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Newspaper Page Textr v-v-j- ■■ AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. IWKXTV-SKCOND YEAR AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JANUARY 4, 1901. IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. After eighteen years of close confinement in the Dry Goods business, I have decid ed to make a change. My entire line of Pry Goods, Clothing, Shoes, Hats and Gents’ Furnishing Goods will be thrown upon the market Monday morning at SACRIFICE PRICES to close out for CASH I could no doubt sell this entire stock in bulk, but prefer to give my customers and friends who have traded with me in the past, the benefit of this opportunity to supply their wants at COST! tor a time. I have no old goods or trashy stock to palm off on the public, for you all know I have been in business only a short time since my separation from the old firm. Everything must be sold sold as rapidly as possibly, for the shorter the sale, the less the expense. Come at once and get some of the big bargains in Dress Goods, Silks, Velvets, Woolens, Clothing for flen and Boys, Shoes, Hats and Caps, Gents’ Furnishing Goods, Table Linens, Towels, Hosiery, Handkerchiefs, Gloves; Ladies’, Gents’ and Children’s Under wear, Shirts, Overcoats, Umbrellas, Do mestics, Notions of all kinds, Ladies’ Capes and Jackets, (all new), and in fact everything in the store must go \ Regardless of Prices! Now is your chance! Come at once and trade with confidence, and you will be accorded the same fair treatment you have always received at my store. Yours to close out, BUYING ORDERS SEND PRICES OF STOCKS UP Trend of the Market Is For a Higher Level. LARGE DEALS RECORDED Opening Was Brisk at an Advance. Prices Were Very Well 31a!ntalu'd Throughout—Sonic Realizing Causes a Slight Reaction Late In the Day.¥ New York, Jan. 2.—The question pf the continuance of the animated specu lation into the new year was quickly settled on the Stock Exchange today. The volume of dealings fully equalled, if they did not exceed, the recent very high prevailing level. There was uo^ sign of any conservatism in the prices offered for Stocks, and it was evidenced from the buoyant rise seen in vari ous quarters of the market. Such a market as that recently prevailing, a congestion of buying orders of this char acter is bound to create considerable dis order in price quotations. In such stocks as Pennsylvania and St. Paul the simul taneous purchases at the opening today reached 10,000 shares each and in St. Paul there was a difference of 2)4 in the simultaneous price paid, the extreme rise in the stock reaching 1%. In other stocks, notably among the Trunk linns, Grangers aud Pacifies, there were rises of 1 to 2 ptnnts aud individual transac tions reaching as high as 4,000 shares. The prominence of the dividend pay ing stocks, represented the expected re distribution of the January dividends and in the foreign investments. But this disbursement of funds has been steadily in the minds of speculators for several weeks past and the conse quence was that the high price induced heavy realizing by speculators who have been holding stocks with the single pur pose of availing themselves of this new demand to take their proflits. The up ward spurt of prices at the'Opening for the same reason was by no means free trom manipulation. The consequence was an immediate backward course from the opening high level arid ADHERES TO TERMS OF AGREEMEN Government Will Conform the Conditions Imposed. MINISTERS ARE NOTIFIED day’s closing level This was notably true of Sugar, Northern Pacific aim Erie second pre ferred. It was quickly manifest, how ever, that the. pressure to sell was re laxed Jt the lower level arid Operators showed their determination-to maintain their holdings for greater profits. The immediate demand, however, showed a distinct falling off and the market be came quiet in tone by the end of the first hour than for many days past. The general level of prices was main tained at an advance over Monday's level and the principal points of strength were inclined to rally easily from the re lapse. Difficulty la Arranging the lodeninl ties and Commercial Treaties Be tween China and the Powers Wat Apprehended at Washington. Washington, Jan. 2.