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AMERICUS TIMESRECORDER.
foLUME 1
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, TUESDAY. OCTOBER 27, 1891.
NUMBER 173
Something for The Boys
IN WASHINGTON.
brand new safety bicycle
TO BE GIVEN AWAY!
IT WONT COST YOU A PENNY
To stimulate the traffic in our Boys’ anc
Children’s ClothiDg department, 1 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
TiuKET, (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 will
be put in a box: then a committee of disinter
ested citizens will draw out one of the numbers,
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. Wheatley
has become known far and wide as the
synonym of
CLOTHING AT FAIR PRICES!
hr stock was NEVER SO COMPLETE!
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
'lothing begins with a neat WASH SATINET
OIT (wool filling) any size from 4 to 18 years,
&JL.2& J?er Suit,
Q d includes all the finer materials, such as
;ASSIMERES, WORSTEDS, TRICOTS,
ERGE AND CHEVIOT Suita so desirable for
BOYS WHO ARE HARD ON CLOTHES.’
Wishing you all “good luok” in the drawing,
oys,
Your friend^
SECRETARY BLAINE RESUMES
OFFICIAL DUTIES.
Mr, BIkIm'i Appearance Reassuring to Bis
Friends—There Are Traces, However,
His Recent Illness—The Sensation of the
Day in the Capital City,
Washinoton, Oct. 26.—The report,
that Mr. Blaine’, physical condition
desperate were not home out by his
arrival in Washington. There are
traces of his illness visible in his some
what worn countenance, nnd he appears
to have lost flesh. The brightness of
his eyes, however, and the ease with
which he moves about are reassuring to
his friends.
It is understood that Mr. Blaine re
routes his dnties at the state depart
ment, but he will probably write most
of his annual report at his residence,
where be can have absolnte quiet.
Sensation in Official and Social Circle,.
The sensation in official and social
circles here is the announcement that
Colonel C. P. Haines, father of Thorn
ton Haines who killed Ned Hannegan
at Fortrses Monroe, hod been relieved
from dnty here as the engineer officer
in charge of the I’otoinac river improve
ment in the vicinity of Washington,
He has been ordered to take charge of
the harbor improvements at Portland,
Maine. His work here will be taken
by Major Lewis C. Overman, now en
gineer of the Tenth Light-house dis
trict, stationed at Cleveland, O.
The change is somewhat of a surprise
here, os it was thought that Colonel
Haines wonld be permitted to remain
long enough to complete the work of
reclaiming the Potomac flats, that had
been so successfully and well begun nnd
partially performed by him. ft Is un
derstood that Colonel Haines was re
lieved at bis own request. This is one
of the results of the unfortunate affair
that involved the Haines family last
summer, culminating in the trial of the
son Thornton for mnrder and his acquit,
tal.
SENSATION IN BERLIN.
A Bloo<ly Murder Resembling ibe Work
of ** Jack-tlie-ltlpper. "
Berlin, Oct. 26.—This city has been
treated to a "Jack-tho-Ripper" sensa
tion. The body ot a wretched, aban
doned woman was found horribly
stabbed in her lodgings in a squalid
quarter of the town, horribly slashed
and mutilated. The assassin, who is
unknown escaped. The woman was
seen to enter a house with a stranger at
1 o'clock a. in., and ten minutes after
wards the nmu was seen to run away.
The woman was found a little later ly-
ing on the floor, fully dressed, even to
the matter of her gloves. Her throat
was cut und abdomen ripped open. A
large reward for the arrest of the mur
derer was promptly offered. The police
suspect a well-dressed young mail, who
was some time before seen accosting
women in the street.
The name of the victim was Hedwig
Nitsche. and she lived in Holztnnrket
Goose. Portions of the woman's hotly,
after being ent off, were carried away
by the brutal murderer. The room
where the body was found and the sur-
roundings are entirely nntonchcd. The
terson in churgo of the building where
;he body was found drove a good trade
for a while by exhibiting the remains
to the public for a small snm of money
until the police interfered and stopped
the horrible business. Blood was spat
tered all over the ceilings and walls of
the room, and it seems impossible to
to arrive at any other conclusion than
that the deed was the work of a mad
man. The police have already arrested
several suspicious characters, but they
have in alt cases been discharged for
lack of evidence, and the authorities
are hopelessly without a clue.
