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THE ROME TRIBUNE. VOL. VI. NO. 1.943 HILL FOUND GUILTY. The Jury Was Out Only a Few JVlinutes. i 1 IH|| '4-i J’.HL HE W <kS SENT BACK TO JAIL — — r The Gay Debonair Defendant Was Taking a Drink at the Time. Atlanta, Ga, February 3.—Harry 111, At iht'i’s beatVy, was convicted if for ;try tonight. The jirywasout only a few minutes. The verdict was mide up so qiickly that the . defendant had knot returned from takings drive ata Neighboring bar when the j irors fi’ed into the court room. Hill was surprised, for the had expected either a. mistrial or .ac q iittal. He was sent to j ill for the night. A motion Will be made for a new trial. Bill was indicted for forging the'name of Mra. Fanny Lowry Porter, wife of a bank ' president, to noteh. His defence was that she authorized him to sign -her name. She admitted that she had given him money to aid him and had signed some notes for him, but denied having signed [six notes which Hill bad discounted. The Argument Proceeds. • Atlanta, Feb." 3.--With alt her sen-, B sations, during the last year, the capitol rof Georgia has not -produced one that attracts more attention than the trial of Sarry Hill. Interest in such cases usu ally wanes with the conclusion of the evidence, but in this the opposite is true., But this is A qaftlAbf giants,j the best legal talent in : the'city /being I embloyed on both ' v '' After Ben Hill concluded his renvuk t Able speech for the ■ defense i Colonel N, - «T. Hammotad spolie the *pr<KecutioU< . ’He began by describing in a slow, clear I and forciljle manperdhe duties ami the. i powers of a juror. ■* I “Now then,” said he. getting well into the trend of his argument, "geutle- > men of thd jury, “Mr: Hill, for Aha de fense, wlip has pie, iQas tidd , you many tilings about the men* who I practice at the bar, and among many '[ beautiful things ha has spoken tp you'he paid the bar a most Irancfsoine’-aHI lofty compliment—a compliment that is lof tier, perhaps, than the populace' thinks the bar ought to have.” Defining the province of a lawyer he & said ttmt his first duty is lujhtosdeietitl ij client but to defend tne frufh/an<| laws of his Jf.-upiy’ au-| Continuing, he said: • “I come to you in the spirit of this law. I come before you to speak in the language of honesty, of sobermkss and of truth. I ciime n<it to amuse you with fair flowers of eloquent speech. •This is too serious a inatter.fqr aiiuissnjeni/ I comenotito arinAe yopr passions, al though Vconfetes that it is a matter that readily calls fr,oni every heart |he re sponse of mankind’s loftiest passions— the passion of chivalry and honor. • “There seems to be some difference' of opinion between Mr. Arnold, wfio spoke yesterday, and Mr. Hill, who spoke to day, as to which' is the lowest thief, a burglar or a forger. I do not agree with Mr. Arnold that the worst type of thief is the forger, -who signs your name to * steal away vour money and your credit. To iny mind the lowest of thieves is the juryman who gets into a jtjry box and, invoking God’s bjessirigs upon 1 him in his duty, steals away from a man or a woman the justice which the good God of right has ordained should be meted out to him.” . Commenting upon the action of the defense in putting Harry Hill upon the ' etand to say on his unsworn statement that Mrs. Porter had given her consent to the signature, he said: “This was their only chance and they , had to take it. It reminds me of the joke Uncle Remus tells about Brer Rab bit an the wolf. Brer Rabbit was be ing chased by Brer Wolf and when Brer Wolf got so close to him that Brer Rab bit could almost throw sand in his eyes, Brer Rabbit climbed a tree. “ ‘What,’ said the little boy. ‘how could Brer Rabbit climb the tree when a rabbit can't climb a tree? “ ‘That's all right,’ said Uncle Re mus, ‘don't yer be askin’ foolish ques tions. Brer Wolf done got so close ter Brer Rabbit dat he 'bleegeJ ter clime dat tree.’ Laughter. “Harry Hill is ’bleeged ter clime a tree.” He said that even if Mrs. Porter had acted in such away after the notes were k signed as to make her liable, the crime of forgery could not be dismissed from the dockets of the court; that when a forgery has been committed there is no pardoning power this side of the gov ernor. Colonel Hammond took the position that the case is not dependent on the testimony of Mr. Echols. Commenting on Hill’s statement to the jury he said that the first sentence of that statement was a lie; that it was founded on falsehoods all through. He closed with an eloquent appeal to the jury to do their duty. Colonel Hammond was followed by Colonel Tinney Rucker for the defense ’ who made one of his inimitable speeches to a packed courtroom. He perhaps never had a finer subject for the exercise of the sarcasm and wit which he possesses in such a large de gree. Solicitor Hill will close for the prosecution and the case will probably go to the jury some time this evening. WITH TWO PISTOLS, • T**-*- One of Governor Tillman’* Witneaaes De fends Himself, and Blood Is Sited. Columbia, Feo. 3. —Bloodshed has re sulted from the first trial under the new dispensary law in this city. A street duel under the shadow of the courthouse L occurred between W. B. Meetze, the B man who defied Governor Tillman and " (lie conetables at ‘ the state fair grounds aI Gast iNovemoer Wiuie selling nee oeer, and Davis Miller, a witness for the state and who is supposed to be a dispensary constable. The two men were fresh from the hall of justice, having just walked out of the city fourtfobm, where tije trial of blind timers \va? in progress.. • ] < > ; > Meetze is’known aS a dead shot. It was he who killed Trial Justice Clark almost on the same spot several years ago. ? Miller is spoken of as a sporting man, and has the reputation of being game. The two men became involved in a street fight over the evidence which a justice of the peace vainly endeavored to stop. Justice Stacks says' that he hung on to him until Miller drew’two pistols and aimed one at him, when he sought safe rquarters. . i . Meetze dared Miller to use his pistols and the invitation was accepted. By this time there were hundreds of per sons on the scene*. The two men blazed away regardless of the crowd but fortu nately none of the bystanders were hit. Miller fired nine times and Meetze five. Louis Levin, a notary public who wit nessed it, states that Miller shot before Meetze had bis pistol out. Meetze fell to the ground, and as he did so a num bet of his friends rushed up at Miller, shouting “Shoot the scoundrel!” They were evidently bent on lynching him when Sergeant Morehead, of the police force, rushed in, caught hold of Miller and, with a drawn pistol, shouted to the crowd that he would shoot the first man who, touched him. Other, policemen up and Miller was rushed off. Miller received a flesh’ wotjnd in the arm and Meetze was struck in the groin. His physicians say th,at he is seriously ■ Wounded, .but perhaps nqt fatally. Dr. Kendall made a careful examina tion of Meetze's condition and. located the ball in the abdominal cavity. It en tered between the tenth and eleventh ribs,-lodging nqar ths Liver. There is great dinger troth' peritonitis, and 'Meece’s jchanc^»for|recovery are doubt- CRIMINALS FOR SpIENCE. A Ihiclur Wants tn Cut Up Couilemned Men Alive. ’y f | Columbus, <).? Feb. 3.—Dr. C. S. Pyle, of Canton, appeared before the house / committee x>n prison reform in support oft his to | appropriate con demned persons for the uses of science. He argued this would be a . proper way for tfie felon to pay his de|t tp soi/ety. To illustrate his ided, Dr. Pyle said he would take an; appropriated criminal ebt open his stOmacH, put .him under the influence of the drug till the opening healed, and keep him alive for a time, studying thje process <« digestion, 1 by di rect observation, oH be would remove a portion of toe skiilli ahd pressing on the, brain, note the senShtiofis. Shell sensa tions, he held, would not necessarily be accompanied by pain, and facts concern ing the brain, never to be secured in any other way, would be secured. Finally, the subject should be killed by opiates'. WILSON BILII ALL RIGHT. It Will Provide SttflUaent Revenue tor, the Fiscal .Yeftr 1.595. Washington, Feb,. 3.