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CD -* f-b O P CD .raar.t i -flaaoT'ju VOLUME 1 AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1891. NUMBER 102 Something For The ROUGH ON HOEY. HE GETS ‘•FIRED” BY THE ADAMS EXPRESS COMPANY. John Hoey Retired From the Presidency of the Adams Express Company—Doey Is Said to Be One of the “Poor Hun dred** Indeed. BRAND HEW SAFETY BICYCLE TO BE GIVEN AWAY! IT WONT COST YOU A PENNY! To stimulate the traffic in our Boys’ and Children’s Clothing department, I will give, with every Boy’s or Child’s suit, between the ages of 4 and 18 years, 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 SAFER BICYCLE TO BE GIVEN AWAY ABSOLUTELY FREE OF ANY CHARGE WHATEVER! All you have to do is to BUY YOUR BOY’S SUIT FROM ME and get a ticket. These tickets will be numbered, and on Christmas Eve, numbers corresponding with the tickets given away wil be put in a box: then a committee of disinter- sort has been done in connection with 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! Now a Word about our Famous Clothing Department THE NAME OF George D. Wfiealley has become known far and wide as the synonym of i FINE CLOTHING AT FAIR PRICES! Our stock was NEVER SO COMPLETE! Our styles NEVER SO ELEGANT! Our prices NEVER SO MODERATE! And never sc great OUR ANXIETY TO PLEASE! Our assortment of Boys’ and Children’s Clothing begins with a neat WASH SATINET TIT (wool filling) any size from 4 to 18 years, AlI #1.25 Per Suit, md includes all the finer materials, such as ^ASSIMERES, WORSTEDS, TRICOTS, iERGE AND CHEVIOT Suits so desirable for boys who are hard on clothes.” she found her _ husband], body,* with Wishing you all “good luck” in the drawing, * Your friend, . Wheatley. New Yoi:k, Oct. IS.—John Hoey, the preoiden. i.f the Adams Express com pany, has been removed from his posi tion as president uud trustee by the unanimous vote of a full board of man agers. Ur. Hoey was charged with malfeas ance in office. Clapp Spooner, the vice president of the company, tendered bis resignation, which was uccepted. The dismissal of President Hoey the result of an investigation recently completed by tho directors. Ur. Hoey was accused of having osed Ids influence to Becure the pur chase by the Adams Express compauy of the stock of the Boston Despatch company, whereby he, Ur. Spooner and Mr. K. A. Taft got $800,000 for stock. That cost them hnt $100,000. Ur Hoey 1ms been connected with the compauy thirty years, beginning as messenger. He is believed to be very wealthy, and is noted for lavish hospi tality at his Long Branch mansion. A. It. CnMiln Dead. Chicago, Oct. 18.-A. B. Cuvender, • prominent member of the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers, has died at hia home in this city, of pneumonia. He was forty-five yean old, and waa the first second grand chief of the Botherhood. The Richmond conven tion selected him to settle the famous Chicago, Burlington and Qaincy strike, after Arthur, Hose ana others had failed, and he performed the task suc cessfully in four days after undertaking it. At that time Mr. Cavender was in the employ of the Southern Pacific road, at Oakland, CaL, bnt he afterward be came connected with a railway supply house, with headqnarten at Chicago. After the settlement of the Bvrlington •trike, he was prominently mentioned as Chief Arthur's successor, bnt he positively declined the honor. CONDENSED NEWS DISPATCHES. To annoy tho Great Lakes. Washington, Oct. 18.—The governs ment is about to begin the work of hy drographic surveys for the preparation of charts of the Great Lakes. While lake navigation, the reason being that the treaty which prohibits a naval es tablishment on the lakes deprives the now department of any active interest in the lake navigation. In view of the Importance of the lake commerce, it has become very desirable to have charts showing the currents, shoals and loca tion of wrecks on the Great Lakes. The weather Imrenu has sent Dr. tl. O. Pen- rod to Cleveland to establish a hydro- graphic office of this work. Many Negro** Mangled. Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 13.—At ,Ens- ley City a car fixed up as a sleeping apartment for laborers was standing on a side track. In the car were six ne groes and some blasting powder which they had been using at tpelr work. ’ A •park from a passing engine fell into the car and into the powder, which ex ploded with terrtflo force, shattering be car and mangling all the negroee except one. who escaped with a slight burn. The following are the dead: Bam Williams and John Jones. Orange Humber and Trank Neilly are dying. Boalufcr 1 ! Daughter*. Paws. Oct. 18.—It Is announced that the daughters of the late General Bou- langer, who committed suicide Sept 80 by shooting himself through , the head on the grave of hie mistress, in the cemetery of Ixellee, near Brussels, will contest four of the clauses of his will. ; t Is expected the legal proceeding* will result in developing soma interesting evidence regarding the dead man's in ner political and private affairs. May Be a Lons llnnla Pittsburg, Oct 18.