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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.