About Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1891)
VOLUME 1 AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SUNDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1891. NUMBER ICO Something For The SEEN BY MASSES. BRAND HEW SAFI TO BE GIVEN AWAY I IT WONT COST YOU ;A To stimulate the traffic in our Boys’/ and Children’* Olothug department*' I wilLgive with every Bov’s or Child’s suit?, hetweeh the ages of 4 and 18 years, sold bv u® from the 1st ot October past, uutil jk NEXl^CHRI6TMAS EVE, when the fortunate one grill foe determined, A TICKET, (non-transferable).ptjtling the holder tooifb chance at a ^ * : TO BE <3lV6*fc,AWAY ABSOLUTELY FREE ANY CHARGE WH All you have to do is tos BUY- YOUR BOY’S SU^ and get a ticket FROM ME Thdse tickets will be numbered and on Christmas Eve, numbers corresponding with the tickets given away will be put in a box: then a committee of disinter ested citizens will draw out one of the numbers, and,the holder of the ticket containing that number, gets the * Brand New Safety Bicycle Free of Charge! ■i ' . Now a Word about our Famous Clothing Department THE. NAME OF George D. Wheatley has become known far and wide as the synonym of FINE CLOTHING 'M FAIR PRlffiSl ■ Our stock was NEVER SO COMPLETE 1 Our styles NEVER SO ELEGANT! Our prices NEVER SO MODERATE! And never so great OOR ANXIETY TO .PLEASE! Our assortment-of Boys’ and Children’s Clothing begins with a neat WA8H SATINET SUIT (wool filling) any size from 4 to 18 years, At $1.25 Per Suit, and includes all the finer materials, such as CASSIMERES, WORSTEDS, TRICOTS, SERGE AND CHEVIOT Suits so desirable for “BOYS WHO ARE HARD ON CLOTHES.’* Wishing you all “good luck” in the drawing, boys, - Your friend, PARNELL’S REMAINS TAKEN FROM WALSINQHAM TERRACE. * Slowly mhL Sadly Waj the Body o( “Bn- B" Placed In m Beano and Funeral Train—Mn. Far- London, Oct. 10.—An enormotis con- course of peoplu surrounded the Wal- singlmm Terrace when the caskft con taining the remains of Charles Stewart Parnell were taken from the house. Slowly and sadly was the body placed In an open bearse drawn by four horses, A 12:15 o'clock, p. m., tbe cortege started for the railroad station amid a terrific down pour of rain. Immediately following the hearse and monrning coaches was a committee of Parnell’s colleagues in parliament, who had been selected to escort the body to Holyhead. The route to the railroad station was lined with nm-ses of people who silent ly and respectfully watched the of the funeral procession. At tlon the remains were placed the funeral car and, with mem' the Parnell parliamentary wutchera, started for Willesden\Jnnc' tlon, to which place the car is- to be taken direct and where it will be at 2 p. in., to a train hound foriHoly- head, Mrs. Parnell was utterly fnable to accompany the remains to She is too ill to undertake the jot Capture of » Noted Sharper' Madison, Wis., Oct. lO.-Offlcfjr No lan of Albany has arrived with extradi tion papers for the transfer to-.New York state of George \V. Post; alias George-W. Stone, George W. Hijl, W. H. Baker, and W. S.. Baker, who wanted in several ports of the country work wherein -Yincept S. Richardson of Jacksonville, Bis., was robbed of <7,000' in May, fc3u/‘ He will be turned;over, however, to.the New York authorities for the rubbery of a millionaire named Peck nt Albany, ■ he obtaining at that time f 10,‘iOU. Post,has been throwing money in every direction, and wal very mint with the hotel people. His '«is prostruted with grief, this,being added to the loss of their only son*a few weeks ago. Governor Peck Is absent srum Madiaon and Post will be held un til be reinrus. lturttnley Makes O<>od Hoie| Philadelphia, Oct 10.—John Bards- ley has found an occupation in prison seems to agree with him and of which he has mode a success. It is that of box making, and the ex-city treasurer has shown a degree of skill in the work that has surprised those who fall to re member that in his younger days he was a blacksmith and supported him', self for many years by hard manual la bor. The loag strain upon Bardsley, bis disgrace, and the paison confine ment are beginning to tell on his health, and deafness is coming upon him- He lives in the hope of a pardon tl political iuflnenoa after a few. years’ confinement. lie flats Some Letters. Nxw York, Oct. 10.