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VOLUME l AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1891. NUMBER 141 The Greatest Midsummer Sale * OF Dry Goods, Notions, CLOTHING AND THE Grandest Reduction in Prices Ever known in the history of onr trade, commences to-morrow (Monday) morning GEORGE D7 WHEATLEY’S, Cor. Lamar St. and Cotton Ave. ONLY A LIEUTENANT, condensed newe dispatches. We are determined to make a CLEAN SWEEP OF ALL KINDS OF SUMMER GOODS. And in order to do this, YOUR PRICE will be OUR PRICE for anything you may want of us this week. WE ARE GOING TO ' GIVE AWAY DOMESTICS TOGETHER WITH ALL OUR Calicoes. Ginghams Muslins, Challies, AND OTHER SUMMER DRESS GOODS AT COST And LESS THAN COST if necessary, to CLEAR OUT. Prices will be cut “FINE AS FROGS’ HAIR.” If you don’t believe this, OTHERS WILL, so just come and see the crowd this week at Geo. D. Wheatley’s. POLK AROUSES THE1REOF OLD KAN SAS SOLDIERS. H* i, Accueed at Inhumanity to Union Soldier, xiurlnc the War—HI, Speeches Devoted to a Denial of the Charge—The Work of the Wichita Police. ’“’■uhita, Sept. 17.—In his addresses in this state. Colonel L. L. Polk of the National Farmers’ Alliance, is making it a point to deny the stories of his in humanity to Union soldiers. He denies that he ever held rank above a third lieutenancy, and could not therefore have been in authority at any post, veteran in this city—Mr. McAllister— who was in Salisbury (N. C.) prison, when Polk was governor, holds a sick parole signed by L. L. Polk, brigadier general commanding the post, and gives the Alliance leader the blackest reputa tion for his conduct to Union Boldiers. A score of determined old soldiers got together and perfected plans for apply ing tar and feathers to Polk before he should leave town, but somehow the news of their intention leaked out and the police took steps to prevent the pro. Jected assault. PRESIDENT AT WASHINGTON. All our 8c Figured Challies lo go aUXcperyd. All oar l2J4c " ” 8o per yd All onr 8o Standard Callcoe, “ 5c reryd. All onr 7o Printed Vlctora Lawn, at SJ4e per yd All our 8c White Lawn, (yd wide) at 6o per yd All our8c White Check Nalneook at 6c per yd. Stock of above will not last long at such prices, so come early or yon will be disappointed. BOW LOOK! 5c This is the Biggest FIVE CENT Bargain Ever You Saw. 5c NOTTINGHAM CURTAIN LACE. got “scooped” some time ago in the purchaso of a big lot of Nottingham Lace for cur tains: We have been asking from 20 to 40o per yard, but the goods linger with us longer than we like, so in order to move them right ouf and at the same tftne give you aD A No. 1 BARGAIN we part with the entire lot at 5c PER YARD THIS WEEK. We cannot mention here any SPECIAL PI1ICES on everything we have to offer, but remember in reading the foregoing, that FilO- PORTIONATE and SWEEPING REDUCTION IN PRICES will be the order of this week in every department of our store. OUR STOCK OF Handkerchiefs. Hosiery, Ribbons, Laces, Em broideries, Corsets and Gloves We guarantee the best in the city, and our prices beyond the reach of ' competition. Housekeepers will find it to their interest to inspect our line of TABLE LINENS, DOYLIES, NAPKINS, TOWELS, Before buying elsewhere. A WORD ABOUT Clothing - and - Gents’ - Fixings. We carry the VERY FINEST ASSORTMENT TD BE FOUND and OUR PRICES always have been simply UNAPPROACHABLE from the standpoint of compe tition. here^we^SeNOREABONA^^^fof you may need in onr line. Cannot you save somethin: by trading with Geo. D. Wheatley Cor. Lamar St. and Cotton Ave., AMEBICUS, GEORGIA. He Goea to Work and la Considering Appointments. Washington’, Sept. 17.—The presi dent has returned to bis post and at once plunged into, the consideration of filling, the official positions thut have been created, as well as those that have been made vacant. It is learned that probably General Lew Wallace ns sec retary of war, Steve Elkins or General Goff as secretary of the interior, and some western man as attorney general, will be taken into the cubinet. Noble will be given a foreign mission, and At torney General Milley will be given a life judgeship on the new circuit court of appeals. John T. Gleen ot Atlanta, a Demo crat, has been urged for the interstate coniine ce commissionership by Colonel Buck, who has had charge of the distri bution of tlie Georgia patronage, and it is thought lie will be the southern mem ber on the commission. Ex Governor Gear of Iowa, will probably be appoint ed to succeed Judge Cooley. There are over 200 applicants for the nine new circuit judgeships from all parts of the country. It is difficult to suppose who may get the appointments. The commissioners will be chosen this week. TRAGEDY IN TEXAS. A Difficulty with Fatal liranit. Grows Out of Sub.Treasury Controversy. Dallas, Sept. 17.