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fwenty-Eighth Year.
STOP AND READ! THEN WAIT FOR
BAILEY’S
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Big Discount Sale.
The present winter has been so mild that it is
leaving me with an enormous stock of Winter
Clothing ih?t must either be sacrificed or carried
over into another season. I prefer the sacrifice.
On Thursday, February 7th, this Big Sale will
positively begin and continue through the 23rd of
Feb^ry.
Every statement in this advertisment will
be followed to the letter,and if.any one doubts it and
will make it known to me 1 will take pleasure in
convincing him to his satisfaction.
The Clothing will be divided into lots and plac
ed on seperate tables. Each table will be placard
ed with the price reduction on a sign, and the cus
tomer can rrake his own selection.
This is the largest up-to-date sto k of clean,
new merchandise in fVlen s Wear ever placed before
the people of Americus and Southwest Georgia at
such prices and it will pay each and every man to
come quick and investigate these statements and
prices for himself and avail himself of this'golden
opportunity.
Any dissatisfied customer can have his money
refunded at any time within five days from date of
purchase, or can make any change desired. Every
thing sold will be a bargain and I don’t want your
money unless you are pleased with your purchase
Don’t forget the time, Thursday, February 7th,
at 9 o’clock and the place
No goods charged at these prices. Railroad fare
paid to Americus on purchases by out-of-town customers of
over $25.00.
Out-of-town merchants can make money by attending
this sale.
Descriptive circulars will be placed in each home.
W. D. BAILEY.
Forsyth St. and Cotton Ave. Americus, Ga.
Guaranteed
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electrically tempered SI.OO
The honing stops, no
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WE GUARANTEE THEM.
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DRU« STORE
113 FORSYTH ST,
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Established 1867, Incorporated 1890,
Janies Fricker & Bro.
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JEWELERS,
Americus, Georgia.
i 409 Jackson Street - , “ Phone 280
THE AMERICUS TIIVIES-RECORDER.
CHILDREN LEAVING
MILL FOR SCHOOL
More Than 300 Homes In Bibb
County Effected
BY THE CHILD LABOR LAW
Mill Owners Instruct Superintendents
,to Obey the Law In Its Strictest
Form—Enough Children for Large
School in One District.
Macon, Ga., Feb. 4.—More than
300 homes in Bibb county have been
affected by the child labor law since
it began operation Jan. 1, this year,
and as a result several hundred chil
dren who have heretofore earned a
living for themselves and the other
members of the family, are now en
joying the school privileges provided.
In this community mill owners have
given instructions to their superin
tendents to observe the law in the
strictest form regarding the employ
ment of children. That they have
determined not to violate the law and
undertake operation of machinery in
the mills by children who should be
in the schools is everywhere appar
ent.
In the Willingham cotton mill dis
trict there are enough children for a
large school who are awaiting the
erection of a fine building promised by
C. B. Willingham. He has asked
that the Bibb system employ the
teachers, and this course may be fol
lowed as soon as the opportunity to
act upon the proposition is afforded.
In the other mill districts such steps
have been taken as will assure the
children the school pirivileges.
The investigator finds a wonderful
ly strong inclination among the mill
owners not to allow the parents of
children, to violate the child labor
law. Numbers of men who own inter
ests in the mills are among the lead
ing educators and some are members
of the board of education. The fact
that the school system of Bibb is in
such excellent condition is more due
to the interest men of public affairs
have taken in the schools than to any
other cause and ihe new law seems
universally to have been taken with
good faith and a determination to
see that the children have the bene
fits.
Superintendent C. B. Chapman, of
the system of schools, is apprised
of ttie effor.s of the prominent men
to take care of the children and has
taken advantage of the instructions
to mill superintendents not to allow
children under the limit of the law to
work in .he mills. He is watching
the <fi :t of the law in the system
with a view of getting yet larger
numbers of the children in the mill
districts i.*Y> the schools.