—The Wilson bill, as passed by the hbuse, will provide a sufficient.revenue for the fiscal year 1895. The internal revenue bill, which was added to it as an amendment, will practically close the gap between the revenue provided by the bill as first re ported to the house and that now raised by the McKinley act. I The total duties estimated under the customs provisions of the Wilson bill aggregate $125,000,000. The tax on in individual and corporation incomes will net $30,000,000, and the annual internal revenue receipts, now about $ 150,4)00,000 will be raised by the increase of 10 cents in the whisky tax and the taxon playing cards and cigarettes to $103,009,000, making a total of $318,000,000, to which should be added at least $12,000,000 as the saving on the sugar bounty and $lO,- 000,000 for increased importations, mak ing a grand total of $310,000,000 as the gross revenue provided by the bill. Sec retary (Jarlisle estimates that the reve nue for the fiscal year 1895 from the postal receipts and miscellaneous sources will amount to $105,0(10,000, so that the Income of the government for the next fiscal year may be safely estimated at $445,000,000. The plans of the bouse committee on appropriations contemplate a reduction of $25,000,000 on the estimates of the expenditures for the year 1895, as sub mitted by Secretary Carlisle puts these disbursements at $148,300,000, and if the plans of the house leaders are carried out there will be a handsome surplus left over from the revenues derived un der the Wilson bill. Revolt Threatened in Samoa. New York, Feb. 3.—A special to The World from San Francisco says that se rious political trouble is threatened again in Samoa. A new pretender to the throne, whose name is not given, has declared himself, and many of the natives favor his claims. It is said that all the Samoans are much dissatisfied with the tripartite agreement of the United States, Great Britain and Ger many, by virtue of which the islands are governed, and that a revolt may oc cur. The same letter says that an epi demic of measles has caused over 1,000 deaths on the Tonga islands. The f's ease was introduced through the care lessness of health officers, and on that account there have been some bitter po litical quarrrels, and King George Ta bou 11. has made Josiateki Toga his pre mier in place of George Tukuabo, ana Colonel Campbell, the chief of the cus toms and postal department, has been removed. World'* Fair Director* Not Fined. Chicago, Feb. B.—The Appellate court has reversed the decision of Judge Stein made last summer fining Director General Davis and the directors of the World's Fair feyr contwnpt. The con tempt was in closing the fair on Sunday after an injunctton.restrainlnf each ac tion had been granted hr Jndm Stein. home. ua. Monday sioaNiNQ, February «, ihua GEO. W. CHILDS DEAD The Good Editor Has Gone to His Reward. VERY SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE. His Greatest Distinction Was That He Loved His Fellow Man—Sketch of His Life. PhiIaDKSPHIa, Feb. 3.—George W. Childs, editor and proprietor of The Public Ledger, died at his home, at Twenty-second* and Walnut streets at 8;0t o’clock Saturday morning. At 10 o’clock his respiration became embarrassed and the physicians at his bedside saw the end close at hand. - At midnight the patient’s pulse was flag- ''Y v GEORGE W. CHILDS. ■ging,-hesaute gradually but steadily until death ehn* to put an end to the long struggle for life. Mrs. Childs and Drs. Dacosto, Leidy and Mills were in the sick room at/lie “end; George William Childs was born in Baltimore in 1529. The practical part of his maketip was bom with him. When he was 12 years of age he spent a sum mer vacation as errand boy in a book store at a salary of s‘3 a week and en joyed it. Almost anything might be ex pected otm bojf of 12 who enjoyed run ning errands,'and Mr. Childs has not disappointed the expectation. Soon after he removed to Philadelphia and entered a store, doubtless as a mixture of clerk and errand t>oy. He would get up very early in the morning, go down to the store and wash the pavement and put things in order before breakfast, and in the winter would make the fire and sweep out the store, fn the; same spirit, when books we’re bought" at night at auction, he would early the next mprning go for them with a wheelbarrow’ I* this way he worked till he became of age, when he went into business with Mr. Peterson under the firm name of R. E. Peterson & Co. The only interval in his business career was 15 months in the United States navy when he was 13. He