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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-09
ANSLEY SACRIFICES
CLOTHING, SHOES, HATS

Stock taking will be here in q
few days and we had rather
count the cash than invoice a
stoC OK, therefore we offer, begin.
ming this morning at $50 O'clock,
the entire stock in the above
mentioned departments at the
most extraordinary reductions.
See our ad and prices on 4th
page. Chas. L. Ansley.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-09

New patterns in Man
haitian Shirts; $3.50
goods, sale price $1.19
while they last. All the
other grades cut accord
ingly. Sale opens Thurs
day, 9 a. m. Rylander
Shoe Co.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-09

Rylander Shoe Co. is offer
ing SIS in gold to the first Gus
toner purchasing SIS worth
of goods at their store Thurs.
day, the first day of the Big
gest Sale ever held in Ameri.
Gus.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-09

If you haven't bought your
winter suit yet you cannot af-
ford to miss the opportunity
offered you by Ansley during
the big sale put on by him
today,
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-09
SPECIAL NOTICE

SpeciaI prices will continue on the
following lines till Saturday night,
Jan. 18th. Ladies Suits and cIOaks,
mems, youths and ehiIdren's clothing.
Same prices as heretofore will apply.
9-4t PINkSTON co.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-09
Clearing Sale


There are many good reasons for Special
Sales. A merchant may have too many goods
or more than he requires of one kind, or ne may
have numerous small lots in which the assort-
ment Of sizes is broken and therefore, be willing
to sacrifice profit in order to clean up. We shall
now commence Special Clearance Sale---it will
be bona-fide.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-09

Special reductions will be
offered on entire stock mems
underwear and other furnish
ings at AnSley'S.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1908-01-09
January
Clothing Sale.

In few days now will be taking our in
ventory and we want to clear out every suit and
overcoat IN the stock that it is possible to move.
Former prices will be no criterion for effecting
this.
1T is DOLLARS NOW THAT MOVES THE
MERCHANDISE. COME AT ONCE. THE
BEST LINE CLOTHING EVER SHOWN
IN AMERICUS is HERE FOR YOUR
INSPECTION, HOWEVER
CRITICAL
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-12-25
MESSAGES NEVER TRANSMITTED
Western Union Telegraph Company
and It's Patrons Robbed OF
Big Sum.

Portland, Ore, Dec. 22.-An investi'
cation by the Western Union Tele-
graph company, carried on during the
past six months has disclosed an Or
ganized system Of theft among rail-
road operators on the Pacific coast,
by reason Of which the telegraph
company and thousands Of its patrons
have beeen robbed of an amount esti.
mated at several hundred thousand
dollars, according to statement
made last night by an official of the
company who is in charge of the In
vestigation.
Numerous complaints had been re.
ceived by the company from persons
who filed their messages to be trans
mitted by the company that their
messages had never been delivered.
Messages Never Transmitted.
It was discovered that in some in
stances over 60 per cent of the mes
sages filed at railroad offices were
never transmitted, and all records of
the dispatches were destroyed. War
rants were obtained for the arrest Of
several operators in the State Of
Washington, and it is alleged by Off
Gals of the company that at least
one of the arrested men has confess
ed. They will all be brought to trial
shortly.
Only railroad operators are said to
be involved in the alleged steal.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-12-25
CASTRO foAMs WITH RAG:
News From Venezuela Rouses Temper
Of Fugitive President to
High Pitch.

Berlin, Dec. 20. - President Castro
suspects Acting President Gomez Of
Venezuela Of treachery. News of the
situation in Venezuela caused him al.
most to foam with rage. He is in a
ferocious temper, which he is venting
not only on members of his suite, but
also upon his own family.
For forty hours Castro has shut him
self up in his princely apartments in
the Hotel Esplanada, drowning what
ever cares of state he may have by
orgies Of feasting and drinking. The
only stranger admitted to his apart
ments yesterday was another repre-
sentative of the German foreign Of
fee.
Would Make Up With France.
After the conference it was said
that there is now an evident desire
on the part Of President Castro to eff
feet an arrangement of the outstand-
ing difficulties between Venezuela and
France. Castro authorized the follow,
ing statement:
Il believe it would be very easy to
bring about a renewal of relations be-
tween Venezuela and France by SUBJ
hitting the questions at issue to arbi-
tration in the usual way adopted when
two nations cannot find other means
for settling their differences"
Holland Sore at Germany.
The Hague, Dec. 2O.-It is the opin-
ion of the foreign Office here that the
rumor that Venezuela had declared
war against the Netherlands arose
through the confusion of the term
Estate of Defense" recently declared
by Acting President Gomez of Vene-
zuela, with estate of war;" According
to an Amsterdam news agency, Minis
ter of Foreign Affairs Van Swinderen
has personal reasons for believing that
news of an entirely different charac-
ter will speedily be received, although
he admits that it is not impossible
that affairs have taken a new turn.
Popular opinion here inclines to the
belief that President Castro's rule is
drawing to an end.
The official German attitude toward
Senior Castro is greatly resented in
The Hague.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-12-25
ANNA MAY LOSE CHILDREN.
French Court Considers Sendi
Them IN Roardino crhooI