—Following an interval of one day close upon his announcement that the Chinese empe ror had decreed the acceptance of till Peking agreement, Minister Conger ca bled the state department, under datl of Peking, Jan. 1, that the next step had been taken, and that the ministers had been notified formally, 'not only that th< agreement was accepted by the Chines* government, but that that governmenl felt able to guarantee a peformance the conditions imposed. It" was apprehended that there would bo much difficulty in the settlement the subject of indemnities, and a rear raugement of the commercial treatiei between China aud the powers, which is provided for only in general terms iu the agreement, is expected to present equal difficulties in the arrangement o! details. It is absolutely essential to har monious relations in the fature that there shall be no discrimination in th< making of these treaties. If by covert arrangement one powei is to obtain commercial advantage th€ result will be the cause of dissatisfao tion. The punishment of the Boxer leaders, as demanded, is expected to follow soon. DRIVEN BEFORE THE STORM Feared the Hr]11 all Ship Andrada Hal Been Lost. Astoria, Ore., Jan. 3.—Twenty-two days ago the British ship Andrada ap peared off the Columbia and Pilot Cord- _ t = __ d _ . mer was taken on board. A great •storm some instances a drop to below Mo:£ ’.liiTC time-and the Andrada was driven to the north. She has not been seen since and it is feared she has met a fate similar to that of the British ship Cadzow Forest, which disappeared with Pilot Grassinan five years ago and ws never heard from again. The revenue cutter Perry has gone iu search of the Andrada. The British ship Kathdown, now 31 days out from Yokohama for this port, is long overdue, and it is feared that she has been sunk by a typhoon off the Jap anese coast.- NEW DAILY MAIL SERVICE “All The World a Lover Loves.’ Is a truism as old as love itself, and all lovers of the beautiful and artistic in HOLIDAY GOODS can please their loved ones by selecting presents from our superb stock. Never before have we carried such a magnificent line of Christmas goods, and the most fastidious can get what they want here. In Toilet Sets, Cut-Glass goods, Shaving Sets, Portfolios, Leather Goods, Manicure Sets, Fme Vases, etc. Our line excels all others. Buy HIM a handsome Meer schaum Pipe, In the smoke of which he can conjure up visions of his “angel.” Buy HER that superb Toilet Set and your case Is won. At all events go to J. R. HUDSON’S For Christmas Goods. WINE INTERESTS COMBINE Aggregate Capital of the New Corpo ration U $8,000,000. San Francisco, Jan. 1.—The Califor nia wine industry today enters upon a new phase in its history. Several very powerful merchants bcearno interested ia leading wine concerns in n manner to establish a oommity of interests to jiie general direotion of the trade while leaving to ex-corporations its business, ehe capitalists in this combination, which will control seven-eighths of the wmes of the state, nrc: I W. Heilman, president of the Ne vada National bank; Antoine Borell of A. Borell & Ca, and Daniel Meyer, the private hankers. Thoy have become in terested ill the California Wino associa tion; the American Swiss Agricultural colony, Bachman nnd Jacobi, and C. chilling & Co., all of which iu turn iinvo become shareholders in 'aeli of the other concerns. The aggre gate capital of theso firms will be in creased to $8,000,000. WITHOUT FOOD AND WATER. Rebels Are Trying to Escape From Mount Arnyat. M anilla, Dec. 31.—General Frederick L*- Grant wires that General Klojand. ruin - men are trying to escape from 11 ' lit Arayat. Twoof them were killed • amia.v. There is no water on tbt tu ’twain aud food is scarce. A," ‘dlieial report says the Fourth in- ant. and the Fourth cavalry iu Cavite .' vine,. h* V o captured 10!) armed in- urgent* aud taken possession of theii tanips at Anabo and Malagran. ti.o Arethusia (a United States watel ■irrymn ship) i a ,[ cn w i ( h supplies, ar id at Guam Dec. 31 after a tempest- on- voyage (rum Cavite, daring which j, ' l0 “" were swept overboard. There _mach Buffering from hnnger in thl district* of Gnam, but nc 'tsrvstiou. SAMFORD ON LYNCHING Ho Is Horrified at Their Occurrence In Alabama. Montgomfry, Ala., Jan. 1. — Gov ernor Sumford, in a letter to Judge John Moore of the Fourth judicial circuit, speaks out in very plain language what he thinks of the two disgraceful and un warranted killings recently enacted iu •Henry and Ferry counties, Bud -urging the judge to use all means in his power to bring the perpetrators to justice. He urges the court to ferret out the guilty parties and punish them for the crime. The eases to which the governor re fers occurred in Perry and Henry. The one in Ferry was lynched for alleged burning of a barn of a farmer. The one in Henry was even worse, where the negro wos tried by a magistrate on the charge of stealing a bunch of keys, and was acquitted, but was taken bv a crowd of drunken Christmas revelers and shot to death. .Cut In the I'rlce of $ttgnr. New York, Jan. 3.