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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