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AMERICUS TTMES-RECORDER.
AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, JULY 19. 1#01.
NUMBER 13
Q. j CUMMEli is hero, and those who start
i \ V3 right will go through the whole summer
^ | season with little trouble. A taint of Mala-
pv* T I r * a ^ poisoning in your blood to-day will last
GjP jT2L • i un iii I ,:l ll unless you drive it out now.
^ | Blood Medicines can’t cure Malaria poison-
ing. The antidote for Malaria poisoning is
JOHNSON'S TONIC.
The sickest man is not always in hod. The meanest kind
0 f sickness is just to be able to attend to one’s duties. With
rl ,.|, blood in your veins you perform, with pleasure, the work
that becomes an arduous task for half well people.
Why don’t you take JOHNSON’S TONIC? It is the
World's Greatest Medicine. The dealer makes less money on
JOHNSON’S TONIC than on any other kind. Now remember
year health is your business and making money is his
business.
It would pay ycu better to drive twenty-five miles to get a
buttle "1 JOHNSON’S TONIC rather than use the cheap kind
that pays more profit to the dealer.
Money-making and Life-saving don’t run very close togeth
er. JOHNSON’S TONIC is the kind that cures. It is 100 times
better than Quinine. Does in one day what slow Quinine
can not do in ten days.
Better do your own thinking when your health is at stake.
Insist upon having the World's Greatest Medicine,
JOHNSON'S CHILL and FEVER TONIC.
It has been on the market for tho
E ast seventeen years, ami stands
igtier to-day as a curative agent
than any otlier medicine made.
Take a thorough course of JOHN
SON’S TONIC and enjoy that keen
pleasure In life that only belongs to
thoroughly well people.
extract from m Letter dated
OranIMIla. S. C.. Auguat 26, 1SS9.
*■ tbs «e of 50, with 23 yean of acllre
practice, I am a careful obsorror and cau-
UOM In endorsing proprietors medicines, but
1 can conscIcnUonalr endorse four Johnson's
CHUt Jim vxvxa Tonic as one of too best
combination remedies for China and Fever I
ksrs erer used. It corrects too Tltlatod Ur
actions of to* User, relieves oonti»eness,snd
promotes absorption and assimilation of food,
tans leisures all too Indications elalmtd for It.
Toon truly,
T. r. XDWAJtol, H. D.
Costs 50 cents a bottle. Get it
today.
A. B.
GIRARDEAU,
SAVANNAH, GA.
TEXAS STILL SUFFERS
FROM GREAT DROUTH
No Immediate Relief Is In
Prospect.
INSECTS ATTACK COTTON
It I* Reported That In Many Coun
ties Went of the Brazos Klver Only
Half a Crop of Cotton Will He 3Iude.
Conditions In Other Sections.
Dallas, July 17.—No change in tho
drouth situation. No raiu iu Texas last
night or today. Hot winds continue.
Reports from tho northern part of Dal
las county state that destructive in
sects have attacked the cotton fields
there. Several counties west of tho
Brazos river along the line of the Texas
and Pacific railroad report that not more
than half a crop of cotton will bo made
iu that section.
LIGHT RAINS ]N KANSAS.
Drouth Only Partially Broken, How
ever, and liot Wave Continues.
Kansas City, July 17.—General rains
all over the southwest are still delayed
and the indications this morning were
for at least another day ot torrid
weather. A light thunderstorm pre
vailed at Concordia, Kan., 100 miles
west from Kansas City, \ few sprinkles
last night in southwest Missouri and
northern Kansas. At Dawson, L T.,
Cherokee Nation, 75 miles south of the
Kansas line, half an inch of rain fell
last night, breaking a drouth of 38 days.
It is doubtful whether the rain came in
time to do corn much good. Tho weather
iu the Nation was cooi today.
Iu Kansas City at 10 o’clock this
morning the weather bureau reported a
temperature of 74 with indications for
western Missouri aud Kansas of possi
ble light local thunderstorms this after
noon or tonight.
TERRIFIC OUTBURST
OF VOLCANO KLOE
Great Loss of Life Iu Nor til
er n Java.
MANY EUROPEANS PERISH
Forty .Miles Aruuntl Coffee Planta
tion, Were De.troyeil Uy Showers of
Ashes mid Stoues-Other Oriental
News.
Tacoma, July 15.—Oriental advices
give details of a terrible destruction of
human life which occurred in northern
Java by a sudden and terrific outburst
of the volcano Kloe. Forty miles
around all the coffee plantations aud
other estates wero destroyed by show
ers of ashes and stoues, together with
great streams of lava and mud. Huu-
dreds of natives aud a number of Euro
peans perished.
