ceased Jackson and
Pickett forced open the door, where
upon White began firing upon
them. The tvs men rushed in upon
him and after shooting him half
dozen times dragged him into the
streets.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21

Nota single trust, corporation,
or syndicate III the whole country,
supports Bryan; they are all for
Mckinley.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21

Close come ctions at Greenwood for
all points on ). A. L., and G. and 6.
Railway, AM at Spartanburg with
Southern Raj way.
For information relative to tickets,
rates. schedules, etc.. address
w. j. CRAIG, Gen. Pass. Agt.
Augusta, Ga.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21
THE FOURTH MAN FALLS.

Immediately after delivering
Whites body to the crowd, Pickett
fell to the sidewalk from the ef-
fects of what is believed to be a
mortal wound. He was taken TO a
nearby house where he is still.
quartered, and though in a critical
condition, there is faint hope
for his recovery.
The young White escaped from
the house and crossed the river
near by into Alabama where he
was captured tonight at 1880
o'clock by officers Osborn and
Threllkeld of this city. He was
brought TO this city and placed in
jail.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21

Herr Most, the anarchist, aud
Bob Ingersoll, the infdel, still
shout for Mckinley.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21
Awful Bloodshed
In Columbus

J. A. White and Son Shoot
Down Policemen Ruthiessly,
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21

This space is reserved for r. L.
Fox, who has just returned
from New York with plenty Of
goods.
Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1896-10-21

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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-24
RAMS HORN BLASTS.

The hotter the fire the purer the
gold
God is sure to hear when the heart
speaks.
No man can serve two masters, but
all have tried to.
To polish a rascal is to make him all
the more rascal.
Gods picked men ere always chosen
from those who are busy
The way to answer infdelity is not
with the lips, but with the life.
Whoever talks with God takes no step
that is not for his own good.
''Thy kingdom come" is always the
first prayer of the young convert.
When things begin to look dark we
should open the eyes Of our faith.
lie who would have God for his friend
must be the friend of man.
Religion, pure and undefiled, works
at the trade every day in the week.
The army of God always fights or
the side of the man who does right.
The devil finds it hard to get foot
| hold in the home where love is king.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-24
TDUJIRIEDN AMI ID01NI%So
". a. DAVIS is DEAD.

me news comes that w 4. Davis
died ia Lynchburg, Va" OF consulhP-
ton on April goth.
This correspondent we'll remembers
when Mr.. Davis, boy not more than
efteen wears old, first launched the
rrorcb-Iight newspaper venture.
Fiat River, in what Is now durham,
then Orange county, was the place OF
publication, and the mechanical work
WAS done i'm the old Hillsboro Recorder
office. He had been reared on the tafin
with few.educational advantages, ana
The venture was looked upon by most
neonle as d boyish freak that would
end in his return to the farm. buO
,o,,no Davis had been under-estimateu.
lilo was nossessed Of wonderful energy
and tact. He made terms with the
sa;Iroad men He went everywhere.
lie solicited from everybody q
o,lscription or an advertise
ment. His youth was a winning card
and he was not long in demonstrating
that there was something in him.
His paper grew until IL became nee
essarv "a change the base OF opera
tions After casting about nc decided
"a locate in Oxford and from then on
1T was known as the Oxford Torch
Light. Here he made wonderful sue
cess But the field was too small Tor
him.
He sold The paper and engaged in
other. business. He did much business,
but was not 10 successful, From here
lis went Is Richmond. Va, where he
WAS fer some years ia the tobacco bust
ness. From there he went TO Lynch
burg.
ii. 4 Davis IS dead and IL Is hoped
that none hut the rarest and choicest
flowers were placed upon his grave ana
that hc rests In peace 4 warm-heart-
81 true friend; generous soul.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-24
pERsoNAls

Hon. Chas. NJ. Busbee has been here
a. legal business.
Mai. w. A. Guthrie spent Wednesday
III Raleigh on business.
Mrs. Horner, of Oxford. is visiting
her daughter, Mrs. Judge Winston.
Judge 4. NJ. Graham has been in
Durham on his way to his home in Ok
ford.
wa. Lewis, Of Henderson, has been
here on visit to his father-in-law, w.
III. Smoot.
DIR. John c. Kilgo came in yesterday
from Baltimore, where he had been to
deliver an address.
Mai. Leo. d. Heartt came in yester-
day morning from Raleigh, where he
had been on business.
Mrs. b. e. Parham, Of Greenville, n.
G., is visiting her parents in this city,
Mr.. and Mrs. r. NJ. Jones.
Solicitor W.P. Bynum passed
through Durham Wednesday evening
on his way from Oxford court
Rev. s. T.. Conrad, of Winston, was
here yesterday and went west. He
had been on a visit to his friend, John
i. Markham.
Dr. w. nv. staley,of Suffolk, Va, and
ID. M. Cook, of Franklinton, were
here Wednesday on their way from
Elon College.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-04-24
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