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Newspaper Page TextAMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER. <biti .e IU bih yeab, Intended to Smuggle Diamonds. ICcw York, Oot. 3.—It was reported i^ocs customs officials Tuesday that j Kew York diamond dealer who ar rtved a few days ago In Montreal In tended to smuggle across the border diamonds to the value of *150.000. n request of E. W. Twohey, United commissioner In Montreal Krre n-rret service men were sent tte re Irom New York. It is said (dev have been watching the suspect ti man. The story states that the diamonds were cut and polished in j m st< rdam. and that an English bro ker took them to London, where he ‘ landed them over to the New York d 0 ai< r The latter on reaching Mon Pea: learned that life secret service in r ere watching him and changed" 1,S plans. The Jewels are- said to Iclr, Montreal. Cotton Damaged 25 Per Cent. Nashville. Tenn., Oct. 3—For eight dr.vs Tain has been falling throughout the MIS3UsIpp.i valley and rrporis coming in from l-olaled dis Inris confirm earlier s'Wenients or heavy damage to cot hast and ccm have beer, eonfirmed. Jolsn W. Kill ridge. ..I Hllihense, % M'lss.., r.nd Walter CiarU. of Uisekeedale. Miss., president nl the Mississippi division of the tun ica <: overs' association, estimate the damage to the cotton crop in Missis- tip-ii at 25 per -cent. Mr. Clark says; "The cotton Is net only rotting on the ground, but oh the stalk. On Sept. ;r. I estimated the Mississippi yield at 1,050,000 tales. -Now, there is no man able to nay what the crop will he, owing to the widespread dam- ««e." AMERICUS* GEORGIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1906. ' 2 £^u ,v NUMBER 26 EX-PRESIDENT PALMA BUSINESS MEN LEAVES CUBAN PALACE • TO TAKE A HAND Departure Ts r sines3sd by Small I Macon Merchants to Discuss Crhwd. tkes: was no demonstration! Strike Situation. STURM SIGNALS FALL ALONG GULF COAST CHAMBER COMMERCE WORRIED Navy Department Hat No Confirma tion of Rur.-.or cf Catt’ethip Texas B.lng Dioabled—Rebels Reported tc f Ea Saizing Hcrsct. l.avasa, u:i. ”,—Es-President Pal-| ma ie.it t..i j-diet i.: !> o’cloe.; Tues day iLorc.it. lie hade farewell in | his aparuceav, to i ay friends, in cluding Gem.a Montalvo and Rod riguez cad t.ien dih-.ia-.Ud the grand I Anxious. For 8ome Agreement Be tween Street Car Company and the Strikers, 60 as Not (to Interfere With the Fair, Macon, Ga., Oct. 2.—A committee of Macon ministers, composed of Dr. J. L. White, Rev. T. D. Ellis, Rev. Harry Weisa, and Rev. Bohler Wal ker, appointed by Mayor Smith, con ferred all day witlh the hope of set- Second Hurricane Predicted Did Not Materialize. .’; A _. . ’ * V : ' DAMAGE ESTIMATES TOO LARGE Negroes Refuse to Work, Though Railroads and Others Are Begging Them—Sheriff Powers Threatens to Arrest All Who Will Net Work. stair case, and aoccmpauied by hli ,7 t . I family, entered a cioedcarriaee aiul S h d " rerenc< * between the m V.T. carnage sod , treet w strtkera and the company. srus bUl U ‘ tre *“ “ “"“ I They asked *that ^committee of "five Roport Not Confirmed. Washington, Oct. 2.—The navy de-| disinterested persons be allowed to make terms, but this idea was turned down by the directors. A fuU report of the situation was Larp-s Ship Reported Abandoned. Brett, France. Oot. 3.—The Sema phore reports that a large ship -has been abandoned off Point Ibden Point Ioder. cannot be located on the maps .available bene. The Story of a .Medicine, its n;,me—"Golden Medical Discovery 1 HiSfig-cs'wi by one of Its most Import- m erui valuable ingredients — Golden trial root. .Vurr.’y -forty years ago, Dr. Pierce dls- CUT. o that lie could, by the use of pure, tr.pli-rr liat-U glycerine, aided by a cer- i- n degree of constantly maintained lint an., with the aid-of apparatus and il l r cs designed for tliat purpose, ex. tra -i !n-n. our most valuabio native mo- t. r: ; e.ans their curative properties tr-nci. better thon by tho nse ol alcohol 10 gti.er.illy employed. So the now world- hmui -Golden Medical Discovery,” for the cure of weak stomach. Imligidtion, or cy-t-t p-ia. torpid liver, or biliousness and i Mired il'-rangements was first made, as u ' -■-■ has l-een. witliout a particle '' its make-up. a . ,.i-- at the lull lisjt of its Ingn-dl- |- - •*.! mi every isin'le-wrapj-er. v i-1 K Is made from- the most '■ - - -- Arhiul toots found crowing it A.. -: Tin drifts. All th"se In i’ . Gi-rta-.