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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. VOLUME 1 AMERICUS, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1891. NUMBER 105 Something For The Boys! BRAND NEW SAFETY BICYCLE TO BE GIVEN AWAY I IT WONT COST YOU A PENNY! ^r^tL.r^T'2 To stimulate the traffic in our Boys’ and Children’s ClothiDg 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 Jot 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! 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 wit be put in a box: then a committee of disinter ested citizens will draw out one of the numbers, and the holder of fhe ticket containing than number, gets the Brand New Safety Bicycle Free of Charge I Now a Word Qbout our Famous Clothing Department THE NAME OP WAS HUNG TWICE. A MURDERER IS AT LAST SLOWLY STRANGLED. Sickening Seem Attending the Hanging of WllUnm Rote-The Film Attempt n Mt«- •rabto Failure and tha Nonna la Again Adjnatad—Horrlbla Death. Red Wood Falls, Oct. 18.—A dread ful scene was enacted here at the exe cution of William Hose. The prisoner was awakened at 4 o’clock, a in., ate a hearty meal and heard the reading of the death warrant with ranoh coolness, and mounted the gallows with a firm atep. He made a short speech in which he protested his innocence and accttaed a man named Stover of the crime. The trap was sprung at 4.08 a in. There was a doll crash and tha rope parted threat feet from the neck. Without has become known far and wide as the synonym of FINE CLOTHING IT FUR PRICES! 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.j35 Per £tait, and includes all the finer materials, such as CASSIMERES, WORSTEDS, TRICOTS, SERGE AND CHEVIOT Suite so desirable for “BOYS WHO ARE HARD ON CLOTHES.” Wishing you all “good luck” in the drawing, Your friend, platform and laid down face npward upon the readjusted trap. The second noose, dangling from above, was palled dowp, adjusted qniokly, and the trap again sprang without any attempt to raise him from his feet. Then ensued a slow process of strangulation. The trap was sprang the second time at ex actly S o’clock. SHE WORE SHORT DRESSES. Ths Hniin Why a Woman I. Not Con tent to Make* a Will New York, Oct. 18.—Before Surro gate Ransom was begun the taking testimony in the contest over the will of Mrs. Anna Cora Ross, who died this city Inst January. Mrs. Ross waa the daughter of Alexander White, Chicago luwver, who died in 1878, leav ing an estate said to he worth about 83.000,000. After her father's death, she bad some disagreement with her. mother and left Chicago and came to this city. Alexander Boss was an old friend of the White family, and he was asked to look oat for Annie. He mar ried her March 30, 1880. By his wife’s will be ia to have her entire estate. The contest is made by Mrs. Ross' brothers and sisters, James B. White, Alexander White, Elsie and Mary S. White, The gronnd of the contest ia the allegation that Mrs. Ross was not competent to make a will. By the tes timony that was given it appeared that she was peculiar in her ways. She was probably abont 35 at the time of her death. It waa her desire to appear younger, however, and her dressmaker testified that ahe wore dresses that were proper for a school girl rather than a married woman. EXPLORING PARTY HEARD FROM, They Have Completed the Object ■ Tbslr Trip. Seattle, Wash., Oct. 16.—The friends of Professor J. C. Russell iq this city are advised that bis party will arrive from Alaska next week, on the steamer City of TopekA When (be steamer Mexico, nowin the harbor, left CbUieat,' Alaska, they received word that the party were on the sea coast at Glonr Bay, having completed the object of their trip to the seal reef at the month of St. Ella. The party is' composed of Professor Russell, Thomas Hantiy, Thomas White, J. H. Cramback, Neill McCarthy and M. Warner. They left Seattle for Alaska May 83, on the (Jolted States steamer Bear. It will* be remebered that Llen- tsoant Robinson of Bear, and W. C. Moore of Seattle, were drowned at Icy TWO KILLED AND MANY INJURED. ’A Passenger Train Wrecked Nsnr Mingo Junction, O. Pittsburg, Oct 18.—The east bound passenger train on the Psndhandle rail, road, baa been wrecked near Mingo Junction. Two persona were killed and' many injured. Sopot Gets on Flro. Cordele, Go., Oct. 18.