SCHOOL LAND LAW.
some D. Wheatley
The State of Tnu Will He A.k.d to
l’«a Upon It.
San Antonio, Oct. 26.—J. B. Early,
state attorney for the 86th judicial dis
trict, which includes the counties of
Uvalde, Kerr, Kendall and Medina, is
in the city on business which has a deep
interest for holders of Texes land all
over the country. Under what is known
the "dollar act" purchasers of school
lands were required to pay a certain
amount down and interest on the rest
every year, leaving the payments of in
stalments optional for twenty yean.
In hundreds of cases attorneys have
assured their clients that the payment
of interest yearly or at the end of twen
ty years was optional, and as a conse
quence the land office has had great
trouble in making collections. The
state commissioner of the land office
has ordered the attorneya of the vari
ous districts in the state to institute
suits. Attorney Early has already in.
atituted suit on 120 tracts of 640 sens
each in his district. Then bare been
sold under the law 8,000,000 acres, scat
tered all over the state.
growth of the south.
The Imlnutriiil Development In tUe Week
Ending Oct. 24.
Chattanooga, Oct. 26.—The Trades
man, in its weekly review for the week
ending Oct. 24, reports 81 new indus
tries. 11 new buildings, 8 new railroads,
including 1 extension, 2 electric roads
and 1 street car line: Among the most
Important new industries established
are the following: A carriage factory
at Anniston, Ala., with $28,000 capital,
a coal and coke company, capital $500,-
00O. at Piedmont, \V. Va., development
companies at Chester, 8. C., Glenwood,
W. Va., and Sheffield, Ala., a distillery
at Lawrenceburg, Kv., flouring mills at
Arlington, Tex., Jefferson, Tenn., and
New Decatur, Ala., agas plant at Knox
ville, Tenn., and an ice factory at Pine
Bluff, Ark.
A bed spring factory will he built at
LaQrange, Ga.; a cur-coupler company
with $100,000 capital at Sulphur
Springs, Tex., foundries at Birming
ham, Ala., and Pittsburg, Tex., an iron
furnace at Stanley, Va., a machine
sliopnt Owensboro, Ky., and-a rolling
mill at Wheeling, W. Va. Oil mills
are reported at Flatonla and Temple,
Tex., an oil refinery at Anderson, S. C.,
a phosphate company with $1,000,000
capital at Ocala, Fla., paper pulp works
at Little Bock, Ark., and Memphis,
Tenn., and a tannery at St. Andrew’s
Bay, Fla. A cotton mill is to be built
at Center Point, Tex., and a woolen
mill at New Birmingham, Tex., a wagon
and harness factory at Columbus, Ga.,
and waterworks ot Helena, Ark., La-
Grange and Marietta, Ga., and Ozark,
Ala.
Sixteen woolen working plants are
reported, including band-saw mills at
Vicksburg, Miss., turnltnre factories at
Axelandria, La., Cynthianaand Owens
boro, Ky., u lumber company with
$100,000 capital at Boaring Creek, W.
Va., taw mills at Alpharetta, Folkston
and Macon, Ga., Ashley and Richmond,
Va., Dunsmore, N. C.,and Montgomery,
Ala., a planing mill at Palatka, Fla., and
variety works at Ashville, Ala. New rail
roads have been organized at Camber-
land Gap, Tenn., Tampa, Fla., Tusca
loosa, Ala., and Washington, Ga.; an
extension will be built at Princeton,
Ky., electric lines at Marietta and Sa
vannah, Ga., and a street car line at
Alexandria, La.
Among the new buildings reported
are: Business blocks at Chattanooga,
Tenn., Fort Worth, Tex., and at Jack
sonville, Fla.; a church to oost $78,000
at Nashville; Tenn., opera house at El-
berton, Ga., and Tuscaloosa. Ala., and
school buildings at Knoxville, Tenn.,
and Morganfield, Ky., and a warehouse
at Dunvflle, Va. ,
ESTABLISHED IN KENTUCKY.
