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THE BANNER ATHENS, GEORGIA, AUg. G, SS9
RILLED THE FATHER.
W omuled tlie Son, and Is Hlmsc’f In
significantly Wounded.
McRak. Ga., July 2D.—An unfor
tunate <l;?Ho«Hy occurred here Satur
day, wl.ii h resulted in. the death of M’v
Wash Lancaster.
He, his son Wright and E. A. McRae
met, Saturday ami attempted to kill each,
other a-- t't mpniv’' ’ f settlin'^ at» old
time i, ml.
McRae used a pistol. Lancaster was
shot t\v>ce, and died soon after. Wright
Lancaster was shot through the calf of
the log and painfully hurt. McRae re
ceived one knife wound In the right
side, but is not seriously hurt.
A Mem Shot By H's Wife.
Fire.
Norfolk; Ya., July 29.—Yesterday
morning the residences of W. J. Cason,
J. P. Britt, Robert Webb, A. L. Gwinn
and James Chapman, ou Marshall aven
ue, Brambleton, were burned; loss $10,
000. No wat-r could be obtained by the
fire department.
The Post-Ofioe Change.
Atlanta, Ga., July * 7 9.—-The Atlanta
post-office will pass from the hands of
the democratic party on Thursday
evening into the hands of the -republi
cans.
t General Lewis has made^his bond, it
has been accepted and he will take
charge of the office Thursday evening
so as to be ready lor business on Friday
morning, the 1st of August.,
Cruelty lu Australia.
London, July 29.—The society for
the protection of aborigines in Austra
lia make public some startling facts
concerningta2 treatment of their spe-
cia r wards by the whites there. In a
letter*fiom a newly discovered gold
field correspondent of the society, he
says:
“Ou arriving at Roeburn we saw-
gangs of unfortunate aborigines chain
ed to wheel barrows with the bullocks’
chains, making roadsters of them. The
effect of Hie chains may he imagined
in a climate where stones get so hot
that they cannot be handled.
ANOTHER FOUNDRY.
A BIG NEW ENTERPRISE FOR
ATHENS.
The Lyndon Manufacturing Company to
Begin Work cn Their Foundry and
Machine Works August 1st.
On Thursday next the Lyndon Man
ufacturing Company will begin to break
dirt on there new- Foundry and Ma
lt?; e Works, to be located on the south
west corner of their plaining mill lot,
near the upper bridge. It is desired to
have the shops in operation January
Ist, next. The company will buy the
bestf and latest improved machinery.
One large engine and boiler will run
both the machine shops and plaining
mill.
Dr. Lyndon’s brother will move to
Athens and take charge of the busi
ness.
This is a big ihing for Athens, and
is bound to be a success.
A Sad Death in Danielsville
Daxiklsvillk, July 29.—Mrs. Jennie
G rifletli died very suddenly last night
of dropsy of the heart. She lived only
about one hour after she was taken.
She leaves a husband and seven chiidren
and a host of friends to mourn her
loss. The death roll of our communi
ty is becoming alarming, and it seems
that all the sickness proves fatal.
Mrs. G. T. Johnson, of Quitman, Ga.,
is expected to visit our town soon.
Two Persons Killed.
West BowersvttLE, Ga., July 29.—
The Union says: It is reported that
two persons were killed Wednesday at
Anderson vi lie.
A negro man, in making his escape
with a stolen horse, was overtaken and
shot three times by the owner of the
horse.
The other was a white boy, who was
thrown from a sporting machine end
had his neck broken.
A Noted Builder Dead.
Farmington, Me., July 29.—Daniel
Beedy died this morning, aged 77years
He had been a noted civil engineer and
bridge builder. He built the first steam
flourmill in St. Louts, and various
large flour and quartz mills in New
Mexico, California and other western
states, besides a huge number of bridg
es.
The Savannah River.
Special to The Banner.
Augusta, Ga., July 29.—The Savan
nah river is sixteen feet high, and is not
rising.
The rains have been of a local char
acter, and no greater rise is expected.
