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MEPcIKY ESTATE
. f.wi.e has Assumed Entire
CONTROL.
jiijerakl, Ga., Dec. 22 —Jo
fa E P. Iky, of Westerly, R. 1.,
nther of Alexander Pel fey, who
wn appointed temporary ad
rsirat rof the estate of Alex-
I r p elky, has been here and
mid to Rhode Island, his
i. He was recognized and
) recipient of all the funds
values of his brother’s estate.
Is. Cl ra Pelky Lascelles, wife
ord Beresford, claims that the
He needs no aeministration,
t she is the only heir of Alex
-rPkky, deceased, he hsv.ng
(without executing any will,
•.sate will approximate $86,-
Besides his holdings in Geor
t held a number ot mortgages
■ivd Is a.id besides valuable
i a Rockville, Conn,, al
C:1 place he was bu-ied.
L> positively known in Fitx
-1|(1 that Lure Beresford and
wife are on arnaciable terms,
lh u y are working tog<-ther to
dnpossession ot the estate,
‘grams were sh >wn your cor
‘-deni fhiin Mrs. Lascelles,
'Ktughow that the couple are
much is certain.
' Hl| gß ate rapid.y taking shape
•■(bin ten days some sensa
tkvelopnieuts will be made
1 n.c.g itie noble lord, his
!,l,( l tne ps'ale.
L'GLY ARABS.
I '^ llK lurkish Troops Trou
bie In Tripoli.
'J‘ n , Dec. 22—Advices from
'“v Several thousand Arabs
a(1 -Dionstration before Tiip
and were surrounded by
l<n troops, i'he shops we e
' ose - At Anmu ail the
r " houses were pillaged,
'■rs h-ve been arrested.
1 " are agitating against
" ,v «nment.
lust as
Sood
s . and we sell tt much
tLv a f statemcn t sometimes
ikil. dru g'gist when Scott’s
theri' Ca ? e “ ; or « This shows
■ ü ß?ists themselves regard
Scoff's
ts Q’ l witfl Hypophos
< anTV nd Soda as the
to r. ° tac P ur chaser who
.use h ? Cure the "standard”
>H b-’npf ?°Y s !t h* s c<n °*
lot thinL ’r should not for one
th ‘"> of taking the risk of
us ng some untried prepa-
Aof f ° n ’ « substitution
r< « ? mcthin g said to be
J ust as good” fora stand
f:v P re Paration twenty-
L shm bj ars ? n the market,
the - .. n 2!^Pe rmi ttedby
.. purchaser.
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in**- *n<l «, ,® on the wrapper
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• New Yurfc
THE
Smoke
BIG BOODLE
THIEVES ROB THE SOUTH
ERN EXPRESS CO.
ftNo SECURES SIO,OOO
Officers Hard at Work and Em
ployees Watched,
Columbia, S. C . Dec. 22.—A
package containing SIO,OOO in cash
was stolen from the ‘•xpress office
in Ibis city some time between
Sunday morning and Monday
morning of this week, and the city
is now full of the bust secret ser
vice men on the pay rolls of the
express company and the pink o!
the Pinkertons.
Officials of the express company
are here in numbers, but they are
more than usually reticent about
the robbery. When confronted
with the fact that the robbery was
known, they finally admitted the
truth of the statement, but posi
tively and absolutely decline to
give any of the det ails.
Ihe first intimation here that
anything was crooked was given
by the arrival on a special train
of O. M Sadler, division superin
tendent, quickly followed by J.W
Croswell, another superintendent,
but these officials refuse to talk.
The package containing SIO,OOO
was sent a bank in Newberry Sun
day. It could not be delivered
that day and was returned here,
because the safe in that town was
considered insecure.
The was put in a safe in
the office here, which was left un
locked all night. It waa missed
yesterdav morning.
A story is told a stranger
having come into the office and
hurried out, but the belief is that
one or more of the office force is
suspected and the men are using
watched
This morning P. W. Leary,
assietent general superintendent
of the cotnpai y, reacher Columbia
and was soon closeted with the
other.officials and the secret ser
vice men. Every particle of infor
mation the se ret service men had
secured was laid before Mr Leary,
and then the investigation was re
sumed with more ardor than ever,
and up to midnight the work went
on. At that hour Mr. Leary was
seen and asked for information
but except for a general answer
gave out nothing.
