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Newspaper Page TextI v-ikEYOJ'.. _ : HIS, DWELLING, ; * HARX, Ac,, with <n " , • -.imnlcs FUKLOW& JO.NKS W * • Killed Ainerk-ux.Ga. m * runLUW a juried $ *0 write In-prance at Lowest Ratis ft upon SawmUiH, ax well as Dwellings jl + Burns and (Jin Houses. Write or ll 1* call on them. ft AMERICUSTI -RECORDER. VOLUME 9 AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 1899. f\ WeeK of Speciasl AT- LEE ALLEN’S \Vc have several broken lots of goods that we are determined to close out this week. See these prices: SPECIAL No. k at $2 25 per suit- About one dozen Men’s Crash Suits worth $5, to close this SPECIAL No. 2 About one dozen (Pure An- linen) Men’s Crash Suits, worth C(, (., close this week at $3.50 per suit. SPECIAL No. 3 One lot of Hlue and B ack All- wool Serge Coats and Vests, 'ar and slim sizes, which are very cheap at $5, go week at $3 75. SPECIAL No. 4 We have about two or thre dozen the latest styles (up-to ff Straw Hats, this season’s purchase, worth $1.25 and 0, this week they may be had for 75c and 98c to dose out the lot. SPECIAL No. s New lot of Colored Bosom Neg 4 ^ ligee Shirts, very cheap at 75c, lie sold this week at 59c. The above prices are for SPOT CASH ONLY. IN THE DRY GOODS DEPARTMENT ,Ve are still offering that yard-wide Percale, worth , ioc at : sc yd : Ladies’s Ready-male Muslin Underwear we have a full zi complete line YVe want every lady in and around tmericus to see these goods and let us quote prices. We sell you the finished garment as cheap as you can buy material. I will not be under.-okl on anything in my stock. Your .tie : s wanted and will be appr dated be me. Yours truly, Lee Allen. Full (Established Whiskey Quarts in ,88 '-' for= = = “OLD SHARPE WILLIAHS” Express pre-paid. Guaranteed 8 years old. Physicians recommend this fine Old Rye for Medical use. It :s absolutely pure, bottled at .he Distillery without any adulteration. " Goods shipped in plain package without at arks to indicate contents. If not satisfactory, you can -turn at our expense and we will refund money at once. Seme goods as ab >ve, in a fancy jug. boxed, for S3 25, cr ■’■knout boxing fur $3 per gallon, express prepaid. Send lor price list and other infoimation, as vve handle all the uding brands of fine Rye and Bourbon Whisties sold in M s marnet, aad can save you 50 per cent. The Altmayer d Flatau Liquor Co., too and 508 Fourth-st. .Near Union Depot. utljer i_"io(1h Iiv the gallon, Mieb us Macon, Georgia. Phone 265. corn whiskey, pencil ami apple . , etc., sold equally as low, from SI.'Jo per gallon ami upwards We . specialty of the ju- trade and all orders by mall or telegraph will have tup! attention. Special iuducemeuta offered. c TEAM GINNERY. of Council & McGarrah, VHkMCUS, : : : : : * GEORGIA. Will Commence Ginning Thursday Morning, August 17th. ;ire p|,mi has ten thoroughly overhauled and put class Condition. Patronage <ff all planters Jrespect- cited. COUNCIL & HcGARRAH. INSOMNIA ih n foe to health nmlstrength, without you Hud some relief. Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep: He to the world td» ready visits make, when Fortune .miles the wretched he for.akes, sw lit on his downy pinions tiles from woe And tights on lids unsulled by a ie«r." Sonto take aulfonat and some take pkenacetine, aome bromide or potas sium and others whatever their physi cians prescribe, bnt in any case yon will find anything yon want in the line of pure drugs at onr store, and yonr physician’s prescriptions will be filled to the letter at fair prices. Hudson’s JSSL. DEATH ROLL GROWS; FIVE HUNDRED LOST Distress In Porto Rico as a Result of the Storm. APPEAL FOR HELP ISSUED Washington (invert lit Quickly It— spumD, Ordering it Transport to Sail at Once For the Gland With Food For the Deathtite. San Juan de Porto Rico, Aug. 11.