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sr THEAMERICUS AMERICAS, GA.,FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 31, 1896. SCKEDI LE IS EFFE ;CT JAN. 5th, I8W- THE SaME PRICE TO AIL S. A. L SEABOARD AIK-LINE The Atlanta Special" Solid Vas- tibuled Train-No Extra Fare Charged SPECIAL SALE. [charter 1883.] \Ve have a special sale every day, our umnoy is as good one day as it is anotner. We don't have one price today and another to-mor row. Our rale will be: EVERY DAY THE YEAR ROUND. We have on hand a small lot of staple check Giu^hame at 5e. are closing out our line of chil dren’s woolon Mittens at 10c, the 25c uatity. Gent's black 4-iu-£Iaiid Ties at 24c, worth 50c. Gents Linen Collars at 10c, worth 15c We are selliug a line of suspenders for 10c that can’t be beat for 15c jvwhere. We have auotber lot of tacks a lc paper or 6 for 5c.. Jail Looks with 2 keys at 5c. Lamp wicks, No 1, two dozen for 5c Lamp wicks, No. 2,|1 dozen for 5c. Lamp.wicks, No 0, 2 doz. for 5o. Swan’s Down face powder at 5c, Silvered Hide Combs, at 10c. IS Lead Pencils, plain, for 5c. IS Lead Pencils, inserted rubbers, 10c. Ladies’ Sailor Hats at 15c each. Hair Curlers, 3-4, and 5c each. . Writing Paper at 2c and 5c quire. Ladies’ and Gent’s Bordered and Hemstitched Handkerchiefs at 5c, orth 10c. Ladies’ and Gents’ Bordered and Hemstitched Handkerchiefs at 10c, orth 15c. 2 caids Rice Buttons 5c, 1 for 3 Table Oil Cloth, colored or marble, at 17 l-2c. Pius, Hair Pius and Needles at lc per paper. Gold eyed Nepdles at 2 papers for Ladies’ Seamless black Hose at 10c, worth 15c. Gents’ seamless 1-2 Hose, 4 pair for 25c, worth 10c pair. We have the greatest bargains in Shoes: Ladies’ Fine Shoes for 89c to 95c, $1 23, $1.25 up to $2.00. Men’s fine Snoes at $125 aud up. King’s Spool Cotton 24c dozen or 2c spool. We have been selling this same thread 2 for 5c. Coat’s Spool Cotton 3 for 10c or 40c dozen, We would be glad to have everyone in the city and surrounding country to visit The itocket within the next few days, we feel sure it will be to their interest. Yours truly, The Racket Store 227 Forsyth Street. Attierlcus, HEADQUARTERS: AMERICUS, GEORGIA Negotiates Loans on improved farms and city lots $200 aud upwards, 2 to 5 years. SPECIALLY REDUCED RATES CHOKE &I1HTER COUNTY LOANS Can sell you a desirable farm. Apply to Company or 0. A. COLEMAN. Treasurer and Gen‘l Manager VINEYARDIST! Any are or variety ot Grape Vines and Fruit trees pruned and set out. Apply ai T. J. LOFTON’S Fruit and Candy House on Lamar Street, I PERSONS KILLED Two Others Will Die and Thir teen Are Badly Injured. AH EXPLOSION IN PENNSYLVANIA GOODFOREVERYBODY and everyone needs it at all times of the year. Malaria is always about, and th< only preventive and relief is to keep tht Liver active. You must help the Liver a bit and the best helper is the Old Friend, SlM mons Liver Regulator, the red z Mr C. Himrod, of Lancaster, Ohio says: “SIMMONS LIVER REGULATOF broke a case of Malarial Fever of thre years* standing for me, and less tlia one bottle_#d the business. 1 shall u? * it when in need, and recommend it.” Be sure that you get it Always look f; the RED Z on the package. And don' forget the word REGULATOR. - It is SLY. MONS LIVER REGULATPR, and there i only one, and every one who takes it i sure to be benefited. THE BENEFIT I: ALL IN THE REMEDY. Take it also fo Biliousness and Sick Headache; both ar- caused by a sluggish Liver. J. If. Zeilio & Co.. Philadelphia. CRIMSON CLOVER, ONIONiSETS, SEED OATS, SPANISH PEANUTS, SEED PEAS, PKARL MILLET, CHUPAS, GERMAN MILLET SEED IRISH POTATOES. OHjiDnm Company, - a 34n AND 390 LAMAR ST. 318 AND 320 LAMAR ST. Will carry this season a larger stock, a fresher stock and a better stock of Garden, Field and Flower SEED than any house In Southwest Geor gia. If you have any good home ra’ssd variety of seed to SELL see them. Tf you want to BUY - , be sore to call •>a them. IE Isirar*!! D E a i sl wli teTSSi FOR THE HG«E. NEW SPRING GOODS A.T- RfA’M LESLIE’S , POPULAR: i* monthly Trontispi^cf. .