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VOL. XXL I. C. Levy & Cos. THE LARGEST AND MOST COMPLETE CLOTHING STORE IN GEORGIA, We can fit Any size or shai>e man from the best grade to the cheapest. We have made a specialty of BOYS’ AND CHILDREN’S SUITS. Every style and quality can bo found here. Ilememer Although our good* are Custom Made, and GUARANTEED AS REP RESEN TED, \vi‘ char-ga no more than you pay elsewhere for ready made stock goods. Over 700 OVERCOATS of every size, shape and quality. A call will convince you, and be appreciated by us. X. O* LsElVir oo„„ TAILOR-.™! r CLOTHIERS, AUCUaTA, GA. • BOYD &> BARNES, Ready for the Season’s Trade! Our trade inora&sosult t(to while, but our Stock this season is Career than ever liofore, and Complete iu every line, while our prices are unprecedentedly Low. Wo invito yon to inspect: Dry Mi Clotlii. Ms, Boots and Shoes cbo., cbo. ALSO— Crockery, Hardware, Harness, Saddles, TIBS HD TOBACCO. GR.OCSHIBS. Flour, Sopr, Coilse, Lari, Clissse aal Motets, And a Full Line of Canned imd .Shelf Goods. w Come and examine our a took, and if we don’t sell y‘?*w r we v• 11 open your eyes on prices. BOYD *s ifS^YYIINTEIS. SHIP YOUR COTTON TO jCRANSTON & STOVALL, Cotton Factors, 729 Reynolds Street, - - AUGUSTA, GA. f Charges low, in conformity w ith the times. Cash advances made on con signments. instructions of our patrons literally obeyed. M. O’DOWD, SONS & CO., Cotton Factors aid Commission lerclaits Comer Reynolds and 9th Sts., Augusta, Ga. We give personal and nudivided attention to the Weighing and Selling of Cotton. Commission for Selling, 50 cents; Storage, 25 cents. Liberal Cash Advances Made on Consignments. C. H, HOWARD. 8. p. WEISIUEB. C. H. HOWARD & CO., (Successors to W. H. Howard ft Sons.) Cotton Commission Merchants, No. 20 Mclntosh-Seventli Street, Augusta, Ga. •B(“Orders for Bagging and Ties and consignments of Cotton solicited. jgg L. FINK.^g) % DEALER IN / 1 / Fine Imported Wines, Liquors, Cigars, Tobacco, etc. No. 847 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. SPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO THE JUC TRADE. ItaS-Six-year-old N C. Corn Whisky 32.00 a gallon. ALL ORDERS MUST BE ACCOMPANIED IIV THE CASH. FANCY ANO PLAIN :-f JOB PRINTING THOMSON, GA., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 29,1893. TEN MEN KILLED. A Moll Firefl Optra liy the Malitia With Fearful Effect. 1 The Crowd Wanted to Lyntli a Negro but Were Summarily (.becked. One of the most dastardly crimes in the history of Roanoke, Virginia, oo curcd at about 10 o’clock Wednesday I morning. Mrs. Henry S. Bishop, ago fifty years, a respectable white w oman from Cloverdale, eight miles from tho i city, was enticed by a negro named Thomas Smith from tho mnrket where she had como to sell produce, into | an empty saloon basement. There j she was beaten into insensibility and robbed of her pocketbook con taining less than $2. The woman was ; left for dead, but managed to revivo a ! few moments later and crawled up to ' the street where she told her story. j The fiend had in the meantime escaped, but was detected, from the description : given by Mrs. Bishop, boarding an outgoing train. A colored man jump ed on the car, grabbed tho criminal and the two fell to tho ground. A crowd immediately surrounded tho prisoner and threats of lynching were load and frequent. Detective Captain W. W. Baldwin seized tho | man, and holding the crowd at hay with his revolver, started on horseback with the frightened negro behind him. He redo to the saloon where the wounded woman had been remov ed, and she positively indentified him | He was then taken to jail. HER SON J.ED THE MOB. A crowd gathered around the jail and kept increasing as night approach i cd. At 5 o’clock, the Roanoke Light I Infantry marched to the jail by orders tof Mayor Trout. Guards were posted and tlio streets in the immediate vicin ity were cleared. About dark tho | crowd was increased by a hundred 1 from tho vicinity of the woman’s homo, headed by Mrs. Bishop’s eon, a fire man on tho Norfolk and Western rail road. At 8 o’clock portions of tho mob battered at a side door of tho jail where tho militia and Mayor Trout had retired. TEH KILTED AT THE FIRST FIRE. The shooting was commenced by tlio mob and tho mayor was shot in tho foot. The militia were then or dered to return tlio fire and a volley from twenty-five rifles was poured in to the mob. Ten men were killed outright and many wounded, some of them fatally. < During the excitement caused by tho volley, tho negro was taken from tho jail by an officer and secreted. The dead and wounded were removed to . drug store and to the offices of near