— It is now said 500 persons lost their iives at Pouce during the hurricane. Terri ble distress prevails there. Arroyo, on the south coast, has been destroyed, IT* lives being lost there, aud the town is still submerged in water. At Guayamo the houses are still stand ing. Heveu perse ns were killed there. A number of houses were pillaged, squads of soldiers \v<*re uliable to main tain order aud starvation threatens the population. The water supply of S.in Juan has been stopped. The Coaino Springs hotel has been wrecked. It belonged to the Porto Rico comrany of Pniiadelphia. Two hundred bodies, mostly those of poor people and including many chil dren, have been recovered at Pouce. All the buildings there are damaged and hundreds have been destroyed. The soldiers and tire men worked all night heroically saving lives. There is no drinking water, gas, ice or electric light. The commissary stores at Piaya were destroyed, the city is short of food aud the army oilicers are distributing ra tions. Piiteen vessels in the harbor were driven ashore. The weather bureau predicted the storm, but it is claimed Ponce was nut w.med. A mob of 1,000 persons threatened the alcalde, Porrata Doriu, but they were dispersed by the Fifth cavalry. The al calde h:M been deposed on account of negligence. Major Myers of the Eleventh infantry is acting as alcalde in response to popuiar demand. Ail the crops are totally ruined, the wires are all down and little news is ob tainable from the interior. Abonitn. including the barracks, lias been destroyed, but no lives were lost there. Juan Dux has been devastated. Forty-six liws FIVE NEW REGIMENTS ABOUT DECIDED UPON Root May Issue the Orders In a Few Days. POLITICS CUT NO FIGURE Secretary of War Makes Tills Plain to "lay, Who It quests That enrjgiaiia He <* Seim Com- uUslo Ar Sain shed. epwrted to have been totally Isal den The ra.lroad between Ponce and Yauco bus been destroyed ami the mili tary road is impus-abie. * The river is flowing over tne road for two miles. Mayaguez escaped serious injury. BRITIAN PREPARES FOR WAR. No Aiisww lb’H. vr.1 From the lSo« r Government. In Africa. London, Ang. 10. —The Transvaal situation is unchanged, according to all obtainable official information, but tho continued del iy of the Boer answer to Great B.itani's demand for a joint in quiry as to tile t-flert upon the Uitland- ers of tiie propo-ed franchise reform measures makes matters look more so- nous. The war office has completed its preparations for nu emergency force of 30.000 men to be ready to leave within a week. Fast steamers for their trans portation are waiting orders. It is said that the Grenadier guards, now at Gi braltar, and the Twenty-first lancers, now in Egypt, uiav be sent to South Africa in addition to the other regi ments which have already been ordered there. Women get used to being sick. They come to consider back-ache, hcad-aclfe, si.k-iH-!.,-, .iniR'inK, fin-ary, bearing- down feeling, hot hashes ami nervous irritability as a part and parcel of their womanhood. They get used to being half dead all the time. They forget tiro thev ever were anything else. If they don’t have to go to lied and stay there they don’t try to gyt well. Nine-tenths of all the sickness of women is due to some derangement or disease of the organs distinctly feminine. All such sickness can be cured -is cured every day by DR. PIERCE’S pAVORITE PRESCRIPTION: ll Makes Weak Women Strong, And Sick Women Well. It acts directly oil the organs affected and is at the same time a general tonic for the whole system. It cures female complaint right in the privacy of home. It makes unnecessary the disagreeable questioning, examinations and local treatment so universally insisted upon by doctors, and so abhorrent to every modest woman. J. S. Kvrrritt. of Hagerman, Washington Co., Florida, writes: ** For five years my wife was in an almost helpless condition, suffering from female weakness. Last September I decided to try I>r. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and hui ‘ Favorite Prescription.’ I am now a happy man. whereas I thought for four years that I would be led in this unfriendly world without a companion. Dr. Pierce’s medicine* are truly worth a thousand times the money they coat and every suffering woman in the world should try them." Washington, Aug. J5. — Orders are expected within a few days directing the organization of five new volunteer regiments for the Philippines. While a final decision on the matter of enlist ing stiil more troops has not yet been made, the fact that Secretary Root is already considering the matter of of ficers for the regiments is strong proba bility that they will be organized. The secretary is extremely anxious to get good officers, and as he cannot examine h individual’s record, he has refused to place responsibility on the governors of s:ates. Political influence aud personal pull will cut no figure in the distribution of commissions in these new regiments. Secretary Root made that point iimnis- takab.y dear to Senator Clay of Geor gia, when ihe latter called at the war department to urge the appointment of several young Georgians, who are am bitious to enter the army as commis sioned officers. The recruiting for the ten new regi ments continues, although they have their complement of meu, and tho over flow may serve as a nucleus for the now regiments. It is the expectation of the department that enough men for 18 vol unteer regiments will be obtained by the middle of September. “We wili send troops enough to the Philippines to capture Aguinaldo,” said Secretary Root when asked how many more volunteers are to be recruited. He declined to say anything further about the war department’s plans, but it is known that recruiting will be con tinued indefinitely and troops will be sent to Manila until the rebellion is suppressed. The policy of the new regime is to strike a heavy blow the moment the ag gressive is taken again; to pursue Agui- naldo hi the most vigorous manner aud to have troops enough to maintain every advantage gained. Tho department realizes that it will take fully 70,000 men to accomplish this. The ten new regiments are practi cally filled now, and the officials believe it would be easy to ger recruits enough to organize the remaining regiments. Between 1,500 aud ’2,000 enlistments wiii be all General Otis will be able to get among the discharged volunteers. His orders were to raise, if possible, four regiments. Men will be sent from the United States to fill the other regi- l.ACONU’ PARAGRAPHS. The Alabama railroad commission has ordered the Plant system to erect a new depot at Troy. The valley people of the Illinois river are again agitatiug the subject of a deep waterway from the lakes to the gulf. Rear Admiral Sampson has been di rected to prepare a program for the ships of his squadron in the reception of Admiral Dewey. The Baker negroes, taken from Charleston to Boston by Miss Jewett, are proving a failure as drawing cards at indignation meetings A convention of commissioners of agriculture from the southern states has been called for Sept. 20 at New Or- leans to discuss the cotton outlook. Mrs. M. K. Gass, postmistress at White Pine, Teun., walked, presuma bly in her sleep, from her home and encountered a rapidly moving train as it passed the station. Fragments of her body were found tor 7 miles along the track. Filipinos Soft r a Defeat. Manila, Aug. 16.—The Filipinos sus tained a severe defeat before Angeles today. Ten companies of the Twelfth infantry, with two cannon, attacked 2,500 insurgents who were intrenched near the town. A fierce fight followed, in which the Filipinos were worsted and driven away in disorder. Their loss was 200 men. The Americans had two killed aud 12 wounded. The Twelfth occupied Angeles and is holding the town. flririsfi I> in tnds Unchangril, Pretoria, South Africa, Aug. 10.— The British agent here denies the stories that fresh communications have been addressed by Great Britain to the Trans- vaal government or that there have been any modifications of the British de mands. Rumor* of a Cigar Trust. New York, Aug. JG. — Reports to the effect that a combination of the leading cigar manufacturers of Key West, Tampa and Havana is being organized are current in the tobacco trade in this city. Bunsen, tlie Chemist, Head. Heidelberg, Germany, Ang. 10.— Professor Robert Wilhelm Eberhardt Bunsen, the chemist, is dead, aged 89 years. ___ New Prrildent For Jllatnl. Hamilton, O., Ang. 16. —The trustees of Miami university, at a special meet* ing, elected Rev. Dr. David Stanton Tappan, pastor of Ihe First Presbyte rian church of Portsmouth, O., to the presidency of tbs famous institution at Oxford. GOVERNMENT FORGES DEFEAT INSURGENTS Jinrinez’s Uprising In Santo Domingo Quelled. BOTH SIDES LOSE HEAVILY T<oopx Comiiiiiiiilt-d by General Kaco- b*iZ4 G un a Victory That la Re garded a* Fading the Revolution Wi i'll lias 15 Puerto Plata, Aug. 15.