—A tragedy was en acted on the public square at Sulphur Springs in this state. For some time past Everett Moore, editor of The Alli ance Vindicator, and E. M. Tate, the editor of The Hopkins County Echo, huve been engaged in a bitter newspa per controversy which had its origin in a dispnte over the sub-treasury scheme. Finally the men met on the square and the old trouble came up. Words led to blows, when the men grappled. They broke away, but pulled pistols and both fired. Moore fell mortally wound ed ane expired a few hours afterwards. Tate was placed under urtest. Tlie feeling runs high, as both men were populur and each had many friends. CHARRED BODIES FOUND In Clearing Away tho Debris of (he Old Commercial Advertiser llulldlng. New York, Sept. 17. — Workmen clearing awuy the debris of the Com mercial Advertiser building unearthed the charred remains of a human body shortly utter midnight. A few hoars later another charred trunk was found. These were identified as the remains of John Adelman and Frederick, his son, bv John Adelman, the son and brother oi the dead men. These men were jow- elers, and hud a work shop in the burned building. Tlie police believe other bodies wil be nnenrtbed. It will take a day or two more to complete the re moval of tlie debris. ■Hack Tongue, a Cattle Dlocnne. West Liberty, O., Sept. 17.—There is considerable excitement among tlie farmers in the vicinity of Carysville, Champaign county, eight miles south west uf here, because of a disease known as black tongue that has broken ont among the cattle. A farmer named Brautigan has lost six head, nnother fire head, and a number of other herds are sick. The disease is supposed to have been brought here with a car load of Chicago cattle. Domestic and Foreign and of Goaoral la to root. Secretary Blaine and family will Probably leave Bar Harbor on Sept. 19, for Augusta. Me., where they expect to remain about a month. At New York laborers employed tn excavating the rnina of Fnlton street fire found the body of s man among the debria and under a great iron safe. Tha-natlonal convention of the Kaj Alpha fraternity is in session at 1 minglwm, Ala. Abont ISO delegates are in attendance, representing twelve states. . An unknown inmate of the soldier's home, at Fortress. Mouroe, Va., while nnder the influence ot liquor, was ran over by electric cars, near Hampton, and killed. The steamer Sorata, at Plymouth, from South America, reports that yel low fever is raging at Bio Janeiro and that two Portugese died of the fever on the voyage. The scare caused by the report of the occupation of Mitylene by Euglaud has made Paris banks less pliable, and ne gotiations concerning the price of the new Russian loan still continue. The president has commuted the sen. tence of Charles Schottky of Georgia, sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for counterfeiting and a fine of $2,000, to two years' actual imprisonment. The London Standard's Odessa corre- pondent says that during the coming ve weeks Pi,000 troops will be con veyed by tho Russian volunteer fleet from Batonin to Sebastopol and Odessa. The Viennu Political correspondence says the sultan requested an audience of the British wiuister, and there are indications that he suspects that he has been misled and is turning toward Eng land. The Home secretary has remitted eighteen months of the sentence of Ar thur Bidwell, the American forger wlic committed frauds on the bank of Eng land together with his brother George. The latter was released in 1886. Frank McLemore, a negro workman at tlie compress in Montgomery, Ala., had his head crushed in the press. He was sewing bagging around a bale of cotton and did not withdraw his head when the press platens came together. At Birmingham, Ala., Mrs. Chnrles Billon, wife to tlie foreman of the Ala bama Great Southern railroad shops, is tho happy and thriving mother of four little babies. Three of the quartette are boys and one n girl, and nil are do ing splendidly. Tlie mother is of aver age size, is a little over 20 years of age, ami she had