physicians. Tho militia were then dispersed and left tho scene as quietly as possible. Tho following is tlio list of the dead and the injured as far as known at present: THE DEAD. S. A. Viek, hotel proprietor; Will Sheets, fireman on tho Norfolk and Western railroad; Charles Whit meyer, conductor on tho Norfolk and Western railroad; Emmet J. Small, of Northwest Roanoke; Geo. E. White, a fireman on tho Norfolk and Western railroad; J. B. Tyler, of Bluo Ridge; George White, shot through the leg and hied to death; W. Jones, engineer on tho Norfolk and Western railroad; John Mills, distiller, Back Creek; George Settles, of Vinton, mortally wounded. Nineteen of the mob were wounded, K'mo of whom will die. Several speeches were made after tho militia retired. Judge Woods, of tho busting court, assured tho mob that tho negro Smith had been removed from the jail and accompanied two of tho crowd through tho jail to prove the truth of his statement. The speeches did much to pacify tho crowd. But hundreds hung around tho jail and adjacent streets for several hours afterwards, many dispersing to search for the se creted prisoner. At midnight the scene had qnioted down and no fur. ther trouble is expected. LYNCHED AT LAST. Later d'spatelies state that a squad of twenty men took tho negro Smith from three policemen, just before 5 o’clock Thursday morning, and hanged him to a hickory limb on Ninth ave nue, southwest, in tho residence sec tion of the city. They riddled the body with bullets and loft a placard on it reading : “This is Mayor Trout's friend.” A coroner’s jury of business men was summoned and viewed the body of tho negro, and rendered a ver dict of death at the hands of unknown men. After the jnry had completed their work the body was placed iu the hands of the officers, who were unable to keep back the mob. Three hundred men tried to drag tho body through the streets of the town, but were per suaded to desist. A wagon was pro cured and the body put in it. It was then conveyed to the bank of the Roanoke, about one mile from the scene of the lynching. THE DEAD BODY BURNED. The dead negro was dragged from ike wagon by a rope about two hund red yards and burned on a pile of dry lumber. The cremation was witness ed by several thousand people. The mob threatened at one time to bury tho negro in Mayor Trout's yard. Threats of vengeance have been openly made against the mayor and the raili- I tla for attempting to maintain tho law. Captain Bird, commanding the mi litia, left town. Major Trout also disappeared. A CORRECT LIST. The following is a correct list of the dead: 8. A. Vick, William Sheets, Charles Wliitmyer, J. B. Tyler, George White, W. E. Hall, John Halls and George Settles. The#9. woqpded am O. CT Falls, Will Eddy, George O. Monroe, Frank Willis, Thomas Nel son, Lcrov White, J. B. McGhee, O. S. Shepard, E. J. Small, J. F. Powell, J. E. Wayland, George Ligh, W. P. Huff, Mayor U. S. Trout, J. H. Camp bell, Edgar Whaling, 0. W. Figgatt, C. P. North, O. R. Taylor, George Hall. David Buggies, N. E. Sparks, N. E. Nelms, Charles Moten, E. J. Small, William Berry and Susan Doo litey, colored. TRADE TOPICS. Report of Business for Past Week by Dun & Cos. R. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of trade says: There is no longer only a miscroscopic or sentimental improve ment that cannot be measured, Some increase is seen both in production and in the distribution of products. True, it is small as yet, but after the worst financial blizzard for twenty years it is not to be expected that all roads can be cleared in a day. But all con ditions, except at 'Washington, favor a gradual recovery. Business goes on iu unquestioning confidence that the general desire of the people will in some way prevail. Money has become abundant and easy at 3 per oent at New York on call and stagnant specu lation fortunately favors greater free dom in commercial loans. Monetary conditions favor a revival of trade and industry. While renewals nro as large kb ever, commercial loans are no longer unknown. The maturi ty of large western obligations has brought hither unusual sums of money from that section, but the banks while retiring part of tho circulation recent ly taken out aud some certificates have not retired a large proportion, keep ing a weak eye on the body of com mercial indebtedness to mature in October and November. Foreign trade grows more favorable. Cotton lias fluctuated much and it is a shade stronger, though nothing ap pears to warrant and estimate which would reduce the world's supply of Aim ri tan, including tho quantity carried over, within 500,000 hales of tho largest consumption over known. Tho industries are