—The gov ernment forces, commanded by General Escobaza, have defeated the insurgents. The rout was almost a massacre. The wounded on both sides are numerous. The engagement is compered by the government as decisively ending the Jiminex uprising. The government plan for gradual withdrawal of paper money from circu lation has established confidence. Short term bills of exchauge on Europe sell for 300 per cent silver. The Domini cans, almost without exception, are for the use of American money. NOT SO GRAVE IN DOMINGO. TWO HUNDRED LIVES LOST IN PORTO RIGO A Terrific Hurricane Wrecks the Town of Ponce. RIVERS ARE OVERFLOWED Otir Warships Leave Without Danger to American Interests. Washington, Aug. 15.—Official ad vices received from Captain Edwin Lougpecker, commanding the cruiser New Orleans, show tho situation in Santo Domingo to be less exciting than has been currently reported. Captain Louguecker regards the con dition of affairs such that the New Or leans and Mao hi as may leave Santo Do mingo without (lunger to American in- teie’-rs for the purpose of obtaining Coal. I the si’union were serious, the department cfficiiis say, he would havo sent riie Machias to coal and upon her irn would havo gone with the New Orleans. This is his dispatch, dated yesterday: “Situation reported by the eommauder of tlie M;i<’bias remains ftho same. Everything ih quiet at Santo Domingo. Request permission for New Orleans aud Machias 10 proceed to Sr. Thomas for coal, or to San Juan, at my discre tion.” The department d isproved the re quest to go to St. Thomas, and directed Captain Longnecker to proceed to San Juan, where there is an ample supply , of coal. Upon the arrival of tho New j Orleans and Macbias at Sau Juan they i may be used in connection with the re lief work work in progress there. The reported establishment of a Jimi- nez junta in New York for the purpose of encouraging the revolution against the recognized government of Santo Domingo is regarded with little official concern at present, although it is ad mitted that a shaip watch will be kept over the headquarters to prevent auy violation of neutrality. It is unlikely that any particu ar attention will be paid to tlie friends of Jiminez so long as they violate no law by overt acts against President Figuereo, who has been recog nized by President McKiuiey. OVER TWO THOUSAND DEAD. tl Davis R *|>o Awful Vi K < Washington, Ang. 1C —The appall- g conditions existing in Porto Rico ere made more fully known to the war department today bv General Davis in a dispatch which says the deaths out right in the island will reach 2,000, while many ^ro dying daily from inju ries and privations. General Davis adds: ”Dry split peas very acceptable. Canned peas involve too much trans portation in proportion to nutriment, but can be used near seacoast, although there’is much destitution in the interior and deaths are occurring from lack of food. Will not lie possible to reach these points with packs before next week, for in many cases the roads and trails are so destroyed that only men on foot can get to and from those districts. “The stores coming on the McPher son will be in time, for I am supplying most pressing needs at ail accessible points with stores now on hand. So great is tiie destruction of roads that there is no communication yet with one third of the island. The command ing officer at each of the 12 posts is inspector of relief for his district and he has been detained in every munici pality collecting data and relieving most pressing needs. 1 have furnished each inspector with similar funds and given authority to issue food from army supplies. “One soldier died of injuries; other injured will recover. A great many wagons overturned and broken, bnt all being repaired. Many thousands pri vate cattle and horses drowned. Larger part of deaths natives from drowning. ” Two St**ainships Overdue. Savannah, Ang. 18 —The uteamahip City of Augnata, reported sailed from New York Saturday and dne here Mon day night, has not arrived. The De catur H. Miller, from Baltimore, is also a day overdue. A little nneaiineM i, felt (or both vessel*. Damage at the Port City Alone Will Reach Half u Million Dollars an* the Interior of Island Is Yet to Be Heard From. Ponce, Porto Rico, Aug. 10.