-ived Uie strou-rest en- .- -m the lending n.idickl ex- i‘ ( i a- :-s and writers on Materia r - - -i 'vr.o rivatnincnd them :is,tht- very i- ■ nie.lh-, tor tie diseases for which '• >t- n Medical Discovery” is advised. A ,.:iie took of these endorsements has I--1 -mnj.iied by Dr. R. V. Pierce, of - !! ".>. Y m arid will he mailed free to *’-v -i.e iKk.lfg sane by postal card, or nildreMed to the Doctor as above. 11 i ihi-ie endorsements, copied from • a ird n.edjoul l ooks of all the differ- in ■- -It.a.U id uractitse, it will tie found tut •! ■■ ingredients composing the "Gold- •f-, Medical nisooverv” are advised not <|. V - r thu euro of the above mentioned J 'Trees, but also for the cure of all ca- tarnj:I. bronchia] and throat affections, ■t-h::;iIned with catarrhal discharges, ji-aro ness, -ore throat, lingering, or asng-mi-couttlix, and all those wasting •no tions which, If not promptly end in-perly treated are liable to terminate it consumption. Take Dr. Pierce’s DIs- cevi-ry j n time and persevere In Its use t-l rou give It.a fair trial and it Is not to dlsappdlnL Too much most not L. lAfiected of it It will not perform jniraclcB. It will not enro consumption “ u advanced stages. No medicine will. H uni cure the affections that lead np to Hnsumption, if talon in Urn. ™ ! ,L k rrrrv ° f meeting of council ~ l a " eeh,P , T t ? X ,f 18 Monday night by Mayor Smith, and S i. * beUeves tbe mat(er wag /re( ^ dlscusselL SI *™ t in " W f.v «—■««». intwn by Alderman SSL h T “” d i he Hart, assured the- people of Georgia Prairie arrive at Havana, the big bat* I that urnuM #in*i « • tle8Wp8 K *^ uc ^' In S ana ' wl11 be come to the fair, and proteetton, relieved and ordered north to com- lmportant on 8Uoh „ ^ ^ PraC m 6 ' , The ? ‘J* WJth the ad °P Uo » ‘his measure, not needed as warships in Cuba, L n lnvWatlor waa ^nded ^ peopl e ! tter ^ y _ aerWnB as . boarding bouses the Btate to come t0 Macon> / ee|| P ng that order would prevail. Judge . _ , | Hodges of the city court, announced Shatter On Cuban Affairs. I that the ml n t i a WTO , U protect prop . San VTancilsao, Oct. 2.—Major Gen- 1 v v oral Shatter, II. s. erty of the company outside the city, re,lred - wh ° I and guaranteed protection to passen ZTEZS&: ■? “, ary °f e t ra,J 0”* gers. Mayor Smith also gave aseur- u H an nter J ew I nnce of protection within the city that he did not think the army of oo-J nmit. icupation would have unuch to do ln 1 the island. I will Present Protest 'A hundred American sold'erx] Victoria, B. C., Oct. 3.—In con&e- would be sufficient to seize and hold jxpjenee of Interference with their bus- ■Ouba at the present time,” said the I lneas in Behring Sea by Japanese ves- general. “There are, however, some I seln, a targe fleet of which were very wily natives itm»ng the contend-1 the sea this summer, hunting iwtthln iflg -Cuban forces, and they may bo I the prescribed limits and using fire expected to hold out and be an ttneer-1 arms, the British Columbia sealers are tain utiantlty until assured that the I to present a protest to the Imperial American occupation as an occupation I government. The British Columbia in fact.” I sealers are bound by the terms of the modus vivendl to remain outside Monkeys ns Nnrses. I CO-mlle zone and use spears only “Monkey# make poor nurse*.’’ said u I take seals. The centers claim the use *00 keeper. “When they live near a „ r fl re arms by the Japanese makes stream of water aud one of the colony | ^ s0 res : t ] es9 that it is only falls sick they invariably toss him overboard. They don’t want him around. His sighs and groans annoy them so. Test.' Off the dock Here In captivity l have to remove at once a sick monkey from his com rades' reach. Otherwise they would soon kill him. When they can. well monkeys take a strange Joy in tor- mentlug an invalid. They bite the end with great difficulty that they can token with spears. Advise New Recruits to Desert. Rouen, Oct. 3.