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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
VOLUME l
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1891.
NUMBER 199
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-TO OUR-
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free of any charge
whatever. Every boy
who buys his suit from
us before Christmas
Eve gets a sure enough
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TOE EARTHQUAKE.
DIRECT NEWS FROM JAPAN TELL8
OF ITS AWFUL WORK.
tin Hat T.rrlb!. Ca'smlty 8inos 1835—
Mor* Thu 4,000 FSople Kilted lad Thou-
nodi Seriously VouM—Bhm. Top
pled and Caught Fire.
San Francisco, Nor. 85 -Farther de
tails of the awful earthquake in Japan
hare been received:
Yokohama, Nor. 8.—A severe, pro
longed shock of earthquake occurred
October 88 a few minutes before
o’clock in the morning. It was the
most severe experience since the terri
ble catastrophe of 1855 and most be
ranked as a national calamity. The
greatest damage to bnildings and loss
of life occurred. In the prefectures of
Achy and Qifn nearly 4,000 people were
killed outright and 4,000 seriously
wounded. In those two prefectures
42,000 bouses were totally destroyed.
The number of provinces throughout,
which the disturbances were strongly
felt number thirty-one., The center
seem* to have been in Miuo and Oawari,
but even as far south as Hio and
Bikuabu in the north the disturbance
ns sensibly felt
The destruction of 40,000 houses
means 800,000 people to be rendered
homeless. Up to November 5 the
earthquakes still continued, but with
intervals between them gradually
lengthening and the intensity of the
shocks diminishing. From the com'
mencement of the disturbance up to
this date it ia estimated that 5,000
shocks, or more than one every two
minntes, were felt.
The town of Gifn on the Tokio rail
way, with a population of 15,000, was
almost totally destroyed.
Thirty-five hundred, ont of a total of
4.400 houses in the town, were over
turned or burned. Seven hundred and
forty-seven people were killed. lathe
town of Kano 600 booses were over
thrown. The Gobo temple, belonging'
to the Shin sect of Buddhists, was'
crowded with worshippers when it fell,
burying at least fifty people. The rains
took fire, end the shrieking victims
were consumed before the eyes of the
horrified onlookers.
Mr. and Mrs. VanDyke, English mis
sionaries, and one other white person
were dangerously hnrt.
The inhabitants of the rnlned towns
MINNEAPOLIS CHOSEN.
The Northwest Gat* the Bspnblleaa
Convention.
Washington, Nov. 25.—The Repnb-
Mean national committee has selected
Minneapolis, Minn., as the place, and
Jane 7, 1893, as the date of holding the
next Republican national convention.
There was bustle and confusion at tho
Arlington hotel before the meeting of
the Bepnblican national committee.
t The headquarters of the various dele
tions representing the cities desirous
being the meeting place of the next
national Republican convention were
thrown open and oonanltations were
going on In every corner. The leaders
of the delegations had prepared them
selves for the presentation to the com
mittee of the superior qualities of their
respective cities and were engaged in
canvassing in the list of committeemen
and holding up tho hope of their dele
gations.
After a recess Senator Washbnrne
•poke for Minneapolis and promised a
hall for 14,000 and plenty of hotels. He
said that the northwest was beginning
to feel a grievance against the party in
power. Tlie coining fight would be
won or lost in the northwest, and the
convention should go there as a stimu
lant.
C. F. Johnson, a clerk of the United
States senate, said Ohio was safe, but
the enemy had made inroad in tho
northwest, and the convention should
go beyond the wheat pit of Chicago.
Governor Merriam followed. He said
the Republicans had lost Wisconsin,
Iowa and Nebraska, and the Dakotas
were tinctured with Alliance, bnt the
convention in Minneapolis wonld go far
to redeem the region.
After considerable wireworking and
debating, pro and con, Minneapolis was
chosen.
RICHMOND AND DANVILLE.
Boys’ Suits,
Overcoats,
• v *. .*
Odd Pants,
Except the price, and that we make exceeding
ly small. We can fit you perfectly, and by
selecting now you secure the pick. Don’t for
get the place.
