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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORJUER.
VOLUME 1
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1891.
NUMBER 33
FREE ADVICE!
FIRE IN DETROIT.
Look Here, Boys!
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Then don’t put your hands in yourllpockets
whistle “Annie Rooney,”, and expect to keep
warm these cold November days. You had
much better select a nice, warm suit from our
fine new stock.
Get a Free Ticket
-TO OUR-
Boys’ Safety Bicycle Drawing!
Which you know occurs on next Christmas
Eve, and be happy. We are going to give
iway a brand new Safety Bicycle, absolutely
free of any charge
whatever. Every boy
who buys his suit from
us before Christmas
Eve gets a sure enough
argain and a chance at the machine for abso-
Jtely nothing. The time is drawing near I It
> going to be a daisy! Everyone will have a
lir, square showing, and you may be the lucky
oy!
There is nothing small about our stock of
Boys’ Suits,
Overcoats,
And Odd Pants,
‘cept the price, and that we make exceeding-
small. We can fit you perfectly, and by
lecting now you secure the pick. Don’t for-
t the place.
FATHER AND MOTHER ARE BURNED
TO A CRISP.
An Awful Catastrophe Occur# in the Hour#
of Night—An Overturned Stove We#
Probably the Cause of the Terrible Con
Bagration.
Detroit, Dec. 2.—The most appallin:
catastrophe that has visited Detroit
since the burning of the Tilden scltot
two years ago, took place here ubont
2 o’clock in the morning.
Fire broke out in the grocery 6tore ot
George J. Deis, 822 Orleans street, ami
communicating to the honse overlie,i
smothered to death Charles Reis, ag,
22, and his brothers Josie and Ed !:
aged 11 and 7 years. Tin two lattei
children were found in their bed, and an
older boy discovered by the firemen ly.
ing upon the floor before the window, as
if he hod realized bis danger and at
tempted to make his escape by that
egress.
The father and mother were found
locked in each other’s arms at the foo
of the stairs leading out into the yi
They had burned to a crisp in endeavor
ing to reach the open air. Why the
took the rear stairs may never be mail
known, for if they had gone down i
the front way they would nndoubte II y
have been saved. As it was, they rtt<'
ed into the fiery furnace, for the eonll
gration did the most damage wlier
thsir bodies were found.
Two other children, Max, aged 15, and
Tony, aged 15, and a hired girl whon
name could not be ascertained, escaped
by jumping out of the windows into
the arms of the police and firemen.
There were no meaus of finding out
just how the fire started. When firs
seen it was issuing from the front w
dows upstairs, but an examination ■>
the grocery store showed an overturned
stove, and the damage done to the lower
story would indicate that the fire start
ed in the store.
CALVIN S. BRICE.
George D. WHeatleg,
Cor. Lamar Street and Cotton Avenue,
County Treasurer Holman Sues Him f»
HU Taxrs.
Lima, O., Dec. 2.—County Treasurer
Edward Holman entered suit against
Calvin S. Brice for unpaid taxes. Brice
came here the other day, as lie lias do
at regular intervals ever since he laid
senatorial aspirations, and Holman im
mediately commenced suit against the
senator. The petition filed reads as fol
lows : That defendant, Calvin S. Brice,
stands lawfully charged upon the lust
duplicate of Allen county with tuxes in
the sum of $1,500,145, that said taxes
have become delinquent; that the same
amount, with penalties .thereon, are
now due and wholly unpaid. The plain
tiff prays judgment against said de
fendant for said sum of $1,500,145, with
penalties and costs of suits.
Danlol Hrower, the Agent,
Lima, O., Dec. 2.—Several months
ago Daniel Brower, a fruit tree agent,
representing the firm of Snyder Bros.,
of Cridersville, came here for the pur
pose of soliciting orders for the firm.
After several weeks’sojourn be returned
to Cridersville and turned in his orders
for a large amount of trees, etc., and
received his commission, which amount
ed to about $300, and disappeared. When
the time for delivery came it was found
that all of the names were fictitious,
the majority of them being those of
dead persons and evidently taken from
toombstones. The grand jury indicted
Brower, und Sheriff O’Neill located him
in Indianapolis, where he arrested him
and retnmed him here.
