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VOLUME 1 AMERICUS GEORGIA, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1891. NUMBER 191 IN SILKS, BLACK * FANCY We show the largest line of Gros Grains, Armnres, Poui De Soi, Bhadamee, 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 Passamenteries, together with a new line of NOVELTY PEARL BUTTONS jost received, large and small sizes to match. The new trimming—so desirable in all colors, at 40o per yard. | Call and see us for anything needed in the way of new Dress Goods and Trimmings. We offer for the coming week A Grand Reduction in Henriettas! I All colors. The various lines reduced as follows: You can buy the [usual 20c goods at 16c; 860 at 26c; 40c at 80c and 60c at 36c. In ad- I lition, a magnificent all wool Henrietta 40 inohes wide, at 60c. Remember that Tricots, black and colored, bringing heretofore | l «, you get for 26c per yard. Evening shades in LANS00WNE, CHINA AND SURAH SILKS await lionr call at low figures. ly SCIU11 and CURTAIN CRETONS H demands attention, besides an offer of Nottingham Lace Curtains hards long at the figure of SI per pair, never reached before in this Yon miss it if yon do not bny your 1^- We are the sole agents for the famous P. & P. BRAND of ) &nd sell as good or better gloves from 75o to $1.25 than others |° m H.60 to $2.60 per pair. All our gloves are warranted. HONEY REFUNDED or another pair gloves for eveiy pair nnsatis- being returned to us. 'Men’s Wear, Scrlven’e Patent Elastic Seam Drawers and Underwent*, all grades. & Stock of ODD PANTS at Reduced Prices. P?' ^member that you get a ticket for the Bicycle drawing for bought of us up to December 25,1891, when some nice boy 0ew safety for his Xmas present. I eve rything in the line of Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing, 1D ® 8 * Carpets or Bugs, call every time op iorge D. Wfleatley Cor. Lamar St. and Cotton Ave. PRESIDENT PQLK. HE ARRIVES IN INDIANAPOLIS AND TALK8 A LITTLE. Folk Still Retains Confidence In the Na tional Organization—A Report c Great Body to he Circulated—A Resume of the Order. Indianapolis, Nov. 16. — President Polk, of the supreme council, Farmers' The Boys’ Bicycle Gift having occupied a prominent place in 060. D. Wheatley’! double column advertisement space for some days, resulting in an exceedingly gratifying increase in my Boys’ and Youths’ Clothing STiS trade, we are now forced for the time to jay it aside, that 1 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, ton, eto. ‘ at the Hotel English. He reports the organization strong id numbers, united in sentiment and disposed to stand firm (or principle’s sake, particularly in his own (North Carolina) state. The officers of the national executive committee, headed by President Ha- cune of Texas, held a meeting at the Hotel Bates. looking to the preparation of reports for submission to the supreme council, the initial session of which will beheld on Wednesday. All transpor tation lines have granted reduced ratee, and the muss of delegatee will begin arriving on Wednesday, although many are already reporting. A history of the Alliance has been leaned by s special committee of editors, of which N. A. Donning was the chief compiler. The honor of the original society belongs to Lampassas county. Tex., from which small beginning de veloped the state organisation and after ward the national society. It was originally organised to correct economio evils as well at a protective measure against thieves and robbers, with which that section of Texas at that time was particularly cursed. The first meeting of the national association was held at Waoo, Tex., in Jannary, 1887. C. W. Macnne was the chief spirit in that meeting and largely instrumental in the adoption of a platform, of wbiob the motto was: 'Tn all things essential unity, and in ail things chanty." Onl; < Louisiana and Texas were represented at this gathering and the delegates were limited In number. Now the dffleers report 80,000 subordinate lodges, with a membership aggregating 0,000,000and a representation in every state and ter ritory. The first noteworthy political acts of the Alliance were the Ocala and St. Lonis platforms, with their demand, for the abolition of national banks and the substitution of treasury curreney; free silver coinage; prohibition of alien land ownership: prohibition of specu lating in agricultural and mechanical 'productions; fractional currency, and ; ;hatthe government should own the telegraph rail wAy lines. The Ocala platform also demanded the removal of the tariff from the neces sities of life, an income tax, and that United .States senators be elected di rectly by the people. While the Alli ance has continued