The lava also consumed tho superin
tendent aud about 25 coolies at the
mission. Many coffee estates in the
neighborhood were destroyed. I he
country around was strewn with
corpses. , .
rourteeu arrests have been mane at
Singapore in connection with the recent
robbery of the Hongkong and Shanghai
bank, of notes amounting to nearly
$300, OUO. Tho prisoners are bank clerks
and money changers and include two
women.
.Many protests are being made because
the Russian authorities at Port Arthur
are opening all the letters to aud from
the American and European residents
there. Nothing is being permitted to
be sent out that coutaius auy allusion to
Russian military affairs or criticism ot
Russian methods.
SIX PERSONS DROWNED.
This is the time of the year when every one wants to
take a day oil from the worry and trouble of home
and spend a day in the woods with their friends, or
j.,, fishing. Of course such a trip would amount to
nothing without a nice dinner. I make a specialty
of preparing baskets for such occasions. Here you
will find everything you could wish for, Canned Meats
of every kind, Crackers, Cakes, Pickles, Salad Dress
ings—anything to lie found in an up-to-date Fancy
(irocery.
jirtesian Corntr,
w w« y w- — - | — jtmoucua, Sa
t -r Will have some tine Elbcrta Peaches the latter part of the week.
%orae S. 9/eXj
$100 REWARD
—forhanygcasei;of—
CHILLS and FEVER
THAT CANNOT BE CURED BY
Wheeler'S Tonic,
When used strictly by directions. The a<]£jy-
bill ami Fever Treatment on the market. The llwr.
dneys, stomach, blood, brain, and nervous system treated
parately. WHEELER’S TONIC will cure
ntermitent, Bilious and Continued Fever
The best Tonic. Great Appetizer. A
on, scientifically compounded. Contains no p .
de everywhere.
Dodson’s Pharmacy,
Agent For Americus, OR-
Temperature High at, St. Louis.
St. Louis, July 17.—The raiu that
threatened to fall in this vicinity yester
day aud last night failed to come and
today starts in with every indication of
being a scorcher. At 8 a. m. the gov
ernment thermometer registered 84.
There were several prostrations during
the past 24 hours and one death, that of
Proiessor Bernhard J. Neumann, who
for 42 years acted as organist of St.
Mary’s German Catholic church.
Drouth Bro..eu Along Platte.
Omaha, July 17.— Indications are for
another scorching day iu this city, iho
temperature at 7 a. m. was 71. Show
ers were reported yesterday and last
night iu the South Platte district, break
ing the protracted drouth in that sec
tion and lowering the mercury 15 to 20
degrees. Eight other counties iu cen
tral Nebraska also report a fairly good
rainfall. .
Promised Rain Fails.
Des Moines, July 17.-Tho promised
rain of the weather department fuiled to
appear in Iowa last night aud there is
every evidence that it will not appear
today. This is the thirty-fourth day
without raiu. It is thought if raiu comes
in two days tho corn crop will bo saved.
ALABAMA CONVENTION.
Uovcrnor Jones Mokes Strong Speech
For lllennlul Sessions.
Montgomery, Ala., July 17.—Gov
eruor Jones iu tho constitutional con
vention today moved to reconsider tho
vote by which section 5 had been passed
and quadneunial sessions provided.
The governor made a strong speech for
biennial sessions as a safeguard ef tho
liberties of the people. He reviewed the
history of legislative bodies, ko other
state or civilised country waits so long
between meetings of legislative bodies.
Attempts along this line have brought
revolution. , . . .
Mr. Rogers of Lauderdale favored re
consideration. Ho refuted the nrguiueut
of economy. Liberties of the people are
of more account. H i argued the iieees-
sity of frequent sessions ns - cueck on
executive departmeats. Corporations
migut secure immunity iu abuses for
four years, but why should the people
suffer. Mr. Rogers repudiated the idea
that the movemeut had its spring from
corporations. Mr. Rogers moved to
table the motion to reconsider. Haif a
dozen people were on their feet to speak.
Rogers’ motion to reconsider was tabled
by a vote of 37 to 55.
italyInvestigating.
Government Inquiring Into the Lynch*
Ing of Two Italians In Mississippi.
Washington, July 17.—The Italian
government has taken cognizance of a
recent affray at Erwin. Miss, iu which
it is claimed two Italiaus wero lynched
and a third seriously wounded
The facts have been communicated to
the foreign offleo at Homo aud the Ital
ian embassy here has made representa
tions to the state department. At tho
same time the Italian authorities are
pnrsntng an investigation of their own
through their consul at New Orleans
and their consular agent at Vicksburg,
Miss.,which is not far from the scene of
the alleged tronble.
