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NINTH Y'-Aft MAJW NESTED! hiimt Yeiiig Uesraiai Osmds Willi H m Lftß'jE AMOUNT. Tnoiht to Have Been A n ett el In California . T) morning's Constitution prin the following story: S ,aFayoete Almand, a Beora merchant who is charg ed w i absconding with some thirtjr forty thousand dollars, w»* rested in Tulare, Cal., last 8 day morning, and Mon day uht City Detective He witt cally slipped oat of At lanta d went te California af ter thlauchly wanted man. Thelhole story is a very sen sation one, and the fact that so iDai days elapsed before the arrest Red out and that the detect! slipped away so qui etly eh s how carefully the au thoriti®uarded their secret. Aim# was a merchant in Oeorgiwith headquarters at Conyertmd did a large busi ness thighout the state. He bad thembounded confidence of the b ness men of the state and ftlmt unlim t d credit. Ho appeared to be 11 urishing, when abt, throe or four ve ks <ge he hddenly disappeared from thetene of his business career, al when tho«e who hud trusted li examined his affairs they ilaild ha had carried with hiasLveral thousand dol lars whicbe ought to have turned ox 1 to them. Just honiany were victim ized cann4>e said, as all of them decij to keep quiet and try to catcthe man who had absconded JJor can the exact amount ofp money alleged to have be«takei; be named,as even the Mims do not know, but it is limated that the amount wile between forty a*<i fi jy tHsand dollars. Alm and a voung man, not THE EXCELLEh OF SYRUP OF FIGS i* due not only the originality and Simplicity of thjmbination, but also to the care an<&ll with which it is mantffaetured fccientitic processed known to t’ne Cj-onNiA Fig SybiX o. only, amd wtissh to impress upon * the imports of purct using* the wue and origi remedy. As thr genuine Syrup ofrs is manufactured y the Califoh Fig Sykup Co. only, a knowleccrf tlmt fact will assist one in whig the worthless vnitations tnanuiured by other par >es. The high sping of the Cali fornia Fig SYKffio. with the medi- Profession, j the satisfaction >ch the of Figs has gtven to millions families, makes _» e t , narae n * tiie ip Rn y a guaranty the excel]e.K-eiit's remedy. It is ar in advance of other laxatives, > acts on tbedneys, liver and awels without irjiing or weaken- S them, and it js not gripe nor auscate. In ordeiget its beneficial e,ls > please remlier tlic name of w*e Company CALIFORNIA 1 SYRUP CO. ••©uvn.it. THE HOME HUSTLER COMMERCIAL mere than 30 ytais of age, aud I is well connected throughout! t!*• state. lie is married and his family has teen residing in Conyers. Just how the alleged defalca tion took place those whe know will not say. Some of them were seeu yesterday and they letuaed to talk, merely saying that at the proper time the whole matter would be ventil luted. “Maybe we have the wrong Man under arrest in California,” said one, “and the publieatlen of the matter just now might get us in deeper trouble.” “The amount may reach fifty thousand dollars,” said another “but just what it is we cannot kuow for quits a while.” “Almand,” said a third,“was a heavy plunger, add he had the right to do some collecting which placed large sutas of money in his hands. It was iu this way he got hold of the mon ey. ” As soou as the yi ung man dis appeared the hunt for him be gan. A reward of $250 was of fered aud the officers in Atlanta and other cities were placed an notice that he was wanted, and a description of him was given. DR W. R. PRICE, LLD. The Eminent HypnotietCc ming Here Next Week Thr*.e Nights- Dr. W. R. Price, LLD., the eminent psychological student aud hypnotist will be the at traction at the opera house fer three nights next week, com mencing Monday, Jah 2. Dr. Price eouies highly en dorsed by the press, the clergy, the college professors and physi cians wherever he has leotnred, as a broad thinker, an eloquent speaker and a born orator. Following each lecture mar velous and aMusing hypnotic demonstrations will be given. This will be an intellectual treat. LIVES IN DANCE R By Fire In a Chicago Apart ment Hpuse. Chicago, Dec. 30.—Many lives were endangered by a fire in the Rockingham apartment house at 2 o’clock tnis morning, and after the occupants had es caped from the flames they were compelled to stand around in the cold almost frozen to death. Some of the tenant# were overcome by smoke and had to be carried out by police men and firemen. A bmp explosion started the fire, Twenty-one families were rendered homeless. r l he loss is $15,000. While the Rockingham was burning the Franeis & Magrin foundry was destroyed. Loss, $12,000. OPENS MONDAY. ()u Monday, Jan 2nd. Prof. P. I. King w’ill re-open his high school, at his old tcheol rooms in the Wilkerson Building, ou Third Ave. Prof. King’s high school ea sily ranks with the very best institutions of the kind in the slate. He is one of the best known educators in Georgia 3 nd that explains why his jchool flourishes. He enters th. New Year with splendid pros pects. GEORGIA, FRIDAY EVikMING, DBCEMBIR. 30, IMS. CUBANS EXCITED, Deasai Ttiat ’kir finny h Rqrtmleil at ■■■Ml I 1 in Mil |M mi! .1 , KVfiIUITIOfiCKRIitONIES General Brooke Ssye Recogni tion will not bo Accorded. Chicago, Dec. 29.