The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-01-20

1IatDeNs, VI Au1dIu, speut hOhooJ
in the city the guests Of Mrs. A. Is.
Owen, and attended the Sam Jones
lecture in the evening.
The TIMES mentioned last week
that ", b. Tyler went to Kansas
City with Mr. WeIls, it should have
been Clarence Webb, a prominent
young farmer Of Spruce township
Little Warren, the 81 year old
son of MIR. and Mrs. W f Duvall,
gave his family and friends very
bad scare and had very close call
for himself, by falling from a second
story window of the family home,
Tuesday morning. Fortunately he
escaped with only slight bruises.
Charles Howe, living a short dis
lance northwest of the city, had his
left leg broken Monday evening by
a horse he was riding falling on him.
Drs. Christy and Renick were called
and set the broken limb and Mr..
Howe is doing well.
o. W. Price Warrensburg boy
aged Is years, was arrested in Polk
county Monday for horse stealing.
One of the horses found in his pos
session belonged to a liveryman at
Higginsville, and the other horse
was the property of T. Knox a
liveryman of Warrensburg.
Why did the Honorable Tom Wat
son absent himself from the national
convention of the middle-o-the-r road
ers? A nomination may 60 on q wild
| hunt for candidate before the Cox
eyites subside, and if it should it
would lose its wind before reaching
Georgia.
The state supreme court of Ar
kansas has decided that first cousins
cannot live together as man and wife
in that state even though they were
married in another state. It ought
to be made penitentiary offense IN
every state in the union for frat
cousins to marry.
Mrs. VIM. Hurt is seriously sick.
Last week couple Of Kansas City
physicians were called and they de-
cided that relief could only be Sc
cured by surgical operation. At
the present Tina she il in critical
condition, with bu. little hopes
entertained for her recovery.
Springfield wants the next demo
cratic state convention and q delega
ton of her citizens will be sent to
st. Louis to pursuade the committee
to favor the town. Springfield is
nice little city and no doubt would
entertain the delegates to the con.
vention handsomely. But there is one
drawback to holding the convention
down there and that is location, q
little too far from the center.
The Rich Hill papers tell of the
killing of Ed. Flsgg, brakeman, in
the Memphis yards Of that city last
week while trying to couple cars.
He was caught between the draw
heads OF an engine and Car and
crushed to death. He was % years
of age and leaves a wife and one
child He was buried at Pleasanton
Kansas, his former home.
Henry Goodwin, residing in the
northwest part of town, was taken
sick quite suddenly Wednesday
night of last week, with a severe
hemorrhage and bled freely. Since
then he has had one or more hem
orrhages. Friday and Saturday the
ending physician, DIR. Boulware,
feared the case was bordering on
typhoid fever. He is some better
now ard it is hoped he will speedily
recover.
Walter Zimmerman, aged II years,
has been arrested for theft and con-
fined in the Kansas City Jail. He
has become a confirmed criminal
from the excessive use of cigarettes.
His parents are well-to.do and highly
respected people OF Kensas City and
the young man has had the best Of
training and surrounded by she