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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
VOLUME 1
AMERICUS GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1891.
NUMBER 18B
The Boys’ Bicycle Gift having occupied a
prominent place in
Geo. D. Wheatley'!
BADLY WANTED.
double column advertisement space for some
days, resulting in an exceedingly gratifying
increase in my Boys’ and Youths’ Clothing
trade, we are now forced for the time to lay it
aside, that I may bring to the attention of the
ladies, the many novelties now in store await
ing their inspection.
Remember that these are new and stylish
goods of this season’s buying to be sold at
GREATLY REDUCED PRICES
New
OPENED THIS WEEK.
Among these may be found Novelty Suits, Serges in overshot
effects, Fiannels, Cashmeres and Henriettas, Bedford Cords in all the
new and desirable shades, such as light gray, modes, tan, eto.
IN SILKS, BLACK & FANCY
We show the largest line of Gros Grains, Armures, Poui De Soi,
Rhadames, Failles and Bengalines, etc. ever seen in the city at aston
ishingly low prices.
Velvets to match all styles of Dress Goods
Trimmings in Nail Heads, Gimps, Cords and Passementeries, together
with a new line of
NOVELTY PEARL BUTTONS just received, large and small
sizes to match.
The new trimming—ro desirable in all colors, at 40c per yard.
Call and see us for anything needed in the ^aikUemoaeyVnd^n^oT^'un 8
way of new Dress Goods and Trimmings.
We offer for the coming week
A Grand Reduction in Henriettas!
All colors. The various lines reduced as follows: You can buy the
usual 20c goods at 16c; 36c at 26c; 40c at 80c and 60o at 36c. In ad
dition, a magnificent all wool Henrietta 40 inches wide, at 60c.
Remember that Tricots, black and colored, bringing heretofore
35c, yon get for 25o per yard.
Eveniug shades in LANSDOWNE, CHDA AND SURAH SILKS await
your call at low figures.
My SCRIM and CURTAIN CRETONS
Republicans Want the Next National
Convention Held In San Francisco,
San Francisco, Nov. 10.—Tim second
meeting of citizens to endeavor to se
cure the holding of the next year’s na
tional convention in San Francisco has
been held. The finance committee re
ported nearly $12,000 subscribed at
ready, and promised a large increase in
> few days. The transportation com'
rnittee reported that the Southern Pa
cific company had agreed to guarantee
a ronnd trip rate of $50 from Chicago
and eqni-distnnt points to San Fran
cisco during the convention. M. H. Do
Young, the California member of the
“ ublican national committee, stated
elieved San Francisco could secure
the convention by offering to pay the
transportation of delegates to the con-
still demands attention, besides an offer of Nottingham Lace Curtains vention. not including Alternates. He
3 yards long at the figure of $1 per pair, never reached before in this
inaket.
You miss it if you do not buy your
of us. We are the sole agents for the famous P. & P. BRAND of
Kids, and sell as good or better gloves from 76c to $1.26 than others
do from $1.60 to $2.60 per pair. All our gloves are warranted.
YOUR MONEY REFUNDE0 or anothor pair gloves for every pair unsatis
factory being returned to us.
KANSAS CITY BANKING COMPA
NY’S PRESIDENT.
A. K. Blanchard', Shady Transaction, Ex
poMd—Defrauded the Director, Ant
Thou,and, of Dollar*, and Other. Claim
They Are Financially Deduced
Kansas City, Nov. 10.—The direc
tors of the Maine Banking company are
expecting a telegram from Maineian-
nounciug the arrest of A. 13. Blanchard,
president of that company, on the
charge of fraud, obtaining money un
der false pretenses and forgery.
