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The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-06-21
Strawberries Beat Strikes.

Kansas City Times.
There l. wholesome and practical
wisdom in the determination of "a
bright faced young fellow. who was
employed by the ST. Louis Transit
company and went out with the
strikers. To take his wife and two
little ones back To his brothers farm
in Kansas There, he says. he had IA
good job and IA happy home, where
the children played merrily in the
meadows and about the barnyard
where there was fried chicken every
morning for breakfast. fresh eggs
with bowls OF mush and Jersey cream
on the table every day and IA plate
full of stra wberries right off the vine
at every meal-not a saucerful of
stale ones, such "a he gets in IL city
boarding house.
He tells how, in the sylvan home in
the Suntiower State, they quit work
at o'clock III the evening, and after
supper sat on the front porch and
smoked their pipes and went To bed
when they got ready-instead %.
staying up half the night ON the
street car in an effort To earn wages
for overtime and getting hard words
from the boss.
Beside. he didn't have To work on
sundays. but could go to ''meetin,
or fishing. as he pleased. aud on
rainy days he could take his gun out
nto the woods and knock over few
quail, or squirrel.
That man didn't know when lee was
well of, but he had profited by his
brief experience, and he and his little
family are going to realize the yearn-
ing i'll Nhitcomb Riley's song:
LET US 90 back TO Griggsby Station,
Whar the latch string hangs out
side the door;
Let Us go back TO Griggsbv Station
Whar We was so happy and 20
pore
The poverty he met in the country
was wealth compared to what he en-
countered in the big and busy town.
There are many like this young
fellow. simple hearted folk, who rush
of 70 the cities with the vague hope
Of becoming suddenly rich, only to
find their hopes turn to Dead sea
DpIes ON their lips. and their lives TO
become embittered in the fierce strife
Of industrial competition.
The independent life OF the country
is better far in many WAYS than the
: artificial life Of the town. especially
for that large class of mankind who
have TO earn their bread by the sweat
Of their face. All such who are blest
like the Kansas man. with a comfort
able sylvan home tempt misfortune
whenever they leave the farm for the
glare. the hustle and the ''madding
crowd" OF the city.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-06-21
Was a Confederate Bishop.

Mobile. Ala, June 1.-THE Right
Rev. Richard Hooker Wilmer, Epis-
copal bishop of the diocese of Ala
bama, died here this morning at the
age OF 81 years.
Bishop Wilmer is remembered for
his recommendation to the clergy OF
his diocese TO omit the prayer, for
the president OF the United States and
all the others in authority" upon the
ground that only military govern
ment existed in Alabama. This was
in the reconstruction times, and for
this he was suspended 10y General
George II. Thomas and forbidden to
exercise the functions of his office, but
was afterwards reinstated by Presi-
dent Johnson Bishop Wilmer was
the author of The Recent Past from
Southern Standpoint" aud Rem
iniscences of a Grandfather.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-06-21
WAR ROMANCE.
How Hard Tack Won d Wife for i
Soldier


Soldier.
Franklin. Pa. May 2I.-Nilliam
Barber and his young wife left this
city to-day for Tennessee. and their
departure brought to light an inter
esting romance OF the Spanish-Amer-
lean war
When war was declared, Barber
Joined Company F. Sixteenth Regi-
ment. The army ration of hard tack
soon became tiresOme, and while on
his way to Chickamauga Barber con
ceived plan to secure better food,
He wrote his name and company adj
dress on a piece OF hard tack, togeth-
er with an appeal to some good
southerner to send at least one
square meal to camp, and threw the
biscuit at the first house the train
passed. Shortly afterward his com
pany arrived at Chickamauga and
the incident was forgotten i'll the ex-
element of going i'll camp.
Great was the surprise OF young
Barber the following Sunday, when
he was called from his tent and in
troduced to Col. Ray and his daugh-
ter, Mary, a handsome young wo-
man, who informed him that his
hard tack appeal had been found,
| and that they were there to answer
lit. On either arm of the Colonel was
a big basket of food that made the
hungry young mans eyes stick out,
and caused the army ration to be-
come a thing of contempt for several
| days
The colonel was wealthy. and lived
on a large plantation about twenty
miles from Chickamauga- He invit
ed Barber to call on him. When the
Sixteenth left for Porto Rico, Barber
was engaged to marry Mary. The
Sixteenth returned to the oil region
and as soon as his company wal
mustered out, Barber went south
and the couple were married ID
brought his bride north to live OF
his fathers farm here. Colonel Ray
wife died recently, and he asked tn
couple TO join him in his sOuther,
home
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-06-21
Got Rich on Private'S Pay.

