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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. *~. — —r? r——