Cor. Lamar Street and Cotton Avenue,
described the shock as conveying an im
pression that the houses were first
Tuised and then suddenly lowered
through a space of from two to three
feet. The fact that there was a marked,
subsidence o{ the earth’s surface for a
considerable area about Gifn indicated
that the latter town was the center of
disturbance. Shortly After the shock
bad leveled thousands of houses in the
town and hundreds of people were lying
bnried in the debris, flames burst from
the ruins of the silk factory in Gifn and
in a short time spread to such an ex
tent that ths citizens were compelled to
desist in their work of digging ont the
wonnded and dying.
The conflagration burned ont in one
direction, bnt three other fires imme
diately broke ont, and joiuiug into one,
swept from street to street, using fan
ned by a strong northwest wiud, which
began to blow at 8 o’clock in the after
noon. By 8 o’clock in the evening al
most every part of the town of Gifn
was wrappml in fire, and the inhabi
tants, abandoning all hopes of staying
the conflagration, saved what few arti
cles they were able and fled the town,
taking refuge in the woods and on the
hillsides. The fire was not subdued
until the forenoon of Oct. 88, when it
had been burning for twenty-eight
hours, and almost the whole town had
been burned over. Potteries in the
prefectures of Owari and Mino, great
centers of the porcelain manufacture in
Japan, at Seto and other towns, were
almost entirely destroyed, and there is
reported to he no prospect of resuming
the industry daring the present year.
The top of the Sacred Mountain - of
Fmiyama has been rent asunder for e
distance of 1,800 feet in width and 600
feet in depth#
A lake 000 yards long and 60 yardI
wide was formed et the foot of Hoktuan
mountain, in Gifn prefecture, big rocks
beside Gongen hill, Inaba hiu and
several other hills in Gifn gave way
and water sprang from the cracks in
the ground. Water in wells was changed
to a brownish color and rendered unfit
for drinking.
The embankments of most of the
rivers were destroyed, and in the city
prefecture 850 miles of embankments
must be bhilL
Trouble With the Xfleers.
Paris, Nov. 85.—A dispatch from
Lena, one of the center* of the coal
miners’ strike in the department of Pas
do Calais, says a body of strikera at
tacked the engineers who were in charge
of machinery in the factory at that
place. The fsctoiy had been able to se
cure a supply of coal which rendered it
independent of the mines in that vicin
ity, and this condition of affaire en
raged the strikers, whose evident desire
is to bring all industries of tbs place to
a standstill. The military authorities
bad an idea that the strikers wonld
make an attempt to compel the factory
tosbntdown, and they, therefore, or
dered the detail of a small body of
troope to protect tho property and em
ployee. The strikers were very deter
mined in their onslaught on the en
gineers, despite the presence of soldiers.
Finally the troops took a hand in the
matter ond after a sharp fight drove the
strikera away. Many of the leaders of
the attack were placed nnder arrest.
FoRid Ftomr U Vsfttb.
Winnipeg, Man., Nov. 85.—Ths 16-
year-old sen of L. B. Cochran and
10-year-old son of E. Walton,
were lost in tbs storm Saturday, have
bssn found froaen to death by a search
party. Tho boras* wore bseido thorn.
3
The Part of Wisdom Not to Pay a Divi
dend at This Time.,
New York, Nov. 85.—There have
been several meetings of the security
holders of the Bichmond Terminal sys
tem, who have been in conference with
the officers of t|ra First National bank,
who represent about $500,000 of the
Bichmond Terminal bonds. Overtures
have been made to the bank people
with the view of getting them to accept
proxies and take an active interoet In
the management of the conjunction
with a number of the prominent men
whose influence is directed toward pre
serving the Bichmond Terminal prop
erty intact
. The directors have informally dis
cussed the question of a dividend on
the preferred stock and have reached
the conclusion that inasmuch as the
Bichmond and Danville company has so
large a flea ting debt, they do not con
sider it the part of wisdom to pay a
dividend on the preferred stock at this
time.
Formal action, however, has not been
taken on the matter, and this informal
action may be reversed at a formal
meeting of the directors. It is current
rumor that some of the old Richmond
and Danville interests are soliciting
proxies for the next meeting of Rich
mond Terminal, bnt it can't be learned
whether it is trne or not.
