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About The Rockdale banner. (Conyers, Ga.) 1888-1900 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 24, 1899)
The Banner Will (live Ton All The Sews of Conyers a Ad Rock dale County. vol. xxrv. Lv, m, mx i sit: m .\ 1 » + & li&Sr Don’t Lose Sleep mm- m§ fte ft i ®58™ii Ss^TssRuBetes ’ion. Over the past money lost on purchases, hut brace square to the front and hold to your money until «1 s a Caps you see what our new firm, .A- Jg£fis&vewkT3 (O'* OTHING !i GAMY DRY Q 0 S COmPANY imp, ill Y j (tapi^ mm 5 &l-°'.'£S ... .The One Price Cash Bargain House • it* t ME RY 8 ip m Lii 44 Is doing daily for those who call and bay of them==-=SAVSNQ EACH ONE SOflE MONEY, and selling NEW GOODS, and marking in plain figures prices that delight those who purchase, They extend a cordial invitation to one and all. Come and 7 —IP t«S ! DfJlSHINOS I see for yourselves. Then tell your friends the best goods and lowest prices are found at fUi fnirniw fl&lTTTtTsrid ill iff liitfitri CguiUM &B|a,jk( ti M $ wmk 4uE_r_T.;s; rjlcuoiu L J FATHER KILLS HiS CHILDREN a norribls T irassgy ~ Enacted By „ , la* ' * sane ®8 Is ClUCl^O. DEED DELIBERATELY PLANNED Shot Four of His Offspring and Then Turned Deadly Pistoi Upon Himself. Carrying out a plot he had appar¬ ently planned with deliberation, Cor¬ nelius Corcoran, a Chicago maniac, shot four of his children, killing three ol them, and ended his own iife. 'J he tragedy occurred Friday at his home, 5401 Dearborn fjreet. The dead are: Cornelius Corcoran, 49 years old. Margaret Corcoran, 5 years old. ;-;Sig TIIE PRUDENTIAL I COMPANY OF AMERICA. INSURANCE i. John F. Home Office, Newark, N. J. Dryden, President. >*•- JULY 1899, $30,876,019.38. Msmm:, 1 ASSETS 1st, m N $ 5,747,423.38. SURPLUS JULY 1st, 1899, - - aalSeiaBai..- iTIs, mmm §§t A 5>fl / j gg P ;V SSftiMBi P > FOR PARTICULARS AS TO GENERAL AGENCY CONTRACTS APPLY TO R. L. WHITE, Special Aged, JAMES O. WYNN, Matager Soathern Department, Conyers, Georgia. Prudential Building, Atlanta, Ga. The Rockdale Banner. Johu Corcoran, 7 years old. > Lizzie Corcoran. 3 years old. Kate Corcoran, fourteen year* old, may die, and if she recovers she will lose her left eye. The police are convinced the man was ineano. Corcoran had lived with his seven children in a flat building at 5401 Dearborn street for a month past, To all outward appearances he wa« a kind and considerate parent. For some days he had plotted for the death of his children, and he nearly accom¬ plished his purpose Tuesday night. Hearing the children cough, he arose and in the dark administered lauda¬ num to live of them, Clifford, Timothy, Johu, Margaret and Lizzie. The first two were removed to the Mercy hos¬ pital, where Timothy died the next day. Corcoran exhibited such profound grief over the affair that tha police and coroner thought the giving of the laudanum was a mistake. Balked iu his purpose to end the lives of th* young ones, Corcoran, it i* thought, made deliberate plans for hi* act of Friday. About 10 o’clock the grand¬ mother of the children, Mrs. Margaret Wrenn, accompanied by her citoe, Mrs. Mamie Corbett, called at the Corcoran home. When they rang th* bell Corcoran called out from th* in¬ side: “Whose there?” INCOME FOR 1898 , - - $ 17 , 481 , 875.00 NEW BUSINESS 1898 , ■ - $ 164 , 694 , 784.00 TOTAL PAYMENTS TO POLICY-HOLDERS TO DATE, $ 39 , 333 , 060 . 09 . CONYERS, GA.. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER *14, 1899. “It’s Mamie and your mother I re¬ plied Mrs. Corheti. Corcorau thrust his head out of the door, disclosing the fact that he was attired tor the night aud closed tho door again, saying: “Wait just a minute, Mamie.” The two women opened the door and ■teppod into tho hallway. Just then three shots were heard, followed by a suocession of screams. In the panio the two women started out iho door way and ran down the street screaming at the top of their voices. “It’s murder! It’s murder!” shouted Mrs. Corbett frantically, and hurrying to an adjacent drug store, word was sent to the Fiftieth street and Hyde park police station. An appalling sight greeted the eyes of Lieutenant Clancy, Sergeant Bynn and other officers whon they entered the Corcoran flat. In tho first bed¬ room just off the parlor was the body of Margaret lying in n pool of blood at the head of the bed, while at the foot lay John, unconscious and breath¬ ing heavily. In the room to the rear Corcoran’s dead body was found on the floor, while that of the baby, Liz¬ zie, reclined on a pillow. A revolver lay near Corcoran’s right hand. Five of the chambers were empty. Every one of the wounds with the exception of Kate’s was inflicted