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THE AMERICUS TIMES-RECORDER.
TWENTY-SECOND YEAR.
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The Bees Gather!
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11/ Where Real Bargains Are
Trade Is Sure to Come!
This Is The “^ eal Thing” Now.
\/OU have no doubt heard of that “sucker hole”
a: * up the creek, but when you went fishing the
sucker hole, like the rain bow, was always a little
further on.
y- So also ' ou have read ads. about cheap wash
ja. goods, but when you went to buy the goods were
“cheaper’’ than the “prLe’’ Not so here.
g Read These Prices:
11/ 1 Lot Scotch Lawn, good goods, fast color, worth
U/ 5c anywhere, only 3 C yd*
U/ 1 Lot yard wide Percales, worth 10c anywhere on
earth, now only 5 C yd
1 Lot Beautiful Woven Madras Cloth for
/if lee Shirts and Shirt Waists, worth 20c;
'•]: at ncyd.
W/ LLE \w 1 Lot Striped and Figured Dimities, worth
10c at 6c.
m 1 Lot Striped and Figured Dimities, worth 15c.
m at 92C.
W 1 Lot Assorted Cordettes, Fine Dimities, Organ-
zip dies and Lawns, worth 15c to■ 20c per yard,
(tP at 92C.
m 1 Lot French Organdies, cheap at 25c; now
/Ji only 16c yd
Z(P 1 Lot Striped and Figured P. K. worth 20c;
/fl at yd
/Ji 1 Lot Cab’e Cord, worth 15c; at 10c yd
/fl 1 Lot White P. K. worth 17Jc; at lie yd
1 Lot White P. K. worth 22Jc; at 15c yd
i|i 1 Lot Fire P. K. worth 30c; at i?2 c yd
/fl 1 Lot Fire P. K. worth 35c; at 20c yd
JJJ r Lot Figured Whip Cords, worth 15c, at 10c yd
/fl In order to obtain these goods at these prices
/fl bring the cash and mention this ad.
?i This sale for cash only. Nothing charged
ifi at these prices. LEE ALLEN.
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Hudson’s store.
PROFESSIONAL* CARDS
I EE G. JONES, Ph. G. M. D.
Specialist.
Genito Urinary diseases and diseases of
the skin. Oftlice in, and over Dodson s 1 nar
macy. Room No. 41 Windsor note ,
yr AN RIPER,
PHOTOGRAPHER AND VIEW ARTIST.
Studio on Jackson street, opposite Presby
terian church.
DR. B. B. HUDSON,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
m enders bls professional services to the pub
iiv. Calls left at Hudson’s drug store vrili
receive prompt attention.
ROBT. L. MAYNARD,
Attorney at Law.l
Office in Wheatley Building; Room 1.
Will practice in all courts except Count}
Court of Sumter countv.
JAM®* TAVLOK,
Attorney at Gaw-
Office over Rembert’s Drug store Forsyth
street
EA. HAWKINS,
* Attorney at Law.
Office in Wheatley Building opposite th
courthouse.
WELLBORN F. CLARrvE,
Attorney al Law
311 K Lamar Street. Americus. Ga
J i: “ L *“,
Americus, Ga.
Give special attention to the Bankruptcy
practice. Office. Bvne bldg, near court house
RE. CATO, M. D.
• PH YSCI AN AND SURGEON.
Residence 330 Folder tstreet. Telephone 96
Tenders his professional services to the
people of Americus aud surrounding coun
ties. Special attention given to general
surgery, diseases of women and children.
Office 40>K Jackson street. Cads left at Dr
Eldridge’s store will receive prompt atten
ton
JOHN M. WILKES.
DENTIST
Office over Bank of Southwestern
Georgia.
' z-»TEVE WOOTEN has the only relia
ble transer agency in the city. Al
attended to promptly it left at
Windsor hotel. Hours 6am to 10 pm.
Orders for night trains must be left
before p m, Respectfully,
phone 84 STEVE WOOTEN.
