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AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
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sKCOXD YEAR.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, fSEPTEMBER 7, 1900.
NUMBERJ2I J
LAST CALL
)f Summer Season, 1900.
I will leave for New York this week to buy my
[fell and Winter stock, and before going I desire to
iuain call your attention to our
Closing Out Sale
|fall Summer goods in every department.
Everything in Wash Goocls.
Everything in Summer Underwear.
Everything in Straw Hats, Caps, Etc.
Everything in Neckwear.
Everything in Summer C lothing.
Everything in Oxfords and Low Cut Shoes.
Everything in Fancy Goods, and in fact every-
|ing in every department pertaining to Summer
ar will be sacrificed the next week to make room
[fall and winter goods.
We have lots of hot weather still before us, and
'is the grand opportunity to buy what you need
Ifinish^outthejseason cheap.
CHINESE READY TO
REBEL AGAINST THE
PRESENT DYNASTY
Influential Natives Predict an
Outbreak Within Next
Thirty Days.
FOREIGNERS IN DANGER
EE ALLEN.
V ' VAM,l l'UKK HYK,
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I »ID 'lllltl'E WILLIAMS
L Ul'AltTS or THIS FINE
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EXPRESS
PREPAID.
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■ indicate contents. When
it, if it is not satisfac
• !'' r e xpense and we will re-
. 0 guarantee this brand to
. h ‘Kht bottles for WSO.
■ , bottles for 13.50 express
No
vut. on vour purchases,
tjuart. Gallon.
epper).
Ming"/
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Ff 1 M “ t£ send for catalogue.
ihir' gallon, such as Corn
F? , A Mde Brandies, etc,,
I ’ ,r uiu 11,25 gallon up-
E* ma: 1 i.r ! !", of lh e J u R trade and
sV:!‘> ,r . a v h w ** 1 have ° ur
■ is-clal Inducements of*
j^ltm
tauL
ayer &
iquorCo.
ROUSE HELD FOR ASSAULT.
He Is Arrested at Savannah For Out
raging a White Girl.
Savannah, Sept. 3.—B. J. Rouse, «
yrliito nuin from Sylvania, has been ar
rested here obarged with criminally as
saulting Bessie Lewis, a J7*year*old
white girl from Cyclone, Screven coun
ty. The girl, who is the daughter of
pxir bnf respectable parents, was sent
to Savannah in charge of a negro wo-
men, wIk> wes given $10 to pay for
board. The girl was seat here to re
ceive medical treatment. The negro
woman betrayed her trust. Rouse took
the girl out riding with him and it is
stated th^t upon their return ho as
saulted tin* girl.
Reuse and the negro woman were-ar
rested. Rouse admitted having at
tempted an assault.
.^MU.iame day receipt of
'' 50S ' 510, 512 F0Urth-«t.
Vtar Vnloc Paasenjer Depot
p h°n e 265.
Georgia,
I>v,Mt Matter Held Up.
Augusta, Ga., Sept. 3.— Augusta's
effort in behalf of a uew dojKJt ha* been
jpigeonkoled by the city council /or at
least six months. The Seaboard Air
Line has until next March to avail itself
of the privileges of the streets granted
by the citv, and until it is known what
the Seaboard is going to do the utrior
railroads claim tnat they cannot go
ah,sad, the groand that is now available
dep.d being inadequate, they
claim. The railroad committee asked
for an extension of six months’ time ,u
the dejsit question, and it was granted.
Hare Aero is the Ocean.
New York, Sept. 6.—The greatest
ocean race in maritime history begau
when the Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse
and the Dentschland, tho swiftest tner-
chantmen in the world, sailed out of tlie
harbor for the English channel, 1 hour
and I-’ minutes apart.
Fraud I, Claimed; Suit Filed.
Cltossviu.n, Tenu., Sept. 3.—Sait lias
been entered in the chancery court hers
to enjoin the issuance of $30,000 bond,
voted bv Cumberland county to tlx
Tennessee Central railroad, alleging that
tho election was earned by frond.
Hallway Surgeon, fleet.
St Paul, Sept. 5.—The American
Academy of Railway Surgeons began
its annual convention in the state capi
tal today with 100 dolegatos from all
parts of tho country present. The con-
vention will coutinne three days.
Charter Applied For.
Columbia, S. C„ Sept. 5-ThoCapi.
tal City mill of this city, which has been
under construction for some time, hai
annUod to the secretary of state for a
SSSrtCT. The capital stack is to be
1100,000. . ■
Feeling Against Them Is Beyond the
Bounds of Official Control—Reform
ers Appeal to Great Britain For As
sistance-Organizations Formed to
Overthrow the Government.
