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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-02-02
FIIipinOs' Demands.

Washington, d O, Jan. Is The
document filed with the State De
partment yesterday with the Filipino
Junta, while not in the nature of an
ultimatum, as reported yesterday, is
defiant in tone In it Senior Agon
clio points out the critical condition
of affairs at Manila and Iloilo, where
over zeal on either side might cause
grievous loss of life; urges the
necessity of an early and frank com
municatton between the representa-
tivas of the two countries, and asks
for the recognition, for this purpose
of the Commissioners sent over by
Aguinaldo of which Agoncillo is the
head
The paper points out the strength
of the American forces in the Phil
ippines and says:
care my government and people
to be left to suppose that it is be
cause of some desire on the part OF
the American government to enforce
its uusound title secured from Spain
that the United States is massing
it's forces at the late capital of the
Philippine Islands"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-02-02
AMERICAS RESPONSIBILITIES
SDsech of SIR Mathew Ridley, British
Home Secretary

Lor Ion, Jan 26--Sir Mathew
White Ridley, secretary of state for
the home department, was principal
speaker this evening at the great
Tnion;ss demonstration az Black
pool.
Refe-ring to the historical events
Of the past year, and particularly to
the Sntaish American war, the home
secrets ! said that, while the abso.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-02-02

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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-02-02
ACTIVE SOLICITORS

a Ev ERYwHERE for The story
commissioned By the government as
OrsciaI historian Of the war department The
book was written In army camps 3. san FTan-
cisco on the Pacific with General Merritt In
the hospitals a. Honolulu. in Hong onR In
the American trenches a. Manila. in the inELr-
gent camps with 5 Gus o aldo. on she deck ~
the DIV mpia with Dewey, and in tae roar OF
battle at The fall Of Manila BOnhrzA or
agents Brimfui OF original pictures taken ~
20 rerpmeut photographer on the spot Large
book Low prices Big pronta. Freight paid.
Credit given. Drop al trashy nuomcial war
books OutGt free Address. =. I. Baker.
sec'y, star Insurance Bldg, Chicago. J9-lti
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-02-02

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breath YOU have in the morning is caus-
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relieves tor awhile; others tor few days
but Herbine cures. At H. l.. fuckers
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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-02-02
Hume Items,

Rec too late tor las; werA.f
J J Petty spent several days at
Lamar last week
J. T Bcslsy visited in Kansas
City last week
NJ. Fl Thar. who has been locat-
ed az Ellsworth, has, for the past
year. has accepted school in north
ern Bates, and viii commence teach.
ing Monlsy.
Rev SpIllmsn preached two ser
mons here Sunday Subisct OF
mornings discussion. What the
church may expect OF the pastor
Sunday night. What the pastor
may expect Of tie church They
were able discourses and did much
good
EQ Covert has sold his residence
to Mrs Reynolds He expects to
move 10 Pittsburg, Kan soon.
E 5 Morton Is opening up hard
ware store 10 opera house building;
that makes four hardware stocks in
Hume-money in II
Mr. Morrell who Is stripping coal
on c A Shavs farm Just south of
town, reports finding a 80 inch vein.
Howard township has the coal as
we'll as the be st land in the county.
J NJ Thompson of Bourbon coun-
ty, Kan was here last week, says he
Is prospecting in Kansas.
Mr. A Gurin. southeast Of town,
sold lsstiweek to Rich Hill mills
5000 bushels CT corn, which he
raised on 100 acres of land, price
paid, SOC We call this a big crop.
Q good price, and still contend q
farmer who will farm. pay his debts,
stay away from town, will get rich
in Missouri.
Miss Fannie Blasdale died at her
home Monday, after lingering i'll
ness. She was an exemplary young
lady. After calling ner friends and
relatives about her bedside and bid
ding til, N goodbye, expressed her.
self as ready and willing TO die.
Mrs J n Senior died Tuesday
morning at her home. She was a
patient sufferer OF consumption. Her
children are all here. She was laid
TO rest in Hume cemetery beside her
husband who died some five years
ago, with the same disease. -
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-02-02

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1t relieves that itching increased by
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accuracy and professional knowledge,
and is the kind that cues blind, bleed
ing, itching and protruding piles with
no pain or loss OF time. t II. l.. Tuck =
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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-02-02

