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AMERICUS
VOLUME 1
AMERICUS. GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1891.
NUMBER 174
Something For The Boys
SENATOR BRICE.
BRAND NEW SAFETY BICYCLE
TO BE GIVEN AWAY!
IT WONT COST YOU A PENNY
To stimulate the traffic in our Boys’ anc
Children’s Clothing department, l will give,
with every Boy’s or Child’s suit, between the
ages of 4 and 18 years, sold by us from the
st ot October past, until
NEXT CHRISTMAS EVE,
when the tortunate one will be determined
TICKET, (non-transferable) entitling the
loldcr to one chance at a
BRAND NEW SAFETY BICYCLE
TO BE GIVEN AWAY ABSOLUTELY FREE OF
ANY CHARGE WHATEVER!
1 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
ested citizens will draw out one of the numbers,
and ihe 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
ieorge D. Wheatley
has become known far and wide as the
synonym of
CLOTHING AT FAIR PRICES!
K stock was NEVER SO COMPLETE!
Our styles NEVER SO ELEGANT!
Our prices NEVER SO MODERATE! provethl5storr '
And never so great OUR ANXIETY TO PLEASE!
Our assortment of Boys’ and Children’s
Jothing begins with a neat WA8H SATINET
GIT (wool filling) any size from 4 to 18 years,
At $1.25 Per Suit,
includes all the finer materials, such as
ASSIMERES, WORSTEDS, TRICOTS,
ERGE AND CHEVIOT Suite so desirable for
boys who are hard on clothes.’*
Wishing you all “good luck” in the drawing,
ys,
Your friend,
tame D. Wheatley.
A DEMOCRATIC VIEW OF THE
LITICAL OUTLOOK.
What Mr. Brice Beatty Said at Pittsburg
About the Chairmanship of the. National
Democratic Committee—The Ohio Fight
—In Iowa—The Contest In New York.'
Of
New York, Oct. 27.—"I am just in
the city for u few days, taking a bird’s'
eye view of the situation, ” said Senator
Calvin S. Brice. "I shall not remain
long. I intend to return to Ohio tins
week. The political pot seems to be
boiliug very briskly. The Democrats
will find the broth to snit their taste.
It looks that way to me. Do I intend
to resign from the chairmanship of the
rational Democratic committee? There
jn a rumor to that effect ? Oh, yes;
1 suppose that arises from a short inter
view I had with a Pittsburg reporter
while en route for this city.
"I did tell him in answer to his ques.
tion that there would be a new chair
man of the. committee on the reorgaui
nation of that body next year,
coarse yon know there is always
change in the personnal of the commit
tee on snch occasions. I do not care to
be quoted in the papers on this subject.
It wonld be premature. What I have
to say is best said to the committee,
can say this: That after one has been
through the work of one campaign as
chairman, he is quite ready to surren
der the reins to some one else. The
work is very onerous and exhausting.
"The ontiook in Ohio is a question
which neither the Republicans nor
Democrats of Ohio feel equal to an
swering. "Campbell is a splendid cam'
paigner. And it is a fact that he is
gaining popularity rapidly as the can
vase progresses. This is especially the
case as to the country districts.* He is
a worker, and his work is of a telling
sort, but, yon know, there are condi
tions in this canvass which both sides
are new to. Principally, the new An
stralian ballot system. We can not tell
until after the election whether the vo
ters will cost their ballots as they now
announce their intention of doing. The
Republicans may lose many votes they
count on, and the same is trne as to the
Democrats. However, the prospect
bright. The task of turning a strongly
Republican state into Democratic chan
nels is a big one. But it is a hopeful
task. And Campbell may come ont
with a comfortable majority to his
credit. It looks that way.
"It is believed that the boys in Iowa
are sure of carrying their state with a
neat majority und we are hopeful of
Pennsylvania. Russell is maki
gallant fight in Massachusetts,
prospects are bright and a comfortable
majority may be expected in that state.
In New York I believe there is hut one
conclusion That conclusion is Flower.
He will, I believe, come to the front
with a comfortable majority. I am go
ing back to Oiiio and am going to watch
and work until the very day of election.
There is nothing to be lost by wurkiug. ”
EXPELLED THE DEACON.
Man l» rnnlalwil for Talking Too
Murli About Mottling.
New York, Oct. 27.—Thirteen old
ladies in bluck shawls filed solemnly
one by one, into the basement of the
Trinity Baptist chnrch in Fast Fifty-
fifth street, near Lexington avenue.