Jelks Makes Appointment.
Montoomery, Ala.. July 17.—Got.
ernor Jelks has appointed B. Baker
Jones tax collector of Antanga county
to fill the vaoaney otused by the death
I of P. A. Bunn, who acddeaally shot
Party of Knollrsloulsts Meet Tragic
Find Near Savaiinull.
Savannah, July 16.—The twelfth an
nual excursion of tho Hobrow Gaemahl
Hasad. commonly known ns tho H. G.
H., had a tragic onding today, six mem-
bers of the party being drowned Tho
H. O. H. is a popular society witli tuo
orthodox Jews, chiefly from Russia and
Poland, being of a benevolent charac
ter. One of its features is nu annual
excursion for their members and their
families. The excursion today was to
Dantuskio. 20 miles down the Savannah
river on the South Carolina side. The
Peach at Dantuskio is a poor one. and it
Las been largely given up as a resort.
This acoouuts in part for the accident.
Tho steamer Kulaliu had been char
tered for the trip, and left this morning
with 176 excursionists on board, tho
minority being women and children.
The mooring placo at Daufuskio lent
the mouth of a creek and is called
Bloody Point
A party of 13 or 14, mostly women
aud children, decided to go in bathing
on tho seaside of the isluud. Between
the shore and tho deep water thcro Is a
wash or sluice, then a shoal aud then a
fairly good shelving beach. The tide
was out when tho party wont in, and
there wits little water iu the sluice and
none at all oa the shoal. After being in
somo timo tho party noticed that the
incoming tide bad covered the shoal,
and decided to return. They were all
right until they reached the sluice,
where tho water was running liko n
mill race. Almost the entire party was
caught and a strngglo for life began.
Somo managed to get back on tho shoal
and a few got across the danger spot,
but six—live women and girls nnd one
man—were caught by tho tido nnd car
ried down. _ . . „ .
The dead nro: Mrs. Abo Brickstein,
aged 24, married, with two children!
Aneio Kronstadt, aged 14; Ida Kron
stadt. nged 16; Leah Silvcrstein, aged 1,;
Annie Horrowitz, aged 13; Ike Sencht,
aged 22. . _
International tJundefest.
San Francisco, July 17.—Interest In
the International Bundofest increases
daily. The various ranges were crowd
ed with refleuteu and today promises to
add to tho number of competitors for
the handsome and valuable prizes now
housed in the Temple of Gifts at Shell
Mount park. The weather conditions
are favorable for good markmauship
and excellent scores are being made.
Denver aud Milwaukee are making de
termined efforts to secure the next
Baudofest.
FOR OVER TWO YEARS
Did Business Oil Otlier Peo
ple’s Money.
SENSATIONAL ADMISSIONS
Samuel A. Gaylord, Senior .Member of
the Bankrupt Concern, Admits the
Crookedness of Ills Luto Firm’s
Ways.
St. Louis, July 10.— Sensational ad
missions have been made ou the statid
by Samuel A. Gaylord, seuior member
of the firm of Gaylord, Blessing & Co.,
which failod recently. Mr. Gaylord,
who is one of tho oldest stock brokers
in the city, admitted at the hearing be
fore Bankruptcy Refereo Comes that
the firm lmd beeu practically insolvent
for two years aud has been doing busi
ness on other people’s money—on funds
secured from local customers. Deals
wherein no stock over changed hands,
boiug merely a matter of bookkeeping
in which the firm uever forgot to charge
up commissions, margins and interest,
were admittod by Mr. Gaylord,who also
told of the employment of relatives
names and tho use of an insane man s
name in the accounts.
At tho time of the failure they wor*
short $150,000,000 bonds face value, aud
of 5,000 shares of stocks iu Now York.
It is admitted by the witness that the
failure was due to their owu specula
tion, by which they had hoped to win
aud pay off their indebtedness, esti
mated to have beeu something near
$200,000. As to tho missing collateral,
left with tho firm’s customers, attached
to promissory notes, Mr. Gaylord ad
mitted that all had been hypothecated
with tho banks as security for loans to
the firm. There was no apparont de
sire to conceal auythiug of the iuvolved
transactions of the firm on Mr. Gay
lord’s part and the revelatious ho made
were fclio more astonishing to the cred
itors assembled, because of tho confi
dence aud trust for mauy years reposed
iu Mr. Gaylord.
TROUBLE IS BREWING
IN STRIKE DISTRICT
Threat to Resume Work With
Non-Union Men.