San Francisco, Cal.-The most
widely known character at the Presi-
dio. After thirty-three years OF ser
vice in the ranks and two years on
the retired list Paddy" Miles has
closed his honorable and picturesque
army record.
Joseph was Paddy's real first name.
Miles, the surname, was merely the
abbreviarion OF a long Polish name
that has been forgotten even 10y the
dead mans relatives.
As Joseph Miles, the young Jewish
Polish immigrant enlisted thirty
three years ago and that has been
his official name ever since, bat as
Paddy he was always addressed i'll
camp and at his home.
Though his pay was never more
nor less than SIS a month during his
thirty one years in the army, private
Miles accumulated a fortune that the
Preside officials declare TO be worth
$4,000 He was "a shrewd saving
man. He kept four cows, OBJ
tanning free pasturage on the Preside
reservation. and selling the milk tC
the officers at ten cents a quart. de
and his wife lived for nearly twenty
years III the old brick building al
TT. Point; there was no rent to pa!
and little to provide in the way o
family support. Mrs. Miles did TIN
washing for twenty-five soldiers a
S1.o0 month per man.
Miles served in the Spanish war. Re
turning 10 his home he retired OIL
June Il, 1898 and was granted ,
pension OF S24 a month. 1t was thi
soldier distinction, the Presidio off
GERS assert. to serve thirty-one year
In the army without being sen
to the guard house.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-06-21
WHERE DIRT GATHERS, WASTE RULES.'
GREAT SAVING RESULTS FROM THE USE OF
SAPOl|O
4 Monkey That Washes Dishes and
Milks Cows.
View York Journal

New York Journal.
Samuel Farren, of Trembley, \. j.,
near Elizabeth, has a large monkey
on his farm that has become "a noted
character about the country.
The most useful and at the same
time intelligent act the monkey per-
iorms is to get the dinner bell down
from the hook on the porch promptly
at noon each day and ring it vigOr-
ousy for the farm hands TO come to
dinner. The animal does not stop
his ringing until he sees the men drop
their hoes or farm implements and
come to the house The monkey is a
good Waterman and runs chatterlng
to the house when q stranger APP
proaehes. 1t will also carry water
from the WE'LL wash dishes and do
MANY chores about the farm. 1t is
especially handy i'll shaking down
applies and cherries from the trees.
1t frequently sits at the table and
teats from a plate with as much deco
rum as we'll disciplined child. 1t
delights in playing FRANKS with the
horses and to ring door bells as a
joke 1t is fond of milk and will milk
COW with much dexterity. The
animal is an early riser and if per-
chance the household is late in rising
it will sieze the bell and soon has the
inmates astir.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-06-21
DURRANT INNOCENT.
Hanged for a Murder He Did Not
Commit.
Salt Lake Tribune.

