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THE 4.MERICUS WEEKLY TIMES-RECOR^ER: FRIDAY. JULY 19, 1901.
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BLACK
IN A BUNCH
conI , 0 Unoo of H».ty R«»d-
of 11,. Town Told In T.r.o
K ‘ ,, Ttnd to Ton. til. Iimpn
(U" 16
rf IinJ p, ’ opl *
who was seriously
fuweek^ago, is pretty well out
dl-er no« ami frf on the road to
jvery.
, r(lt luscious Elberta pcaohes can
T/h.d iu the Amerious market at
dozen. Verily, it is well to
earth.
with a carload of watermelons and
’ or four wagon loads of river cat-
. iBer icns epicnses should be very,
t hspPV * ods - v -
' jujority of the public school
ias here have already gone to the
j,| 0 eiposition, or else to the mono-
[i or seashore.
■ te eity clerk's office was cleaned
vester.lay and recarpeted. The
iwas delayed several years, judging
E ip|iearances.
0 quiet was it at the conrthonse yes-
hr that one might have heard a
ling pin fall above the snoring of
uleei ors in front.
lidding on the E. D. Ansloy stock,
jo sold at I'uited States Marshal’s
(test Monday, :12nd, promises just
,tobo tnite spirited.
Inericns merchants, no doubt, will
lthe tiled of the wholesale cutting
He working forces as made at the
Iwiy shops yesterday,
lolvo ttou opened yesterday morn-
the highest point reached
tone time. The dry weather is put-
r prices up considerably,
lodge Allen cemented a pair of
icks for life yesterday by issuing
carriage license. It requires cool
tto courage to marry now.
DESPERADO
SHOTS OFFICERS.
Fatal Encounter at a Negro Picnic
Yesterday Afternoon.
ENCOUNTER OCCURRED IN MAGNOLIA DELL.
Officers Albritton and Olawson Attempt to Quell a
Riot And Both Shot. Albritton’s Wound Prob
ably Mortal. One Negro Was Killed and Four
Others Arrested. A Deplorable Tragedy.
BIRDS OF PASSAGE
C0MIN3 AND GOING
WIND AND HAIL DID
HARM IN THE CITY
Those Who Came and W9nt
Away Yesterday.
Church Is Blown Down and Badly
Damaged.
POINTS PURELY PERSONAL
LIGHTNING SETS BARN AFLAME
Amerlcut People and Their Friends
Who Are Going on Business or Pleas
ure—'em? You Know and Some
You Don’t.
Trees Upset By the Wind and Corn
Blown Helter Skelter in Fields
Rain Afforded Relief From the
Heat end Benefitted the Crops.
iere is some uneasiness among the
■gia farmers on account of an-
i. the disease which Is killing cat-
i the Mississippi Valley,
ch weather has caused a puncture
ic matrimonial boomiet here, and
;e Allen put the fixings on only
pair of blacks yesterday,
iere were no prostrations in Ameri-
teiterday, though with tho mer
it pci it was hot enough to pros-
i even the telegraph poles.
jnJay's bloody riot at Magnolia
*as still the theme of general
assion yesterday. Amerious wants
lore disorderly excursions,
ie black contingent camo in solid
am trom tho country yesterday
swapped bis dimes for catfish and
ms with great prodigality,
n St. Louis Post-Dispatch says
nearly every patient taken to tb6
hospital in that place, prostrated
be heat, is a steady drinker.
Atelonpes and Elberta peaches
i the farms abont Americas will be
Wu I this week. What old dys-
ic said he “would not live always?
Geo. Ewing, a practicing physl
>! Smith's Grove, Ky„ for over
years, writes his personal experi-
<ith Foley’s Kidney Cure. “For
1 have been greatly bothered with
y trouble and enlarged prostrate
. 1 used everything known to tne
»ion without relief, until I was
ad to use Foi.ev’s Kidney Cube.
using three bottles I wa« entirely
*d and cured. I prescribe it now
in my practice and heartily recom-
it« uae to all physicians for auoh
‘aa, for I can honestly state I have
ribed it in hundreds of cases with
2 aucces.,” John R. Hudson.