liked running errands, but be couldn’t abide th,e navy. < In 1864 Mr. Childs purchased The Public Ledger, which had lost over SIOO,OOO. He made it a handsome prop erty, and for a long time before his death it paid more than SI,OOO a day clear profit. Os Mr. Childs’ more practical Ameri can charities, even those which are known are too numerous to catalogue. To serve him in his employ was sure to bring the employe a pension when worn out. and.during bis term of service a certainty of being cared for in misfor tune. But doubtless the unknown chari ties surpassed those which were mani fest. He gave away a fortune every year. One who once saw a private record of his charities has said that, though the period covered was only one month, tiie total amount given was $28,- 000. Mr. Childs, gave his money away in the most practical and the most impractical fashion. He pen sioned all who wore out in his service, which was very practical. He would subscribe to put a stained glass window in a church in memory of a poet who has been dead two centuries, though an ocean rolled between that church and Mr. Childs' business office. This was very impractical. The truth is that Mr. ChiLls’ charities were so numerous and embraced so wide a range that they touched the extremities. In there was a movement made to bring Mr. Childs' name forward for the presidency,-but he peremptorily de clined to permit his friends to do so. Other less important offices have been often suggested for him, but he always seemed to prefer to manage The Public Ledger. “I look with genuine pleasure,” he once said, “upon my experiences as a publisher. . I was more than prosperous in acquiring the friendship of so many worthy men among the publishers, book sellers and authors with whom I came in contact. If I were to enumerate them their names would fill a page. Mrs. Carnegie Fails to Get In. New York, Feb. 3.—At the annual meeting of the New York Yacht club, the question, as to whether Mrs. Lucy Carnegie, the owner of the splendid steam yacht Dungeness, should be ad mitted as a member to the club was dis cussed. The chairman decided that un- existing constitution and by-laws of the club women were not eligible for election as members. A committee was, appointed to consider the propriety Os admitting women as associate mem bers. Illglililnder Hani;* l *. Sax Francisco. Feb. 3.—Lee Sang, a Chinaman highbinder, was banged at San Quanten at 1*145 o'clock, a. in., for iha mnrdar fellow countryman. '' ■ “ i . ■ ■ . . i.. i I DAY IN CONGRESS, Hawaii ptill Engages the Atten tion! of the House. MINERS WANT TO FIGHT. Serious/Disturbance In: JWest Virgihlh ' ’ by ! the Action Sheriff. I\■ i v ,! * I U f ! I I [ [ Washington, Feb. 3.—The Hawaiian debate continues in the house. Mr. Bland presented a report on the bill to coin the silver bullion sieguiorage in the treasury and gave notice, that, he would call ij up at the first’ opportunity. Mr. Moreys' one of the Democratic members of the foreign affairs committee, asked u’naifiinous consent for immediate con sideration of the joint resolution, ap proving the conduct of Admiral Benham in the ha ft or of Rio. In connection with the resolution he had read copies of the despatches from Admiral Benham and Minister Thompson. “I desire to know,” said Mr. Living ston, ot' Georgia, when the reading was completed, “whether those despatches are official." “They are copies of the official de spatches,” replied Mr. Morey. ' “I demand the regular order,” shout 'ed Mr. Simpson. “I want it, understood,” said Mr. Morey, “that the objection does not 'come from a Democrat.” “It comes from one very nearly re lated to a Democrat,” retorted Mr. Reed. Mr. Sayers presented the sundry civil appropriation bill, and the Hawaiian debate was thpu resuqied. ' t ' Mr. Morey’s resolution was as fol lovys: ■ Resolved, That the house, of : .repre sentatives of the United States of Amer ica regards with pleasure and satisfac tion the prompt and energetic action of Rear Admiral Benham on, the;27th, ult., in the harbor of Rio de'Janeiro, in the perfoi’Miance pf his duty io protect Amferick amj commeA’ce bf tne United States. Appropijutiou ashington, mittee on appropriation has completed the sundry civil appropriation bill, and directed. Chairman layers .to report it