Only slight rains are reported from
the up-country. There are no fears cf
damage here. Crops are not uflected
yet.
A Very Common Case.
Richmond, Va., July 29.—John A
Connerly, iron worker, yesterday cut
the throat of his wife with a razor and
then killed himself with the same
weapon. Mrs. Connerly will recove •.
She had been separated Lorn him for
some time.
AFamous Lice Tamer Bead .
London, July 29.—A telegram from
Presburg, in Hungary, announces the
death at Lausehutz, near there, of
Count Anton Eszterhasy, the famous
lion tamer, at the age of 09.
Murderous Assault.
Atlanta, Ga., Ju’y 29.—About noou
to-day Phil Elliott, a white country
man who li^s on the Mason and Tti-n
er’s ferry rtfid was hit in the head with
a piece of iron by Minor Lee, a negro
blacksmith, on Marietta street.
The wound is a serious one, but not
necessarily fatal.
Elliott drove in town this morning
with a load of watermelons. A shoe
came off his horse and he went to Lee’s
blacksmith shop and ordered him to put
it on.
Lee at once struck him in the head
with the iron tool used by black
smith’s in shoeing horses. The assaul
ter then fled and has not yet been caught
It is not thought the wound is fatal.
CANADA EXCITED.
VIRGINIA REPUBLICANS
Say They Will Run Three ex-Confede-
rate Generals on Their State
Ticket.
Richmond, Va., July 31.—A mem
ber of General Mahone’s state executive
committee to-day expressed theopicion
that that the ticket to be nominated by
the Virginia Republican convention*
which is to meet in Norfolk on August
20th. will he composed of the ex-Con-
federate Generals—General Mahone,
for governor; General Wyatt M. Elliott,
of Appomattox county, for lieutenant-
governor, and General James A. Walk
er, commander of Stoaewall Jackson's
old brigade, for attornoy-general.
Members of the state committee re
ferred to claim to have seen a letter re
cently written by General James A.
Wa’ker to General Mahone. in which
the ex-commander of old Stonewali’s
beigade expresses bis readiness to do all
l>e could to aid in the election of a pro
tective tariff ticket in Virginia this
year. As is well known, Gene it 1
Walker heretofore always acted with
the Democrats in local as well as nation
al contests. If he places himself in a ;-
cord with the Republicans this year, it
will cause some surprise to Genera
Walker’s friends.
KO ENCAMPMENT.
Several Companies Decline to Come to
Athens.
The Banner is in receipt of a letter
from Lieut. Col. W. F. Jones, of the
9th Georgia Volunteers, in which he
states that the encampment will not
take place, as was ordered. The El
bert Light Infanrry, the Piedmont
Rifles and the Greene Rifles have noti
fied him of their inability to attend, and
he has been forced to recall his orders,
as the Conyers Volunteers are the only
company he can count on.
Cob Jones is deeply mortified at the
action of his command for not notifying
him earlier of their failure to come io
Athens, and regrets very much to
cause the citizens disappointment con
cerning the encampment, lie exerted
himself to make it a grand success, and
it is not his fault that the encampment
has fallen through.
The cause of the companies not com
ing is alleged to be their inability to de
fray their expenses here.
A CARD.
To All Owners of Vehicles.
There are a great many people in
Clarke, Oglethorpe, Oconee, Madison,
and Jackson and other surrounding
counties having in past years used one
of the old Hodgson make of wagons or
buggies, that will say that they would
rather pay $25 more for a wagon or
buggy than they have to pay for the
cheap wagons and buggies that are sold
now days, if they were certain that
they would get one as good as the old
Hodgson make.
We wish to say to all who have used
the old Hodgson, work and to the pub
lic that we can furnish you wagons and
buggies, that we will garuntee to be as
good as the old Hodgson work, and as
cheap as you can buy Eastern or West
ern or any other kind of work.
We carry a good assortment of bug
gies and wagons on hand, which we
propose to sell as cheap as you can buy
of anyone else in the State.
Respectfully, Klein & Martin,
d-lt-w-tf. Athens, Ga.
A Good One.
