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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1903
Page
3
Chicago May 27. President Andrew Sloan Draper told graduates that medical science must blend with moral discipline to make physicians exemplars of physical intellect and character. He condemned careless practice and urged strict adherence to proven facts to avoid harmful treatment and legal consequences.
A letter from G L Edwards of 142 Main St Wiehfts Kansas reports using Herbine for ten years to regulate liver and bowels. He claims it moves the bowels daily and expels poisons. The note notes availability for 50 cents at H L Tucker's Drug Store.
A modest guest recalls a rich friend showing a new home packed with electric innovations. Silver flatcars deliver meals, mood controlled rooms, and an electric elevator. The pinnacle: a nickel plated railroad tub that slides from bathroom to bedroom, joked with the wife in the tub.
Sedalia Missouri March 28 John Jones a negro arrested in Sweeney last Tuesday night for alleged complicity in the assassination of Ernest E Stephens at Pleasant Green April 29 was discharged today George Childa another negro is in jail at Pilot Grove and will have his preliminary hearing Saturday Citizens of Pleasant Green deny any desire to withdraw rewards for the appre hension of the murderer they are prepared to increase the amounts if a conviction can be effected
Miss Alice D Winchell of Ashtabula says she followed a clairvoyant Myrtle Redfern’s orders in April to obtain three $100 bills and place them in her dress. After three days the money vanished when Redfern allegedly performed incantations and hid the envelope. Redfern was arrested in Rochester, New York, and Ohio Governor Nash ordered her return for grand larceny trial.
President Charles Moyer of the Western Federation of Miners issues an annual report from Colorado Springs urging socialism and independent political action. He criticizes the arbitration settlement of the anthracite strike and warns members against policies seen as harming their future, suggesting possible shift toward alliances with rival labor groups.
Thomas A. Edison has been formally added to the Marconi Wireless Telegraph company as a member of the board of technical directors. Marconi is the other current member, with plans to add Prof. Michael J. Pupin of Columbia University as a third electrical expert. Edison would not reveal the inventions he is working on for the Marconi system.
Sir Thomas Lipton’s flotilla including Shamrock III Shamrock I the steam yacht Erin and the tug Cruiser with 170 crew members departed Gourock at 1 pm for Sandy Hook. Great crowds lined the harbor as flags bands whistles and sirens joined in farewell to the cup challenger.
Cambridge Massachusetts May 29 Mare may be signaling to us. A telegram from Percival Lowell at Flagstaff Arizona was received by Harvard University stating that a large projection on Mare was found May 26. The angle measured 200 degrees and the projection lasted thirty five minutes.
The declaration rejects inference of infant fatalism and broadens the church’s stance. It was adopted unanimously by the assembly, emphasizing clarifications in the Presbyterian creed and doctrinal scope.
The Presbyterian Church in the United States of America adopted a long debated revision of the Confession of Faith by a unanimous vote. The assembly also addressed the Tennessee question and a divorce declaratory statement, affirming that infants who die are saved and that Jesus Christ is the church's only head, while preserving core doctrine.
The committee reported a recommendation that overtures on separate presbyteries for colored ministers be sent to the next general assembly. Dr Roberta moved an amendment to include colored representation on the committee, increasing membership to seven. The amendment was adopted and the resolution passed. Also, the divorce and remarriage report was adopted after earlier action banning ministers from performing marriages for divorced persons.
An old advertisement promises a one day cure for a cold using Laxative Bromoluinine tablets. It notes refunds if it fails and displays W. Grove's signature on each box, priced at 25e.
The April grand jury filed its report in court at 1 oclock with Judge Ryan and Judge Douglass on the bench. Six indictments are returned mostly in city cases. State charges include two against Daniel J. Kelly, two against Senator Frank H. Farris, and possibly three against Parris for a potential perjury indictment. The alum death cases from 1901 and 1903 are covered, with John A Lee named as principal witness.
St Louis wholesale millinery houses comply with National Milliner Jobbers Association decree prohibiting songbird plumage as hat trimming in Milwaukee. Firms with orders for bird adornments have altered them. Audubon Society victory in its campaign against song bird trimmings.
In Mattoon Illinois May 20 a feud between the Rawlins and Berry families erupts in a courtroom. Mrs Berry fatally shoots Mrs Rawlins during a dispute over countercharges as James H Rawlins aims a revolver. Spectators watch as Rawlins is arrested and taken to the county jail in Charleston.
A New Orleans report and an Indianapolis letter contend Lulu Spencer Hadley the chambermaid did not lose her job over the Washington bed story, while another source says she did refuse to make the bed and that a Southern fund drive is a fake.
A Turkish city Melazgherd in the Van vilayet was destroyed by a powerful earthquake on April 29, with about 2,000 residents killed including Armenians and garrison troops. Over 400 nearby houses collapsed. A second report from Erzeroum on May 29 notes hundreds more dead and the city left in ruins, with residents taking shelter in improvised sleeping quarters for safety.
Gloucester Maia May 2s. Howard Blackburn, famed lone voyager, plans a fourth long voyage in a small boat. He will leave June 7 about 15 feet over all, 5 foot beam, 15 inches deep, keel and sloop rigged, sailing direct for Havre then Marseilles, through the Med to Gibraltar and across to New Orleans. He aims to reach New Orleans mid winter and sail up the Mississippi to St. Louis for Exposition show.
President Roosevelt arrived in Pocatello Idaho this morning to a warm welcome. A Blackfoot Reservation band greeted his train and joined a parade with cowboys and Indians. He spoke from a depot stand to the gathered crowd.
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