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^iSglCUg WEEKLY TIME8 .. RPf1 , Y DECEMBER 5. 1902.
ADAMS IS GOING TO
[Soon.
Boiled Down to Four Lines J whistles at the'nn U °7 ' h<! Ch ° rns
and Bunched. j# Carolina ChcmTeul" CJo° wi|J*awak'°"
— tho HZ ln * he6 "' a “l' s above the citr°
HAND MIRROR OF EVENTS HERE and thS ' ? ,ndnS, ' y *»<Ure
42 la added ,„ er “ SBnfao,arin « »l«»
Happenlns.lftTH.Clty and Suburb. It hoped th.T’a
•bo first of this
of Local Interest to Be Perused at ocnld bo made
Leisure Whllo Your Coffee Is Slowly
Cooling.
PULL A HEMP ROPE,
Have yon seen the beautiful amort
ment of piotnres displayed at M, 8
Holliday’..
It is just three weeks from today uu-
til Santa Clans comes. Christmas and
Sew Year will be here almost before
wo know it.
If Mon Adams were only to bv hann-
ed in publio it Is fair to assume that
*,.000 indignant negroes would witnces
the exeention.
Mr. Davenport, thoyonne man who
lost a foot Frida* while oonpliog
at the Central depot, was doing verv
well yesterday. y
The legislature has only abont eight
more working days, and the session
at which so little has been done, will
soon be ended.
PZASU&ZS
rrs, ta rv,;rv
Place; material for manafactnrTngV”
illzer is at band, and soon this will bo
n ued ont at the rate of twenty thous-
and t° n8 annually by the newest and
bast equipped plant in Georgia
Yesterday.
negro is given a fair trial.
But Evidence ao Overwhelming; That
Jury Is not Long In Reaching a Ver
dict — Double Murderer Will be
Hanged Dec. 30th.
Game is cheap in other Georgia oit-
ios, but not in Americas. Even poker
and craps come high oa this legally
posted reservation.
The fat porker horeabont was knock
ed ont on the first cold round, and
Americas epionres are now feastiog
upon the et oeteras.
Americns merchants are putting
large orders for holiday goods. They
look forward oinfidently to on excel
lent Christmas trade.
Cotton reoeipts in Americns are
the minimum now. The total receipts
at the warehouses here since Monday
is a paltry sa; bales.
Now that Congress has convened,
perhaps the President may soon (take
up the appointment of postmaster
the Amerions postofllcj.
Mr. W. 0. Carter announces else
where that he is handling cottonseed
meal, and will exchange this for (seed
Read his advertisement.
Motley, the negro bioyele thief .who
stole a number of flue wheels here
was sentenced to the penitentiary yes.
terday to servo two years.
Yesterday's steady downpour of rain
gave business a black eye. People
could notget in from the country, land
town folk stayed at home.
Few Americns cotton men take slock
in the estimate of 10,49},000 {bales for
this crop. Ten million is about the
average of local guessers.
Just what the city oonnoil is going to
do at the annual election in January,
iaa subject whioh is now interesting
some of the olty's employes.
Some Amerions people love an ex-
oiting time, and a parly of flfly watch-
ed a terrier kill a oage full of big ra
on Forsyth street yesterday.
Sam Heys has seenrod a divorce
from the warehouse and goes to Al
bany today as shipping clerk for the
Amerions Grooery Co. there.
Bo’s life8aved From Membranous
Croup.
W/nr| W ', Lj r' 11 ,' * Pr0mln<1, >’ Cltlz nof
Winchester, Tod. write, -My UtUo boy
bad asever. attack of membranous croup
and only got relief after taking Foley’.
Honey and Tar. He go, reI | ef af * r
“king one dose and I r ee i
that It raved the life of my boy."
itofuie substitutes. John R. Hudson.
LOOKED fwe for a jailbird.
Member of Committeo Thus Mistaken
by Prisoner.
Former Sheriff J. O. MeArtbur does
nor resemble in tbe least s jailbird,
bOt this was the conclusion formed of
him by a prisoner yesterday, though
Me Arthur was quick to correct the
error.
Aaa member of a committoo from
the grand jury he was looking through
tbe corridors of tbe jail.
Presently the psrty eamo to tbe cell
occupied by Bnndrick, the Dooly coun
ty prisoner charged with the killing
of Mr. John 8. Shrouder there.
