The Butler weekly times., 1897-02-04

1t looks Ike bad state OF affairs
for one hundred tn ,usand ao,e
bodied men IL New York and sixty
thousand in Ch,cayo to be- ou' Of
employment and dependent on char
ity to keep from starving this WIN
ter.
W. W Blake, a blacksmith at
Me'z, Vernon county, Ia. left his
tamiiy aud gone TO Cuba to ti4nt the
SLaulards. At least his wif.. r-cr,y
d II letter from Memphis. Tenn IN
winch be Sail he Was bound for
Cuba.
The miners want to be r-meru b-r-
ed In the fellow servants b4il aud TO
this end petition signed by u-ail.
tao Thousand mIu-rs In and about
Rich Hill has been seut to J. ffer-on
Guy.
A gang of prisoners from the jail
under guard of Dixie McCanu, were
at work Monday cleaning up the
court room aud getting things III
order for Judge Lay who will open
the February term of circuit court
u.xt Tuesday.
Judge Late Dawson, Que Of the
best criminal lawyers of the state
aud II leading democratic poiliicnn,
die d ut his home III MarvviIle, FRI
day hight He had resided III Mary
v,lle for 35 Years. 1 1888 he was
appointed Judge of Alaska.
W. T Hawlry, of St Louis. trav
cling salesman for the W--t-rman &
Co.. a ST.. Louis qu-euswar- house.
committed suicide by taking NOR
phiue at the Newland hotel, Webb
City, Friday night. He had been
drinking excessively for some time.
Those fellows, who have been
fur nishing the public with the in
formation that they saw and r-cog
rrzed Geo Tay lor as a robber in the
Indian Territory, were mistaken IT
lse the fellow under arrest in Cali
f"rnia is not the Taylor wanted for
the Meeks murder
The republicans who have held
full sway at Warrensburg for sew
eral wears in municipal affairs. and
who have become so generous and
lavish in their expenditure of the
towns funds as to sink the city in
debt, will meet with waterloo at
the next election, as the democrats
and populists of the town, from
sheer necessity to save the burg
from bankruptcy, have pooled issues
and will run i,int ticket.
In obedience to telephoned mes
cage from Marshal Beatty. OF Rich
Hill, deputy sheriff Joe Graves pa
trolled the depot grounds and rail
road track as far as the junction
Monday morning. in search OF q
tramp who bad stolen a suit o!
clothes at Panama, a station south
of Rich Hill The tramp was seen
9 headed for Butler. but being aware
D of the fact that Butler has vigilan'
] officers he switched before reaching
= this place, and thereby evaded arrest
for the time being.
!, County supervision of public
J., schools was knocked out at Jeffer
I son City by the law makers. The
a bill ought to have been killed. Coun
ty supervision SIMPLY means tn
creation of an unnecessary Office
for some fellow to warm his shin,
e at public expense and draw salary
q It would be the duty of q supervl
4 sion to visit the schools in the coun
ty, this they would do about once
just before election, stopping tifteeI
d or twenty minutes at school.
l. One day last week Sheriff Decard
a of st Clair county, started fer JEFF
d fsreon City with two prisoners
When near Windsor, Henry count,
AZ the train was running slow tn
a two asked permission 10 60 to tbs
10 water closet This was the last tn
q sheriff saw of them, as both took ad
, vantage of the occasion aud wen
out the window The sheriff misse,
them and also jumped from tn
!. train, but failed to get track of hi
, men The prisoners had been con
D. victed of robblng a store at Roscoe
L The TIMES office is pretty we'll &C
& qualnted with the name of Gage, th
gentleman who is to occupy sea
a in the Mckinley cabinet az Secre
-, ,ary of the Treasury. MIR Gage
r the gentleman who instituted sui
IL and attached the stock of milllner
[e goods in this city belonging to Mis-
rs Addie Rogers, in 1892 Parkinson
t. Graves appeared for MIR Gage, an
the fight in the courts was a lon
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