—A hur ricane struck here at 8 o’clock Tuesday morning aud lasted until 3 p. m. The rivers overflowed, flooding the town. It is estimated that 200 persons were drowned. The town and port are total wrecks. It is believed the 'damage done will amount to over 1500,000. No news has been received from the interior since the storm broke. The island of Montserrat, British West Indies, was completely devastated by a hurricane Monday. All of the chnrches, estates and villages wore de stroyed and nearly J00 persons killed. In addition many were injured and ren dered homeless and terrible distress ex ists among the sufferers. I Turk’s island reports that the cyclone j passed during the night after a trifling damage there. The center of the dis- ! tnrbance is apparently progressing northward towards the American coast, j Advices from La Pointe a-Pitre, island of Guadaloqpe, say the cyclone did enormous damage in the interior of the , island, a number of coffee and cocoa ! estates being devastated. Le Monrle, a suburb, was half destroyed. There were a number of fatalities. | St. Jean advices say the cyclone caused great destruction in Porto Rico, whence it passed northward to Domin ica and thence to Cano Haytieu aud the eastern end of Cuba. MEET NEXT AT MIWAUKEE. Printers Selected a 1*1*10 * For Holding ! I’ll Ir Conv iiMon, ! Doikoit, Aug. IG—Tiie International Typographical tin on convention today selected aiiiwaukee, Wis , as its next | meeting place. A report from tne com* niitree on laws, favoring the levying of a special assessment upon members of not more than 50 ceuts in any three mouths by the executive council when ever the strike fund of tho union shall fali below $„>(),000, was adopted. Discnssiou of the proposition to unionize and recoguize the Chicago stereotypers was made a special order for Thursday afternoon, the session to be executive. A supplemental report to President Donnel y’a rep>rt was in troduced, voicing a protest from II H. Kohiruat, prof r.**tor of the Chicago Times ileraid, against a sentence of the report attnbuiing to him sentiments antagonistic to the International Typo graphical union. Mr. Kohlsaat said ho sympathized with tradesuiiiom-m and would do nothing to antagonize unions, but that m the mutrer of tho Chicago situation, in (ii-cussion of which the president’s report misquoted him, lie must act with tiie Chicago PuPitshers’ association. The situation referred to is the pro jected idea of endeavoring to unionize all the allied priming trades in Chicago, which are at present employing both union and nonunion labor iu some branches Committees are considering resolu tion* indor.-ing The Hague peace con ference and declaring for the establish ment of an international electrotarpers' i stereotypers’ union without the ju- diction of tho International Typo graphical union. Water Fight at Charleston. Charleston, Aug. 16.—There is a duel on foot tie tween tho city council of Charleston and the city waterworks company for tiie purchase of tho plant. Charleston will soon begin the construc tion of a new system of waterworks which when completed will kill the present water company, aud rather than be left with a big waterworks plant it is very likely that it will sell out. Should the city purchase the plant much of the machinery wili be used in equipping the new system. Grasped an Electric Wire. Pine Bluff, Ark., Aug. 16.—William Icewell met instantaueons death here by coming in contact with a wire charged with 1,000 volts. Icewell belonged to the wrecking crew of the Missouri Pacific railroad and was standing on top of the derrick when the train passed under the wire. Icewell attempted to lift the wire when he received the shook. He fell to the ground, a dis tance of 25 feet, receiving severe barns from the wire. Mayor of Anniston Dying. Anniston, AJa., Aug. Jft—Hon. P. M. Hight, major of Anniston, it lying at the point of death. The end is hourly expected. Mayor Hight hat a cancer- oat affection that has prostrated him for months. He has been for many years mayor of Anniston and it consid ered one of the brainiest men in the state. He is 50 years old.

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Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-1902, August 18, 1899, Image 1