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ESTABLISHED 1887.
CRISP IS DEAD!
The Grim Reaper In
vades Our Ranks.
A GREAT MAN GONE
fils Death Comes as a Startling
and Sad Surprise,
BRILLIANT LIFE AND CHARACTER
He Died at Dr. J.B. S. Holme’s
Sanitarium in Atlanta.
THE SOUTH WILL MISS HIM KEENLY
His Prominence in State and Nat'onal
Councils Make His Death Doubly
Deplorable.
Atlanta, Oct. 23. Hm. Chas. F.
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■Crisp, ex-speaker of the national
house of representatives, died here to
day at Dr. J. B. S. Holmes’ 'sanitar
ium at 2 p. m., of heart disease.
He had been ill for sometime, but it
was thought by his friends and physi
cians that the danger line was past.
He would have been elected to the
United States senate to succeed Gen
eral John B. Gordon at the coming
session of the legislature.
Since Judge Crisp has been at the
sanitarium he was under treatment
of Drs. J. B. 8. Holmes and E. C.
Davis assisted by Drs. J. S Todd, of
this city, and J. W. Bailey, of Gaines
ville.
At this hour tonight no statement
can be made as to the funeral arranger
xnents. Mr. John Barclay was in con
sultation with friends of the family
this afternoon. It is quite likely that
the body will ultimately rest at his
old home in Americus, among the
people who loved so well to honor
him.
Ncthing, of course, can be said de
finitely now, but already suggestions
have been made for obsequies befitting
the high honors the dead man had
hid bestowed upon him.
Judge Crisp died surrounded by his
entire family.
Sk tch of Hi. Life.
Charles Frederick Crisp was born io
England, January 29, 1843
while his parents were on a visit to that
country.
His parents belonged to the dramatic
profession and having traveled extensively
through the south, spending several years
in Nashville, Tenn., they located in Geor
gia some years before the war where
their son received the rudiments of his
education in the common schools.
He was quite a youth when the war
broke out but joined a company and did
gallant service on the side of the Confed
eracy. For heroic service on the field he
-was promoted to a lieutenancy.
In 1866 he i eturned and settled down
first at Americus where he was admitted
to the bar, and afterwards removed to
Ellaville, io Schley county where he re
mained for several years and married Miss
Ella Burton, the daughter of one of the
most prominent planters of Southwest
-Georgia. The town of Ellaville was
named in honor of his wife.
He was elected solicitor in 1£72 and serv-,
ed two years when he removed to Ameri
cus and in 1877 was appointed judge of
the superior court in 1878 and 1880 was
re-elected and served until 1882 when he
was elected to congress.
His career in congress was brilliant
from the very begining and he soon won
for himself a position as one of the lead
ing rei resentatives of the New South in
congress. For each succeeding term he
was re-elected practically without oppo
sition until 1891 when after protracted
and excitid contents he wis chosen
speake-.
In that position he won for himself
new laurels and covered himself with
glory in the manner in which he pre
sided over the exciting debates that oc
curred between the two great parties
which were nearly equally divided in
the lower house during the years that
succeeded. At the close of his term he
was re-elected speaker thus serving
-two terms an honor that has never
•fallen to the lot of but one Georgian.
iHon. William H. Crawford.
At the last congressional election
the republicans obtained the major-
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HON. CHARLESZF. CRISP.
ity and Mr. Crisp retired and was suc
ceeded by his old adversary Hon.
Thomas B. Reed, Os Maine, whose ad
miration and respect, even though
they were bitter antagonists, Mr Crisp
had won by his chivalrous bearing
and magnanimous conduct.
Last spring when the democratic
state executive committee decided
upon a primary to be held upon the
6th of June it was also decided that
the people should be allowed for the
first time to express their preference
fqr the candidate for United States
senator and Mr. Crisp received almost
the unanimous endorsement of the
people for that high position. His
election would have followed immedi
ately after the assembling of the Geor
gia legislature had not death inter
vened.
Aside from his brilliant career and
hie high personal attainments, R; e tk
erXJrisp was a mau who won adh a - ts
by bis kindliness of nature and nis
■ genial disposition. No public man in
Georgia ever had-more warm penoial
friends.