NOhhll.
Salt Lake Tribune.
One OF the saddest and most astrO-
cious legal murders so far recorded Is
that OF Theodore Durrant, who was
hanged in California a few years
since. for the murder of Blanche La
mont and Minnie Williams, a most
diahOlical double crime, its very
fiendishness hardly has parallel in
the annals of vice, and its perpetra-
tor was sought high and low for sew
eral days. the whole world hoping for
his capture and punishment.
In the meantime, the so-called as
tute detectives and police authorities
concluded IA victim was needed and
after fastening their clutches on
young Durrant, proceededto collect
what they termed evidence, the whole
mass of stuff in all probability being
manufactured for the purpose OF con
viction and all of II circumstantial
nature.
Durrant stoutly maintained from
els arrest up to the moment OF his eX-
ecutiOn that he was innocent OF the
charge, but forsooth, because he
could not explain every moment Of
! his presence at certain times he was
convicted and hanged, and once
more the majesty of law, along with
the thick skulled theory of these po'
lice wiseacres was duly indicated.
Now the true sequel. A few days
ago on his death bed, Rev. Gibson
who at the time was pastor OF Eman
ual church, where one of the murders
was committed, confessed that he
killed both the victims. He was al
active and important witness at the
trial of poor Durrant, the reason o
which is now quite plain, and also IL
view of the fact that suspicion Wa:
strongly directed to him at the time
A sallow, iaundiced skin is a symp
tom OF disordered liver, as it springs
from hilary pOisons retained IN th'
blood. which destroy energy, cheer
fulness. strength, vigOr. happiness
and life. Herbine will restore th'
natural functions of the liver. Prize
scots and rs cents. At H. L. Tuck
er's drug store
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-06-21
Lady Churchill 10 Marry.

London. June - 1t j. announced
that in spite Of the opposition Lady
Randolph Churchill will marry young
George Cornwallins West in the course
81 next month. George CORVALLIS
West l. one OF the haDdsomest men
in London society. He il the only
son Of col CORVALLIS West. a very
rich land owner. his property inciud-
ing coal lands in Walks His mother
who l. about Lady Randolf b
Churchil'S age. wa celebrated
beauty. and j. still handsome and
fascinating. His younger sister. Con
stanyine Edwiua. >engagedtomairy
Yi-rount Bs.l2raye, heir Of the Duke
81 Westminster.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-06-21

& a To1EA.
Bears The "A Tbs Kind You Have stsayS Bought
!: NNZzZZl
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-06-21
Brands 1t i Falsehood.

Chicago, June Ill desire to say
TO the Post-Dispatch and to the
American people that the Associated
Press statement from Manila assert
ing that communicated with the
Filipino government and Aguinaldo
is an untruth. ] have never written
TO Filipino. WI. BRYAS-@
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-06-21

Aside from the serious incOnven
fence and pain caused by piles. there
is tendency to fistula and to cancer
in the rectal regions. Piles should
not be allowed to run on unchecked.
Tabler's Buckeye Pile Ointment is
an infallible remedy. Price scots. in
bottles. tubes 15cts. At II. l.. Tuck
er's drug store.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-06-21
Schley Will Not Run.

Philadelphia. June 13.-The follow
ing statement is issued on authority
of a private letter from Admiral
Schley:
The name of Renr Admiral
Schley has been repeatedly suggest
ei "a on the list from which the
Democrats would be likely to choose
their candidate for president or vice
president. but all who know the views
Of Rear Admiral Schley uniformly
declare that such Use Of his name
was not only unwarranred but
against his own distinctly expressed
wishes and purposes. He was espec-
tally careful before going 10 sea with
the South Atlantic squadron. 10 DO
clare to his friends that under no cir
cumstances would he consent 70 BE-
come a political candidate.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-06-21

Some men who think II j. a hard
matter 10 get a woman tO>ay YES
never can gain even their own con
sent 10 crawl out OF bed when they
ought TO III the morning.
The latest trust reported J. that 81
the American steal workers Il cuba
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1900-06-21

@ee . lot o. women % snotesT column tread
grapes a. % -@X5g, Portrayal. Tor Wiur. st-st3
al! about % nd sbOus -p-eT+s y. J. rfaGEff
and What j. practically ED01 .Or
Ney York and Washing on ladie-
In delicate condition derive Great 5eHesg from.
-g-er-z Port 81 Iue. Also excellent Tor me az@1
mi pl1 AZ c5ssGl SCENTS.
Morris tribune., 1900-05-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK
NEWS FROM WASHINGTON.