It is claimed that Blanchard, by
series of shady transactions, defrauded
the directors oat of thousands of dol
lars. Or. Benjamin A. Harding of
Blackstone, Ills., Bays that he has been
financially mined by Blanchard’s spec
ulations. In September, 1890, Blanch
ard organized the banking company
with |50,000 capital, and opened an of
fice, and the business was represented
to be negotiating loans, receiving and
paying interest on deposits, and buying
and selling United States bonds. Ho
ratio Clark of Maine, Is one of the prin
cipal stockholders and directors, and
claims to have been induced to invest
his money in the institution by the
promises of Blanchard, who represent
ed that he bad purchased a number of
city lots at a bargain, and offered to let
Clark in on the ground floor. Clark
gave him $2,100 for investment, and
sent his son out, who was made cashier
of the bank, To this son Blanchard
gave a deed, which purported to be for
the lots in question, and it was accept
ed without question.
Recently it waa discovered that all
was not right with the banking com
pany, and the Maine people made
qniet investigation; The first thing
discovered was ,that " the deed was a
forgery. That the t>ank should con
tinue so long is a mystery, but is par
tially accounted for by the fact that Dr.
B. A. Harding, of Blackstone, Ills.,who
is in the city, was a tool of Blanchard.
He is an ancle of Mrs. Blanchard, and
had amassed a fortune. He is now an
old man. and says that Blanchard had
taken every penny of his money.
Blanchard would make fictitious loans
and get Harding to indorse the securi
ties. and they wonld then be easily, sold
in Chicago. Blau chard is a graduate of
Bates college, of Lewiston, Me., and
some time since the directory or . the
college sent him $10,000 for investment-,
but where it is gone is not known, and
it is supposed that more irregularities
will soon he brought to light.
Blanchard is ont of the city, and i*
supposed to be in Maine now by those
who are interested in the bank, but
known. His wife has also left the cit;
The directors of the bank are A.
Blanchard, Horatio Clark. B. A. Hard
ing, E. B. Watts and E. C. Barry,
HARD AT WORK.
SAD ACCIDENT.
Youngest Sister of Lont Clonciirry Found
Dead In a Lake.
Dublin, Nov. 10.—A sad accident ac
cident is reported from Nass, County
Kildare, nine miles from this city, The
seat of Lord Cloncarry is situated near
Naas. While the gamkkeepers were
walking ulong the shores of the lake,
near the mausion, they saw something
In it which attracted their attention.
They dragged the object, which proved
to be a body, ashore. Their con
sternation may be imagined when, upon
landing the body aiid examining it,
they found it to be that of the Hon.
Rose Lawless, voungest sister of Lord
Cloncurry. The family wis immedi
ately notified and the remains were ten
derly removed to the house of her
brother.
A Denial from Hr. Gladstone.
London. Nov. 10.—Mr. Gladstone has
written a letter for pnhlication in refer
ence to the statement of the chancellor
of the exchequer, the Right Hon.
George Gcscben, in which the latter is
credited with saying that Mr. Glad
stone negotiated with both of the rival
Irish parties at Boulogne. In this letter
Mr. Gladstone sa$v. “What Mr.
Goschen says he understands he misun
derstands. T had no more to do with
the proceedings at Boulogne than he
had. When Mr. Parnell censed to be
leader, I informed Mr. McCarthy of my
desire to hold free communications with
him. The communications were made
for pnblicity and not for secrecy. On
the police question I said what Mr.
Morley said—that I regarded the case
of the police az the proper business of
the local government in Ireland, Lon
don and overywhere else. On the' land
question I nip not aware that anything
was named which was withheld in
LOOKS LIKE AVAR.
ORDERED TO PATCH UP THE OLD
WAR VESSELS.
Secretary of War Tracy Order* Every War
Ship Hade Beady, and Work Haa Been
Cnmmenoed In Barneat—Excitement In
San Franolwo Owing to Poor Defense.
18S0.”
Ruseln'e Losses.
