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The National tribune., 1904-06-02

DARRED PLYMOUTH ROCKS.-E. b. THOMP-
ID son and Bradley strains, the best i'm size and
ira good layers; ID eggs Sl50 Also stock for sale
reasonable price. Jno. w. Wright. Darlington Wis.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
AMERICAN SHIPPING.
Fell or 5000 Tons Last Year-Ne
Deep-Sea keels Laid Since
the Year 1901.

The board of trade and transporta-
ton of New York at it's first post
vacation meeting listened to a report
on the falling off in cur shipbuilding
and carrying business, in which, the
report says, there was a "loss of 5000
tons last year, while not one deep-sea
keel has been laid in an American
yard since 1901" The board decided
to put these facts before the people.
1t also adopted a resolution, submit
ted by Lewis Nixon, urging the in
dorsement of canal improvements.
President Straus read the following
letter written by President Roosevelt
to Aaron Vanderbilt anent the shipping
situation:
Hon Oscar S. Straus has forward
Cd to me your memorial. 1t is, trust,
unnecessary for me to say how deeply
and anxiously have studied the sit
uation of our shipping. l shall go over
your letter with certain public men
who in the past have shown their great
concern In American shipping. |
earnestly hope that we may be able
to devise some method that will ben
ent this industry"
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
INCREASE IN SUICIDES.
Statistics Show Higher Rate of Self.
Murder In New York City In 1902
Than Year Preceding.

According to statistics compiled by
DR.. William H. Guilfoy, register of the
bureau of vital statistics, there were
772 suicides in New York city in 1902,
of which number AT were in the Dor
oughs Of Manhattan and the Bronx. The
number Of suicides in those two Dor
oughs ten years ago was only 241. Ma
tive born women to the number of Is
killed themselves in this city last year.
There were altogether 1876 women SUI
cides, of which SO were Irish, 26 German
and 10 Russian. The suicide rate has In
creased in Manhattan and the Bronx
from IA to each 100000 inhabitants in
1892 to % to each 100000 in 1902. New
York is now fifth In the suicide list OF
American cities, which is led by st.
Louis, with rate of 25.7.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
Opposed to a "CraSh."

From an Exchange.
"Old Adam Forepaugh," said a
friend OF the veteran Snowman,
"once had a big white parrot that
had learned to say:
"'One at a time, gentlemen-one
at time-don't crush.
"The bird had, of course, acquired
this sentence from the ticket taker of
the show. Well, one day the parrot
got lost in the country, and Mr..
Forepaughleaped into his buggy and
started out posthaste to hunt for it.
People here and there who had seen
the parrot directed him in his quest,
and finally, as he was driving by a
cornfeld, he was overioyed to hear a
familiar voice.
"He got out and entered the field,
and found the parrot in the middle
OF flock Of crows that had pscked
him till he was almost featherless
As the crows bit and nipped away
the parrot, lying on his side, repeat
ed over and over:
"'One at a time, gentlemen-on'
at a time-don't crush
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11

Paw Paw Bazoo: you've hsered
about the phoneygrait. ui course, +"
SEE Ezra Fox to Caleb Withers, Petey
Jones an me an Alex Knox. "Well,
it is mighty wonderful an makes
some music fine, but keep 'em frum
yer Unc.e Emo phoney gratis in
mine. The other night at l o'clock
| come home frum the lodge an tuck
my shoes off, hopin Amt Ems jaw
in cud dodge. will admit I'd had
a sip too much-er maybe, two-but
still my brain wus clear enough to
tell me what to do. | found the key
hole all 0. X. an got up to my room
| clean fergot that phoneygraft an
that there sealed my doom. In
huntin softly fer a chair l teched the
startin' spring an with a squeak
that blamed machine began to play
an sing. The Bamboo Tree came
screechin' out. That settled things
fer me. Aunt En- come jumpin' out
ui bed an struck q light to see. She
SEE: We'll, Ezra, full agin? l give a
trip an fell, an, landing on that
phoneygraft, smashed it all to hell
Aunt EN- wus mad-you bet yer life.
She driv me off to bed an talked SO
much 'twould take ten days to tell
you all she said. never had a word
to say, but in my heart l laughed,
because, although En- scolded me,
l smashed that phoReygrait. Hope, -
SEE Ez, cuttin' irum his plug a goodly
chew, "some day to meet this Edison
I've got thing er two I'd like to
tell him just fer fun, about his blamed
machine. Then Ezra went on Ut
the road just feelin' tightin' mean.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
GOOD SPIRITS.