\'T ' = f 'ir™! Water Color J . Matter ; | «. " vv j»_ »l*sm ot Reading j 1thl'n'ern'o7;i' y •, lilustra-j 1 >3 c!s.' r « j v zlne in Amer,c *-1 iFfanUesligsPigasant Hours ‘ F0R 30YCA3D GIRLS. J -^Wle ^Monthly. J 10 «;t*. : $i a year. 1 *! Surat- l»Mt mornh* ° f coll * at HALr •OSIXESS , COU. r BB Ei “ B m«' OKOBOU ALLEN & SHEFFIELD’S. Yesterday we opened up an elegant assortment of NEW DRESS GOODS all the latest fads and fancies. Navy Blue and Black Serges for Skirts. Tiie latest novelties in evening goods and light colored Worsteds and Mohairs for Spring Dresses. We will offer this week very low prices on those goods in order to start Spring business. Beautiful line of New Percales f° r shirt waist, fresh and as neat as a pin, now on sale. IN CLOTHING DEPARTMENT., We are opening from day to day our celebrated “High Art” Clothing in regulars, long and slim, stout and extra sizes in Black. Clays and Verge's and Cassimers of every shade and color. Call early and get a fit white the stock is unbroken. Our Shoe, Hat and Gent’s Furnishing Goods Departments are now thoroughly complete. Call do us to be fitted from head to foot in Dry Goods, Ciothing, Shoes, Hats, Gent’s Furnishing Goods, etc at bottom prices. ALLEN & SHEFFIELD. 0*1 y Two Employe* Who Were In the k* at tho Time Ktcaped Uninjured. Famllle* of the Dead and Wounded > Frantic With Grief—Another Ex plosion In Georgia. HollidaysruRo, Pa., Jan. 30.—Five persons wore killed and nearly a wore injured, some of them fatally, ,by an ex plosion of tho large 30-inch cylinder boiler at tho works of Hollidaysburg Iron and Nail company. The names oi the dead and injured are: ‘Dead: George Lane, mason, found crushed Into a lifeless mass, under the boiler. Con Evans, helper, fractured skull. Merrill Troeso, 15-year-old boy, head ground off bv flywheel. * Two unknown tramps, who had been lying near the furnace were buried in tho ruins. v Wounded: Samuel Keppart, puddler, scalded about the face aud body; will die. Robert McMurry, puddler, scalded about face aud body; will die. Frank Cramp, superintendent of the mill, several ribs broken and head cut. Samuel Marks, severely scalded. John Woomcr, puddler, scalded badly and hip broken; may die. Finley Ferguson, puddler, severely scalded. George Moore, wheeler, internal in juries. David McCloskey, boss of nail depart ment, badly injured about tbe body. Marshal Weir, laborer, spine badly injured; may die. John Hefferiu, tramp, # cut in head; may die. George Rock, roller, cut about head. Robert Marks, straiglitener, wrist and ankle broken, internal injuries; may dio. Daniel Onnkst, catcher, internal in juries. William Harstock, heater, severe bod ily in juries. Daniel Ayres, puddler, badly injured about the body. Tho only employes uninjured were Cramer, tho engineer and “Westley Athey, the firoma Tho boiler was blpwn through the roof of the works 300 feet in midair, and came sailing down like a spent rocket, crashing through the roof in an other department of the works. The entire roof was precipitated to tho floor beneath by the force of the explosion and tho works were practically wrecked. The explosion was sufficient to rock the earth with tho force of an earthquake s, and broke 1 . at a quartei from the mill. All the local physicians were called to the works to act as a hospital corps for the wounded. There was the greatest excitement around tho wrecked building, and the families of the dead and wounded were frantic with grief. As«oon as the bodies of the dead and injured conld be gotten together Coroner Foust empanelled a jury. After viewing the wreck the jury adjourned until evening. No explanation is offered as to the cause of tho explosion. Some of tho employes say* that they were short of steam before the accident occurred. Tho Hollidaysburg Iron and Nail com pany operates tho leading industrial plant hero, and it mil be several days before operations can be resumed. Highest of all in Leavening Power.- -Latest U.S. Gov’t ] The Helena and Grand Duchess Successfully Launched. TWO VEST HANDSOME VESSELS BOILER EXPLODED. An a Result, Five Men Are Now Dead and Two Other* Are Expected to Die. Blacksheab, Ga,, Jan. 30.