Rain Bomba for India*
London, Dec. 2. —Viscount Cross,sec
retary of the state for India, has just
transmitted to Mr. Edmund J,
Moffat, the agent in London of
the United States agricultural de
partment a request forwarded
to him by the governor and con
snl at Madras presidency. This re
quest is in printed form and asks fur
information regarding t*he result of the
test for making rain in Texas and other
mrts of the United States. The peti
tion has been forwarded to Secretary
Rusk.
In the Hands of a Receiver.
Louisville, Dec. 2.—In the United
States court in this city, on the com
plaint of the Central Trust company of
New York, and other creditors, the
Richmond, Nicholasville and Beatty-
ville railroad was placed in the hands
of a receiver. John McLeod was ap
pointed by the court to act in that ca
pacity. The liabilities aggregate nearly
Stenmrr sinks n Schooner.
Philadelphia, Dec. 2.—The schooner
George W. Fehimore, from Boston, in
ballast, and the steamer Dessong, hence
for Savannah, collided abreast the
skip John Light. The schooner tank,
the steamei'# bow wee stove in and she
returned to this port. The Fenimore’s
crew wee saved and brought to this
port on the Dessong.
Sterling Wagon Works Burned.
Sterling, Bit., Dee. 2.—The Sterling
wagon works have been destroyed by
fire. Adam Spies, the proprietor, says
the loss will reaeh $100,000, covered by
$80,000 insurance. The Sterling gas
works were damupd^OOO.
Drowned In n Mine.
Pottsville, Pa., Dec. 2.—John Har
rington, a miner living at Robinson's
Patch, mot dea>h in a mine.
\ MRS. ANNIE BESANT.
She Lectures In New York on *'J
RlnvnUky Mini Reincarnation. “
New York, Dec. 2.— Clad becoming! j
in black law, with a large white ebrys
antheinnin at her throat and the green
seal ring of the dead high priestess on
her finger, Mrs. Annie Besant, the dis
tinguished English convert to theo
sophy, lectured at Chickering hall on
"Mine. Blavatsky and Reincarnation.
Mrs. Besant was introduced by Lawyer
W. Q. Judge, general secretary of the
American section of the theosophies!
society. She spoke fervidly and elo
quently to a large andience gathered
from the higher ranks of society and
was frequently encouraged with ap
plause.
That part of Mrs. Besant's lecture
which related to Mine. Blavatskv
in the nature of an enthusiastic eulogy.
Hue declared that Blavatsky was
Russian woman of noble parentage and
high social position, who left her native
country early in life in search of truth,
and traveled over the world on money
furnished by lie' father. She was
never an adventuress or a spy, but r
taiued the good will of her family to
the day of her death, und also a good
reputation throughout Russia. Mrs.
Besant cli 1 ed Blavatsky among the
scientists aui philosophers who appear
on earth in the last quarter - of every
century. The lecturer declared from
the experience of daily life with Biu
vatsky that the latter was pure in
mind, unselfish and almost omniscient
in her knowledge, possessing also pow
ers which the majority of the human
race do not. Hold. Her philosophy hud
already begun to have a powerful effect
on the world, having impressed itself
especially on literature, and her doc
trine of reincarceration was now ac
cepted as a hypothesis which would fill
up the gaps iu evolution.
“The core of reincarnation,” said
Mrs Besant, is this: "Every person con
sists of a threefold nature, the divine,
the human and the brute. There is the
brute with its impulses, appetites, pas
sion* and emotions. There is the di
vine, not evolved save in the very few
but showingagliminering in all. There,
too, is the human, the link between tin-
brute .and the divine, giving to the
brute the possibility of rising, and giv
ing to tbe divine the possibility of in
spiring tbe brute.
".What is mortal is clearly the brnte,
and is transitory; the divine is clearly
eternal; that which is not reincarnated
is the brute—mortal. Gradually in the
course of many lives there is built up
more and more perfect expression in
earth life of that which is divine in
principle. Hypnotism has demonstrated
that tlionght is born under certain con
ditious, and all our thoughts are thrown
into our mental atmosphere, where they
resemble the germs of disease, if bad,
in their capacity for afflicting other per
BOBS.”
ON THE WAR PATH.