—Unices the rail road coal miners'strike is settled witb- ip • week a long straggle will begin. Sixty of the largest operators have signed on agreement to bold oat against the advance for three years if necessary. The operators say they will give the strikers another week to return to work. If they refuse, the tactics of the coke operators will be adopted and foreign- era imported.to start the mines. Deveerad by Bis Owe Bogs. Topixa, Kan., Oct. 18.—John Land, fanner, who lived, seventeen miles southeast of Topeka, went to bis feed ing yards to tako care of his stock. As ho did not retain for breakfast, bis wife from forty to fifty hogs fighting over it and tearing it to pieces. He bad prob ably been dead halt an hour when the body was found. , Dl«t •€ Hydro pHootau Elizabeth, N. /., Oct. IS. —James Steele, an 8-year-old boy. who, since Thursday last was a hydrophobia pa ttest at Elisabeth hospital, died at* “ o'clock a. m. He Wss delirious at times and bad •••hr* Doinectlc and Foreign and of General Internets It is reported that the Parnellltca will not torn: a coalition with tho Me- Curthyitcs. Salvador Malo, one of the promoters of the Tehuantepec road in southern Mexico, has gone to London for more funds. A London dispatch says that the queen will raise to the peerage the widow of Right Ho i. William Henry Smith. At Paris a man named De-maria has beeu in-rested for cashing a finudulent check for $lU,OU0 drawn on tue New Oriental compauy of New York. Gre.it preparations ure being made by those at t..e head of the affair forthe coming unveiling of the Grady monu ment to occur Oct. 31 in Atlanta. A Madrid dispatch says: The Epico has an urticl- opposing ths proposed connecting ot Gibraltar witu the Span ish railway Bystem. The writer de clares that it is the policy of Spain to isolate Gibraltar to the utmost. An Ottawa. Ontario, dispatch says: The statement of the tiuiuico depart ment for the fiscal year ended .Time 80, shows that the revenue for the year amounted to $88,518,007, and the ex penditures $88,375,447, leaving a sur plus of $3,337,005. A Vienna dispatch says: A meeting of merchants and mcnnfactnrera con vened by the minister of commerce was held here. They nnunimonsly approved the formation of a government commis sion to arrange for the due representa tion of the country at the Chicago World's Fair. A Roanoke, Va., special says: Con siderable interest is excited here by the i.iicovery of a large vein of zinc glance iu the mines at Bonsacks. The vein was found in the ninety-foot level and is nine leet wide, thirty teet deep and extends indefinitely in line with the main ore bodv. At Boonville, Ind., all of the stables and bnildiugs of the Warrick County Fair association were burned to the ground. . Nothing but a few smoulder ing rains are left, and the loss will be about $7,000. The fire .was of incen diary origin and there was not a dol lar of insurance. Wm. F. Wiggins was arrested near Charleston, W. Va., on a charge of fotgery in New York city. The arrest was made at a farm boose, where Wig gins was visiting a young lady, to whom ho was to be murried soon. He Is in jail awaiting the couiiug of New York officials to trite him back. At Liverpool one Tom B.-own, diving in Togteth district upset an ignited pe- rqffiue lamp, and ho and his infant son were burned to death. His wife, terror stricken at the flames, frantically threw her baby through a window, anil it was dustied to pieces on the pavement be low. She then Jumped throngh the window herself, and though not killed outright, died at the hospital. A Champaign, Hie., special cays: •booting affair occurred here between 13 and 1 o'clock a. in. on the corner of Clark and Fourth streets, in which Daniel Benner ehot and killed a man named Vourhees and wounded another named Crequc. The murderer is still at large, hut tbs authorities have wired to the neighboring towns for his appro* bension. At Yankton, 8. D.,' Judge White ren dered u decision affecting the validity of the' state banking law. He holds that the law denying the bnsiuessof discounting paper, buying exchange, loaning money or receiving deposits to private individuals and conferring these rights exclusively on corporations is an con*-,itmionnl. The state has appealed to the supreme court. Hlionid the law he sustained a great nnmber of private bank* will be driven ont of. the state. SUE OPENED FIRE. TWO MEN ARE TAR0ET8 FOR AN ALABAMA POSTMISTRESS. A Woman Standing In Trout of Ike United States Courthouse Fires Three Shots Prom n Revolver at Two Men Whu Were Only n Short Dletance From Bor. Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 13.