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hot weather
The past week we have received another lot of those
striped Flannel Suits worth $10; to sell them quick
we price them at $7 oo.
Double-breasted Serge Coats worth $5 oo reduced to $4 00.
Double-breasted Serge Coats worth $4 50 reduced to $3 25.
BluecV black Serge Coats eSc Vests reduced to 4 50 this week
EGLICiE SHIRTS
SEC K WEAR
SICE LINE
mm
AMEKICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
SIICOND YEAR.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1900.
NUMBER 11
CALLS FOR
COOL CLOTHING-
DESPEItTE BATTLE
Win THE BOXERS
Big lot just opened in plain white, “cool and neat’
aud all the season new shades and colors.
NDERWEAR
Nainsook and Check Muslin Underwear from 25c to
Soc per garment worth at least one-third more. Big
line of Balbriggan Underwear for those who prefer it
at 25c, 35c, 5oc, 75c, $1 00 per garment.
Don’t forget that we have the nicest, newest and
prettiest line of Neckwear in Americus. 75c Ties
for 50c, 35c goods at 25c this week.
Of the lattst in Collars, Cuffs, Hosiery and Suspen
ders always on,hand for well dressed gentleman.
Very Truly Yours,
Lee Allen
30 Workmen Make Gallant
Stand Against Chinese.
EIGHT DIE AT THEIR POSTS
They Faced Certain Death In Order
to Save the Women and Children.
Their Comrades Reach Safety Ater
Enduring; Many Hardships.
Victoria, B. O., June 27.—Advices
received by the steamer Kmpreis of In
dia give graphic details of the escape
from Peking and Tien Tsin of foreign
ers. Of all the fugitives to reach the
coast none had a harder fight for their
lives than the American, French and
Belgian engineers, who were surrounded
by the Boxers at Phaeng Tai. When
the Boxers attacked the station and the
machine shops fcho engineers barricaded
themselves and held the Chinese off
some time. They had women with
them, the wives of some of them. Three
women loaded tho men’s rifle belts and
otherwise assisted to repel tho Boxers.
Soon, though, the foreigners found their
position untenable, as some of the Chi
nese had rushed tho shops aud set flro
to a part of the building. They ran
forth, fighting their way through the
breaches. When they had got through
T
PEKISG SAFE
Legationers Left the City Un
der Escort of Chinese
Soldiers. 9
BATTLE AT TIEN TSIN
Allied Forres Drove Boxers and Sol*
dlers flack After Desperate Fight
ing—Americans Led the Way Into
the City—Seymour’s Foree In Des
perate Straits—Heavy Losses Sus»
tallied—Oil 31 en Killed.
London, June 27.—The British consul
at Amoy telegraphs that tho legations
at Peking are safe.
The difference of cost between a
good and a poor baking powder
would not amount for a family’s
supply to one- dollar a year.
The poor powder would cost’
many times this in doctors’ bills.
ftSSSYLYANIA TURK RYE.
EHillT YEARS OL.U.
OLDSHAItKK WILLIAMS.
* Tl'Ll, OLAltTS OK THIS FINE
old. I'LIIE rye.
C, EXPRESS
PREPAID.
val In plain, sealed boxes,
in indicate contents. When
i Vl ' 11 »ad test It, if it is not satisfac-
; r , r ; ! l At "ur cxi>en«e and we will re-
We Kuarautee this brand to
old Klght bottles for 16.50,
Prcpai*.: I: bottles for *9.50. express
‘gallon iuir. express prepaid, |30J;
aid, f i.60. No
LORD SALISBURY HOPEFUL
IkiXin;
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T'kles i
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He Believes Chinese Kmbroglio Will
Be Amicably Adjusted.
London, June 25.—Lord Salisbury is
still hopeful that the Chinese crisis will
be solved without war against that
country as a whole. In spite of tho
alarming reports he inclines to tin; be
lief that the government of China,
some satisfactory form, will shortly bo
able to reassert itself. He does not mean
that he belittles the professions of the
various viceroys who have given notice
of their willingness to co-operate with
the United States forces. Without com
mitting himself to a definite view of the
future, lie appears averse to any scheme
of territorial indemnity, which, when
order is restored, might be suggested by
the powers who have suffered during
tho uprising.
