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The People’s Party Paper
VOLUME VI.
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GEORGIA NEWS.
Happenings of General Interest.
During the Past Week.
ITEMS FOR BUSI READERS.
The Latest News From All Sec
tions of the State Gathered
From Many Sources.
Colonel Hains, chief of the South
Atlanta division of public works, is
in Savannah, looking after the har
bor defense of that city.
Mr. Charles R. Crisp has been
nominated to fill the unexpired
term of his father, Judge Charles F.
Crisp, in the present Congress. He
had no opposition.
T. L. Jones, the defaulting city
treasurer of Augusta, has been
brought back and turned over to
his bondsmen. He refuses to talk
about his defalcation.
Captain McAfee, United States
deputy collector, has been on a raid
in the section around Canton. On
Saturday he destroyed five stills and
put five men under arrest. In ac
complishing this work he drove fifty
miles and walked nine.
Mr. H. B. Plant has been elected
president of the Southern Express
Company for the thirty-fourth time.
He organized the company in 1862,
and has presided over its destinies
from the beginning.
The tax returns show that Fulton
county is worth over $57,000,000.
The returns fall $42,000 short of last
year, though thousands of
people have moved to Atlanta,
bringing their money with them.
On Tuesday, Henry White, of
Columbus, was convicted of murder
and sentenced to death. It will be
remembered that a month ago the
Columbus police attempted to arrest
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THE PEOPLE’S
DEPARTMENT STORE.
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All goods sold on strict guarantee to
be as represented. All goods marked
in plain figures. The same price to all.
We want your trade. We solicit your
mail orders. Our terms are spot cash.
Our prices cannot be duplicated on
same quality of goods.
Our Shoe Department, ( “ ( re m ", y
ers at a saving of 25 per cent.
Men’s High cut pegged ties,
warranted all solid leather,
worth $1.35, at S/S/U
Men’s high cut standard
Screwed & Wardwell sew- CJI 0 K
ed Kip ties, worth $1.75, attJJA. cOO
Men’s Satin Calf Bals and
Congress solid sole leather,
outsole, incole, counter and CJ-S A 0
heel, worth s3.oo,at jkO
Men’s Calf Bals and Con-
gress, French, ton-ton and AQ
rozor toe, worth $2.50, at tjj.l.. vO
Men’s fine grade Calf Hand
Welt Bals and Congress,
warranted equal to any 0 Q 0
$4.00 Shoe, at
Boys buff Bals,plain and tip© -1 00
toe, all solid, worth $.25, at ’U’W
Boys’ Calf Bals, London and
razor toe, stylish and War
ranted to wear well, fl?-8 KA
worth $2.00, at
Little Gents’ Satin Bals,
heel and spring heel, all fl?"S AA
solid, worth $1.25, at RpJL.
Little Gents’ Calf Bals, heel
and spring heel, medium & fl? ■I 0 K
narrow toe, worthsl.7s, at
White’s father. Father and son
opened fire on the police, killing or
fatally wounding three officers. The
father was killed later in the day in
his own house and the son arrested.
His attorneys have applied for a
new trial, but there is little hope of
his escaping the extreme penalty of
the law.
Robberies are growing too fre
quent for comfort in Rome. Re
corder Jumes Spulloek and a negro
barber were held up on the streets
Saturday night, and an aged res
rauranteur, Gideon Pope, was shot
and stabbed in his restaurant and
the contents of his till carried away.
Two white men, Nix and Cheek
more. have been arrested on sus
picion.
The Zeigler brothers, of Soreven
county, Solomon and Corrie, have
been acquitted. They shot to death
Sheriff Brooker, of Screven county>
a year ago. Brooker had killed
their father, George Zeigler, the
previous year. The young men
were tried separately, Solomon’s
trial terminating on Friday of last
week, and Corire's on Monday. It
was a hard-fought legal battle,
Judge H. D. D. Twiggs leading the
prosecution and Col. T. E, Watson
the defense.
Capt. J. C. Bryan, county school
commissioner of Screven county,
died suddenly on Saturday evening
at his home in Sylvania. Ha walked
home from the court housa in appar
ent health. A few moments after
complaining of a burning pain in his
chest he was taken with convulsions
and died in five minu.es. He was
the principal witness against So*
Zeigler and W. J. Walker, now under
indictment for the murder of the
negro Bellinger, who was the pro
voking cause of the Zeigler-Brooker
tragedies.
On Friday Leonard Foute, a ten
| year-old colored boy, pleaded guilty
I before Justice Foute to burglary.
RIGHTS TO ALL ; SPECIAL PRIVILEGES TO NONE.”
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1896.