In those schools near the mills the
attendance lias been materially in
creased and the result in this county
will he a larger percentage of at
tendance in the mill districts than
ever before i:t the history of the sys
tem ,
Want Uniform Stamping Law.
New York, Feb. 4.—Manufacturers
of jewelry, silverware, watche.s and
optical supplies, have formed an or
ganization to advocate in all states the
enactment of s alutes conforming to
the principles of national stamping
law passed by congress last winter
and which will become effective on
June lit next. The legislatures of
4ft states will be asked to adopt uni
form laws, without which, it is as
serted, the reform begun with the fed
eral legislation will be complete. In
the movement are enlisted all the men
who were back of the work which a
year ago resulted in the passage of
the federal law prohibiting the false
stamps on gold and silver articles en
tering into inter-state or foreign com
merce.
It Was Tough.
The waiter girl knew a thing or two
about table etiquette, so she sniffed
scornfully as she said, "It’s not our
custom to serve a knife with pie.”
“No?” remarked the patron in surprise.
“Then bring me an ax.” Christian
Register.
He Writes For Money.
Lady Gushington—-So your son is a
real author! How distractingly inter
esting! And does tie write for money?
Practical Dad—Yes; I get his applica
tions about once a week.
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AMERICUS. GA., TUESDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 5. 1907
TRIAL OF THAW
HAS ACTUALLY BEGUN
Assistant - District Attorney
MakvS Opening Speech.
COURT ROOM WAS CROWDED
Laurence White Called as the First
Witness —Great Interest Centers In
the Fight To Be Waged by the
Prosecution.
New York, Feb % 4.—The Thaw
trial is ou. Assistant District Attor
ney Gar van opened for the prosecu
tion .
There was some delay in resuming
the .rial owing to the formalities at
tending the postponing of the Feb
rurary term of court, which was sched
uled tu, begin Monday morning. The
tegular panel of IdO February jurors
added to tne last of the special ju
rors in the Thaw case, some 250 in
number, crowded the court room to
overflowing. Thaw’s trial having
been begun in the January term,
that term will lurid until the case is
disposed of.
Mr. Garvan spoke less than ten
minutes. All wintnesses except ex
perts have been excluded from the
room. May McKenzie, Mrs. Harry
Thaw and Mrs. William Thaw were
included in this order.
When the February jurors iiad been
dismissed and Justice Fitzgerald had
taken the bench there at once be
gan a conference of attorneys ip the
judge's- desk.
Thaw apeared a I rifle flushed as
he took i;is place at the end of the
table assigned to his counsel.
Back of him sat his mother, Mrs.
William Thaw, his sister, Mrs. Car
negie. Evelyn Xesbit Thaw and May
McKenzie, Edward and Josiah Thaw
also were present, the only family
absentee being the Countess of Yar
mouth .
All the witnesses for die prosecu
tion were in court. They were only
the eyewitnesses of the tragedy on
Madison Square Roof Garden. Some
witnesses said to have been summon
ed by the defense were also ip court
although t’ne most of those who are
to appear for Thaw have not ap
pea red.
Whatever pressure the District At
torney may bring to hear on Thaw’s
attorneys for the release of addition
al jurors it was in vain. At the end
of the last conference on the subject
held at Justice Fitzgerald’s desk, as
sistant District Attorney Garvan
arose quietly and in a very low tone
began the opening address for the
prosecution and the actual hearing of
the famous case was on.
Mr. Garvan congratulated the jurors
on their body having been completed
and then ou.lined the purpose of the
l.aw which was not seeking for ven
geance. but to uphold the security of
the state. He urged the importance
the case and a strict observance of
the law In order that a verdict, fair
to all, might be reached.
Jt was the claim of the people, he
said, that on the night of June 25,
1906, the defendant shoi and killed
with premeditation and intent to kill”
one, Stanford White. He then brief
ly outlined the movements of Mr.
White, begining with the Saturday
preceding the tragedy.
Lawrence White, a son of the late
Stanford White, was called as the
first witness for the prosecution in
the Thaw case.
