The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1914-08-13
Missouri News in Brief

Missouri NJ
The Blackwater Drainage Ditch
Company has filed suit against john
son county for $4,000 damages.
Four years ago the company began
digging the ditch and the county
stopped passage over public roads
by injunction.
Tuesday State Treasurer Edwin P.
Deal received and turned into the
treasury checks from the various
State repositories for the July inter-
est on the State daily balances. The
total of the interest for the month is
1922, 6;32. Al, of which $l4, 548.34 is on
the current funds in the Treasury and
$S,O84.4l is on the Capitol building
fund. .
As an advocate of peace, DR.. Bar
tholdt frankly admits he has no place
in Europe at this particular time. He
said this was intimated to him in a
cabegram from a fellow peace-work-
err. The war will be short and de-
cisive," said the Congressman.
maybe its effect will be so disastrous
that disarmament will follow. Then
the peace movement will gain
strength
The department of development OF
the Frisco Railroad system has just
completed "man on the ground
estimate of the apple crop in South
Missouri and Northwestern Arkansas
the home of the "big red apple. y
The estimate places the probable
shipments at 2,277 cars from South
ern Missouri and 1,O56 cars from
Northwestern Arkansas. or a total OF
1888 carloads. The actual shipments
last year were 1882 cars and the es-
innate of this year indicates almost a
threefold increase.
The record price for cattle for three
or four years was reached yesterday
in East St. Louis, when cattle brought
$40 per 100 pounds, jump OF 10
cents on the hundred in two days.
Yesterday morning, about $3.50 o clock,
the National Live Stock Commission
Company sold three carloads of cat
tie to Armour & Co. The cattle
averaged 1888 pounds, and the price
averaged $l3S 80, or 10 cents pound
on the hoof The rise, it is believed,
is due to war conditions in Europe. |
Domestics at the Executive Mansion
in jefferson City were alarmed about
IL O clock Tuesday night by the pc
culiar actions of John P. Ruby, a
bricklayer. Ruby first tried to enter
the mansion through one of the base
ment windows, then went to the rear
and demanded admittance. The
housekeeper and maid ordered Ruby
to leave az must see the Governor
at once" he said, "for | have inn
portant financial business to talk over
with him." The police arrested Ruby,
but later released him..
Thirty-eight persons were killed
and twenty-five injured, six fatally,
when northbound passenger train
on the Kansas City Southern Railway
crashed head-on into motor car No.
1903, on the Missouri & North Arkan-
sas Railway, near Upton Ford, twelve
miles south of Joplin at $50 o'clock
Wednesday evening. The Missouri
& North Arkansas Railway uses the
Kansas City Southern tracks from
Joplin to Neosho., The cars met on a |
curve. The motor car, which was
going about thirty-five miles an hour,
was telescoped and tookfire. Thirty
eight charred bodies were brought to
Joplin on a relief train Wednesday
night. The injured have been placed
in Joplin hospitals. The motor car is
said to have overrun her orders to
meet passenger train No. 4 at Upton
Ford. All of the injured except the
conductor and engineer of the pas
senger train were passengers on the
motor car.
A Flying squadron" of motor cars
bearing suffragist orators will leave
Columbia next week to tour Missouri
in the interest of the amendment to
the state constitution, to be voted on
this fall, which will grant the ballot
- vornnu Aunon0 fho sneakers who