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018!iUMUTJO ,TACK I 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