—Count 'Logo- thetti, whose reported romantic engage ment to Miss Fleischmann, of Cincim natti, recently gave him notoriety, has obtained from Acting Consul Eberhard, of the Austrian coninlate, a le plaining that be arrived in this country three years ago, having letters of intro duction and credentials which proved his identity. The Hungarian Almanac of Nobility for 1888 also gives a fall de scription of bis family uud their posses- . Wheatley. sions- His birth is chronicled] under the date of 1801, and his name is, given as Eugene Diuuied. - ( HI. 100th Birthday. Fitzwiluah, N. H., Oct. 18.—The Hon. A. A. Parker has celebrated bis 100th birthday. He graduated from the University of Vermont in 1815, and is said to be the oldest living college graduate in America. 'He practiced law for yean, was intimate with Dan iel Webster, and has served ip the leg islature more terms than any other member. As a colonel in thegovernor’s staff in i820 he acted os escort to Gen eral LaFayetta. Mr. Parker still retains possession of nis faculties. j she Won asf.OOO. j Mt. Sterling,* Ky., Oct. ill—The now celebrated case of Mrs. Sarah Ham ilton against George Hamilton, in Which she seeks to recover $22,000,060 doe her from the old Hamilton estate, was decided in common pleas court hero, judgment being rendered iter for the amount. * Two Children Harried. | Atchison, Kan., Oct. 10.—Bert David son and Emma Andre, two children re siding near Cummings, were married. The groom is 16 and the bride is 15. They Rad the consent, of their parents. The father of the yoathfnl bridegroom is • wealtny farmer. Thai. 0.14.a W«44tag. PxTSKSBCia, nit., Oct. Iff—Mr. and Mrs. William J. Morris celebrated their golden wedding at Morris' Opera bouse* They came to Petersburg thirty-six CONDENSED NEWS DI8PATCHES. Domeitie and Foreign and of Oanaral Interest. The resignation ot ex-Senator Blair aa minister to China has been accepted. The briefs in the oases ot the import ers against the McKinley tariff act ha: been filed. The tangling of a country yonth in parachute’s ropes at Greenup, Ills., caused the ■ death of- the professional aeronaut. Henry Watterson paid a high tribute to Grant in a speech at the banquet of the Society of the Army of the Tennes see in Chicago. Lieutenant Schwatka, the explorer, has returned from a trip to Alaska, in which he explored 000 miles ot totally unknown country. A New York special nays : Bir Edwin Arnold, the noted EuglUh Antnor, wifi lecture in New York city Nov. 4. Sir Edwin will sail ou the 14tu iiist. lor this country. A child of. Mr. Frank Tory of Ran dolph, Ills., upset a cup of hot tea. Part of thy fluid ran down the child's throat and entered its lnugs, causing death al most instantly. A St. Petersburg dispatch says: It is officially announced here that the gov ernment has no intention of prohibiting the exportation of wheat, of which Rus sia is still in position to send 200,000,000 peods abroad. Freeman Cooper, of the Kokomo Jonrnnl, an anti-Banrison Republican paper, was found guilty, of forgery at Frankfort, Ind., and sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Twenty-three similar indictments are pending. There is a report that the King of Wttrtembargha8 left legacies to a con siderable amount to the two Americans, JacKsoa mat George, whom he sent away lrotn Luxenbourg in 182S on ac- ruuut of tile protests of the public that he snowed to them too uracil lavor. At Indianapolis, Mrs, Anna Herron, aged 48, who was under treatment nt the sanitarium, during (he absence of her attendants committed suicide by hanging herself to her bedpost. Two years ugo she attempted self-destruction by splitting her head with an ax. She wus a lady of good family. Ex-Senator John J. Ingalls .has ac cepted an invitation from Major Mc- Kiuley to make some speeches in Ohio this month. Be will