French Court Considers Sending
Them to Boarding School.
Paris, Dec. %. - The court before
which the suit of Count Boni de Cas-
tellane for the transfer of his three
children from the care of their mother,
Princess de Sagan, to the care of the
Marquise de Castellane, has been con-
Quoted, is now considering the advisa-
bility of ordering the children placed
In high school. where they shall re-
main for stated period or as partial
boarders.
With that object the three judges
constituting the court and repre-
sentative of the public prosecutor yes
terday summoned the three children
and questioned them at some length.
The examination was directed to-
ward ascertaining whether the chill
dren were physically and mentally
fitted for school life.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-12-25
EVIDENCE is AGAINST HAMS
State Brings Out Strongest Testimony
So Far,

Flushing, N. Y, Dec. 2O.-The trial
Of Thornton j. Hams on charges of
aiding his brother, Capt. Peter c..
Hams, Jr., in the killing of William E.
Annis. was adjourned last night until
Monday, after a day in which the
state developed the strongest testi-
mony so far adduced. Two witnesses,
Herbert l.. Funke and Arthur An
drews, both eye-witnesses of the shoot
ing, swore that there was an interval
between the first shot fired by Capt.
Hams at Annis and the others that
came in fairly rapid succession. Both
of these club members declared posi-
lively that Thornton Hams pointed his
revolver at those on the float after
the first shot and before the succeed
ing shots we're fired. An exhaustive
examination on this point, material to
the prosecutions case, failed to shake
their testimony. Justice Crane adj
monished the jurors to be very
careful and not permit any one to dis
cuss the case with them at their
homes, and then adjourned court until
Monday. ...
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Winnipeg Chinese Wildly Excit-
ed Over Killing of Two Of
Their Countrymen.
CRIME LAID TO 'HIGnBINOtRS
Cinnamon Were Slaughtered With an
Ak in Laundry Shack-Money
Is Not Taken.

Winnipeg, Dec. %. = Murdered in
the most brutal manner in their laun-
dry shack at an hour when scores of
people must have been passing, two
Chinese, Kung Pow and Chun Lung,
were found lying in pools Of blood by
belated customer.
Circumstances connected with the
crime strongly suggest the theory
that the murders were committed by
Chinese highbinders, and the police
are working on this hypothesis.
Winnipeg Chinese are wildly ex-
cited over the double murder.
Second Similar Affair.
This is the second affair of the kind
in a year. The two victims on the
former occasion were slaughtered and
the house set on fire. Nearly every
Chinaman in Winnipeg attended a
mass meeting last night. Funds will
be raised to finance the fullest inves-
tigation. It was decided to close laun-
dries at 10 o'clock Saturday nights
hereafter.
The Threats of both victims of Sat
urday's crime were cut with butch
er knife and their heads were horribly
hacked with an ak. These implements
were found beside the bodies.
Money was found in the pockets of
the dead men, but their valises and
trunks up stairs were rifled. Other
signs tended to show that the crime
was done by Chinese hatchetmen,
who sought something other than
money.
Finds CHASTITY Scene.
When the belated customer entered
the laundry the air in the place was
foul with the odor of blood, and the
man drew back instinctively, even be-
fore his eyes had become accustomed
to the dim light. When he looked
again he saw a sight so horrifying
that he backed away from the door
with Shrek and dashed down the
street. A policeman who was notified
took charge of the shop and summon
ed aid.
An investigation revealed the hor-
rible brutality of the crime. The vic
Tins were slashed and hacked almost
beyond recognition. Blood was every
where, on floors, walls, table, in the
sink, where the murderers had wash
ed their hands, and a trail on the
stairs marked their footsteps to the
upper rooms.
The police have failed to find a
trace of the perpetrators of the crime.
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Gen. William Booth, commanderin-
chief of the Salvation Army, was op'
Grated on last week In London for
cataract, and the doctors are hopeful
that he will completely recover hts
sight.
La Balleta, the dancing girl, In
: whose apartment in Paris Grand Duke
! Alexis died suddenly, has been noti.
fed by the Russian consulate that her
royal admirer had left her 1000, 900
francs.
The report of the state tobacco mo
nopoly filed at Paris shows that the
French nation last year consumed
500, 100000 worth of tobacco upon
which the government made a profit
Of $75.0o0.o0o.
A fashionable woman, wearing .
"merry widow hat three feet in d.
Ameter, tainted in the street at Mu-
mich, and was carried into a shop.
where she recovered when the hat
was removed. The doctor, who had
been summoned, said the swoon was
entirely attributable to the enormous
weight of the hat.
Archbishop Ireland's brief visit to
Paris caused certain stir in circles
where it is believed he is to receive
the "red hat" One indiscreet inter-
viewer bluntly asked the archbishop
If he expects to be made cardinal.
Mr.. Ireland only smiled and said: Il
will tell you when I return what I
think about It,"
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-12-25
Pennsylvania Senator Accepts
Position of Secretary Of
State in New Cabinet.
INFLUENCE WILL Be POTENT
Mr.. Taft Will Consult Knox About Cab.
met and Other Administration
Matters.