—The Savan nah, Americas and Montgomery railroad depot caught fire,at 3 o’clock p. m., and waa considerably damaged. The fire department responded promptly to the alarm and the fire waa soon under con trol, bat not before almost the entire roof- had been horned. The loss ia light and folly covered by insurance. CONDENSED NEWS DI8PATCHES. Do mottle and Foreign and of General Interest. The Georgia legislature has adjourned its session sine die. An extraordinarily heavy demand for flonr from Europe is keeping American mills busy. A moiinmi nt to Red Jacket, the Srii- ecu chieftain, nos been unveiled ut Wa terloo. N. Y. The New York Recorder hu-i been sued by Governor Campbell of Ohio for ♦10.001. for libel. The Grady monument committee to escort Governor Hill to Atlanta, have arrived in New York. Timothy Healy in an address to the Irish National Federation, stated that jie had forgiven Parnell. James Harrington was cut in two by ear wheels at Armonrdale, Kan., just as his sister dre med be would be: The czarina has given 30,000.000 ron- bles from her private parse for the re lief of the destitnte Russian peasants. The Russian government bos closed the Umversiay of Kieif, and placed 500 students nnder arrest for revolutionary behavior. The Manufacturers’ Record reisirts <he sale to a Belgian syndicate of 150,000 acres of coal, iron and timber lands In eastern Kentucky. A Chicago school teacher became sud denly insane, and began flogging her stndenta. She has been granted a leai of nbseucc from her duties. The breaking of the shaft of the free zing engine on the steamship Ports mouth, bound for London, caused the carcasses of 30,000 sheep to spoil. Thomas H. Hnnt robbed his employ ers, Keunett, Hopkins & Co, of New York, of |40,000, and wrote them so. They disbelieved him then, bnt have found out that he told the troth. A Constantinople dispatch says: The Porte has ordered the governor of Scu tari to' disarm the Albanians of their Martiu Henri rifles. The governor says' it is well nigh impossible and would require thirty battalions of troops and result in revolution. . jTlie birth of a little girl to Mrs. A. Nf Fase -if Kansas City, brings out a peculiar tact. The mother is 16 years ►Id. Her mother, Mrs. M. Spangler, ia at the house, a grand-mother at 83, and Mrs. G. M. Redman of St. Louis, is also there. She is the child’s great-grand mother, aged 53 years. Miss Bird Howell, a Finleyville, Pa, school teacher, attempted to punish an incorrigible pupil, when the boy shot her fifths eye with abean shooter and she has entirely lost her sight as a ra- snlt. The lawyers say Miss Howell con recover damages from the hoy’s father, and she Will bring suit. . At Pittsburg, Pa , Rev. Dr. Robinson, president of the Sabbath Observance association, stated that no move would be made this week against the 8nnday newspapers, ns reported.- "He refused to sav what would be done next week, and intimated to the reporter that it Was none of the public’s business to know what they intended to do. .. _ irton, Ala., special says: The desWaction by fire of 100 hales of cotton on the depot grounds of the Central railroad occurred here. Eight hundred boles were on 1 Tha grounds, most of Which was moved. A train load of the hurtling eottonwaa hauled three miles to the millpond, damped in and parti saved. The fire was caused by a spar] from oil engine. At Omaha, Neb., a warrant has been issued by the county attorney for the artist of E. F. Morearity, a member of the dty council, for murder, ho having bten as active leader in the Smith lynching. David Mahoney, Bob Ward, Jiimes Trsinor and Wm. F. Bloom com plete, with Morearity and Farris, are arrests, sixteen men who havo thus far been arrested and chargod with murder in the lynching case. A special cable dispatch to the New York Herald from Managua, Nicaragua, says an attempt was made by a corporal of the palace guard, named Carlos Pe rea, to assassinate President Bacas*. Perez waa caught on the top of the roof over the president’s sleeping apartment He had already made an opening in the roof. Bscosa waa awakened by the noise, and called the guards, who placed Pena nnder arrest He wtU be court martlalled. Secretary Rusk assured a committee from the New York produce exchange that pork products stamped at abat toirs in the west oonld be re-examined at the port of export, when such reex amination seemed necessafy, and that a , government Inspector would supervise be inspection and restamp any pack ages that were opexed, so at to guaran tee foreign importers against any possi ble substitution- of the products after the examination at the time of packing. Broke ills Nsefc. Brunswick, Ga , Oct. 16.—Joe Barnet, [a young white man, while-drnnk, fell [down a flight of stairs in the Loenatein » L breaking his neck. He died in bonr after the accident. He I was a house painter, and leaves a wife and two children in New London, Conn. Ktv lagw ProceM. Washington, Oct. 18.—Secretary Rusk has a number of sample* of sorghum sugar manufactured by a new process by which he says about 300 pounds of sugar is obtained from a ton of sorghnm cane. When asked what the new process was, he said: "It is called the alcoholic process. Alcohol is mixed with the sorghum sy rap and af ter treatment the former is recovered by redistillation, so that there is no ap preciable loss. The sugar is nearly white, and it ia strong in saccharine qualities above 90 degrees. I hare re ceived a dispatch from Mr. Swanson, who bos'been trying the sicoholio pro cess, and he says that about twice at much crystalized sugar per ton of cane can be obtained as can os obtained by the prooaaa heretofore in 1 ROASTED ALIVE. HORRIBLE FIRE IN A LONDON TENE MENT HOUSE An Old Woman, a Youne Woman and Three Children Charred by Flamee—ktforta tha Firemen to Save Prove Froltleea— The Fire Burns Bspldlj. London, Oct. 18.