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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MARCH 27, 1903.
NUMBER 44
East Lake, Ala., Dec. 8th, 1902.
Mr, A. B. Girardeau, Savannah, Ga.
Dear Sir:—This is to certify that on Au
gust 1st I went to Verbena, Ala., to hold a
series of meetings. Was at that time, and
had been for six weeks prior, so feeble I was
scarcely able to preach. Mr. F. A. Gulledge,
of Verbena, with whose family I was stop
ping, kindly offered me three bottles of
Johnson’s Chill and Fever Tonic, gratis. I
accepted, and began the use of the Tonic at
once. Within three weeks I was was much
better. In three weeks I had taken the
three bottles of Tonic and was fully well.
Took no other medicine th£n nor since, and
am in better health and heavier than for
the past fifteen years.
J. M. McCORD,
Pastor Verbena'Baptist Church.
BREAK IN CONSOLS
ALARMS BRITONS
Fall
To Below 90 Is Not
Improbable.
GOVERNMENT MAY INTERCEDE.
Further Decline Will Necessitate
Every British Bank Reorganizing Its
Reserves—Americans Buy on Belief
that Bottom Has Been Readied.
Landslide causes
WRECK OF TRAIN
pficials Say Accident Was
Unavoidable. ■
■ RAFFIC DELAYED FOR HOURS.
bnly One Death Known to Have Re
lated-Engineer and Fireman Bad
ly Bruised and Scalded—Passengers
Shaken Up.
| Atlanta, March 23.—The north-
iouinI passenger on the Southern rail-
Si; lor Washington, which left this
lit)' last midnight was wrecked at
(tyemllle, Cia., near Toccoa, SO miles
rth or this city, late last night by
landslide of rock. An unknown
*as Instantly killed aud the
Iremsn sod engineer of the train se-
ptrel.v bruised and scalded.
Tbc dead:
An Vnknottn Tramp.
The Injured:
Edward Miller, engineer, arm brok
i »cd severely scalded.
Frederick Thompton, fireman, bad-
|if bruised and scalded.
The accident occurred a few miles
wth of Aversville. Tho train was ap
proaching a deep cut. when, without
'tr warning, a large slide of rock fell
Ikrois the track. A watchman sta-
■tionod nearby heard the slide, and
■suited out to warn tho passenger
linin, which was then due. He had
■proceeded only a short distance when
|di« train crashed Into tho obstruction.
The three rear Pullmans are report-
■»d to have left the track, tearing up
■lie read for a short distance. None
|o! the passengers were hurt.
Tram,. w as delayed for several
MRS. MAYBRIGK
~ TO GAIN LIBERTY
Release Now Assured Next
Year.
WILL HAVE SERVED 18 YEARS.
Suits Affecting Prisoner's Interests in
Kentucky, Virginia and West Vlr.
glnia Given as Immediate Cause for
Granting Pardon,
|hour,
"'a.-hlngton. March 23.—Advices re-
jre.vtd at the Southern railroad offices
l‘ tr * state that the accident was un-
I‘foldable. Tiie train was approach-
1*5* a cut and a slide of rock occurred
lint as the engineer blew tho signal
l-or a road crossing. Tho watchman
|ittt!one.| in the cut started at ones
“ a K the train, but had only .gone
I about a hundred yards from the cut
l»btn the train crashed koto the oh-
London, March 23.—Mrs. Kliyonce
Maybrlck, the American woman, who
was convicted at Liverpool in 1889
on the charge of poisoning her hus
band. James Maybrlck, by arsenic,
and whose sentence of death was com
muted to penal servitude for life, will
be released in 1901. The announce
ment comes from tho home ofllca
which now authorizes her Washington
lawyers to u$e the fart of hor release
next year as a reason for securing the
postponement of the trial of the law
suits bearing on the prisoner’s Inter
est in land In Kencky, Virginia and
West Virginia until she Is able to per
sonally testify.
Those who sre in a position to know-
say that Home Secretary Akcrs-Doug-
lass has shown great courtesy In con-
section with the suits now pending
dus to efTorts on this side of the At-
lsntlc -and that Ambassador Herbert
bas never been called upon to act in
this matter.
I-ondon, March 25.—The possibility
of consols being In the eighties bas
created consternation not only among
speculators and investors, but in the
great banking Interests, who, for years,
have written down their consol hold
ings at 9l), though the market price
was considerably above par, 90 being
considered the lowest possible price
the securities was likely to go.