giving strong proof that the consumption of goods was not as much arrested as many feared when tho aoilapse of trade and manufactures came. While manufac turers show extreit.o caution aud de cline to start work without orders, piling on goods at their own risk, tho improved flu uncial conditions enable them to accept many orders which would have been of were refused weeks ago, and actual ardors are rendered frequent By. of retail supplies in maim directions. The number of works ramming this week lias been at least fifty-eight wholly and twouty-four iu part, against only fifteen conoerns mentioned as having closed, and eight reducing force. The gain has been greatest in cotton, wliero some goods touch the J lowest. prices over known. The industry which shows the least actual gain is tho manufac ture of iron and steel, wliero tlio only changes in price aro downward, and in spite of the great decrease in pro duction, the consumption seems to have shrunk even more. But even in that branch a distinct increase is seen in tho demand for a few products. Failures for the week number 319 in tho United States, against 188 last year, and in Canada 40, against 23 last year. Only five faiiuros wero for over SIOO,OOO each. Tho liabilities in fail ures for the second week in Septem ber wero but $3,042,129, against $5,- 319,098 the first week. A FRIGHTFUL WRECK In Which Eleven People nre Crashed to Death. A special from Kingsbury, Ind., says: Eleven persons lost their lives in a collision between a freight train and the Toronto and Montreal express on tho Wabash railroad at that station at 5:30 o’clock Friday morning. A score of others are injured, many of whom will die. Tho freight was on a siding west of tho depot, and was bound east. Tho first section of tho express train passed by on tho main track at 5:25 o’clock. It is said that tho brakesman supposed that the freight train would not and ran hack to open the switeh. Before tho cars had begun to move the second sec tion of the last express came west at tho rato of fifty-five miles an hour,and before the brakoman could turn the switch, dashed into the side track and collided with the freight train. The wreck was complete. The list of killed is as follows: J. H. McKenna, Harry French, Charles Burbo, Miss Allice H. lioed, Miss Nellie B. Tucker, Con ductor James Coulter, Engineer John Green, Warren G. Rider, P. C. Zelle, Baggage Master Lyons, James D. Roundy. It was the worst wreck tho Wabash rood has ever had. To add to the hor rors of tho terrible collision,the boiler of the passenger blew up, scattering human bodies and ear wreckago in all directions. Division Superintendent Gould ad mitted that the freight brakeman, Her bert Thompson, was to blame for the accident. Ho turned the switch in tho face of tho freight engine and let tho passenger train goon the sidetrack whej-o the freight train was standing. Fearful Flood in Japan. A San Francisco special says: The steamship Peril, Monday evening from China and Japan, brought tho news to September 3d. Tho Japan Gazette, dated August 26, gives an account of A great flood in Fifu Ken. Three hundred and four were drowned, and 80,000 aro receiving Relief. It says also that 2,350 cases aro reported sick and 447 dead. ’ The City of Lubeok, Germany, is pre paring to celebrate this year its 750th anniversary. SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS fie Drift ol Her Progress aM Pros perity Briefly Noted Happenings of Interest Portrayod In Pithy Paragraphs. Tho board of health of the city of Selma, Ala., adopted resolutions that no person passing through Atlanta, Ga., shall be allowed to enter Selma while the epidemic continues at Bruns wick and refugees aro received in At lanta. Tho leading colored men of New Orleans had a secret meeting Tuesday night and Wednesday morning fur nishod tho press with tlio resolutions adopted. A oommittoe lias been ap pointed to call on tho governor at onoe and ask for troops for protection against the reign of terror existing iu Jefferson parish, on the outskirts of the city. A special from Brunswick says: Mrs. Winkler died at ten o’clock Thursday morning from what is be lieved to bo yellow fever. Sho was sick several days, but tho doctor only callod a few hours before her death. There is also a suspicions caso on Jeckyll island. Dr. Butts roported two new cases, Lola Scott and Sarah Bland, both mulattoes, Mrs. Lottie Cummings was placed on trial in tho criminal court at Knox ville, Tenn., for her life Wednesday afternoon. Sho is charged with mur dering her ten-year-old step-son, Lou is, on Juno 9th, present year. Sho is accused of hoatiiig tho child to death with billots of wood, and