London, Nov. 10.—It is impossible at
present to form even a provisional esti
mate of the loss which the Russian Em
pire most snstlan from the failure of
this year’s harvest. Less than two
weeks ago the estimates of the minis
terial conuuiAee drere published show
ing that tin amount required for the re
lief of the famine-stricken population
wonld be £18,000,000, reckoning the pa
per rouble at two shillings. A later
statement, prepared by the director of
the inland reVenne department, just
issued, shows that in the way of food
alone not less than £25,000,000 will be
needed. Even this estimate, which js
only provisional, does not cover the
whole, or anything like the whole of the
loss which must be incurred in the
dilntnished receipts of the imperial
treasury, the general depression of
trade and industry, and in various
other ways,
New York, Nov. 10.—Not since the
close of the rebellion has there been
snoh activity in getting war vessels
ready for tea. Matters had been going
along at the navy yard in the nsnal
slow fashion, when a clerk entered Cap
tain Erben’s office with a telegram.
Th» captain yawned as he opened the
envelope, but the first few words made
him break his yawn in two, and in an
instant orders were flying thick and
fast, to the heads of the various me
chanical departments. The telegram
was from Secretary Tracy, ordering
every war ship to be made ready for
service as speedily as possible. Special
orders weregiven for forcing work on
the Miuntouomab. She is the strongest
war vessel in onr navy, and the only
one, according to the opinion of naval
officers, that is fit to engage in battle
with the Chilian torpedo fleet.
She is a massive, formidably lookidg
vessel and and a regular battering-ram.
She carries two 20-inch breech-loading
rifles in each tnrret. Each gun weighs
57,000 pounds, and it capable of throw
ing a 500-pound shot a distance of thir
teen miles, and burns 255 pounds of
powder at each discharge.
It is thought she can be sent away
by the last of this week. Work is be
ing pushed on all other vessels in the
navy yard. In the forts down at the
Naarows the same activity prevails,
orders having been received there from
the war department. The working
forces are doubled, and ammunition of
all kinds is being gotten ready with a
rash.
mght money for th
sed.
could be easily
For Men’s Wear, Serlven’a Patent Elastle team Drawers
and Undervests, all grades.
Large Stock of ODD PANTS at Reduced Prices.
Boys, remember that yon get a ticket for the Bicycle drawing for
every suit bought of ns tip to December 26,1891, when some nice boy
gets a new safety for bis Xmas present _
For everything in the line of Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing,
Furnshings, Carpets or Bugs, call every time on
George D. WReatley
Cor.‘Lamar St. arid Cotton Ave,
thoi
raise
Opium Dana Baldad.
New York, Nov. 10.—The biggest
raid ever made in this city on the opium
dens and fan-tan joints was made at 11
o'clock by Police Captain Brooks snd
twenty-two officers. They bagged
ninety-one prisoners. The places raided
were 1<>5 Park street, 21 Pell street und
another establishment upstairs in the
same building. Thirty-four Chinamen
were found in the Park street basement
abd the remainder were canglit on Pell
street. ' All the places had several exits
and it was only by the exercise of
great cantion that the places were sur
rounded and the exits guarded. The
blowing of s fog horn was the signal for
smashing in all the doors. With the
prisoners there were captured valuable
fayonts. Cue Chinaman who tried to
escape by the way of the ooal hole was
met by on officer who was descending
that way and the two tnmbled into the
cellar and hafi quite a tussle. Some of
the pipes captured were so well sea
soned os to be valued. at all the way
from $10 to $30.
Some Oeruian Food l't-lce*.
Washington, Nov. 10.—Ion report to
the Department ot state the United
States consul-general at Berlin. Mr.
Edwards, makes a comparison of the
prices of food products in Germany in
September, 1801, and -September, 1890,
as follows: 1800—Wheat, 187 marks;
rye, Mil murks, potatoes, 51.5 marks,
1801—Wheat, 230 marks; rye, 230
marks; potatoes. 09.0 marks. The
prices during the current year are
nigher than any since 1876. The price
for rye in July last was 125 marks. The
price of wheat has fallen since Angnst
about 0 marks, but the September quo
tations are atill higher than any dnring
the past fifteen years. The price of
wtatous fell from 80.80 marks in July
68.20 in Angnst, bat in September
rose to 68.70,
Men anil Hones Burned.