White was on the stand but a few
minutes. He told of accompanying
bis father to the Case Martin for din
ner and said that when he left hint
to go with his chum, a boy named
King, to the New York Roof Garden,
it was the last time he saw his father
alive.
Thaw’s attorneys did not desire to
cross-examine the and he
was allowed to leave the stand.
The second witness was Warner
Paxton, the engineer of Madison
Square Garden. He was an eye-wit
ness of the shooting and the arrest of
Thaw.
David N. Carvalho, the hand
writing expert was a new figure in the
case Monday. He sat just beside
Harry Thaw, and evidently has been
summoned to testify for
No statement as to what will be
shown by Mr. Carvalho would be
made by Thaw’s counsel.
Mver Cohen, a song writer, was
called as the third witness for the
state.
Cohen described on a diagram the
position of the table at which White
sat, and illustrated the slow pace
which he declared characterized Mr.
Thaw’s deliberation in approaching his
victim.
Engineer Dropped Dead.
Pittsburg, Feb. 4. —Just as he was
stepping from the engine cab of the
Cleveland Flyer, at the Pittsburg and
Lake Erie railroad station after com
pleting the fast run from Cleveland,
Engineer S. H. Morrow, of this city,
dropped dead from heart disease. Al
though feeling ill near the end of his
run. Morrow refused to entrust his
engine to his fireman and insisted on
remaining at the throttle.
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Unsuccessful Effort to Float Steamer.
Newport, R. , Feb. 4. —Another
unsuccessful effort was made early
Monday morning to float the steam
er General Warren-, of the enterprise
transportation company’s line, which
ran ashore Sunday morning. The
opinion was expressed that it would
be impossible to move the steamer
j until the whole of her cargo of rnis
: cellaneous freight was taken off.
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Cold Wave in New Orleans.
New Orleans, Feb. 4. —The • cold
wave which was predicted Sunday
struck New Orleans Monday morning.
It was preeeeded by a heavy shower
of rain accompanied by thunder and
lightning. The temperature dropped
fifteen degrees in less than an hour.
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Gives Birth to a Daughter.
; Coburg, Feb. 4.—Grand Duchess
Cyril, of Russia, formerly Princess
| Victoria, of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha,
I has given birth to a daughter.
WAR IS UNTHINKABLE.
Japanese Understand Americans Too
Well.
Tokio, Feb. 4. —Baron Kaneko,
formerly special envoy to the United
States, says war is untinkable.
“The Japanese understand America
better than the Americans understand
Japan,” he said. “A great majority
of the men holding public positions
here were educated by Americans in
structed by American instructors and
have long studied American institu
tions. Now, throughout the present
and otherwise, they are helping the
people to appreciate the difficulty the
federal government lies under in
controlling the action of the individ'
ual states. Hence, after the first
phase segregation question, the people
gained confidence in the sympathy
which a great majority of the Ameri
cans still have toward Japan. Japan’s
moral system insists that a finger shall
never be raised against a benefactor.
Japan owes her position among the
powers to America. The American
government and people, with Eng
land are Japan’s bagt friends. War
is unthinkable.”
Wiil Consolidate Squadrons.
Chicago, Fob. 4. A dispatch to
the Tribune from Washington says:
Secretary Metcalf will issue this week
a most important order designed to
increase the strategic effectiveness of
the American navy. He will consol
idate the squadrons now on the Pa
cific coast and in Asiatic waters into
one fleet under the supreme command
of Rear Admiral Willard H. Brown
son. This fleet will engage in com
prehensive maneuvers, the object of
which will be th eprotection of the
Pacific slope and our Pacific depen
dencies in case of war. It Is stated
authoritatively there is no connection
whatever between the re-organization
of the navy in the Pacific ocean and
the controversy with Japan over the
San Francisco school question.
Resolutions Unanimously Adopted.