—A bat tery of six boilers in the sawmill of the Southern Pino company of Georgia at Offerinan, a station 11 miles cast of hero, blow up, and as a result five ne groes, mill hands, are now dead and vo ethers are expected to die. Somo of the bodies are terribly tilated. The firoman had a leg blown >ff and hurled yards away. The sc the fireman, who had just come to bring his father’s breakfast, was killed out right. His head was split open and piece of boiler iron was driven through his thigh. Tho others were more less mutilated, «ome having great patches of skin missing, others being minus hands and feet. One boiler was broken half in two. one end being hnrled in one direction and its fellow in the opposite. Three boilers were lifted out bodily and hnrled with great force, doing great damage to buildings and machinery. Two boilers remain in position. There wero two explosions, the first >t so severe, but immediately followed by the second, which did the greater damage. The shock was as if there had been >me seismic disturbance. AFTER PORTUGAL'S KINU. The Third IVgnhlp Constructed bv a South ern Company Since the War—A Distin guished Farty From Washington : tendance, Including Members of the House Naval Affair* Committee. Newport News, Va.. Jan. SO.—The third warship constructed by a private southern shipyard since the war, aud also tho largest merchant steamer built in this country, with tho exception of tho two American transatlantic liners built by the Cramps, was launched suo cess fully here by the Newport News Shipbuilding company at high tide, in the presence of a distinguished party from Washington, members of the house uavol affaiA committee, Admiral Brown, commanding the Norfolk navy- yard, and a large concourse of people, estimated at 5,000, from adjacent towns. There were present also representa tives from Admiral Bunco’s great fleet in Hampton Roads, Senators Carter and Mentle of Montana and Assistant Sec retary McAdoo, who represented the navy department in the absence of Sec retary Herbert. To add to the spectac ular effect produced by numbers of 6teamers aud sailing vessels which had gathered here for the occasion, was the big ship Indiana, which came up from Fortress Monroe to load coal, pending her departure later for Port RoyaL Both vessels are the finest typo of their class ever turned out by this yard, which soon begins the construction of the mammoth battleships Kentucky and Kearsarge, authorized by the last con gress. In ordor to take advantage of the floodtide, tho launch of the vef ^ls took place before 11 o’clock, one following tho other as fast as the workmen ooula knock away the shores and wedge up their keels. The first to take tho water was the merchant vessel whose name had been kept a secret nntil she began to slide down the ways, when Miss Nellie S. Eldridge of Boston broke the usual bottle of wine and christened her the Grand Duchess. As the stern of the great hull caught the water the shrill whistles Of the steamers, foreign ships at the yards and the hoarse steam siren of tho battleship Indiana gave greetings, while thousands of people showed their appreciation by prolonged cheers for the Newport News Shipbuilding company and 0. P. Hunfc- i as its founder! what route tho new vessel is in tended has not yet been announced. Thirty minutes after the Grand Duch ess entered the water and had been towed out of the way for the new war ship, the Helena was ready to take her natural element, and, with at first a slight hesitation, dne to lack of sufficient tallow and with stately precision, she glided off into the James river as Miss Agnes Belle Steel, daughter of Mayor Steel of Helena, Mon., smashed the champagne bottle and named her in honor of Montana’s capital city. The Indiana greeted the new addition to the. service with deep blasts from her whistles, and the tugs and other ships added to the din. At the concluston of the ceremonies, President Orcutt enter tained the visitors at a banquet, where the ships and the company were toasted by the senators, representatives and others. The keels of the two new battleships will be laid near the spot where the two ships were launched! Description of the Helena. The gunboat Helena is one of two ships of peculiar design built for the navy by the Newport News company her sister ship, the Wilmington, having been launched last October. The pur pose