ST0R.ll SWEPT.
DEATH AND DEVASTATION REPORT
ED FROM NUMEROUS PLAOES,
The Storm King left Kemsntoea of Its
Powsrln Highways and Bywsys-Dark'
ness Prevailed For Bolt on Hoi
Cleveland.
Hod Dynamite In nii Trnnk.
Pittsburg, Nov. 25.—A trunk con'
tsining dynamite exploded in the bag
gage car of the western mail on the
Pennsylvania railroad as the train wi
passing Irvin, Penn. The explosion
tore ont one side of the car and wrecked
the trnnk, scattering the contents over
the tracks. The baggage master, who
accidentally hit the trnnk while palling
Hdown, thereby causing the ex-
jW»s bsdlv frightened, but
raped injury. The trunk was shipped
from Phlilipsbnrg, Penn., by Michael
Gody, a Hungarian, who was on his
way to Cambridge, O. He was arrested,
with hie wife, when the train reached
Pittsburg. Hs denied that the trnnk
was his, but when confronted with the
picture of his wife, which was found in
the car. he acknowledged the owner
ship. He wonld assign no reason for
catrying the dynamite and was locked
np. It is the intention of the railroad
company to prosecute him.
The Chicago Presbytery.
Chicago, Nov. 25. — The Chicago
Presbytery ha* taken advanced grounds
in the matter of creed revision. By a
vote of S3 yeas to 18 nays it passed •
resolution to overture the general
sembly "to tom entirely from the pro
ject of revising the Westminster confes
sion and to take diligent steps to have
proposed to the cbnrch such a simple
scriptural declaration of those things
which are most sorely believed amoni
ns as shall be for the practical help anu
edification of all onr members and for a
testimony to the world nf the faith
Which was once for all delivered to the
saints.”
From ths Frying Fan Into tbs Fire,
Columbus, 0., Nov. 25.-John Cur
tain, a United States prisoner from
Alabama, will complete a two years'
sentence for representing himself a
xatofflee inspector, and upon his re-
ease wilt be immediately arrested by
Deputy Sheriff W. M. Erskine, of that
state, and taken to Hnntsviile to an
swer a charge of bnrglary and general
larceny. Curtain robbed an express
office, freight depot and dry goods store
at Unrley, Ala., securing several hun
dred dollars worth of plunder.
Johns/ BfcGnlro D««d.
Leipsic, O. Nov. 25.—At Miller City,
a small town weet of here, has occurred
ths death of Johnny McGnire, the
smallest man in the world. He was 48
years old. weighed fifty-nine pounds
and was only forty-one inch** tall.
Johnny traveled with the Barnuni show
far yean and aleo with the BoMnsoo
•how. He has bees on exhibition in
city ia the United States and
h There is no other man in the
New York, Nov. 85.—The storm
which has been so remarkable in it*
varied characteristics, so disastrous in
its effects, and far-reaching in the area
of Ita sweep will be reoorded. especially
In the log-books of theseveral telegraph
and telephone companies as at once
having equaled, if not exceeded, .the
otter paralysis wrought by the great
blizzard of 1888. In troth, this has
been • storm king’s carnival, and,
the sequel may prove, in many instances
the carnival of death.
Already from numerous points come
reports of damage, destruction and
death, and when a cessation of the.war-
ring elements permits of a restoration
of telegrapbio communication with
points at present inaccessible by pros
tration of the wiree, the extent to which
the seemingly wild rumors will be
borne ont by actual facta is wholly con
jectural.
Originating near sonthern Georgia or
northern Florida, this resistless wave
of devastation swept northw rd and
easterly, bearing down in its paui the
wires, snapping off like reeds the trees
and telegraph poles and topping over
chimneys, bearing off roofs and crash
lug like play-houses of card board ap
parently substantial bnildings. Bound
ing over the Alleghenies, it fell upon
Baltimore, Bichmond, Washington and
Philadelphia in turn, scattering through
the highway and byway mementoes of
its tremendous power.
In this city early in the day wires
south and southwest failed, often sev
eral at a time, until at last all communi
cation outside of a oomparativelysmnll
territory was shnt off from na. Straggle
as they wonld, the moat expert electri
cians conld not with all their ingenuity
devise means of getting over or- around
the trouble, even to tbe routes via
Montreal and Toronto having been
rendered useless.
