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VOLUME 1
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1891.
NUMBER 161
Something For The
NARROW ESCAPE.
BRAND DEV SAFETY BICYCLE
TO BE GIVEN AWAY!
IT WONT COST YOU A PENNY!
To stimulate the traffic in our Boys’ and
Children’s Clothing department, l will give,
with every Bov’s or Child’s suit, between the
ages of 4 and 18 ye*rs, sold by us from the
1st ot October past, until
NEXT CHRISTMAS EVE,
when the fortunate one will be determined,
A TICKET, (non-transferable) entitling the
holder to one chance at a
BRAND NEW SAFETY BICYCLE
TO BE GiVEN AWAY ABSOLUTELY FREE OF
ANY CHARGE WHATEVER 1
. . %'" • ' 3JUu3H3
All you have to do is to
BUY YOUR BOY’S,
and get a ticket. These tickets will i 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
Now t Word ftbout our
THE NAME OF
George D. Wheatley
has become known far and wide as the
synonym of
FINE CLOTHINC AT FAIR P8ICES!
Our stock was NEVER SO COMPLETE I
Our styles NEVER SO ELEGANT!
Our prices NEVER SO MODERATE!
And never so great OUR ANXIETY TO PLEASE!
Our assortment of Boys’ and Children’s
Clothing begins with a neat WASH SATINET
SUIT (wool filling) any size from 4 to 18 years,
At ^l.S5 lr*ei* Suit,
and includes all the finer materials, such as
CASSIMERES, WORSTEDS, TRICOTS,
SERGFE AND CHEVIOT Suits so desirable for
“BOYS WHO ARE HARD ON CLOTHES.”
Wishing you all “good luck” in the drawing,
boys, ,
Your friend,
George ,D. Wheatley.
A TRAIN WRECKED ON WHICH HENRY
M. STANLEY WAS
En Bant* to AnatralU—Hl» Wife In tbe
Wreck-Every One on the Cere are Mi
raculously Cnlnjured-An Inrettlration
la Ordered.
Rome. Oct 12.—The Brindisi express
train, ou board of which were Mr. and
Mrs. Henry M. Stanley and Mn. Ten-
net, the mother ot Mn. Stanley, has
■been completely wrecked at Carovingo,
nineteen miles from Brindisi. Tbe Stan-
ley party was on its way to Australia,
where the explorer is to lecture. They,
with all other passengers on the train,
eacaped without injury, though they
had a narrow escape from death.
The express dashed into the baggage
train that was on tbe track near Caro-
vinga. Tlie railroad officials have or
dered tbe usual investigations to be
made into the affair with a view to fix
ing the blame where it properly belongs.
COMPRESSED AIR.
Tba Power to no Usad In BunnlDB Ma
chinery In n Kansas Town.
Leavenworth. Oct 13.—Two months
ago the Jndson Pneumatic Street Rail-
way company of Washington, D. C.
and Pullman, Ills., through L. H. Earle,
its agent, proposed to establish a street
railway system in this city and operate
it with compressed air on the storage
plan, in return for deeds to real estate
In this city and county aggregating
(200,000 appraised value. The Jndson
company furthermore agreed that work
should begin in fonr months after the
deeds were delivered, and that within a
certain time ten separate and distinct
snannfactnring enterprises should be
established here, each concern to em
ploy no less than twenty-five men. The
company also bound itself to build a
compressed air power house and to
supply power for' two years free to the
ten faoterisa,. Of tbe quarter million
heeded (240,000 worth of real estate has
been enbscnbed, and soon the remain-
(10,000 will he raised and the pro-
bion formally fcccepted. The state
and aurronndlug country is interested
in the novel phut of running the mills
Denveb, Oct 12.—A special from
SantaFe,N. M.,.to The Republican
says: A deal was consummated here
whereby R.C. Kerens, of St. Louis; S.
B. Elkins, of West Virginia, andseveral
millionaire coal barons who control the
principal coal properties of Missouri,
Kansas and Texas, secure control of the
Oerrilloe Coal and Iron company, and
eleoted F. W. Risque, of St. Louis,
superintendent. The property of tbe
compsny consists of 20,000 acres of land
tweuty miles south of this city, which
sre seamed in all directions anthracite
and bituminous coal, iron, silver, lead
and other mineral deposits. Carrillos
is now shippiug 600 cars of coal a
mouth, bat tmaer ths operation of this
the output wjftshortly.be Jn-
, direct
Denver
Santa Fa
to Orrillos and on to Albuquerque and
El Paso.