probably stop, there next weex ou his way to Massa chusetts, whyre he will deliver the opening lecture of a series under the uuspices of the Eastern Lecture bureau. A London dispatch says: In the elec tion to fill the vacancy in the house of commons lor. northeast Manchester, caused by tire appointment of the Right Hon. Sir James Fnrgusson. the present member of liuit division, to the post master genewaSEpiHr James Fergus- sou, (' .'ouservuiive) received U.U5S votes to 8.il»8 cast for Mr. O. P. Scott,i editor of the Manchester Gnardiau, the Lib eral candidate. A San Francisco special says: The bark Francis bus arrived. She was 142 days from Baltimore. On July 5, while the vessel was on the South Atlantic two men were sent aloft' to loosen the forctop-gallhnt sail. One of the men returned to the deck bat the other was never heard of again. His name was Henry Hchnlbert.a native of Cleveland, O., 20 years of age. He was an uphol sterer by tnule, There is. little aonbt that he fell into the seu from aloft. At Columbus. O., the action brought In the supreme court neurly a year ago by D. K. Watson, os attorney general, to revoke -the charter of the Standard Oil company„on the ground that it bos abased its corporate right* by forming a trust, was reached and occupied the ^Mention of the court th* entire d .day. UKI, Hill H. Choate and 8. C. T. Dodd'of New York, appeared for the Standard. AN ATTACK Is Mads on the Now Constitution Kentucky. Louisville, Oct. 10.—A special from Frankfort state* that a suit was filed there which is aimed at the existence of the new constitution which has jnst been complete^. The suit is brought by Walter Evans, ex-commissioner of internal revenue,' and who is supposed to represent' the Louisville and Nash ville railroad, which was bitterly op posed to the new constitution. The point attempted to be made is that af. :er the conetitution was ratified by the people last Afignst, the convention made more than. 100 changes in the in strument, and that therelore the pres ent constitntion has never been ratified, and is uni) and void. An injnnction is asked ■ restraining the public printer from printing this constitntion uud the secretary of state from promulgating it as the organic law of the state; mid it is prayeu that the document which pnr- rorts to be the new constitntion, be nought into coart and destroyed.. Le gal opinion is very mneb divided, but a majority believe that the new constitu tion will stand. Narrow Escape From Dentil GrsencabtuC Ind., Oct. 10.—Three ladles crossing the Big Fonr railway, west of the city, had a narrow escape from instant death. The crossing is a dangerous one, the view being obstruct ed by a deep ent, and the ladies on reaching it encountered a freight train bonnd west, with four coal cars in front of the engine. Their buggy was struck by the coal cars and all three of the in mates more or less injured. Miss Wil lie Wood sustained severe injuries, bnt no bones were broken; Miss Jennie Van Btukirx was cut ia the side of her bead and badly braised otherwise; Mrs. Elis abeth Welch, of York, Neb., sustained broken ankle and other severe braisas, her injuries being the meet serious. Th* bore* was killed after being carried by the train a distance ot over 506 fs*L RUTB’S THE NAME. EX-PRESIDENT CLEVELAND’S BABY TO BE CALLED RUTH. The Ex-Prealdent Acknowledges Publicly the Almost Innumerable Congratulation* nnd Kind Remembrance* Prom the Peo ple All Over the Country. New York, 'Oct. 10.—Ex-President Cleveland said in answer to a querry re garding the newcomer, in hia house "We have settled on a name nnd it Ruth. This was the name of Mrs. Cleveland’s grandmother and has al ways been especially liked by her. He further said: "In connection with the publication of this item, which, hope, will end much curiosity on the subject, I desire especially that men tion bj made of the extreme and kindly interest in ns and our child shown by good people everywhere throughout the country. We have received almost in numerable congratulations and kind re membrances from the people of the people of the United States, nnd from many bnmble citizens have come hearty felicitations. All this has been' very gratifying nnd has been fully appreci ated. But since it will be imposslbleto acknowledge all these messages separ ately, I hope this pnblio recognition will be accepted ns sufficient. *. SHOT AND KILLED. Mllllron 4iiai»ln*ted by Amacher, Former Friend. Nashville, Oct. 10.