Denver, Nov. 10.— Mansien'8 livery
stahles,-at Eighteenth and Laurence
streets, were almost completely de
stroyed by fire. Four men, possibly
five, rooming in the upper portion of
the building, were suffocated, and be
tween twenty and thirty horses met
death in the same way. The namee of
the men conid not be learned. Their
bodies have been seat to tho coroner's
office for identification.
Thirty-fonr horses were burned to
denth. All family horsee, and valued
at $300 to $750 each. The loss on build
ing and carriage* is $15,000. It is
thought the remains of two more men
are in the rains.
Foreat Fire*.
Middles boro, Ky., Nov. 10.—The
forest fires in the .Cumberland moun
tains are assuming dangerous propor
tions in this special neighborhood.' The
flames have reached to the foothills,
and are burning fiercely to the Valley.'
In every direction for miles and miles
around, including hills and monntains,
the flames are leaping with terrible
velocity, and are deetroving hundreds
of shacks and innumerable fences. The
Area extend fully over twenty miles of
the territory. A strong wind is blow
ing, and it is feared considerable dam
age will he done unless rain comes soon.
Pattis With Outlaws.
Kansas City, Nov. 10.—A spe
cial to The Star from Gnthrie, O. T.,
says: "Indian Agent Patrick, Sheriff
Conley, of the Sac and Fox nation, and
Depnty Marshal Williams went to the
place where Marshal George Thornton
was murdered snd were fired upon by
the same ganff of outlaws who killed
Thornton. After a lively battle the
outlaws were ranted. A native living
there said the outlaws were organized
and patrolling the entire section o't
country, that they have the description
of every officer in the territory and
would shoot them on sight."
Pettruell** Fir* la Philadelphia.
Philadelphia, Nov. 10.—Fire early
in the morning completely gutted the
wholesale doth and woolen goods house
of Lippincott, Johnson Sc Co„ 620 Mar
ket street, censing a lots on stock and
building estimated at $200,000; fully in
sured. Graham, Einler Sc Passmore,
wholesale hardware, No. S31 Williams;
Yerkes Sc Co., Wholesale dry goods. No,
622, and Jones, Feohtnl, Sheibloy Sc Co.,
wholesale notions, No. 025, snstalned
losses from water and smoke variously
estimated at from $10,000 to $25,000
each. All folly insured.
EXCITEMENT PREVAILS
At San Francisco Over the Activity at
the Various Navy Yards.
San Francisco, Nov. 10.—The fact
that the work at the navy yards at
Brooklyn and Mare Island is being
pushed both on Sunday and at night,
.has. created some excitement here.
The defenses ot Sau Francisco against
an attack from the sea are not espe
cially good. There is not u single mod
ern rifle here. Ft. Point, at the en
trance to the Golden Gate, has about
fifty eight-inch muzzle-loading rifles,
converted from ten-inch smooth
bores. On the Alcatraz there are
eight or nine more; there are
also a large number of 10 and 15 inch
smoothbores. It is not believed that
these gnns conid delay the enemy from
entering the bay for any considerable
lengihof time. Only the extreme west
ern part of the city, where there are a
few valuable buildings, oonld be shelled
without coming within close range of
these guns. The harbor is well pro
tected by torpedoes, of which there are
000 or 7U0 in position, or ready to be
placed. There are no anto-mobile tor
pedoes in the city. Two m jderu rifles
have been promised to San Fraucucn
next year andtwo the year after.
Count.rI.lt.r* Captured.