The National Union Company llaa a
State Depot at Louisville.
Louisville, Oct. 26.—The National
Union company of the New York co-op
erative concern which grew out of the
farmers’ couventiou at Ocala, Fla., and
received the approval of President Polk,
has established itself in Kentucky. A
state depot has been established in this
city by W. H. Harris, trade commis
sioner of the union for Kentucky, and
E. A. Bedinger, Jr., a well known farm
er who has been active in politics, is
made general manager, The Farmers’
Alliance had already established busi
ness here, nnd did loat year about $75,-
000 of trade. This is given to the union.
Options have been secured on thirty-five
stores at various points in the state,
and Vice president Wilson of the na
tional union, has transferred them to
agents chosen by farmers’ county or
ganizations us fast as possible. The
transfer of the store at Shelbyrille
been completed. Among other places
where Btores are to be established are:
Paducah, Hopkinsville, Bowling Green,
Harrodsburg, Bloomfield and at West
Point. The plan is to make Louisville
the distributing point to stores at every
important town in the state, and give
the members of the Alliance a rebate
on goods purchased. A number of co
operative stores have been doing busi
ness in the stats for some time.
Uaonthod the Dullness.
New Yobk, Oct. 26.—Central offloe
detectives have jnst unearthed the
headquarters of a "green goods” busi
ness in this city, together with a cipher
code, hooka of reference, list*, names
and some six thousand letters received
from different people In reference to
the purchase of goods in every state in
the union. They have also arretted
Frank Brooks, and Terrence Mnrpby,
bead operators and leaden in the bnsi-
They also learned that the com
bination had jnst sent out 600,000 circu
lars and letten preparatory to the win
ter’s work. Inspector Byrnes has the
names of people to whom these circu
lars are addressed and will look after
future correspondence in his own pecul
iar way.
UP IN FLAMES.
SEVEN RAILROAD BRIDGES BURNED
BY INCENDIARIES.
All ot Thun Burned IU On* Night Between
Snnhlll nnd Tennllle, On., on the Central
Rnllroad—Friends of Express Bobber
Thornton Snipocted ot the Crlms.
Atlanta, Oct. 26.—A special received
here from Tennille says that Wash'
ingtou county seems to be infested with
angular Rube Burrows gang. Seven
bridges were burned between Sanhill
and Tennille on the Georgia Central
railroad during the night. All trains
are delayed and the telegraph wires are
cut in many places.
The incendiaries are nnknown. but a
great many people suppose that they
are relatives of Thornton, the express
robber. The railroad people give no in
formation to the public. Whether
they have auy clue to the perpetrators
of the deeds is not known.
CRIES OF DI8TRESS.
_ Saved by Presence of Mind.
Leavenworth, Kan., Oct. 26.—A line-
man resorted to a novel, bnt effective
plan to save the life of a laborer named
Joseph Feltheger here. Feltheger was
at work excavating for a sewer tnd was
buried under twenty feet of earth by a
caving in of the bank. The lineman,
who was a solitary witness of the acci
dent, turned in an alarm to the fire de
partment. When the hose wagons and
reels strived on the scene the firemen set
to work and in an hoar and a half
brought the laborer to the surface,
j Feltheger is alive and not evea hart.
He Lost Ble Own Life.
Parls, Oct. 2d—A driver of a steam
tram car in this city saw a woman upon
the line in front of the engine. She
was paralyzed with fear, and apparently
unable to move. It being impossible to
stop the headway in time to save her
life, the engineer courageously crawled
alongside bn engine in the hope of being
able to snatch the woman up away
from death. Unfortunately, at the crit
ical moment, he missed his footing and,
falling heavily, .both were ground to
atoms. The name of the dead hero has
not been learned.
Murdered the Mother end Children.
Queen City, Tex., Oct. 26.—Severel
miles from this place, Lee Green, a yel
low negro 16 yean old, shot Mrs. Lowe,
wife of a prosperous farmer, instantly
killing her while she wae washing, and
then threw her body into a Well, He
then threw her little girl, aged 7 years,
in, breaking her thigh and killing her
also. He then took nor little bor, only
4 yean old, and threw him in after the
others.