Should consols go down to and re'
main below 90. every British hank will
bo obliged to reorganize its reserves,
get out new balances upon a fresh
basis. Such a serious contingency,
however, is scarcely believSd possible.
A reiiort is current that the govern
ment may step in as a buyer of Its own
securities, which would immediately
restore the national credit. But the
stringency in the'money market is not
expected to be alleviated, for if the
Bank of England eases Its conditions
the continent, which Is a big lender,
will withdrawn loans In order to get
more favorable terms elsewhere. There
was some slight American buying to
day In the belief that rock-bottom
bad been reached. One purchase of
$75,000 for an Anglo-Amorfcan firm
caused a temporary rise of He which,
however, was soon obliterated by in
vestors selling, (
IRISH LAND BILL
PRESENTED TODAY
Proposes Free Brant of Sixty
Million Dollars.
FLOOD WATERS
SOON TO RECEDE
INTENSE INTEREST IS SHOWN.
Believed that Adoption of Measure
Would Promote Peace and Content
ment In Ireland—Many Notable* At
tend Seseion of Parliament.
TO RELIVE THE GHETTO.
Foreign Jew* Coming to Chicago Will
Be Asked to Move On.
Chicago. March 25.—Tho Chronicle
today says:
Jews who migrate to tho United
States and come to Chicago to make
their homes will bo invited to continue
their Journey westward, If the plans
of tho Chicago Removal Industrial so
ciety, which was organized last night,
succeeds.
Chicago Jews expect the movement
to result in great good. They say
the congested district of the Ghetto
will he relieved and that the Jews will
be urged to seek homes in the coun
try. In the villages and small cities
of the west.
The organization Is similar to one
In New York. Offices will be estab
llshed In tiie Ghetto district. Corre
spondence with manufacturers in the
smaller cities and’ villages will be con
ducted and an attempt will be made
to secure positions for the Jews who
would like to leave Chicago.
VENEZUELAN WAR8HIP 8IEZED,
The Reetauraudor Charged With Pira
cy on High Seas.
(New Yoik. March 23.—The British
cruiser Pallas bas seized the Venezu
elan warship Kestaurador on the
ground that she Is a pirate, cables Tho
Herald's correspondent at Port of
8pain, Trinidad The case against
the Restaurador cites that soon after
She was handed over to tho Venezue
lan authorities by the German commo
dore. she began again acts of piracy
and robbery on the high seas.
It Is charged that she seized tho
cargoes of vessels and then dismantled
and abandoned the craft.
A Port of Spain newspaper says
itru, ilon. A tramp was killed and I editorially of the Hcstaurador’s course
“f/Wncer and fireman were badly ' that "such piratical acts prove the un-
r The accident tied the road I wisdom of generosity of tho allied
No passenger* j powers."
j The paper expresses tho hope that
| retributive Justice will bo swifter apd
UNREST IN VENEZUELA. more effective than on the last occa
sion.
ibjured
ie fo r several hours.
"■* imported hurt.
Gtoc
m > Outlook for Future Probably
C.uscu Castro'e Resignation.
! a . March 23.—An official dis-
has been received from Caracas
M."! 8 , 11 "' that led up to Pres-
tiii ! llstro 's resignation. It show*
t ; l,i:s action was not a mere for-
as some of tho dlsnatches In-
J‘ a ' J - l,ut was the outgrowth of se-
•va- conditions caused by the ro-
“‘ternatlonal entanglements.
The Kestaurador was formerly ths
American yacht Atalanta. She was
built for Jay Gould.
Chief Engineer Morley Dead.
New York. March 25.—Chief Bngin.
eer A. W. Morley. U. S. N., retired
Is dead at hla home In Brooklyn.
He was one of the best known and
most capable officers of the old en
gineer corps of the navy. Chief
Engineer Mobley was born in
Hartford. Conn., and entered the
- at the outbreak of the civil war.
srtlrlpated In the blockade and
engagements of the West, Gulf
and South Atlantic squadrons, and
bv the close of the war had' attained
the grade of first assistant engineer.
ACCIDENTAL ?
jury returned a verdict of acd-
death on the man who fell from
The
dental
the window ledge on which be had fallen
asleep. But the death was reallv due to
ble.
