03 Oct 1894
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Newspaper
Americus Times Recorder
Location
Americus, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 03, 1894
Page
1
Beautiful and hat racks sideboards library cases book cases wardrobes and chairs shown at low prices. Bedroom suits priced from 1250 to 125 00 and tables lounges extend tables are part of the stock. Cordially yours invites shoppers to view the complete furniture stock at Cotton avenue.
Bailey announces low cotton era pricing with Pebble Goat and Pebble Button styles for children and misses, including Kid Button Spring-Heel and Ladies Dongola lines. Prices range from 50c to $1.00, with Kid Button Shoes up to $2.00 and guaranteed style and fit. Bailey urges customers to call.
The cruiser Machias will not return the Spanish and papal loan exhibits. The Detroit is ready to sail from Norfolk and will receive the boxes for delivery. The loans will depart Washington Thursday under guard and head for Rome, Suez, then China, meeting the Machias near Suez mid November.
Democrats and Republicans in Washington and Nebraska exploit the same populist data to boost campaigns. A Republican leader notes the mass mailing of 10,000 copies as a key aid while congressional figures tally proposed costs. Separately, word arrives that the Dalton gang has crossed from Indian Territory into Texas, triggering banking and post office precautions near Vernon.
Mrs. E B Brace of Washington recounts meeting Captain Henry W Howgate the embezzler after his escape and her bid to alert authorities and aid recapture. She details how officials ignored her information and how Howgate fled from Charleston to Spring Hill then toward Cincinnati and St Louis amid a large reward offer.
A Shanghai cable reports the Chinese emperor likely dethroned with Prince Kung's son to assume treaty talks with Japan. Li Hung-Chang replaced by General Sang Taing in Manchuria as new supreme commander while Japanese troops move north and rebels clash with engineers near Shan-Hai-Kwan.
A. E. Sturgis of Thomson Ga cites a confession by a Black man held responsible for the May murder of Mrs Jane Lilly. The victim was strangled with iron tongs in a case described as one of the state’s most horrific and mysterious. The alleged killer reportedly spoke of the crime to others before dying and a search for a solid clue has remained fruitless.
Mrs Beecher widow of Henry Ward Beecher fell for a book dealer scam when an impersonator posing as agent George W Shafer took a check she later stopped. The real Shafer confronted the fraud, a stop payment was placed, and Mrs Beecher agreed to make good the amount to the grocer. She hopes the swindler is caught.
Ruth Wakefield wife of Rev Dr Samuel Wakefield died in Newtox Pa at 92 years old. He at 105 is the nation’s oldest Methodist Episcopal minister and prostrated by the bereavement. She was born Mount Pleasant and was noted for charity. The couple recently marked a diamond wedding and their son David celebrated a golden wedding. They had 10 children, three married 60 years.
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