Bnndrick oomplained that hia cell
was cold, to which MoArthnr replied
that he had stayed in tbe jail for nine
years and found tbe building very
comfortable in every way,
“Rnt did yon oooupy a osll away np
here,” aeked Mondrick.
McArthur lost no time in informing
the Doolylte that he occupied tbe
jail as an offoer and not as a prisoner, case
as he seemed to suppose.
Found guilty of the atrooions mur
der of his wife and daughter, Monroe
Adams has been sentenced to
hanged here, in private, on Tuesday
December SOtb. Sncbjjwaa the sen
tence imposed by Judge Littlejohn
npon the conclusion of tbe ease yes
terdsy evening.
Of conrse there will be the nsnal dc
lay resulting from a motion for ja new
trial and appeal of tbe oase.
But in the end, in all probability,
Adams will dangle at a rope's end for
one of tbe moat inhnman and brutal
enmea that ever blackened tbe orlm-
nal records of this oounty.
Coder cover of darkness, without
motive or the slightest provocation,
this negro shot to death his own* wife
and grown daughter and *th^o, with
their blood upon bis hands, expressed
determination to have murdered
three others had he but found .them.
It was a carnival of crime npon which
Adams was engaged.
And for this he bar bcenjlriod, rep
resented by able counsel, aud tbe vet'
diet of twelve good men have con
signed him to tbe gallows.
The trial of the ease occupied {the
day In superior eonrt yesterday. Adams
was ably defended by Messrs James
Taylor, Allen Fort, Jr. and T. F. Cal
laway uidor appointment of the coart.
Solicitor-General Hooper appeared for
the state and made oat a very strong
l
•m
M
Lu
ionus toe basis ox an ideal
Ideal because they do good aa w„. „
)d—muscle building aa well aa palate pleasing.
Uneeda
Biscuit
aa the basis of a luncheon or a substantial
““J; You can’t understand the goodnesa
ofUnaetfo Blacult until you try them.
old only in In-er-seal Packages
which keep them froth an
Frank Mjller of Now York Suooumba
to lllneaa.
The death of Mr.Fraok Miller,which
oceurred at The Windsor yesterday
morning, was one of peculiar
tadnesa though the end was not un
expected, as be bad been very ill *lth
fever for nearly a week paal.
Everythiog that tender hands and
loving friends oonld do was rendered,
bat the advanee of tbe grim messen
ger could not ba stayed.
The end etme peacefully at 8:80
I'clock yesterday morning.
Mr. Miller waa the traveling repre-
tentative of a New York firm and waa
very will-known in Ameriena, where
he frequently etme on basinets, and
no yonng man stood higher in the es
timation of bis friends.
TREY GOME IN CARS
ANDGOTHEIR WAY.
People Who Came Or Went
Away Yesterday.
AMERICUS A MECCA FOR MANY
Came Hero,
Jnst received: Fresh shipment of
Hnyler’a Candies; aCHodaon'e drng
■tore
Your Own Name or That of a Friend
May Bo Found Below In tho Long
May Have to Wait a Whllo Longer for
Their Money. *
Jnat when the orrdilora ef tho de
funct Peopl, a Bank will get any por
tion of ihvir money is a question inter-
eating several hundred people in Amer
icns. Auditor Maynard and Receiver
G. B. Ellie have made their reports to
the ooart and tbeso are bolng carefully
examined by Jndge Littlejohn. In
view of the faot, however, that various
other creditors have filed exceptions to
1 • ii A tu* m £4 E
"A I sht r’-rsc is c heavy cvrcc
Sickncsy -lake* n li^ht purse.
1 .’c LIVER is the seat of nin
tenths of all disease.
1—— .......ou uiurnugu uira. ijQurn
Adame, the picture of composure acd I Erown Miller, formerly of Americas
I self possession, sat near his attorneys. La j,“°7 N ? w T 01 ! 1 *
I lighter, and he was the piotnre of ro-1 friend*, who day and night watohed at
I bust health and strength, I the bedside of tbe sufferer and admin
He gave no sign of recognition to tbe *° bi» ‘very want •
I hundreds of people abont him. I His brother, Mr. G. B. Miller, of
sh.Hir n 11 . , . . I Montgomery, was at his side when tbe
Sheriff Bell, who oaptnred Adams end came. Hia aged mother was in
I after the homicide, and flvs negro I rente here from New York with all
I witnesses to the killing were put np by I Possible epeed, but was stopped at
I the State. These latter testified to the Moo, K on » er r by a telegram annonno-
I a_iaa* _ # . .1 iOl? tllQ And. *
— — —- "»«»■. | ®I** Florenoe Page has gone npon a
He waa twenty-eight year* of age, I delightful visit of two week* to friend*
and related by marriage to Mrs. Lanra 10 Hardeeville, S, 0.
| lag the end.