CHILD DROWNED IN TUB.
fWi **•“ vUI*li0lvU4vUhD #
-.o dispatch says tho main cans*
pre * ldent ’» resignation waa the
b-'r ^ * 1,h Germany, which, beside*
• * difficult of solution, have canned
••^spread alarm.
fuiUor ,J - tUa,1 ° n ' “ U add#d *
• < om Pllcate4 by the activity ol
f , rrvolutloalste. The dispatch
/ , conv «) r « the impression that
resignation of General Castro is
Itdicatiy
55r<it
0 of the present condition ol
and Instability in
foreshadowing
Uc « of government
general
Peculiar Death of Infant In Brooks
County.
Quitman, Oa.. March 25.—The 3-year-
old child of Ed Humphreys, who lives
at Tallokas, in the nortnern part of
the county, lost its life this morning
In a’peculiar way.
It was Just beginning to walk, and
was left by Its mother alon* la the
room for a few minute*. During her
absence It fell head first Into the slop
tub, snd when she returned it was
To Pull Fires In Cokt Ovens.
Thurmond. W. Va.. March 25.—Ow
ing to freight congestion it Is report
ed today that fires will shortly be
la 2,000 or more coke ovens *
Hirer fields.
London, March 25.—The Irish secre
tary, Mr. Wyndham, introduced the
government's long anticipate I Irish
land bill in the house of commons to
day.
It proposes a free grant of $60,000.-
000 for the purposes of the bill. The
keen interest felt in this new legisla
tion which, it Is hoped, will promote
peace and contentment in Ireland, will
be evidenced' by the crowded house.
The peers' gallery and the distinguish
cd strangers’ galleries filled and there
has been no such gathering of mem
bers of parliament since the opening
of the session. Michael Davltt, the
father of the land league, celebrated
his fifty-seventh birthday by re-enter
ing the house for the first time since
he ceased to be a member, in order
to hear chief secretary a for Ireland.
Mr. Wyndham. who was heartily
cheered when he arose to speak, an
nounced at the outset that the gov
ernment thought cash aid waa neces
sary for the fulfillment of the pro
posed scheme, but It attached greater
Importance to the credit operation than
to the cash operations. He then un
folded the scheme which provides for
an advance of money for the pur
chase of land' by the tenants.
The advance will be In the shape of
cash and stock, but In order to en
able the rash to be raised a new
stock Is to be floated.
It will be called “guaranteed 2% per
cent stock,” and will be unredeemable
for 30 years.
Mr. Wyndham doubted If $500,000
000 of the stock would be needed
will be Issued at the rate of $25,000,000
yearly for the first three years, and
afterwards possibly' in larger ►sums,
In addition to this, the government
proposed a free grant of $60,000,000 to
be raised by additions to tho stock,
the Interest and slnkifig fund of which
will be borne by tho treasury and the
maximum annual charge of which will
not exceed $1,950,000.
The Irish secretary explained that
^h1% the maximum charge on the
English treasury would not exceed
5J.975,coo In a single year, tho reduc-
In the cost of the administration
of Ireland would amount to $1,250,000.
The advance tenants through the
provisions of the land bill are limited
to $2,509. in the congested districts
and $5,000 elsewhere. The hill will
become effective Nov. 1. Mr. Wynd
ham said $750,000,000 could be safely
advanced on Irish land, but he thought
the scheme would not Involve $500-
000.000.
Mr. Wyndham finished speaking at
4:10 p. m. Later the Irieh land b:.
passed Its first reading
Critical Point Now On Lower
Mississippi.
WEATHER REMAINS FAVORABLE.
Crset of Flood Expected to Reach Gulf
By Sunday and a Steady Decline to
Follow—River Is Gradually Falling
at Memphis. '
It
CHARTERS MAY 3E RETURNED.
Generally Thought Suspended Masonic
Lodges Will Be Reinstated.
New York. March 25.—Whllo Mason
ic lodges which are found to have un
desirable members will be thorough
ly purged, it is thought by Masons
generally that the3e bodies will not
necessarily be obllterate-t.
Even Doric lodge, which has at least
temporarily lost its charter, will not
be kept beyond the pale.
The cleansing process will now be
extended through the state and more
than 800 lodges will be concerned.
Grand Master Crandall is collecting
evidence which will soon he used in
the case of the men responsible for the
admission of “Shan” Draper into Dor
ic lodge. It Is believed If these men
are found guilty they will he driven
from the order.
RELIEF SHIP RETURNS.
and neglects
the warning symptoms of disease, he is
carelessly inviting calamity.