Sari Francisco, Feb. 4. —At the
convention of the Japanese and Ko
reans’ Exclusion League resolutions
adopted by the executive board of the
league on Saturday night, demanding
that the United States and state of
California maintain the right to ex
clude Japanese from public schools
used by white children, were unani
mously adopted, after which much
spirited discussion by men prominent
in the movement to exclude A .iatics
from this country. The pith of the
resolutions which declared that the
yielding o fthe United States to Ja
pan on the school question was tanta
mount to taking vassalage, was dwelt
upon by several of the speakers.
President Roosevelt was severely crit
icised.
Old Negro Man Killed.
Columbus, Ga., Feb. 4.—ln Coo
ley ville, a negro settlement east of
Golumbus, Henry Reese and Ross
Hollis, to young negroes, engaged in
a fight, during which Hollis, father
of young Hollis, seized a shotgun and
ran Reese off the place. Reese and
another negro returned later to the
Reese place and shot the old man to
death with pistols. The murderers
made their escape. Cooleyville had
another shooting affray, John Tiger,
a negro, shooting and dangerously
wounding Lizzie Battle, negro.
King Edward in Paris.
Paris, Feb. 4.—King Edward and
President FaUieries exchanged official
visits Sunday. King Edward went
to the palace of the Elysee in the
morning and was received with the
usual ceremonies. The king re
mained for nearly an hour. Later
the president returned the king’s vis
it, calling upon him at the British
embassy. In the afternoon the king
and queen went out in an automobile.
Several visits were made during the
ride.
Snow Is Driven By Bitter Gale.
Billings, Mont., Feb. 4.—The se
verest storm that has ever visited
Montano within 2 years is raging over
eastern Montana. Snow is falling fast
and now covers the ground to a depth
of nearly one foot, with, no immedi
ate prospect of ceasing. Men who
have lived here for many years say
that conditions are worse than at any
time since 1886, at wffiich time sheep
died by the thousands.
End of Strike In Sight.
London, Feb. 4.—The end of the
Music Hall strike is believed to be in
sight. A split has occurred in the
ranks of the strikers resulting in the
formation of a third party to the con
troversy. This section Is composed
of the principal strikers who adopted
conciliatory methods in negotiations
with the managers.
Automobile Factory Destroyed.
Chicago, Feh. 4.—An explosion of
gasoline In a tank in the rear of the
first floor of the Ford Motor Car com
pany’s building, 1446 Michigan aven
ue, caused a fire which gutted the
two story brick structure, destroy
ing a number of automobiles. The
loss will reach SIOO,OOO.
American Tour by Italian Tragedian.
New York, Feb. 4.—The Shuberts
anounce that they have arranged for
an American tour for Eremit Novell!,
the noted Italian tragedian. The
contract calls for thirty appearances,
the first of which will be made at the
Majestic Theater, Boston, on March
4, 1907.
H#w and Arrow Fish inn.
In the south seas and in various
groups of islands in the Indian ocean
the aborigines shoot fish with the bow
and arrow. The art is extremely diffi
cult, as In taking aim at an object un
der water the archer has to allow for
refraction. If he were to aim directly
at the fish as he sees it, he would, of
course, miss. Long practice has, how
ever, made the natives expert to a
wonderful degree in this sport.—Lon
don Saturday Review. '
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IN FAMILY QUARREL
BOY KILLS BROTHER
Shoots Him With a Single Bar
rel Shotgun.
DIFFERENT STORIES ARE TOLD
Shooting Occurred Near Gainesviile.
This Will Be the Fifth Murder
Trial at This Term of Hall Superior
Court.
GainesvWle, Ga. r Feb. 4. —Hall
county has another murder added to
its record. in the Fork district,
several miles from town, Harris
Strickland, 15 years eld, shot and
killed his bro. her, Xe.vton Stricken:!,
with a single-barreled shotgun.
The story as told by tne young fel
low, who was arrested and placed be
hind the bars in the Hail county jail,
is that he and his brother, Newton
Strickland, were at the latter’s house,
Harris having in charge a younger
bro,her.