Good spirits don't all come from
Kentucky. Their main source is the
liver-and all the fine spirits ever
made in the Blue Grass State could
not remedy a bad liver or the hun
dred-and.one i'll effects it produces.
You can't have good spirits and a
bad liver at the same time. Your
liver must be in fine condition il you
would feel buoyant, happy and hope.
full, bright of eye, light OF step, vigor-
GUS and successful in your pursuits.
You can put your liver in fine condi-
ton by using Green's August Flower
the greatest of all medicines for the
liveI and stomach and a certain cure
for dyspepsia or Indigestion. 1t has
been a !avorite household remedy for
over thirty-five years. August Flow
er will make you healthy and active
and thus insure you a liberal supply
OF "good spirits" Trial size, 24ci
regular bottles, 75c. At all drug
gists'.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
AMONG THE DERRICKS.
Kansas City Oil Company Brought
in 150.BarreI 0iIer Satur-
day.--Quick Drilling
Talk. t

The Kansas City Oil and Gas Com
pany brought in its No. ID on the
Long lease, south of Neodesha, on
Saturday afternoon. The we'll flows
naturally and Is estimated to be q
$50 barrel producer. For quick
development on a large scale this
company holds the record in the
Kansas field. 1t brought in it's frst
well August 81, 1903, and paid a
dividend of II per cent January l,
1904. Thecompany isrunning three
rigs, and it has one OF the best oil
properties in the Kansas field. W.
Corbin IL president OF the company
and l. ]. Jenkins is manager. ". NJ.
Crawford, assistant cashier OF the
Bank OF Commerce, was prominentin
the promotion OF the Kansas City
company and is a large stakeholder.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
HISTORIC HOUSE IN RUINS.
Home of Gel. George Davenport On
Rock Island in the Mississippi
IL CrumbllnK.

One of the historic houses Of the west
IS slowly falling to decay on Rock
Island. This house. which at one time
was the most pretentious in this whole
district, occupies a site on the island in
the Mississippi river on Rock Island.
ILL.,, and is on government land. No at
tempt is being made to keep the house in
repair. and year by year II is slowly
tumbling down. The house was put up
in 1886 by Col. George Davenport Il
was built Of hewn logs taken from tim
Der on the island. The window and door
frames were brought from Pittsburg by
boat, and the locks and hardware used
all came from England. For those days
the house was a vertiable palace. and
attracted much attention. Col. Daven-
port was an Indian trader and came to
this section Of the country In 1916. He
was known az "Saganash" by the In
dams. The house was the scene OF q
terrible crime. July 4. 1s45, when Col.
Davenport was tortured and killed by
robbers. The old man was at home on
the island alone when six men CON-
prising a party Of bandits found him.
They supposed he had a great deal Of
money about the house. and proceeded
to torture him. He finany gave them
800. all the money he had, and then
they shot him. He lived long enough
to give description Of the robbers, and
they were all captured. Three of them,
John and Aaron Long and Granville
Young. were hanged for the crime
Robert Birch escaped from prison, and
John Baxter and William Redding
served two terms In the penitentiary.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
CATFISH CATCHES BOY,
Eleven-f enr-OPd st. Pawl, Minn.,
Youth Pulled Into River by
32-Pound Haul.

Otto Scavinsky, II years old, had an
exciting tussle with catfish weighing
80 pounds. and but for the timely assist
ance of two men would probably have
lost his life.
The boy was fishing on the river bank
at the foot of Chestnut street, in st.
Paul, when suddenly his line was jerked
violently, and he was yanked headlone
into the river He cried loudly fol
help, but held on to the line.
James Goodhue and Thomas Murphy
heard his cries and pulled him out Of
the water. They then landed the cat
fish, after struggle.
The fish was four feet long. Murphy
gave the boy so cents for the fish, and tn,
boy forgot his ducking.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
SUING FOR A STAR.
Causes a Unique Lawsuit
in Kentucky.