to conduct itself neutrally on political questions, yet the >olicy laid down in these platforms has Men taken as the basis for partisan organisation, independent, so far as it can be, of the Alliance. However, there is an element which will insist upon a third party movement, notwith standing the constitutional taboo upon such a departure. There are many, however, believinr that independent political action wit disintegrate the order and destroy Its usefulness at a time when an expected crisis is at hand, and, in coi there will be bitter and c opposition against any attempt to force the Alliance into each a third party movement. Chief among the advocat of the so-called third party men is Ca] tain Powers, of Terre Haute. He boastful of his standing in that respect, and believee a majority of the Alliance is of a similar view. Secretary Tillman opposes independ ent political action. The national os. sembly of the Farmers' Mntnal Benefit association will be held in this city this week. The basis of representation is larger than that of the Alliance, and a larger number of delegatee are expected to attend. This organization 1 was founded in Johnson county, Ills., six years ago, claims 2,000 subordinate lodges. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE. A Fireman Loses Ills Li to and Others Seriously -Injnred. Cleveland, O., Nov. 18. —One of the most threatening fires Cleveland has had for a long time broke ont at 8 o’clock in the evening, and before it was extinguished at midnight it had de stroyed (200,000 worth of property, and resulted in the death of one fireman and serious the - of two others. i injury of iThe fire started in the bis job print ing establishment of Short & Furman, fronting on Superior street, at No. 128, and extending back to Frankfort street. The building is in the heart of the | downtown business and bank! ter, sniyounded by high brick The fire started in oneof threeb: fronting on Frankfort street, and of five minute* the flames were through the roof. The first alarm was followed by a general call for tbs steamers, and ten engine* were soon at work. One of the first steamers to arrive was No. 1, and Captain John Grady and Fireman Michael Hawley and Charles Ward, of the same company, carried the hose into the horning building. An Instant later one of the floors fell, crushing Captain Grady to death and seriously injuring Hawley and Ward. Grady's body was recovered and tbs other two were sent to the hospital, where they are reported in a critical condition. After an hour's liar<l work the firemen gained mastery of the fire, saved the two hotels, nnd confined the flames to the Frankfort street buildings. Tlis Fries of Cottwn is Atlanta. Itlasta, Nov. 10.—At noon tbe price of Jnnnary cotton was 7.84, a decline of aix points from tbe opening S rioe, and of fifteen point* from ttatur- ay’s closing prioe. GROWTH OF THE 80UTH, Ths Industrial Development In tbe Week Ending Nov. 1*. Chattanooga, Nov. 16.—The Trades man, in its weekly review for tbe week ending Nov. 14, reports 46 new indus tries, 18 new buildings, t new railroads and 2 street car lines. Among the most important new industries established are tbs following: An agricultural im plement faotory with (1,179,000 oapital, st Birmingham, Ala., brewery at Eu reka Springs, Ark., brick works at Gar rison, Tex., and Tallapoosa, Ga., coal and coke companies have been organ ized at Fairmont, West Va„ Helens, W. Va., and McDowell, W. Va. Cot ton gins will be erected at Perry's Mills, Ga., and Wachoochee, Ala. De velopment companies have been organ ized at Petersburg, Va., and Banning Water, Tex., the former with a capital of (300,000. A distillery will be erected at Mount Eden, Ky„ electrio light plant at Little Bock. Ark., elevator with a capacity of 1,000,000 bushels at Fort Worth, Tex., fertilizer works at Alexandria, Va.. and flonringmilla at Mangnm. Tex.,Bich- mond, Ky„ Tallahoms, Tenn., Sample, Ky., Seqnachee, Tenn,, and Viola, Tenn. A gun factory with (.’>00,000 capital will he erected at Covington, Ky., iron working plants at Flatonia, Tex., and New Berne, N. O. A lime and stone company has been organized ati Isbell, Ala., with (300,000 capital, and a phos phate company with (790,000 capital at Atlanta, Ga. A furniture company with (80,000 capital has been organised at Texarkana, Tex., boe and handle frotories will be erected at New Deca tur, Ala., and 8ample, Ky., a hoop fao- ' ’ at South Carrollton, Ky., planing u.ius at Ocala, Fla., and Ssqnatchse, Tenn., and saw mills st Godman, Ky., and Ocean Springs. Miss. Among ths largest buildings reported are tbe following: Halls at Austin, Tex., Jacksonville, Fla., and Parkers burg, W. Va. Churches at George town, Tex., and