As a lawyer he was distinguished
for his profound legal attainments,
and bis success as a pleader at the
bar and as a judge his career was
marked by the stride it integrity, and
there was never the least spot or
blemish on his private or public life
or character. He was a marked figure
in national politics and had won for
himself a great name in other lands.
He was at one time spoken of as a
vice-presidential probability, and had
he lived be would no doubt have at
tained to the highest position within
the gift of the people.
He leaves a wife and several child
ren at his home jn Americus, Ga.; one
son, Mr. Charles F. Crisp, Jr., having
won considerable distinction during
his association with his father in his
brilliant career in Washington. His
daughter, Miss Berta Crisp, is one of
the most cultured young ladies in the
state.
There is a touching romance con
nected with his marriage which has
often been told by those who enjoyed
his intimate confidence and acquaint
anceship. While at Ellville, a poor
and struggling barrister, he was taken
very ill and was for many days con
fined to his room at the village hotel.
Miss Burton, the heiress of a proud
old Georgia family, had learned to love
the young man whose prospects were
not particularly bright just at that time,
and despite the objections of her friends
she visited him at his room and helped
to nurse him back to life. After his re
covery they were married and their
wedded life has been one of unbroken i
happiness.
For several months Mr. Crisp’s
health has been failing, and when ne
consented to make a speech in Rome
some, time ago, his friends here were
very much alarmed at the evidence of
his enfeebled condition, and it was
feared that he would not be able to
finish his speech. That was his last
public appearance before an audience
and his every utterance on that occa
sion was filled with zeal, loyalty and
devotion for the cause of democracy,
and for the welfare of the people
among whom his fortunes have been
cast and who had heaped so many
honors upon him during his honora
ble career.
A GIGANTIC RAILWAY DEAL.
American Syndicate Secures Control of the
Underground Line* of London.
St. Louis, Oct. 23. The Republic
says: A stupendous deal, involving a
radical change in the proprietorship,
system aud operation of one of the most
extensive street railway properties in
the world, has been practically com
pleted.
Au American syndicate has, it is said,
secured control of the famous under
ground railways of London, England.
The syndicate was formed iu Toronto,
HIE ROME TRIBUNE, ROME, GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1896.
Canada, and KoSs Mackenzie is at tne
head of it. Capitalists from New York,
Philadelphia and other cities are also
interested, and one of the heaviest in
vestors is stated to be a well known St
Louis man whose name, for the present,
is withheld.
The precise amount of money called
for in order to capture the British prize
hae not been ascertained, but it is way
up in the millions, as the underground
roads of London have an enormous cap
italization and constitute a magnificent
property. Owing to the necessity of ac
quiring real estate, compensating other
owners, and the diverting drainages,
canals, etc., the underground roads av
erage in many portions a cost of $5,000,-
000 a mile.
In order to pronerly appreciate the
magnitude of this deal, which is illus
trative of American enterprise, progress
and daring, the status of the under
ground railway system of the English
metropolis must be well understood.
Unlike this country, Great Britain has
for years been at a standstill as. regards
a means of rapid transit facilities. There
is not a dozen electric railways in the
country, not a single cable road, aud the
highest achievement in street cars is, as
a rule, the horse tramway.
BOLTS THE BRYAN TICKET.
William R. Morrison of Illinois Comes
Out For Palmer and Buckner.
Chicago, Oct. 23.—Hon. William R.
Morrison, chairman of the interstate
commerce commission, for years a mem
ber of congress and a lifelong Demo
crat, has bolted Governor Altgeld and
the Chicago platform and nominees.
An official statement is in the hands of
Chairman Williamson, at Palmer and
Buckner headquarters. It is a flatfooted
declaration against free silver, W. J.
Bryan and the administration of Gov
ernor Altgeld.
Up to the present time Mr. Morrison
has maintained silence. It has been
known that a personal enmity existed
between himself and Governor Altgeld,
but he was supposed to lean in his sym
pathies toward free silver. His decla
ration in favor of the gold standard and
against Governor Altgeld is regarded as
a most important incident in the pres
ent state campaign.