Hills Speaking la Ohio.
Cleveland, Oct 12.—Roger Q. Mills
addressed an,.audience of about 9,600
people here. He confined himself en
tirely to the tariff. He said the protect
ive tariff had made 10,000 millionaires
{n America. The Republicans, he laid,
falsely claimed as the result of protect
ion all that bad beendonS by invention.
Tbe price of domestio goods, ha said,
had not been cheapened by the competi
tion made possible by protection, but
by the lncreaeed use of labor-saving
machinery.
Hay Kxterminal* Baals.
Ottawa, Oct. 19.—Anticipating
raise of the blockade in Behring sea,
tho Novia Scotia ship owners are form
ing a syndicate to send thirty veeseU
around the Horn this winter to engage
in sealing next spring. British Colum
bia owners say Neva Scotia will MU
tbe Industry!! they eend out the fleet
proposed. The government declines to
give any assurances that the vessels
will not he seized.
A Verdict for
Columbus, Ind., Oct. 12.—Congress
man George W. Cooper of this city Mas
been awarded a verdict of (800 by tbe
Marlon supreme court at Indianapolis
In his esse against the Union Railway
company for personal injuries received
through the carelessness of employes in
the Union station at Indianapolis, who
crowded him through the gate* during
a jam on the occasion of an excursion
some weeks ago.
Murderer Simpler Arraigned.
Little Rock, Oct. 42.—J. F. Sliep-
ley, who shot and killed Nut Jones, son
of United States Senator J. K. Jones,
at Washington. Hempstead county,
about two mouths ago, lias lieen indict
ed for manslaughter by the Hempstead
dounty grand jury and his bond fixed at
(8,000.
-
Banker Mila* a Salt.
Macon, G*., Oct. 12,—Einstein, the
eigne* of Abraham Backer, has filed
a suit against ths Maceu Construction
npaay for ths awn 1 of (667,800, das
y pots. iVwWsIob to intervene this
CONDENSED NEWS OISPATCHES.
■Domestic sad Foreign sad or General
Interest.
The Baptist church in Louisiana joins
the crasade against the Louisiana State
Lottery company. *
In Wilkes county, North Carolina, a
young man went home drunk and shot
and killed his aged father.
Tbe Bnndesrath strongly opposed the
Kaiser's bill to repress drunkenness,
and the bill will probably be modified.
Lewie P. Everett, a mining expert of
San Diego. Cal., denies the atones of
the vast wealth of the Temescal tin
mines.
At Sparta. Ola., Mrs. 8yl venter Brown
placed her two children aide by aide
and discharged u shotgun at them,
fatally wounding one.
A Berlin dispatch snra: It is reported
that General (Jo int Wnldersee, at a re
cent banquet of officers of the Ninth
annv corps, said: "Possibly we shall
meet In the spring for serions business. “
The divorce colony of Sioux Falls,' 8.
D., is alarmed over tbe rumor that a
female correspondent of a New York
newspaper who has been in Sioux Falls
some time has gone east to write her
article.
At Savannah, Ga., George Willis. ,
colored brakeman, fell while conplini
tan at the Central railroad wharf, am
six can passed over pare of hU body.
He was terribly lacerated, and bis arm
will have to be amputated.
A Shelbyville. Ind., speoial eays; Ex-
Mayor E.1 wards’ 12-year-old son Rafflal
and Artie Wilson, about the same age,
became involved in a quarrel, when the
former stabbed the latter in the npper
left breast, inflicting a dangerous
wound, though not necessarily fatal.
A Savannah special says: Tbe largest
steamship that has ever entered this
port arrived in tbe harbor recently. She
is ,tbe Spanish steamship Martin Saeha,
Captain Tnral, 3,886 register. The
steamship, which is a new and remark
ably handsome vessel, will be loaded
with 11,()00 bales of cotton by Messrs.
Straclm & Co.
