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f VENTH YEAR IvK V * ij — ** n’wii' »" ,nl •'" rc ’ ~n, :. mhiic ai.<l dellclou* I ■'< r I i’ r $ i. y .3 ’?uro „., .. r A. rn co., new YORK. PA MRESFORD | F r of THE “STRIPED ; RD” RAISES A ROW 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. ln * n fish 237"® Emulsion. See in**- *n<l «, ,® on the wrapper WnfV* 1 dru «e“‘«- • 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 ■ - F J.K ANE & CO HAVE THOUSANDS OF BARGAINS TO BARGAIN » ’g • - 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 * "iii i ii \ ■ F J. KANE & CO 10 CENTS AWEEK