—The American Sugar Refining company has redneed the price of all grades of refined sngar 10 points and the National Sngar Re fining company hns made a cat of $ points, making the prices of both com panies the same. Arbuckle reduced the price of refined sugar to meet the redac tion of the American Sngar Refining company. This pats all the companies on the same basis. MISSING SINCE LAST SUNDAY Seven Ilitten by -Mml Bogs. Stevenson, Ala., Jan. 1.—The jieople of this comninnity are terror stricken as the result of the ravages of mad dogs that have beep roaming aboat for the past few days, attacking men, women and children. At least two persons have suffered horrible deaths from hydropho bia during the past ten days, caused by mad dog bites nine months ago, and as sevou persons have been bitten by mad dogs within the past two days iu Steven son, the populace is greatly worked up. Hiol! Bep islts of Cement. ChattaXOOOa. Jan. 2.—Hon. Homer S. Cummings, Uriah Cummings and Judge Blydeubnrg, of Stamford. Conn- have Closed a deal for a large body ot laud four miles from this city, lying in Georgia, iu whicu they have found a deposit of cement rock. They have or ganized a company with a capital ol (ICO,000 to develop the wonertv. Warren Clay Has Mysteriously Disap peared Id Jasper County. Dallas, Ga- Jan. 3.—Warren Clay, son of Jasper Clay, a well known clri- zen of this county, has disappeared and his friends fear he has been fonlly dealt with. Y T oung Clay visited a neighbor last Sunday night and started home about 9 o’clock. That was the last seen of him. Young Clay was in the habit of carry ing largo snras of money nbont him and this fact was generally known. This induces the belief that Clay may have been waylaid and either carried away or killed and his body secreted. Nut long ago Clay's room wns entered by burglars and his trunk in which it was thought lie kept his money was carried away aud broken open. Since theii, and only a few nights ngo, lie was stopped in the big road by three men who demanded his money, but managed to escape. A dozen posses are now scouring the woods iu every direction for the body, while ns many" more are following clews which may possibly lead to the place of Clay’s detention.. Direct Connection Established Be tween Nushvlllc and Monterey, Chattanooga, Jan. 2.— A. J. Welch, superintendent of the fifth division,rail way mail service, with headquarters in this city, returned today from an official inspection of the portion of the Tennes see Central railroad which is com pleted, and authorized the statement that lie has inaugurated a daily servioe, except Snnday, between Monterey and Emory Gap, a distance of 34 miles. This gives a direct connection fat mail between Monterey and Nashville, and tho new service will supplant the star route with which that section ol the state has heretofore been supplied. RUN DOWN BY DETECTIVES • May Extend the Meet. Memphis, Jan. 2.—President Mont gomery of the new Memphis Jockey club denies that he announced at the recent meeting of the tnrf congress iu Chicago that Memphis would extend its spring meeting. He only said that Memphis could do so under the action of the congress in reversing its assign- ment of dascs. The general opinion is that the meet will bo extended. Cut Oil'the Fuel Gas. Toleho, Jan. 2.—Over 000 consumeri of natural gas are left without fuel to day, with the thermometer at zero. Kerliu Bras., who have been supplying the municipal gas department, turned off the supply because the city defaulted iu payment. There is considerable suf fering, as many consumers have no other means of heating their houses. ills Brad Split Open. Lynchburg, Tenn., Jan. 2.—Eugene C. Smith, a well known farmer, was found dead in bed this morning with hii head split open by an ax. The tragedy occurred at the residence of W. R. Wil liams, near Loye, in Moore county. The identity of tbs assassin is unknown. ' Pat Crowe, Alleged Kidnaper, Ar rested Near Pine Ridge. Chadron, Neb., Jon. 2.—Pat Crowe, the supposed abdnetor of young Edward Cudahy, has been captured near the state lino between Nebraska and Sonth Dakota. Three detectives following Crowe's trail came npon him on the Pine Ridge reservation, near Oelriohs, S, D., and captured him after a wild chase. Crowe was driving a team aud backboard. He whipped the horses aud tried to outran the horsemen, who soon brought him to a halt with their six shooters. Diamonds In Saiv Mexico. El Paso, Tex., Jan. 1.