A Paris. Tex., special says that a des
perate attempt was made to hold up a
south bound passenger train on the
’Frisco road, 100 miles north, at 8
o’clock. Several shots were fired. Con
ductor Carr knocked one ot the robbers
down-with his lamp just as the
was preparing to fire with his
fifteen or twenty stock I
policemen -took place, which proMbly
resulted in the,depth of several of them,
as four men were Been to drop before the
train disappeared. No further particu
lars.
A Pine Bluff,. Ark., special says
News reaches this city of a sensational
elopemmt-at Magnolia, Ask. * Richard
Stoggs, a wealthy lumberman and mer
chant on the St. Lonia and Southwest
ern railway, has disappeared with his
annt, Mrs. Jennie Buford., Stoggs’s
wife has been dead less than a month,
aha Mrs. Buford leaves a husband and
children.
Ithmer Meredith died At his home in
Monticello. Ills., aged 71 years. He it
was whose case baffled the medical pro
fession, and is the most remarkable case
of dropey on record. He has bean a
threfi year* with t
, sera has been remdp
him'8.014 pounds of water. Before he
died the water gradually dried up nntil
his death occurred,
At Waco, Tex., in the district oonrt,
the snit of the state of Texas vs.
beo. Mnlllnson, the oonrt gave judg
ment for the defendant The effect of
this decision is to declare the alien land
law void. Mallinsou is an alien land
owner, and the state is seeking to es
cheat his property. The action was
brought to test the validity of the law.
It will go to the supreme conrt.
At St. Lonia a monument was dedi
cated in Bellefontaine cemetery to
Elks, who desire to sleep their last sleep
there. Tbe atatne is the gift of Colonel
John A. Cocke rill, of the New York
Advertiser. Assisting in the ceremo
nies were delegates from many cities in
the country. .
An Augusta, Ga., special says: A
Mg land deal was made In Augusta,
Mr. H. H. Alexander, real estate agent.
I Syndicate, composed
thirty-four members. Mr. Alexander
wouldn’t give the names of the gentle
men of the syndicate but says tbe deal |
was closed. The syndicate will be or
ganized by tbe election of d Ulcers.
A Forsyth, Ga., special says: Mr.
Frank Hardin, of TUylor county,
I brought to Forsyth and jailed Joe Me-1
ICrea, colored, who had been oat. on
bond, charged with theft Bat he left
his bondsman, Mr. Rnfns Lyons, in the
larch about five months aguand skipped
the county. Mr. Lyons offered a re
ward for his captnre. Deputy Sheriff
King traced him to Taylor xonnty,
wrote to Mr. Hardin of his whoreabout*
apd bad him arrested and brought back.
A St. Petersburg dispatch says: Sen
ator Barmioff estimates that no fewer
than 82,000.000 peasants in Russia are
now destitute and must be provided for
for the next ten months. It will re-
ulre 320.000,000 poods of grain to feed
Item. The American church in this
city has started nsubscription list to re
lieve this mountain of misery. Princo
Korsakoff, the head of a great family,
lives on Kooiivort bread us an example
for his servants and others to follow
during tbe nutional affliction.
Dispatches received at St. Petersburg
from kief, capital of the government of
that name, announce that the police
have arrested a band of forgers who
hare been turning ont and circulating
bank notes of 10, 5 and 3 rubies. The
total of notes turned out by the gang
and seized by the police represents an
enormous sum. The notes are so well
executed as to make it almost impose!-
bft to detect them from tbe genuine
paper. Many of tbs counterfeit note*
five already bean circulated outside the
Itesslacemptrsr etj; *- #s t * t
BADLY SHAKEN UP.
HEAVY EARTHQUAKE SHOCK 18 FELT
IN CALIFORNIA
Tbs Earth's Trembling Causes Orest Ex-
citement—People Bosh into the Street*
Pants Stricken—The Napa Masonic Tem
pts Completely Wrecked.
Napa, Oct, 12.—The heaviest earth
quake shock ever felt here was expe
rienced at 10:84 p. tn. People rnsbed
into the streets in their night clothes in
great excitement; chimneys toppled
over; several buildings were ahattered
and badly shaken np. Drag store fix
tures suffered greatly, bottles being
thrown from the shelves to the floor
and other damage done. The Masonic
temple, a fine bnilding, was shattered.