PENNSYLVANIA PURE RYE,
EIGHT YEARS OLD.
OLD SHARPK WILLIAMS,
FOUR FULL OUAKTS OF THIS FINE
OLD, PUKE RYE.
d* EXPRESS
PREPAID.
We ship on approval in plain, sealed boxes,
with n> marks to contain contents. When
vou receive it and test it, if it is not satisfac
tory. return n al our expense and we will re
turn your $3 0 We guarantee this brand to
be eight yesrs o d Eight bottles for $6 s®,
express prepaid; 12 bottles for 19.50 express
prepalp; 1 gallon jug, express prapaid, $3.00;
2 gallon iug, express prepaid, $5.50. No
charges for boxing.
Wc u a nine all tne leading brands of Rye
and Bourbon Whiskies in the market, and
will save vou 50 ner cent, on vour purchases.
Quart. Gallon.
Kentuck Star Bourbon $35 $125
Elkridge Bourbon 40 1 50
Coon Hollow- Bourbon 45 1 60
Mellwoud Pure Rye 50 1 90
Monogram Rye 55 2 (0
Mcßrayer Rye 60 2 25
Baker’s AAaA 65 2 40
O. O. P. (Old Oscar Pepper).. 65 2 40
Old Crow 75 2 50
Finches’Golden Wedding.... 75 275
Hoffman House Rye.... ... 90 300
Mount Vernon (8 years old).. 1 00 3 50
Old Dillinger (10 years 01d)... 125 400
The above are only a tew brands ot the
many we carry in stock. Send for catalogue.
All other goods by the gallon, such as Corn
Whiskey, Peach and Apple Brandies, etc,,
sold equally as low, from 11,25 gallon up
wards.
We make a specialty of the jug trade and
all orders by mail or telegraph will have oui
prompt attention. Special inducements of
fered
The Altmayer &
Flatau Liquor Co.
E-Mail orders shipped same day receipt of
order.
506, 508,1508, 510, 512.Fourth-«t
Near Union’ Passenger Depot
Phone 265.
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This elegant hotel, situated upon the out
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The city of Winchester, made famous by
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The many places of Interest ;n this beauti
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tnose seeking summer rest. A visit to the
old battlefields is interesting.
Beautiful shaded grounds surround tne
hotel, a chance for the children to romp; no
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An excellent orchestra during the entire
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HOLLY SPRIMiS
Americus’ Favorite Picnic Resort
(2 miles of city)
Now open for the season. BOATING,
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ION and other amusements. Fine spring
pure water. No charge tor grounds.
W. K. & LEE M. HANSFORD.
THE
Windsor Hotel,
AMERICUS, GEORGIA.
CHAS. A. FRICKER, Proprietor
HENRY WETTEROTH, Manager.
Notice to debtors and creditors.
GEORGIA—SUMTFR COUNT?
To whom it may concern: All persons in
debted to the estate.of E. C. Doughtie dec’d,
are hereby notified to make payment to
the undersigned, and all persons having
claims against said estate will present them
duly verified, as required by law.
R. S. BROADHURST,
Administrator estate.E. C. Douphtie.
NATIVE CHRISTIANS
ARE SKINNED ALIVE;
TWO NUNS BURNED
Horrible Atrocities Commit
ted by the Boxers In and
Around Peking.
PRINCE LI IS DENOUNCED
It Is Believed He Intends Saving the
Chinese Capital by Embroiling the
Powers—lie Is Regarded as the Most
Corrupt Anti-Foreign Official In
China—Missionaries Massacred.