After them came other members of the
congregation to the number of fifty in
all. The venerable sexton let them iu
one at a time and locked the door care
fully behind each. Finally the old man
locked the door for good, and stood
guard without to see that no reporters
obtained admission to the trial of Dea
con A. A. Colby, accused of spreading
stories detrimental to the welfare of the
Chinese annex to the Sunday school and
doing other things unbecoming a Bap
tist deacon. The charges against him
specified "tattling, backbiting and rail
ing. ” The trial lasted two liours and
resulted in the unanimous and uncere
monious expulsion of Deacon Colby
from the chnrch. The trial was the
outcome ot a story circulated by Colby
that he had aarprised several yonng
lady teachers in the Chinese Snnday
school in company with their pupils at
an nnlikely hoar of the night and un
der circumstances that spoke badly for
the management of that branch of the
A CREDITORS BANK.
Hew the Creditor* of tbs Mines Bros.
See Their Way Clear.
Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 27.— At hut
the creditors of the late bank of Moses
Bros, think they see their way clear. A
charier has been secured, and a trust
company to be known as the Fidelity
Trust company is to he formed at once.
The books of subscription have been
opened. For several weeks the com
mittee has bean holding conferences
with the Moses Bros., trying to agree
upon the details ot the trust company,
but failing at their last. meeting, the
committee agreed to disagree with
Moees Bros., and the present company
is to be organized by the creditors inde
pendent of Moses Bros. The creditors
availing themselves of the latitude
given them nnder the decree of Chan
cellor Foster in this case, which em
powers the assignee to sell all the assets
at public sale, to be bid in by the cred
itors and paid for in claims, propose to
force the sale, buy the assets and go
into a trust company.
A ROMANTIC STORY.
A IUU) Mexican Who Has Been Kept
Ont of Hit Inheritance.
San Francisco, Cal., Oct. 27. —The fol
lowing romnntic story has jnst b en
mad$ public. Some twenty-five years
ago a yonng girl named Maria Servo left
Mexico and came north into California,
finally settling in Los Angeles. A few
years later she met and married Matin'
el Quintero, a young Mexican. This was
in B879. A hoy was horn to them a
yetjr later, and shortly after that the
huslumi died. Mrs. Quintero moved to
Sacramento with Iter h the, and iu 1889
she’ married Joshua D. Clevenger.
CldVenger is tit present living at 1186
Howard street, iu tliis city. Mrs. Clev
eager ilied in Sacramento, in July, 1889,
Quintero had been an Odd Fellow in ex :
eellent standing, and whell tile widow
reutured on marriage the second time
Golden Gnie Lodge, to which Quintero
belonged, formally adopted his son
The lad is now IS years old.
Some time ago certain members of
the lodge became possessed of informa
tion which' led them to believe thut
young Quintero was the rightful owner
tf a rich inheritance in mexico. They
set about investigating. According to
the stories furnished them, the mother
of young Quintero has been entitled for
many years to the large income of Don
Miguel Servo. Servo was a very wealthy
Mexican. He had no children by his
marriage, and was excessively loud of
the little ones. He looked ahont for
one to adopt, and his fancy fell on one
whom he named Maria Atnora Servo,
the mother of yonng Quintero. Servo
died in 1870, and left the bulk of his
property to hjs adopted daughter. The
will provided that while Maria remain'
ed single, she was to receive the rent of
certain houses, and that when she mar
ried the entire property was to go to
her. Don Jose Marano and G. Hermo-
silo were appointed exeentors of the
will. They curried ont their trust so
disinterestedly that the adopted daugh
ter died in entire ignorance of her in
heritance. On the same plan the boy
wOnld never have discovered his for
tune but for the diligeuce of friends.
BURNED BY A MOB.
A Negro Murderer Is Taken from Jail
to the Ntoke.
NewOrleans, Oct. 27.—A Picayune’s
Queen City, Tex, special says: The
negro, Lee Green, who murdered the
family of Farmer Lowe, seven miles
west of Qneen City, Saturday, was ar
rested near Kildare and hurried to the
jail at Lindon. About fi o'clock in the
morning n crowd appeared at the jail
and demnnded the keys from the sher
iffs wife! who was forced to deliver
them. The men who composed the
party took Green from the jail and
I (jjCkjB'WlS dodr'artil delivered the keys
hiifk to the sheriff’s wife. Tile sheriff
was absent with a posse hunting the
negro. They took him to the scene of
the tragedy and turned him over to the
husband of the murdered woman, who
obtained a fall confession from him,
AH day long men from adjoining
counties, ns well as from all parts of
the state, continued to arrive at Lowe's
farm.. At 2:30 o’clock a . trace chain
was placed abontGreen's neck and fast
ened -to a tree so as to hold him in
standing position. At this stage of
the proceedings forty-six negro men
piled fagots high upon and around him
and an old uegress touched the match
to it, And in a few initiates liis soul
passed.into eternity, onlyfifty-six lionrs
after those of his victims,'
- Ran Over m EMbMkncnl.