The interview of the United States
ambassador, Mr. Joseph H. Choate,
with Lord Salisbury, Saturday, was duo
to instructions received from Secretav
Hay, in which the ambassador was noti
fied of the friendly professions of the
various vicoroys and was instructed to
secure Lord Salisbury’s views beyond
casual conversation. He maintained
the belief that the diplomats at Peking
had not been massacred aud did not be
lieve they were likely to be. He is emi
nently satisfied with the action already
taken by tho United States and expressed
the same views as are attributed to Sec
rotary Hay.
In short, the conference may be said
to have not elicited a single point on
which Lord Salisbury differed from the
Americun attitude
Judging from tho account of what
passed between Mr. Choate aud Lord
250! Salisbury and the statement that Great
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• stock. Send for catalogue.
' by the gallon, such as Corn
And Apple Brandies, etc,,
,ow » trom |1,25 gallon up-
e Altmayer &
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the foreign office knew, wore confining
all their energies and deliberations sole
ly to the present predicament is a sin
cere statement of fact. If Russia, Japan,
or any other power has an ulterior ob
ject in making capital out of the trouble
in China, Lord Salisbury does not
to be aware
Ordered to C hina.
Philadelphia, Juno 25.—Under or
ders from the navy department a largo
force of men have begun the work of
preparing for active servic
itr <‘1 same day receipt of
i08,503 - 510, 512 Fourth-«t.
L’nior. PaMsenner Deiot
fhone
(he water-
carrying ship A ret Inn, which has been
in reserve at league island since tno
of tho Spanish-American war. Tho
Are thus is to be sent ff> Chinese waters
and officials at the League island navj’-
yard expect to have her ready within
ten days.
Texas Delegation Divided.
Foiit WoitTir, Tex., Juno 27.—Wil
liam Capps, delegate to the Kansas City
convention makes tho statement that it
is not true that the Texas delegation fa
the Boxers’ lines tho Chinese gavo
more attention to them, but instead be
gan to pillage aud destroy the station
and machine shops. Two of'the Bel
gians then hurried to Peking, where
they reported tho danger of tho party
aud called for volunteers to help them.
A number of Cossacks were dispatched
to the rescue. They set out on June 2
and encountered a large crowd of Box
ers 40 miles from Tien Tsin and were
obliged to return, being unable to fight
their way through the Boxers. The
Cossacks had three wounded. Thero
were 80 men who had taken up a posi
tion ou a small hill and there made a
fight. Eight men were left in the
trenches to hold back tho Boxers, while
the other 22, including tho women and
children, went on toward Peking. They
had no carts and the men carried tho
weaker ones when they becamo ex
hausted. Tho march of the fugitives to
Peking was an awful one. They found
another party of Boxers to their front,
and the men formed a hollow square
with the women and children in tho
center and repelled the onslaughts of
the Boxers, making their way to Peking
after two days of terror. The Boxers of
this party were without firearms, being
armed only with poles headed, with iron
and knives and sjiears. They were kept
at a distance by the rifles and revolvers
of the railroad men, who killed a num
ber of them.
The eight heroes who were left behind
to guard their retreat were slain by tho
Boxers. Thero were three Frenchmen
and one Italian among them, the others
being German and Swiss. The fugitives,
on arrival in Peking, were in a terribly
destitute condition.
American marines led tho way of the
party to Peking, despite the vieeroy’i
edict that no foreigners should bo al
lowed to pass Taku forts, 40 Uuited
States marines lauded and mode their
way up the river by lighter.
Washington, Juno 27.—The Chinese
ministers called on the secretary of state
and communicated to him the contents
of a dispatch which he has received
from tho tsuug li yauiou at Peking,
dated June 19. Tho dispatch states that
tho foreign ministers had, before this
date, asked permission for the legation
guards to enter tho city, which permis
sion lias been granted, so that they sub
sequently asked that these guards be
reinforced, wbich the Chinese govern
ment was not disposed to permit. Tho
dispatch says that the French consul
general at Tien Tsin had telegraphed to
tho viceroy of Chih Li that the foreign
element had demanded the surrender of
the Taku forts and that the foreifp min
Isters were shortly to leave Peking for
Tien Tsui with their guards.