never before given birth to a child. Letters received at London from Jid- dah. dated Aug. 24, state that the death- rate from cholera among the pilgrims to Mecca was unprecedented In the an nals of Mohammedan pilgrimage. The authorities at that time estimated that 1,100 pilgrims had died during the sea son. At the date the letters referred to were sent nil signs of the epidemic bad disappeared. A Raleigh, N. C., special says that wealthy northern man, who lost year visited Rocky monn'. and was shown many courtesies by O. W. Harris, i well known citizen, fell dead on Mon thly. His will has been opened, and it is found that he beqnnthed Harris $100,- 000 for courtesies siiown, the sum to be mid in United States currency. Harris eft to get t)ie money. At Nesho. Mo., Sheriff Fcatherston has received telegrams anil letters from citizens and’ officials ot Jasper county that a mob was being raised to rescue Bud Blunt, confined in jail there and sentenced to be hung Sept. 25 for the killing of Jack Majors, tile Frisco brake- man last December. He has placed a strong guard around the jail and is ready for them. A dispatch has been received at Lon don from Algiers, showing on the west side of tlie Bay of Gibraltar, stating that the third collision between steam ers had occurred in the Mediterranean witliiu the past week. In the last one sixty-five lives were lost. The name of lither of the steamers is given in the dispatch, bnt one of them was Greek the other Italian. Both vessels were so badly damaged (bat they sank. A Knoxville. Tenn., special says that Postmaster Hudibntg announces that Receiver Glover of the Marietta and North Georgia road, has reached an agreement with the government for carrying the ninil on his line. Cars will be pnt on at once,, as the receiver comet hero soon to arrange for them. This will be good news for the people? along the line from here to Blue Ridge, Ga. The Antl-Sub-Treasury Convention. ST. Lons, Sept. 17.—A national com mittee of seven of anti-snb-treasnry Alliancemen met in executive session and elected W. 8. McAllister, of Mis sissippi, chairman. Dr. W. Polk Yea- mans was authorized to draw up a pro test to lie presented to the supreme council, and after the leading executive session the committee adjourned to meet in Indianapolis next Novemqer. Americans Seeing the Holy Cont. Treves. Sept. 17.—The first party of American pilgrims, nnder Missionary Brann of Minnesota, have arrived here. There are about sixty in the company. The newspapers are publishing reports of miraculous cures through the touch ing of the holy garment. Hendricks Gcu the Job. Washington, Sept. 17.—The presi dent has nppointed Frauds Hendricks to be collector of customs at New York. 102 miles, who have been without mail facilities,’ except stage ronte service. A Rome dispatch states that in view of the gravity of the European situation the government proposes to increase taxation to the amount of 15,000,000 to 20,000,000 of lire. The government is privately urging the speedy completion of inen-of-war now in comae yf con struction, and has ordered war vessels St Spezzia and Naples to complete their armaments. All merchantmen classed os cruisers have been ordered to given points to ship guns and munitions of war. The distress in the Volga province is intense. In Panza women and children wander about almost utterly exhausted, shriking for food in the market places. The governor of Saratov remarks that children are the worst factor in such a crisis as this. All existing charities and the Red Cross societies are doing their best. Rnssistt corn merchants on the frontier are despondent over the idea that the German trade will find fresh channels and never return to Russia. At Boston, in the Republican conven tion the balloting for a candidate for governor reenhed in the nomination of Allen. Ex-Governor Brackett was nom inated for lieutenant governor against William Haile, of Springfield, and Haile was nominated by acclamation. Colonel William N. Olln of Boston, was, by ac clamation, renominated for secretary of state, George A. Harden was nominated for trensiu-i-r and receiver general by acclamation. Albert E. PilLbnry was renominated by acclamation lor attor- n»y generaljW SOT MISS AMELIA. MISS VERA AVA 13 UNKNOWN, BUT WILL STIR CHICAGO. Mm Ava to Leave Cincinnati for the Great Fair City Sunday, Where She Fromlaee to Create a Breezy Time—The Famous Wom an Tails a Good Story. Chicago, Sept. 17.