At the state insane asylum great excite-
ateht prevailed, the patients being al
most uncontrollable. It is reported
that the bnilding is cracked,, besides
other damage being done.
8EN8ATIONAL LETTER PUBLISHED.
A Lively Article Contributed to the
Free* of Interest to Irelsud.
London, Oct. 12.—Canon Doyle, the
first priest who denounced Parnell and
who assisted the Parnellites in all their
recent elections, published in the Wex
ford papers a letter whioh bids fair to
set all Inland by the ears. He throws
the blame for the scandal which marred
Parnell’s later career upon the entire
Irish party, with but few exceptions,
He charges that they wilfully condoned
Purnell’s immorality for years, and
adds the reason they scorned to notice
the moral aspect of their leader's lift
was tuat they themselves were steeped
to the tips in the same cetsponl. He
continues in this remarkable language:
"Mind what I say, and know tnat I can
prove, that Ireland is disgraced in Lon-
don by a filthy gang of Irish black
guards. Thin Augean stable must
be cleaned ont. 'i'be Irish wolf-dog
most not he displaced by the lup-dog
of London actresses. Tue Canon
threatens to expose the men his diatribe
is aimed at if they do not reform.
starved to Death.
Boston, Mass., Oct. 12.—A Salvation
Army missionary has brought to light
one of the worst cases of destitution
ever known in this city. -She visited
the house, 16 Cora place, occupied by
several poor families, and in a room on
the third floor found Mrs. Maty King
ston, 03 years old, in a terribly emacia
ted condition, while a bsby was disfig
ured py the bites of yennin with which
the room swarmed.;, Tbe woman hud
Oti hut a single garment, and had been
without food or water for three days,
and could scarcely apeak. Medical aid
was called, but too late to save her life.
She died during the evening. She la
believed to have one son living, bat bis
Whereabouts are unknown.
* Con viol • 4 Not Included.
Topeka, Kan., Oct.12.— 1 The supreme
court, in its decision rendered, says;
"The officers and employes of the state
institutions ar not embraced in tbe pro
visions ot chupter 114, session laws ol
1821, making it unlawful for laborers,
worsliigiue;:, mechanics or other per
sons employed by the state ol
Kansas to work more than eight
nun a day" Tbe decision in the case
brunght uy Attorney General Ives
against the directors of the state peni
tentiary to compel them to work em
ployes of that institution only eight
uours a day is in favor of the directors.
Confe»ed Murder on Mis Death Bed.
Knoxville, Tenn.. Oct. 13. — One
year ago Hugh Walker, a wealthy
farmer god stock dealer of Sevier coun
ty, was found dead in the roadway,
haviug a fractnred sknll. His death at
the time was a mystery, hut S.
Meadows, a tramp singing school teach
er, who has just died, acknowledged
having killed Walker because he refused
to give np a pint of whisky.
Poalmuler Arretted.
Macon, , Ga., Oct. 12.-Ryan Phill
ip*. assistant postmaster at Adel, has
been bound over by United States Com
missioner Erwin in tbe sum of (460 on
the charge of diverting government
fnnda to bia own use. The shortage
amounts to abont (830.
storm, at Sea.
New York, Oct. 12.—Tbe steamers
Augusta Victoria and Umbria, which
have just arrived here, report- n very
stormy passage, and that a number of
susengers on both vessels received in-
uric* by reason of the tossing and roll-
ig of the ships.
Merchant.' llctall Commercial Agency.
Athens, Go., October 10.—The new
commercial aflency formed by the re
tail merchants of Athens promises to be
of great benefit.
Over fifty of tbe merchants joined It
and are enthusiastic in their praises
of it.
They claim that they can better carry
on their business and collect their ac
counts throgh this means, and are de
termined to do business more on a cash
basis.—Athens Banner.
The merchants of Americas have like
wise banded themselves together for
mutual protection, and even in this short
time much of good has resulted to the
members.
There were never merchants more
lenient to their debtors than Americas
merchants, and the agency is not all a
thing of choiee, bat of necessity.
There will be* meeting of the agency
to-night and members an requested to
praeenL
MILITARY MATTERS.
Map*; Received by Capt. Begley Which
Are of General Interest.
