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..rirrfl tear. AMERICUS, GEORGIA, FRIDAY, MAY 8, 1903. NUMBER 1 East Lake, Ala., Dec. 8th, 1902. | >l r . 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, oi 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 1 was was much better. In three weeks I had taken the three bottles of Tonic and was fully well. Took no other medicine then nor since, and lam in better health and heavier than for I the past fifteen years. J. M. McCORD, Pastor Verbena Baptist Church; President Suspenders :c.\ Pur Metal Parts R:ist Proof. Positively Guaranteed if ^'President" is on budies. Everywhere SO cts., or by mail postpaid. * LcU or dark, wide or narrow. C. A. EDGARTON MFC. CO. Shirley, Min. •v/i' IVJT V |ns French Periodical Drops Strictly vegetable, ocrfectly harmless, sure to accomplish DESIRED RESULTS. Greatest known female remedy. 01 Jkv.r.of counterfeit, snd Imitation,. TtioefnnlneUpai up onlrln paito-bosrij C»r. G«L^ on .* l, .?..f. ac -»lnillo alfnature on aide of the bottle, thee: Ju/ r to WILLIAMS SiFU. CO..Hole Agonu. Cleveland.Ohio. Sold bv the Eldrldjre Drug Stoics, Amcrlcua. Ga. |0eath of Judge Maxwell. Springs, Fla., May 0.— - E Maxwell, the last survivor I ConWerate States senate, ex* ftator Vest, Is dead at Chlpley, ■ Judge Maxwell waa a na- I Georgia, was educated at the ■>"!' of Virginia and moved to 1 'n IS!.", lie had served In pt(h,, s of the state legislature r‘ fi:,< ‘d the position of secre- ' s,al " and attorney general of " n was a member of con- to 1S57 ;was Confed- senator from 1862 until 15 appointed Judge of the state ' «wt In 1806, was circuit l‘ V s ". and wps chief Justice of r isiM'i. * ri * e Fights in Chihuahua. ■ «ay G.—A News special 1 *•"Tex., says: It Is . r, '!Iable authority that Don •il a i'"' lhe nt 'w governor of • has not only refused con- ntthts to be held In this i also endeavor to sup- ‘wtu.s of gambling. | p 'e«tnde r Assassinated 1 May C.—a dispatch from »* •'* 11 ■» rumored that tho “as hccu assassinated at I - Troor. la a' pi‘ ‘’'"ntleman bad some (hx, r . WBt ®r close to bis nr th OCCBBlon »*o he!d a rout Junm lr ( BC ®®f the water. A‘ hold or , “>« worm and. f* with ,, them to uh “• “*«> by its own IN PERILOU8 POSITION. Crew of Fishing Brig Rescued by a „ Passing Steamer. New York. May 6.—Twenty-three survivors of the crew of 26 of the French Ashing brig lile de Terre Neuve of St. Zervcan, France, arrived hero today on the Gcrmnn-Amcrican petro leum company's steamer Phoebus, from Hamburg. - The lllo do Terre Neuve was swept liy a hurricane on April 26 and seven of her men wash ed overboard. Of these, four were res cued and three drowned. On the 26th the wreck was sighted by tbe Phoebus, and tho survivors were taken on board the steamer with much difficulty and the brig was set on Are. Captain Schlcrhorst. of the Phoebus, says that at 3 o'clock of tho morning of April 14 a Aaro of light was sighted dead ahead, evidently a signal of dis tress. The Phoebus bore down and found a small dismasted sailing vessel which proved to be the IUo do Terre Neuve, listed heavily to port, rolling frightfully, with the seps washing over her. . The condition of the crew appeared very dangerous, and they were aeen grouped on the after part of tho vea- ael. A life boat was sent to the wreck to which a line **• pas 8 ®d- Somo of the crew Jumped into the sea and were hauled Into tho boat and brought to the steamer. When second trip waa made daylight broke and the work proceeded rapidly, sev- oral trips were made, the log the last to leave. He mjJnUtaed strict dlaclpllne throughout trans fer and set Hr# to tho wreck before leaving. • ' DEMONSTRATION OY ITAL1ANJTRIKERS Drive Laborers Away From Muscoofa Dam. MBN HOOTED AND HURLED AT. 8tones Were Thrown and a Dash Made Upon Works Until Police Appeared and Dispersed Strikers—Police Then Kept Strikers on the Move. New York. May 5.—Several hundred Italian strikers made a demonstration today before the diggers and shovelers employed on tbe Muscoot dam at the water works Improvements In the bor. ough of Brooklyn, and succeeded In driving them from their work. The laborers on the dam for Contractor John B. McDonald had announced their satisfaction wtlh the wages paid and they would not strike. But the Strikers have harassed the McDonald contracts, and especially along the subway, said they would drive the men from the trenches, and they ap peared at the dam several hundred strong. Tbe Arst laborers to start to work were hooted and howled at. A few stones were thrown, and as the num her of laborerers Increased, a leader In the crowd of strikers ahouted phrase In Italian and a dash was made upon the works. Tho laborers drop ped their tools and Aed. Not .wishing to mix with the police, who had been called, tbe strikers dis persed. Hie police kept all strikers moving today all along the route of tbe subway. They bad 400 pickets along tbe works. A number of the men employed In tbe subway were forced to quit work today by a lack of material and the means to fetch It. GOCKRILL-HARGIS FEUD CLAIMS V CTIM Prominent Attorney Is Shot Down at Jackson, Ky. ASSASSIN AN UNKNOWN MAN. J. B. Marcum, a Member of One 8lde In the Cockrill-Hargit Feud in Breathitt County, Ha« Brains Shot Out While Entering Court House. PHILANTHROPIC MISS COULD. Her Estate To Be Made Useful to the Public. New York. May 5.