—A large number of pasters were placarded on the walls here during tbe night, signed by tbe Anti-Military association, summoning the new recruits to desert from tbe of bis tail, they drag him about and I army If they believed they were “un- they pinch him. Finally, when be I able to eqdure the insults,* punish dies, as many as can find room sit on I meats and vexations of barrack life, his body, close together, very solemn, and concludhig with an Invitation to as though engaged in some religious the women of Rouen to form an “in rite.” I ternational society of mothers to re- charsin* tvaa in nis Line, I sist the despots of the government,' A party of gentlemen sitting on tbe I which is still thirsting for human veranda of a leading botril at Jackson, I blood.” The police tore down tbe N. II., fell Into nu amiable discussion I proclamations shortly after daylight of their delightful host, who bore high 1 military title and who won bis military spurs on the staff of a New Hamp- I Gave Chtldren $1,000,000 Each, shire governor. One of them asked, | Chicago, Oct. 3•- -A dispatch to the A. Lowrey, President. Crawford Wheatley, Vlce-Preat, Americus National Bank CAPITAL PAID IN $100,000.00 Under the supervision of the UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT Did ho get his title from service In I Inter-Ocean from Milwaukee says that the defense of hie country?” And the I Captain Frederick Paibst gave each of reply, from a retired army officer was, I his children $1,000,000 prior to his He must have, for lie has not for- death because he -wanted to be re- eotteu how to charge.” | Moved of his business cares to a cer tain extent and because he wanted to M M ■ „i. i r.„ l “ e whBt the T wou > d d ° with it; and M. m. Lowrey, casmer, how they wou , d tear th# regpons | R, E. McNulty, Asst. Cashier. J bility, was the testimony of Henry Fink, collector of internal revenue -be fore Judge Carpenter In the county court Tuesday. The proceedings were Instituted to determine the amount of Inheritance tax d&e the state. Win Be sustained oy Government. Washington, Oct. 3.—Revenue Col lector General Yerkes said Wednesday i«,u«,ofto«,iadirt 4 «o, »,d c«p«.uo M 'i»i«. Bcateg of deposit issued bearing interest., r MORE LOAVES TO THE SACK : cf.flour simply means that the flour Is better, and less expensive. “Richland Lily’ flour pro* duces more loaves to the sack than most flour. Makes better bread, too. “Richland Lily” flonr costs no more than common flours of unknown iinal- ity.' The best cooks endorse it. J4 sack 75c; % sack $1,50 i NEON BUCHANAN Raleigh committing Internal Revenue Collector Duncan- for con tempt for refuaing to answer ques tions relaUve to applications for Uni ted States liquor licenses, that Mr. Duncan w|ll be sustained by the gov- ■ eminent ln his position and if he Is ' imprisoned the United States attorney -in Raleigh will Immediately take steps to secure his relaese on a hab eas corp-ub Till. Prr.a Utaga. Desperate means wero sometimes re- sorted l-> in onb-r b, g,-t men fur Ilrii isb warships. A chronicler writes that In the year 1T3S, “a fleet of ships being required immediately to bo manned, the press gangs placed a live turkey on the top of the monument, yrblcb, draw ing together a great number of Idle people, they had the opportunity of se lecting as mnny nien ns answered the purpose of their intended scheme.” The scene so enraged a citizen that be fired a shot -it the bird, “whicb occa sioned It tn fly tiw.-iy.” But tbe mis Mobile, Ala., Oct. 3.