Raleigh, Nov. 10.—For sometime
very daring counterfeiters and passers
of counterfeit silver dollars have been
very actively engaged here. Coins
which they have made are good imita
tions. The police aud United States
depnty marshals arrested three white
men—John Allen Johnson, J. W. De-
zeru and Jnse Goodwin—and evidence
agulust them iz direct. They have
money, no doubt, in large quantities in
a blacksmith shop four miles sonth of
Raleigh. The police have possession of
a good deal ot it. Quantities of pow
dered glues, which tney so psed as to
give the spnriotu coins the precise ring
of the true metal, have been fonnd.
CONDENSED NEWS DISPATCHES.
Rais la Alabama.
Tuskeork, Nov. 10.—There are rains
throughout Alabama and it is now cold
and windy. The late cotton will not
open, and they are now picking it over.
S-, ,-lit)-S«T«n Persons Lost.
Calcutta. India, Nov. 10.—Dnring
a cyclone which passed over Anadaumn
islands, sitnated in a bay of Bengal
island, which forms the British convict
settlement, to which the East India
criminals'are transported, the steamer
Enterprise, belonging to the Indian
government, nnd nsed to convey prison
ers to the islands and for other pur
poses, was at one of the ports when the
cyclone set in. The vessel foundered,
and of her crew of eighty-three men
only six were saved. The other seventy-
seven either went down. with the
steamer or were drowned while at
tempting to reach the shore.
A Bun on Bank* In Berlin.
Berlin, Nov. 10.—A large number of
the' customers ot the great banking
firms on Leipziger ztrasse, alarmed by
the recent failures ot Hirscbfeld &
Wolff nnd Friedlander Sc Sommerfeld,
visited the banks and withdrew their
deposits. There was great excitement
among the depositors, aud it was fonnd
necessary to detail a number of police
men for the special purpose of keeping
it down. There was a ran upon the
banks generally. All demands were
met, however, and this tended, in a
great measure, to allay the excitement.
Watrrm.loni Caused th. Failure.
Fort Valley, Ga., Nov. 10.—The
first mercantile failure in many years
occurred here, when O. M. Houser was
closed by the sheriff on a mortgage in
favor of T. O. Miller, The failure is
das to poor collections and lueses sus
tained on watermelons last summer.
Mr. Hofaser being a large grower aud
purchaser of melons grown by other
farmers.
Domestic nnd Foreign and of Ceneral
" laimit*! _ • § ■ *
The river Nova, in Russia, is blocked
with ice, and navigation is consequently
suspended.
Colonel Hugh W. Rogers of Middles-
boro, Ky„ who served with Morgan in
the war, has died in Lexington, Ky.
Bill Appling', a respectable white cit
izen, was called to the door at his
homo in Greenwood, Miss., by a negro
and shot to death. A posse is after the
murderer. : . •••
LaFarge, socialist, who was elected
depnty for Lille, in the French cham
bers, has been liberated from prison.
It is repotted the cabinet is inclined to
grunt a general annesty.
H. F. Farnsworth, aged 23 years, son
of a well known farmer of Colusa, Cal.,
shot aud probably fatally wounded his
fiance. Miss Emma Neal. He then shot
himself, dying instantly.
A special cable dispatch to the New
York Herald from Buenos Ayres says
tho radical leaders have assured Presi
dent Pellegrini that the party has no
intention of fomenting a revolntion.
Sir John Gorst, under secretary of
state for Iudia, has been appointed,
financial secretary to 'the treasury, in
succession to Wm. L. Jackson, recent
ly appointed chief secretary for Ireland.
A dispatch from Vienna soys: News
received from Livadia says the silver
wedding of tho czar was being cele
brated without much display. The
gathering was hut little more than a
family party.
Fire destroyed the business portion of
Buffa Gap, 8. D., a station on the Fre
mont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley rail
road. About four blocks of bnsiness
houses were destroyed. Loss, $75,000;
slightly insured,
A Kansas City, Mo., dispatch says:
William H. Harley, aged 07 years and
6 mouths, died at Booneville. Ho was
the oldest living Mason in tho world,
having been a member of the order
seveuty-five years.