—A sensa tional bnt bloodless street shooting oc curred here in front ot the United States court house. Mrs. Fannie Hoff- ), postmistress at Coalbarg, Mr. T. Hill, the manager of the Sloes Iron and Steel Co., and Deputy Marshal Scbo- enfold, were standing in the street when Mrs. Hoffman opened fire on them, fir ing three shots. She waa within three feet of the men bnt none of the halls took effect. A po lice arrested her and took the pistol from her, hnt she immediately reached into a large basket which she carried, and drew another large gun. She resisted arrest and created a sen sation by yelling while being taken to jail. She was afterwards released on $300 bond. Mrs. Hoffman has been regarded.se eccentric for several days. The trial of Hill and other prominent Coalberg citi zens has been going on in the United States court. Shehad them arrested on the charge of .impeding her in the dis charge of her duties as postmistress. She says Schoenfield and Hill were con spiring to defame her character, and she tried to kill them. ARGENTINE AND THE FAIR. And a Fight Ensued. Middlesborough, Ky..Oct. 18.—Con siderable excitement prevaileJ at the Middlesborough hotel, and especially in room 101. Some weeks ago B. Spiro’s warehouse was boned to the ground. A complete settlement by the insnranoe companies had not - been made, and on Friday last Mr. James W. Powell, in surance adjuster, from Lexington, came to this city to Biaks teal settle ment with Spiro. The two men were in Powell’s room at the hotel discuss ing the matter, Spiro wanting $8,000 fur his losses and Powell offering him i (4,000. Finally Spiro, believing Powell tad insinuated something distaste ful, called him a bard name. A fignt ensued. Spiro picked np the •mall table, and wanted to brain Pow ell, who dodged the blow, and finally knocked Spiro down, punishing him terribly. Powell was pnt under arrest, and is obliged to remain in town, as Spiro insists upon a trial by jury. Fireman Bon Over by • Train. Paris. Tern., Oct. 18.—Robt. Strange* fireman on the Louisville and Nash ville railroad, running between this city and Bowling Green, Ky., was ran over and killed in the yards of that road in this city by engine No. 159. Strange bad just gotten ont of bis 'ne, which was on a aide track, _ had been talking to bis engineer, when he turned to go to the depot. He stepped on the main track, when Engine 159, which woe on the main track, hacked on him and then threw him under the tender, which passed over him. The back driving wheels of the engine ran over his right arm at the wrist and tore his left arm and shoulder from his body, leaving his left long exposed and bis head nearly cut from his shoulders. His remains were sent to his home in Bowling Green, where his wife is very low. Th. Republic Approdrlntes 0100,000 lo Make an Exhibit at Chicago- Washington, Oct. 18.—The Latin American bureau of the World's Co lumbian exposition reoeived informa tion that the Argentine Tepublio had appropriated $100,000 to pay the ex pense of its representation at Chicago in 1898. This liberality wee unexpected because of the financial depression in that country, and indeed it was feared that for motives of economy Argentine would decide not to take part in the ex position at all, bnt General Mancilla the leader of the Liberal party in the lower house of the Argentine congrees, la advocating the appropriation ex pressed the sentiments of the govern ment and people when he saiu that, "notwithstanding the financial embar rassment of the country, it was imper ative that the republic should he repre sented. not only for the sake of t ing her marvelous resources, bnt also for reasons of another nature, reasons of higher importance: reasons of Amer ican policy and international gravity; and because of a desire to express to the United States their esteem, and a sincere and reciprocal cordiality." The appropriation Was ordered by a vote of Invited to Visit Oalvrston. Galveston, Oct ,18.—The chamber of commerce sent a letter to Governor Al vin P. Hovey of Indiana, inviting him to visit this city. The chamber of com ber of cuutmeroe is in receipt ot infor mation that Governor Hover, accompa nied by the state officials ana prominent citizens of Indiana will leave Indianap olis about Nov. 1, on a trip to the City of Mexico, where they will be gnesta of United States Minister Ryan. The i ernor and party will go bv way c Paso and return by way ot Laredo, San Antonio and New Orleans. The invita tion requests the governor and party to spend a day or two in this city on the return trip. Accidentally shot Bis Blitcr. Brooklyn, Oat. 18.—Elizabeth Lace, 18 year* old, was accidentally shot by her brother Robert She will die. Lace bad bad a row with two roughs in front of hia house and bis sister bad been at tracted to tho scene bv the noise. Lace bad a pistol in hie hand, which exploded just as the girl appeared. The bullet strupk her below the heart and inflicted a fatal wound. Lace, who was locked up, has become insane, and constantly raves about his sister. He hia also at tempted suicide and is being closely witched. Judge Allen Fort leaves for Atlan ta to-day to be sworn in at railroad com missioner, to which office he was recent ly appointed by the legislature. He will probably be gone for several weeks, and In tho meantime will become familiar with the workings of the executive body of which be Is now a member. Judge Fort’s past publle record Is a good and enffioient guarantee of a fu ture performance of bis official duties faithful alike to the public and to bis reputation. Off for America*. To-day Dr. Tom Wilson, Mr. Howard Curtis and Mr. George Clark, of the Sagwa Company, leave for Americas with their show, where they will locate for awhile. They did a good business here, gave some fine entertainments and friends.