Paris, Oct. 27.—A psaaanger train on
the railway between Lyons and Pre
noble was derailed near Oirans and ran
over an embankment A number of
carriages were telescoped and fifteen
persons were killed and fifty seriously
injured.
Dentil of n IVell Known Southerner.
-Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 27.— Inform
ation has reached this city of the death
of Colonel H. H. Lockett, of Bogota.
United" States of Colombia, Sonth
America, on Oct 12. Colonel Lockett
wns a native of Alabama, a graduate of
West .Point, and served in the Coated-
ernte army with distinction. After the
war he was fora time a professor in the
University of Alabama, University of
Mississippi, and then went to Egypt,
where he served the khedivo for several
years. He was elected a professor in
iversity of Tennessee in 1877, end
tirect here from Egypt, serving
four years' in the chair of mathematics.
Afterward he was connected with a
contracting firm of New York as en-
ineer, and did work on the statue of
ibarty. A year or so ago he went to
South America as engineer for a firm
building a railroad there. His wife was
with him st the time of death.
Bobbed Ills Strut Car Oates.
Omaha, Oct. 27.— Four masked men
entered the office of the Omaha Street
Railway company, and at the point of
revolvers, compelled Superintendent
Beals and two assistants to throw up
their hands while the burglars blew
open the safe. They drilled a hole and
filled it with giant powder. When the
explosion occurred the safe door was
blown twenty feet, and oar starters and
others employed In the bam adjoining
rushed up to the office to see what was
the nutter. They were met st the
door by two of the burglars with re
volvers, who instructed them to return
to work, which they did. The safe
contained $1,200, all of which was ta
ken. The telephone lines into the city
had been cat, and the police were not
notified nntil an honr after the bnrglars
bad escaped.
CYCLONE IN OHIO.
THE STORM SEVERE IN THE NORTH
ERN PART OF THE 8TATE.
No Lives Are Yet Fsported Lost—News of
thefTerrlfllo Stem**Have* Done at Dif
ferent Places—'Tho Waters of Lake E I.
Turbulent and Vasari. Wrecked.
Cleveland, Oct. 27.—A special from
Conneunt. O., gaps that ji- terrible
cyclone struck that town shortly after
six o'clock p. m., destroying abont thir
ty house* and causing a loss of $100,000,
It was a terrific wind storm, accompa
nied by very little rain.
Record’s butter-tub factory, worth
$50,000. was completely wrecked. The
Lake Shore depot was also demolished,
and tho wreckage strewn on the cracks
for half a mile, rendering them ini pass
able for several honrs. Both the Nickel
Plate and the Lake Shore telegraph
wires were tangled upon the ground.
Many fine residences were unroofed and
otherwise dumaged. It is tlioaght that
no lives were lost.
The storm was very severe all through
northern Ohio and much damage to
shipping is reported. In Cleveland the
velocity of the winds was from thirty
to forty miles an honr all night, and
Lake Erie was literally tnrned inside
ont. Several vessels are reported
wrecked, but no definite news has as
yet been received.
A PECULIAR HABIT.
CONDENSED NEWS DISPATCHES.
iUherlsed Gasoline Is Taken by a Buy
as an IntoxIssnL
Baltimore, Oot. 27.—Willis Grant
Webb, the 6-year-old son of Mrs. Jo
anna Webb, at Hampden, Baltimore
county, is addicted to a very singular
and dangerous habit which is puzzling
the physicians. For some time past the
boy's mother has detected a strong odor
of gasoline oil abont her son, and was
at a loss to know the cause. She found
him lying unconscious on the floor and -
a can of gasoline oil by his side. She
called in a doctor, who succeeded in
bringing the boy hack to consciousness.
Upon investigating the case Dr. Mitch
ell discovered that the boy bad a mor
bid desire to inhale etherized gasoline
oil. How the child ever acquired the
habit is a mystery. In order to inhale
the ether he removes the stopper from
the cun and inserts his nose in the hole,
remaining iu this position nntil he be
comes intoxicated It is the first case
of the kind known to phystciaus here.