Mobile, Ala.,) college and school buildings st Georgetown, Tex., and Louisville, Ky., court house at Anderson, S. C., Floydada, Tex., and Haskell. Tex., jails st Malvern, Ark. and Portsmouth, Vs. Opera house ai Ybor City, Fla., and sanitariums at Austin. Tex., and Corpus Christi, Tex. Charters for railroads have been asked for from El Paso to Sierra Blanca, Tex., from Hinton, W. Va., up Now river to connect with tbe Norfolk and Western railroad and from Wilming ton, N. C., to Knoxville, Tenn. Street railroads will be constructed at Colum bus. Mias., (nd Austin, Tex. UNDER ARREST. NOBLE FAMILIES IN RUS8IA CAST INTO PRISON. Tbe Alleged Conlplrmcy Mach Wider In Kxtent Tbe* et First Suppot*d—Hue- dredt of People In Custody—Almost Im possible to dot Facts. uondon, Nov. 16.—Since the arrest at Moscow Thursday last of about one hundred members of noble families, charged with being concerned in movement looking to the crestion of populap assembly or parliament simi lar to the Temsky labor assembliee under the early czars. It has become known that this alleged conspiracy was mnoh wider in extent than at first supposed, and, it is said, several huudred people have been taken Into custody in addition to those men tioned. The United Press correspondent st St. Petersburg wired last night as fol lows: * Tbe strictest censorship of press dis patches is observed. Tbe government is contemplating severe measures against newspaper correspondents, is almost Impossible to get or send facts regarding tbe arrest of nobles and others who have been planning tbe cre ation of a parliament elected by the people. It is reported that extensive arrests have been made here, as well as Moeoow andiother cities. All informa tion is refused. Tbe police advise your correspondent not to comment on tbe arrests, Tbe situation is very grave. The wildest rumors are circulating." EX-TREASURER TURNER NEW8 DISPATCHES CONDEN8ED. Governor Northen Write. General Wy man Concerning the Dread Dleenee. Washington. Nov. 16.—Surgeon Gen eral Wyman, of the marine hospital ser vice, has received a letter from the gov ernor of Georgia calling attention to the epidemic of smallpox at Harris Neck, Liberty connty, Ga., and request ing that ths marine hospital service take charge of the epidemic, as there is no organised board of health in that connty and Harris Neck is remote from the connty seat or any town. The country there is populated chiefly by negroes. The surgeon general has sent telegraphic orders to the surgeons in charge of the quarantine stations at Blackboard island, fifteen miles from Harris Neck, to visit ths infected die- let and begin measures st once to imp ont the disease. A large number vaccine points have been forwarded. Fuller particulars are expected as soon sa the surgeon has reached the infected locality and thoroughly examined into the cause and extent of the disease. TROUBLE IN MEXICO. Revolutionist Garcia Attacked Guerrero* An Active Campaign. Ban Antonio, Nov. 16.—There can no linger be any doubt that Catrino Gar da has opened the revolutionary ball in Mexico in earnest As stated, tbe Mex ican troops had a brush with the revo lutionists near Guerrero, and it was re- r rted that Garda’a forces were runted. dispatch was received here stating that Garda mode an attack on Guer rero late in tbe evening and wsa only driven off after a stubborn resistance on tbe part of tbe Mexican garrison. In the conflict one Mexican officer was killed and another wounded. Loss on Garda’s side not definitely known. The fed is evident that the insurgents have been quietly increasing their force and now have begun an active campaf It is further stated In tbe dispatch _ edved from Bio Grande City that the Revolutionists are well armed and have many sympathisers cn this side of tbe border. n« Conductors end Biskestn. Nasuvillb, Nov. 16. — Mr. T. E. Wilkinson of Galesburg, His., grand master of ths Brotherhood of Bailroad Trainmen, and Mr. E. E. Clark of Ce dar Bapldi, la., grand chief conductor of the Order of Bailway Conductors of America, are hare and have called on ]’resident J. W. Thomas of the Nash ville, Chattanooga and SL Lonis rail road, in advocacy of tbe demand of tbe conductors and brakemeu for sn in crease of wages. President Thomas positively refused to grant the increase, '[be Western add Atlantic matter is •till unsettled. Banner A Benny, Bankers, failed. New Orleans, Nov. 16.—The Times- Democrat’s Tyler, Tex., special says: After a successful career of twenty years, during which it had built up a reputation as one of the wildest and soundest financial institutions in tho state, the banking house of Bonner & Benny is forced to the wall. For some time past those familiar with i s affairs have ltnowu that the bank was in a straight, bat it was thought it would be able to pull through ail right.” m Indianan tly Dentes That Bte Account# With the Knights Is Short. Philadelphia, Nov. 16.