-Another dispatch from Pekin#, via
Chang Foo, says that the ministers aud
foreigners in Peking were safe, and that
arrangements wero being made to pro
vide them with an escort out of the city.
MISSIONARIES BUTCHERED.
Kills
vors William Sulzer for tho vice pros!-,
deucy. He *»** l> e letters from five
of the delegate* who want D. B. Hill
first, last and all tho time. J “ m £ s
Swaync, delcgato-at-large, favors Carter
Harrison for second place.
Xegro Shot to Death.
Molena, Ga., June 27.-Jordan Hines,
, negro, was palled from his bed, token
about 1 mile from his home and Act to
death by unknown P ir '‘ e *- fco no
ca^sc for the killing is known.
Details Of the Brutal 3Itir<ler
. uml Two Cliluamen.
Victoria, B. C., June 27.—The .Shang
hai Mercury says that a member of the
Boxers’ society who saw the murder of
Rev. Mr. Ellis, of the London mission,
and of a Chinese missionary at Kung
Tsun, gave the following account of the
tragedy to a friend:
Ou the 12th clay of the fourth moon
the Boxers, numbering 57, crossed tho
river Tsz Tsun and met the two mission
aries in a boat. They knew tho Chinese
was a Christian and at onco attacked
him, wouuding him with their swords.
Then they dragged him out of tho boat
and tied him to a tree at tho river side.
Then Ellis was tied with him and Chao,
another Chinese missionary, was found.
His toes and thumbs were bound to
gether and he was carried to a tree near
where the others were hung up. The
arms of the missionaries were cut off,
their heads hewn off aud after the bodies
had been disembowelled they were cast
into the river. The chupel of tho mis-
was demolished and the crowd went
on their way.”
This was but one of many such out
rages.
MaeArtliur’s Casualty List,
Washington, Juno 27.—General Mac-
Art hnr’s casualty list reports 12 deaths
from dysentery, one peritonitis, three
drowning, two typhoid fever, two alco
holism, two wounds received in action,
one mania, one suicide, one opium pois
oiling, one pyamenia, one heart disease,
.‘t rebral softening, one meningitis,
variola and one from diarrhoea,
making a total of 80 deaths since his last
port.
Peculiar Shooting Near Brundidgc,
Brundidge, Ala., Juno 27.—A rather
strange and probably fatal occurrence
happened on tho McLauo plantation
near here. Two negro children \yero
playing what they called •‘hawk.” One
had a gun and as tho other ran across
the room, representing the hawd, lie
fired. The victim’s arm was terribly
mangled aud had to be amputated.
Foreign 3IInisters Quit Peking.
Paris, June 27.—The French consul
at Shanghai telegraphs that the foreign
ministers have departed from Peking
north, accompanied by a Chinese escort.
supposed that they are headed for
Shanghai Kouan, following tho courso
of the great wall. The telegram adds
that the viceroy of Xankin and tho Vice
roy Tcheng Gtchetoug have requested
the consul to announce to tho rVench
government that they are protecting the
interests of some of the missionaries and
some of the foreign merchants in that
region.
Story is Confirmed.
Berlin, Juno 27.;—The German consul
at Che Foo confirms the contends of the
message from Vico Admirul Seymour
which reached Tien Tsin Monday, say
ing ho was then 8 miles westward of
that city, terribly harrassed, could only
hold out another two days and had 03
men killed and over 200 wounded, and
adds that the admiral asked for the dis-
? *tch of a relief column of 2,000 men.
his column left Tien Tsin during the
morning of June 25 under Russian com
mand.
Royal Baking Powder may cost a little
more, per can, but it insures perfect,
wholesome food. In fact, it is more
economical in the end, because it goes
further in leavening and never spoils^
the food.
Royal Baking Powder used always
in making the biscuit- and cake saves
both health and money
You cannot, if you value good health, afford
to use cheap, low-grade, alum baking pow
ders. They are apt to spoil the food; they
do endanger'the health. All physicians will
tell yuu that alum in food is poisonous.
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Royal baking powder co., too william st., new york.