Twenty Million of People In Ruulft ere
Without Food.
St. Petersburg, Oot. 26.—The ap
proach of frost has caused a renewal of
the cries of distress. The Novostoe es
timates that 20,000,000 of people are
without food. Statistics prove concln
sively that in many places speculators
get extortionate prices. Corn merchants
and village koolaks, or 1 usurers, are
charged with responsibility for the ex
tortion. A Samara paper declares that
Jews are angels compared with the
koolaks, who are in the habit of reduc
ing those in their power to the lowest
stage of poverty. Incidents showing
the terrible distress of the people con
tinue to be recorded. A poor woman of
Rutchino, on returning home from a
neighboring village whither she had
S one to try to purchase food, found all
er children dead, and, a post-mortem
examination being made, their stomachs
were fonnd filled with rags and earth.
Many villages are completely deserted
in the District of Form. One-half of
the population of Reazen has died of
hanger or disease. An odious traffic is
carried on in women’a hair, the best
heads realising a crown a piece.
Salton Luke Drying Up.
Yuma, Ariz., Oct 86.—G. W. Dor-
brow of Salton, and E. B, Preston, a
prominent California engineer, have re
turned from the crevasse eighteen miles
below Hanlon’s, which has been the
sonree of supply of Salton lake from
the Colorado river. They soy no water
was flowing from the river into Salton
basin; that only a small stream was
running through the river bank and
continued eight miles iuland, from
which point the water returned to the
Colordao. Where four weeks ago a
small river ran_ toward Saltou, not a
trace of water can now be found. There
will bo no rise of consequence in the
Colorado river for four months which
can nffect the Salton region, and by
that time the winds will fill up " the
o]ieiiing with sand, thereby checking
auy iuttow. The wuter has been fulling
for the past month at Salton lake. One
mouth more and no sign of the so-called
desert lake will be seen.
Valuable fine Land*.
Ashland, Wi§„ Oot 20.—The rush
for the Omaha indemnity lands has be
gun again. Since the order for filing
was suspended last April every foot of
the 18,000 acres included in the list has
been carefully explored, and its cash
valuation is now placed at more than
$1,800,000. The local land office has
been removed to the second story of the
bank building, and this will check a
tendency to farm In line. The present
order differs from that issued last
April, as it protects the honest settlers
against the lumber speculators, who
are anxious toget hold of the valuable
pine lands. The ironclad restrictions
by the interior department will do
much to preserve order. Receiver
Hedylnff and Register Carrington say
they apprehend no trouble, as every
man in line will be disarmed and no
drinking among the liners permitted.
To Test the Armor Plato.
Washington, Oct 26.—The dynamite
cruiser Vesuvius, now at New London,
Conn., has been ordered to Washing
ton for the purpose of. conveying the
president, secretary of the navy and
ether officials to Indian Head, on the
Potomac, to witness the testing of the
armor plate for naval vessels. The ex
act date of the teste has not yet been
fixed. The Despatch was on her way
to perform this servioe when wrecked
on Assateagne shoals.
Be *' Played” tbs Lottery.
New Orleans, Oct. 26.—The an
nouncement is made that Thomas H.
Kelley, cashier for Richardson, Wil
liams & Co., wholesalo dry goods, has
embezzled $20,000. The statement is
made that Kel ley is a lottery fiend, and
tbat his defalcations were in part, if
not wholly, due to that. The fact was
acki o fledged in an interview, in which
he tool he Splayed” the lotteiy. Kelly
denied, however, that he used any of
his employers’ money.
A Politician Arretted.
Columbus, Oct. 26.—Fritz T. Jones,
late Democratic candidate for Mayor,
was arrested by the Granite Provident
Association of New Hampshire, charged
with embeazling $400 as local agent of
the company here, collecting the money
stockholders and failing lo pay u
over. He was releaaed on 83U0 bond.
Janas' Mauds are wealthy and willprob-
5*“““*“^ =_
A FORGER!
A N»*1ed Criminal of Philadelphia Arre»t-‘
ed In Atlanta!
' Atlanla, Ga., Ootober 26,—A noted
criminal is in a cell at the police sta
tion.