He was arrested in the act of break
ing into a store. While serving his
term in the chaingang he will be
taught by older and more expert
criminals all the tricks of the trade
and will be harder to catch next timo.
On Saturday Principal Keeper of
the Penitentiary Turner removed
fourteen convicts from Fulton county
jail to the penitentiary. Under our
penal system, boys sent up for a short
term for petty larceny, soon return
to try their hand at grand larceny
and burglary. As a developer of
hardened criminals, a chaingang for
boys cannot be beaten.
Ben Osborn, the lunatic who has
been held in Fulton county jail for
some weeks under the charge of
murder, has been sent to the lunatic
asylum. There seems to be no doubt
that Osborn is crazy. For a day be
fore the killing Osborn’s brother
made every effort to have him ar
rested, assuring the authoiities that
he was as crazy as a March hare. If
prompt action have been taken the
killing would not have occurred.
J. J. Burrows, eighteen years old,
was arrested Tuesday night on the
charge of forgery and looked up in
the Atlanta station house. He is a
brother of the mayor of Bristol
Tenn., and a cousin of Gov Bob
Taylor. The young man indignantly
denies that he is guilty of forgery.
He says that needing some money,
he drew a small check on his brother
in Tennessee. Being a stranger in
the city, he gave the check to
Owens, an acquaintance, to get it
endorsed. Owens returned with
Dr. E. H. Barnett's name on
the check, and if the name is a forg
ery that Owens is a forger. The
police think that Owens has skipped
the town, which, if true, is presumpt
ive evidence that he is the guilty
party.
The People’s Pasty Papeb and
the New York World both for $1.40
Youths Pebble Goat button,
long raw hide tip, strong C? 1 0 K
back stay, worth $1.50, at fvlj
Ladies' Glove Grain Climax
Button, standard sewed, CM 00
all solid, worth $1.35, at
Ladies’ Calf Climax Button,
extra heavy, channel fl? opr
standard, worth $1.75, at.
Ladies’ Dongola button, kid
or cloth top, opera, needle
and common sense worth 0K
$1.50, at v
Ladies’ Vici Kid Button, Kid
and cloth top, heel & spring
heel, opera, razor and com- K 0
mon sense, worth $2.00, at qJ A.
Ladies’ fine custom made
Kid Button, heel and spring
heal, kid or cloth top, any
stylo toe or width, regular 0 0 00
$2.50 Shoe, at ip ■ W
Ladies’ French Kid Button
and Lace, Rochester make,
all lasts and widths,'worth ftft
$3.50, at QOjWW
Ladies’ wide ankle Button
Boots in common sense & half M f|(l
common sense, worth $2.50, at qlZeUv
A VARIETY OF FREAK.
People who Like to Draw Checks
to Order of Distinguished
Citizens.
From The New York Sun.
As a Sun reporter was meauder
ing slowly over that pi.t of the lea
contiguous to City Hall park, he
picked up a pocketbook much to his
delight and unexpected luck, but ere
he had time to transfer its contents
to his inside pocket a policeman ap
peared on the the scene, just as po
liceman always do when there is no
call for them, and don’t, vice versa.
•‘Ahem?” observed the reporter,
also observing the polioeman.
“Um?” remarked the policeman,
also remarking the pocketbook in the
willing hands of the reporter.
“Well?” observed the reporter, in
jecting a kind of a what-are-you-go
ing-to do-about-it tone into the ver
biage of his communioation with the
guardian of the peace.
“It belongs to you, I suppose?”
said the policeman insinuatingly.
“What?” inquired tho reporter
with such lamblike innocence that
the wool ia the policeman’s coat act
ually began to curl.
“That,” and the policeman nodded
toward the pocketbook.
“Oh, ah, excuse me, I beg you r
pardon,” Lastly responded the re.
porter, “I was thinking about some
thing else.”
“Found another one?” suggested
the polioeman with pleasant insouci
ance.
“No, of course not. However
since you have asked if this belongs
to me, I’ll take a look through it and
see,” and the reporter opened up his
find.
A careful examination, made with
the insistent assistance of the police
man, revealed only a card and a bit
of unohewed chewing gum, and these
the reporter turned over ft- the guar
dian for safe keeping.