—Storm sig nals have been ordered £iwn along the north coast of the gutf. Sheriff Powers, who has Just re turned* from the west coast of Mobile bay, says conditions are much im proved. Negroes are refusing to work, though railroads and others are beg ging them. Sheriff Powers has threatened to arrest alt who will not work at their own homes or for oth ers. Tbe sheriff insists that the women and children be taken from the de vastated points tod brought to Mo bile, where they 'can receive proper care, else many deaths will result from privations. With telegraph wires working In sufficient number to carry on all bus iness, with all railroads ln operation except the Nefr Orleans division of the Louisville and Nashville, Mielness conditions are now almost normal Cotton brokers Tuesday received their first direct quotations since the storm. Dealers In perishable goods supplied their first orders, and the fish and oyster traffic, which has been dead for a week, commenced to show signs of life once more, and trade gen erally is all that anybody could ex pect. Telephone service is restored and street cars ye running on ail lines. The Interurban roads are still out of commission, and are not likely to be In operation for some time The. Lohlsvlilo and Nashville brought In thrbe passenger trains from the lion^h. aid late Tuesday sent out.a number affreight trains. Conditions down the bay and along the coahf are rapidly improving, and many sections are reporting now that Dheif first estimates of damage were too large, tn this city, for example, two day* after the Storm prominent Insurance men were positive In their assertions that the loss would amount to beaten $4,000,000 and $5,000,000; the same men now place the figure at $1,000,000. Proportional reductions are made In reports from other places visited by the gale. The total loss of lives' has not been more than 100, but it Is not possible even yet to give a correct aggregate. Mobile breathed much easier when U was 1 ascertained that the storm which caused so much anxiety would not arrive. Governor Jetks Goes to Mobile. Montgomery, Ala., Oct. 3.—Gover nor Jelka has gone to Mobile to look Into the" flood situation. There Is tome talk of his calling an extra ses sion of the legislature to appropriate money for the sufferers, but Ibis will hardly be the case, it Is thought, at the capital. CUBAN REBELS BEFUSETO DISARM S.000 Insurgents Will Not- Lay Down Arms. TROOPS OF U, S, ON MOVE TO CUBA Chief Klxt of Mobilization is Newport News. SITUATION GROWING SERIOU81 FORCE INCLUDES 5,600 '■Yty, Revolutionists Continue to Congregate Per | 0d entlon It Altogether In Santiago—They Promise to DIs-1 indefinite a flu '-Depend Upon- arm If Ordered by General Castillo. I Developments—Fft», /ot of 8oldlera Review of Insurgents. > I will Land on Next Saturday. Santiago, Cuba, Oct. 3.—U is re-j Washington, Oct. 1.—American'sol- ported that 2,000 rebels ln the vicinity I d j P j-g now are moving toward Cuba, of Guantanamo have refused to dls- Mobilization of tho force -will be at arm. The situation here Is still eo-1 Newport News, Va., for tho most part, rious. The revolutionists continue to I although a part of tho first expedi- concentrate In Santiago., They prom- tionary fbrco Kill bo sent from New ise to disarm If General Castillo or- j y or]t and Tampa, Fla. Advices re- dera them to do so. The general is j ceived at the departments and the expected at any time'. There was a I military and the establishment of the- spectacular review of the Insurgents government indicate that all is quiet luesday. Uood order prevails here. [ | D Cuba, and that tho insur-snts in- tend to lay down their arms. Tho Disarming of Rebels Begins. probability Is that United States Havana, Oct. 3.