be¬ hind the ear. Kate war shot in the left temple. The police removed Kate and Johu to the Mercy hospital and later the baby, Lizzie, who was still breathing, was laken there. John died within a half hour after his ar¬ rival at the hospital and no hopes were held out for the recovery of the others. Gave Them IVliiaky, Evidence of Corcoran’s intention to kill his children were seen in tho house. Iu one room empty whisky aud wine bottles showed he had given the children liberally of liquor and stupefied them. Corcoran was injured about three years ago in a collision with a coble car while driving a mail wagon. His leg was broken and his brain was af¬ fected, it is said. Six months ago Corcoran’s wife, the daughter of Mrs. Wenn, became insane and since that time she has been an inmate of an asy¬ lum nt Kankakee. The only child to escape injury was Marion, sixteen years old, who is at the hospital nursing her brother Clif¬ ford. Methodists to Organize In Porio IMco. A Washington dispatch says: The general committee on missionary work in the Methodist church has decided to organize two churches iu Porto Rico, ono at Ponce and one at Sau Juan. WHEELER NOT TO RETURN. I>ecldes to Stay On Firing Line In I'rc ferttnew For Coining C itgroftH, A Manila special says: General Wheeler lias decided not to return for congress. He is writing a letter to President McKinley with a request that it be forwarded to the house of representatives. In the course of an interview with a representative of (he Associated Press he said congress, if it occupies tho first day of the session in passing a resolution declaring in unmistakable terms that the sovereignty of the United Ktates is to be maintained in the Philippines, thus dispelling Agni naldo’s delusion that the auti-impe l iulists can aid him, will lie perform¬ ing a sacred duly. NO RESIGNATIONS ARGUABLE. Whon Mr. Knott AMomoa Vic» I*roil~ Itlency of Vlaiit, System. President R. G. Erwin, of the Plant system, has made tho statement that all renorts with reference to changes iu the Plant system or officials were without foundation. He know of none, he said, who intend to resign and there will be none asked to resign, as tho result of Mr. Stuart R. Knott’s as turning the vice presidency of the different lines of the system. THE P 1 VBEHTL £ 1 Otters all That is Good IN LIFE INSURANCE And Under the Best Conditions. Official Organ of Rockdale Conn tj. Has Largest Circnlallon In The County. CHARGES OF INTI MI RATIO Ji. OaeUol Berk* to IlftV* Lonl»flll« V©t«) Thrown Out. A question which is likely to havo an important if not a deciding influ¬ ence on the coutest for the governor¬ ship of Kentucky, was brought up Friday before tho canvassiug board of JefferBOU county, which includes Louis¬ ville. Counsel for the Democtatio candidates gave notice of a motion io throw out the vote of the city because of the preseuo* of militia nt the poll¬ ing place* on November 7th. VETS IN SAVANNAH. State Ifttiiiilon of Old Georgia Koldlorit a . Great Suc<?«*(M. Georgia Confederate veterans took Savannah by storm Wednesday. It is snfo to say it was the largest turnout of veterans tho stnte bus known since tho days of tho struggle. With vete¬ rans and visitors, a conservative esti¬ mate placed the number of outsiders in the city at 20 , 000 . Just before the first iVieeting of the veterans nt the theater, much enthusi¬ asm was aroused there by the unfurl¬ ing of a tattered old battle flag of the Jaeksou artillery, of Macon, held in the hands of a Macon delegate. An¬ other old flag displayed was that of tho Fourteenth Georgia. NO. 46. MAJORITY OF ONE VOTE. l»onUvlll« Cmirier-tTournRl VlaflM Thud Flguro to (kutbol'i Orexlit. One vote is the plurality credited to Goebel in the whole state by the Louisville Courier-Journal in its table of election returns corrected up to an early hour Wednesday morning. This table includes a gain of 133 votes in Harrison county, where the county commissioners threw out two Taylor precincts. The Commercial’s figures show no change, Taylor being given a plurality of 3,134. FI S ISHEl> L0UISVlLLECOlNT. Tho City amt County <!lvo Taylor a Vlnval ity of :i,4 i:j. A Louisville dispatch says: Tho county board of canvassers adjonrded lute Monday afternoon until Wednes¬ day, after having completed tho offi¬ cial oount of tho ballots which were cast November 7 t.b. The city and county give Taylor a plurality of 3,418. Tho work of tho board was the consid¬ eration of ten contested precincts in vaiions parts of the city which had been passed as tho count progressed. Five of these were thrown out and five were counted. This resulted in a gain of two members of the legislature for the Democrats. rs-