was to secure an efficient type of vessel for the navigation of shallow and shifting rivers, such as are fonnd in China, whic h might still possess seago ing qualities sufficient to ensure sure passages from the United States to foreign stations and also to enable them to be used in carrying the United States into the many ports of the sonth Central America which are now in accessible to our warships owing to shoal water. So the Helena when completed with all stores aboard will draw only nine feet of water, and may go where any schooner able to navigate the seas can enter, and while not a battleship in the sense of not possessing armor and big guns, will carry eight 4-inch rifles, guns S uite largo enough to meet anything tiort of hrmored craft and heavy forti fications, and a number of smaller ma chine guns so mounted as to afford . i extremely destructive Are upon mobs or troops on shore or a boarding party. To enable the Helena to make her way up and down narrow and crooked chan nels she has double rudders, giving ABSOLUTELY PURI FIGURES THAT TALK. JN HONOR OF PUNYON. Georgia Commiutoner of Agriculture on Cotton Acreage. Atlanta, Jan. 30.—Figures are usu ally dry reading, but in his monthly talk to farmers, now going out to tho state press, Commissioner Nesbitt uses somo, given in tho followirf& excerpt from his article, that ore of the highest importance to every cotton grower in the south. He says: “The sonth can raise cotton cheaper than any other country, and therefore no rival can successfully outer the field if we manage our great staple crop on sound business principles. An Ameri can crop which forces the price below 10 ceuta is certainly too large. We should plant as near as possiblo to a 7,000,000 bale basis, which trill insure a fair mar gin of profit. If by an increased acreage and an increased use of fertilizers and other expenses we produce 9,000,000 or 10,000,000 bales, every bale trill, accord ing to all precedent, be sold at a loss of at least 1, 2 or perhaps 3 cents a pound. A 7,000,000 bale crop at 10 cents will bring $350,000,000. A 9,000.000 bide crop will bring at the highest only 7 cents a pound, or $315,000,000, a loss of $35,000,000, not counting the additional cost of producing the larger crop. If it costs 8 cents a’pound to raise the 7,000,- 000 balo crop, which is about the aver age cost of production, that represents $280,000,000. This crop, if sold at 10 ccuts, will net the farmers $70,000,000 over aud above tho cost of production, with plenty of provisions for another year—9,000,000 bales at a cost of 8 cents per pound for production, will represent $3(50,000,000, and if sold for 7 cents will only bring $315,000,000, a less of $45,- 000,000 to the producers. Adding the profit on the lesser crop to the loss on the greater we have $116,000,000 in favor of a reduced urea aud a smaller An Anarchist Throw* a Stono at HI* Maj esty—Arrested by the Polloe. Lisbon, Jon. 80.—While King Charles was returning to the palace after a drive in an open carriage, accompanied by aide de camp, an anarchist workman threw a stone at his majesty. The missile, however, hit the aide de camp, who jnmped from the carriage and seized and held tho anarchist until the latter was arrested by the police. The prisoner was removed shouting cheers for social revolution. Awarded Highest Honor*—World’s Fair, DR / * CREAM BAKING great turning power, and these are so shielded that the stern may be run in o a soft bank and the boat swept around by the current as is customary in some of our Flori a rivers. The Helena is 250 feet 9 inches loi by 40 feet 1 inch broad, with a speed 13 knots, and will carry 170 officers and men. She is built of good steel throi out and is launched just two years i the award o the contract for building her to the Nowport News Shipbuilding company at $280,000, although the ap propriation for the ship was not to ex ceed $400,000. Description of the Grand Dnchi The Gra d Duchess is a merchant steamer bunt for the Plant line, and destined to run between Tampa and the Bahamas, but as she is built in strict accordance with the requirements of tho subsidy act, she is subject to call by the government at any time to serve