The Americus Light Infantry sill hold
its regular semi-monthly business meet
ing at their armory in the new city hall
this evening at 7:30 o’clock. A fnll at
tendance of tho members is expected
and desired, as business of importance
will be transacted.
Thla la the first meeting of the Ameri
cas Light Infantry in their new armory
and the boys are to be congratulated
upon their handsome and commodlus
new quarters. It is suggested by friends
of the company that a grand military
fair be held at an early date, the pro
ceeds to he devoted to famishing the
armory. A competitive drill, either Indi
vidual, by platoon or both, would prove
an Interesting feature and one which
would add greatly to the enjoyment of
the occasion. Such an entertainment
would prove a great success socially and
financially.
' Capt. H. O. Bagley has recently re
cently received a number of handsomely
colored maps from the secretary of war
illustrating in detail the movements of
both the federal and confederate armies
just prior to and during tho battle of
Chlckamnuga.
They also show the detailed move-"
ments of both armies during the Tenaes-
aee campaign. The maps are furnished
with elaborate foot-notes and explana
tions and offer a vivid Interpretation of
the traglo events of those stirring times,
at the same time affording a fascinating
study to all lovers of military.
Aside from this, the maps will be of
special Interest to many of our tried war
veterans who participated In those his
torical maneuvres, as to them will ao-
crue a sad pleasure from a retrospection
of those times which tried men’s souls,
assisted by a diagram and printed out
line of the blood-contested spot.
The maps are now at Capt. Bagley’a
office and be will take pleasure In show
ing and explaining them to any one who
may call.
ThefNaw Club Bonn
Messrs. Charles Flicker, W. E. Haw
kins and Crawford Wbeatleyjcalled on
the friends yesterday who had subscribed
to th, building fund of the Commercial
City Club Reuse, 'The gentlemen only
spank two hours oanvaasing and met
with most gratifying result*. They were
of course unable to see a great many in
thttf short time, but all were glad of ths
prospect of having tbe clnb honse finish
ed, and spoke enconraglngly tn the
gentlemen, who ate kindly giving their
services during the busy seasen to this
public enterprise which social Americus
must fsel the neeeeeity of haring.
Messrs. Frloker, Hawkins and Wheatlsy
will from time to time, as tbe opportu
nity presents, see all who have promised
to aid in this enterprise, and The Timm-
Rkcokdkr feels aaaured that the club
house will seen he completed.
Mistrial In tbs Howell Caw.
Wabhenton, Ga,, October 12.—A big
crowd assembled at the court house this
morning at half put eight o’eloek to
hear the verdict of the jury In the How
ell caee.
Much to the surprise of many, It was
a mistrial. They stood five for acquittal
and seven^for conviction.
Howell will be tried again In January,
at an adjourned term of this court.
He will be kept in Warren county jail
until that time.
Judge McWhorter left for Sparta at
OSIO this morning, where he will pre
side this week at tbe regular term of
oonrt ,
The Day of Atonement*
The Day of Atonement, tbe moat sol-
emn In tbe Jewish calendar, ended last
night atO o’clock. It is observed by
fasting from sundown to sundown, and
during the twenty-four hour* no drink
or food of any kind, including water, is
allowed to pass the lips of the faithful,
only tho sick and children under the age
of 13 are exempt from the conditions of
this fast
All the Jewish business houses were
closed yesterday, and the faithful spent
the day fasting and praying.
Obituary,
Mrs. Mary White died at her residence
in East Americas, yesterday morning,
after a brief illness. Her son, Mr. Geo.
M. White, then in Jacksonville, was tel
egraphed for and hastened to his moth
er’s bedside, and was fortunate enough
to arrive before her death.
Mr. White was fora loDg time associ
ate*! first with tho Times, and then with
The Times Kecohdei!, and has tbe deep
sympathy of all who know him in
lost.
The Chattahoochee I
The 500-foot trestle just
iron railroad bridge serose ti
hooebee river at Omaha Is 1
to completion. The steel
ready to be placed aa soon as a few 1
tie* are completed between tbo river aad
Hnrtaboro, the grading being about fin-
itbed. It la*now thought trains can go
through to Montgomery on ths I
road by the let of November,—I