We look into a cradle aud behold
a crying babe. At the age Of ten he
i, noisy kid with half the buttons
off his pants and an eye for mean
ness; at fiftes he Is the devil IN
print shop; at Il a publisher Of
country newspaper, at the head OF
every enterprise calculated TO i'm
prove the towr, CT enrich the busi.
ness men thereof, at tbirty-fve be ia
an emaciated, worn out man with
bald head and holes in his pockets,
at fifty he is a corpse in cheap cof-
fin and his only resources left behind
are a few cases OF worn out type,
Washington press sn1 subscription
book Rith'500 delinquent subscrIbers
who line up aud march past bis
CT fin, saying, He was a public
spirited fellow, but he couldn't save
anything. '-Pilgrims Progress.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-02-02
s. 6. S.FT8F6s Blood

as it IS the only remedy which goes
70 the very bottom Of the blood and
forces out every trace Cf the disease.
:. :. :. Is guaranteed purely vegetable
and contains no potash, mercury, o.
other mineral.
Books on Cancer VIII he mailed iz -
to any address by the ~wLfs Specl-e
Co., Atlanta, Ga.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-02-02

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va. worms, Whites Cream NeTmitugc Is
the only safe cure. Every bottle Is
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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-02-02
The
Cruel Knife!

It Is absolutely useless to expect a
surgical operation 70 cure cancer or
any other blood disease. The cruelty
of such treatment Is illustrated m the
alarming number Of deaths which re-
suit from it. The disease - in the
blood. and hence can not be cut out.
Nine times out Of ten the surgeon :
knife only hastens death.
Ny son had = most malignant Cancer for
which the doctors sad al operation Hls tie
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-02-02

fl.-ar - Improve After twenty bottles had
been taken. the Cancer DISAPPEARED entirely.
ard ne was cured TIE cure vas q TeTr--s - 81
ore for ra j. row zaver.-e years old Gu1 has
never had sign Of ihe dreadful ri=ease q Re-
tu-7 J. y ElrEJoCH.
2-g SnodEvzss -, Dallas Texas
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-02-02

only hope. ] lcuU7--
alton was a severe
one. as l. vas EecsS-
sary u cut down 10
the Jaw , on e 3 y q
sc-aIe It Before a
great while the Can
Ger returned. ana be-
gan TO grow rapidly
We gave him many
eue.Izez without re-
lief. 3 u d Z n ally
upon the advice Of a
friend. decided to
try :. :. :. rs
4 Specific. an 4 with
&. 60 .a--.s- 800 g.
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Absolutely the only hope for Canoes
Is Swifrts Specific.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-28
KNOWN INJURED.
REPORTED INJURED.


Half a dozen wrecked dwellings took
fire Immediately after the cyclone had
passed. The fire bells rang out call
for help for Kirksville's needy, but
there were none with time to stop these
isolated fires. They were left to their
own lesser work of destruction. Lurid
lights from these bonfires now illumi
nate deaths wake and help the rescuers
to carry on their errand of mercy.
Kent's undertaking establishment is
being used as the charnel house, and
a score of the dead are now there.
some of them unidentified.
The homes just outside of deaths path
are open to refugees and people filled
with gratitude for the deliverance of
loved ones and themselves are doing
a vain work to give comfort to other
hearts bleeding with bruises of the
flesh and i1nmeasurabIe woe for
fathers, mothers and children who
are gone.
The storm king drove his chariot of
wind and cloud in awful grandeur His
coming was announced with roar like
fast mail train crossing a railway
viaduct, with the deep, muffled rumble
Of distant thunder behind it. There
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-28

was a suction from both sides and be-
fore the advancing column, while
steady crunching, cracking, grinding
noise, as of a monster moving down
forests, sounded out of the death din.
These undertones were the houses and
trees that snapped before the cyclone,
and the sound of their grinding to pow
der was heard distinctly out of the roar
of the elements a mile from the path
of the cyclone
The cyclone approached Kirksville
from the southwest. At a distance il
seemed to be making for the Fair
Grounds and people at the American
School of Osteopathy on the west side
Of town, watched its coming for two
minutes in fear that it was bearing
down upon them.
Before reaching the town limits 1t
veered eastward and cleared the State
Normal School without touching 1T.
Patterson's extensive nursery, just
west, was swept down to clean soil
The course from that on was through
a well built-up section of the town,
made up mainly of new houses and
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-28
ATKINSON
SAYS HE IS
THE "TRAIT0R"
Sending Documents to Army
in the Philippines to Pro-
mote Discomfort.
AND HE CLORIES IN IT
Hopes He Will Succeed in Getting
the Soldiers to Refuse
to Fight.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