Th® AiihcIipa Hava Killed One Mini tiud
Wounded Another*
Wilcox, A. T., Dec. 2.—The Apaches
are on tbe warpath and have committed
several depredations. One man ha-
been killed and another wounded an
tbe settlers are arming to protect them
selves. Major William L. Downing,
who lives about thirty miles south i f
this place, rode in in great haste Thurs
day night and reported that one of his
men hud been murdered by a war party
of Indians, who disappeared soon after
the killing and cannot now be found.
The name of the dead man is B. H. Dan-
iels, of Ontario, Canada, an ex-soldier,
and about 35 years old. The following
telegram has been received from Fort
Bowie:
Major Downing was shot from am-
bush while riding in his baggy, but not
fatally injured. Lieutenant Cowin and
ten soldiers now leaving. ”
This wss written within a mile of the
major’s residence. Robbery was not
the object of tb* murderers. It is the
season when the reds become uneasy,
and a dispatch says it would be well
for all concerned to look to their arms
before lives are wantonly taken.
Bowie is eighteen miles from the scene
of the killing. The military is taking
every precaution to defend the settlers.
Great excitement exist* among the set
tlers, who fesr a raid from the Cliira-
cuhna mountains, which sre practically
impenetrable by the whites against an
armed force. The Indian hoetiles are
moving south. No other news is ob
tainable.
TO WORK AGAINST HARRISON.
,1
Tli® Purpose of » Republican Meeting
Held at InUlHuapolls.
Fort Wayne, Dec. 2.—Ex-Congress
man J. B. White of this city, who pre
sided at the anti-Harrison meeting ut
Indianapolis last Saturday, confirms
the printed report of that meeting. He
says; "The purpose of our meeting
wan to work against Harrison’s renomi
nation. There is a strong opposition to
him throughout the state, and it be is
nominated I have but little donbt that
he will be defeated. Our meetings are
for the purpose of crystalling Repub
lican sentiment on this point and to
show the Republicans of other states
that if Harrison is nominated be will
hate strong republican opposition right
Mfe in Indiana. ”
"If Harrison la nominated what will
youdo?"
"We will neither work for the elec
tion nor vote for him. I do not like
Harrison’s administration, and I think
. f,he is renominated he will be beaten,
ncaaeof a (ositive decline from Blaine
to accept the nomination, the support
of the anti-Harrison man will go to Mc
Kinley, or Alger or Gresham.”
/The next meeting of the Indiana anti-
Harrison league will be held in this
city. Ckptsin White is one of the most
Influential Rspublioan politicians in the
state. He ooee carried this county,
which ha* a normal Democratic major
ity of several thousand, and waao.dy
beaten for re-election because he work
ed harder for Harrison’s success than
bis own.- In spite of his sacrifice for
the good of the party, he was totally’
ignored by tbe administration.
0IIILI IS DEFIANT.
PRESIDENT MONTT WILL NOT MOD
IFY HIS POLICY-
A Unit'd Press Correspondent Securee In
formation From a Chilian Officio! In San
tiago That the Government Has no Inten
tion of Changing Its Reply.
Valparaiso, Dec. 2.—The United
Press correspondent was informed, on
the authority of an official holding a
nigh place in Santiago, that the Chilian
government had no intention whatever
of offering un apology or indemnity,
inch as the American president request
ed, and hns had no intention of recall
ing or modifying the reply given to the
American request, and thht any expec
tation that President Montt would in
any respect modify the policy adopted
by the junta was misleading. The
president himself it is said was the most
earnest advocate in the junta ot a de
fiant retort to the United States, and
virtually dictated the answer sent to
Minister Egan. Montt has not chnnged
his views since be exchanged the office
of chief of the junta for that of presi
dent, and Chili is silent dow because
there is nothing to be said. Meantime,
although President Montt has recom
mended a cutting down of the army
and navy, no steps have been taken to
carry ont the recommendation, nnd
even the volunteers sent back to tbeir
homes in the north were told to retain
their arms.
THERE IS NO CHANGE.