Cue Foo, July 29, via Shanghai,
Aug. 3.—Public opinion and the foreign
press at treaty ports are alarmed at th*
possibility that the Chinese would pre
vail upon the powers to consent to the
establishment of peace without inflict
ing punishment befitting the Chinese
government’s crime. Officials, persons
engaged in commercial pursuits and
missionaries of all nationalities sire re
markably united. They believe Peking
should be destroyed as an object lesson
and tha. if the dynasty is continued it
should be forced to establish the capital
at some accessible city, the Americans
suggesting Nanking. This is consid
ered important, as the Chinese always
believed that China defeated the pow
ers in 1860 because the capital remained
intact. It is also thought that the guar
antees to prevent excessive armament
should be demanded and that China
should be compelled, publicly and defi
nitely, to renounce the fiction that the
foreign ministers are representatives of
tributary powers. There is a strong de
mand for unusual punishment, like the
destruction of the kings’ tombs.
The American and English missioh
aries advocate a program similar to the
foregoing.
All foreigners believe that the Chi
nese government engineered the out
breaks and is trying to call off its troops
after the downfall of Tien Tsin and the
receipt of reports that the powers aro
sending armies to China. A German
legation telegram saying that the bom
bardment of the legations ceased July
17 supports this theory. The foreigners
think that the ministers who suffered
should, if rescued, conduct the settle
ment with the government for the effect
it would have on the populace.
An intensely bitter feeling prevails
against Li Hung Chang. The papers
denounced the honor paid him at Hong-
Kong and Shanghai and call him the
most corrupt anti-foreign official in
China and express the belief that he
proposes to save China from the penalty
of her acts by embroiling the powers.
The destruction of foreign property
continues. United States Consul Fow
ler Estimates that the losses of the Amer
ican missions amount to $1,500,000. The
trade losses through the suspension of
trade are enormous.
Chinese bring many stories of horri
ble outrages upon native Christians,
who have been murdered, tortured, or
compelled to renounce their religion.
Several have been skinned alive.
Two French nuns at New Chwang
were deliberately burned alive. Dr.
Ting, a graduate of an American col
lege, refused to renounce Christianity,
afterward receiving 2,000 lashes.
A cable is being laid between Che Foo
and Taku. The land line between Che
Foo and Shanghai is managed and ope
rated by Chinamen and is inefficient.
The lino is overcrowded with work and
business is in hopeless confusion. Mes
sages over the line are public property.
There should be a cable between Che
Foo and Shanghai managed by foreign
ers so as to give satisfactory service.
ANARCHY REIGNS IN PEKING.
Chinese Fighting Among Themselves.
Streets Running With Blood.
Che Foo, July 26, via Shanghai,
Aug. 3.—The latest reports from Peking
were brought by disaffected officers of
the Chinese army. They are considered
reliable. The officers left Peking July
15. They say anarchy had reigned in
Peking for months and the streets ran
blood, the Chinamen fighting among
themselves. Jung Lu, commander-in
chief of the Chinese forces, and Prince
Ching espoused the cause of the foreign
ers and endeavored with the part of the
army loyal with them to expel the Box
ers. Later, with the majority of tho
imperial troops under anti-foreign lead
ers, Prince Tuan and General Tung Fu
Sian were victorious and Jung Lu and
Prince Ching, with their followers, were
prisoners in the yamens when the bear
ers of these reports left Peking.
Prince Tuan and General Tung Fu
Sian appear to control the government,
according to the officers, and issued
edicts, printed in The Gazette, exhort
ing the Chinese to kill all the foreigners
and native Christians. One officer says
there are 16,000 troops in Peking, in
cluding Tung’s army, and 8,000 more at
Yung Tsun. The soldiers hold all the
streets within a mile of the legations.
The foreign troops when tne officers
left Peking had burned and abandoned
the Chenmen gate. Their ammunition
appeared to be failing and their quick
firing guns had been silenced for some
days before July 15 and they were using
their rifles only when hard pressed. The
officers say that every foreign bullet
kills a Chinaman. The reports state
that the American and English troops
defeated General Ma in a night battle
July 10.
The reports from Chinese sources are
to the effect that all of the legations’
forces were killed. Chinamen caught a
messenger who Was trying to leave the
legations July 10 with the following
message:
“To Any Foreign Commander:
“Make all haste if you intend to save
us. We can hold out but a few days.”
