The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1915-03-11

tuc SHOW IdlI III that state last week
to be worth $40, 600, 600 to this years
crop.
Rumors that Great Britain has
bought up the entire 1916 wheat
crop Of the Argentine Republic in adj
vance were reported over board of
trade wires Friday. d.
The Senate adjourned without con-
firming the appointments of Ewing
c. Bland as United States Marshal of
the Western Missouri district, and w.
N. Collins as postmaster of Kansas
City.
Robert W. Wooley of Fairfax, Vir-
ginia, now auditor for the. interior de-
prrtment, was nominated by Presi-
dent Wilson as director Of the mint
to succeed George w. Roberts who
has resigned.
Jeff Mansel and C. H. Candy, white
fishermen, accused of stealing hogs,
were lynched early Thursday in the
woods near Camden, Ark. Sheriff
Frank Milwee found their bodies and
telephoned the news.
Vice President Marshall will go to
San Francisco to represent President
Wilson at the formal dedication of
the Panama. Pacific Exposition March
20. The President still hopes to visit
the exposition later.
The oldest resident of Nevada is
dead in Carson-in the state prison.
He was "One-armed" Jim, a Sho-
shone Indian, and had served twenty
nine years of a life sentence. The
prison records give his age as 1903.
Society women riding horse back
on Lake Shore Drive wear costumes
to make the most hardened blush"
Mayor Harrison said in refusing to
permit interference with the conduct
of the Saturday night dances among
the working girls.
Four men were killed and two 9TH
ers were seriously injured in an ex-
plosion in the plant of the Dupont
Powder Company, near Pompton
Junction, N. j., Saturday. One man
was blown thirty feet into river, but
escaped by swimming ashore.
Shaking drawer caused the death
Of w. F. Jibb, cashier of the Public
utilities Company, Hot Springs,
Ark, Saturday. The drawer con-
tanned bills that covered revolver
The jar exploded the weapon and the
bullet struck Jibb near the heart.
That the grain movement has
reached its climax, and if the Darda-
nelles are opened and the Russian
grain thus has an outlet, exports from
the United States will be curtailed
and prices restrained, is the view of
Henry Clews, the New York banker.
Agents of the allied governments
have asked prices here on 1000, 900
wire cutters and 1000, 600 shovels to
be made in two sections so they can
be carried on the shoulders in KNAPP
sacks. They were offered wire cut
tiers at 70 cents each, or 500, 600 for
the lot.
An official note issued by the
French press bureau declares that
the German losses since the begin
ming of hostilities in killed wounded
sick and prisoners reach the enor-
nous total of 3 million men. This
calculation is based on the known
casualties in ten German regiments.
According to reports in circulation
in London among American contrac-
tors, the firm of j. P. Morgan & Co.,
is alleged to have eighty thousand
American horses for sale, but is ask
ing high price for them. Many of
these horses are said to be in Texas,
Missouri and Middle Western States.
Reports received in Copenhagen
from Schleswig are to the effect that
the supply of petroleum in Germany
has become so small that persons who
formerly were permitted to purchase
one bottle a week now have been de-
prived Of that privilege. The stock
in Schleswig has been virtually ex-
hausted.
Several white people are reported