to the house. The bill as reported, an appropriation of $32,-300,382, being $6,074,020 less than the estimates, and $9,409,928 less than the appropriation ■ for the current fiscal year, 4'uVaji Qxar Maker* Mu»t Go Birck. WASHiNoirox, Stump, of the of immigration, ' is confined tohik residence by an attack of, rheumatism. His illness will delay the ■■ sending of warrants to Key West, Flja., for deportation of Cuban ‘ cigar makers. Already 154 are filled in ivith the name of those to be sent back to Havana. Warranty in any event’ are likely to be forwarded Monday next; RIOTOUS MINERS. ’ I. J ‘ f t .... . The Sherlfi* Called on to Suppress X>i»order and Two Miners Shot, t Charleston, W.Va., Feb. 3.—Sheriff Bilman received a telephone dispatch to come with his deputies imihediately to Acme, as the Montgomery miners were marching on the Stevens mines to make the Stevens men quit work. The sheriff with a posse went up to Acme at 7 p. m. and found Stevens’ men out, ready to give the approaching mob a hot recep tion. They dispersed when the sheriff came at 10 a. m. A drunken mob of nearly 300 hundred strikers came up crying “put out the lights.” John Foster, standing in his own door with a lantern, was fired on by 12 men and shot through the groin. He may die. The sheriff’s party fired 50 shots in the air. Some of the miners ran and the rest came on shooting wildly. The sheriff told them not to cross the deadline orbe would fire into them. Two miners were shot, one in the arm and one in the chin, as is supposed, by,their own men. The sheriff’s determined stand awed the mob, and hearing that Foster was expected to die they sent a commit tee to the station to say that if he would furnish an engine and cars they would go back. This was done. The mob de parted and the sheriff came back. No further trouble is anticipated. EMPEROR WILLIAM Denounces Slave Trade and Repudiates a House Engaged in It. Berlin, Feb. 3.—At a meeting of the parliamentary committees on colonial estimates, the emperor admitted the ac curacy of the charges made by Ham burg newspapers against Whydah, the agent of the Hamburg firm of Wolber & Brahm, that he had bought from the king of Dahotny slaves captured in the French Hinterland,, paying for them in Winchester rifles and ammunition which the king of Dahorny had used in the campaign against the French. The firm admitted that the Cohgo state paid 20 pounds for each Dahomey an slave. The emperor denounced the sordid motives of the firm, and declared that if the French captured the agent the German government would not raise a finger to prevent his execution. The committee passed a resolution to extend to ail German colonies penal pro visions against human traffic, telephone Stock to Be Watered. Boston, Feb. 3.—Ex-Governor Long, attorney for the Bell Telephone company, filled a petition and bill asking that the capital stock of the company be in creased from $20,000,000 to $50,000,000. The ex-goyernor said he did not exnect to meet tnuca qpposit’ion m tne icgisuv lure. The application, he said, had nothing to do with the expiration of pat ents or fear of competing lines. -The company, he said, has spent large sums j in developing ite lines in every state and needed a larger working capital. There are those who differ from Mr. Long and declares that the object is so plainly the - watering of stock and pocketing of $30,- 000,000 that the bill will not have a ghost of a show in the legislature. , j The I.ehij-h in <ftnv«r. Philadelphia, Feb. 3.—Through the sale of $3,500,000 . city of Newark 4 per cent bonds, the Lehigh Valley Railroad company has, it is said by an evening newspaper, been enriched to the extent of between $1,630,000 ahd $1,750,000. v The bonds were turned over to the New- t ark Water company by the authority of that city, in payment of the city's in debtedness for its water supply. The a Lehigh Valley has a half interest in the t water company, and consequently re- a ceives one-half the proceeds from the sale pf the bonds. The money will be applied to the floating debt of the com- 8 pany. The news strengtheud Lehigh 8 stock. ‘ e Unhappy Nicaragua. San Salvador, Feb. 3.