—Because Miss Helen Miller Gould Is determined nothing on her estate which may he made useful to the public shall remain Idle, men arc at wo:k making ready several buildings on the grounds which have not at present any special use, so that they may be tho home of Miss Gould’s philanthropic acts. Improvements on a stono building which is to he used for a cooking school for the girls of Irvington and Tarrytown arc almost completed and by next Saturday afternoon everything will ho In read'lnors for the school to open. Besides the cooking school. Miss Gould has donated another build- Ing to a sewing school. Here, too. the girls of Irvington and Tarrytown will he the students The school al ready has been started. Louisville, Ky., May 4.—A special from Jackson, Ky., says: J. B. Marcum, a prominent attorney and a member of one side in the Cock. rlll-Hargis feud, which has disturbed Breathitt county for two years, was shot and instantly killed, as he was en tering the court house here this morn ing by an unknown man. Lexington, Ky., May 4.—A telegram from Jackson, says that J. B. Marcum a 'prominent attorney from this place, had his brains shot out wbllo stand Ing In front of the court house door about 11 o'clock. Marcum has always been friendly to the Cockrlll family and their friends, and has often stated that ef forts were being made to have him Ulled. Mr.rcum at the time he was shot was standing in the mala hall of the court house, and. was looking toward Hargis' brothers store. He was shot In the head from behind by some one located In the ball further back. The assassin at this time Is un known. Great excitement prevails, and the town is in an uproar. —■ -. / REUNION FUND INCREASING. BALTIMORE ELECTS DEMOCRATIC MAYOR Plurality Given Kobort Mo- Lane Over F. M. Waehter. DISPUTE OF ELECTION JUDGE* Parrish Sentence Stayed. Birmingham, Ala., May 5.—Court has suspended sentence In the case of Hollis Parrish, convicted of the mur der of George Leonard and sentenced to ten years In the penitentiary, motion for a new trial having been given. Parrish Is a young lawyer. He killed Leonard while a policeman was in the act of arresting him. The plea for defense was mental incapaci ty produced by excessive drinking. Parrish's father Is a presiding elder In the Methodist church In Alabama and several of his brothers are preach ers In the ssme denomination. They all stood hr him on «h. *H*L New Orleans Will Entertain Confeder ate Veterans Royally. New Orleans, May 4.—Isldor McMa hon, Sr., has given an additional $1,000 to the confederate reunion ’fund. Subscriptions are coming In rapidly. The total fund is sure to reach the full $100,000 by the time the reunion will open. A big two-days’ fete fop the reunion fund has been arranged to take place simultaneously at Athletic park and the fair grounds, with all sorts of games and exhibitions, and baseball by New Orleans and Shreve port league teams and amateurs. The Washington artillery Is to give a splendid society ball. May 19, under the auspices of tho Daughters of the Confedreacy and Ladles' Confederate Memorial asosclatlon especially com plimentary to tho sponsors and maids. A hundred leading society ladles are in chi.'fje. Oiie of the most delightful social events will be the reception of Miss Yvonne Capdovlelle, daughter of tho mayor, on the evening of tho twenty- Arst. The people are enthusiastic about the entertainment of the veterans. Tbe number of people will be enormous, some estimating it as 200,000 to 250,- 000. The city will readily take care of them. Visiting newspaper people will have a reception and also a boat ride on tbe river. They will register at the rooms of tbe Progressive Union, which will be their headquarter*. Republican Candidate and Hla Party Leader* Charge that Many Ballot* Caat In Hla Favor Have Been Ille gally Thrown Out Baltimore, May 6.