The storm seemed to divide itself into
two tremendoos arms, branching from
a center in North Carolina, one arm
bearing down the coast, the other
sweeping northward and veering north
of Washington, describing a tremen
dous circle, Bearing down northwest
it passed successively over Lakes On
tario and Erie, and finally passed away
to the north, disappearing in Baffin’s
Bay.
Meager reports continue to be re.
ceived of cyclones, to the south and
southwest. From eastern Ohio ami
western Pennsylvania reports osyst are
meager, outlining tho destruction iu
every direction, accurate reports of
which can only be secured when the
storm subsides.
The Storm at Hesdvllle.
Meadville, Penn., Nov. 25.—The
storm atrnck this town with terriffio
force about noon. Ths roof was blown
from the New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio railroad freight honso and the
roof partly torn from the passenger
depot. Shade trees and chimneys were
blown down all over town. Telephone
reports from neighboring towns tell of.
serious damage.
8evsrsl Rentes Blown Down.
Wheeling. W. Va., Nov. 25.—A ter-
rible blizzard passed over this city, and
the rain, snow and wind played havoc
in Wheeling. Little dnmage was done,
thongh telegraphlo wires were some
what interfered with. From, points
ontside of tho city, however, come re
ports ' of considerable damage. At
Moandsvilla. twelve miles east ’ of
Wheeling, the most damaging stonp for
many years prevailed. The carriage
works were completely wrecked, ; tho
building being leveled to the earth,' -It
was lifted bodily off the foundation,
and several men were on the second
floor, and all were seriously bat not
fatally injured. The west gable end of
the glass works was blown in and con
siderable damage done. From other
surroundings news of mere or less
damage is comingin. The wind, daring
the height of the storm, attained a fear
ful velocity.
In' Darkness for Half a a Hoar,
Cleveland, 0„ Nov. 33.—The storm
here was tbe worst in a long time.
About noon it became so dark that
lamps and gas were lighted all over the
city. The darkness lasted bslf an hour,
when the wind shifted to the west and
ths rain came down in torrents. The
wind was blowing a gale at sundown,
hut it hus somewhat subsided since. It
is growing colder. A railroad man who
came in over tbe Erie road in the even
ing said there was two feet of snow
twenty miles south of this city.
A Perfect tlurrlcan*.
Canton, O., Nov. 25.—A veritabls
blizzard swept down over this city, and
at a late hour it is contlnning with un
abated fury. For two days rain has
fallen almost incessantly. From 9 a.
m. Sunday to 7 a. m. Tuesday the ba
rometer registered a fall of over half an
inch, the greatest in nine years. The
wind that began before noon blew a
perfect hurricane, and it is driving
snow before it at a fearful rate.
Blown from n Slits Track.
6t. Joseph, Mo., Nov. 25.—The Kan
sas City, St. Joseph and Council Bluffs
train from Creston, Is., to Kansas City
collided at Arkoe with a freight car,
which, daring the storm, was blown
from s aide track at MazyviUs and ran
six mils* before it was ctraok. The
•ngins wss demolished, the freight oar
NEWS DISPATCHES CONOENSEO.
An Kpltome of Happenings from Zwry
Section.
President Da Fonseca of Brazil haz
resigned in favor of Floriano Pcizotto.
Spanish club excursionists were roy
ally entertained at San Luis Potosi,
Mexico,
A girl at Brenham, Ter., was found
to be alive after having been placed in
a coffin.
Four deaths were caused by a fire in
the Old Homestead hotel, Jamestown,
N. Y.
H. C. Walters of Tacoma Is accused
of elaborate swindling schemes in Gal
veston. Tex.
The National Protection society of
Bloomington, Ills,, lias been debarred
from doing turther business.
A Chicago woman was detected by
the police while on her way to drown
herself and little boy in the lake.
Colonel AmosC. Babcock's allegations
in the Terns state house litigation were
answered by the Farwells and others in
Chicago.
Attorneys for Dr. Grnvesi accused in
Denver of the murder of weulthy Mrs.