Governor Yuan Ki states that he has
received a note from thetsungli yamen,
dated July 30, reporting that the minis
ters at tho German legations and others
were well and that their relations with
the government were friendly.
They were arranging measures to pro
tect the ministers at Tien Tsin. .•'
Negro Brakeman Killed. ; -
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. B.—William
Underwood, a negro brakeman oh the
Birmingham Mineral railroad, was run t
over and killed at Grace’s Gap while
engaged in switching his train.
FOREIGNERS ARE
HELD AS HOSTAGES,
SAY SHENG AND Yl
Declare They Will Be Mur
dered If the Allies March
on City of Peking.
CAPITAL WELL GUARDED
Pritchard Morgan Says There Are 70,-
000 Chinese Troops Between Peking
and Tien Tsin, With 300,000 Around
the City—He Thinks the Expedition
a Terrible Military Mistake.
Shanghai, Aug. 3.—Liu Kun Yi, vice
roy of Nanking, and Sheng, administra
tor of telegraphs and railways and taotai
of Shanghai, have both declared offi
cially that the foreign ministers are held
by the Chinese government as hostages,
and that if the allies march on Peking
they will be killed.
It is stated that only the Russians and
Japanese, 23,000 strong, are starting for
Peking.
Another Chinese exodus from Shang
hai has commenced. It was caused by
disquieting rumors published in the na
tive and some foreign newspapers.
GREAT MILITARY MISTAKE.
Pritchard Morgan Believes the Expe
dition Will Be Forced to Retreat.
London, Aug. 3. —“This fresh ad
vance upon Peking, I believe, will prove
a terrible military and political mis
take,” said Pritchard Morgan. “My
latest information,” he continued, “is
that there are 70,000 Chinese troops be
tween Tien Tsin and Peking and proba
bly 300,000 m and around Peking itself.
This expedition probably will be com
pelled to return like Admiral Seymour’s.
Besides, the Chinese government may
lose the power to protect the legations
any longer when the news that a for
eign army is advancing becomes known.
“The release of the ministers could
have been secured by Li Hung Chang if
the powers had consented to negotiate
through him. But the ministers refuse
to leave Peking, because while they are
there the Chinese government is respon
sible for them. ”
The failure to agree upon a com
mander-in-chief of the allied forces cre
ates consternation. Laßouchere cyni
cally observed:
“When the allied armies begin to fight
with each other the Boxers will have to
be called in to restore peace.”
CIVILIANS ARE_JMPATIENT.
Commanding Officers Are Severely
Critclsed For Their Tardiness.
Tien Tsin, July 25, via Shanghai,
Aug. 3.—Pending the order to advance
for the relief of the legationers at Pe
king, the events at the Chinese capital
are seemingly but slightly regarded.
High officers are entertaining nightly at
elaborate dinners, with military bands
playing operatic airs. Foreign residents
and friends of the besieged in Peking
who come to Tien Tsin to await news or
to accompany the expedition are In
tensely dissatisfied with the progress of
preparations. They accuse the army of
indifference and of magnifying the diffi
culties to be encountered in reaching
Peking.
President Tenny of the Tien Tsin uni
versity, who h: ; volunteered to guide
the army to Peking, said today:
“This business is not progressing in
accordance with Anglo-Saxon traditions.
Twenty thousand soldiers are staying
here while women and childrt n
of their own race are starving and
awaiting massacre 80 miles away. Mili
tary and naval officers, meanwhile,
wasting time in bickering over petty
politics, is a sorry spectacle. It will be
a dark blot on the reputation of every
commanding officer here if the white peo
ple in Peking are allowed to perish with
out a desperate effort to save them. ’ ’
President Tenny and many others
who fire acquainted with the conditions
think there were sufficient troops here
to push forward and pursue the Chinese
after the fall of the native city of Tien
Tsin. The position of the legations de
manded that the army take extraordi
nary risks by scouring the surrounding
country and commandering animals and
wagons and that boats sufficient for pur
poses of transportation might be impro
vised, is the prevailing opinion of civil
ians, and many officers, notably Jap
anese and Americans, confirm this view.