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ino latest Shanghai report says that
Princo Tnnn, tho bend of tho Chinese
foreign office and father of the heir n]-
J iarent, 1ms scut tho legationers to Sian
■'u for safety and adds that Sian Fu will
be the new capital in theovontof Peking
being occupied by the international
foree*.
Admiral Seymour, it is said, succeeded
in getting a message in Tien Tsin Mon
day, according to which ho was 8 miles
westward, terribly harrassed, conldouly
hold out another two days and had 03
killed and over 300 wounded.
He did not mention tho ministers or
others from' Peking.
It is thought at Shanghai that now
Tien Tsin is relieved, tho combined in
ternational forces will havo no difficulty
In reaching Peking, though it is ex
pected it will tie touud that all the for
eigners have already left. It is churned
that the reports as to the damage douo
at Tiou Tsin and the casuulities among
BRAY ON NEGRO EDUCATION
President of Georgia Teachers’ Associ
ation Says It Spoils Him.
Augusta, Go., Jane 27.—Tho Geor-.
gia Teachers’ association opened it* '
twentieth aijnuaf session in Thankful
Baptist church. Thero is a largo at
tendance of tho negro teachers of Geor
gia. President B»y of Athens delivered .
his animal address. He said an educated
idler is no better than an ignorant idler.
An educated vagabond, by cause of his
training, is moro dangerous than an
ignorant one. An educated pauper is
more miserable than an ignorant pauper.
From this startingjpoiut ho argued
that higher education for the negro is
unfitting them for manual labor in the
field anil shop and us domestic servants
and producing a race of idlers.
.. Ho said
--- — „ philanthropists lmd given cuongh in this
the foreign residents havo beeu highly | direction and should not bo asked to
AMERICANS FIRST TO ENTER
JLcd the Allied Forces Into Peking
After Desperate Hattie.
Che Foo, June 27.—Tho fight of the
allied forces nguinst the combined Box
ers aud Chinese soldiers burring tho
road to Tien Tsin opened at daybreak.
One hundred nnd fit) Americans weso
among tho 2,000 international troops.
Tho Chinese soon broke miller heavy
shelling and then tho arscunl was at
tacked aud the guns were gradually si
lenced. The fight was practically over
at noon.
The keou friendly rivalry for tho
honor of first entering Tien Tsin rested
with tho Americans, with the others
close up.
colored.
The exodus of Chiueso from Shaughni
is uuabuted. Every steamer is loaded
down anil every means of exit is being
used.
The commander of the British first-
class cruiser Umlannted, however, has
lauded lurgo supplies of rifles nnd am
munition aud guns have been placed in
position at commanding positions, with
the result that foreigners arc confident
that they can overcome any attack on
the settlement, into which tho foreign
ers from the outer stations nre rapidly
congregating
According to n dispatch from New
Chwang the Russians thero nre barely
able to cope with tho situation. Tho
Chinese, it appears, are burning all the
railroads, killing Russians at every op
portunity and destroying property.
Seymour’s Force Retreats.
Shanghai, Juno 27.—Communication
With Admiral Seymour was opened by
tho Tien Tsin relief force Sunday. He
was at that time 10 miles from Tien
Tsin. Three hundred of the members of
his party are reported sick and wounded,
only a few having been killed. They
Wereihort of provision* and were re
turning without having rescued tho le
gations.
Burglar Frightened OIT.
Bridgeport, Ala., Juno 37.—A burg
lar entered tho postoffice here, but was
frightened off bofore he could force the
safe. He entered through a window,
and was making ready to blow the safe
open with dynamite when he was f
ened sway by some one passing,
a few stamps were stolen.
Seymour’s Losses.
Shanghai, Juno 27.—A Germau pa
per lius an unconfirmed statement to tho
effect that Admiral Seymour is 8 miles
from Tien Tsin with 62 killed and 200
wounded.
Increasing Hostility In Korea.
Yokohama, Juno 27.—Tho einjmror
has sanctioned an ontly of 15,000,000yen
toward the cost of military op'rations in
China. It is reported in Seoul that
there is increasing hostility toward
Christians in Korea. Korea, it is said,
repudiates the land contract which gave
to Russia a sito for a coal depot aud n
naval headquarters, as Russia wished to
apply tho price to the amount of the
pending claims against Korea.