Newton Strickland, according to
Harris, wanted the little fellow to
remain at his house for the night,
and a dispute arose over the matter.
Harris alleges that Nfwton finally be
came so angered .hat he started at
him (Harris) with an open knife. Har
ris declares that he begged him not
to come upon him, but the latter di
not heed him, ail to save himself he
aimed the gun at Newton and fired,
the load striking Newton in the leg
above the knee. Before medical aid
could be summoned, Newton Strick
land died from loss of blood.
Another story told about the affair
is that Newton StricklAntl upbraided
his brother because he was so-wild,
and that in reasoning with him Har
ris Strickland became angered and
shot him, the wound proving fatal in
about an hour.
The news of the tragedy reached
Gairiesville as the killing occurred-in
the western part of the county. Not
much is known of the Stricklands, they
having only moved to the county from
Dawson or Forsyth some time ago.
Officers were sent out to summon
the eye-witness to the tragedy and
Judge Kimsey has ordered the grand
jury, which adjourned Friday, to re
assemble Tuesday morning to inquire
into the matter. If a true bill is
found against Harris Strickland, lie
will be put on trial 'in Hall superior
court this week.
This will he the the fifth murder
trial at this term of court. Foster
Brooks was last week convicted of
murdering Jack Collins, and was giv
en a life sentence. Jim Reed was
convicted of killing Hoke Hunt and
was given 15 years in the peniten
tiary. Mrs. Sue Brooks will be
placed on trial for accessory in the
killing of Jack Collins. Therefore,
it appears that Hall county is having
a siege of murder trials at this term
of court.
Important Reommendation Made.
The Hague, Feh. 4. —In iis report
just issued, the state commission ap
pointed to revise the constitution of
Holland recommends the exclusion
from succession to the throne chil
dren born after the abdication of the
sovereign and authorizations for the
state’s general to provide for the suc
cession or alter it in case of emer
gency. The commission also pro
poses to make the treaties recom
mend proportional representation and
eligibility of women for election to
the states general; that the qualifica
tions of candidates he the same in the
case of both chambers, and that the
first chamber be granted ihe right to
amend as well as-to approve or reject
bills, except ia the case of the bud
get.
Brigadier General Holabird Dead.
Washington, Feb. 4.—Brigadier
General Samuel Brickley Holabird.
retired, one of the oldest and best
known United States army officers in
the country and former quartermas
ter genera!, died in this city Sunday
after a brief illness in his 80th year.
He will be buried In the Soldiers’
Home cemetery Tuesday. General
Holabird graduated from West Point
in 1849. He was known in literary
circles as the translator of General
Jomiiiis* Treatise on Military Opera
tions of Frederick the Great.
New York Fireman Killed.
New York, Feb. 4.—Caleb Under
hill , a fireman, was killed and four
others injured during a fire that de
stroyed the Mead building in White
Plains. Underbill was crushed by
the falling cornices,. The financial
losses by fire aggregated slftft,ft()o.
Prominent Railway Official Dead.
Portland, Ore., Feb. 4.—A. G.
Barker, assistant general passenger
agent of the Chicago and Northwest
ern railroad, whose headuarfers were
in this city, died Sunday night of
pneumonia.
Higgins Condition Improved.
Olean, N. Y., Feb. 4.—There ap
peared to be a slight improvement in
the condition of ex-Governor Higgins
on Monday morning;
Buried by Avalanche.
'1 arhes, Feb. 4. —Relief parties
have been sent to the village of Ba
reges, near Lourdes, France, where
the Casino and twenty houses were
destroyed Feb. 2 by an avalanche
of snow.. Details just received .show
that several persons were buried by
the avalanche.
Cady Grenfelt Dead.
Ottawa, Canada, Feb. 4. —Lady
Grenfelt, eldest daughter of Lord and
L«dy Grey, died at the Government
Monday. She had been suffer
ing from typhoid fever.
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