Augusta, Ca, Dec. 20.-William H.
Taft, president-elect of the United
States, last night announced the ap-
pointment Of United States Senator
Philander C. Knox of Pennsylvania as
secretary of state in his cabinet.
The announcement followed the re-
ceipt by Mr.. Taft Of a telegram which
came late yesterday afternoon convey
ing the information from Mr.. Knox
that he would accept the premiership
Of the Taft cabinet.
Taft Is Pleased.
Mr. Taft without delay made the an
nouncement that the matter was set
tied. In giving the details Of the ne
gotiations he said that the offer was
made to Mr.. Knox last Sunday morn
ing in New York; that since the offer
he had not heard from Mr.. Knox until
the telegram he received yesterday.
II feel that I am to be congratulate
ed in securing the services of Senator
Knox in my cabinet said Judge Taft
in making the announcement. I'm Sc
lecting a secretary of state I wanted
first, great lawyer, and, second, a
man who would fill the public eye, not
only here but abroad, as man who
stands out prominently as a great
american.
"Mr. Knox was great attorney
general; he was prominent candi-
date for the presidency and he is rec,
ognized in the senate and elsewhere
as one of the great lawyers of that
body"
Will Consult Knox.
Mr.. Taft announced that he would
invite Senator Knox to come to Au-
gusta that he might consult him free
ly with reference to filling other
places in his cabinet In fact, he said
that he felt the need of such advice
as he should be able to obtain from
Mr.. Knox regarding not only the cabi-
net but many matters preliminary to
the beginning of his administration.
That Mr.. Knox's influence will be DO
tent was freely admitted by Mr.. Taft.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-12-25
Otherwise,

Billy Papke of Kewaunee, ILL.,, and
Hugo Kelly of Chicago fought TWEEN.
ty-five rounds to a draw at Los An.
geles.
The United States fish commission
will locate the new fresh water mus.
sci propagating station at Fairport
Iowa, according to advices received
from Washington.
Katherine Clemmons Gould was de.
MED in the appellate division of that
supreme court in New York a trial
by the jury in her action for divorce
from Howard Gould.
Ad Wolgast of Milwaukee outfought
Abe Attell. the featherweight cham.
pion, before the Pacific Athletic club
at Los Angeles. The fight went ten
rounds with no official decision per.
mitted under the law.
Words of praise for the American
battleship fleet and its officers and
men were uttered by Lord Northcote.
retiring governor general of Australia.
at luncheon in his honor in the law.
yers' club in New York.
Employees of the Chase & Sanborn
company, coffee merchants of Chicago.
will receive munificent Christmas
presents under the terms of the will
Of Caleb Chase, senior member of the
firm, who died recently at his home
In Boston. Mr.. Chase's will provides
for requests to his employees in Bos.
ton. Chicago and Montreal amounting
to $3O0.000
Mrs. William Hunter Doll, who was
Mrs. Cushman K. Davis, wife Of tho
Minnesota senator, died suddenly on
her farm near Hyattsville, Md. Az
Mrs. Davis, the deceased was promt.
nent for several years in capital so,
ciety circles, ana entertained at her
Washington home on many occasions.
Mrs. Davis former home was in ST.
Paul. where she met and married tho
Senator.
The statement of the auditor Of tho
state as to the condition Of all Iowa
banks since his last report On Nov.
% shows deposits amounting to 3205..
e2l, 800 the heaviest deposits IN thu
history Of Iowa excepting Just before
the panic Of last fail.
The American Steel and Wire com.
pany sent out orders for the immedi.
ate flins up Of two blast furnaces and
six open-hearth furnaces at the com,
pany's plant ct Dcnsrs, Ps. These ~,
partments have besn Idle for Z year
This WIN mean IL snployusnt Of
1Soe nso.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-12-25
CASTRO LloNlzED IN GERMANY.
No Potentate Ever Concentrated Lime
light to Greater Extent.