—The disarming o? force8 ln t j, e tg | Bnd wU i bo i anded the rebels In the immcdlate*vlclntty only ns a precautionary mcasuro. So of Havana began Wednesday without f ar aa officials of the government here- opposition. Many of the men were are advised, no trouble of a serious allowed to keep arms which they k; „d is expected, but ln accordance- claimed were thcCr personal property. w jui instructions from ' President Several trains during the day’will eon- Roosevelt hurried preparations are bo- vey the disbanded troops homeward, hpg made tor the sending of an ex- No trouble Is reported to have oc- pedltionary fdrce of the army tff Cuba, curred In any parts of the Island. The first American troops will bo Preparations are being made at the handed at Havana next Saturday, palace for the reception of Governor Meanwhile the bluejackets and ma- Taft, whv will €«tai>li£& his office I rlnes from the ships in Cuban waters t!iere * ' will protect American interests (UhJ. support Taft, the provisional govern^ itr W L'! throp Wl11 Govcrn Cuba * I or of Cuba, In the preservation of or-. 3 -^ r a talk der «>e protection of life and; at the White House with Governor property Mag ?? n Weineoday the president re- Ia omcla i clrc i es here In .. -considered thq plan he had formed of tervention was regarded as lnovit£ sending the Judge to Cuba as civil We . How long It may continue. It Is f° ve ™° r ' and d ^ c * d '® d ‘hat In view of impossible to foretell. The nature ot- iSL Bt Se . cre(a ‘T TWt hto nl- the intervention and the preparations «,* subJect f wlth Be * k- r ° r It Indicate a supervision of Cuban- of a ^r n T , 'n the P j!* ent , f°, Ver , n ° r atralrs °“ ^e t>art of tho American Rlco ’ h * wau1d not Interfere government for an Indefinito period. ^""eouentiy Mr. Arrangements have been coMiuded: \\ Inthrop will be provisional governor I not only for the first exnedltionarv of Cuba, and Judge Magoon. after^forcotoCuba oJaboutOCOOmenbu^ shorn vacation to ihta country, will. for , a TO cond force of course have- a. originally planned, go to the Phil- been issued, and if the men aro nc£f- ^ y|c ® sovernor. and member ed , a „ arrangemente have been com- of the Philippine commission. | pleted for burrylng them to Cuba at _ , .. the earliest possCblo moment Wheth- Dowie Abandon, Trip to Mexico. cr more troops than aro Included In h r, r8 b ?-| ‘h* «»t expedition wl.l bo sent to Alabama Town Deatroyed. Pensacola, Fla., Oct. 3.—With the exception of (be report cf the loss of two entire families there were no new l evclopments ln the situation here "uesdaf night. Charles Mann, who had his fish business at Caswell, Ala., swept "away, reached the city and re ported that She'd Banks, Ala., a town on Perdido bay, in Baldwin county, had been swept from the earth and that he learned before leaving (hat two families had been lost. The place Is a colony of northern people.. He also reported that many of the small fishing hamlets along the shores of Perdido bay had been swept away, but he had heard nothing of any casual ties further than those reported. Rear Admiral Sapp, who hag been at the navy-yard for the last two days Inspecting the wreck of tbe place, left there and came to tbe city. He found tbe yard in a vriry bad condi tion, (he Ion being about $1,000,000. The magnificent oaks which line lbe walks la the yard bare been destroy ed, being torn-up by tbe roots. United States Senator Mallory In spected Santa Rosa Island, across the bay from the city, and found reports true that two channels -bad been cut through the Island from the gulf td the boy. Both are about 3 feet In depth and nearly a quarter of a mile Willi. Th>-y ;iru wparated by a stretch of 2 -miles, and both are -be tween the sites of the life-saving sta tion and quarantine station. The government will have to build Jetties there to prevent further washing. The island has always protected Pen sacola from the gulf In severe blows, an^l It Is predicted that hail It not been for the places’the city would have been destroyed on this occasion. is, therefore, very necessary that be buH; and the consunt wa.-n- o^fnUVT ° f , h 1 * !? teml y d ®P al * Cuba WUI depend upon the develop- ure for Mexico, John Alexander Dawle mcnls In tbe island daring the next Tuesday decided to remain In Zion i 0 days or two weeks * ” City indefinitely. The sudden change A "sufficient force of American C iv wLTe“i h" re n a i ,,,rPrUe ln , Zion h roopa b * ™ alnla lned !n “to nonG., rtl r c °" l!, >° n,y r «-1 support the provisional government mak?llZ? ?