While people at Tien Tsin are totally
ignorant of diplomatic conditions abroad
or Chinese affairs, the lack of harmony
here among the representatives of the
powers hinders vigorous action.
The Japanese are giving a splendid
exhibition of organization. Their whole
machine moves like clock work. The
management of the Japanese army and
the bravery, spirit and Intelligence of
the Japanese troops are a revelation that
commands the respect and admiration
of all foreign officers.
COMBS MAKES STATEMENT?
He Wants the Prosecution to Produce
Mason Hockersmith as Witness.
Georgetown, Ky., Aug. 3.—Richard
Combs, one of the defendants in the
Goebel murder case, has become suspi
cious that he is not receiving fair treat
ment from his codofendants and has
had an interview with attorneys for the
prosecution, in which he said that he
wants Mason Hockersmith as a witness.
He says Hockersmith has been spirited
away and that the attorneys for the
other defendants will do nothing to find
him. He asserts that Hockersmith told
him that Henry Youtzey offered him
$1,200 to kill Goebel and showed him
how it pould be done through a window
in the office of the secretary of state.
He said that Hockersmith asked time to
consider and asked Combs’ advice. He
told Hockersmith to have nothing to do
with it. They were talking on the sub
ject when the fatal shot was fired.
• Bessemer Mills tn Operation.
/ Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 'fheTen
'iressee Coal, Iron and Railroad com
pany’s rolling mill, at Bessemer, has re
sumed work with a force of about 500
men. This force will be enlarged as th©
.various departments to the mill not now
in operation are started up.
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no other agent so useful and certain in
making’ delicious, pure and wholesome
foods, has ever been devised.
There are imitation baking powders, sold cheap, by
many grocers. They arc made from alum, a poison
ous drug, which renders the food injurious to health.
ROYAL BAKING POWDER CO , ICO WILLIAM ST , NEW YORK.
FIRST BATTLE OF
THE RELIEF COLUMN;
JAPANESE ENGAGED
Force Numbered 800 Men.
Three Were Killed and
25 Wounded.
ADVANCE BEGAN JULY 28
Russians Occupied the Chinese Camp
While the Japanese Pushed Up the
Pai-110 River Former Were De
feated North of New Chwang—Force
Sent to the Relief of Toshi Chow.
Washington, Aug. 3. —The navy de
partment this morning received the fol
lowing cable from Admiral Remey dated
Taku, Aug. 1: “Chaffee reports that 800
Japanese scouting toward Pei-Tang, lost
three men killed and 25 wounded. The
enemy in trenches and loop holed
houses. ”
London, Aug. 3.—The forward move
ment for the relief of the foreign lega
tions in Peking began Saturday, July
28. A message from Tien Tsin on that
date says that the advance guard of |he
Russians occupying the Chinese camp
and the Japanese pushed up the right
bank of the Pei-Ho river without oppo
sition. It was the expectation that tho
whole of the allied expeditionary force,
about 20,000 men, would be on the
march by Tuesday, July 31. Sixteen
hundred Americans and 2,300 British
are co-operating.
It is proposed to follow the river, using
boats to carry food, ammunition and ar
tillery. The telegraph office at Che Foo
appears to be blocked and newspaper
and official telegrams are subject to in
definite delays.
Shanghai correspondents learn that
the Russians were defeated north of
New Chwang and that a body of 5,000
strong is endeavoring to relieve the
force besieged at Toshi Chow by 40,000
Chinese and numerous guns. Four Rus
sian steamers on the Amur river are
said to have been sunk or damaged by
the Chinese fire.
The Chinese military commanders at
Shanghai have formally notified the
foreign consuls there that the enlist
ments now proceeding are to provide
large forces for the protection of foreign
ers and have expressed the hope that
they will not entertain groundless fears
or suspicions, adding that the increase
of the army is entirely to secure their
safety.
The smuggling of arms continues. A
junk was seized at Canton Aug. 1 with
70 rifles and 10,000 cartridges on board.
