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Osiy, AMERICUS TIMES-RECORJUER. VOLUME 1 AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1891. NUMBER 33 FREE ADVICE! FIRE IN DETROIT. Look Here, Boys! M 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.