Honq-Kono, Sept C.—Influential na
tives stato that the flame of rebellion has
been fanned in the sonth provinces and
predict a tremendous conflagration with,
in a month. Placards and pamplilots
are being circulated in Canton and the
provinces intimating that the allies arc
thoroughly routed. Tho feeling against
foreigners is bursting the bounds of
official control.
The majority of the mission stations
in Kwang Tong have been either de
stroyed or looted. Native Christians are
terribly abused. Natives In foreign em
ploy In Canton have been threatened
and a systematic looting of honses of
English speaking Chinamen has taken
place.
Several reform parties with their
headquarters in Houg-Kong, who have
been supported by funds from rich Chi
nese in the center and in America,
hitherto refrained from aggressive no
tion, believing that the powers would
effect the regeneration of the govern
ment. One power of the organization
is distributing thousand of copies of a
reform appeal in the British colonies.
The memorandum has been signed by
200 names for presentation to the Brit
ish minister imploring the assistance of
a reform government. It recommends
Wishing Nanking as the capital and
the selection of enlightened Chinese offi
cials to administer the government with
foreign advisors.
These people are disheartened at the
Teported intention of the powers to
withdrew from China. Different socie
ties are combining to raise tho standard
of revolt and overthrow the corrupt gov
ernment.
The practical cessation *f trado with
the north has thrown thousands of Chi-
nose in oach port out of employment,
and they are ready to join the rebels.
French aggression at Swntow and Jap
anese aggression at Amoy intensify tho
hatred of foreigners.
FREE FROM COMPLICATIONS.
HON. ARTHUR SEWELL
OIESOFJPOPLEX V
Stricken Sunday and Nevei
Regained Consciousness.
HE WAS 64 TEARS OF AGS
Had Been la 111 Health For Several
Month, — Ho Wa, tho Democratll
Candidate For Vice, President
1800—Sketch of Ills Life.
Bath, Me., Sept 5.—Hon. Arthm
Bewail died at 8:30 o'clock this morn-
ing. .
Mr. Sewqll died at his summer home,
Small Point, aboat 1$ miles from thil
city, of alfoglexy, the stroke having beet
sustained, last Sunday. He was 0/ yean
of age.
Mr. SowaU had' not been in good
health for some time, although be wai
Concession to the Intcroreantc Canal
Company Is Annulled.
31 ANOXIC a, Nicaragua, Sept. 5.—El
Commereio, a daily somi-offidal news
paper published hero, m its issue of
Aag. 13 contained an editorial announce
ment that the government of Nicaragua
had informed the Inter oceanic Canal
company that its concession had been
annulled Aug. 11 of the present year,
becanse of the failure of the company to
deposit $100,000 in American gold in the
treasury of Nicaragua within four
months after the organization of the
company, os required by article 18of the
canal concession granted to Eyre &
Cragin Get. 80, 1898.
Tills apparently leaves the Nicara
guan canal route free from any compil.
cations other than the demand for tho
sum which tho Caribbean and Pucifio
Transit oompauy may ask for its con
cession obtained in 1897 or early in 1898,
granting to it, the company declares, the
solo right for 80 years of steam naviga
tion on tho Rio San Jnan river amlXako
Nicamgna—tho canal route—qualified,
however, bj- the reserved right of Nica.
ragua to, in tho meanwhile, grant a ca
nal construction concession to any one
i: saw fit to do so. It was agreed that
the receivers of such a concession puy to
tho Caribbean and Pacific Transit coni-
duty for the Lako Sileseia and San Junn
river railroad (a few miles in length)
for such improvements as it made in
deepening the San Juan river and for
their stoamboets, lighters etc., referred
to iu the concession they received.
TALK OFVVARjSGROUNDLESS
Colombia and Venezuela Have Settled
the Boundary Dispute.
New Youk, Sept 3.—Francis Loomis,
United States Venezuelan minister, who
has just arrived here from Caracas, said,
yesterday in on interview:
Just before I sailed for Now York I
learned that the joint commission of
Colombians and Venezuelans, nppolnted
by the queen of Spam to decide the
boundary lino between Colombia and
Venezuela, bus completed its task and
had advanced tho boundary line to the
Negro river. This gives to Colombia a
slice of Venezuela, which reduces the
size of tho latter nearly one-eighth. The
land in question is barren country. The
docision of the commission was received
acceptably by the Venezuelans.”