—Tbe ballots la $04 of tbe election precincts esqt In yesterday's municipal elections in this city give Robert M. McLane, Demo cratic candidate for the mayoralty, a plurality over Frank M. Waehter, Re publican, of 520. The ballots In the remaining four precincts are still uncounted, owing to disputes among the Judges of elec tion. They are now In possession of the board of election supervisors, who announced today that the boxes will not be opened until tomorrow. It 1* not thought probable that tbe count of these ballots will materially change the result In favor of McLane. Mr. Waehter, the Republican candi date. and bis party leaders charge that many ballots cast lo his favor have been Illegally thrown out, and they announce that they will appeal to the courts. The Republican candidate* for city comptroller and president of tbe sec ond branch of the city council elected. The Republicans will hava a majority In tha second branch of the city council and tha Democrats a ma jority In the Arst branch. The Democrats will have a majority an Joint ballot and thus will be able to elect the city registrar, -who la vir tually the municipal treasurer. THE OLD RELIABLE totKinf Absolutely Pure' THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE. MANY FRIENDS IN LEE COUNTY. Moores Wins In Omaha Election. Omaha, Neb., May 6.—Complete re turns from yesterday’s city election gives Mayor Moores a plurality over Benson, tbe citizen’s candidate, of $50 and 1,500 over Howell, the Democratic nominee. Tlnios Recorder Is Popular With Peo* pie There. TheTImei-Beoorderhaa esmo to re member with more than usual degree ef pleasure thia session of Lee ooort, though favored at all of them. With a large Hat of subaeribera already in this good oounty, we had the pleasure thia week of enrolling sixty-eight addition al names, and all of them representa tive citlzons. While the oirenletion of both the dally and weekly Ttmee-Be- oorder hae grown rapidly daring tbe poet eixmonthe that of tbe weekly has been phenomenal, eeven hundred new enbeeriptlone to the weekly alone hay ing been added: within that time. It ie the beet weekly newepaper in Geor gia, excepting none, end the people appreciate it TO CURE A COLD IN ONE DAY Tako Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refned the money if it fells to enre. E. W. Grove’s signature le on each box. 85c. TURKEY’S RICH STUFFINGS CANE GROWERS IN CONVENTION SEARCHING IN PITTSBURG. ONE STEP MORE Will be fstsl to the sleep-walker. Will be draw I tack or will he take the final, fatal step? A great many people are in peril like the sleep-walker. They are diseased. The disease is progressing day by day. The time comes when one more step away from health is fatal. The man who has suffered from indi gestion or gastric trouble S oes aome night to a inner and returns home to find he has taken that last step from health which can never he tak en luck. To neglect the cure of indigestion or aome other form of stomach trouble is dangerous. It is also inexcusable. Dr. l*ierce’s Golden Medical Discovery cures diseases of the stomach and other organs of digestion and nutrition. It purifies the blood, stimulates the liver, cures biliousness, and eliminates bilious poisons from the sys tem. -The ptalse I would like to cive your-Co'deu Medical n> Discovery - I cannot utter in ■$ words or describe with rwn," gag writes Jss H. Ambrose. Esq . M of ISO} H MUffin SI., llunt- _ Inedoa. Ps. -I w»s taken with what oar phyrtS* aatdsms ladiaeMlon I doctored with the best sround here «nd found no relief I wrote eon. and yon sdrfoed me to nee Dr. Metre’s Golden Medial Wmwrery. I took three bottles and I fell oo food that I stooped—being cured. 1 hare no symptoms of gastric trouble or Indigestion now* If you ask your dealer far "Golden Medical Discovery" because you have confidence In Its cures, do not allow yourself to he switched off to a medicine claimed to be "just as good," but which you did not ask for and of which yon know nothing. Yon can get the People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser. 1008 pages, pa per covers,/rirr by sending 91 one-cent ss& srivsgsssssft. Detectives Still at Work on New York Barrel Murder Mystery. Pittsburg. May 6.—New York detec. lives are searching among the Italians here for evidence against tbe men ar rested for the murder of Beaedltto Hadonla. In company with Pittsburg officers, assisted by Captain Welsh, of tbe United States secret service, they are working night and day on the case and It Is said have already secured wbat Is called Important evidence. Last night they visited the Webster avenue district, and In a short time arrested four Italians. These men were sweated for two hours by De tective Aymes, who speaks Italian. The Information obtained rfom them Is being withheld by the detectives, bnt It Is said that a number of ponlts were secured by Sergeant Cherry which will be of value In clearing up tho barrel murder myptery. BIG RAILROAD PROJECT. Company With $10,000,000 to Build Line In Central America. Pittsburg. May 6.