Dr. Pierce’* Oilden Medical Discovery
cures diseases of the stomach add other
other
organs of digestion aud nutrition. It
enables the perfect digestion and aisimi-
‘lien makes strength.
lation of food, which makes strength.
It stimulates the liver, cures biliousness,
and removes bilious impurities from the
blood.
• Mf weight hinrlne
1 had to take medictV.
for a time, but it did no
Bitten
ao I wrote to Dr.
he gave tn.
twuuaotniamedlcine and waa cured. I had a
'A .?^rak no . w: b *" **«*
Dr. Pierce’* Pleasant Pellets cure con-
They do not beget the pill
L_
. ►iY'e* '
Left the Disccvery In Antarctic Waters
With All Hands Well.
Christ Church. New Zealand, March
25—The steamer Morning, the Royal
Geographical society's relief ship for
the antarctic steamer Discovery, has ar
rived at Littleton. 8 miles from here.
She left the Discovery In antarctic wa
ten with ail. well on board of her.
The Discovery, which was fitted out
under the auspices of the Royal Geo
graphical* society, the Royal society
and the British government left Eng
land In August. 1901, and New Zea-
land In December of thet year. She
le to spend two antarctic summers and
one winter In the Ur south and ie ex
pected to reach Littleton, N. Z., la Au
gust of this year.
negro Prisoner Killed.
Washington, March 26.—William
Wheeler, a negro who attempted to es
cape from a police Tan, waa ahot and
Instantly killed today by Policeman J.
L. Sawyer. Wheeler and two otfier
prisoners were being transferred from
the Georgetown police station to th6
ran awaiting outside when the negro
broke from the line and aped away,
with the officer hi pursuit The lab
tar fired. Wheeler fell dead and tk<
policeman collapsed.
New Orleans, March 25.—Though
reports from all points south of Helena
are of a rising river, the Mississippi
In front of New Orleans Is practically
stationary* the gaugo marking today
20.1 feet That fact naturally causes
much rellof here since It means that
the river will have less difficulty m
carrying .off the higher water that Is
coming this way.
The levee board continues Its prep
arations for the maximum flood prom
ised'by tho weather bureau. The
weather Is clear and sunshiny. Trou
ble Is still being experienced with reck
less craft In the river which exceed
the speed allowed by tho governor's
proclamation. In other years of
floods It bas not been an altogether
rare occurrence that people living
along tho levees have taken Into their
own hands the enforcement of the
proclamation by the use of rifles and
threats along that line are being made
now. It' may be said, however, that
the large majority of steamboats and
steamship men are obeying the Jn-
structlons of the authorities. Good
reports come from the condition of the
levees In the Panchartraln district on
the east of the river between Baton
Rouge to New Orleans. They are now
undergoing a severe strain, but Presi
dent Leake still believes that the en
tire system will be held. The Missis-
elppl Valley and Illinois Central rail
roads, which would both be affected by
any serious break In this territory, are
eo-operatlng with the levee board and
the planters In the work of strength
ening tho line.
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Tk\*>LD RELIABLE
&akiK0
POWDER
Absolutely Purer
THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE
CHINESE SOCIETIES
ARE HOSTILE
Scenes of 15 Years Ago May
Be Be-Enaeted.
HIGHBINDERS ARE AGGRESSIVE.
Reign of Terror Exists In Chinese Sec
tion of Portland, Ore., and a Clash
Between the Societies May Be Ex
pected at Any Tima,
Reported Break at Lacojtla Circle.
Vicksburg. Miss., March 25.—The re
ports of the break In the levee at La-
eonla Circle, Ark., are greatly exag
gerated. The break In the embank
ment there was not as serious as first
reported, as the embankment was only
a protection levee, and not In the sys
tem of levees In that section.
The crevasse ha* not materially af
fected the situation.
The continued clear, cold weather
has brought hope to tble section, al
though the river Is steadily rising.
The gauge here thta morning regie-
tered 51.4 feet, a rise of 1.1 feet in the
last 24 Hours.
River Falling at Memphis.
Memphis. Tenn., March 25.—The Hr-
or this morning Is falling slowly. Hie
gauge Is 29.1 feet, a fall of .$ In 24
hours, and a fall of 1 foot from the
maximum of the present flood, which
wai reached last Saturday. The Iron
Mountain railroad made good Its prom
ise last night and sent Its first train
west this morning. Railroad traAc
has been resumed by all western lines
over the Iron Mountain tracks. There
hag been much Improvement In the
flooded area of North Memphis.