Mr. Loomis said the talk of war be
tween Colombia and Venezuela is ut
terly groundless.
AETIICH EEWALt*
not considered seriously ill. He hod
been advisod by\iis physicians to rest
early as last June and he attended tha
Democratic national convention in Jul;
againsGthe advices of his doctor,
appeared to have suffered no ill effects
from' tha-Journey* however, and wa?
missing tho summer qniotly at Small
Point, when the fatal stroke soizod him.
The dneonsciousness which followed thi
attack continued until death camo.
Sketch of Bis Lire.
Arthur Sewall was born in Bath in
November, 1833. His father, W. D.
Sewall, for years was prominent as
shipbuilder and the sou fitted liimscll Chang’s plenipotentiary powors wa
for the samo trado. In 1833, by forming doubted, and that Li Hung Chang
the partnership of E. and A. SowaU, ho
continued the calling of one of the old-
«st shipbuilding families in Moino.
Upon the death of his brother, Ed
ward :3ewall, tho firm of Arthur Sewall
& Co. was formed, ntid the corporation
now controls one of the largest Ameri
can fleets.
Mr. Sewall also was ono of the promi
nent railroad men .of New England.
For n me years he was president of tht
Maine Ccntral-and be was president of
the Eastern railroad until it was ab
sorbed by the Boston and Maine.
Fori many years he was tho Moino rep-
resontntivo on the JJemocratic national
committee and in ls98 ho was mado the
choice of his party for vloe president.
RESCUED BY THE POLICE
Timely Arrival of the Officers Proba
bly Prevented u Lynching.
Atlanta, Sept. 3.—A negro fleeing
for -life and 50 other negroes, armed
with knives and pistols, close on his
heeds, caused the greatest excitement
Sunday afternoon on Cain strec.
There were cries of “kill him!” “lynch
him!”-"bang him I”
The fugitive held nu opeu knife in his
hand and whenever any of his pursuers
got too near he would turn, brandish
the knife aad get a fresh start.
It was negroes after a liegra, aud it
seemed evident that if the man being
chased was caught there might be a
Sunday lynching in the very heart of
the city.
All that could be ascertained along-the
line of battle was that fifty angry ne
groes, some of whom hail been partak
ing of blind tiger liquor, were bout on
killing another negro who had also been
imbibing whisky from a Sunday blind
tiger.
The police arrived on the sceue in
tinio to prevent serious trouble. The
negro, whose name is Clemeus, stated
when rescued by the police, that the
row rosolteiLfrom liis refusal to pay for
a drink of wwisky at a blind tiger.
Killing at a Campmcctlng.
Greenville, S. O., Sept 8.— At the
St. John negro campmooting groand,
about 4 miles from this city, three ne
groes, Robert Foster, Freeman Gam-
breU and Frank MiUer, became involved
in a difficulty. Foster was shot and in*
stantly killed by GambrelL
Howard Wilt Hang October O.
Brendam, Tea., Sept 3.—King How.
ard, after three respites, has Anally been
sentenced to be hanged on Oct 6. He
killed his wife In Tailor last Msreh.
20,000 CH1NESEWERE SLAIN
Colonel c’oolIdgPlVrltes of the Condi
tions In Tien Tsln.
Denver, Sept 3.—Major S. J. Hooper
of this city has received a letter from
Lieutenant Colonel O.A. Coolidge, dated
Tien Tsiu, China, Aug. 8.
Lieqjeuant Coolidge led tho Niuth in-
fautry in its attack on the inner walls
of Tien Tsin. The letter gives an ac
count of the lighting at Tien Tsin and
continues:
“The Japanese looted the Chiueso
honses, bat tho French were entirely in
the robber business and robbed and mur
dered right and left and do still. I be
lieve the British were granted one day
to loot, but this was soon stoppod, ex
cept by the French, who still con tinned
the work in their own quarter. The
American qnatter has been very quiet
and we guard it as best we can with
our small gorrisoh.
“The Ckimfie dead are all boned and
the town is cleared up and peaceable.
•There Were 20,000 dead Chinese and
probably onc-third of the city is bnrned
by shot and shell or incendiaries. On
account of the crowded condition of the
eitv it would bo a good thing if ono-half
•f it were, destroyed. ”
EMPRESS DOWAGER
DEFIANT; WILL NOT
TREAT FOB PEACE
She Is Conducting the Anti*
Foreign Crusade With In
creased Zeal.
