The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-02-04
GENERAL NEWS.

81 GENE6AL NEWS.
Women will vote for Chicag
: mayor next spring for the first time
The official estimate is that COCO
women would register.
Formal notice Of the postponmen
of the Panama canal, from March +
July has been given to all foreigl
governments to whom invitations ha.
J been extended.
When a Pawnee county, Kansas
farmer found the price of wheat hat
advanced to $l.4O he ran his wheat
straw through the threshine machine
"a second time and realized seven
hundred bushels.
Mrs. Louisa Block, wealthy phi
lanthropist, Of Peoria, ILL.,, died Sat
urday of shock as the result of pois-
oning. She used muriatic acid as a
gargle, installing it for listerine.
Her throat was badly burned.
Directors Of Sears, Roebuck & Co.
recommended the payment of 20
million dollars stock divident to
holders Of 40 million dollars common
stock of the mail order corporation,
alta meeting in Chicago Saturday.
J. T. Butler and H. w. Legleight-
ner. two Of the men convicted in the
Indianapolis dynamiting case have
been tentatively paroled from the pen
itentiary at Leavenworth. Paroles
were refused in all the other dyna-
hitting cases.
James H. Madding, son of
wealthy Pine Bluffs, Ark, planter,
was found guilty Friday of involun.
tary manslaughter for running down
and killing with his automobile Jas.
H. Harrod, lawyer in July 1918.
He was sentenced to 80 days in the
penitentiary.
Eighteen cases OF foot and mouth
disease has developed among a herd
of Holstein cows shipped from Wis
consin to Winfield, Kansas, last week. /
The cows were shipped for milking
purposes and were valued at from
s4O0 to $500 head.
Drafted by committee represent.
ing 10000 members of the Inter.
national Congress of Farm Women,
bill was introduced Thursday in
Congress to create a farm women's
bureau in the Department of Agri. !
culture, to solve the domestic prob
ems of country life. I i
More than a score of children were
injured when one of the buildings of
st. Alphonsus' Orphan Asylum COL
apsed during severe ,Windstorm in
lew Orleans Sunday. Ten of the {
hildren tonight are at the Charity I
hospital, several at the point of death
nd others MANNED for life. r
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Three masked men entered the Bank :
T Avant, Avant, Okla, late Saturday, {
ED up the cashier and escaped with t
,ore than $1,000 in currency. The q
len, who rode into the town on :
orseback, rode rapidly away to the = :
Ills. A posse was sent in pursuit. U
Henry w. Putnum, 80 years old a
hilanthropist and inventor Of barbed =
ire and horseshoe nails, died Sat- /
rday at his home in San Diego, Cal.
e was one Of the wealthiest men in
outhern California. He was one of
lie chief builders of the Brooklyn,
Y, elevated system.
Sir Joseph Pope, Canadian Under.
'cretary for External Relations, and j
If Cecil Spring Rice, the British
AMBASSADOR, called on Counsellor F
ansing at the State Department Fri
" formally to express regret for F
e shooting Of two American duck
,nters by Canadian militiamen near j
ort Erie, Ontario, and to arrange
r payment of indemnity. +
Rev. C. w. Culp, pastor of the
rst Baptist church at Anna, ILL.,, =
lptized IS converts in Big Greek !,
lnday. He has iust closed a three -
eeks' revival at Big Creek church.
e which covered the water to the ~