—A recent dis covery of diamonds in the volcanic hills near Capitau, Otero count;, New Mex ico, has created intense excitement among mining men there and in thit city. The discovery was made by J. J. Blow, general manager of tho Linder- man Coal company, who picked up four gems in an ant heap where they had been brought to the surface and depos ited by the large red insects. Lentz Will Contest. Columbus, O., Jan. 1.—Congressman John J. Lentxof this district, has served formal notice cn Congressman-elect Emmett Tompkins thnt ho will contest the latter’s seat iu the honsc. Mr. Lentz states that ho will base his claim on charges of wholesale bribery and fraud in tbe "onnt of the ballots. FIVE MEN KILLED IN A HEAD-ON COLLISION CHiAA IS ANXIOUS FOR A SETTLEMENT Disastrous Work On the Yazoo Railroad. Li Hung Chang Reviews the Situation. CASUALTIES OF THE DAY MEETING- OF MINISTERS An Idiot Kills III. Brother-In-Law. Killed By a Blow on the Head—TUB try Slays His Cousin—Injured By an Explosion at Cincinnati. Final Adjustment Has Been Delayed by the Illness of Sir Ernest Mason Satow—Earl LI Slowly Recovering From Ills Recent Sickness. N$w Orleans, Jan. 3.—Five jhen woro.killed and one badly injured in a head-on collision between two freight trains on the Yazoo aud Mississippi Val ley railroad at Melton, Miss., last night There were doable header engines on both trains. Both engines were demol ished and a large number of cars smashed. Tho ennse of the accident was disobedience of orders of train No. 47. The dead are: William Watson, engineer. Fred Grief, engineer. Charles Crane, engineer. Two negro firemen. Engineer Heidt was badly Injnred. Grief is a brother of Superintendent Grief of the road. DANIEL KILLS CHISHOLM. An Idiot Blows Bis Brother-In-Law's Brains Out. Selma, Ala., Jan. 3. — At Marion Junction, Nathan Daniel, about 19 years old, brother of Mrs. W. B. Chisholm, shot her husband. Tbe boy is an idiot and had been talking of shooting some- body'for several days. In some way he secured a pistol and his sister, fearing he would shoot some one, went to the negro honse where the pistol was concealed and secured it. She was going back homo when her brother overtook her and a terrible fight ensued for possession of the weapon. It the struggle nearly nlf ; Mrs. Cbisholm'i clothes were torn off, bat Bhe finally made her escape with the pistol. When she reached home she sent for her hus band. Mrs. Chisholm hang blankets over the windows so Daniel conld not see in the honse. she having heard that ho had seenred a shotgun. About 9 o'clock iu the evening be came to the house and called Cliisholm ont. As soon as Chisholm stack bis bead oat of the door Daniel pnlled down on him with the shotgun. Thirty-five buckshot were taken oat of Chisholm's forehead. Peking, Jan 1.—A meeting"-) foreigu ministers will bo held ns i Sir Ernest Mason Satow, tho minister, who is Buffering from and fover shall have recovorod ciently to bo present nnd when and place for meeting the Chinese c missioners shall have been agreed npon. In an interview with Li Hung Chang, who shows plainly physical evidence of his recent illness, but whose mind has not been nffected by his sickness'nud is ns vigorons os ever, Earl LI said he had preferred to meet the ministers and com missioners nt bis house, if snoh an ar rangement were possible, on account of ' his health, but would not, nnder the circnmstauoes, make suggestions. Ho said that tbe emperor isdeaironsof com plying in all particulars with the de mands of the powera On tho other hand he thinks the powers should order a cessation of the frequent' irritating ex-' peditions which he looks npon ns un necessary and as a lot of harm. It will be quite possible now, ho says, to maintain complete order iu the pro vince, with the assistance of a small number of Chiifcso troops nnd he hopes tho powers will agree to keep as at pres ent tbe troops now stationed at Fokin and Tien-Tsin and along the railroad. Tho emperor, Li Hnng Chang says, is willing to punish all those named by tho powers by banishment to tho fur- 'thorest part of the Chinese dominions on the northwestern frontier, nnd their return, he declares, will be prohibited under penalty of death by decapitation. His majesty is anxions also to have the number of legation guards limited nnd that other boundaries be specified, and he hopes the foreign armies wFl lie recalled ns early ns possible iu the spring. China will endeavor, says Earl Li, by every moans in her power to prove that she intends compliance with the demands contained in the noto and to show her desire to make tho country safe nnd habitable for foreigners. He believes the powors will not insist upon tho totnl destruction of tho forts. MURDERED-BY HIGHWAYMEN Crime Wus Committed in the Heart of New Orleans. New Orleans, Jan. 4.