And his captor Is well known as one of
the best detectives in Philadelphia.
Just at noon to-day two men, both
neat looking and eaoh carrying a small
satchel, walked into the police station.
One asked for tho officer in charge,
and after a short talk the other strang
er was taken In charge. He was car
ried back into the jail and locked in a
cell.
This man is William Frenkel, alias
Julius Fruend, one who has forged and
successfully passed chocks and drafts to
the amount ot thousands of dollars. He
did hie work In New York, St Louis,
Boston and Philadelphia, and escaped
detection until a few weeks ago.
In charge of him here Is Wllllsm R.
Hulfisb, a detective of Philadelphia.
He telle an Interesting story of his pris
oner.
"In Philadelphia,” he said “Frenkel
stood high. He Is a dentist by profess
ion, and hat an elgant education, going
to college In Germany for a number of
years. He speaks English, French and
German with equal purity, and converses
intelligently on all subjects.
“He dresses well, has elegant manners,
knows all the big dentists of the coun
try, and Is a fellow who makes friends
easily. He is addloted to the morphine
habit, and has takon odd trips while un
der the influence of the drag.
On the 6th of Ootober we canght up-
with a forgery of his, but be bad stripped.
It was for $8,000, and we want him bad
ly. Investigation showed that be was
guilty of a half dozen forgeries in Phila
delphia and several other cities.
“I started out after him, and a week
since I caught him In New Orleans. 1 am
now on my way with him to Philadel
phia. He is wanted in many other places
and if will be a long time before he is a
man again.
Frenkel or Fruend looks a little
weather-beaten, bat is a bright, Intelli
gent fellow. He doesn't care to talk
much about bis arrest, and seems very
despondent. They leave to-night for
Philadelphia
Sam Jones..
Augusta, Ga., October 28.—The - lar
gest crowd Rev. Mr. Wadsworth has yot
attracted was present last night to
hear him denounce the klrmess and
King Solomon. He began by denouno- ,
ing the modern and faehlonable dances
of the day as hurtful and sinful, and de
clared that no dancing churoh member
has any Influence as a Christian, and tbat
his most Intimate friend on his death
bed would have to send for somebody
else to prey for him.
He read deliverances from leading
ohurohes against danoing and made the
letter of Rev. Mr. Dnmbell, rector of a
Chattanooga Eplscopl church, indorsing
the klrmess, tho basis of a severe attack
upon the Episcopal church, quoting the
statement tbat It is popular becauso It Is
neutral In polities and religion. He said
was the smallest In number and the
largest In Its olalms. It claimed to be
the only true church of God. If this was
true, then it has bad mighty bad luck,
for there are more Methodists in Atlanta
than Episcopalians In the whole state,
and about half as many In Augusta.
The people hadn’t caught on to the
real reason why a bishop of the Georgia
diocese was so hard to secure. It was
because a man at the head of a big col
lege or the bishop of a mission In the big
growing west were unwilling to give up
these responsible positions for such a *
small thing as the bishopric of Georgia.
He said there were good Christian men
and women in the Episcopal church, bnt
they were not identified with the fash
ionable sad worldly spirit whioh charac
terizes it
He said the klrmess was simply a
scheme of an itinerant dancing master
out of a job, and if It was carried out
there wonld be a parade of young girla
in improper costumes before the lasolv-
ious eyes of an Impure crowd, and all
for tbe purpose of enriching a dancing
master out of a job.
He denounced King Solcmon as the’
greatest desecration of tbe holy things
cf the ehnrcb the south has ever seen.
He didn’t hope by bis voice to stop it,
bathe hoped (that If godless people
persisted in bringing such shows here,
decent church people would leave it to -
circumcised Jews and unclrcumclsed
Philistines to patronize them.
College for Colored Girls.
Jackson, Miss., October 26.—Miss
Mary Holmes, of Illinois, has notified
tbe people of Jackson that the commit
tee baa decided to locate the college ahe
will endow at this place. It will be an
industrial inatltute for tbe colored girls
of Mississippi, and will cost to build
about $75,000. The colored people do
nated a site containing twenty acres,
and are very happy that they have sc
oured the prize, ae several other el tie*
were after It.