The president has signed the Hawai-
ian bill
The house passed 81 pension bill
Friday.
The gunboat Yorktown has arrived
at Shanghai.
The postoffice appropriation bill has
been passed by the house.
} Pettigrew's pro-Boer resolution was
! defeated in the senate 30 to 80.
An adverse report has been made on
the Cullom Interstate commerce bill
The senate has agreed to the confer
ence report on the Hawaiian civil gov
eminent bill.
The Lacey bill for the protection of
game and birds has passed the house Of
representatives.
Senior Palermo, former president OF
the Filipino cabinet, has been captured
by the Americans.
Congress adopted an amendment to
the Porto Rican bill restricting trusts
and sent the measure to the president.
The senate voted, with only three in
the negative, that Senator Scott OF
West Virginia was entitled to his seat.
Claude M. johnson, chief Of the bu-
reau Of engraving and printing, has
rendered his resignation to Secretary
Gage.
The vote in the senate committee on
the bill charging the powers OF the
interstate commerce commission re-
suited in tie.
Secretary of War Root, at banquet
in New York in honor of Grants birth
day, stated that he believed the time
rapidly approaching when we must
abandon the Monroe doctrine or fight |
for it.
The house committee on labor has di-
rected favorable report on the Gardner
8-hour bill, which has created much in
terest in labor circles and among con-
tractors for government work. The
vote was unanimous
Acting Secretary of War Meiklejohn
has received report from the secretary
Of state of Cuba, showing that 1868
Spanish residents of the islands have
their allegiance to the crown
If Spain under the terms of the Paris
;reaty Of peace.
The plague situation at Honolulu con-
;inues encouraging according to the re-
port received from Surgeon Carmichael
~ the Marine hospital service under
late of April II, as follows: ''No new
;ases of plague since March II. Pros
'ects very good"
Morris tribune., 1900-05-05
POLITICAL NEWS.

Iowa congressman have all been re.
nominated without opposition.
Alabama Democrats have nominated
COLONEL W. j. Sanford for governor.
Massachusetts, Republicans will in.
oorse Secretary Long for vice president.
The Kansas Populist state convention
instructed delegates to vote solidly for
". ); Bryan for president.
Arguments in the Kentucky guberna-
torlal contest have begun before the
United States supreme court.
General Dick Of Ohio is authority for
che statement that Mark Hanna will
manage McKinley's campaign.
Governor Pingree of Michigan de.
clared in an interview that the hope of
the people is in the success of the Dem
Ocratic party.
Morris tribune., 1900-05-05
FOREIGN NEWS.

The house of commons has reassem.
bled.
Queen Victoria has concluded her
| visit to Ireland.
The foundation of the city of Rome is
being celebrated with great pomp in
Italy.
The Niearaguan government has can
celed the concession to the Maritime
Canal company
The legislature of Trinidad has def
nitely rejected the offer of free trade
made by Canada.
The Japanese emperor has left for
Kobe to review the combined fleets of
the Japanese navy,
Two fatal cases Of what is believed to
be bubonic plague have been officially
reported at Port Said. ssssr1 - -
A new fort will be built on the Isle
Of Grain to strengthen the defenses of
The Thames Ct Midway.
Winston Spencer Churchill the war
correspondent, is mentioned for parlia-
ment to succeed the Duke Of Argyll.
Minister Hart, at Bogota, has report
ed to Secretary Hay the capture Of Car
tagena by the Colombian revolutionists.
Colonel G. B, M. Harvey, editor of
The North American Review, will pub
fish quarterly French review in Paris
Twenty arrests have been made at
Constantinople of Mussulmans alleged
to be sympathizers with the young
Turkish party.
Captain Karmeberg, who was charged
with having committed number of
cruel deeds in German East Africa, has
arrived at Berlin to be tried by court
martial
The Constantinople correspondent of
the London Daily Telegraph says that
Russia has intimated that she will op-
pose any attempt to enforce the United
States claims against Turkey.
Morris tribune., 1900-05-05
UNFORTUNATE EVENTS.