as a vessel of the auxiliary navy, ghe is fully half as big again as the Helena, aud is finished throughout in the high est style of the shipwright’s art, with elegantly furnished and appointed sa- lgons and staterooms, and every appli ance for tho safety and comfort of the passengers. She is 404 feet long by 47 feet 9 inches beam, and she is 37 feet 4 inches deep from the top of the deck to the base line. She has double bottoms, watertight compartments, tubulous boilers, dock observatories, fire alarm system, electric lights, twin screws, carries 800 firstclass and 400 secondclass passengers, and she is boilt of steel thronjtuat. GOMEZ NOTIFIED. The Caban Commander I* Informed of the Action of Congress. New York, Jan. 30.—President Tom aso Estrada Palma of the Cuban junta was at the headquarters of the Cuban revolutionary party in this city during the day. .Several other leadors of tho movement were also on hand and secret conference was held. President Palma said that the Cubans joyed at the news that the committee on foreign relations had submitted a re port recommending that President Cleveland use the good offices of tho United States to have Spain accord tho Cuban insurgents the rights of bellig erents. Already a synopsis of the re port has been sent to General Gomez and General Maceo and President Palma 3 >ressed the opinion that it would re- t in the leaders working with re newed hope. It was said that General Garcia, who was alleged to have been seriously ill at his home in Harlem, was present at tho conference, but this was denied by President Palma, who said that he did not even know whether General Garcia was in town or not. WORK OF CONGRESS. Tho. Urgent Deficiency Appropriation Bill Reported Back—Measure* Passed. Washington, Jan. 80.—In the sen ate, Mr. Hale (Rep., Me.) reported back the urgent deficiency appropriation bill and gave notice that he would ask to take it up at the next Session of the sen ate. A bill was passed providing for tho appointment by the secretary of war of chaplain for the United States Mili tary academy. A committee amend ment to the bill was agreed to, making the president the appointing po’ Mr. Morrill (Rep., Vt.) called up tho bill for the payment to the widow of the late Samuel F. Miller, justice of tho supreme court, a sum equal to the bal ance of his salary for tho ve»r in which he died. The bill was passed. The resolution directing the secretary of agriculture to execute the law rela tive to seed distribution was then taken up and Mr. George (Dem., Miss.) spoke in defense of the course of the secre tary. * SWINDLER ARRESTED. Ha Was Charged With Obtaining Money by Fal*e Pretense*. Mobile, Jan. 30.—A man known General Alberto do Artaga de Sacaroe* said to be the secretary of the army and navy of Venezuela, and with money to toss at bonfires, came to Mobile about a month ago and was shown many social attentions. He was toasted and feasted and made much of by the best people of the city. He was in Mobile ostensibly to learn the English language, hut was having a high old time, when William Bragg, a real estate dealer, swore out a warrant charging him with obtaining money by false pretenses. Bragg claimed the general had repre sented to him that he had a check then enroute to Mobile and on the strength of this representation got $50 from him, which he did not return. The general was locked there one nig] __ , missed the next day and he went'' to New Orleans. MOST PERFECT M £>& \ pure’Grapc Cream of Tartar Ponder. Fit* Ammonia, Alum or any other adulterant. 40 YEARS THE STANDARD, 4ss U Prominent Iowan Dead. Gbistoxl, la., Jan. 80.—Dr. J. B-. Magonu, ex-president ot Iowa college! who has been critically ill for time, has fust died.. Memorial Serrlee^Beld at Berlin some Floral Tribute*. ' Berlin, Jan. 80.