IMPERIAL DECREE ISSUED
Empress Exhorts a Union of the Vice
roys to Avenge the Injuries Inflicted
Upon China by the Powers—Chinese
Minister to London Talks of the Sit
uation-Status of Negotiations.
London, Sept. 3.—No official pro
nouncement is forthcoming here in re
gard to the decision of the powors con
cerning China, but the oonsensus of
opinion contlnnos suggestive of a com
promise on the proposals now under con
sideration. In the interim there is lit
tle anthritative Indication that the dow
ager empress is ready to treat for peace,
even if the allied powors rcaoh an agree
ment in regard to the best means of
opening negotiations.
On the contrary many rumors gath
ered at Shanghai suggest that she is
carrying on her anti-foreign policy with
increased zeal. The latest reported im
perial decree from Tai Yung Fn is said
lobe defiant and unrepentant and to
contain the statement that the court
fled lest the emperor might be killed
daring the fighting between the Boxers
and Christians and thus leave no one to
continue the “onoestral worship.”
The decree is also sold to exhort a
union of the viceroys to “avenge the in
juries inflicted on China” by the powers.
The Chinese minister here admits the
correctness in a general way of the ca
ble message sent to him according to
Shanghai advices by Li Hong Chang,
in which the latter is quoted as saying:
“Oar St Petersburg minister has per
suaded Russia to leave Poking. Yon
ore useless If yon cannot porsnado Eng
land.”
The Chinese minister here says he
sent a powerful memorial to Lord Salis
bury, urging him to adhere to the Rus
sian proposal to withdraw the allied
forces from Peking, as he (tho Chinese
minister) believes it will pave tho way
ton speedy settlement Tho minister
also said the Chinese wore sick of the
war; that tho genuineness of Li Hang
was on-
.. was
working in fall sympathy with the em
peror, dowager empress and tho privy
council, all of whom favored pcaco.
The minister admitted that he himself
was still in communication with tho
Chinese "overumont..
POWERS SLOW TO RESPOND.
Unofficial Exchanges Are In Progress.
Official View of the Situation.
Washington, Sept. 8.—Our govorn-
meut has not yet been informed that
any responses have been mado by
tho powors to the Rnssioji noto respect
ing the withdrawal of troops from Pe
king. Therefore tho negotiations on
this point cannot be said to lmvo been
marked by any formal advancement,
though it is known that unofficial ex
changes have been in progress which
doubtless are preparing the way for a
formal agreement between the powers
in the near future.
Acting through Li Hnng Chong, tho
Chinese iin]K-riiil government is making
strenuous efforts to seonro favorable
consideration for its pcaco overtures.
The state department is advisod through
its agents of an imperial edict naming
Earl Li aud several other Chinese nota
bles to negotiate ior a settlement with
the powers.
Deaths in Cuba.
Washington, Sept. 5.—Tho war de
partment has recoived the following
casualty list from General Wood at Ha
vana: Death report. Ang 21 to 31. Pi-
uar del Rio. Ang. 21, Harry F. Frey,
civillian, employe quartermaster depart
ment, yellow fever; Aug. 25, Ellis Wil
bur, civilian, employe quartermaster de
partment, yellow fever; Ang. 30, Viggo
Tung, civilian, yellow fever. Goanajay,
Aug. 21, Charles H. Bums, Seventh cav
alry, gunshot wound.
Shoe-ology
Catechism.
Q
A
Wtaat is the best shoe for
men ?.
“Velours Calf.”
Q
A
Why Is It?
Because they're sold for I1.S0
less than they are worth,
Q
What Is the price of “Velours
Calf,”
A
$3 50.
Q
What store sells them here ?
A
Schumpert Shoe Co.
Q
Anybody else 1
A
No Sir ee i I • '
Q
What sort of looking shoes
are they ?
A
The Slickest in all America.
Q
More than one style ?
A
Yes, a dozen of them.
Q
WTho wears them ?
A
Everybody that has the price.
Suit Will Not Be Filed.
Topeka, Sept. 5.—The suit of Kansas
against the state of Colorado to enjoin
Ike latter from diverting the waters of
the Arkansas river, may not be filed in
the United States supreme court this
fall by Attorney General Goddard. Rain
intervened Just as he had prepared his
xjjjition and has fallen with such regu-
arxty since along the river in western
Kansas and eastern Colorado as to make
the action unnecessary.
Negro Churches to Consolidate.