BOSTON, Mass, April 27.-Edward
Atkinson, the famous Boston million
aire, i-imperialist and economist, in
an interview with your correspondent
to-day defiantly announced that he
was, personally, the alleged traitor who
had been flooding the American army
in the Philippines with letters and
pamphlets tending to promote discon-
tent and INSTRUMENTATION and to pre-
vent the men from re-enlisting. He
also said he would keep on sending
them.
Have you been charged with dis
loyalty for conducting this work." he
was asked.
"Only by the editorials in the news
papers,
Have you any reason to suppose
that your documents will be stopped?''
'I hardly think the authorities would
venture on such a base attempt to
prevent soldiers who are voters from
being informed as to the state Of pub
lie opinion at home.
Have you taken any other means to
reach the troops?"
ooh, no; 1 do not think it is neces-
documents to correspondents in Europe
and have them mailed under foreign
postage, but 1 do not think any such
measure is necessary.
ITO what extent have your pamphlets
been circulated, and have any other
documents been sent out?
Not to my knowledge. l think that
the speeches and letters of Senator
Hoar, Judge Edmunds, former Cover
nor Boutwell, and others are to be sent
in large numbers, to the end that the
privates in the army may know the
direction in which sound public opinion
is moving rapidly in this country"
Might not this produce insubordina-
tion?"
Yes: the kind of insubordination
which. / hope, with Tolstoi, will ere
long pervade all armies, to the end that
criminal aggression may be made i'm
possible by the refusal of soldiers who
think for themselves to carry out or
ders which are as abhorrent to them
as they are inconsistent with any
moral, economic or political principle.
L sent my own pamphlets on The
He'll of War and upon Criminal Ag-
gression' to the members of the Peace
Commission, including Admiral Dewey,
and to several of the generals of the
army whom 1 believe to be persons Of
humane isposition-perhaps as much
shocked by the orders from home as
we have been here. l also wrote to the
Secretary of War for a copy of the
army register checked so as to indicate
what regiments and officers may be
now in the Philippine Islands in order
that [ might send a very considerable
number Of pamphlets to their ad-
dresses. | should be very glad to re-
ceive mailing lists for this purpose, as
1 have not secured the army registers.
Being in communication with Secretary
Gage on other subjects 1 informed him
of my purpose, hoping that the facts
might be presented in Cabinet meet
inP''
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-28
COLONEL FUNSTON THE
HERO OF CALUMPIT
How Brave Men Of Kansas Car
ried the Bridge in the Face
Of Rebel Fire.
By Carrier Pigeon From the Front.

prise of the entire campaign in the
Philippines. It was Colonel Fun
ston's second attempt to cross the
river. On the opposite side lay, sup
posedly, the whole of the insurgent
army heavily intrenched. They were
armed with artillery, but the control
of the river was of immense strategic
value and it was necessary to cross.
Colonel Funston's attempt to get over
last night failed because the barking of
dogs disclosed the movement Of the
enemy on the opposite side, but he was
entirely successful this morning. The
Kansas and Montana Volunteers held
the entire town of Calumpit Except the
bridge Heavy insurgent forces occu-
pied trenches at the further end of the
bridge, extending for a mile on either
side of the railway. The entire strength
of the insurgent army was believed to
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-28
ABSOLUTELY PROVES
DREYFUS' INNOCENCE
Demand Made for the Delivery of
Document Found in French

PARIS, April IA great sensation has
followed the publication by the Figaro
of the supplemental deposition made be-
fore the United Chambers of the Court of
Cessation by NJ. Paieologue, one of the
permanent officials of the Foreign Office,
whose evidence establishes new forgery
The Soir, an anti-Dreyfusite organ, vio-
lently attacks the Minister of Foreign
Affairs, NJ. del Casse, under whose orders
NJ. Paleologue's second deposition was
made It charges NJ. del Casse with Civ
ing the Figaro the evidence offered be-
fore the court particularly that of NJ.
Paleologue, declaring that nobody else
could have had any interest in making it
public"
The Figaro also publishes Commandant
EsterhaZy's dispositions, merely covering
ground he had already himself covered
in interviews and articles.
rumor was circulated early this even
ing that Colonel Patty du Clam had
been arrested. 1t turned out to be untrue.
but it is understood that at his own re-
quest he will be examined on Saturday
The Temps will announce tomorrow
that the Court of Cessation has applied to
the Minister for the Colonies, Georges
Gullain to deliver the document which
was found in French Guiana in 1897 among
other Dreyfus documents and sent to the
Colonial office under the strictest precau-
tions 1t is alleged that this document
absolutely proves the innocence of Drey-
fuS.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-28