Will Go to European Water*.
New York, Juno 27.—The cruiser At
lanta, at the navy yard, is now about
ready for service. It was rnmorcil at
the yard that the Atlanta ami the Ken
tucky would bo sent to European waters
and possibly to China.
give further to negro eollogcs. He
thought the true field of .philanthropy
now will bo lor friends of the negro to .
build factories in which educated ne-‘ -
groes could find employment.
INNOCENT MAN IS SET FREE.
He flail Served It Years of a 15.
Year Sentence.
Richmond, Juno 27. — James Hart, i
who lius served 11 years of a 15-yeor
sentence for a crime which ho is now/ '
known never to havo committed, has-
been pardoned by Governor Tyler. ' In
October, J1 years ago, ho was convicted
of an assunlt upon u woman and given
15 yours. Throughout the trial anitever
since lie stoutly insisted ho was inno
cent, but public sentiment jvas strong
and ho cumo to prison. Hu made a
model prisoner and tho prisou board,
recommended his purdon, bat the people
of his county opposed this.
Recently Hart renowod his applica
tion nnd the commonwealth attorney
writes thnt the prosecutrix now admits
that the trial of Hart was a persecution
and that when she testified agninst him
she perjured her own soul Hart was
released early today.
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JOHN H. POWERS RELEASED.
.Mission Hurued Hy Rebels.
Tsin Tan, Juno 27.—The Protestant
mission at Weilisten was burned down
by rebels Monday night last.
ADMiRAL SEYMOUR LOCATED
Force of 2,000 Men Is {lent From
l ieu Tsin to HI* Relief.
London', June 37.—Tho cablegrams
from the far east are so conflicting in
their tenor thnt almost any desired view
of tho situation is deductible therefrom.
On tho whole, however, tho news is en
couraging, and it seems safe to assume
that Vice Admiral Seymour and the le
gations, whether together or separately,
will ultimately reach a place of safety.
Various reports locate the legationers at
diTen points, but It eeems agreed that
they Ate safely »w#y from Peking.
Ninth Sail* For China.
, Washington, June 37.—General Mac-
Arthur hits notified the adjutant general
of tho departure of tho Ninth infantry
for China.
Collision Oa the Seaboard.
Elberton, Ga., Juno 27.—A head-end
collision on the Seaboard occurred at Og
lesby, 6 six miles from here. A wir't
train rail into a northbound freight
train on tho main lino at the station
waiting for tho work train to take tho
siding. Engineer Neal was badly in
jured by steam. He remained wedged
In between tho two engines 20 minutes
bofore he conhl bo cut oat. One engiui
was almost totally wrecked.
Killing ut Lancaster.
Lancaster, S. 0.—Juno 27.—George
Eubank*, a young white man abont 21
years of age, shot and Instantly killed
Will Evans in the store of J. B. Mathis
& Bro., near the Lancaster cotton mill.
Evans was only 18 years of age. Both
parties were employes ip tlje mill.
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Pardon Issued by Taylor Honored by.
Judge Cornett.
Harlan Courthouse, Ky., Jaue 27.—
Captain J. H. Powers of BarboursviUe,
Ky., who was arrested on the charge of
complicity in tho murder of Governor
Goebel, has been released. His attor
neys instituted habeas! corpus proceed
ings before Comity Juilgo Cornett.
Powers pr.slHceil a pardon signed'by
Governor Taylor on March V, ludo, offer
ing it as a bar to prosecution and arrest. •
Judge Cornett honored tho pardon and
Powers was ordered released from cus-.i
tody.
This is the second time Powers ha*
been arrested on the same charge and
released on Governor Taylor’s pardon.')
Captain Powers is a brother of Caleb
Powers, who is now being held in jail
at Georgetown on the same charge.
Many Americans In Attendance.
Edinburgh, June 23.—There are 130 1
American delegates present In addition
to a goodly number of American visitors
attending the World’s Woman Chris
tian Temperance Union convention.
Charters Granted,
Raleigh, Jaue 37.—The
chartered the Waynesville j
factorings inponjr, capital 125,000.