Foreigners at Macao fear an attack.
An imperial trade authorized the pas
sage of the Bosphorus by Russian troops
with war material bound for China.
News agency dispatches dated at
Shanghai Aug. 2 say the ferocious Li
Ping Hong, formerly governor of Shan
Tung, has arrived at Peking with a large
following of troops. On the way north
he killed two French priests and many
hundred converts.
Li Hung Chang is alleged to have sent
a message to Peking to keep Li Ping
quiet.
May Flank the Allies.
Shanghai, Aug. B.—-Trustworthy in
formation reaches here that Chinese
troops are steadily advancing northward
from the Yang Tse valley and also to
ward the south and may attack and
flank the European armies.
Estate Is’Valued at
St. Aug. 3.—The will of the
late Archbishop John Hennessy of Du
buque, la., has been filed for probate
here by the executors. The whole es
tate amounts to about $1,000,000, iwiich
is divided between th<r relatives and sis
terhoods of the church.
WILL BE SENT TO
TIEN TSEN UNDER
A CHINESE ESCORT
Relations of Ministers With
the Government Are Said
to Be Most Friendly.
THE DISPATCH IS VERIFIED
Original Conger Message Is Sent to
Consul Fowler at Che Foo—Minister
Wu’s Conduct Causes Comment—Ac
tion of the Officers at Tien Tsin Un
favorably Received.
Washington, Aug. 3. Bad news
comes this morning from Admiral
Remey indicating that serious resist
ance has developed against the advance
of the Peking relief column. His ad
vice confirms the opinion of the experts
here as to the fights already reported
near Tien Tsin being nothing more than
the result of reconnoisances. Still a
scouting party 800 strong, is no incon
siderable force and the fact that the
Japanese suffered severely is regarded
here as positive proof that the relief
column will have some lively fighting
ahead.
A feeling akin to indignation was ex
cited here by the press report from Tien
Tsin of the apparent indifference of the
manders there to the critical state of the
legationers at Peking. The war depart
ment officials are satisfied that General
Chaffee, at least, is blameless, for he is
undoubtedly exercising all of his influ
ence with the other commanders to get
the column in motion. Meanwhile, the
sharp check received by the Japanese
scouting party is an indication of what
he might experience should he take the
desptrate chance of pushing forward
alone.
Secretary Hay and Minister Wu added
another score to their credit today when
a dispatch came from United States Con
sul Fowler, at Che Foo, appapently re
moving all doubt as to the authenticity
of the famous Conger cipher dispatch.
Minister Wu and the German ambas
sador were at the state department in
quest of information, having, as they
said, no news themselves.
ORIGINAL CONGER DISPATCH
It Is Delivered ‘to Consul Fowler at
Cha Foo.
Washington, Aug. 3.—Tne slate de
partment today issued the following:
“The state department has received a
dispatch from Mr. Fowler, consul at
Che Foo, dated at, night Aug. 2, stating
that when he learned from the Shang
hai papers that doubts were entertained
of the genuineness of the Conger cipher
telegram he wired the governor of Shan
Tung to send him the original by cou
rier. The governor at once complied
with his request, sending it by special
postman. It is signed by Mr. Conger and
dated July 17. it is precisely the same
as the message received at the state de
partment, with several words prefixed,
which came in an unintclligle form to
the Chinese legatiod here. The dispatch
in its complete form says that the mem
bers of the American legation had been
besieged for a month in the British le
gation. Mr. Fowler has no doubt of the
genuineness of the dispatch.
PLAGUE APPEARS IN LONDON.
Four Cases and Two Deaths Reported
by Past Surgeon Thomas.
Washington, Aug. 3. —The marine
hospital service has received the follow
ing from Past Surgeon Thomas an
nouncing the outbreak of bubonic plague
in London:
“There have been four cases of plague
and two deaths from plague in London.
Diagnosis is confirmed by bacteriological
examination. Do not think there will
be further spread.”
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