The body was taken to the family
The money and energy apent here
Thursday in a fruitless chase After
Thanksgiving bird* and rabbits wonld
have bnilt a small cottonlmill.
An Atlanta preacher has oreated „
big stir by denonnelng the wearing
of open work hosiery. He evidently
aroused too msny hots Annas.
Mr. Harry Morgar, for several yeaie
with Johnson A Harrold Warehouse
Co. has recently taken a position with
the Armonr Packing Oo. here.
Yesterday’s freeze pnt a golden tinge
npon the savory chltterling, >nd the
citizen retted to a proper appreciation
of the good thinge of life la happy now.
The Pride of Heroes.
Msny soldiers In the last war wrote to
'aay that for Bsbratshes, Brnlaes. Oafs,
wounds, Cirnt, Sore Feet and Still
Joints, Buoklen’a Arnloa Stive la tte
best In the world. Sams for Burn*.
Soalda, Bill*, Ulcers, Skin Eruptions
and Piles. It onres or no pay. Only
kSo. at E. J. Xldrldga’s drug store.
WILL SELECT NEW UNIFORMS.
Committee Will Make Soleotlon For
Governor’s Staff,
Col. Shelby Myriek received not'eo
Tuesday morning of hi* appointment
aa a member of a committee of five to
•eleot tho uniform* for the members
of Uov. Terrell’s staff. Tho otter
members of tho oommitlee are from
Atlanta, and the moetiog was held
there yesterday afternoon.
killing, giving all the harrowing de-
and restore tho action of the I tra 2 ia Btory.
LIVER to normal condition. I The defense pnt op no witnesses, I State ok Ohio, oity of Toledo, J,
tone * 0 the system and r e ‘ t#t “ ° f ‘ he pr,,on “ “ nooD 0 J b ?u
solid flesh to the body. olosing the testimony. senior partner of tUe firm of F. J.
1 OnB.vEYis Co., doing business lu the
--- the sum
DOLLARS for
Mr. Luke B. Forrest, ^of Sumter,
was mingling yesterday'among his
many America* friend*,
Mr. H.T. Davenport is at home
again after an extended bnsineaa trip
through middle Georgia,
Mr*. 0. W. Collins, of Arlington, la
visiting her parent*, Mr. and Mrs. J.
L. Page, near Americns.
solid flesh to the body.
Take No Substitute.
Jnst before be took tho stand Adams, {jRpft&O*'
| through Attorney Taylor, requested I said, and that «ald firm will pay tl
ist prayer be ofiered for him then and HUNDRED_ DOLLA
MARRIAGE ON SUNDAY EVENING. I J* - W oflered ,of hl “ » nd eLh uny^SSet C?mbb “th«
I there. This request was promptly de-1 oannot be oared by tbe as* of Haul's
... . . a. 1 • .. fllTlIimt r*rvwr»
Mia* Minnie Johnson and Mr. Hearn I n * #d blm by the oonrL
United. In bis atatomont Adams rooited
Oatabbb Cubb.
_ , w frank j. cuenby.
Sworn to before me and subscribed In
—-1 oworn co oaxors me and subscribed In
Avery happy and romantlo m „. bit of hia family trembles which, he “J »!. Otn. day of Dresember
ia?A AAnnrPAil Iiafa an I Bald. Involvdil tharrnnd nivnn nf hia I / * \ —
rlage occurred here on Sunday eve-| Mid > lnTolT «J the good name of bis I r
ning at the resldenee of Judge Thomas [daughter and was brought abont by] j
“ r - ® af ?* D - He * rn Hardy Robinson, who desired toj mar- Catarrh Tare t* taken Internal.
A. W. GLEASON,
Notary Public.
uom ne aiso connected therewith. I P-J. CHEs4tTcO., Toledo, O.
Adams declared that when he fired HeU-7p.m , |!fp!!hi 1“ the best.