after cutting his throat, throwing the mangled body out of a two-story window. Tho New Orleans limited train on tho Illinois Central road was held up shortly after 11 o’clock Wednesday night, just ontsido the city limits of Coiitralia, 111., aud in the battle which followed between tho robbers and tho train hands one of tho robbers was moi tally wounded and three of tho train crew badly hurt. Tho thieves got nothing in tho way of booty, but made their escape. By an explosion of gas in tho largo colliery, No. 11, of tho Lehigh and Wilkesbarro Coal company, at Ply mouth, Pa., Thursday afternoon, tlvo men wero instantly killed and five others seriously but not fatally in jured. All of tho killed were married and leave families Tlio explosion was caused by a careless miner and liis lamp. Tho mine .is lmdly damaged, but will not ho obliged to suspend work. A Brunswick special says: Tho fol lowing resolution was passed by the board of health Wednesday : This board, upon reports of prac ticing physicians, officially announce that no new cases of yellow fever havo developed in tho twenty-four hours ending Wednesday noon, and during the snmo period of time two cases pre viously reported sick, havo been dis charged and no deaths, making now but 17 eases under treatment. A dispatch of Thursday from Baton Rouge, La., says: Governor Foster lias written a letter to tho district at torney of tlio tliirty-flrst judicial dis trict, calling his attention to tho ne cessity for prompt and vigorous action in tho enforcement of tho law in Jef ferson parish, and tho taking of proper steps to bring all tho guilty parties involved in the murdor of Judge Es topinal and tho lynchers of tho Ju liens to justice. Tho new route between Wilmington and Now Berne, N. 0., over tho Wil mington, New Berne and Norfolk rail road, is now regularly opened with a double daily service. Tho distance is eighty-seven miles, about ono half of tho distanco by tho old route. The road having just been completed, tho schdeulo ia three aud a half hours, which will jirobably he shortened. This road gives Wilmington entirely new connection with a rich section of eastern North Carolina. Stato Auditor Furman of North Car lina states that tho amount of stato pensions to ex-confederates this year will approximate SIOO,OOO, and that tho increase in pensioners will about equal tho increueo iu tho amount of the pension tax, so that the four class es of pensioners will receive annually sl7, $34, ssl and SOB, as they did last year. Widows will get $7. All disa bled ox-eonfedcrato soldiers residing iu North Curob'na now rccoivo pen sions. There nro now sixty-three in mates of tho Confederate Soldiers’ homo at Raleigh. A Birmingham, Ala., special says: Thursday morning G. G. Wilson and S. J. Davis were lodge in jail by United States officers on a chargo of counterfeiting. They wero examined and bound over to the grand jury. They wero arrested in Sylacauga. When caught they had a considerable sum of tho spurious silver dollars in their possession of the date of 1890. V complete set of counterfeiting tools •vas found. The dollars are a pretty jood imitation, having a perfect ring tnd good appearance. Talladega and adjoining counties have been flooded of lato with these counterfeit dollars. A Booming New Town. A dispatch of Tuesday from Guth rie, Oklahoma, says: Perry now con tains 20,000 persons. All tho land adjoining the town site has been staked off into lots, aud the Cherokee allotments at Wburton, half a mile away, aro put on the market and platted for town sites. Lots are sell ing iu prices at from S2OO to S3OO. Dozens of buildings aro going up. There are three daily and five weekly newspapers in town and others coming. Advertise now, it will pay you. fc. K. SCHNEIDER, —VBOIWiU AND It ITT AIL DEALIX IX— Hines, Cigars, Brandies, Tobacco, Mineral Waters, WHISKIES, GINS, PORTER, ALE, &C. SOI Rail 802 Broad Augusts, Georgia, AGENTS FOU leave Clipt's Mil, Drtaia Wine Cupai?. Aahsmir-Biisc* '’H E WIIST G ASSOC [ATI OX. T II E Phoenix Dbvg Stoke Is full in every department of the S > IJMIISNT a,nd ISJEJST Only EVERYTHING NEW since the memorable tire. rvO OLD und WORTHLESS DRUGS. Fulleat and BEST stock in the county of DRUGS and PATENT MEDICINE'S Lamp Goods and Fixtures, White Lead and Mixed Paints, Choice Perfumery. J oilet Soups, Garden and Field Seeds, also Oils of all kinds, Etc., Etc; .fetous for PRICES. WE ARE THE leaders in our line. BE. A. J. MATHEWS, (Successor to DR. J. W. QUILLIAN,) MAIN STRUCT, THOMSON, GEORGIA gglfe T. MARKW ALTER, k MARBLE WORKS nPti ' BROAD STRUCT, NEAR LOWXU MARKET, liiiSs? AUGUSTA, GEORGIA. 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