- President i Vasquez, of Honolulu, has sent word 1 here by courier that he is receiving rein- 8 forcements daily, and that he captured 1 four of General Ortiz's cannon and I obliged him to retreat, thus allowing 1 provisions to enter Tegucigalpa, the be leaguered capital. Vasquez says further . that he is reconstructing his defenses 1 and is'preparihg for a renewed assault < upon the enemy. The Nicaraguan gov- s ernnient refuses to believe that Vasquez , ■is able to continue the struggle. Ac- , cording to news received here the situa tions pf the beisieged and the besiegers at J Tegucigalpa are almost equally bad, i ‘owing to the heavy losses sustained by ] both sides. The situatioh in Nicaragua ; is bloody, fighting in Granada. Not to Marry George Vanderbilt. I \ New York, Feb. 3.—William C. ( Whitney, says "that there is absolutely 1 no tpith in the'reported engagement of his daughter. Pauline Whitney, to George C. Vanderbilt. This spoils a very romantic story. - Miss Whitney was said to have sprained her ankle while viewing the magnificent garden which surrounds . Mr. Uanderbilt’s house at Asheville, N. C., and was attended to in true cavalier style by the bachelor millionaire, who proceeded to woo and win her. This, too ( Mr. Whitney says is not true; , , t , Riot Over ph Kx-Priest, JJaSSas City, Feb. ?>.—A.riot occurred at theMcNaiilara trial at Independence a few days ago, Scape shooting was done Snd one man’s arm was broken. J. V. McNamara, the “ex-priest,” lecturnedin Turner's hall on J tin. 17. He appeared on the platform with a rifle, and said there was murder in the air. A riot tquic place and -McNamara fired at thq crowd as they were stoning the carriage in which be drove away. He was arrested I and taken to Independence for trial. Guilty nf Murder. Raleigh, N. C., Feb. 3;—At 12:40 p. m., the case of Edward J. Fuller, of Fayetteville, charged with the murder of Ben Parker last August, was given to the jury. At 3 p. m. a verdict of murder in the first degree was returned. An appeal to the supreme court was taken. A verdict of murder in the second degree was what was expected when the jury retired. Fuller's family is a very promhient one. Bismarck Would Renew Hi* Youth. Berlin, Feb. 3. —Prince Bismarck in conversation with a colonel of the Cui- 1 rassiers after his appointment to the 1 honorary colonelcy, expressed a 'wish to visit the regiment at Halberstadt. He said that his health was quite recovered, and though he bad not mounted a horse for six months, he hoped that when he visited Halberstadt he would be able to remount and inspect the regiment on horseback. Colored Preacher’s Head Shot OAT. Nashville, Tenn., Feb. 3.—Rev. D. G. Cook, colored, was assassinated last night as he was returning home from his church in Fayetteville, Tenn., where he had held services. The assassin used a shotgun loaded with slugs and the entire top of Cook’s head was torn off. Cones Clark, colored, has been arrested on sus picion. Killed by a Wolf. Memphis, Feb. 3.—The C year-old daughter of Ramsey Billups was at- ■ tacked in a thicket near her home by a ■ wolf and so badly mangled that she i died. Her brother tried to save her and , was torn. He succeeded, however, in killing the wolf. 1 Corbett Receives His Pay. BnSton, Feb. 3.—The champion’s > stake money in the recent fight was pre- 1 sented to him on the stage of the Boston 1 theatre by Acton, of last year’s Harvard < football eleven, who made a neat presen- | tation speech. ( trouble With the ( neinployed in London. . London, Feb.'3.—A sharp encounter took place in front of St. Paul’s cathedral between the police and a ; body of unemployed Jews. About 250 idle Jews marched to the cathedral , and attempted to enter and the police drove them back and the crowd resisting. The police were compelled to use their ’ batons, and 12 of the riotous crowd were 1 injured to such an extent that it was i deemed best to send them to the hos pital. After the repulse at tha Cathe dral, the crowd proceeded to Trafalgar 1 square, where an impromptu meeting 1 was held. Three of’ the speakers who addressed the crowd bad blood-stained , bandages about their heada. ; PRICE EIVE CENTS. A MARE’S NEST Is What a Certain Rumor Proves to Ba THE REALj SITUATIQN As Outlined By a Political Document of Startling Character. —1 Wh it of Col. John C. Printup? This of him: Ever since the policy of ’egg bustin’ was announced, the public has been on