Burnaby of Providence, B. L, are plead
ing for a continuance.
Minneapolis was selected by the Re
publican national committee as tlis
place of bolding the next national con
vention and June 7 is the day fixed.
The Chicago Presbytery adopted res
olutions opposing the attempt to revise
the Westminister confession anil favor
ing the adoption of an entirely new
creed.
Banker Seligmn, who was sent to
Europe as tiio representative of the
United States to arrange for an inter
national monetary conference, has met
with indifferent success in France.
Tho report in Gonniny that a synodi
cal of buukers bad been formed, with
the object of purchasing Swiss railroad
shares, 1ms created a sensation at Berne.
Tho belief is that the project covers
political designs.
Hunters’ Corners,' a small village
near Fort Recovery, O., is greatly de
ceased over an epidemic of typhoid
ever, which Is causing many fatalities.
Tho physiciuns have been, unable to
check it thns far.
The heaviest blow of tbe fall occurred
at Cape May, N. J. The lower deck of
the ocean pier was washed away by the
breakers. The surf is beating heavily
again st the beach at Cape May Point
and is cutting down tho bluff.
The Standard Wire and Ironworks
property at Cuicugo has boon placed in
the bauds of W. J. Andrews, as as
signee. The assets and liabilities are
each placed at {25,(100. blow collections
are assigned as tbe cause of tbe failure.
Word - has been received from Inde-
lendence, Colo,, that a man wus frozen
;o death. A physician went to the
scene and found Murk Currier, a minor,
terribly frozen, but not dead. Hu may
recover, but will lose both legs and
hands.
Billy Plummer, who Is to fight Tommy
Kelly for $1,(A)0 a side und a parse
of $700 Dec. 21, is training near
Newark, N. J. Ciiurley Non on ami
Benny Murphy are looking after tbe
English lull and they believe ho will
whip Kelly ia five rounds.
Charles Crow, the manager of the
People's Detectivo association, of Lin
coln, Neb., who wus shot a week ago,
hits died. A few boors after the shoot
ing. before lie lest bis power of speech,
lie said tliut ills wife snot him, but she
denied it, and said tiiat he first tried to
shoot tier, then fired the shot into him
self. She is now iu jail.
Nicholas Ellens, an old-time resident
of Houston county, Minn., aged 12,
died from the result of a peculiar acci
dent. While currying swiii to his hogs
and smoking the while, lie slipped, and
fulling, drove the stem of his pipe into
bis throut. It broke off and wus with
difficulty extractnA Blood poisoniug
resulted from ths nicotine and death
resulted as stated.
Albert E. Pierson, a middle-aged
fanner of wealth ami prominence and
rend master of the L O. O. F. of Fair-
eld, Ind., shot himself st his home in
that town. He put three 88-caliber
bullets through his head. Four years
ago he qua relied with his eldest son
and the latter left home. Pierson ex
hibited remorae at times and the trouble
irobably drove bim to suicide. He
eaves a wife and five children.
Influenza is spreading in France end
Germany. The epidemic has closed
several schools in the department of
Gere, France, and one school in the
Pare le Chaise quarter of Paris. Tbe
epidemic has eztended all over Berlin,
where the painter, Spangenberg, with
many others baa succumbed to the dis
ease. It is also very prevalent in Posen
and West Prussia. The death rate in
Hamburg ia 200 above the normal
average, tho increase being
chiefly duo to influenza.
A. F. Starr of Wellington, O., has for
the post two weeks been negotiating for
a tract of land on Chino ranch in south
ern California, on which to settle a col
ony, and an agreement has been reached
by which he will make a purchase of
640 acres. Among the terms of pur
chase is one that not less than fifty
families will sett!* on the land immedi
ately and improve it. The colony, con
sisting of Ohio people, will more on
and take {mssessiou aa soon as house*
can bs built, work to commence imme
diately.
•legates of various labor organiza
tions in Brussels decided that anises the
government shortly fulfills its premia*
to grant universal suffrage in Belgium,
they would again begin a general strike
to for os the granting of their demands.
Soma months ago there was a great
strike of Belgian workmen for univer
sal suffrage and it l
Ms of the cabinet, i
grant universal ■ “
wra called •«.
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