—A stable at Westsido park was the scene of nn assassination about 0 o’clock at night. At that hour W. F. Milliron, a, 20-year- old stable boy, employed by J. M. Brown & Co., was, with • several other boys, in the. act of retiring, when he heard some one coll him ontsi te. "That’s Bill ^number,"-said Milliron, I’ll see what he wants, " andopened the door. Instantly there was a, flush from a revolver, and Milliron fell to the floor a' corpse. Ahullet from a 88-cali her re volver had ■ entered Ills eye and passed through the base of his brain, severing n main artery in Its flight. The man who did the shooting wns Wiiliani Amacher. the horseman, whom' Milliron had considered one of his best friends. Thor had never had uny trou ble. bnt Amacher was. drunk, and is said to have remarked that that Mill- iron was the cause of his wife leasing him several duys ago. Amacher ran around the stable and made his escape. Work of the gallows. Ed Neal 1'xecutyyl, 'Dut He Befused lo Own Bis Beal Name. Omaha, Oct. 10,—Ed Neal, murderer of Allan nnd Dnrotby-Jones, wus hanged here in nn inclosnre built jnst outside the connty jail. Ninety-four people witnessed the execution. The con demned man passed' a restless nfght, bnt he walked to the scaffold without a tremor. There wao no hitch in the proceedings and Neat’s neck was broken ay the fall, death being instantaneous. Tile murderer’s real name is unknown, and ou the scaffold be refused to dis close bis identity, although he con fessed his crime. Several Horae* Lie Dead In a Heap In. Hrooklyn. • New Youk, October 10.—Tbo trolley wire of the Brooklyd and Jamaica elec tric railway broke down last night at Fulton street and Broadway, Brooklyn, and one end was nllowed to lie across the pavement until it had killed three boises. Fortbnaiely, no citizen came in con tact with the wire, which was highly charged with electricity. WtlliamjGra- ham, a Wood haven farmer, was the first to discover tho electric wire dang ling in tho road, bnt he did not make the discovery until aftor his two valua ble horses wero lying dead In the middle of thestreeL Graham waB returning' from Brooklyn market about midnight with a $550 team of horses attached to his truck. When at tho corner of Fulton street and Broad way his horses reared and fell to the ground. Ho Immediately jumped from bis wagon to assist tbo horses to rise, but to his eurpriso they woie both dead. At tbo same tlmo.tho liorso attached te a passing surfaco car fell dead. Then some one shouted :£’*Lnok Lout for [the trolley wire or you will bo killed.” Robert Gamble, conductor on tho car, jumped off and began poking).the pros- trato liorso te make It rise, when sud denly his foot touched tho wire, and lie, too, fell to the ground. Fortunately he received comparatively a slight shock. Ho was able to got up In a few minutes, A crowd gathered, and for^a while theio was great confusion In tho’ neigh borhood, All of the time horses were lying in a heap in tbo road, tho wlro’was sizztng and emitting sparks at a lively rato underneath tho dead bodies of the animals. The spectators were apparently greatly frightened, for no one made a move to get tho wiro out of the way. At length several men procured long poles and .dragged the wire out from under tho dead horses to one side of tho street. Another man telephoned to the ofllco of the company about the broken wire and the’eurrent was immediately shut off. There wus only one passenger In the car at the time and he was not injured.. Farmer’Graham says'.he will sue the city for the loss of his horses. Two Bang at Bask. Rusk, Tex., Oct. 10.