Mr. Leary asserted that he and
four division superintendents from
adjoining states had been institu
ting the closest investigat ; gation
all the evening.
The course of the package of
money had been traced on its trip
to and from Newbeiry and. until it
was put in the safe in the Colum
bia office. Every employee, he
said, seem to have done his full
duty. But the money had gone,
and there was n> use suspecting
a stranger or to suppose that there
had been anything like burglary
The money was s olleii, he said,
by one or more employees of the
office,and he propos'd toe mp out
here until he hud his hand on the
guilty man.
Mr. Leary deelined to say who
was suspected , but it was evident
the offi i.«ls had fixed their suspi
cion on one man.
All the employees are on d»tv
as usual, but the detectives are a.
around, and it is generally under
stood that ev ryone who might . e
guilty is being shadowed. When
the fac.s about a robbery having
been committed became known in
Columbia last evening there was a
sensation. Nothing of the kmd
had ever occurred here belore.
This was intensified when it wa
whispered that an employee w.
suspected. Several young men are
emplovWin the office. Develop
inputs areexpec>ed_tomorrow.
It is said that there are bat three
survivors of the war ot IB J
3,000 widows of soldiers "
war are drawing pensions ro
govern meet.
HUSTLER OF ROME.
GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING,
Aira Good And
>
LEITER TH! KID
WENT FROM COLLEGE TO
THE WHEAT PIT.
FAME AND FORTUNE
Won By Old Levi Z. Leiters
, Son.
Chicago, Dec. 22. —Five years
ago Joe Leiter,J the new wheat
king of Chicago, graduated from
Harvard. Friends of his father,
Levi Z. leither, suggested that
the young man be allowed to fo'-
. low the profession of a gentleman
!of leisure, they did not consider
nim capable ot attending to the
serious affair of life.
For a year and a half the elder
Leiter thought it over while his
son traveled and hunted big game
in the wild and wooly West. Then
the two h Q ld a conference. Mr.
Leither asked Joseph what he in
tended making of himself, Joseph
thought he would like to go into
business.
“Os what sori?” asked the fath
er.
“Taking care of your interests
would be about right,” replied the
son.
The man of millions admired the
young man’s nerve, but he was a
bit skeptical. He determined to
put Joseph on probation for a
year. At the end of that time Mr.
Leither, Sr., in examining into
his affairs, found that Mr. Leiter
Jr-, had made good use of his tal
ents he had not only not
let anything got away from
nim, but had increased his father’s
rentals to the extent of $50,000.
This was enough to convince
Levi Z Leither that his son was
made of the proper s usf —any
man who could get more out of
his propeuy that he himself could
was worthy of more than parental
esteem. So Mr. Leither placed
all of interests in the young man’s
hands, and repaired to Washing
ton to spend the rest of his days
in ease.
To-day Joe Leiter manages the
entire Leither estate, which is
valued at $30,000,000, is the con
trolling spirit of the Chibago City
Railway Company, is a director of
the people’s Gas Light and Coke
Company (otherwise known as the
Gas Trust), a director in the Illi
nois Trust and Savings Bank and
is makag'ng one of tho biggest
wheat Deals lu the his ory of Chi-
cago.
Young Leiter is six feet in
height with the figure of an Alolln
He buys good clothes and he
knows how to wear them. Some
of his raiment looks loud but the
general effect may be caused more
by his large physical proportions
than by the fizi of the caecks in
the clothes.
He is not given to jewelry a
modest sca.fpin now and then and
a small gold watch-chain, being
his limit. He belongs to several
clubs, among others the Chicago,
:Ge most exclusive in the city the
Athletic and theChicag) Athletic
; club but that Joe Leiter is a
spectator from the front row.
lie generally attends the big
football games and once in a white
takes in a bass ball game. Every
year he puts in from two weeks to
a months hunting big game in
theß ockies or the wilds of the
Northwest with a few of his inti
mates. He is quite an en’husias
tic cyclist is a good judge cf horse?
rides well drives well and is a
gcod walker. He lives unostentati
ously in the old L’iter mansion at
No. 4- Tower place, keeping the
home open the year round and al
ways ready to received Mr. Leiter
fir, who spends about two months
out of the twelve in Chicago
Early ia the summer young
Leiter though ho saw his way clear
to making a big profit m wheat,
which was then selling at (54 cents
He took his former college mate,
George B. French, then connected
wit h the firm of Aller-Grier as
bis broker, and began to dea> m
uleSeptemberoptiou.lt was not
GEORGIA CTONS
STARVING IN AaKD OF
MILK AND HOKEY
FROM SIERRITgONE
News Brought Back ugh a
Letter Sent By N*|k»Fß.