Mr. John Patman, one of our promi
nent citizens, says that he once had a
turkey hen laying near his house, and
that he took out the eggs as fast as she
laid them. He put a white door knob
in the nest which fooled the turkey, as
she thought the door knob was an egg.
The turkey laid seven eggs and went
to setting. The door knob was still
left in the nest, and when the turkey
hatched she came off with a brood of
eight young turkeys. Mr. Patman is
confident that the door knob was hatch
ed as well as the eggs.
ATHENS ADVERTISED.
A Handsomely Illustrated Article to be
published in the Manufacturer’s.
Record.
The citizens of Athens have arranged
with Mr. Eugene Speer, who has been
in our midst several days in the inter
est of the Manufacturer’s Record to
have a two page article written on the
advantages, the needs and possibilities
of our growing city. The article will
be’ handsomely illustrated with fine
cuts of many of the finest buildings, en
terprises, and residences of the city,
and will be written in a clear and
unexagerated manner. It is hard to
realize the great advantages to gained
from such an article in such a journal
as the Manufacturer’s Record. It will
place xVthens along with the most pro
gressive cities of the South and will at
tract the attention of capitalists, who
are seeking to find profitable invest
ments in Southern industries. There
is no country or section of country on
earth-just now that is attracting so much
amazement in progress and industrial
developments as is the Sunny South,
and’capitnlists and manufacturers aver y
where are beginning to put their might
and money in the South with telling ef
fect.
Athens needs capital, and when it
conies with the addition of an energetic
population from the North, it is doub
ly acceptable. The citizens have rea
son to congratulate themselves on the
wisdom of this step to advertise Athens,
and they can safely rely on the money
thus invested as bread upon the waters.
THECR0PS.
THE BLUE RIDGE AND ATLANTIC
The British Government Asked for
War Ships.
New York, July 31.—A special to the
Sun says: “A meeting of the cabinet
was called to-day (Tuesday) to discuss
the seizure of the Black Diamond by
the United States revenue cutter Rush.
To-night a brief dispatch was received
announcing that the vessel had been
seized 70 miles from the nearest land.
A demand will at once be made on the
British government for two war vessels
to proceed to Behring sea, to look after
and protect Canadian vessels from
United States cutters.
Why is it that most all of the drays,
oal yard and factory wagons in Ath-
•. , & Martin’s make, because
' wagon that will stand
work but them.
d-lt-w-tf.
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The Finest Prospect Ever Known In Geor
gia.
The Banner editor has just returned
from an extended trip with the Grady
party, and says he never in his life saw
sucli crop prospects. The whole coun
try is smiling with the prospects of
plenty.
He saw corn on thin upland,that nev
er before made more than ten bushels
per acre even the best of years,that will
yield from eighteen to thirty bushels.
If no calamity overtakes the crops El
bert county will make enough grain to
last her two if not three years.
Corn on bottom land looks like a cane
brake. Of late years the fanners have
lost their low ground crops, and so
planted a double supply. Both crops
have hit, and in consequence promises
that Georgia will be able to sell corn in
stead of buying it. These bounteous
crops are not confined to Elbert, but the
same reports reach us from all sections
of Georgia and Carolina. Cotton Is as
fine as the land can produce. There
has been plenty of moisture in the
earth to keep it growing. It
is taking on an immense crop of
fruit, and we hear no complaints of the
squares shedding.
In fact, every crop seems to have hit
this year, and next fall we may confi
dently look for a big business and plen
ty of money afloat.
Is there any one else .in Northeast
Georgia that gives as good a guarantee
on the.’f buggies a id wagons as Klein
& Martir. w-tf.
Judge Thomas Arranging to Complete His
Road to Knoxville.
A Banner reporter met Capt. G. II
Yancey, yesterday, and the conversa
tion turned on Northeast Georgia.
Capt. Yancey stated that the coun
try around Tallulah Falls was taking
on a big boom, and that the people were
at last realizing the great advantages
they possess in minerals, soil, climate
and scenery.