—John and "Wade Felder, colored, were banged here for murdering Yance Thompson on August 17,1820. They walked to the gallows with unfaltering steps, and, while standing on the trap, both said they were confident of forgiveness. They were pronounced dead fit ten mlnntes after the trap fell . Drank Poisoned Liquor. Buroettstown, Pa., Oct. 10.—Three hostlers at the connty. fair grounds fonnd a bottle of liquor which had been secreted. These three men almost drained the bottle with the result that Alex Chappell took convulsions and died in two hoars and the others are lying at the point of death. The liqnor remaining in the bottle showed equal arts of strychnine, whisky and aico- tol. The Russian Famine. Moscow, Oct. 10.—The Gazette of this city says that the snm of 20,003,000 roubles has already been expended by the government in buying aeeil-corn for the peasants of the famine-stricken dis tricts and that 100,000,000 roubles will be required to famish the starving peasantry with bread. An M.000 Verdict. Atlanta, October 10.—THs after noon at 2 o’clock the jury rendered a verdict in the case of Mrs. H. M. Powell vs. the Metropolitan Street Car Com pany, a suit for personal Injuries. The jury gave Mrs. Powell 28,000. The case was handled for the plaintiff by Mr. C. T. Ladson; Messrs. S. J.4T. . Hammond represented the railroad. The Jewish Passover. To-morrow is the Jewish Passover, and will be generally observed by the Hebrews all over tbe country. Their community Is small in this city, as com pared with other more northern towns of a like population, sod perhaps to oar disadvantage, for they make good ci ti me, peeeefol public-spirited aad law- KILLED BV A WIRE. JUDGE MADDOX HURT. Be Refers to Sam Jons,' Accusation— V- Noway. Home, On., October 10.—Judge Mad dox (llsclinigcd the grand jury this morning nnd ns customary in their pre sentments they commended his honor very highly. In Jndgo Maddox's part ing words to the jury be said: Gentlemen: Your recommendation does me no good. For the first time during the live years I have been on the bench I have been accused of Imposing too light] a J fine, and - that charge has been heralded in the p*e«s,* throughout tbe atate of Georgia. Tbe fines which Judgo Maddox alluded to were those of several of Rome’s prom inent young men who were found guilty of playing cards. Tbe question as to whether they played for money or not, or merely forfnn and recreation,putting up the money to stimulate the game and then returning It, was a point that was not definitely decided, therefore Judge Maddox could not see under those cir cumstances how he could well make fines heavier. Reckless Driving. Atlanta, October 10.—Mrs. George Sword of LawrenceviUe was run over By* hack this morning and painfully hurt.' She was at tho "corner of Peachtree - and Wall streets, when a hack dashed up suddenly and was upon her before sbe knew it. Sbo was thrown to the ground and could not rise until assisted, nor worst hurt waslon tho foot [and ankle. She was carried to Dr. Nicholson's office, where her Injuries were attended to. The doctor pronounced them not serious. Tho hnckman.JTom Wright, was ar rested. no admits driving too rapidly, but says lie did so bccauso of orders from those who hired him. A Wealth of Flower*. The conservatories of Mr. Geo. Stan field, on Finn street, are surely a joy to tho aesthetic eye. A perfect mass of many-ltucd blooms, his green-houses are visions of Paradise, and to tho ladies a source of exquisite delight. To Mr. Stanfield is due the credit of being called the pioneer tlorist of Ameri- cus. A few years ago he began culti vating flowers through a love for the pastime, and now bis collection has grown beyond bis control. Ferns ot every variety, begonias, geraniums,chrys anthemums, fusebias, cacti and a variety of the semi-tropical everg Mr. Stanfield is prepared to tarnish to bis patrons cut flowers, bedding plants and bulbs, his supply at present being above bis capacity. His camelias, of every bne, will bloom in a few week*. EplMopel eculccs. Services will be held at the Lee ehnreh this morning by Rev. W.JLDy*. Mr, Dye is wsU-know* la Americas, aad many outside ot the KpUeoyel perish wlfl be glsd of “