—A News special from Cincinnati says: Miss Vera Ava is not the famous Miss DeBar. This was proved here. Her real name is still unknown. Next Snnday she starts to Chicago to speak to the people from the stage of the museum. She makes public the names of two men who were in the Cronin conspiracy! She claims to have the list of the men who plotted the murder. "Chicago will be on fire next week, said she. "My pr of is convincing, and after what baa happened no one will be spared. I will be blown to pieces, bnt I will speak the truth, and no one can refute it when I show twenty-seven doc uments which I seized from the foolish house-maid intrusted with them by the frightend suspect. O'Sullivan, the ice man, is innocent, she continued. "The underlings suffered and ring leaders escaped, bnt they will not escape now. It was known that 1 had the terrible evidence. I was drag ged. boxed up and shipped away to die on the train. I did not die, and oa if by a miracle I recovered and escaped to the streets, almost naked. Then I was suddenly identified as Mme. Dis DeBar, and an attempt was made to smuggle me away to Longview asylum, out Judge Ferris knew 1 wns not crazy. “ THEY ARE READY. Oklahoma Roomers on the Borders and Hound for the Promised Land. Guthrie, Sept. 17.—The settlers are beginning to arrive and take op their station on the line, preparatory to the opening of the new lands to settlement. The reservations soon to be thrown open to homesteaders are three lyinj east of Guthrie. The Iowa Sac one Fox and Pottawatomie contain in the aggregate about 900,000 acres of land, Prairie schooners' everywhere dot the country, Every train deposits here a number of people anxious to acqnire homes in the new land. All seem to confidently expect the president’s pro clamation to contain a few days' notice, sufficient to enable them, to procure teams and provisions for the jonrney. Most of them express a desire to abide strictly by the order, and not to enter the new country until the day named for settlement. This Is probably influ enced by the rough experience of the "sooners ” in Oklahoma Territory. Had Nothing to Do With It. Chicago. Sept. 17.—Ignatius Don nelly, president of the Minnesota Alli ance, saysi "It shonid be distinctly under-tood that the Farmers’ Alliance of Minnesotn lias had nothing whatever to do with the various circulars that have been issued from St. Patti advis ing the fanners to hold their wheat for higher prices. Supposed Murderer Caught. Avgusta, Ga., September 17.—A nan supposed to be Will Carpenter, an ac complice in the murder of Preston Younce, in Edgefield, S. C., was arrest ed near Summit, in .Emanuel county, Go., where he has been living for nearly year. He claims to be Sam Hardin of Kershaw county, S. C. A photograph has been taken and sent to the authori ties in South Carolina. It tallies with the description. Broke HI. Skull Macon, September 17.—At 11 o’clock this morning Drew Clarke, a blacksmith at the Central City buggy works, on Poplar street, struck an unknown man who bad wandered into his shop with a scantling, breaking bis skull. Dr. Pat terson says he will die. Clarke bai left to elude the authorities. No one knows the dying man. He has the ap pearance of a farmer. Oeoun Itccord Broken. London, September 17.—The Ham burg American line steamer, Fu'rst Bis marck, from New York, September 10, for Hamburg, arrived at Southampton at 3:15 this morning, breaking the best previous record between New York and Southampton. Her time . was six days, twelve hours and fifty-eight minutes. Pledger Promoted* Wasiiinoton, September 17.—Special Agent W. A. Pledger, who hss been In specting timber for the land office since this administration came into power, has been promoted to be a special agent of the bureau of immlgs- tlon, with headquarters In Georgia. Pledger Is here. John Gilpin on Trial. Greensboro, Gs , September 17.— Immense crowds are in Greensboro to day witnessing the trial of John Gilpin for the murder of Charles Kilgore,which occurred about two moathe ago. There are twenty witnesses. Strong lawyers are on both sides and a big tilt It eri- sat; The verdict will be (Cached to morrow. • Letter for Orth Stela. Augusta, Ga., September 17.—A let ter wae received here to-day addressed to Orth H. Stein, in care of the sheriff, from Lafayette, Indiana. The letter It FBI VATE HANGING-*• A Bill Providing fo Them Fused the House Yesterday. Atlanta, September 17.