— James Gib bons, nephew of Cardinal Gibbons, was shot and almost instantly killed by two highwaymen. The tragedy occurred in the very heart of the city, with two other men walking only a few yards in advance of Gibbons. Gibbous was a medical stndent and was going home from tbe Charity hospital. On Claiborne street, near Canal, be was met by two young men who ordered him to throw np his bands. Owing to the locality and the people in front of him, Gibbons thought it was a joke and failed to comply. The men drew pistols, one of them firing, tbe bnllet striking Gibbons in the groiu and penetrating the intestines The two men ahead, hearing the shot, ran to his assistance and the robbery were driven off. Gibbons was taken to the Charity hospital, where he died a few hoars later._ SMITH DIED OF HIS WOUNDS Von Ketteler’s Slayer Executed. | Berlin, ,Jan. 1.—A dispatih dated Monday, Deo. 31, says that Su.Hai, tho murderer of Baron Von Kottolcr, the German ambassador, was decapitated on the scene of his crime at 8 o'clock this afternoon. RESOLUTION IS BLOCKED, Wat Struck an the Head With a Pilcher by Gable. Savannah, Jan. 2.—Jacob Gable, a white man, is nnder surveillance at Ty- boc awaiting the verdict jaf the coroner's jury. He is the man who struck Wil liam Smith on the head with a pitcher Sunday night. Smith was found dead in bed. Dr. Eltoe S. Osborne, po lice surgeon, made a post mortem exam ination of the body and foniiti that Smith came to his death from blood olots ou tbe brain caused by the blow from the pitcher. The blow with tbe pitcher appears to have been struck daring a quarrel brought on throngh drinking. : Bull's COUGH SYRUP cures Hacking Coughs, Sore LnngSjGnppe,Pneu monia ana Bronchitis in a few days. Why then risk Consumption, a slow, sure death? Get Dr. Ball's Cough Syrup. Price, 25c. Don't be Imposed upon. Refute the dwlef. .utAtltnte; it It not it good it DC Ml a - - - m Oil cores Rhamfim, sndPslns. ifdsfct*. Assaulted and Robbed. Norfolk, Jan. 3.—Highwaymen are operating iu Portsmouth. Carey Wilson was assaulted and robbed on Queen street, in the heart of the city, by two negroes. Wilson met two negreos, and one, armed with a club, struck him a terrible blow on the head, knocking him senseless. Two hoars later Wilson re covered consciousness and found that he had been robbed of all bis money. Accidentally Killed Ills Cousin. OpeliKa, Ala., Jan. 2.—Joe Tillery, a prominent citizen of Mechanicsville in this county, 1 shot and killed his consin, Albert Tillery. The shooting was pure- ly accidental, they being in a blacksmith shop examining a pistol, when it went off, the ballet instantly killing Albert Tillery. ' Wheeler For President. Tuscaloosa, Ala., Jan. The latest suggestion of a president for the ont- rersityis that General Jr Wheeler be chosen to sncceed Pre , Powers, ™ •••' ’ Root Advises Against Publication of Law-tile's Report. Washington, Jau. 1.—There is likely to bo some dolay on tho part of tho exe cutive in complying with tho term of a resolution introdncod by Senator Bacon and adopted Dec. Ill, directing the sec retary of war to transmit to tho senate tho roport of Abraham L. Lawshe, audi tor of Cuba, giviug in detail tho result of his investigations, mndo nnder direc tion of tho wnr department, into tho re ceipts and c'xpouaitnres of tho Cuban funds. Secretary Root has transmitted the report to President McKinley with n statement of his opinion that its publi cation nt • this time would be “incom patible with pnblio interests.” Several criminal prosecutions arc nh- der way ns a re.snlt of tho discoveries mado by Auditor Lawshe in connection with tho administration of Cuban af fairs, and tho secretary of war regard;) it as inadvisable to publish to the world tho data anon which theso proceedings nro hased, pending their judicial term ination. Tiie situation raises an ex tremely interesting question, which is left for the settlement of tho president. m COUNTERFEITERS WORK Johnson City Flooded Willi Spurious Coin nnd Bank notes. Johnson City, Tenn., Jan. l. — A gang of counterfeiters is operating bore. Both silver and currency have been cir culated iu large quantities and it is be lieved from $3,030 to $1,000 of tin; counterfeit has been pat iu -clroulain-a here. The mouey has been made In this section by experts. Federal officers have been notified, but have so far failed to locate any clue whatever as to the identity of tho gnilty parties. - Keep Your Blankets as soft as new, by washing them in GOLD DUST Wa-shing Powder

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Americus times-recorder. (Americus, Ga.) 1891-1902, January 04, 1901, Image 1