Portland, Ore., March 24.—Not since
the fierce Highbinder fight In 16 years,
ago In which a large nuptber were
killed In Chinatown bas ths Chinese
seotkrn of the city been hi such a state
uproar and excitement
Two of the leading Highbinder as
sociations of the city have declared
open warfare, and two more of the
leading societies are fast being drawn
Into the trouble;
Po Tin Tong and Bo On Tong soci
eties are-the leaders In the fight and
are making preparations to conteat
their disputes to the bitter end. Flf-
teen Chlneee of fighting fame arriv
ed last night to be on hand when the
trouble comes to a head.
The Astoria Chinamen belong most
ly to the Po Lkt Tong, and It fe said
that the Bo On Tong have sent to
San Francisco for a delegation of
Highbinders.
The Hdp Sing Tong and the Sul Sing
Tong, the leading societies of Port
land, have thus tkr refused to be
drawn into tha dispute.
“They openly challenge ue to fight,”
said a member of the Hop Sing soci
ety. "and say we pre afraid of them.
If they would Import all of the men
they, have on the coast we would (till
have the strongest society."
Chinese thronged the police sta-
tlon last night and told tbelr tales of
fear to the polite. The chief of po
lice Informed them that he would dou
ble the patrol In Chinatown until the
trouble had abated.
PRESIDENTIAL APPOINT8MENT8,
MYSTERY IS SOLVED.
Two Negreea Under Arrest For Kill,
ing Chinaman.
Indianapolis, March 25.—Ths mys
tery surrounding the murder of Doc
Lung, the Chinese laundryman, sever-
‘ monthe ago, has been solved.
Two negroes, who are chargd with
the murder, are under arrest and the
detective* are searching for several
other negroes. Inrludtng a woman, and
Chinese who are said' to be Impllcat-
I. The negroes under arrest are
Nlm Davis, a well known police char,
aeler. and a man named Brooks. The
story Is that Doc Lung was In his
laundry with a negro woman when the
negro man entered the place. The
murder followed. It/was also said
that a Chinese tipped off the fact that
woman was with Lung, and.that the
murder was committed through jeal-
ousy. *
JAPS MUST NOT COME HERE.
Japanese Consul Gives Warning to
Those In Honolulu.
Honolulu. March 17. via San Francis-
co. March 25.—Acting Japanese consul
Okabe has Issued a proclamation warn
ing his countrymen against going to
the United States from here, declar
ing that the trip Is contrary to the
law of Japan and also that lmmlgra.
tlon and labor agents who have been
securing recruit* are misrepresenting
the condition.
The governor has signed the act to
make the old Hawaiian flag the official
territorial flag.
North Carolina Man Turned Down Be.
cause He Old Net Support Party.
Washington. March 24.—Tho follow
ing postaaateie have been appointed
by the president:
Mlrslsslppl—Culyort, B. R. Braze!-
ton. x j
North Carolina—Charleston, W. I*
Harris. * ■
Texas—Commerce, Dallas Herbert;
Llamo. Gertrude Taylor; Rosedale, E.
J. M. Hopkins.
In connection with the appointment
of Mr. Pereon at Wilson, N. C., tha
postoffice department Issued the fol
lowing statement: “After a careful
rocaideratlon the department baa eon-
eluded the statement was correct „
Mr. Vick had not supported the Re.
publican ticket, and consequently
no claim to natty recognition.
SIX REPORTED LOST.
Said Four Drummers and Two Ne
groes Were Drowned.
Memphis. Teno.. March. 24.—The
Scimitar this afternoon aays that J.
R. -Hood, of this city, an amploye of
an Arkansas saw mill, returned from
the flood district of Arkansas thta
morning and reports that while at
Gavin, a station on the ’Frisco rail-
read, Saturday afternoon h* aaw a
skiff containing four drummers and
two negro oarsmen swept under tho
track of the railroad In a stiff currei
The boat was overturned, all sis ot
occupants being drowned.
Mr. Hood does not know the
of the traveling men, but aays
war* caught In the overflowed
trtet by the waehlng out of the
rood tracks and had employed the
grace to raw them across tho
merged territory to Mound City,
where they Intended to take a
boat for tTjle city.'
^ Cherry Pectoral
k V One dose at bedtime pre
vents night coughs of chil
dren. No croup. LwCKfc