—fn the hotter, this morning, the bill by Mr. Monroe of Calhoun to amond the code to as to provide for all hangings to be private, was recognized to be an impor tant one. Tho law haa heretofore left It to the. discretion of tho judge passing tho sentences whether the banging should be publlo or private. Mr. Monroe epoke In advocaey of his blit He aald that It was a faot that In hit portion of the atate the bangings were invariably publlo, and the reanlts were bad. He cited to a publlo hanging that was to take place In his county a short time ago. A great crowd had gathered to witness the hanging, bnt the hanging didn’t take place. The sentence was commuted on the day the banging was to take place, and the erowd was so much disappointed that it ended in a row, In widen one white man was killed outright sod several negroes were wounded. Mr. Wooten of Dougherty believed the moral effect of publlo hangings was bad. It is always the case that the condemned claimed to have made peace with God, and the ignorant, superstitions crowd went away believing the condemned had died a martyr and would suffer no. pun ishment hereafter. The bill was then pasted. THIS BOBBERS CAUGHT. A Detective Nearly Meets Hie Death In Ar- reetlnx Them. Savannah, September 17.—The ex press robbers were brought here.this morning from Florida. They were photographed and made full confession. They had planned to go Into the train robbery as a regular business. They in tended to hold ap a G.orgla Southern <fc Florida train next. All are men of slight build. Detective Bedford would have been killed where the arrest was made had it not been for Detective Si -Batch, who threw a shot gun In DeLaughiter's face Just as be was I about to shoot. Bedford, Crim and Batch acted with great bravery. ANNIE GOODLKTT PARDONED. She Figured In tlie Folio* Court With u White Stun, Atlanta, Ga., September 17.—To-day Governor Norlben did a just thing, In pardoning Annie Goodlett, a elxtoon- year-old girl, nearly white. Last week she and a young white man figured in the police court, and were fined $50 each. The young man paid ble flno and tho girl was about to be sent to the chain- gang Sbe ie pardoned, and the young man, who Is alto obargod with another serious offense in connection with tho girl, baa, so it it said, left the city. To Enter the Union Depot* Atlanta, Go., September 17.—Mr. Pat Calhoun, vice-president of the Rich mond and Danville, received a letter tbit morning from Mr. John H. Inman, enelosing a proposition to settle the dif ficulties between tbe Nashville, Chatta nooga and St. Lonis, and lines entering: the union depot. It Is rumored that in tbit proposition the Richmond and Dan ville agrees to pay the Nashville, Chatta nooga and St. Louis demands, and none of the roada entering tho union depot- will be compelled to leave It, and that tbe East Tennessee wilt ran Its passen ger trains into the shed. The agree ment will date from the first of this month, and tbo East Tennessee will be gin to run trains into tbe shod in a few days. . It Will be Defeated. Atlanta,September 17.—'Tbe chance* are that the Berner bill will be defeated, and that tbe railroad advocates will adopt the Ooodwln bill at a substitute. Whan they do this they will know they have votes enough to defeat the Berner blit. Tbe friends of the Berner bill care nothing for the Goodwin substitute be cause they do not think it affords the re lief needed and demaned by the people; so If tbe railroad advocates want to they can, after adopting the substitute, kill tbe subetitute when It comet up on its final passage in lieu of the original Ber ner. bill, and there will be no legislation on tbe subject at this session. . Aa Explanation Wanted. Atlanta, Ga., September 17.—Liv ingston is going to bare another chanco to explain bit position and his attitude towards the democratic party. It seems his friends do not think he was explicit • enough, so they have voted him tho use of the hall of the house of representa tives to take another shot at it—nil by himself. There will be no cut prosont to correct his errors. Of course ho will toll them about Cleveland's veto of tbe sliver bill. (7) Reviewing the French Army. Fahis, September 17.—President Car not and tbe minister of atate are to*day at Vitry le Francois reviewing tho French army, consisting of 110,000 men which, since September 3, haa been ma neuvering under the direction of Gen. Seamier.