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Newspaper
Butler Weekly Times
Location
Butler, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1901
Page
3
A Shawnee county district court jury ruled in Barbara Taner’s favor against the Sarah Ann Sells estate for $15,000 as back salary for ten years. Taner, employed as housekeeper nurse and secretary by Mrs. Sells, was to be paid by a bequest that did not name her, but the jury granted the full claim.
A historic reflection on the postal service celebrates its vast reach and benefits. It highlights how mail unites families, delivers medical guidance from experts like Dr. Pierce, and enables distant education and knowledge sharing. The piece praises affordability, efficiency, and the postal system as a peacekeeping force.
The article reports a new stray animal law requiring plantation occupants to file notice of every stray within five days of finding it between December 15 and April 15, with failure carrying a fine. It also advertises White's Cream Vermifuge for worms, priced 25 cents, sold by H. L. Tucker.
Wichita dispatch reports Mrs Dr Black a poor widow, named as principal heir to the late Judge Leavenworth in a sealed will opened after his death in San Francisco nine years ago. Administrators paid her San Francisco expenses. she leaves tomorrow to settle.
June 19 report states federal authorities probe the Lagos district mounted police for killing more than twenty prisoners without trial. Prisoners charged with minor offenses were shot by police who took the law into their own hands as relatives flood Lagos seeking help and protection from local authorities.
In Omaha on June 20 the board of education amended rules to bar any young woman who marries from the school roll. A member called the move an attack on marriage while about thirty women on the list protested, arguing marriage is a reason to focus on earning money rather than teaching.
London June 1 Hazen S Pingree former Detroit mayor and Michigan governor died in London at 11:25 pm cancer of the stomach. Body to be shipped to the United States for burial. Pingree praised by W T Stead for energy public spirit and reform views. He served in the Civil War and later entered Detroit industry before politics. His South Africa visit is described with nuanced views of Boers and British, and his body will be transported aboard the Koenigin Luise sailing Bremen June 22 for New York.
Nashville June 1 Gid Crane who killed Robert Hagewood in Cheatham county has surrendered to authorities at Nashville Crane spent three days and nights atop a tree near the crime scene without food or drink He saw the mob looking for him and witnessed the burial services of his victim He says fear of lynching kept him from surrendering sooner
Henry J. Clayton of Alabama, a Democrat leader, asserts in a Washington dispatch that the South will not fear the disfranchisement question. He argues Democratic supremacy in the region with black voters largely disenfranchised in Mississippi, Louisiana, South Carolina, and predicts reductions in representation and the electoral college as a result.
A New York woman known as S36000 owned a country house on the Hudson. She sold the place and had two full grown beech trees moved by a firm that hoisted, loaded on scows, and floated them through the Hudson and Long Island Sound to Newport. Soil was brought along to ease acclimation. The operation, costing about 1,000 dollars, is described as a record transplant of trees to a seaside home.
Vonrail Budke of Nelson Chesman and Co. sails to Kansas City with a 10000 contract for three months of newspaper ads for Green Mountain Distillery. Simultaneously the firm placed a 4000 carload whisky bottle order, with 1000 spent per carload on ads. Bottles will be filled at 1616 1618 Main Street KC. Also notes a cold remedy ad and reports the found body of Gen Charles G Bartlett from the Staten Island ferry disaster with a watch inscription.
Readers are told Hall s Catarrh Cure cures catarrh in all stages as a constitutional remedy. It supposedly acts internally on blood and mucous surfaces, breaking the disease s foundation and building up the patient s constitution. The ad offers 100 reward for any case it cannot cure and directs readers to request testimonials.
Washington dispatch reports plans for a visit by Paul Kruger to the United States. Boer representatives Vander Hoogt and Botha carry messages on possible peace terms with Britain. Kruger insists independence as the basis for any settlement, with no direct link to peace negotiations.
A fragmentary report quotes Jane St Henry DP Chovron of Alotwita and other Democratic officials arguing Southern leaders deny Washington influence. They defend racial supremacy, claim negro disfranchisement will strengthen political power, and cite Mississippi, Louisiana, and South Carolina as examples.
New York officials reviewed a Pearl and Broad streets park plan including the Fraunces Tavern site. The half block park is valued around 500000 dollars with purchase likely double that. Attending groups like the American Science and Historic Preservation Society and the Woman's Auxiliary urged preservation. Borough President Cognam was hopeful the tavern would be saved.
A comic clipped piece notes avoid substitutes for Cascarets and mocks imitations. It then shifts to Washington gossip about Mrs MeKinley and a quirky gift story where a president's wife keeps a long standing envelope, preferring familiar habits over new keepsakes. The tale ends with references to a word box and a wool slipper craft.
Henry Kuster of Cameron Missouri met his wife in Wichita Kansas on June 20 and escorted her home. Earlier she eloped with a man named Lorain three weeks prior, took belongings, while Kuster had pursued them with intent to kill Lorain. Reconcilement followed as Mrs. Kuster claimed hypnotic influence.
Manila reports say about 40 insurgents were killed or wounded in recent engagements in Albany and Sorsogon provinces. General Cailles was seen at Papasan near Laguna, and is now at Cuivinti near Pagasinan. Charges of theft and sale of public property are leveled at several witnesses in the commissary cases. Provost-General Davis has submitted a municipal government plan for Manila, with the United States Philippine Commission making revisions.
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