! A cloudburst at Waco, Tex, caused
the death of at least eight persons.
Two men were killed and II injured
by the collapse Of a building at Biz
mingham, Ala.
Texas floods Of last week caused a
loss Of fully $5,OO0,OOO. A number of
people were killed.
Thirteen persons were killed and so
injured by an explosion of dynamite
near johannesburg.
A temporary bridge at the Paris ex-
position collapsed Sunday. Nine per-
sons were killed and as many injured.
A cyclone has caused great damage in
the province of Huelva, Spain. Sixty
houses were destroyed and 10 persons
killed.
By the collapse of the framework of
building in the course of erection at
Birmingham, Ala, two men are dead
and eleven are injured, at least two Of
whom will die.
A Bombay dispatch says! Cholera is
raging fearfully at the camp of Cobra,
where thousands of famine sufferers are
receiving relief. A hundred and fifty
corpses were removed during the day,
but 100 others had to be left because
impossible to procure bearers.
Five square miles of territory burned
over, more than $500 dwellings, fac
tories, mills, stores and other buildings
destroyed, entailing a loss estimated to
reach ST., OOO,0O and between 10000
and Is, 900 women and children home
less is summing up of the havoc
wrought by fire which ragged in Hull
and Ottawa, Ont, for "a hours.
Morris tribune., 1900-05-05
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS ITEMS.


The Dewey celebration has begun at
Chicago.
Eau Claire, Wis, saloons are to be
closed at II o'clock.
Odd Fellows at Bangor, Wis, have
inst celebrated their 81st anniversary.
A rigid quarantine has been estab-
ished at Burlington, Ia, on account of
smallpox
At New York Bob Fitzsimmons
knocked out Ed Dunkhorst in the Sec
ond round.
The National Manufacturers associa-
ton has voted to hold it's next conven-
ton at Detroit. 80 & Hi
The executive council of the Amer
lean Bankers association will hold their
next annual convention in Richmond.
The steamer Chateau Yquem, from
Marseilles and Naples, has arrived at
New York with 1889 steerage passen-
gers.
Louis Klopsch, publisher of The
Christian Herald of New York, has
left London for India to investigate the
famine and distribute the American
relief,
Morris tribune., 1900-05-05
CRIMINAL, NEWS.

Judge Stevenson Burke of Cleveland
accuses John D. Rockefeller of fraud.
Burglars secnred $4,000 from the
vaults Of the bank at Coulterville, III.
A score of Princeton students have
been arrested for creating a disturb
ance at dance.
Oberlin M. Carter, late captain United
States army, has arrived at the federal
prison at Leavenworth, Kan.
Burglars secured $4,000 from the
vaults of the Bank of Coulterville, Ills,
during the early hours Thursday morn
ing, and made their escape.
A woman was sold at auction within
block of the federal building at Gal
weston, lex, last week for $40 Police
and federal. sauthorities,are searching
.foorSthe5 parties sinSglSed Tie. Woman
isssaid, to- haye beens i'm port ted from Bel.
GUM with a lot of other Belgian and
French women ana were:under contract
to the man who sold her
oRAlrRoAD NEWS
The No=shern Pacificis stated to have
secured eepfroI Of the St. Paul and Dus
l1lth
Pie Omaha Sunday will put s0n o rew
train betWeen the Twin Cities and
Chicago. III will leave st. Paul at 10
p: m. and arrive at ghiea go about DON
the next day
The Northern. Pacific rai|Iraas Isl
Morris tribune., 1900-05-05
FINANCE AND TRADE.