— A special to The Tribune, from H avanu, sayu: “Cuban residents of Havana de clare that if General Brooke does aot rescind his order barring representatives of the Cuban in surgent army being preset.t at (he evacuation day evremopies on New Year’s Day, they will close their h- ums ou that occasion, tear do mi thair flags aud deceralians aud r - maia indoers. Ths Cuban psaee commission, after a stormy interview with General Bro.ke tonight, tele graphed Beneral Gomez not Is come to Havana, as he intended, as no courtesy aould be shown him. The Cubans are greatly excited . Today they stood on everf cor ner ot the city discussing the sit uation in a balf-freuzied manner. “ ‘We have not fought for a change of masters', declared Juan Frederics Cantellas, ooe of the most prominent Cubans iu Ha vana. “ 'Our army is still in ths field. They shall uot fey down their arms until we find out whether we ar«- to be slnves or free.’ “Two nights age General Lud low notified the commission that Geaeral Gonjez and othur prami. usnt Cuban army leaders e ul 1 be present at the eeremouies, and that the Cuban army might enter Havana. “Tonight General Brooka told the commission that the Cuban army is not to be recognized, and is to have uo part in ’he demon strations es January Ist. “This action at once caused the Cubans to declare that they would stay in thair houses, and the day of rejoicing ever the raising of the stars aad str'pss would be turned into a day es gloom, and that the city should hayn the appearance of a town in injuring. ’’ ... ■ Ll_ IL I.L r Scrofula Is a deep-seated blood disease which all the mineral mixtures in the world cannot care. S.S.B. (guaranteed purely vegetable ) is a real blood remedy for blood diseases and hag no equal. Mrs. V.T. Buck, of Delaney, Ark., had Scrofula for twenty-five years and most of the time was under the care of the doctors who could not relieve her. A a specialist said he could cure her, but he filled her with arsenic and potash which almost ruined her constitution. She then took nearly every so-called blood medicine and drank them by the wholesale, but they did not reach her trouble. Some one advised her to try S.S.S. aud she very soon found that she had a real blood remedy at last. She says: “After tak ing one do-en bottles of S.S.S. I am perfectly well, my skin is Csear and healthy and I would not be in mv former condition for two thousand dollars. Instead of drying upthepois- a in mv system, like the potash and arsenic S.S.S. drove the disease out through the skin, and I was perma nently rid of it.’’ A Real Blood Remedy. S S S. never fails to enre Scrofula, Eczema, Rheumatism Contagious Blood Poison, or any disorder of the blood. Do urely upon a simple tome to cure • deep-acated blood disease, but take a real bla- I remedy. Sec e o ?-' q 3 fl GOOL PREACHER ly 111 fipleedH BhU Miiiy Llvss. ;BH»lBTim TNKE FIRK R«suit««i in a Meat Remarka ble Scene. Peeria, HL, Dec. 80.—During the Christmas exercises in the Gerutau Methodist Episcopal church in Pekin, HL , the large tree loaded with gifts and bla zing with hundreds of caudles, caught fire and blaxed up fierce ly. The church was packed to the doors, and there was immi nent danger of a panic. Women screamed and several f.<int-d a* the aiad scramble for safety be ga«. The pastor, Rev. Williaai H Traeger, sprang to the front of the stage and commanded the audience to be seated. He said the emergency of fire had been provided for and there was no danger if everyone kept still. Then he gave out a familiar hymn, directed the organist to play up good and strong and or dered Ihe'eholr t© sing loudly, his enol attitude restored confi dence, and the people began to sink back inte their seats. Meanwhile, as tbs fire reir c d and crackled, the music grew louder. The pastor flicked burning embers from the tree that alighted upon his hymn book te the floor and stepped upon them, st the same time singing at the top of his voice. The screams and moans *of the terrified ones were drowned out by the congregational sing ing. A Are brigade, improvised for service in case fire should break out, began work on the burning tree. A heavy wet tar paulin was dropped upon it and the vagrant sparks stamped out. Then, despite the fact that the church was filled with smoke, the exercises proceeded, minus many of the pifts, but with phuty ©f music. TRUBT RAISES PRICES. PaiNT Clotbs Made a Bi« Jump Im Cmicaws. Chicago, Dec. 30.—Print cloths, the principal staple of tbe dry-goods trade, are in a ' highly excited condition, and have advanced in four or five —an abnormal rise for these goods. In November the base price | was 1 lo 16c a yard. Yesterday; the quotation was 2£c, with j streng probabilities in the minds of .the trade of reaching 21c within a short time. The ad vance is largely die result of a trust agreement made between the Manufacturers. ■l ■" DREW THE FATAL CARD. Fh>g c Suicide of a Ph ladei phi a Max. Philadelphia, Dec. SO.