Brunswick, Ga DeoJbg.— Cap
tain James Guerney, jnaster of
Che American bark«nt>u Bruce
K, Hawkins, ariveg
from Sierr%Leone, Afrffta, bring
ing a letter from Green/ Wil’iams,
a Savannah negro emigrant, dis
closing a terrible hard
ship.
Williams writes a pitiful plea
ou bi half of himself and 50 oth
er? who he states were placed in
h- ir present plight My Bishop
Turner, of the African Methodist
Church.
The letter states that these
peop'e were induced to ft to Afri
ca as a land of milk and honey
They were sent into the interior
their funds soon became exhausted
and for weeks past star«|ttion has*
stared them 1n the face. Williams
in his letter which b addressed
to the captain of ' American
Aessel, p edges hjwaelf gtod all bis
fellow suffers to work |heir pas
sage home and after arriting here
to biud themselves to ths vessel
owners to work until all they gwe
for passage home is
Captain Guerey
letter on the eye of aaiiling. It
was theu too late to send into the
interior for Williams »n(|,
peapie. **
“Those members of Georgia's
“oldest and best families” who
go to the social with
side strapped to them, exhibit to
the world the advanced state of
civilizen in the vicinty. of Macon.
—Birmingham Age-Herald.
Mr. Leiter’s parpose to run a cor
ner or squeeze shorts into set'ing
their margin losses. He had sat
isfied himself there was a big short’
age in foreign crops and relied sol
ely upon handling the actul grain
and making his prolfit in the dif
ference b< tween the buyiug pi ice
here and the selling price abroad.
He had abundant capital in ready
cash and was in shape to pay for
every bushel oi wheat his agents
could buy.
These were the conditions when
he put French into the pit with
instruction tn take all the Sept,
wheat offered. Men like Armour.
Cudahy, the Weares an others
knew of the crop shortage, but
were not advised as to Leiter’s
plans. Basing their judgment up
on what had been done in the
same line before, they said to
themselves: “Here’s a young pig
eon : let's pluck him.” So as fast
ss French aud his aids bid for
wheat the Armour clique sold it,
most of their sales being merely
wind. They had no wheat, but
expected that before the and ot
the month they could settle at a
profit But instead of this prices
went up.
Armour ar.d the rest of them
hust'ed hard to get grain here to
deliver on their sales and in s.mje
instances they did so by paying
higher prices iu Duluth and M;n
neapolia than they had sold at in
Chicago This was done rather
than admit the humility of defeat
nnd because Leiter insisted upon
having the wheat.
What the September deal cost
Armour is mere conjecture. Good
judges say SI,OOO 000, and these
figures are not unreasonable.
Leit'-r’s December deal bids fair
to be fully as profitable as his
September venture. There is now
less than five million bushels of
contract wheat in store here to
meet deliveiies of double tha
amount and u i lea# A decided warm
spell comes on it will be impos
sible to increaae stocks by any de
icLsive quantity.
DECEMBER 22 1897
Rebel Yell Cigars
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F J.K ANE & CO
HAVE
THOUSANDS
OF BARGAINS TO
BARGAIN
»
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We anticipated the Fall Trade
and more, we made our
tions against six cent cotton, and,
while our buyer was in market,
bought our entire new Fall and
Winter stock on that basis. It
took work, it took money, it took
* time and it took a man who knew
how. That we have generously
succeeded in preparing to meet
the exigencies of the times and
the conditions that now face the
people, we most cordially invite
you to call and see for yearself
We know that we can satisfacto-
* rily convince you.
itt $We flatter ourselves rnat we
have already built an unassaila
ble ble reputation for handling only
the very best grades of staples.
We are here to grow up with the
city and we propose to make ev
erysale add to the reputation we
boast.
As to the more changeable or
fashionable patterns, weavesand
stylish goods, we pride ourselves
thi: w:i i / 13 n >
selected stock ever brought to
this market, Gooas, that are a
feast to the artisticeye andgoods
that wear like iron and yet?are a
py frever
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F J. KANE & CO
10 CENTS AWEEK