Cnpiiai Increased
Columbia, S. C., July 17. — The
Charleston Mining anti Manufacturing
company of Charleston, a largo fertil-
ixer concern, has filed notice with the
-ecretary of state of the increase of its
capital stock from $1,000,000 to $3,000.-
000. This is The largest increase iu cap
ital made by auy concern this year.
Hogs Dying Uy Hundreds;
Columbia, S. C., July 17.-Governor
McSweeney has received a letter from
the Hon. D. M.Varu of Weiman’s, Col
leton conutv, stating that a peculiar
di-ease had appeared among the hogs on
the farms in that vicinity, that it was
particularly fatal and that whole herds
of hogs were dying.
Thrown From Kxpress Tralu.
Indianapolis. July 17.—James Shea
is believed to have been robbed and
thrown from a B:g Four express train
between tbi. city and Cincinnati He
died at midnight in the city hoipitaL
He had a large sum of money.
Powder Mills Blow Lip.
Stockholm. July 17.—An explosion
occurred today at the Gyttop powder
work, at Now, provlnce of Orebro,
wrecking seven buildings. Four persons
were tailed and »uwnber injured.
ALABAMA CONVENTION.
Suffrage Report sp'clnl Order For
Tuesday, July 2.1.
Montgomery, Ala., July 10.—Mr.
Rogers of Sumter this morning in the
constitutional convention moved to re
consider the vote by which tho bank
examining section bad been adopted.
Mr. Fletcher, the oltairmau of tbo com
mittee ou banking, moved to table tho
motiau to reconsider aud It was
tabled. 55 to 43. Mr. Wilson of
Washington moved to reconsider the
vote by -Which tho Sltolby courthouse
act was vacated. His purpose was to
amend so that tho commissioner’s court
shall not build tho courthouse at Co
lumbiana until tho peoplo vote "on It.
On motion It was tabled by a voto of 0.
to 23. Reese of Dallas introduced reso
lutions of sympathy with Senator Pugh
at Washington, who is dangerously ill,
which wero unanimously adopted. Mr.
Knox, from tho rules cotnmittoo, re
ported n resolution making the suffrage
report tho speoial ordor for Tuesday,
July 23.
IN WOMAN'S ATTIRE.
Texas -Man Disguises lllmself So as
to Kvude Law.
Memphis, July 1(1.—A Scimitar speoial
from Littlo Rock, Ark., says: A detec
tive arrivod a few days ago in Kings
river neighborhood, Madison conuty,
nnd placed under arrest a supposed
yonng woman who had been teaching a
private school iu the neighborhood for
game tiurs.
It turned out that the schoolteacher
was a man in disguise, that his name was
Scars and that he was wanted in Texas
ou the charge of murder, committed
seven years ago. It is said that he was
a most engaging persou. No one had
ever suspicioued tho deception. When
arrested ho had in his possession $3,000
in cash, carried in his bolt.
Lurge Packing Plant Burns.
Wichita, Kan., July 16.—Tho pack
ing plant of Jacob Dold & Sons of this
city was totally destroyed by fire today.
There were four large buildings. It is
estimated that 7.000.000 pounds of meat
in process of preparation wero destroyed.
The loss is $650,000, with insurance of
about $400,000. Ono wall fell, lnjnring
four men, but not fatally, l'hreo hun
dred aud fifty men nre thrown out of
work. The loss is now estimated ot
$1110,000. It is said the plant will be re
built at once. Tho fire originated in tho
lardhonse, supposedly from spontaneous
combustion.
Texas Suiters For Kaln
Dallas, July 16.—No rniu fell in any
part of Texas last night or today. There
were a few local showers yesterday and
a five hours’ rain last night at Texar
kana, but it did not reach the Texas cot
ton region. The hot winds continue to
day. The mercury at Dallas is as high
as yesterday. Cotton is suffering se
verely. Cattlemen in the Panhandio
report the small streams all dry and the
grass ranges bare in largo areas. The
scarcity of water is alarming the ranch
men. ‘
Scientists Make New Discovery
Seattle,Wash.. July 16.—A party of
scientists, who have been engaged in
botany research and collection of bo
tanical specimens on the weet coast of
Vancouver Island, will finish their sum-
mer labor within a week or so. Tho
new epecies of algae, a form of marine
plant life, have been discovered by the
scientists and many rare specimens
have been collected.
WATCHMEN ON GUARD
While No Decisive 3Iovement Haa
Been 3Iadt», the Impression Prevails
That an Attempt at Resumption
Will Be 3Iude by Some of the 31111s.
