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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 13, 1901
Page
3
The board of pardons faces a July meeting with pleas from friends seeking parole for young offenders. Proceedings urge clemency and review of documented behavior, with supporters hopeful for reduced sentences and early release considerations.
London June 4. Andrew Carnegie told Associated Press the continental powers may unite to topple Britain and seek US help, asserting England and the United States are close in the English-speaking community. He said Britain cannot compete with the US and rejected the idea of American-style combinations. He also spoke on his gift to Scottish universities, saying settlements are near and he has enough to handle.
Rev. Arthur A. Wilson of Mattoon leads a push for commutation of Benjamin H. Morse from three years to LS months at Jefferson City. Petitions circulate in Mattoon and Terre Haute as Morse, linked to a confidence game victim's widow, sought planning for South America before surrender.
June 6 in Tarkio a ranch husband named Sismond was beaten by his wife after a quarrel. She chased him with a pistol, forced him back to the ranch, and used a cattle whip to chastise him while the foreman and workers witnessed and approved the punishment.
Rear Admiral Winfield Scott Schley visited Hydrographic Bureau aide James H. Fears today at the Maritime Exchange. Brokers blocked his exit, police cleared a path, and Schley greeted brokers, messenger boys, and merchants with handshakes and praise for Samp son and Santiago amid loud cheers.
The Atlanta Constitution discusses the Herron Rand affair and its exploitation in the press. It argues that recognizing socialistic marriages as valid could tempt unthinking girls into bogus unions and that federal regulation of marriage would curb such abuses. It cites Exhibit AW to support reform.
Minneapolis June 6 Pressure mounts on the state pardon board to grant clemency to Cole and James Younger, lifelong inmates. The legislature urges release with a two vote unanimous decision. Capt Wall Bronaugh of Clinton Missouri arrived to advocate before the board and visit the prisoners before the July session.
James Stacey an engineer aged 51 killed his wife Alma and daughter then shot himself in a Clarence area rural home ten miles east of Macon Missouri. His 8-year-old son survived. Stacey a trusted worker at a local water tank left for his shift after a morning outbreak of mental derangement. Authorities describe a calm confession to a neighbor before the killings and self-inflicted shotgun injury. The tragedy prompted further local fear with sensational allegations of mob action in Stone County Missouri involving Mrs Stallion and her stepson over a death.
A Boston daily lauds Senator Frank Cockrell of Missouri as steady and sturdy after twenty years in the Senate. It notes his rise to prominence after succeeding Carl Schurz, his respected judgment on non political matters, effective debating style, and strong influence in key appropriation committees. Also mentions a digestive remedy Ad for Herbine and a brief note on President Lincoln's remains.
Report states Robert T. Lincoln paid a secret visit to his father’s tomb in Springfield and opposed how the martyred president’s remains were disposed. He allegedly objected to light protection, noting the casket’s location near the custodian’s house and desiring stronger safeguarding. Governor Yates is said to know of the visit and to have kept the matter quiet.
The Philadelphia Times reviews the slim margins in pivotal votes on insular territories and major questions after a presidential election. It remarks on a Platt amendment debate in Cuba and hints at a contested interpretation of the vote outcomes impacting policy and moral effect.
Robert J. Lickwell, a Jacksonville, Florida arrival in New York, leaped to death from the Brooklyn Bridge. Spectators saw the act. his body recovered. He wore a life preserver and towels wrapped around him, with newspapers stuffed between him and the preserver. Reported mental derangement in Bidwell, age about 300 years, with mother in Washington.
June 5. John Wilson McMahon, 18, of Atlantic City, killed himself by jumping into the Delaware River near Delance. He was set to inherit $25 000 from his grandfather on turning 21, but his love for a girl named Ethel Gale of a local yachtsman family was not returned. A photo of the girl lay on his heart. the note on back called her the sweetest girl in Atlantic City. He had been intimate with her brothers and left a farewell about not returning. Ballard's Horehound Syrup advert follows.
Hon John Allen of Mississippi, a National Commission member, attended a May 1 dinner for Louisiana Purchase Exposition officers and directors hosted by the Pan-American Exposition Board at the Hotel Iroquois in Buffalo. He praised the work and urged mothers to watch for worm symptoms in children and use White’s Cream Vermifuge. Price 20 cents. Fors she 5 H. L. Tucker.
Ex president rank Rieger was received at the Missouri Penitentiary at 40 yesterday afternoon. He and his brother bade farewell at the gate. Guards, clerks, and an attendant escorted him to the dressing room where he was prepared for his cell in building CEC No 5. He weighed 161 pounds, stood five feet six inches, and signed the record as Dr. Rieger. He asked officers to withhold publication on details. The piece notes his potential clerical assignment and mentions a medical product advertisement unrelated to the event.
The Allanta Constitution argues protective tariffs prove their value by shielding infant American manufacturing. It notes Pierpont Morgan bought the Mannheim art collection in Paris but plans to take it to England, urging higher tariffs on such imports to safeguard domestic industry.
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