the qui vive to discover the egg. Several days ago rumor had uncovered a mare’s nest and comfortably reposing therein the aforesaid egg. That egg, according to the rumor, was no less a man than Colonel John C. Printup, who, according to the aforesaid rutkor, was to succeed Mr. Nevin in the event of the election of the Moore ticket. This W’s very interesting, but, like many rumors, it seems to have missed the mark somewhat. The real facts seem to be indicated by later develop ments of a different character, revealed by a document which has come into the hands of The Tribute. Byway of preface it should be said that Colonel Printup had under serious consideration the question whether he should enter the race for mayor. Thia was a very great responsibility, especially in so heated a contest, and. Colonel Prin tup concluded to divide the responsibil ity with his three friends, Mark Anthony Nevin, John Jay Black and Maximillian Meyerhardt. These three friends he con stituted a kind of politic tl board of honor, and into their hands he commit ted himself unreservedly, leaving to them the decision of the question wheth er they should run. 4 This weighty responsibility is enough to stagger an ordinary politician, but the Colonel’s three friends, like Job’s three friends, shirk no responsibility when it' comes to advice. Accordingly they went into executive session, and after various' whereases and resolutions and ample dis cussion; their concensus of opinion crys-i talizsd into th ) following gem of politi cal wisdom.: # NolllS-BoluS. Col. J. C. Printup! Li F-jufaf'd to 1 the' q.iC-stton submitted to jjy you as to whether you should enter the race for mayor at the P r 'seat time, we would say i 'While deprecating the responsibility of deciding a question of this character, yet ca’ didly we do not think it would be ad visable for another party to enter the c/ntest now, as we could not see much hope of success for a third candidate- „ . Politically we Wuuil advk* you obtain the agreement of both candidates and their friends in the present race to give you the succession, and, if they can, when the time comes, deliver the goods, your success, then, is assured. M. A. Nevin, Max Meyerhardt, J. J. Black. This decision seems to have been ac cepted in good faith by Mr. Printup, and it is understood that he has made him self solid with both sides and will proba bly be the next mayor, A side light was thrown on the last scene by a street conversation in which Colonel Printup is reported as saying, when asked why he didn’t run for mayor, i “I am looking for something better.’’ Whether this something better is on the 1 su i-treasury plan or the grape-vine plan is not known, but it is supposed by some ' to hold in loving contemplation an im portant country office somewhere in the future. The gossips who speculate on this speak knowingly of a visit which Colonel Printup made to Colonel John Vandiver’s office, where he is said to have held a conference with Sheriff Moore and Mr. Vandiver. This, how ever, may have been simply a social call, without reference to politics. Gossips ought not to talk so much about little in cidents, but they will do it. JACOB’S PHARMACY CRUSHED- The Norcross Baihllng < ullopHeil in Atlant Yesterd iy. Special to The Tribune. Atlanta, Feb. 4.—The easthalf of the Norcross building at Marietta and Peach tree streets, collapsed this afternoon. It was> three story brick building and is the best business corner in the city. The walls began to quiver and crack fifteen minutes before the collaps. This warned the occupants, who had plenty of time to escape. They ran out on the streets and watched the fall. There was a fire in the building three weeks ago and Jacob Brothers, druggists, occupants of the collapsed section, had just reopened busines this morning. The heat sprang . the walls and this was the cause of the accident. RICHARD CROKER IN ATLANTA- He and the Tammany Brave* Going to Mardl Gra*. Special to the Tribune. Atlanta, Jan. 3.—Richard Croker, the Tammany chief, passed through here this afternoon on his way to the Mardi Gras. The Albany Burgesses corps came in about midnight in a special train. The organization is also bound for New Orleans. Floods cover 500 acres of rich land near Sacramento, causing $300,000 damigea.