Ths Condition In llie Famine District
in Ituimlu Continues Dlitreulii|.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 2.—A decree
has been issued announcing that the
export of pulse and oil seeds is not pro
hibited. Though there is at present no
change in the condition of affuirs in
famine-stricken districts, the govern
ment is doing everything in its power
to relieve the distress. It is reported
that the authorities have decided to buy
all the grain in the hands of private
persons in some of the distressed dis
tricts, and then to give to everybody
sufficient grain to support life. The
sale of the grain, it is said, will be com-
S nlsory at the prices which ruled on the
ays the prohibitory decrees were is
sued. The Novoe Vremya says that in
order to prevent the railways from
being blocked with grain in transit
from Caucastus, grain for the western
provinces can be shipped ■ to Novoros-
sisk on the east coast of the Black Sea,
and that it will be conveyed thence to
Odessa free of charge. The law repeal
ing the prohibition of the exportation
of pnlse and oil seeds again permits the
ex{x)rtiitioii of all kinds of oil cake,
RAISED THE BOOTY.
n Express Robber Give* Away th#
Hilling Place of Valuables.
Denver, Colo., Dec. 2.—After the
McCoy gang robbed the Rio Grande ex
press train at Texas Creek several
weeks ago of valuables and money to
the amount of $3,000, they struck off
Into the impenetrable monntains and
forests surrounding the Grand Canyon
of the Arkansas. They were so closely
pressed by the officers that it became
necessary to dispose of the plunder in
order that it might not be evidence
against them in' case they were cap
tured. Accordingly, when tbe party
reached tbe bead of Brink creek, the
booty, together with valuables stolen at
times, was cached under a boulder
where it might have remained had not
one of the gang betrayed its hiding
dace. The robbers have all been cap-
ured and are Tom McCoy, Frank and
John Price, Jim Cnrtis, "Peg Leg"
Eldridge and Tom Perry. Since their
capture they have been endeavoring to
get one of their number ont on bail in
order that he might "raise the booty”
to help defend them in their trial.
When Perry, tbe last one, captured, he
squealed” and told the officers all
about tbe robbery and where tbe money
was hidden. The general manager of
ths Rio Grande Express company und
several deputy United States marshals
left here in a special tram for tbe scene
of the robbery, and they returned with
the stolen valuables and enough evi
dence to send every one of tbe gang np
for life.
NEWS DI8PATCHES CONDENSED.
An Kpltnmo ot Happenings from Every
Section.
The smallpox epidsmic on the coast
ot Georgia is on tbe wane.
Hie new issne of the Windom $2 sil
ver certificates has begun.
The Chicago Times has started a pres
idential boom for General Nelson A.
Miles with a page of history of his life.
8ir Alexander Campbell, lieutenant
governor of Ontario, Canada, has been
stricken by paralysis and is in a critical
condition.
Francisco Hernandez, who robbed
the paymaster of tbe eleventh batt il-
ion of tbe Mexican army, in Cbihnabna,
will be shot.
A Bordentown, N. J„ special says:
John Parnell, a brother or tbe late
Charles Stewart Parnell, arrived at Old
Ironsides from West Point, Ga. He
and his mother suil for Ireland.
The eight women on the Illinois
World’s Fair board have decided to ac
cept invitations to go to any part of the
state to deliver addresses in the interest
of the proposed exhibit by Illinois
women.
A special from New York says that
Ex-President Grover Cleveland, accom-
S allied by Mrs. Cleveland and Baby
luth, left the city for a Jersey winter
resort. The period of their absence is
not known.
At Philadelphia, Chris Magee of
PittBburg, said that the Pennsylvania
delegation to Minneapolis would be for
Blaine. Blaine could nave the nomina
tion if he wanted it, and the indications
are that be is in the field.
A St. Louis special says: It has just
been discovered by the Corcordia Pub
lishing company, printers of religions
books, that Martin C. Bartbel and Mar
tin H. Barthel, father and son, two of
its most trusted employe*, are short iu
their accounts.
A Braddock, Pa., special says that
Mrs. Mary McVeagh, who has beeu
fasting for 148 days, has died. Mrs.
McVeagh hns been suffering with a.
cancer in her month and has been sub
sisting on buttermilk, wine and lauda
num. She was 68 years of age.
The London Times in its financial ar
ticle says that tbe report that Russia is
buying silver is true, but only enough
will be bought to provide a new subsid
iary coinage to replace the nickel alloy
known as billon. The fairly large
amount required for this purpose, the
Times adds, will he purchased in in
stalments.
Rev. Dr. S. J. McPherson of Chicago,
at the instance ot a number of associ
ates prominent in religious circles, will
correspond with individuals and soci
eties in the various denominations with
a view of having a conference of dele
gates from all parts of tbe country to
arrange for a religious exhibit at the
World’s Fair.