Two girls of 10 and 12, named Knnz,
averted a terrible railroad accident on
the Pittsbnrg and Youghiogheny rail
way. They fonnd n telegraph pole
across tho track, and by swinging a
lantern stopped a train.
County Commissioner Samuel Croft,
living four miles cast of Marion, O.,
who was elected last Tuesday, wus sud
denly taken with black tongue nnd is
now in a very serious condition, with
little hope of his recovery.
Senator Vest, discussing tho recent
elections, says the Democrats won a
glorious victory; that the Republicans
will nominate Harrison or McKinley;
that the Democrats will nominate Clevo-
lulul, mid tariff reform will be the issue.
Herr Von Gntsclimid, the German
ambassador to Chili, who was intended
for ambassador to Japan in place of
Herr Von Htolleben. has been appointed
to Washington. Von Gntsohmid has
represented the German empire since
1880.
The Walton Architectural Iron works
at Cincinnati, O., one of the largest
manufactories of the kind in the west,
assigned to Charles Hoocflnghoff. The
assets are given by the secretary at
$00,000; estimated liabilities about the
same.
A special from HnntsviUe, Ala., says
splendid rain lias fallen, the first good
rain since Ang. 3. It come at a most
needed time, and will pnt out the
mountain fires, which are burning the
fences and threaten injury to valuable
property.
The conrt of claims has dismissed the -
petition in tho cose of the stnto of In
diana against the United States. This
is a suit to recover 2 per cent, of the
proceeds of the snlo of public lands iu
Indiana in connection with tho national
or Cumberland road.
A hunter nnd trapper named David
Allen, residing in Mngnetewan district, .
Unt., started ont to examine traps about
a month ago and never returned. His
body was fonnd in a bear trap. The
trap had closed npon his wrists, and he
baq slowly ijiwl of starvation.
A peculiar disease is raging among
the chickens in the locality of Wapa-
koneta.O.,which puzzles all tho chicken
experts within a radios of twenty miles.
The fowls first become blind, tho heads
swell to an enormous size und in ten
honrs they are dead. Hundreds are
dying every week.
The great iron firm of Jones <fc Langh-
lin. at Pittsburg, Pa., has redncod the
wages of the 500 laborerera employed
by it from $1.50 per day to $1 35, There
was much grumbling among them over
the redaction, bat they say they are
powerless to resist, having no organiza
tion and being unskilled hands.
At Hopkinsville, Ky„ while attempt
ing to light a lamp. Miss Susie Sandy
accidentally set fire to her clothing, and
was in a blaze in a few minntes. She
enveloped in flames when a gentleman
in tho honso threw a blanket on her,
extinguishing the flames. She is seri
ously, hut it ia thonght not fatally,
burnt.
The hog cholera plague continues at
Elk Horn, S. D. One farkier having a
ranch on the Sioux river bos lost a num
ber of hogs, and their carcasses have
been thrown into the river and allowed
to float down, bearing the germs of the
dreaded disease to neighboring farms.
Cholera exists in several parts of the
county to a greater or less extent.
Rev. Sauinel Cotton, rector of Carogh,
Kildare, who was recently charged srith
criminal neglect and the ill treatment
of children in the Carogh orphanage,
has been arrested for homicide in caus
ing the death of a child placing it in a
cold both and leaving it in the open air
all night, covered merely with a sack.
The t hilil was found dead in the morn
ing, the sack being frozen to its body, r
The People's party vote in Ohio is
placed by the Republican leaders at
about 15,U“0, 8,000 of which was cast in
Cincinnati. The leaders of the People's
psrtr contend that the total vote oast
for the party in the state will amount
to 80,000. Their candidate for governor,
Frank Rist, says that tbs party will
continue its organization ana expeot to
poll a largely increased rote next year.
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