—John. Townsend invited a number ol his friends to his house night tn play a game of «ards. When he sat down to the table he said he had just taken a do«e of prussic acid. He ©as a member a suicide club, he at-serled, and had drawn the fatal card. His friends thought be was joking. They resumed playing. Some time later they looked at Town send and saw him sitting upright in the chair dead. . A physician way called aad he found that Jiownseud had really died /of pruss.c acid poisoning./ ■wfenir wit y' BIG RIJRBER COMBINEy< yf j Twg’N ty CoMPAXies Ahi In A.Jse - | Deal. New York, Dee. 30.—The Rubber Goods Manufacturing Company is t > be ineerporated within » few days at Trenton wuih a crpitxl stuck of SIO,OOO, 000, half common stock and half preferred 7 per cent aeeumilla tive stock. The company will represent • combination :f about 20 rubber companies and will in ike rubber goods of all kiuds excepting boots, shoes and hard good-i, The company is to be in harmo ny with the United States Rub ber Company, and Charles R Flint, who brought about the organization of that company, has been active in the formation of the new company and repre sents the underwriting syndi cate. It is stated that the United States Rubber Company and the Rubber Goods Manufactur ing Company will, together, consume five-eights of the world’s production of rubber. ELEVATOR DESTROYED. Minneapolis, Minn , Dee. 30. —Elevator E, owned by Whee ler, Carter & Co., of this city, was destroyed by fire late last night,together with its contents. About dO,OOO bushels of wheat were stored in the building. LjBB, $75,000. Grccers Gave In. Paris, Dec. 2t.—The strike of the grocers’ employes here has suddenly collapsed. It is stated that many of the strikers ob tained their demands. .J.-L!l ” BIMI- JB—M BBB— Sour Stomach, sometimes c:. lid waterbrazh, aud burning pain, distress, nausea, dyspepsia, are cured by Hood's Sarsa parilia. Thia it accomplishes because with its wonderful power as a blood purifier, Hood’s Sarsaparilla gently tones and strengthens the stomach and i digestive organs, invigorates the iiver. [ creates an appetite, gives refreshing sleep, and raises the health tone. In cases of dyspepsia and indigestion it seems to have “ u v .igic touch.’’ “ For over 12 years I suffered from Bour I Stomach 1 with severe pains across my shoulders, I and great distress. 1 had violent nausen ! wuich would leave me very weak and faint, difficult to get my breath. These gpella came oftener and more severe. I did not receive any lasting benefit from physicians, but found such happy etiecte from a trial of Hood’s Sarsaparilla, that I took several bottles and mean to always Xeeplt in the house. I am now able to do all my own work, which for six yeara 1 have been unable >.c do. My husband and son have also h--e greatly bene ited by Hocd’s Sarsi-par —for pains in he back, and after tn I gladly •ecotnriiend this grand . v nedicine.’’ Mbs. Peter Bussy, .• - Mass. Hoods - -Sarsaparilla Is the One True Blood Purifier. All druggists Bl cur * ftll I-' ver llls i, " J | HOOU S PillS taca Ueadaahe. ascent* IO CINT3 PER WtEK ALARM IN BAHADfI Toroiß Wnrii sig;'- Unils Sam Mints Th lnwioi AID 16 PILING I / I ,Aia® S>jy« England la P«rf««tly wrung. - Ont , Dee. 30 —Tba Toronto World, which oppoeee (he present liberal goveraMent at Ottawa, haa a st Milling edi torial today uude r the beading * Canada on the B u.k,” ia winch it warns the people of this country that timee ere »ri i- • al, so far as the Maintenance us Canada as a free iudependeut Hid integral (oitien of Nerth America is concerned. The W orld eay» : Unless Canadians are fully allve te the situation and eyeak out ii/uo in ertain way, they will find th tmaelvee between a grasping annexation movement in the United Statee, having for its end the domination ot the whole continent, and a great party in England is prepared to make almost any sacrifice to the United Slates in eonßidoratina of st me kind of support of Eng land in her race with Russia. France and other European powers. The World then refers to the recent speech at Macon, Gu., es Major General James H. Wil son, of Delaware, in which that gentleman expressed the hope that he “would see the day when our etairyjflag ehail float everywhere in the frozen north to the sunny clime of General America.” Then Tho World proceeds : We believe that these words of General Wilson only ehew too well the opinion of a great number of Americans when once their appetite for ex aision ie aroused in the direction of the north, and if once they get it into their heads that they only have tc go far enough in their great game of blufl', which seems to be their best and theiv strongest card in diplomacy, they will force Canada into an nexation. • , ~, In conclusion the paper says : We are nearer to absorption than ever we were. Do Canadi ans realize it? WARSHIP AT.APIA. German Govbrkmknt luhfiho- ■d at McKinleys Acti »n. Berlin, Doc. 30.— There is much comment hero at the re ported arrival of ao American a arslrip at Apia, Samoa, the newspapers regarding it us a sign that President McKinley means to carry out the program outlined in his recent message to congress. The Vossiche Zeitung saye: “No doubt Great Britain will support America and thus par alize the slowly acquired •er man preponderance. There is no longer a chance of Germany securing exclusive control, 1 The best way to get even with a man is to pay him what you I ewe him—Cofdole Sentinel.