—A tenement house oanght fire in the morning in the dock district of London known as the mill wall. The fire originated in the lower part of the house with the reenlt that the rickety wooden stain leading to the upper floors were almost immediately burned away, thug catting off escape by that means of a number of inmates of the house. When the firemen reached tha spot they found the bnilding in a mass flames, and learned that there were still several people on the upper floors. With commendable promptness the fire men made several gallant efforts to reach the endangered people, bnt all each attempts wore repelled by the vol ume of flames which ponred ont of the lower windows and which wore fast eating tbtdr way upward. At last when fire waa Anally sub dued sufficiently to enable the firemen to mount to the top of the charred ten ement, they fonnd the bodies of an ohl woman of 70, a young woman and three children, all huddled together as they tried to escape from the smoke which had suffocated them. TO Get Kven with BowelL Chicago, Oct. 16.—A #5,000 damage ■nit for libel waa begun in the circuit court here by William D. Boyce, agniuat George P. Rowell & Co. of New York. Plaintiff is fhe publisher of The Satnr day Blade, while defendants issued the American Newspaper Directory, which purports to give the circnlstion of news wipers throughout the county. Mr Joyce alleges that he went personal I, to New York and gave proof to' Mi Rowell thut his paper had a circnli of between 150,000 and 300,000 a weelc, Notwithstanding his evidence the de fendants rated his paper below 159,000, and then added that information re tarding the circulation of TheSatnrdav Slade was not satisfactory. Plaintiff says the defendants have acted mali cionaly, and have injured The Blade as an advertising medinrn. Buying Corn for Peasants. St. Petebsburo, Oct. 16.—The gov ernment is bnying corn for the purpose of feeding the famishing peasants of the stricken districts daring the winter and pleasing response followed from one TBE BARS OPEN At the Exposition Grounds—They Have no City License. v I Atlanta, Ootober 18.—The selling of liqnor ont at the exposition grounds be gan to-dsy. ■And a big kick Is being started abont It It is claimed that those who have charge of their privilege, merely bought the privilege from the exposition com pany, and have secured no license from the city. If the grounds are not considered In the city and nnder city jurisdiction, no liqnor can be sold at all, because of the law preventing It to be sold within three miles of a church. If It is considered In the city on ac count of being Incorporated for police purposes, then a llopnse must be had from the city. That’s thofause of the kick, and now that the selling of liquor bat begun, an effort will be made to have esses mode for selling liquor without license. At least thst’sjwhst Is olslmsd, and Mr. Atmon A*Morphey is looking for Chief of Polios Conolly to have hlm ln- "**“*— tha matter. . ; a. w • -- months. The sufferers in the Volga district will be the first to receive as sistance, os it is considered absolutely necessary to sucoor them before the Volga is frozen over. Twenty pounds of wheat will be given to each person. Medical councils have been summon ed in the distressed provinces of the empire. Scurvy and typhus are raging in the wake of tne famine. The Novost aays the famine prevails in thirteen different provinces of the oonntry, and that 14,000.000 persons are in argent need of saccor. Fifty Builders Strike. Charleston, W. Va.OcL 18.—Abont fifty man belonging to the bnilding trades went ont on a strike. They are trying to force Henry Ditcher, one of the planing mill men here, through the contractors, to employ only onion la bor, and every onion workman employ ed oil buildings in which lumber pur chased from Ditcher was need quit work. The contractors are powerless. They claim the right to bay material where they please, and the workmen refuse to return as long as Ditciior's lumber is used. Bricklayers, painters and all are ont. On other buildings work is progressing as usual. The Great Southern Play# Louisville, Oct. 16.—The new and brilliant southern play, "Alabama, ” has just started sooth, opening the to nr with an engagement here. It has scored a triumph in Louisville and is turning away people every night GIBIAN * CO. HABD VP. Nineteen Mortgagee, Amounting to Over *130,000, Filed Agmlmc Them. Macon, Ga., Ootobor 18.