The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1899-03-30

have been for the last year on ac-
count Of the i'll health of Mr. Doug
lass.
Bill Skinner didn't do thing to
bill Biler," only 139 majority. Pol
itics was the uudoiug ofpoor ''Biler',
The people were determined not to
lose so great a humorist from the
field of letters.
We are in receipt of letter from
our old friend n NJ Nestlerode, at
Bowen, Ills He is in the photo
graph business. His many friends
in this county will be sorry to hear
that he had a paralytic stroke, which
kept him confined to bis house for
seven weeks The TINES will al way
be glad to hear of his prosperity
A man named Gould travelling
about the county selling pianos and
organs, was arrested at Aaron, this
county, Sunday, by deputy sheriff
Chas Mudd. and brought to town
and placed in Jail Gould was taken
into custody on two charges, one for
obtaining money under false pre-
lenses and the other for alternating
the affections of Mrs Constant from
her husband.
Sheriff Mudd ard Deputy Dyke
Mccain were at Rich Hill Saturday
evening and arrested Maud Stone,
Hazel Raymond and Nellie Grav,
three damsels of the old Pacific
House on a charge Of conducting a
house of disrepute The women
were taken into court Monday morn
ing and arraigned Bond in each
case was given and the trio returned
to their old haunts
The Osceola Republican gives the
following as the latest spring joke:
A gentleman, who had not travelled
a great deal. was recently a passen
ger on a road not over thousand
miles from Osceola when a brakeman
came into the car and announced
"ehange for Katy" Without hesita
ton the travelling man run his hand
down into his pocket with the re
mark don't know her, but here is a
half dollar
Ex-senator Barry Thurman and
Judge Wray, of Lamar, were award
ed a judgment OF 81 872 against the
Lamar Water and Electric Light Co ,
in circuit court Monday. The suit
against the Water and Ligh: Co. was
for $1,000 attorney fees for services
rendered the company in a suit
against city of Lamar, in which the
Water Co was successful The plain
tiffs were represented by Francisco
Il Clark, and defendants by Judge
Stratton and T. j. Smith. A motion
for new hearing has been filed aud
if overruled it is possible the case
will go 10 the supreme court.
John Henry Collins, convicted al
Topeka, Kansas, on the charge o.
numbering his own father, was sen
fenced to hang By Judge Eazsn, o
the Shawnee county district court
Monday. While the death sentence
will be pronounced, Collins will not
be- hanged He will be sent tC
prison, where he will remain for lif'
unless pardoned. He made speech
before the court in which he review
ed the evidence showed that it wal
circnmstantial, and called upon Coo
and his dead father to bear witness
to his innocence and charged th'
newspapers with his conviction.
The most important suit tried q
this term of court was that of Mar,
E Valley ct al vs.. Michael Cryde
and A. Il. Valley. The suit wa
brought to set aside the will anC
eodicil OF Elizabeth Valley. Tn
will was supposed to have divided
the lands equally between the chi
dren. The codicil provided that tn
share of Irwin Valley should b
sold and the proceeds used to pay
debt owed by him to Michael Order
The will was assaulted On the theor.