be holding these trenches. They had
one or more artillery pieces, with which
they threw schrapnel into the Ameri-
can lines.
In regard to their artillery, however. it
is possible that they may have had only
one piece and that they moved this con-
stantly from place to place before fir
ing, with the object of conveying the
impression that they had several.
The American and insurgent lines
were separated only by the width of
the river-100 yards. There was a con-
slant scattering fire. When night came
yesterday Colonel Funston made a dar-
ing attempt to surprise the insurgents.
His plan was to lead fifteen men across
the bridge under cover of darkness and
surprise and attack the insurgents.
The bridge is long and much exposed.
Colonel Funston sent. Corporal Fergu-
son of Company E of the Kansas Vol
unteers to reconnOiter the bridge. The
corporal stripped and crawled along the
girders to within twenty feet of the op-
posite shore, and an insurgent sentry
approached within ten feet of him
without discovering his presence.
Ferguson reported that the plan was
impractieable, because, the rails having
been removed. walking would be dan
gerous and the wounded would fall into
the river In other respects than the
loss of the rails the bridge is intact.
Colonel Funston then decided to lead
120 men across the river a mile to the
westward and enflade the insurgents.
His purpose was to surprise and rout
tbaYo aODnnaDioS of
Volunteers furnished the details. The
march was down the river bank but it
was moonlight, and the barking of dogs
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-28

kautz on account of the letter,
but the attaches of the embassy
regret that another officer of the
American navy should reflect on
their country in the same way
that Coghlan did. The Presi-
dent and Secretary Long we're
especially displeased because of
the publication of the letter i'm
mediately following the Coghlan
episode.
| understand that Secretary
Long will caution Kautz about
writing any more such letters.
In this connection there is talk
Continued on Second Page.
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man Consul had that
position up to my ar
rival, but since then
he has been a very ST.
lent partner. | am
very much afraid he
does not like me; in
fact, l am not at all
popular with the Ger
mans"
| was assured that the German
Embassador had made no com
plant against Rear Admiral
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-28
DEATH AND RUIN IN
THE CYCLONES PATH
~ /IRKSVILLE, Mo-, April
n 27.-The sky emptied its
furv in a cyclone uDOn

I/IRKSNlLLE, Mo, April
n 27.-The sky emptied its
fury in a cyclone upon
Kirksville at 6:2o o'clock to-
night, when the east side of the
town was wiped from the map.
\ broad, clean path, nearly a
quarter of a mile wide, lies
through the town as smooth as
the virgin prairie. Probably 400
homes, where an hour ago fami-
lies were asking the divine bless
ing upon the evening meal, are
now scattered as fragments
somewhere beyond the town in
woodland and prairie
1t is probable a hundred peO-
pie were killed, the known list at
9 o'clock reaching tWenty-one,
and a thousand were injured. 1t
will be long after daylight before
any adequate conception OF the
destruction to life can be had.
It's the record OF the St. Louis
and Louisville cyclones all over
again. The fatalities are upon
every ones lips. Each blanched
face on the street reports new ca
lamity.
In the heavy rain following the cy-
clone the balance Of the people who es-
caped the calamity have turned out to
rescue the injured and hunt out the
bodies of the slain, and the surgeons,
professors. operating staff and stu
dents. men and women, of the Ameri-
can School of Osteopathy. which is To-
Gated here, together with all the regu-
lar doctors resident in the town, have
formed a rescue and hospital corps, and
in the darkness and rain are hunting
out the unfortunates to set fractured
bones bandage the lacerated and ease
the pain Of anguished hearts. This
work is being superintended by Mayor
Noonan and DR.. Charles E. Still, DR..
William Smith, Drs. ]. B. and David
Littlejohn and Dr. Hewey Walters.
From every locality the cry comes
up. send surgeons" There are men,
women and children in agony, and the
rescuing corps are lifting roofs and
searching the Easements of houses all
along the edge of the storms track for
the forms of the bleeding. dying and
the dead. Cabs, express wagons, pri-
vate conveyances and stretchers are all
in service, yet the supply is wholly in
adequate and many needy ones are
limping out Of the wreckage and MAX
ing their way as best they can to
asylums.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-28
KAUTZ VERY CLOSE
TO BEING RECALLED