—Columbus En- An Uninteresting AflMr. Miodlksbobocgb, Ky., Oct. 18.- Tbe reported pitched battle, supposed to have taken place at the close ot the fair at Arthur, taw out to be a« a>U- '^s^iSHuriJSUSt TfIK LEGISLATURE. i Leg- H.ttar. of Interest Trammeled In tin l.latnre Yesterday. Atlanta, Ga,, October 13, 1891.— The bill by Mr, Huff to cs abliah a state normal school in connection with the State Unlvereltjr at Athens, was taken up and passed. After the passing of Mr. null's bill, senate bill* for first and second reading were taken up. Tbit took up a consid erable portion of the time for tho fore noon. A resolution was passed authorizing the assistant attorney-general to employ stenographer at a salary of $50 a month. A bill to provide for the probate of foreign wills wss taken np and passed. A motion was made Immediately after the reading of the journal by Dr. Bald win, to reconsider hie peddler’s bill. There was an aye and nay vote taken, and the motion was sustained. The bill by Mr. Atkinson of Coweta, to extend the powers of the railroad commission to as to give them power and authority to regnlate chargee of ex press, sleeping car and telegraph com panies for services rendered within tbto state, came baok from 'the senate with an amendment. The senate amendment strikes ont sleeping car companies, and it was con curred In by tho borne. Senate bill 1 by Mr. Smith, of tbo twenty-eighth, providing that landlords furnishing supplies, money, stock (mules and horses) farming utensils or other artloles of necessity to make crops, and also all persons famishing clothing and medlolno, supplies or provisions for the support of families, shall secure them selves from the crops, was taken up and passed. The garnishment bill was taken up and tabled, and several other bills wore tabled In quick succession. Torellove the Commercial Alliance Life Insurance company of New York. To allow the consolidation of street railroads. To provide that administrators shall be ex-officio county guardians, and shall give a $5,000 bond. This morning the senate took up the report of the committee on the hill to allow Inmates of tho asylum to write letters without being inspected by the superlnt< ndent of that institution. The committee recommend that the hill do not pass. The report ot the committee was not agreed to by a veto of 10 to 12, To morrow the bill will come up on Its pass age and the friends of tho bill think It will pass. A honso hill passed the senate to-day allowing the governor to appoint acoun- ty solicitor in every coonty where tbero are county,eburts, provided two sticces- ■ive grand juries recommend tho ap- ilntmcnt. These bills pnssed: A bill to provide for tho more efficient organization of the stato troops and to erect a permanent camp. A bill to provide for the building of justice of the peace court houses In each militia district, If recommended by tho grand jnrios. A hill to incorporate tho Farmers’ and Merchants' bank of Americas. A bill to authorizo the railroad com mission to Inspect railroad traeks and bridges. A bill to provido that no dlvoroe shall be filed unless the party* filing it has lived In the county in which is filed one year. A Hovel AmnMm.nL Some of tho young people of Abbe* vllle are Indulging In romantic starlight promenades. Last Thursday night sev eral young couples visited tho convidt camp at the Ocmulgee brick works, a half mile distant from the court house.— Abbeville Timos. The starlight promenades are all very well, bnt to a casual observer It would seem that the beautiful environments of Abbeville might afford a more romantio locality than the convict camp. To a sentimental imagination, the close proxmtty ot a prisoner incarcerat ed for Log-stealing or chicken snatching would eeom to prove a rather prosaic adjunct to effective love-making. And bricks! Yet as love Is generally sup posed to laugh at locksmiths, it moat probably eDjoys the perogative of a quiet smile at tho other professions, even to those monopolized by our menacled un fortunates. After all, when a couplo of young peo ple want to be each with the other, a small thing will furnish ample oxcose— and why not 7 excitement prevailed, as fie shooting eeswsal stoSTwtN aSl*"** *** Red Men nt the Exposition. Mr. Hsnrie Stanfield, ohief of records the local Order of Red Men has re ceived from the Red Men’s committee on Invitation a request to be present at the order’s celebration at the Piedmont la in Atlanta. There will ha a ■.■■.irareMtoyto > order mubtiR It 1 of L5M be Atlanta ales *■» to* amy be sure <