Farmer Logan Has Plenty Meet as
Usual.
plighted their troth et Hymen’* altar. . '7°'”’, * MUor 10 “ a mLmon.Vnrfa^Ba'rf'thi’mt*^
The engagement of thli popnlrryonDg 8ebem ' 1 ' * nd Will Nlghton end wife, | f or *—-* ■— -
conplo had previonsly been ennonneed " hom bo Also oonneoted therewith,
and tbs marriage was plsssantly an- Adams deolared that when he
Uoipated among the many friends of | he thought he waa alminn at the Vloh-,
both. The bride is tbe beanlifnl ton . _, hnm h« ,«.n. *
daughter of Oapt and Mrs. J. 8. John- ‘ ’ who “ h * rMl, J ^ealred to kill. | is KILLING A HUNDRED HOGS.
eon, residing near Andersonville. | ex oresiod deop Borrow at having
Mr. Hearn was especially desirions | bla wife and daughter
that Jndge Allen should officiate at All the attorney* In tbe ease made
bis marriage and aooordlngly drove to I speeches and it waa 'naarlv 4 u’ninrk I u. u T r_ . « .
evening where StItaJwere solemn- Whe “ * h# inry re " Md - moat progrimlv. and sn^mlAl f^‘
ized in the presence ofa number of Th8 i ary ,ntha Messrs. «»l»g to be long on meat this
relatives and friend*. Mr. Hearn J T ’ J - Frazier, B. G. Lake, J. P. Pan-1 ^ * a
oonneoted with the Whitley Grooery hon.E. T. Smith, R O.Smoot. W. W. „»”nd wh^in the^eathMto'*n*. nd m
met?, Dd bTMe. k They-me' now ^ ^ B.K. Webb,;E. Y. Yonng,
homl" to their Wend. It tha All«n Mohrm » nD * w * B - Hansford,|S, F. next year. Last week he killed six-
jj 0n60 I Halstead and L. O. Gammage, I * een porkers, and baa eighty more
Thejnry waaont bnt a abort time w . ho ? P ® , , ,, ". h l' p e ,, a*h 0 “'.'*‘ 0 ‘a , of
I will have with me tbe 4, -9 and #tb, tll j returned a vwdint | “Inety-slx for this wintm’s killing.
Fox the famous eye epeelalist of Phila-1. . T . . . . J- j If all our farmcraconld raise their|osn
delphi*. Don’t tail to have him teit | J dg * ^““GohD, aa slated, sentenced I meat, aa does Mr. Logan, the cotton
your eye* free of obarge. I Adams to hang (on 30th. inat., bat I halls and bears wonld have fewer ter-
Johx R. Huoaox. | there la but little likelihood that he | lor ,n the way of manipnlat-
wlll swing so soon as that. Tho exe-1 lo * ** 1 * priea ot th * ,tallle -
| cation I* ordered to be in private.
An immense throng of negroes filled
Mr. E D. Ansley leaves today for
New York, where he goes npon la
pertant matters of bnsineaa.
Mrs. J, P. Cooper returned lo Perry
yesterday after a visit to her (parents,
Jndge and Mrs. J. A. Ansley'on Bell
street.
Miss Kale Callaway, of Maoon, lathe
pret'y and popnlar guest of her oonsip,
Miss May Wheatley, at horjhomo m
Lea street.
any part ot the funds on hand may bo
longer dolayed, though this matter has
not yot been fully determined. It wu
announced some time ego that a first
payment to creditors wonld be made
nuder order of tbe court at this term,
but it la now a debatable question
whether, with tbe,exceptions reoontly
filed, this can be done at present.
Report Rom the Reform School.
J. G Gin?k, Supjrintendmt, Prun-
tytown, W. V«. write*: “Aftor trying
all other advertised cough medicines we
have neolded to us. Foley’s Honey and
Tar exclusively In the Wert Virginia
Reform Sibool, I fl.d It the moatef-
f-etlva and absolutely harmless." John
R. Hudson.
For Book*, Periodicals, Piotnres and
•frame*, fine stationery, engraving, toya
and fancy goods—headquarters at M.
8. Holliday’s.
DR. ALEXANDER’S
CHILL TONIC
ApMltlve, permanent, nnd jafecurerbr MtUrie,
Chill, and Few. Contain, no poiaon. Tho beat
Mi.. Whnall.v I. Mia „ .1 TobI ? Anll-Perlodlc, Appetizer, and StrengUi.
MIS* Alay Wheatley I* the pretty and I enerforpale,Mekly female.«nd children known,
charming gaeat of Mias Nell* Vasou Brin*, the flow to fluted check. I make, weak
in Albany this week while attending
tbe Elk* Fair.
Mrs. James A. Hixon la at home Dr. Alexander-,
again after a pleasant stay of”two or °***« Torpid Liver. lon^pfuoo.aiSkHodiS*
COTTON MARKET REPORT.