NALL H z AD Q U AR
! TIERS, WELLINGTON
HOTEL, w A S HING
TON, April 27.-The secret OF
the backing and filling in the
matter OF the sailing Of the
cruiser Badger, having the Sa-
moan Joint High Commission
ers on board, as told by The Call
exclusively this morning, is out.
Armed with your dispatch, tell
ing of the publication in The Call
this morning OF the receipt at
San Francisco of telegraphic or
derS to stop the Badger for i'm
portant dispatches, and the sub.
sequent dispatch of message to
let the cruiser proceed, l visited
the Navy Department to-day and
learned that Rear Admiral Kautz
was within an ace of being re-
lieved of the office of comman-
der in chief of the Pacific station
and recalled Immediately from
Apia as the result of the publica-
ton OF the letter he sent to his
cousin in Cincinnati. President
and Secretary Long were very
angry with the admiral for writ
ing a communication showing
his dislike OF the Germans in Sa-
mOa. That the administration
at first intended to take prompt
action was shown by the fact that
orders to the Badger were coun-
termanded; then she was di-
rected to proceed. These orders
were again countermanded and
again she was given sailing or
ders.
Finally the Navy Department
telegraphed to have the Badger
recalled, but this telegram was
revoked by another sent after
ward. Particular exception was
taken to the adsniral writing
these words:
SCI am not king here,
but just plain boss OF
the ranch. The Ger
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-28
NO TRACE OF STARR
HAS YET BEEN FOUND
OS ANGELES, April 27.-The dis
appearance of H. S. Starr, en-
ployed as superintendent of the
4 Oak Knoll ranch, near Pasadena,

remains an unSOlVed mystery.
The officers who have sought to un-
ravel the clews of the mans where
abouts are baff1ed and find nothing so
far to aid them. The deeper the affair
is probed the further from solution
does the problem become.
The only theory now remaining is
that Starr, if he was assaiied for the
purpose of robbery, was made partly
insane from the effects of sandbag
and that he has wandered away. This
supposition is based on the fact that
no blood has been found in the trail he
and his assailants took that led to a
buggy hitched to tree, and that he
was left there, but wandered away
after regaining consciousness.
To stimulate the searchers Sheriff
Hammel offered a reward to-day of
$1OO for the recovery of Starr, dead or
alive, who is described as feet S1A
inches tall weight 100 pounds, dark
brown hair. dark gray eyes, light
brown mustache, dark complexion,
speaks deliberately and is of retiring
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-28
BRAZIL SURPRISED
OVER THE S0UNDINGS
American Minister Called on to Ex-
plain the Wilmington's Action
in the Amazon

Special Gable to The Call and the New York
Herald. Copyrighted, 1899, by James Cor
don Bennett
RIO JANEIRO, April 2.-The Minister
of Foreign Affairs has RENTED a note
to the American Minister expressing sIr-
prise at the behavior of the American
gunboat Wilmington, which sailed up the
Amazon and took soundings without re-
questing the usual authorization from the
local government. The American Minis
ter in response made a satisfactory ex-
planation and the incident is now closed
and definitely settled.
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-28
THE STORMS DEAD.

April 27-Those far know h
kinedb by cyclone
WILLIAM B. HOWEIIS, C. A
A.
w. H o A. C.
SEt,
MRS MAHAFFEY.
A.
A
w. w.
A.
A w. GLASEE w. RAINSCHOTT.
A
REPORTED KILLED.
and m
MRS STEPHENS MRS PENSCHOTT child
KNOWN INJURED.
andM Sam Weave
Mitchell
Mary Kell
REPORTED INJURED.
Maud
H.
A. l..
w.
A
Duain A Cook.
Al
Mrs
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Continued on Second Page.
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unston was overcome by heat.
JOHN F. BASS.

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The San Francisco call., 1899-04-28

N n ANILA, April 81. = Colonel
VE Frederick Funston of the
Twentieth Kansas Volunteers
is the hero of Calumpit. He crossed
the Rio Grande this morning with a
small force after his brilliant but un-
successful attempt last night, fanked
the insurgents and drove them from
the strong position they held.
The crossing was effected under
tremendous fire from the rebel
trenches, which were manned by the
strongest force the insurgents could
assemble to guard the railroad
bridge, their line extending for a
mile on either side.
This was the most daring enter
The San Francisco call., 1899-04-28

Special Cable to The Call and the New York
Herald Copyrighted, 1899, by James Cor
don Bennett.