Chicago, Sept. 4.—The African Moth-
odist Episcopal church, representing a
membership of more than 300,000, and
the Colored -Methodist church, repre
senting an organized body of 150,000
will consolidate and establish In Chioaeo
a Methodist toberaaclo that will be tho
most costly and Imposing church struc-
&v°s&&r erocon8regatioain
Will Attend the Christening,
Montoomkry, Ala., Sept. 4. - Gov-
emor Johnston states that ha has prao-
tically completed arrangements for hit
trip to Portsmouth, N. H„ Sept. 15 to
tfes P h^ n K?orTO?Ko h and '**’
stato of New Hampshire has sent a
formal invitation to the state of Ala
abma, and the governor has. accepted it.
STORM BULLETIN ISSUED.
It Has Crossed Cuba and Is Now Off
the Florida Coast.
Washington, Sept. 8.—'The woather
bureau has issued the following storm
bulletin:
A tropical storm which has been mow
ing slowly westward over the Caribbean
sea daring the last few days crossed
Cuba Tuesday night and is central this
morning near Key West, Fla. Thus far
tho storm has been attended only by
heavy rains and winds of moderate
force.
The ontlook, however, Is that the cen
tral of tho disturbance will move north
ward over the east portion of the Gulf
of Mexico with a marked increase of In
tensity and cause dangorons winds along
tho middle and east golf, Florida ana
extreme sonth Atlantio coasts tonight
and Thursday. Continuing northward
movement, tho storm probably will be
felt as far north as Norfolk by Thurs
day night and is likely to extend over
the middle Atlantio and sonth New
England states by Friday. As Indicated
by nigh easterly winds along tho Atlantio
coast, this disturbance promises to cause
genoral rains over the oostorn port of
the country wbioh will cover the south
Atlantio coast'and gnlf states Thursday,
the middle Atlantic states Friday and
New England Friday night and Satur
day. It will also terminate the period
ot high temperature wjiicb bos prevailed
last of the Mississippi. . _ . . •
BIRMINGH^^S POPULATION.
City Shows an Increase of Over 113,000
Since 1800.
Washington, Sept. J.—The census
bureau aunouacos that tho population
of Lancaster, Pa., is 41,459 against 83,-
011 in 1890 ; ,
The population of Albany, N. Y., 1*
94,181 against 91,923 in 1890.
The population of Bayonne, N. J., b
33,722 as against 10,033 in 1890.
The population of Salt Lake City,
Utah, is 53,531 as ngAinst 44,843 in 1890.
The population of Birmingham, Ala.,
is 32,415 as agaiust 23,178 in 1390. This
is au increase of 13,837 or 48.75 percent.
The population of Akron, O., is 42,729
against 27,601 in 1890.
LADYBRAND "siege RAISED,-
Boers Muke a Futile Effort to Capture
the Defenders.
Cape Town, Sept, 5.—The sloge oi
Lady brand has been raised after several-
desperate attempts to capture the town
aud its little garrison of 150 British
troops. Tho Boers who attacked Lady-
brand are estimated to have numbered
over 2/000 men.
The British were summoned to sup
render Sept. 2 (Sunday), but refused
and from chat time were subjected to
continual cannonadetilra. The burghen
twice tried to rush the British position.
Probably the approa :h of a relief fora
saved tho little garrison. ;
Big Coal Contract Let.
Birmingham, Ala., Sept 5.—One hun
dred aud eighty thousand tons of ooal
have boon sold to New Orleans agencies
to supply tho demaud in that city which
lias heretofore been supplied ‘by tha
Pennsylvania product. Thirty thousand
tons go to a Pennsylvania company,
which is nnablo to get sufficient coal
from its own mines. This will bo de
livered bv tho Southern railway and
its barge lines from GreeujiUn, Miss.
Carolina Cotton Urowcrs.
Columbia, S. C., Sept 5.—President
J. C. Wilborn of the Cotton Growers'
association has adopted the suggestion
of the president of the Wheat Growers'
association that the two association!
should meet in Greenwood at the sama
rime, and has issuod a call to that effect
Tho wheat growers in South Carolina
nro enthusiastic over the results of cheif
work the past year.
Order Restored.
Paris, Sept. 4.—Tho French consul
•t Canton, under date of Sept. ?, cables *
that the French gunboat Cometo has re
turned to Canton. He adds that her
trip to Swato w,on the estnary of the river
Hang Koang, has had a good effect and
ended the trouble and agitation against
the foreigners, which were spreading in
tho region north of Konang Toung. Ths
consul also reports that a missionary
was attacked and wonnded in the dis
trict of Fat-Kong, 103 kilometers from
Canton.