ED BIG PRESS IN SUMTER.
Bales Will Be Seen In This
Market.
■ John A. Sibley returned to
-ua yesterday from a trip into
utkeru portion of Sumter, where
jrt I a contract for tho placing of
ary round bale cotton compress.
>11 lie located iu tbo Webb neigb-
’*'■ one of the best in the county,
; 1 1 the round bales compressed
’ : d be marketed here in Ameri-
'V.thiu tho past week Captain
!•« located three more I- *wry
’ iu this section, and is at *ork
: ther localities within a radius
:ta miles of Amerious.
WOMAN'S RIGHTS.
an ’« hrst Inalienable right Is tree-
°m headache, nervousness and
ation, that so often make her
>erable. The ohief oauseof these
a is stomach disorder. Db. Loyal
1 .Uvsi'eimicid* is the new and
care for these Ms. John B,
As the result of a desperate enoounter Monday between police officers
and negro excursionists Police Officer Howell Albritton was mortally wound
ed, Police Officer J. L, Glawson was shot throngh the thigh, while their as
sailant, Bill English, a negro, was killed.
It was the most desperate battle fought in Americas in years.
Surrounded by a horde of black desperadoes, the plucky officers not only
held their own but also killed their man and assisted in the arrest of the oth
ers implicated.
The riot occurred at :i o’clock in the afternoon at Magnolia Dell, where 1100
or 400 Macon negroes were having a picnic. The fight started among the no
groes, and in attempting to stoput and preserve the peace the two policemen
were turned upon.
Officer Albritton was Bhot once through tho abdomen, and while alive at
this writing the physicians regard the chances against him
Offieer Glawson was shot through the fleshy part of tho thigh, and though
painfully hurt ho won the admiration of tho whole people of Amerious by his
pluck and bravery in sticking to the enemy and aiding in making tho arrest of
others implicated.
Two hours after ihe riot ended his wound was given attention.
Story of the Tragedy.
Tne following account of tho affray was given tho Times Recorder by an
eye witness aDd covers tho tragedy in all of its bloody details.
The Macon negroes, it seems, precipitated the trouble and were shooting
promiscuously when Glawson and Albritton arrived upon the sceno.||rhe
three visitors stood apart from the others, and the officers made for them by
wading through Town creek.
They separated and advanced upon the rioters on the flank. When within
a few feet of them, and apprehending no resistance, Bill English raised his
pistol.
••You cant arrest me" he said, and fired upon Albritton.
As the negro pulled trigger Glawson fired upon him, both pistols firing
simultaneously. Albritton staggered slightly and started towards Glawson
with one band pressed upon his abdomen.
“Im afraid it is a bad wound” was all he said.
English in Death Throes.
The bullet from Glawson's gun struck English in the back of the head.
He fell to the ground, and thinking his man dead Glawson turned to assist
Officer Albritton.
Though in the throes of death, perhaps, the negro was game,
liaising himself slightly, English took deliberate aim at Glawson and fired.
The bullet, of 112 calibre, pierced hi. right th.gb, producing a very painful
flesh wound. .
At this sudden attack both policemen fired at English, and w.th accuracy.
One bullet crashed through hi. mouth, while the second penetrated h,s side.
This dose put English out of tho fight and the curse of excursions for all time
to come.
Albritton Is Taken Home.
ctv Physician Hudson was sitting in his buggy in the dell and
‘ „ : mm pAiateIv took Officer Albritton to his home, 8il Barlow
“ a t irriTw; ■».
r the first it was regarded as probably a mortal one, and little hope
raTgiv^ Arauofandrnntedcourageandahorn gentleman, his con-
dition is deplored.
A Roundup of Rioters.
When news of the shooting reached the city it caused great excitement,
and immediately a assisted the re-
TZt ^un^n^desperadoes implicated. Bothofthese,
Macon negroes, were soon corra.ed and brought to town. It was indeed a dee-
perate trio. English a Bad Negro.