light to Greater Extent.
Berlin, Dec. 22.-President Castro
of Venezuela is meeting with far
different reception here than was &C.
corded him in French cities. In Paris
sharp watch was kept on him, and
when he came into contact with OFF,
cial France the meetings were very
chilly. Here in Berlin he is being
made much of-in fact, it may be-.
said he is the lion of the hour
Here he has the royal suite of the
city's most exclusive hotel placed at
his disposal, the suite embracing
thirty-four rooms. The newspapers
are printing columns devoted to the
minutest details of his daily program.
Enterprising tradesmen are paying
homage to the distinguished stranger
within the gate. No potentate Of
either hemisphere ever succeeded in
concentrating the limelight upon his
august person to a greater degree.
Castro is under the care Of Prof.
Israel, who conducts private hospi-
tai. Beyond symptoms Of tuberculo-
SIS or the Kidneys, the exact nature OK
Castro's malady has not been dag.
nosed.
DR.. Israel wants to keep him under
his own eye day and night for week.
far removed from truffles, pate de fol
gras and champagne, If possible, so
that the question of an operation may
be positively determined.
Yesterday he was removed to DR..
Israel's hospital to undergo course
of treatment and dieting.
Castro has been considerably more
concerned over his own troubles than
over those of Venezuela. To the per-
sons who succeeded in extorting a
word or two from him he professed
childlike ignorance of any extraordi
nary happening in Venezuela.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-12-25
LEsEAu TO BE HANGED.

Hobbins to Prison for Life for pou.
BILE Montana Murder.
Kalispell, Mont, Dec. 22.-"Hanged
by the neck until you are dead" were
the words Of Judge Erickson in pro.
nouncing sentence upon Frederick LIE.
beau. Lebeau's confederate Joe Hob.
bins, will go to prison for fife. Le,-
beau will be hanged Feb. s. The crime
was the killing Of r. w. Yoakum and
his son.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-12-25
NEWS OF TIE week IN fPnOMt
important Events at nooe and %
Foreign Shores Briefly
Told
From Washington.

A bill was passed by the house au'
thorizing the construction of a bridge
across the Mississippi river at or near
st. Paul, Mimi.
The house passed bill placing an
annual tax Of 500 on all dealers In
cigarettes and cigarette papers in the
District of Columbia.
Attorney General Charles L. Bona
parte has indicated that he would not
be a member of Mr.. Taft's cabinet
when, in response to inquiry on the
subject, he said that after March
next be positively would retire from
public life.
President Roosevelt has issued Or
ders under which the United States
government will give Panama les
son in policing. Men from eight
cruisers will be ordered ashore on
a visit, and they will form tenn.
porary isthmian guard.
The supreme court Of the United
States in the main reversed the yer.
dict of the United States district
court Ol OOlUTdOO UlSCIdISluS 1lO1A
custody several persons who were ar
rested on the charge of conspiring to
defraud the government by entering
timber and coal lands in Colorado con.
trary to law.
Aiming blow at the alleged prac-
tice of pet" appointments in the ar
my, Representative Anthony Of Kan
sas introduced bill roviding that all
vacancies in the grade of brigadier
general in the line of the army shall
be filled by selection only from the
colonies of the line of the army, ex.
cept in time of war.
A bill has been introduced in the
house authorizing the secretary of
the interior to place on the pension
roll under the same terms granted by
law to officers and soldiers of other
indian wars, the names of officers
and soldiers of the Bannock war,
which occurred in Oregon and Wash.
ington in 1878 and 1879.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-12-25
Personal.