“I made a queer find ths other
day,” said the policeman, as the re-
Old Ladies’ high grade Lace (I Est
Shoe, worth $2.00, at
Infants’ Dongola Button, hand
turned, plain and wedge heel, CUp
black and tan, worth Bsc, at
Child’s extra heavy Dongola But
ton, wide and easy for school, rnn
worth 75c, atS VU
Misses heavy Dongola Button, 1 nA
kid orcloth top, worth $1.25, at. I.UU
Misses’ Kangaroo Calf Button,
the softest and best wearing (hi OR
school Shoe made, worth $1.75, attJliUU
Ladles' li»st grade storm Uch- E,,
bers, worth 65 cents, atJ tv
Men’s best grade Storm Rub
bers, worth SI.OO, at7s v
Best quality Fleece Lined Soles nrri
for slippers, worth 85c, atZ ' v
Good grade All-Wool Overgaiters, .„ .
full height, worth3sc, at . , . . . ,IQC
Best grade Broadcloth Over- r n
gaiters, extra height, worth 75c, at jOC
Medium long Black Jersey 6 J AA
Leggins, worth $1.25, atQIiVV
Extra long Black Jersey (t>J KA
Leggins, worth $2.00. at(JjliUV
porter paused to inquire about the
general moral tone of the city in
that neighborhood during the past
twelve hours. “It wasn’t a pocket,
book, but it was the next thing to
,it—”
“Money?” inquired the reporter,
who thought money ought to be the
next thing to a pocketbook, though
he didn’t remember to have had any
personal knowledge of such things.
“Next thing to that,” continued
the polioeman. “It was a bank book
which the owner had dropped just
after having had it made up at the
bank, for the book had all the checks
entered and was balanced, though
the canceled checks were not there.”
“He had probably sent the can.
celed checks in to have the coupons
cut off,” suggested the reporter.
“The queer part of it,” proceeded
the policeman, without noticing what
the reporter said, “was the people
who had got the money. The name
of the man oa the book is a very
well known one and—”
“What it is?” asked the reporter
naturally.
“Nay, nay, Pauline Hall,” nega
tived tho polioeman. “You know
him better than I do, and I don’t
want to give him away.”
“Sell him?” hinted the reporter.
“That’s all right,” grinned the po
liceman. “I opened the bank book
out of curiosity, and was surprised
to find that he had as much as a hun
dred dollars to his credit, but more
surprising was the list of names on
the book of the people who had ap
parently got money from our friend,
for nobody in these parts would ever
suspect him of being on terms with
that kind of people. For instance,
there was a check for $11.35 paid to
Tom Watson, another for $3.25 to
Arthur Sewall, ansther for $23.45 to
Grover Cleveland, another for $7.89
to William MoKinley, another to
Tim Campbel-for $6.78, another to
Cornelius N. B iss for $3.45, another
to Mayor Strong for $23.75, another
NUMBER 11.
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seis Carpets, borders to
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Tracing Wheels 5c
Seam Binding 5c
Whalebones . . 5c
Rice Powder, large size 5c
Book Pins, assorted sizes. 5c
Horn Dressing Combs 5c
IJ4 inch Velvet Bindimg 5e
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Wire Hair Brushes . 10c
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Knitting yarn, Hank 5o
Filo Embroidery Silk, dozen. 290
Knitting Silk, large balls
te Chaunoey M. Depew for $3.25,
another to Lavi P. Morton for $1.79,
another to Satolii for $3 54, another
to Dr Parkhurst for $12,84, another
to Mark Hanna for an even $lO,
another to Teddyodore”—and the
policeman dodged—“ Roosevelt for
$7, another to Maggie Cline for sl3,
another to —.” Here the polioeman
shut up his notebook, from, which he
had been quoting. “Well, they were
to almost every leading citizen of
the United States, including W. Jen
nings Bryan, and I cowdn’t under
stand it. I knew it wasn’t a faka
because the book was all regular,and
I knew pretty nearly as surely that
those people hadn’t been getting small
amounts of money like that from
that chap. 1 was going to hand it
over to him and ask him about it, but
I thought he would lie to me anyhow,
so I went to the bank and called out
one of the clerks I had had some
dealings with, and I asked him whst
it stood for. He gave me a tiny bit
of haw-haw, not much, but enough,
and told me tho world was full of
cranks, and this’ fellow was several of
them, with a leading fad to make his
personal checks out to the name of
some distinguished citizen or other,
or bearer, and draw the money him
self. It was a harmless kind of a
case, the clerk said, and as long as he
didn’t make a check out for some
thing that he didn’t have in the bank*
it wasn’t doing any harm to any
body. Then I handed over the book,
to him,” concluded the policeman,
“and went out wondering what the
next would be,” and so did the re
porter.
Half an hour later the reporter
met a bank clerk of his acquain
tance.
“Say,” the clerk said, “do you
want a queer bit of stuff for your
paper?”
That’s the kind the reporter was
was looking for, and he nodded af
firmatively.
“Well,” continued ths clerk, “a
man came into our bank to-day and
had a check cashed for sll. ooo, made
payable to ‘God Almighty, or beav
er.’ ”
“Great Caesar?” almost shouted
the reporter, “is there another one?”
and a careful comparison of nanes
and persons showed conclusively that
there was.