A unique suit has been filed in the
Bath county circuit court at 0wings-
vile. Ky. 1t is for the possession of
a meteor which fell on the lands be-
longing 10 the estate Of the late F.
N. Ewing near that town. Thomas
J. Pergram found the meteor, and the
heirs Of the Ewing estate brought suit
for Its possession, alleging that as IL
fell on their land 1t rightfully belongs
TO them. Pergram has retained coun-
sci and says he will Tight the case
to finish. He was required to give
81 900 bond while the suit Is pending.
The meteor weighs about 300
pounds. and was the main body Of the
big meteor which was seen on Novem-
Der Is. 1909. from New Orleans to
northern Ohio. Three pieces of the
meteor were seen to fall near here.
and two small pieces were found
few days later. One weighing 12A
pounds was sold to Prof. Harry A.
Ward. Of Rochester. N. Y, and Chi
cago. for $500, and he in turn dis
posed Of II to the National Museum
at Washington, D. c. The other
piece was sold to Kentucky State col
lege at Lexington. Several months
after the meteor fell Pergram was
hunting and found II on the side Of
mountain. almost buried by Its fall.
He knew what 1t was. and by help Of
sled carried 1t to his home. Many
scientists have visited Pergram and
all have made offers. but he declined
them all. An eastern college offered
him $4,000 for the meteor. but he de-
clined that also, and had made ar
rangements to exhibit II at the st.
Louis exposition, The case will be
tried at the October term Of circuit
court here.
In the case Of Goddard VS.. Win
chell in 1892. reported in Sc Iowa,
I'll, the court decided that a meteor
was the property Of the owner of the
land on which 1t fell, It being a nat
ural accretion. The two other cases
on record resulted the same way.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
TORTURED FOR SCIENCE.
Russians Subjected 20 Rays of Violet
Light In German Fortress and
Brains Permanently Shattered.

Russian refugees now in Berlin relate
fresh form of torture devised and prac-
ticed on political prisoners confined in
the terrible Schlussenberg fortress.
They assert the brains of Russian DO
litical prisoners are permanently In
jured by long exposure to rays Of violet
light. The subject selected for scientific
torture is placed in large many win
dowed cell, into which the sunlight
streams through violet panes and by
night from electric lights. Day and night
violet rays are poured on the prisoner,
sleeping and waking, until everything
looks violet. his food and even his flesh.
The effect of the scientific cruelty Is
to produce irritation and ultimately
cause a change in the structure Of the
brain cells. The power of consecutive
thought disappears, sensory impress
sions cannot be orderly arranged. The
victim is not insane. only stupefied
mentally.
Frequently the victim never RECEIVERS
He might be released without peril to
the government While red rays mad
den, violet rays produce incurable brain
lassitude. There is no proof that all po-
litical prisoners at Schlussenberg are
treated thus. Which prisoners are sub
jected to this new scientific torture re-
mains secret of this most secret Of all
Russian prisons.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11

bine. Then about 5 O'Clock, at the
north front Of the old City Hall, the
evidence shows that Gutke met But
lerand handed him q package. Now,
IN this connection, l think point
has been brought out not indicated
by counsel for either side.
Two hours later, the evidence
shows, Butler waited on Murrell in
the latter's office. The logical infer
ence is that Gutke had told Butler
that Murrell was the agent and that
Butler had then gone to Murrell.
ave then find Butler on the floor
OF the House constituting with MEM
Der about this bill, discovering his
interest in the measure.
COMBINE SELECTED KELLY AND BERsCH
1--WE then find from the evidence
that Mr.. Butler suggested Mr.. Kelly,
or whenever the boys should select,
as the agent to obtain the money.
And we find that the combine select
ed Kelly and Bersch.
"Next we see that Butler, Kelly
and Bersch went along Market street
to Tenth, toward Buffers Office. As
to Buffers entering that office, it is
not essential.
"The hour was unusual for the
transaction OF business, and some
body must have opened the office
for Kelly and Bersch, who, we know
from the evidence, went in there.
"The evidence shows that the two
delegates went in and stayed awhile
before coming out. They then walk
ed to McTague's restaurant and thsn
to Carmody's. 1t is reasonable to
suppose that somebody else gave
them the money while at either OF
those places? Nothing 10 to show
that any one was in McTague's or
Carmody'swho was interested in this
bill, who had been on the floor Of the
House, who had interviewed Dele.
gates concerning the measure. Then
We have the distribution of the SAT-
500 at Lehnann's house.
"In view OF this series OF eircum-
stances, | conclude that it would be
. travesty on justice to say that
there is no evidence connecting this
defendant with this bill, with this
combine and with the vote upon the
lighting act
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
MISSOURI BOARD RE.
DUCES FREIGHT RATES.
Maximum Distance Tariff Seized.
ule Adopted After Many
Hearings Marked
Changes.