° lng and 5° ln9ure 8C « t° We 1 and hlttrt, ton a ^ 1 , t0 r ‘/ a ‘“ hJ " property peuiMng tho establishment health John A . J/»w!e, one> of Dow- of a ^bie government by the’Cubans ies closet friend,, who waa to have Operatlone in all departments of accompanied him on nhe Mexican Jour- the military establishment^q?the gov- n€>, a nnounccd f^r Dow^e -tfiat t*io I ernment were on war 4>asi8. The act- b “i* ken n |n 8 secretaries and chief, of all bu- sudden change and that Dowle wc'ilreaus were at their deftka and onarw much better ph,ideally than he Ha, Z w« Ll/vt kitUte been In several weeks. | of clerkg Who have not workrt Custom House re.M.e A.. e | on s “n-i»y. »'«!e the Spanlsh-Ameri- Custom House Cashier Attacked. can war were on duty at the war de«* 00 !/ 3 ’7 a botd at ’ partments and a! the headquarters i“ k ™ b / a “ nn »!>* r 01 revolution- of tbe marine corps. e?o^r,l a Lu rn . 0Utl T the C e“ h - Ge3eraI Alnoworth, military secre- er of the branch cusuom. house here, I tary, and General Bell chief of stair Z th ! 0, \ 01 ‘ be a ™V- w™rked thro„thout toe , h ° f?***®; 1,0 captured several of day. concluding arrangements tor the g’i'gS party afl f r a fueilaiie, I departure of the flm expedittonary hnvo^h h h i,m P r man rr^ r ® portei1 t0 lorce to Cuba. Orders for the move- l Th f , fir ‘ ng o®- UopI* of the troops were sea” on^ curred *t tbe 'bourse end of tbe pal- Sunday night, but Monday scores of cd* tboro^-bra® ° f e ,-T e l , frC<,U ^ t ' ° rdera Were *® Dt t0 0 ® rers who are affair ca.^c-i great exeitem^'^g '^ eave to theIr the operators on tho boa;e m l the Gene r»I Humphrey, quartermaster general publje, ’ Z et >eral, practically closed arrange ments Sunday for the transports Four Killed ty 3lasL I WblCb ore 10 Coav6y the «*P«H‘lon Baltimore, Oc.:. 3.—Four men were i° Cubn ’ The ‘ hlpa wlu be ready f° r kilted and eight ethers injured, two de P a rt u, '« b *f»re the troops have been perhaps fatally. In an accident at tbe at New P° rt New »- If « works of the .Maryland Steel company * b !^., be De ‘'T ary 10 S6nd a Becond at Sparrows Point Wednesday. Three “ I T d, ‘*?“ ry t0Ke to Cuba lmmcd| - of the dead are negroes. The victims 1 116 y fo,lowlne tbe the war de * were overwhelmed by a rush of nam . P artmeat - »P«> rebe “ d » diffleutty Ing gas and .coke from a hole In one “ C ” Unt of tba quarantlnc law » of tbe blast furnaces caused by the forcing oot of Hs socket of a casting which holds «fte compressed air pipe. The men had Just put In a new air pipe and the blast had been turned on about 10 minutes when the acci dent occurred. Will Tour united state*. New York, Oct. 3.—M. Leoncalvo, composer of ”1, Paglacci,” “I Medici” and other operas, and considered one of the greatest living .writers of mu sical scores, arrived Tuesday on the Kaiser Weihelm der Grossc. The Maestro, as .he Is known wherever Italian opera -Is heard, is to make a tour of tho United States and Cant Ja at tho head’ cf a Milan orchestra. the various southern states. A trans port returning to any southern state from Cuba will have to remain in quarantine fiv# days before it can take on a cargo or troops for Cuba. The war department has taken up this matter with the authorities or the southern states, In the hope of arrang’ng , for a waiver of the five days’ quarantine regulation. Purchase $11,000 Worth cf Stamps. New York. Oct. 3.—The American states that State Superintendent of Insurance Kelsey learned Tuesday of a purchase by tho JIutual Life Insur ance company last week of *11,000 worth of z-cent stamps.. They wero not secured direct from the postoffleo You May Need It Ask your doctor about the wisdom of your keeping Ayer's Cherry Pectoral in the house, ready for colds, coughs, croup, bronchitis. If be says it’s ill right, then get a bottle of it at once. Why not show a little foresight in luch matters? Early treatment, early cure. W« hATA «• McrMal W, pobllah 3,O.AfttOo.. th* formulas of >11 our pwfAUsM.Lowoll. Mo—.

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