—Frederick Turner, ex-secretary and treasurer of the Knights of Labor, who is accused of being (81,000 short in bis accounts, has made an explanation that was as sensational as were the chargee. These chargee made up the principal feature of tbe Kuights of Labor conven tion at Toledo, O., last week, the com mittee appointed st the lost session at the request of General Secretary Hayes to investigate the ex-treasnrer’s books reporting that Turner had refused to appear before them or to give up the bank depoeit books, canceled checks and other documents in his possession. Mr. Turner indignantly denied that he was in any way deficient in his ac counts with the order, and he declared the work of tbe committee to be port of General Master Workman Powderly’* scheme to deprive him of some danger- u weapons Hgslnst tbs Knights. “When I left the order st the end of the Indianapolis convention in 1888," he said, “Thomas Sinexon, the expert employed by the Knights, made a state ment before Notary Public J. B. Massy that my accounts had been caTeiuU; gone over and fonnd to be all right, left all the accounts in the treasurer’s office that conld he needed, including the vouchers for all the expenditures of the order during my incumbency. What I have kept has t|een for my own protection. They consist principally of canceled checks. Some of these are very compromising to Mr. Powderly. I am going to disclose what is not known to even members of ths order, and what will show their general master work man to be one. who, while preaching against corporations and dishonesty, was himself using funds of the order and resorting to every set to maintain bis hold on the management What Mr. Powderly and his com mittee are so anxions to get into their possession are two canceled checks which I have, showing that on June 28, 1886,(1,000 were drawn from the or der’s fund at the corn exchange national bank by T. V. Powderly, anil that on Aug. 20 following (1,600 waa drawn by him. Powderly was then drawings S salary as general master workman of ,600. He wanted to bny ahouae. He dnt have the money, but the order did, and he wanted to nse tbe order’s money without anybody knowing any thing about it. Tbe executive board at that time consisted of Powderly, John W. Hayes, Wm. H. Bailey and Tbi Barry. AJ1 were firm Powderly men except Barry, who was lukewarm and whom they were afraid of. "Barry was sent away on some mis sion or other find Powderly and tbe two others held a meeting and loaned (2,600 of the order’s money to Powderly. They agreed, of course, that the money should eventually be returned, and, in order that that might be accomplished without making Powderly go into his own pocket, they decided that as soon ss the convention met in tbe fall his salary should be increased to (9,000 a e ar. In that way he conld pay back to the Knights of Labor treasury tbe money be had taken ont from the in- ed money the Knights of Labor paging him, ThitJ WHS done, fttid in this andin several other ways which I conld name, the order was robbed. ” Texas Trainmen’s Troubles. Houston, Nov. 16.—Committees rep resenting all ths trainmen except the engineers and firemen of tbe Southern Pacific system and General Superin tendent Van Vleck held a conference to adjust existing troubles. No progress was made, although the meeting lasted nearly all day. A strike is now threat ened on tho entire system front New Orleans to San Francisco. A Hon Wh* Horn Unto Theme New Yobk, Nov. 1C.—A sou was born to Mr. and John Jacob Astor. Jr. It wa* decided soiaa time ago that if the expected child was a boy it should have the now famous Hama of John Jacob. The infant belongs to the fifth genera tion which has borne that name in America, and will inherit (lSO.uOOJWO. An Epitome of Happening* from Every Section. James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald, sailed for Havre, France, on tho steamer La Bretagne. It is said that tho Japanese envoy nt Pekin has signed the demand presented by tbe powers regarding the protection of foreigners. Mr. Harold M. Bewail, United States consul general at Apia, Samoa, has had a conference with the president in regard to the condition of affairs in that country. The Japanese embassy at Paris denies the truth of tho report published in London papers that the Jnpnnetio fleet - will co-operate with the Chinese against s European fleets. W. E. Baird hne been arrested nt the Palace hotel, San Francisco, on tele graphic orders from Madeira. The charge is forgery. Baird