Conghi, Colds and Constipation.
Few people reallae when taking eongh
Sound Kidneys—Perfect Health
The nee of Smith’s Sure Kidney Cure
will produce both. Try a bottle-and
he convinced. Yonr dinggist sella it
for 60 cents.
Amerions, Ga., Dee. 8.—Receipts ■ ,u,uui v, uegcon uuca i cew people tesiiie when taking eongb
today at local warehouses. ^43 bales. I the gallery of the courtroom dnriog | madlolnst other ttai Foley’s Honey and
Received prtv.onsly 20,,02 “ | tha trial yesterday, watching the easel T4r ‘ th * t ,h ®I oontll,, opiate* whleh are
k.iaa I With absorbing interest. | b ^ ,d ?* be, °? nn “I*. P«*
Total receipts to date... .23,804 bales.
The local market is quoted a* follows:
Good Middling ?( & 7j
Middling 7j @ 7}
Batter Than n Plaster.
„ . , .I A phe* cf Minuet dampened with
; N '°* Y °I}' D *J*• ,. V l n n J a“, Chamberlain’* Pain Balm sod bound on
tleularly hr children, Foley’* Honey
and Taroontains no opla’er, la safe aad
anreaod will not ooestipa’a. John R
Hndfoo,
.t.adr Dm ~ j.V" g ai M«oh I ^ Dtmoe,,UBt r “ n *»<>“*»* on I Sight U prioelea* ae don’, fail to have
8 fs Mav^i ’ J ’ tbo elteeted puts ,, better than a pla,. Fox tha famona eye specialist of Phila-
8.18, May 8.19. | Urfor , Ume baok , nd for paln , ln tbe deIph „ to , M , yonr #J#| #t John
. aide or chest Pale B rim has no superior Hudson's drag store.
If Ton Suffer From Kidney TroableelaialiolauBtfor the relief o^despasated, | — ■
Use Smith’* Snre Kidney Core, Noth-1 mnacnlar and rheomaho pain*. For] Borne men are known by tte frten’s
iof like it for diseased kidneys. SOt I ael* by all drogglito. I they fail to make.
three weeks in Atlanta with Represen
tative Bison.
Mr*. G. H. Whitaker leaves teday
e Washington, and will spend two
week* pleasantly with friends at tbe
nationel capital.
Mr. Donglas Feagin, a Bnmter
yonng men, now a wellknown yonng
lawyer of Meoon, is attending superior
court bore today,
Mis* Minnie Harper left yesterday
for Richmond where aho will spend
some time at the home of her brother,
Mr. Ross Harper.
Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Dodson spent
yesterday vory pleasantly in Albany,
visiting friends and seeing the attrac
tion* of the Elks Fair.
Mrs. John A. Walter*, of Albany, la
visiting her brother, Mr. T. B. Hooke
before going with Mr. Walter* to Tam
ps, Fla. soon to reside,
Mies Lnolo Johnson, of Maoon, ar
rived yesterday npon a visit tolUisies
Maiy and Carrie Wootten, at their
home on Ohnreh street.
^ Misa Annie Williamson, a oharming
society belle of Nashville, is the charm
ing gaeat of Mias Ides Felder at her
residence on Taylor street.
Mr. A. W. Smith ha* gone to New
York for the purpose ofjbnying a line
of boantlfnl holiday goods for the
A, W. Smith Fainltore’Oo.
Mrs. Carrie Brannon {William*, of
Savannah, after a brief visit in Mont
gomery, it again the gaeat of Miu
Mervin Callaway for a few diyt,
Mrs. Rank Harrold left yesterday
for Albany, where aho will bo the
gaeat of Mrs. Wallace W, Bacon for
several days daring the Elks Fair.
children fat and hearty.
TSUet farm | UAeleas t cney to take.
Price SO clt. Trial Size, 25 etc
Frist 25 Ccntr. For isle by
Se it by m til o YireeetM- ot p-ice. o/E.S
EldiGgr, i.lo imerlcua, tfa
Sood JPoa/tA...
ZtAo days and girls
health is tho foun
dation for their success*.
Jfoep well if you insure
^ a future.
Jf TJonie:
jfn Jfitoratiue,
or Remedy for Colds,
Tae btttdtnfi are here* -»
the beat it medley
Rambert’s Drug Store 4
JNcxt Postoffico]
PILES! PILES!
PILES
ore
1 nbort
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