Jefferson City, Mo-, February e.
The Missouri state board OF railroad
and warehouse commissioners has
completed its labors in the prepara-
ton of the schedule OF maximum
freight rates. To day 1t issued a
maximum distance tariff schedule,
which shows that sweeping reduc-
ton has been made in freight rates.
The reduction affects pretty nearly
alllines, varying with different classes
OF commodities. On grain the reduc-
ton ranges from 80 to 35 per cent;
on live stock, while the rate is only
decreased 5 per cent in some in
stances, the reduction goes as high
a. 40 per cent In Others.
Onsoft coal the rate which has pre-.
vailed is lowered so per cent, while
the reduction on hard coal is % per
cent. The rate on lumber is reduced
Is per cent, and on merchandise the
rate is reduced from s to so per cent.
On the "classes" the reduction runs
from 6 to 80 per cent. A compari-
son of rates is made with the new
schedule and the present Missouri
statute OF maximum rates and the
distance tariff rates which are at
present in force by the several rail-
road lines in Missouri. The rate
schedule is the final conclusion reach
ed after the matter had received con-
sideration at a number OF successive
regular and special meetings OF the
board in Jefferson City, st. Louis
and Kansas City.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
OFFICIAL STATISTICS
OF IROQUOIS DISASTER.
OF $40 Victims All Were WO-
men and Girls and 153 Men
and Bcys---Thirteen States
Represented.

Chicago, Feb. 6.-oficisl statistics
Of the victims Of the Iroquois fire
have been compiled, and they tell q
hesrtrending tale. In the grim list
every decade In life is represented up
to the age Of 76 years. one person OF
that age being killed. The largest
representation above Is years runs
from % years to % years. The
youngest was 2 years old.
Appalling figures are given for those
under 10 years, there beingiorty-nins
children under that age on the list.
Twenty children whose ages were 10
years are listed and thirty.six whose
ages were IL and IL years are In the
number OF dead.
The roster complete gives 141 VIC.
men and children under 81 years and
names sighty-Ave youths and boys
under that age. In all, there was a
total of417 women and girls and So
men and boys. Among those having
trades and professions are found
twelve domestics, three court clerks,
four farmers, eleven housekespers,
two clergymen, $50 housewives, 1
lawyer, 3 nurses, 2 school principals,
1914 pupils, 43 teachers, 8 merchants
and 4 dressmakers.
Sixty-fve are listed whose occupa.
tions are not given. Chicago, Of
course, has the largest roll Of lives
sacrificed, there being 800 Of the dead
resident Of this city. Next to Chi
cago Evanston furnishes the largest
number, twelve dead. The table also
shows that victims Of the fire were
thirteen States and eighty.six cities
and towns.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
In Prison, but he Makes $40, 600

Post-Dispatch, 5th.
Press dispatches from Jefferson City
say that Alvin W. Towsley Lawrence
former clerk at the West End Hotel,
st. Louis, now a convict in the state
penitentiary for embezzlement, has
just made $4,000 by operations in
the cotton market.
According to these dispatches,
Lawrence secretly placed 81, 900 with
a Kansas City broker when he saw
the cotton boom was inevitable.
Monday, it is further related, Law
renee ordered his broker to unload"
his profits amounting to $4,000.
The next day Cotton King Sully "un-
loaded" and the market broke.
No explanation has yet been made
as to the manner in which a convict
at the state prison could carry on a
cotton deal OF the kind ascribed to
Lawrence.
Lawrence is % years cid. He was
discharged by the proprietor OF the
West End Hotel on Feb. 10, 1908,
and on the same day disappeared
with $500 which had been in the
hotel safe. He was captured a month
later at Los Angeles, brought back
and sentenced, after pleading guilty,
to two years in prison. With the
usual allowance for good behavior,
he viii be free again next November.
Lawrence's wife, who has been de-
voted to him ever since his fall and
despite the fact that the name OF a
woman guest at the hotel was fire.
quently mentioned in connection
with his, is living with a sister of her
husband, at 1102 Mcmillan street,
Walnut Hills, near Cincinnati. A
woman friend in st. Louis to whom
Mrs. Lawrence writes frequently says
that Mrs. Lawrence has sent money
to her husband several times since
his imprisonment.
This friend told the Post Dispatch
Friday that Mrs. Lawrence, who il
the daughter Of a prominent George
town, KY, family, has $3.50, GOO In
her own right, this being left her by
q former husband. Her devotion to
Lawrence has estrangsd her from her
people.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
SCARF PINS UNITE BROTHERS
Men Separated Eight Years Ago Find
Each other in Chicago Hotel
Legacy Awaits One.