It u said that Bill English was a very bad negro and had been in trouble
. , “ fact it was stated last night that be boasted on coming to Amen-
cui°L he would kill a policeman before he went back. This may or may not
baVe The e bo C dy r cT!he dead negro was turned over to his friends and earned back
J n the returning excursion train. There are now four others in ,.i,
Albritton Was On Vacation.
„ itonv 0 f fate that Officer Albritton waa ahot, and perhaps kill
Tsshewas about to enter upon his vacation of ten days. The Police
ed, just as morning , nd gt .nted him ten daye vacation, and he was,
^efo“.%otondntywh«.hoL
Mr. It, J. Perry is still ill with fever
at his home on Lee street, having had
a sligbt relapse.
4 Mrs. R. E. Allison is spending two
or tbree weeks very pleasantly with
relatives at ltoney, Ga.
Misses Ettie Tullis and Emma May
Bornm have returned homo after a
pleasant visit at The Plains.
Mrs. R. L. Farnum, of Dawson, Is
the gnest of Mrs. Arthur 0. Bivins on
Taylor street, arriving yesterday.
Mr. Crawford Wheatley haa gono to
Clifton Springs, N. Y. whero he will
join Mrs. Wheatley for the anmmer.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harrold and
Miss Carrie L. Shropshire have gone
to Liuville, N. C. for tho summor.
Joo Lamar, formerly of Amerious
but now residing in Hawkmsville, is
spending a fow days with friends bere.
Mr, and Mrs. T. II. Slappey oamo
from Tennille yesterday to visit Mr.
R. H. Slappey and the Misses Slappey.
Mr. Will E.Perkins camo down from
Atlanta yesterday, summoned bv tbo
shooting of his brother-in-law, Offloer
Albritton.
Miss May Wheatley left yesterday
for Atlanta, and after a visit thero will
go with relativos to Linville, N. C., to
spend some time.
Hies Lilia Johnson leaves tomorrow
forMilledgeville, whore she will spend
some time pleasantly with her cousin,
Mrs. M. K. Lamar.
Miss Julia Pngh leaves today for
Savannah, and after .’spending a week
there will go to Tennesseo and Caro
lina to viBit relatives.
Mr. Thornton Wheatley and Miss
Alice Wheatley have gone to Savannah
to Visit Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hunter
for throo or four days.
MiBsos Oallle and Nannie Suo Bell
left yesterday for La Crosse to spend
several daye at tho homo of Mr. and
Mrs. Edwin Bell thero.
Col. It. Leonidas Oliver, tho peach
king of Leesburg, has returned to
Amorions, having shipped the major
portion of his fine crop.
The many friends of Miss Iinba Ray
will be pleased to learn of somo im
provement in her condition, though
she is still ill with fever.
The beautiful Miss Helene Dewberry
after a delightful visit of two wooks in
Amerions, returned to her homo in
Forsyth yesterday afternoon.
Miss Mario Lamar goes to Albany
tomorrow to visit Miss Wooton. Upon
rotnrn here Bhe will be accompanied
by Miss Stella McGee, of Portsmouth.
Misses Netta Owen and LuoUe Blan,
two very pretty yonng ladies of Troy,
Ala. are guests of tho Misses Clark at
their homo on East Jefferson street.
WHAT TWO CENTS WILL DO.
It will bring relief to sufferers from
asthma or consumption, even In the
worst cases. This Is about what one
doso of Foley’s Honkv and Tab cobib
Isn’t It worth a trial ?
8TILL CONTINUES TO IMPROVE.
A chnrch blown down, several small
houses upset, trees and fences leveled
and a barn burned by lightning was
the summary made yesterday of the
storm that swept Americas and vicini
ty Sunday morning, doing damage
oyer an area of twenty miles.
But tho blessed rain came with it,
and brought somo relief.
After the most Intensely hot spell
ever experienced in Southwest Georgia,
the rain broke the foroe of the torrid
wave and proved of inestimable bene
fit to both humanity and vegetation.