Arthur Curtis James was elected
commodore Of the New York Yacht
club, succeeding Cornelius Vanderbilt,
who has held the honor for the past
three years.
Herman Knickerbocker Viele, civil
engineer, artist and author, died at
New York of pneumonia. Mr.. Viele
was son of Gen. Egbert L. Viele, .
we'll known engineer.
Mrs. Nicholas Fish, whose husband
was the eldest son of the secretary
CT state in President Grants cabinet.
died at her home in Washington from
"a stroke of apoplexy.
John Bruce Woodward, a student at
the state university at Lexington, KY.
died as the result of the bursting of
blood vessel in his lung while blowing
into a lung testing machine.
Mayor Charles H. Gaus, state con.
troller-elect of New York, announces
that Otto Kelsey, state superintendent
of insurance, had accepted an appoint.
ment as first deputy state controller.
Charlemagne Tower, recent ambas-
sador to Germany, was defeated for
the office of president of the Union
League club of Philadelphia by James
F. Hope, a we'll known merchant and
financier.
Bishop William S. Lewis of the
Methodist Episcopal church has ca
bled to Sioux City friends of his safe
arrival in China to take up his new
work. Foo Chow will be his perma.
nent residence.
Chief William T. Belt of the Wash
ington fire department, vice president
of the National Association of Fire
Chiefs and one of the best known fire
fighters in the country, died suddenly
of heart disease.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-12-25
scHMlTz OUT ON BAIL.

Former San Francisco Mayor Is Re-
leased Under $4,000 Bond.
San Francisco, Dec. 22.-Eugene E.
Schmitz, former mayor of San Fran
cisco, accused of grating, was releas.
en- on $4,000 bail, furnished by rela-
tives and friends following the refusal
of his former bondsman, William ].
singee, the California cement king"
to submit to examination as to hia
financial condition. Four of those
who went on Schmitz's bonds were
women relatives.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-12-25

somerville, Mass, Dec. 20.-Jamss
B. Harmon, eighteen years old, shot
and killed Miss Maud Hartley, eight.
cen years Of age, on the street here
yesterday. Miss Hartley had recently
informed Harmon that ahs u noj
care for his attsntipas.
The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1908-12-25
RoMAokA GETS HIS DECREE.

Divorce Is Granted Husband Of Noted
Joliet Prisoner.
Milwaukee, Dec. 20.-Charles ]. Ro-
madka. husband to Evelyn Cain Ro-
madka, the woman who is now serving
a term in Joliet prison for larceny in
Chicago. was yesterday granted d.
vorce in Judge Ludwig's branch of the
circuit court Of Milwaukee county.
The application for divorce was not
contested.
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Sins and Sinners.

Francis Owen Griffin, retired hard
ware merchant. formerly of Elgin, ILL.,.
committed suicide.
Charged with Incorporating
100000, two brothers, Adolph and
Fritz Eberbach, hotel company pro-
moters have been arrested in Berlin.
After an argument over 1925 in
wages Frank Ross, an italian laborer,
shot and killed John Clifton, an ex-
cavation contractor, the Cleveland pc.
lice say. Ross escaped.
The body of man supposed to be
Waldo A. Setback of Dillon, Mont.
was found in a rooming house at
Idaho Falls, Idaho. The head had
been horribly mutilated with an ak.
Attempting to hang himself by using
his suspenders for moose, d. F. Ly-
ons, a farm hand, who had been placed
in the LIE Mars Qowa) Jail for intoxi-
cation. was rescued by police officer.
Steward Hosp. found guilty at Miles
City, Mont, of manslaughter in the
killing of Norman Thetford on Aug.
26, was sentenced to ten years, the
limit under the statutes, by Judge
Loud.
AS a result Of an attempt to inau.
gurate test of the so-called Locke
anti-racing law at City park race track
at New Orleans, several turfmen were
arrested and af1davits were made
against others.
Stating that while station agent at
Mcpherson, Kan, he had embezzled
about $500 from the Missouri Pacific
company, G. T. Birdsell gave himself
to the police at Oakland, CAL, because
his conscience troubled him so that
he could not rest.
H. o. Smith, general superintendent
of the Freebory Coal and Coke com.
pany, was shot and killed during q
quarrel at Delorme, w. Va, by P. A
Corners. station agent for the Nor
folk & Western road at that point.