Mrs. Kicker Kicked to Death.
St. Louis, Oct. 27.—While Mrs. Sadie
Kicker and a friend, Mrs. Daly, were
passing the corner of Tenth street and
Clark avenne, abont 8 o'clock p. in.,
Joseph Farley stepped out from a crowd
of toughs who were loafing on the
corner, aud struck Mrs. Daly with his
clenched fist. Mrs. Kicker interfered,
whereupon Farley threw her down and
commenced lieating her most unmerci
fully witli his fists, and finally tnrow-
iug her down, trampled her into an un
recognizable muss of flesh. He then
jumped into a buggy und drove away
und up to 1 o'clock had not been cu|i-
tnred. When the crowd approached
the prostrate form of Mrs. Kicker she
was dead.
DonieMtIe nml Foreign and of General
Interest. ' ’
The firm of Irving A. Evans & Co., ot
Boston, has made an assignment.
Abont 8,000 miners in Staffordshire
and Worcestershire linvo struck against
a redaction of 10 per cent in wages*
Floods in Spain continue. The river
Ebro has overflowed Us hanks, and is
submerging railroads and highways
along its coarse. »
A Constantinople dispatch says that
advices from Damascus state that there
were thirty coses of cholera aud fifteen
deaths from the disease in that city on
the 20th inst,
A Boston special says: President
Samuel Gompers has culled the annual
convention of the American federation
of labor to meet at Birmingham, Ala.,'
in December next.
W. A. Feagle, a merchant of New-
berne, Vn„ was arruigued there for the
murder of County Treasner Crandall'
on April 1. 1690. The prisoner pleaded
"not guilty" and court adjourned.
A Rome dispatch says: The police
of Caltauizta, Sicily, have received a
message from the brigands who hold
the. Marquis Grimaldi a prisoner, do-'
manding 50,000 franoa aa hta ransom.
Pine Grove, a village nine miles east
of Lexington. Ky., was swept by fire„
only one buildiug being left standing.
The fire originated in a large gram
warehouse and elevator belonging to-
Jones & Gay.
A New York special says that Mary
Tempest, who is Lillian Hassell's suc
cessor at the Casino, slipped aa she left
the stage recently, and fell heavily on
the back of her head. She received a
cononssion of the brain, and it ia not
expected that she will lie able to per
form in some time.
- A. Paris dispatch says: It has jnst
transpired that General Boulanger waa
terribly addicted to themorphino habit.
The most dramatio incidents of his life
were passed while nnder the influence
of morphine injections. It is also as
certained that the general's mistress,
Mme. Bonneman, was os well n victim-
of the drag.
At Idianapolis, Mrs. Lillie Stevens
shot and mortally wounded Mrs. Mar
garet Roes. Returning home Mrs. Ste
vens found Mrs. Ross in a compromis
ing situation with Leon Gresh and the
shooting resulted. The wounded wo
man was a domestic in the household
of Samuel Wikle, the father of Mrs.
Stevens. Jealousy is supposed to have
been themotive.-
At Chicago, Mrs. F,. Alice Miller be-
in suit against William J. English,
jhn J. Healey and Lnke Coyne, elec
tion commissioners, for $90,000 dam
ages: The action is brought b:*catiso of
the rale issued by. the election commis
sioners prohibiting tho judges of elec
tion from allowing women to ragistor.
In this way the plaintiff claims she was
deprived of the right to have her mime
placed on the registry as a citizen,
A Wheeling, W.Va.. special says-.
The a8toanding discovery has been
made here that this city has been for
four years absolutely withont police
rales and regulations. Four years ago
the citv police board was abolished, but
the ordinance transferring its powers
to the police committee failed to reor
dain the existing police rales As a re
sult the police have been acting without
legal authority ot regulation. The mat
ter will probably corse n large amount
of litigation and cost to the city.
shot Hit Cousin und Himself*
Springfield, His., Oct. 27.—John
Meinke, a painter living at St. Louis,
shot and fatally wounded his consiu,
Miss Sophie Broecker, while they were
sitting iu the parlor at the yonug lady’s
home. He had been making love to her
aud she did not encourage him. He at-
sliot himself in the head, bat the wonnd
is uot fatal A tetter was fonud in bit
pocket addressed to bis mother and
friends asking forgiveness.
Disastrous Collision on IVntor.