Pittsburg, ,Iuly 17.—The threat of
District Manager Persifer F. Smith of
tho American Sheet Steel company to
start tho Wellsville Rolling mill and
operate it as it has been in the past by
uou-uuiou men was a new featuro of
the strike situation today aud the eyes
of all interested were turned to that
plant. Up to 10 o’clock, however, noth
ing has been heard from Wellsvillo by
thoso in authority at tho headquarters
of tho Amalgamated association in this
city. They refused to believe that the
Wellsvillo mill had started up and said
they had every reason to believe the
plant was shut down and would remain
so in spito of tho efforts of Mr. Smith.
A dispatch to tho Associated Press from
WelRvillo at 10:30 o’clock says:
The striko situation hero remains the
same as when tho men wero called out.
P.- F. Smith, manager for tho American
Steol compauy for Pittsburg district,
\$as hero Tuesday mid in a dispatch to
tho mill meu declured that tho mill
woald bo run as a non-anion liiilL He
gave orders for the mill to start this
moruiug. In response to Smith's order
about eight men went to work. Tho
mauager of the mill concluded that 30
meu was not snftleieut to man tho crews
and tho attompt for tho present has
beeu abandoned. It is believed that
non-union men from other places will
bo brought uero today, in whicn coxe
sorious truublo is feared.
May Import Workers. '
Now that Mr. Smith has declared
himself it is thought that tho managers
of tho other nou-union mill plants will
make an effort to resume also within a
few days aud developments of an ex
citing nature can bo expected. It is
known that a gang of mou nro at work
at tho Dowces wood plant of tho Ameri
can Sheet Steel company at McKeesport
clenring up and making repairs, and a
well defined rumor was prevalent oil the
south side of this city today that an
effort was to be made by the mill officers
iu the Painter plant to brenk tho strike
by bringing workers herefrom that city.
lit confirmation of this for the first
time since tho striko began watchmen
arrived with clubs nnd patrolled all
sides of the mill this morning. None of
tlte strikers wero to be seen about the
mill property. Tho mill officials de
clined to discuss the matter and when
they nro ready to move they will do so
without any noise. For tho present
nothing was being done beyond clearing
up tho mills nnd makiug repairs that
had been neglected owing to the rush of
business. Tho wood plant is olosely
gnnrded also dud the strikers look for
tho manufacturers to attempt resump
tion next week.
In direct opposition to Manager
Smith’s declaration and the evident
preparation at the Painters and wood
workers, an official of another plant in
terested, who did not want his name
used, asserted that tho companies had
no intention of starting their plants.
Tho same official Hinted that something
might ho known in CO days, but would
not say whether that was the time set
by the manufacturers to htarc. The ex-
planotiou givvu is that tbero is nothing
to give out ami that tho ordoi has gone
forth forbidding any one to talk.
( Shuffcr Still Ilopiful.
President Shnffer is Still ltopefnlof an
early settlement of me strike. The in
formation ho recoived from the strike
centers today was quite meager. This
he interpreted to mean that the strike
was getting on well. Nothing farther
has been done iu reference to the issu
ance of a strike call to the Amalgamated
men in the mills of the Uulted State*
Steel corporation outside the three com
panies against which the fight is now
directed. President T. J. Shaffer said
he would issue the order only when it
becomes necessary. It is evidently the
turpose of the association to confine its
light for the present to the three comv
panios now involved. -
The executive committee of tne Amal
gamated association sent a circular this
morning to steelworkers of Vandvene-
ter, Leechburg and Apollo making a
strong appeal to them to organize them
selves into a branch of the association.
So for tho men at these places are still
at work and what effect this circular
will have cannot be stated as yet. As
these mills are somo of tho largest In
the country the outcome will be watched
with great interest. The two independ
ent concerns, the Licking Rolling Mill
company of Covington, Ky., and the
American Car and Foundry company of
Detroit, Mich., sent the signed scales to
Amalgamated headquarters this morn
ing.
.vain Wreck at Columbia.
Columbia, 8. O., July 17.—At 7:40
o'clock yesterday morning the south
bound freight on the Southern had a
collision with a handcar which had been
left on the track. Fortunately no one
was killed. Engineer E. K. Gltaon
sustained a painful injury to his knee
cap and tho fireman. Hardy Williams,
was bruised in several places, but not
injured so that he hod to discontinue
work. Six cars and the engine were
derailed.
Strike Settled at Riles, O.
Warren, a. July 17.—The strike at
the American Steol company furnace at
Niles has been settled and 360 men re
sumed worjt tod*T,