The rain covered an area of porhaps
twentv miles, beginning at Flint river
and extending north and west of
Americas several milos. It poured
steadily for on hour, perhaps, and
some hail followed. Lightning and
the wind wore very severo here for a
time.
One of the negro ohnrohos in the
northern seotion of the city was
wrooked.
Lightning strnok a large barn on
the Flotoher Griffin farm, burning it
with all contents of oats, bay, corn and
other foodstuff,
his stock was killed.
Here in the oity fencing was blown
bolter skelter, and o number of shade
trees npsot by tbo wind. This damage,
however, was not considerable.
On farms about the oity a great doal
of corn was blown down and will provo
a loss. Tbo lino stalks, heavy with
thoir weight of grain, wore snapped
offat tho ground. In somo fields hun
dreds of stalkB wore thus dostroyed by
the windstorm as it swept onward.
But the rain came with it, and for
that wo aro devoutly thankful.
ENGLISH BEARED IN AMERIOUS.
Black Desperado Began Hi» Career
Hera.
The four negroes arrested at Magno
lia Dell Monday charged withcompli
city iu the not there which resulted in
the shooting of Officers Albritton and
Glawson and the killing of the des
perado, Bill English, sre still in con
finement here and will be held.
One of these is an Amerions negro,
the others having come with the Ma-
oon exenrsion.
Bill English, the black desperado,
was buried in Maoon yesterday. Ho
was one of the tongbs of the gambling
element there, and the fate overtaking
him here is not regretted,
English was born and raised here in
Amerions, but has not resided here in
several years. It is said that his fa
ther was a white man who onee lived
here and his mother a negress. En
glish evidently inherited tho bad
qualities of both parents.
Before leaving Maeon for Amerions,
it is said, be brandished hia pistol and
mada threats. He reoently returned
from Manila, where he served in a ne
gro regiment.
Cares Blood Poison and Cancer.
Eating sores, swellings, falling hair,
mneons patches, nleers, scrofula, ach
ing bones and joints, itohing skin,
boils, pimples, eto., by taking Botanio
Blood Balm (B. B. B.) made especially
to care malignant blood and skin
troubles. B. B. B. heals every sore
and makes the blood pare and rich.
Over 8000 enres of worst and most ob
stinate oases by taking B. B. B. Drug-
ui u».„ gist 81. Describe trouble and trial bot-
Fortunatoly none of tlo sent froo by writing to Blood Balm
Co., Atlanta, Ga.
Jas. G. Amhertof, Della, O., writes:
I had an obstinate aoro on my face
which everything elso failed to heal.
After one application of Banneii Salve
It began to heal and after three applica
tions It waa entirely healed, leaving no
soar.” John K, Hudson.
CAR BUILDERS ARE P* T.-JASED.
Forty Men in This Department Dis
charged
Though Slowly, Col. Hawkins Re-
Gains Strength.
Continued improvement is repotted
iu the condition of Col. 8. H. Haw
kins, who has boon confined to his
home tor more than two months, the
result of a stroke of paralysis. His
strength has returned to the extent
that be li now able to move abont the
house in a roller chair, while hia con
dition generally seems better.
Tho“ retrenchment” axe swung high
and fell with a dull thnd at tbo Amoti
ons shops of the Boaboard Railway
yesterday morning, with the result
that forty-one heads were summarily
ontoffin the car works department
where hitherto a large forco wob
employed.
The smashing, however, was not a!
together unexpected by employee.
A reoent Issue of the Timea-Record-
quoting one in authority, stated
that while the shops here would not
bo closed there would soon bo a gen
oral curtailment of expenses.
This meant, of coarse, a material
reduction in the working forces in the
car shops. It was said at tho time
that the amount of work did not war
rant the employment of a large foroe
at this aeason of the year, and that a
reduction would be made soon.
Yesterday was monthly pay day, the
last for somo of the men.
Praotically all of those discharged
were employed in the car-building do
partment either as carpenters, paint
ers, joluera eto. and Included many
well ekilled workmen.