A stock company is now being or
ganized at Turnersville to develop that
place, and it is said an iron furnace will
be built there. The fiuest magnetic ore
is found in that section, arid a vein
passes directly through Capt. Yancey’s
land. Before the war an iron furnace
was operated at the Logue mills, near
Clarkesville, but for some cause the en
terprise was abandoned. The iron made
here was equal to the best from Sweden.
Tallulah Falls is rapidly building up,
and is this season crowded with visitors.
Judge W. B. Thomas has just completed
a beautiful residence near the depot
that is furnished with hot and cold wa
ter, electric bells and other modern con
veniences. Judge Thomas entertains
his friends in princely style, and is do
ing a great deal to build up and devel
op Tallulah.
Capt. Yancey says he entertains no
doubt about Judge Thomas completing
his road to Knoxville; that he can get
the money any day, but is looking out
for the protection of his own interests.
He expects a party to visit him shortly,
and feels no Joubt but that arrange
ments will be made to complete the road.
The building of this line will enable
Athens to lay down manufacturing coal
at $2 per ton, and be of great benefit to
our city in everv way.
We have great faith in this new road.
Polk G. Johnson, a leading lawyer of
Clarksville, and one of the best known
1 men in Tennessee, died in New York.
IN FOUNTAIN OF FLAMES
MARTIN EARNS Sl.OOD BY FLUNG
ING INTO A BURNING PIL
LAR OF GAS.
Hundreds Watch His Daring Feat ai>.
Despair of His Escape—He Stopped
the Daily Waste of Eleven Mil
lion Feet of Gas—What Cool
Courage and a Cold
Chisel Accomplished
in a Hot Place.
DANIEL PRAM
Ruthnen, 'Ont., July 29.—Three
weeks ago iast^ Tuesday the Ruthven
Gas Well was set on fin*. It is slippered
that the incendiary was some disg.un
tLdlaboue . The cap over the top of
the pine was so fixed that the escaping
gas rushed out directly towards ti e
ground and made safe approach to it
impossible. The xoar of the gas rushing
out could be heard in Kingsville, three
miles away. Local mechanics found it
impossible to remove the cap. Each
one gave it up after the first trial. The
heat was simply unendurable and grew
worse every day. Gas experts i'lOin
Ohio were called to the scene, but they,
too, gave it up. The ground around
the well be*ame baked and when work
men tried to cool it with a stream f -orn
a fire engine the water exhaled in a cloud
of steam b-ifore it had fairly struck the
ground. All idea of cooling off the
ground was given up.
The owners of the well offered $1,000
to any one who would remove the cap.
William H. Marvin, a mining expert
who had some acquaintance with natu
ral gas, undertook the job. He tried
several schemes for removing the cap
by a long lever, but they all failed for
the reason that his lever
would melt away under the fierce heat
as soon as he got near enough to work.
He determined to go near enough to
the well to cut off the cap. He made a
suit of asbestos that was unique in its
way and 3 r et proved successful after a
little tinkering. The first attempt was
a signal failure. In his next trial he
wore a pair of rnbber boots, and inside
of these he thrust his feet wound in
dampened rags. Outside of these lie put
a heavy covering of asbestos. His coat
of asbestos was was cone-shaped. His
arms stuck out through two holes in
flic cone and were ^wound in several
thicknesses cf wet cloth,which was cov
ered with a heavy coating of asbestos.
His contrivance for cutting the pipe
consisted of a long and very sharp chis
el, fastened at right angles to an iron
staff. In approaching the well he slid
the cone along the ground, seeing his
way through a glass set in the front.
His assistant was robed like himself,and
carried a long iron bar on which was
fastened a small hammer.
Two hundred people saw the daring
men approach to the flame, and as Mar
vin disappeared in its circle a shudder
swept over the onlookers. There were
not a half dozen in the crowd who ex
pected to see Marvin come out alive but
in a minute—it seemed like an age—
they.saw the edge of the chisel resting
up against the pipe, just below the cap.
