The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1898-03-31
ANXIOUS TO FIGHT.
The War Excitement Stirs Up South
Carolina Negroes.
A STRIKE RESULTS DISASTROUSLY.
An Avenging Mob-Wife Murder and Sui
cide-Woman Worth s40,o00,00O Dies
Both Knied-Sehooner Ashore
Reform School FIre-Explosion.

CHARLESTON, ). c., March 26.-Last
night Col. w. II. Robertson, command
ing the First regiment, national
guards, of this state, notified Gov. I'll
lerbe that he had $4,000 men ready to
march at moments notice. All these
are not armed, but the governor Is
asked to furnish guns. The negroes
around Charleston are wild to go to
war. Along Sea island negro volun-
teer companies are being organized.
and 800, coo of them, it is said, could
be placed in line in one week. One
company of negroes is already equipped
with spades, axes and picks, and Col
Robertson says he can take 10000 ne
groes for fortitication work.
a STRIKE RESULTS DIsAsTRoUsLY.
CLEVELAND, O., March 26.-Between
500 and 400 employees of the Beckman
| wooden mills, who went on strike
some days ago for an advance in
| wages, have nearly all returned to
work without gaining the increase
| demanded. The company had prom
| ised general advance May 1. The
| employees, however, demanded that 1t
| go into effect at once, and, being re-
| fused, struck. The company now de-
| clares that no advance Will be made
curing the present year.
AN AyENGING MOB.
GIBSON, /. T., March 26.-Word
reached Muskogee late last night that
| a large body of negroes was cOngre-
| eating near here to avenge the mob
bling of Chalmers and his wife the
other night The parties indicted by
the grand jury at Wagner We're re-
leased on bond yesterday, and Mar
shall Bennett and a large force of dep
uties are now here to protect them in
case the negroes attempt to carry ont
their plans
WIFE MURDER AND SUICIDE.
| WEsrFIELD, n. Y, March 90. Oscar
| Rice, a painter and paperhanger, who
had been living at Mayville, n. ",
estranged from his wife, visited her
Yesterday with the purpose of prevail
ing upon her to return to him. The
wife refused, and the husband slashed
her throat so that she died shortly
afterwards. Rice then inflicted wounds
on his own throat from which he can
not recover.
WOMAN WORTH $40, 600 900 DIES.
New HAVEN, Conn, March 26,-Mrs.
Jane Winchester, widow of the founder
and proprietor of the Winchester Re
peating Arms company, is dead. She
was 81 years of age. Her estate Is
| estimated at $40 900. Under the
new inheritance tax law, about $1,000,
600 will come to the state by the trans
fer of her property to her heirs.
BOTH KILLED.
DALLAS, Tex, March 26.-At Brown
wood Sheriff Bell, of Brown county
attempted to arrest George Yarber, {
former blacksmith of the place, who
had turned desperado Eight shot
were exchanged. Yarber was sho
through the heart and died instantly
Sheriff Bell was shot through thu
lungs and lived an hour.
A SCHOONER GOES ASHORE.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 26.-Th
schooner Bobolink, Capt. Nelson, wen
ashore early yesterday morning a
Kent's point, the southern point o
, | Mendocino harbor, and will be tota
loss Peter Nelson, sailor, wa
T drowned, but the rest of the crey
were saved.
FIRE IN A REFORM SCHOOL
WAUkEsHA, Wis, March 26.-Fir
: last night destroyed the Wisconsin in
:. dustrial school for boys, The $50 in
l mates escaped without injury an
there was not much excitement. Tn
loss is SO, 900
Fatal. EXPLOSION IN \ MINE.
> BRUSsELs, March 26.-The firing of
u dynamite cartridge in the Hazard Goa
mines near Liege yesterday caused a
:, explosion of coal gas. Twenty miner
were killed.