refused to talk on tbe subject. A dispatch from Dublin says: Timo thy Healy has become so alarmed by the active demonstrations against him that for the past week ho has worn a coat of mail under the ordinary cloth ing. Tbe steamer Bio Janeiro sniled for Hong Kong from San Francisco, having on board 400 Chinamen who will not be legally entitled to return to the United States unless the present laws are changed. • ;. > The papers have arrived at Hunts ville, Ala,, from Washington for a new national bank, with a capital of (250,- 000, owned by Dakota capitalists, who have bonglit out the Huntsville hotel. Monte Sauo, and otbor valuable prop- ' erties. Grand Duke Alexis and the duke of Lentenberg have paid a visit of several days to Duo de Charters nt Chantilly. It is supposed their object is to show that the czar's family maintains social delations with the royal house of France. It is said that Governor Jackson, of Maryland, will appoint a United States senator to serve until a successor of the late Senator Wilson is elected by the legislature. Mr. Bobert F. Brattan, esident of the last state senate, will, Is understood, receive the appoint ment M. Besnard, Boulangist member of tbe chamber of deputies, was arrested in PariB for connection with the bank- concern known as Caisse Centrale. s bank accepted from purchasers of shares paoments in installments, bnt the securities, when fully paid for,were not forthcoming. The procurenr is proceeding with the trial of the direct ors of the concern. Detective Wnnsch, of Beading, Pa., Tested the manager of an Indian med icine snow on tbe charge of running a lottery in connection with the show. Numbered prize lists were given to tbe uitrons of the show, and there was a rawing each evening, when some , persons received bottles of medicine and others small sums of money, rang ing from 30 cents to (1. , The Snmter cotton compross nt Snm- ter, 8. C., together with 850 bales of cotton, was burned. The fire is sap- posed to have caught from a locomotive on tho Charleston, Sumter and North ern railroad. The total loss on com pross, (30,000; insurance, (20.000. The cotton belonged to the Carolina Cotton company, and was fully insured. A Montreal dispatch says: Antiqua rian W. W. Snaith has obtained con clusive evidenco that trunks found on tbe schooner Marc Victoria which was wrecked at Bin in the autumn of 1884, wore the property of J. Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Presidont Lincoln. Dar ing that autumn several tranks marked "J. W. B., New Providence," were shipped on board the schooner Marc Victoria ut Quebec. According to tho official communica tion sent to the public press, tho lenders of tho Brazilian colony in Paris have received a declaration to tho effect that Dora Pedro, seeing with profound grief the events in Brazil tending to dismem ber the country, is roady to return if the lfsires his preseneo, in order, in bis old age, to render final servico to the union, integrity and greatness of his fatherland. An attempt to rob the Missouri, Kan sas and Texas sohth-bouiid train. No. 8, at South Canadian, L T., was frus trated by the officials of the railway company by a telegram sent to Musko gee, notifying tho officers that the Dal- ions were seen in the vicinity of South Canadian, hidden in the river bottom. An extra was run ahead of the regular train, and guards placed in the postal and express cars. FMtolHce Employe* Fired. ‘ - Oxaha, Nov. 16.—The postmaster general has ordered that sixteen mail- carriers and five clerks be dismissed in tbe Omaha postoffice. Soon after Post master Clarkson assumed tho duties of his office the United States civil service commission called attention to the fact that in the appointment of clerks nnd carriers in the Omaha postoffice the civil service laws had not Wn strictly observed. The postmaster was notified that tbe law required that every person who had successfully passed tho civil service examination before the local board here should be given a chance to take a position in the service in proper order or in rotation, with reference to the time of his application and exami nation. SUaniliflEt Inspector'* Report. Washington, Nov. W. -Inspector General Dumont, of the steamboat inspection service, has made his annual report to the secretary of the treiisury. It shows that forty-four pilots were re- jected during the year on account of color-blindness, ont of a total of 1,091 examined. Daring the year but six accidents to marine boiler* or *teain >ipei have occurred, whereby fourteen ive* have been lost, notwithstanding that at least 300,000 rxuscugeni have been exposed daring the year to the possible dunce reduced to a minimum thorough careful inspection. m