A Clarksburg, W. Va.. special sayB
that O. D. Matheny of Mineral Springs,
A State-Struck Girl Elopes.
Little Rock, Dec. 2.—There is u
great deal of excitement at Des Arc,
Prairie connty, over a sensational elope
ment. The 17-year-old daughter of
W. L. Willnnghford, an official of that
county, eloped with one Smith, man
ager of a travelling theatrical company
which is playing in small towns in this
state. The girl was dressed in boys’
clothes, but was detected by thejm-
•engers on the Little Rock and Mem
phis train, which arrived here. She
was pursued by her father and three
deputy sheriffs. Smith turned tbe girl
over to mother man, and she then
elnded tbe officers, and Smith was
found on the train by the officers and is
in the custody of th* sheriff. The girl
can not be found. The girl was stage-
•trnck and chose this method of get
ting away from her parents and joining
a theatrical company. It ia thought
that she na* joined tbe company below
Pine Bluff, where they are playing to
towns on the Cotton Belt.
Chcjenn® and Arspaho® Claim.
Washington, Dec. 2.—A delegation
of Cheyenne and Arapahoe Indians had
a conference with Secretary Noble and
naked that the $250,COO due them os
compensation for tbeir lands ceded to
the government be paid in cash instead
of in atorea. The secretary said, in the
course of conversation, that be would
consider their request after they had
shown a disposition to take lands inse*-
eralty.
more, ns the bottle exploded, tearing
his hand and arm badly and burning
bis face and eyes so severely he may
possibly lose his sight.
At Ottnmwa, la.. Miss Ura Heady,
tbe affianced of Earl Sylvester, killed in
the Charlton wreck, created a sensation
by swooning at her lover’s grave. They
were to have been married. A strange
coincidence is that while her brother
and her lover’s sister were being mar
ried at Gnthrie Centre, a telegram was
banded them announcing Sylvester’s
death.
A Dnbuque. Ia., special says that a
member of the firm of Olkenbeimer A
Co., earthenware importers who went
to Germany a year ago for tbe purpose,
has discovered the secret of the white
enamelling of pottery hitherto known
only in that country and will locate an
establishment here, the first in the
United State*. These goods now bear
a duty of 80 per cent., as they came in
competition with the slate-colored en
amelling made in the east.
A Lincoln, Neb., special says: Con
vict George C. Bullock, in the Nebraska
penitentiary for burglary for five yean,
made a confession that in August, 1883,
he killed two policemen in Geneva, Ills..
and some months later he killed a pal
in a barn north of that town, and in
1888 be murdered a widow woman in
the same place. He will be liberated
here in Sept. 1898, but says these mnr-
den are so working on his mind that he
could stand it no longer, and he decided
to face tbe music and be done with it.
Joeiah Carpenter, the oldest inhabi
tant of West Virginia, died at his resi
dence in Preston connty. Estimates of
Carpenter’s age varied, bnt none placed
him under 120 years. He claimed to
have been born in London county, Vir
ginia, in 1782, and was, therefore, 159
years old. He claimed to remember
Braddock’s defeat and to have served
as a teamster at that time. Carpenter
had a son who died ten years ago at the
age of 80. Until recently his health
has been fairly good. He has one
daughter still living who is over 80.
A London dispatch says that five
boys, while playing on the beach at
Southampton, found a bomb imbedded
in the sand. They did not know what
it was and began playing with it, toss
ing it from one to the other and roll
ing it along lbs shore. While they
were engaged in thsir sport the bomb
exploded and piece* of it flew in every
direction. One of the boys was in
stantly killed, another was so badly
injured that he is now dying, and the
(tier* were so badly wounded that
small hopes are entertained for their
recovery. •
Woman Burned'to Death. .
Columbia, & C., Dec. 2.—News reach
ed here of a horrible accident at Har
din, N. C. Mrs. Nell C. Canton's dreae
became ignited from her cooking stove.
She ran ont of her house screaming for
help and fell prostrate on a pile of stub
ble from a cane mill near by. A moo
who happened to be passing the boose
at the time ran to tbe unfortunate
lady's relief, but was too late to bo of
assistance. She was burned almost to
a crisp and died in a few minutes. Mrs.
Cnotou leaves four little -orphan child,
ren.