—Memorial services 1 were held at noon In St. Georges chapel in honor of the late Mr. Theodora Runyon, United States ambassador t» Germany. All of the 300 seats of the sacred edifice were occupied by a rtinflSM guished congregation, and the impoeinni looking catafalque upon which the re mains rested was buried under floral offerings from the deoeased «tatannw5& admirers, including tributes of respeotn from Emperor William of Germany, the empress, ex-Empress Frederick, thtf German foreign office, the mem the diplomatic corps, the Amei ony and German friends i ' In addition, there were 1 tributes from the staff < embassy and that of consulate here. Tho emperor v ent at the services, as he was k4] by an important cabinet meeti) majesty, however, was rep the adjutant, Count Von J empress and the ex-empre were represented at the i court officials and Prince 3 opold of Prussia was The Rev. Dr. Dickie made t address. It was a tone ‘ tho Americanism and c of tho deceased. At the close of the memorial I the members of the diplomat]* the Gorman officers and others \ passed in file before the wid] family of the deceoseT stated by the Chief i United States Embt Jackson. They all lence with Mr. Runy A detachment of 1 np before tho chu honor. At his birth 4a last, when Mi. « United States, t ingly of the dea added a few woi ation of the deceased i patriotism. His aido de camp. Count Mrs. Runyon with press the emperor’s i _ and her family in their t The American colony 1 at 3 p. m. to express symp Runyon’s family, and tions of condolence witlf 1 respect for the deceased. BREAK IN HUNTER? Representative Chambers Vo. Holt For Senator In ] * Louisville, Jan. 80. - Tho Post from Frankf first break in tho Hunter when Dr. J. E. Chambers ol county voted for Judge W. Frankfort. The announcement of Chambers’ caused a cry to go np amoi Hunter people, who declared that it all over wit. that candidate. Wt?Jj this will turn out to bo the case i remains to bo seen. Judge Holt’s friends, it is said, assert* that if all the Republicans will go I him he can be elected. Tho roll call showed 132 members* present and voting; necessary for af- | choice, 67. Tho ballot resulted as folio lows: r- Honter, 64; Blackburn, 56; Buckner©- 1 2; Carlisle, 5; Evans; 1; Holt, 1; Haze 4- rigg, 1; Brown, 1; Grace, 1. To Trovldo Additional Track*** ;1 - *T St. Louts, Jan. 80.—At a meeting the executive committee of the SL-* Ami, Terminal association, it.V£9« d3?«uffl- provide additional trackage^for the# “ of special and sleeping cars brinj.' *' 0 passengers to tho national Bepuuffi convention hero in Juno. Inaddi- t. to trackage now possessed by the a w<d *F ciation, room for tho care of 200 Ife* 00 ' will be provided in its yard. i £2 Gladness Cor ical Bis which vanish before pr< forfs—gentle efforts—pleasant e x .« roxurn. im g.nonu J** 11 *^ d 5 r « rt * d :. P' 16 “2*2 ! nrx in -inii ^,.7:, ‘,1. the knowledge that so many forms . m I™- and remsu “? d tickness are not due to any actual dj igU The era vu <!>«-. I Sa£1>7t staply to a cm ‘ tion of the system, which the pie: family laxative. Syrup of FJ ly removes. That is wk - u remedy with millions of everywhere esteemed who value good healt effects ate due to the fact, that one remedy which promotes cleanliness, without debilitati OTgans on which it acts. It is t' all important, in order to get ficial effects, to note when chase, that you have the genuii which is manufactured by the < Fig Syrup Co. only, and so’ ’ * utable druggists. If in. the enjoyment of £ and the system is regular, tivesor other remedies are If afflicted with any actual may be commended to the physicians, but if in need then one should have the 1 the well-informed everywl Figs stands highest and *' used and gives most Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 30.—A suit for $50,000 has boon filed against the Western railroad by th$ heirs of Miss Mattie M. Murdock, who was killed by an engine on that road on Oct. 10. Miss Murdock lived at Mt. Meigs, and was enroute to Atlanta to attend the exposi tion. She intended coming to this city first, to do some shoppiug, and to go from here to Atlanta. No. 35 from At lanta passed through Mt. Meigs at that time without stopping. Ther order was that it must not stop.eveu when flagged. Oii the morning of Oct 10, Miss Mur dock and several other ladies were at the station with the hope that they might be able to stop the train and come to Montgomery. It went by them with a rush, however, and Miss Mur dock, in her excitement undertook to cross the track as the train approached her. She was instantly crushed