Two scarf pins Of peculiar design,
presents from their father, were the
means of reunitirg. at the Victoria
hotel in Chicago, two brothers who
had been separated for eight years.
The two men had been attracted to
each other by the similarity of their
surnames on the hotel register, and
were in the buffet when the younger
brother noticed scarf pin, identical
with his own, worn by his companion.
G. H. D. Shaw registered from New
Orleans Sunday. Victor Shaw regis
tered from San Francisco Monday.
Eight years ago, few weeks after his
fathers death, G. Fl. D. Shaw ran away
from his home in San Francisco. He
never wrote back to his relatives and
changed the initial of his name. All
trace Of him was lost.
When he stopped at the Victoria
hotel he was on his way to Kansas
City to marry a Miss LEASING. The
day after his arrival his brother regis
tered. q,
where did you get that scarfpin?"
inquired Victor Shaw as the two were
in the buffet
From my father" replied the other
Mr.. Shaw.
Explanations followed and the two
discovered that they were brothers. G..
H. d. Shaw was also informed that
$1,000 Of his fathers estate was await
ing Rim in San Francisco. Last even
ing he left for Kansas City, and after
being married will continue westward
to secure the legacy. Victor Shaw re-
NAMED in Chicago.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
A Tornado at Reno, Nevada.

Reno, New, Feb. GA tornado at
East Reno to-day destroyed much
property. 1t cut a wide swath
through the town. The Stone build
ing, seventy feet long, was demolish-
Cd, and the Wah.Hoo hotel was lift.
ed from It's foundation. 1t was car
ried q short distance and collapsed.
Other structures were damaged. No
one has been reported injured.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
Are Women SayagesY

DR.. Wiley, chief of the bureau Of
chemists, who is intensely intellectual,
says men go bald because of their in
tellectuality, while women keep their
glory because they are savages- Per-
haps SO, says the st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch, but if DR.. Wiley will take OF
his stiff hat and let the wind blow
through his hair he may save what is
left of it. intellectually without COM
mon sense is apt to produce all sorts
Of fantastic phenomena.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
A Remarkable Map.

A few months ago French bride re-
ceived from friend silver sugar bowl
with map Of the world engraved upon It
and on this map the route that this newly
married couple were about to take In
the course of very elaborate honey.
moon tour was marked. The names Of
the towns at which the happy coupl,
would make more or less prolonged
stay were lettered in enamel.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
Grants Home a Hospital.

Brig. Gen. Frederick d. Grant, his
brothers and sister, wishing to pre-
serve the Grant homestead In Galena,
ILL.,, have given 1t to the city authorities,
who will probably convert 1t into hos
pital.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
Ficticfous Capitalization.

More than 81, o,0oo,o 900 is represented
In the largely fictitious capitalization Of
Industrial combinations In the United
States within six years.
The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1904-02-11
Woman Avoid Africa.

There are few women missionaries IN
Africa because Of the ceadly nature Of the
climate and the social conditions Il vast
territories there.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-03-03
sIGNALIED TIE JAPs.
Twenty Chinese at Port Arthur I'm
der Arrest.

81 Petersburg, March According
10 special dispatch from Port Arthur
twenty Chinese have been arrested
there for signaling to the Japanese
Shlps from the shore with flash lights
ana lanterns. warning has been
issued that similar offenders viii here
atJer be treated as spies and shot.
Although it is denied that the pres
ent plans of the admiralty contemplate
the dispatch Of either the Black Sea
or Baltic fleets To the far east, it is
beyond question that both are being
prepared with the greatest haste TO
meet any emergency. General Alt
water, the artillery specialist. and Ad-
miral NerhOsky have been inspecting
the ships and crews of the Black Sea.
fleet and work on the warships is be-
ing pushed night and day. The bat
tleships BorOdino and Orel and the
transport Kamtchatka are nearing
completion at the admiralty backwards
here. In the dead of night the ice
bound NeVa is like an Arctic land
scape, lighted for half a mile by the
flare of blazing stacks, the silence
broken by the din of drumming ham
mers.
The battleship Borodino must be TAX
en- TO Kronstadt TO receive her armor.
and it is reported that the ice breaker
Ermak will be brought from RevaI to
cut channel to the arsenal there.
The battleship Alexander III at Kron-
stadt is ready, and the Russian fleet
recently at Jubutil, French Somaliland.
IS returning, so that when spring
opens Russia will have an imposing
naval array in the Baltic
About 500 volunteer Workmen have
left here TO work at the dOckyards at
Port Arthur and VladivOstok