London, Oct. 27.—The British steamer
Boston, from Cardiff for London, at
Falmouth, was in collision with tbs
British bark Cbsrtwood, 759 tons. Cap
tain Salmon, from Antwerp for Valpa
raiso. The Chartwood foundered al
most immediately with a loss of sixteen
lives. Three men were killed on board
the Boston and the steamer's boats were
badly stove in. Only two people were
saved from the Chartwood.
The TUden Hein Win. *
Albany, N. Y., Ootober 27.—The
court of appeal* rendered a decision this
morning in the caee of George H. TUden
vs. Andrew H. Green and others, as ex
ecutors, etc., appellant!, end Laura B.
Hazsard eL ol., respondents, affirming
the judgment with costs payable to all
parties ont of the estate. This readers
the TUden trust void and is in- favor of
the heirs.
Bobbery end Mnrder.
Mt. Vernon, Gb., Oct. 27.—Two ne
groes went to James' Mobley's, in the
southeastern part of Montgomery coun
ty, with the intention to rob Mobley.
Mr Torn Bone wee at Mobley’s. The
negroes each bad pistols in their hand*
and demanded money. Mr. Mobley
grabbed hie gnn, and the robber took it
away from him and fired, ehootlng Mr.
Bone. Bone died. The negroee were
pursued and one of them captured and
u now in jail at thie place.
Two Youthful Train Wreckers.
London. Oct. 27.—The police of Broy-
don have arrested two boys for placing
obstacles in front of the east bound ex
press. The boys confessed, saying that
they placed the fish plates and iron
chairs where found in order that their
desire to see a train derailed might be
gratified.
Fearful Weather at Ren.
Liverpool, Oct. 27.—Incomingsteam-
ers report having experienced fearful
weather lietween this port ami the
Island of Moderia. Their decks were
continually swept by heavy seas, and a
number of them were compelled to
heave to nntil the weather improved.
Holler Bxploklwu.
Louisville, Oct. 27.—By a boiler ex
plosion here one man was killed, sever
al persona injured and nearly half a
million dollars'* worth of property de
stroyed.
GREEN-GOODS OPERATORS.
Two or the Shrewdest Men la the Busl-
urns itre Arrested.
Nrw YorkTOcL 27.—Inspector Byrnes
arrested two of the slickest “green-
goods" operators in the country. They
are Frank Brooks, olios -Pretty Frank,”
and Terrence Mnrplty, uliaa “Poodlt"’ .
Mnrphy. Both men are crooks and ex
convicts, having served sentences for
pocket-picking and shop-lifting. Mur
phy was once arrested for rubbing ex-
Secretary Robeson of it gold watch in
Philadelphia. When arretted the men
were found in the act of addressing a
lot ot cii cnlars. In Brooks' room a com
plete “green-goods” outfit, was seized.
It consisted of forty-six large blank
books filled with the names of purties,
prospective victims, together with u lot
of circulars and newspaper clippings.
The book contained more than 60,600
names of well-to-do persons in nearly
every town and village in the country.
Abont 6,000 letters and telegrams were
also found from persons all over the
country acknowledging receipt of circu
lars ana making appointments for meet}
ing* in this city. Inspector Byrnes es
timates the expenditure for postage by
the men within a month at $8,000.
The following telegram was received
from a. correspondent in Alabama on
Saturday morning:
Rome, Ala., Oct. 28.—Send instruc
tions provided, with 404.
J. M. Talbot.
Troy, Alu.
A letter was seized from John F.
Reed, superintendent of the Elgin
Home Stock Farm, Alpine, Ind. This
rentleinau sent the two prisoners $70,
’or which he was to receive $550 iu
“green goods.” He asks that the
"goods"be expressed him at Connors-
ville, Iud. Mr. Reed also naively states
in his letter: "I presume it wonld not
be wise to attempt to pass them upon
the banks. United States Treasurer
J. N. Huston lives here at Coimorsville.
He recently resigned, as von ore aware,
hut he wonld be apt to be shrewd and
well posted, wonld be not, aud wonld
obably
probably detect them.
Derision la the Tllden Will Cue.
Albany, Oct. *7.—The court of ap
peals rendered a decision in the case of
George H. TilCen vs. Andrew H. Green
and others, as executor*, etc., appell
ants, and Laura B. Hazzsrd, et al,
espondents, affirming the judgement
with costs pavshle to all parties oat of
the estate. This renders the Tilden
trust void and ia in favor of the 1