—Nineteen mortgages, amounting in the aggregate to one hundred and fifty thousand dol lar* were filed In the office of the clerk of tha superior court this morning In favor of the creditors of A. QlbianA Co. It to not yet known that an assessment will be made, and it it possible that this may be averted. One mortgage for 810,000 to secure a note payable one day after date, and dated yesterday, it in favor of Lilllen- tbal A Gostenbelmer, of Montgomery, la. It bat been foreclosed and the execu tion issued. Glblan A Co., Is a well- known . and highly respected firm. Their failure is due to slow collections, and they have the sympathy of the en tire-botinest community. Death of An Infant. Mr. J. B. Parker’s intuit, nine months old, dltd on Thursday night lasL He was buried at the family burial gronnd on Friday morning in the 38th districL The Lord glreth and tha Lord takath away. W* deeply sympathise with the bereaved parents, snd point to tbs way the little one has gone. BACK FOR LIFE. Experlenra nf tha Ship “Allan! i—Weath ered tha Severest Gale Ever Known. New York, October 10.—The United States steamer Atlanta anchored in the bay hers last night after the severest straggle with tbs elements that any ship of the new navy has ever expe rienced. • The vessel left here early last Sunday morning for Aseate3gne Shoals to help the Despatch. Near the Delaware breakwater sheen- countered a terrible gale and drifted at the mercy of the wind and sea, only twenty miles from the coast until day light Wednesday morning. On Monday night her decks were swept by terrific teas, which smashed the port hswse hole, cracked tho sheath ing of the mein deck and flooded the berth deck. An enormous wave breaking on her quarter flooded doable compartment be tween hold and bertb deck. Thl* deck Is divided by a partition, the forward being the provision depart ment and aft the store-room. In the provision department was stored a quantity of Japan drier. The bails, which Is a naptha pump rigged to re lieve the vessel of water and light, was lowered, when the naptha gna oxplodod. 7. C. James end Jamoe Monahan wore badly burned about tho hands, nook and arms, and fatally Injured by breathing the Ignited vapor. Others injured ere Henry lTelja, Alolc . Nowae, J. E. Ell end Joseph Merriam,. ell severely burned. On Wednesday the storm abated and- the vessel run Into the Delaware break water. Captain John W. Phillips said the ship behaved splendidly, end believed the At lanta capable of weathering any storm,, and of standing a gels which would seud many inferinr ships to the bottom. WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY. The District Cnalmr* of ths Society Opened Tbnredav NIeht—Interest ing Meeting. The opening meeting of the District Conference of the Woman’s Missionary Society waa held at the M. E. Church on Lee street Thursday night and the atten dance wee very largo. The address of wolcomo woe delivered by an Amerieue young lady and tho effort was masterly and highly compli mented by the audience. A suitable of tho visiting ddegatos, and thon wore addresses from various members setting forth tho objoot of the Society and the good results to bo obtained from tho present gathering. Matters of impor tance were discussed and great luterokt was manifested by all present. This work in which the society is cm gaged te ono of vital moral Importance, and these noblo, Christian women who have banded themselves together to labor on the sido of right and - truth, should recolvo the most hearty support and co-operation of every inhabitant in this civilized land of ours. May divine blessings attend them and attest their endeavors with a bright fruition of their hopes. Tiie Times-Recorder will give a detalledtsynopsU of tho duliberat'on* of the body as for as they havo proceed ed In the Issue of to-morrow. ISO EDITOIW. The Wisconsin Press Aseoelstlon Reaches Atlanta. Atlanta, October 16.—Abont 150 members of the Wisconsin Frees Associ ation, headed by'President Hegg, ar rived In Atlanta late this afternoon. The members of the association ere taking tholr ahnual outing. They are editors end owners of nearly all tho weekly papers In Wisconsin end a num ber of dally papers. They left Chattanooga, where they were hospitably entertained, at 8:20 o’olock, and reached hero late this after noon. They will remain In Atlanta until to morrow night. If they can be Induced to‘do so thoy will remain until the open ing of the exposition Monday. The editora are heartily welcomed, to Atlanta. They will be shown every possible conrtesy by the citizens end will bo entertained by the Northern So ciety. '• BROKE JAIL TWICE. With a Piece of Brick, a Broken Nall, and a Broom Handle,IU» Makes His Kaeepo. Chattanooga, Tenn., October 18.— William Carden escaped from jail at Cleveland, Tenn., last night. He Is an old man, formerly a school teacher, and under sentence of death for assaulting a little daughter of a preacher at that place two years ago. Moat of the time since then Carden has been in jail. He once before es caped, but waa reoently caught. The case was belore. the state su preme court, which confirmed the de cision of the lower court, and the sen tence of death was passed a few weeks ago by Judge Trsyner. Carden picked bis war ont of jail with nail, a piece of brick and a broken