Almost breathlessly they watched the
assistant make a stroke at the chisel in
a clumsy kind of a way. He did not hit
it. The second trial was more success
ful; he hit the chisel squarely but ligl^-
ly. The cone in the ring of fire waver
ed, and a cry of“He’s burned to death!”
went up on all sides, The cone moved
again, the chisel fell and the people
could see that Marvin was coming out.
Every body thought that he had given
up in sheer despair;but not so. He had
come out of the fire to get rest and air.
He was nearly suffocated. His assist
ant lost no time in getting away from
the fearful heat.
When the cone was lifted off he was a
sight to behold. His face was scarlet
and his eyes potruded like door knobs.
He was half roasted and it took him two
hours to recover. Then he pluckily de
termined to try it over.
He had his cone thoroughly drenched
and he fixed up another chisel, saying,
as the cone was put over him, that he
would succeed or never come out alive.
Again the hammer and the ehisel were
brought into play, and little by little
the people began to see that the man’s
skill and pluck would win. All at once
the roar of the well changed into a
shrill whistle, and the cap was blown a
hundred feet upward, while Marvin’s
cone stood at the foot of the pipe mo
tionless. It was some minutes before
it moved, and the people thought again
that he had perished in his attempt. He
was badly scorched, but not hurt oth
erwise. The thing was a success and
Marvin had earned his $1,COD.
It will be at least two weeks before
Marvin resumes his wonted appearance.
His lips are terribly swollen and his
eyebrows and whiskers are entirely
burned off. The ground about the well
is still so hot that no one can .walk on
it, and it will take three or four days to
cool it off. Marvin’s great feat is said
to be the first successful event of the
kind on record. \
An Ice Trust Formed.
Special to The Banner
Savannah, Ga., August 1.—The ice
companies of the coast cities have form
ed a trust for the purpose of controlling
the manufacture and sale of ice. Five
companies are in the trust already:
Gage & Lyon’s ice company, Mobile;
Avondale Ice company, Birmingham;
Charleston, S. C., Ice Manufacturing
company; Brunswick, Ga., ice compa
ny andGorie company.
M ARKW ALTER’*?
GTE 1 A A/T M O
Best Buggies and Wagons for the Money;?
FULL LINE BELTING,
T * Fleming &
A THEN ‘ GA.
THEO.
STEAM
Marble and Granite
BROAD STREET, Near Lower Market. AUGUST\
Marble Work, Domestic and Imported, at low Pr
Georgia & South Carolina Granite Monuments made a Specialty
A large selection of Marble and Granite Work always on hand, ready ier lettering.
Parties Desiring Monuments or Work Apply to
At Athens Cemetery.
Athens :
-AND-
Found;
MACHINE WORKS,
ATHENS. WoRGd
Manufacturers of Iron and
Castings, Mill and Machaaji
Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers J
Baxes, Cotton Presses, Cta!
; Mills and Evaporators, Cott*|
Seed Crushers and Circular Sul
Mills.
[|py We sell the Atlas Steam Engine, Injectors, Jet Pump
Va l ves, Piping and Steam Packings, Water Wheels and
Belting Cloth. We have competent mill-rights and nil
send them out and erect mills anywhere in the country|
can furnish estimates.
Write to us or call and see us for anything you may Deed about job]
Grist Mill or Gin. Address
ATHENS FOUNDRY AND MACHINE WORKS,
Athens. Georgia:
J Y. Barites
& Bo.,
Dealers In
Buggies,
Carriages,
Road Carts
and Wagons.
tGENTS wAHTiojoam
WAR BTORT
The Columbus and Hiram
W. Davis Buggies a Specialty.
All other makes kept con
stantly on hand.
Office at Johnson & Moore's
No. 11 Clayton Warehouse
on Washington street.
I
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gives Immediate rellet Catarrhal
virus to soon expelled from the sys
tem, and the diseased action of toe
rass sssss? 18 repiaced by
The dose to small. One package
contains a sufficient quantity for a
long treatment.
CATARRH
A Cold in the Head fa relieved by
an application of Piso’s remedy for
Catarrh. The comfort to be got
gS» & cS** way 18 wortb
Easy and pleasant to use.
Price, 50 cents. Sold by druggists
or sent by mail. 66
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