—Papers for the In- -corporation of the Great Central Rail road company have been forwarded to the secretary of state of Maine from this city. The project Is to build from the head of navigation on the Coco river, Nica ragua, to connect with tbe National railway of Managua, while a main line will be built through Honduras into Salvador. The line will shorten tha distance from Pittsburg nine day*. The capital stock la $10,000,000. The company will operate Its own vessels from New- Orleans to Cape Grad os de -Dios, Nicaragua, and Its own cable and telegraph Another Explosion at . Constantinople, May <• Th * r ® .*** another bomb explosion at Salonlca yesterday, bnt apparently no damage waa done- •iS., . Bird Contained One Hundred One Dol lar Bills—A Strange 8tory. Morristown, N. J., May 6.—Stuffed with one dollar bills, one hundred of them, wns n turkey that has been re ceived by Mrs. F. C. Adams, of this place. The gift came from Mr. Adams, who had been mysteriously missing foi^ months. Its stuffing was dlsco/ered when the wife started to prepare the fowl for dinner, and It will bo used to pay the passage of the Adams’ family to Sisters Lake, Mich., where the head of the bouse now lives. Adams was a carpenter. Just be fore Thanksgiving, times were espe cially dull, and tho outlook fqy a Thanksgiving dinner was very slim. On the eve of the feast day Adams left his home, saying he would not return until he brought a turkey with him. From that time no word from him was received until the turkey came by ex press. Pinned to the neck of the bird was a note. STRIKE IN THE BRONX. Trouble Takes Serious Turn—Police men Detailed to Keep Order. New York, May 4.—The strike ol Italian rock drillers and diggers took a more serious turn in the Bronx to day and 50 policemen were sent to keep order along the excavation for water mains where men are working In the strlkera’ place*. ~ A rumor waa circulated among the 1.200 men at work that $.000 strikers would march out today and try to In duce them to quit. The police were picketed along the excavation and all Italians near It and not working were ordered to move on. Bands of Ital ians. however, marched by and shout ed harshly at the men Iq their places. Agent Landau, of the Italian labor union, says there were 15,000 men on strike In the city and that all work In the Bronx soon would be stopped. big box of explosives which was Iiv-a shanty for the excavating work In tho Bronx was ordered buried by Important Meeting Now Progressing In Maoon. Sumter’s representative to tbeSouth era Cane Growers Convention, Messrs. John A. Cobb, T. B. Hooks, E.O. Par ker, M. H. Pence and W. A. Webb, left yesterday for Macon to attend this, the Ant sestiuu of southern cano growers.' Handreds of tbe representative plant ers of tbe aontb will attend, and the session is a moat important one, James Wilson, secretary of sgrionltnre; H. L. Wiley, ebief of the bureau of ag ricultural enemlstry; Dr. Utubbs, di rector <ftbo Louisiana sugar experi ment station, and Judge Emile Boot, of New Orleans, we among tbe promi nent visitors attending. Belief 10 Six Hours. Distressing Kidney and Bladder Disease relieved in six boars by “New Great South American Kidney Core.” Ities great anrpri-e on account of it» exceeding promr" • • • in relieving pain in bladder, hidt- - - «ud back, in male or female, Belt, »** retention of water almost immediately. If yon want 3 nick relief and enre this is tha reme- V. Hold by tbe Eldridge Drugstore*, Americas. O*. AMERICUS GOT HANDSOME SUM In Payment of Life Insurance Last Year. Jos’, wbat Americas people paid lest year in life Insurance premiums is not known, bnt death elalme to tbe amount of $34,784 were paid Americas benefi ciaries in 1902. Tbe amounts paid oat in other leading Georgia cities were as follows: Atlanta, $812,007; "Angaria, $248,080; Americas, (54,784; Brunswick, (5:1,000; Mteon, $252,014; Berennab, (311,082. Americas ie considered a fine field for Ineorence, and the amount in life policies in force here will ran into . . . tbe hundreds of thousand* of dollars. the police and two guards were sta- . m rnn tioned near to watch It. Encouraged , anta mono hr.i$i3,000,COO inenronco by the action of the Central Federated union in Indorsing their demands, the laborers employed on tho subway re mained on strike today god the tleup of work was as complete as on Sat urday. Norrla Trial to Como Up Augusta, Ga, May 6.—The case of J. R. Norris, brother of the chief of police, a policeman charged with the murder of W. O. Williams, baggage- master of the Southern, about a year ago, comes up tor trial tomorrow. A hundred and fifty witnesses have bora i in force. OABTOniA. Basis ths vein m YwHiw Hurt Bwtit Memory, even though rad, forges tbe link of parity and consoling thought between this world and a bet ter one. It is easy to find fault with God when you want to eervo tbe devlL Your grandmother’s doctor ordered Ayer’s Sarsaparilla for your father. It’s the same old Sarsaparilla today, tzszsz