Eight leading Wisconsin lime and
cement companies have consolidated.
Edward F. Rice, the theatrical man.
ager, has filed petition in bankruptcy.
Liabilities, $91, 900; no assets.
A delegation of prominent Western
men appeared before the special COM
mittee on the st. Louis exposition and
asked for an appropriation of $5, 900, 900.
The North American Turquoise syn
dictate, which aims to control the tor
quoise industry in the United States,
has been organized in Jersey City with
100000 capital
The Fifth Avenue hotel and the Mad.
1son Square theater building, New
York, adjoining, were sold in one par
Gel at public auction for s., 1926, 900, the
purchaser being W. P. Emo, son of the
original owner
Morris tribune., 1900-05-05
THE DEATH RECORD.

Gesasge R. @. Todd, a brother-in-la Jaw
@ PRESIDENT Lincoln, died in Barnweu,
Baron Saurma Won der Jeltsch, for
mer German minister at Washington.
is dead.
Francis Colbert Atwood, the well
known magazine illustrator, is dead at
ms home in Jamaica Plains, Mass.
Sir John Bridge, the former police
magistrate of London is dead. He was
porn In 1924. In 1890 he received the
honor Of knighthood.
Morris tribune., 1900-05-05
Sioux CITY Live Stock.

CATTLE-Market active; ST kers 10
@15c higher.
Sales ranged at s4.25@4.75 for beeves;
S2.OO@425 for COWS, bulls and mixed;
So 50@4 s. for stockers and feeders; 1915
as 10 for calves and yearlings.
HOGS-Market 5@71ac lower. Range
of prices, $5.25@5.32K
Receipts: Cattle, 2,700; hogs. 1000.
Morris tribune., 1900-05-05
Live Stock Prices at st. Paul

HOGS-Market 21a@5c lower. Range
of prices, ST. 25@535.
CATTLE-Market for butcher stuff
weak to 10c lower.
Sales ranged at $}.1O@425 for cows;
$4O0@43j for steers; $3.O0@3 Is for bulls;
$5.00@6.25 for calves; 3.25@4.75 for heif-
ers: So 25125 for stockers and feeders
SHEEP-M Market barely steady.
Sales ranged at $3s5@5.75 for sheep;
3d. o0@6 So for lambs
Morris tribune., 1900-05-05
MARKET QUOTATIONS.
Price of Wheat at Duluth.

WHEAT-Cash No hard 6S11c; No.
/ Northern, $3.50; No. 2 Northern, 6455c;
No. 8 615sc To Arrive-No. hard,
68kc; No. l Northern, 66%c; May, $3.50;
july, 6724c; September, $3.50.
FLAX-Cash, $1.73: May, $1.73; Sep
TENDER $125A; October, $118
Morris tribune., 1900-05-05
BRITIsH-BoER WAR NEWS.

1t is officially announced that We
pener is relieved.
General Olivier, the Boer commander,
is reported wounded.
Beers are showing uncommon activ-
ity west of Bloemfontein.
An official dispatch from Mafeking
1vports ali VIII 0z \ Efiii i &c
The Boer peace commissioners vii
sail Tor the United States this week. 4,
:, ispa$e from; t9ria So vs.
sthes Beers have reoccupied Boshof, the
British retiring:: < I - Z. -
The British eayalrySs has REFINED to
Bloc iTSnfsin. having abanJ 5ned hope
sofeap turing the re tiring B9frs
British residents of Transvaal
have been OF; Tered to lea u INSIDE of AS
hours on account of the eeent explo
at Johanne burg
: s. : n 'I''!|:*'' !! :
0ns HUNG. ms fifty job p9essnsen
OF ssre5e q strike
29prp 40 plumbers of St Paul
,,saaTs yysS1Hlfa strike fgE5 an increase
tRhleaga glaael jury has decided
~ zksaef rose ss90I EgaQlers who have
~ res pom bile for the riots and as
3saults which hse1e terrorIzed M|orlzlnen