None of those iet out yesterday wore
in any manner connected with the re
oent strike here, which wsb confined
among the machinists and others in
the metals trade, and this cut cannot
in anywise be attributed to that source.
It was merely to ent down expenses
here.
Many of the men tamed oat yestor-
day will leave the oity, as it cannot bo
said when their services will again be
seeded in the shops.
FIREMEN’S WEEK.
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Interesting Occasion at Pan-American
Kxpositton Aug. 10.
Buffalo, July 17.—Firemen all oret
the country are looking forward to flre» :
man’s week, beginning Aug. 19, at the >
Pan-American exposition, with tho t
brightest anticipation of a good time.
There will bo more firemen assembled
at the exposition during that woek than
ever gathered in one spot before in tho
history of this couutry. In the great
tbroug will bo exempts, voluuteers and
paid firemen from all’parts of Canada
aud tho United Statos.
A firemen’s tournament will be held
iu the magnificent stadium of the expo
sition on the twenty-second and twenty-
third, aud an extraordinary program of
events in which firemen are to partici
pate exclusively has been arranged by
tho exposition committee of sports in
conjunction with the Buffalo Volunteer
Firemen’s association.
The visitors will bo in uniforiq and
many of them will bring equipment.
The best drilled companies in the
United States will be present aud will
compete for prizes iu tho stadium. No
better place for a firemen’s tournament
could be provided than this grand
structure within the exposition grounds.
It has a quarter-mile running track and
an expansive field, largo enough to ac
commodate oil the events desirable. The
seating capacity is 13,000.
There ore about 375,000 firemen in
this country, and a fair representation
of this number at Buffalo means a tre
mendous crowd. A feature of the week
will bo a mammoth parade, in which
more than 200 firemen’s associations
will be in line.
The Imperial library in Paris baa
twenty-six books printed on white Bilk.
ThoB, W. Oar* “r, of Ashboro, N.-O.,
had kidney trot >le and one bottle of
Fplby’b Kipnby Cube effected a per-
feot oure, and be Bays theralsno remedy
that will compare with It. John B.
Hudson.
There’s honor among thieves — es
pecially when they hang together.
Solenoe has found that rheumatism le
caused by urlo sold In the blood. This
poison should bo exoreted by the kid
neys. Foley’s Kidney Cube alwsyt
makes them well. John R. Hudson.
Better a chin without beard than a
head without brains.
INY advertised dealer le authorized to
nirairi
.guarantee Banneb Salve for tetter,
eczema, piles, ipralua, scalds, burns,
ulcers any open or OLD SORE. John
R, Hudson.
Love intoxioates a man and marriage
makes him sober.
Mr. John Ttppls, Colton, O., aaya:
“Foley’s Hosey and Tab cured my
little girl of a eevere cough and Inflamed
tonsils.” John B. Hudson.
im, WHEN THE
^TflDNEYS ARE OVERWORKED
■rrheu make known *eir cOTdiitonbu frequent ,
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Reward offered.
Geoboia—Weusteb County.
Board of Commissioners of Boada and
Revenues, July Term, 1001.
Whereas, on the 7th day of Jane,
1801, one, Tom Stapleton, an old negro
man of this county, was waylaid nerr
Preston and foully murdered by some
person unknown to ns. Now, lu ord-r
to apprehend the guilty party if pos
sible, we will pay a reward of Fif.y
Dollars to the person or persons for
the street of the murderer with evi
dence to convict, and the clerk of thu
— nd is hereby ordered to publish
r in The Americas Times-Re-
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refore, no * , loIie t0 the dell to quell the trouble, when Albritton
Glswson w H( bad arranged to Ieaye this morning for At-
Dr. E. J. ELDRIDGE, Agent.
“Given under our bands and official
matures, this Juljffnd ioo^
J. H. Cantrell,
M. J. Lf.vep.ett,
Commissioners,
A true copy o! the origins! order of
record. geo. E. Thobnton, Clerk.
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