Mr. Morrison’s political standing has
been high in the Democratic party in
the state. He has many times been
mentioned for president, and his name
was prominently before the Chicago
convention at which William J. Bryan
was nominated.
ALEXANDER SALVINI DYING.
Physicians Say the Well Known Actor Can
Lire But a Short Time.
New York, Oct. 23.—Letters of late
date from the wife of Alexander Salvini
contain the news that the famous ro
mantic actor is slowly but surely dying
at his father’s villa near Florence, Italy.
His disease is consumption of the stom
ach, and his physician said he could last
but a short time longer.
His once athletic frame is so wasted
that even his friends would not recog
nize him in the dashing roles of D’Ar
tagnan, Ruy Blas and Don Caesar.
A Naval Officer Deranked.
Washington, Oct. 23.—Lieutenant
O. H. Lyman of the cruiser Montgomery
has been convicted by a naval court of
drunkenness while the ship lay at Key
“West several months ago, and has been
sentenced to lose six numbers in hie
grade. The sentence has been approved
by Admiral Eunce, who ordered the
trial.
Howard Gould Coming Home.
Southampton, Oct. 23.—The Ameri
con line steamship St Louis, which
leaves this port Saturday for New York,
will have among her passenger* How
ard Gould and Henry Villard.
WAS THERE A DEAL?
Messrs. Jones and Washburn Said to
Haw Agreed.
1 PUN OF FUSION IS ARRANGED
Nashville a News Center For
Days to corrte
NOT A FUSION BUT A SURRENDER
Seorgla Alons Stands In Way of Ita
Consummation—Reed and Wasliburn Go
to Naohvitle to. Confer With Tom Wat
aon—Wires Between Atlanta and Wash
ington Are Kept Warm.
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Atlanta, Oct. 23.—1 t is learned here
on what is believed to be uaimneachable
authority that fusion has i <m agreed
on in Chicago between Senator Jones
and Populist Committeeman Washburn.
As a result, Mr. Washburh left Chicago
for Nashville, and Mr. H. tW. lieed left
Atlanta for the same platw, where they
will meat Tom Watson.
Important correspondence was in
progress during the day between Demo
cratic National Chairman Jones aud
the national committeerahu for Geor
gia. Senator Jones wired, his represen
tative here iu substance a* follows:
We must accede to the demands of the
Populists for fusion in Georgia.
The reply in substance Was:
The Populists of Georgia don’t want
fusion, they demand a surrender.
To this Senator Jones responded:
If those are the facts, use your own
judgment.
It appears from this that a general
plan of fusion satisfactory to the Popu
lists has been agreed on between Messrs.
Washburn and Jones, and that Georgia
alone stands iu the way of its consum
mation.
TOM WATSON IN NASHVILLE
Populist Vice Presidential Nominee Has
Nothing to Say For Publication.
Nashville, Oct. 23.—Hon. Thomas E.
Watson of Georgia arrived here, and at
once proceeded to a hotel, where he re
mained during the morning. The Pop
ulist leaders here were not aware of his
arrival for several hours, as he was ex
pected on the 10:5* train, which they
met and were greatly disappointed be
cause he was not on board. It was sub
sequently ascertained that he had come
on the early morning train, and during
the day he was visited by ex-Governor
John' P. Buchanan, chairman of the
Populist state executive committee, and
other prominent Populists, with whom
he was closeted tor some time.
Mr. Watson, being asked by a re
porter to grant an interview replied
that he was engaged at present and
Would see the reporter after dinner. A
second request brought the response
that Mr. Watson had nothing to say for
publication.
Chairman Washburn of the western
branch of the Populist national com-,
mittee has not yet arrived.
C. O. Henderson, secretary of the
Populist state executive committee, said
that fusion in Tennessee was impos
sible. Negotiations, he said, had now
passed poiqt where fusion in this
state could be thought of.
Chairman Washburn and State Com
mitteeman Reed of Georgia have ar
rived in the city. They had a long con
ference with Mr. Watson, but what
transpired has not yet been learned.
CAPTAIN JOHNSTON SPOKE.
Governor-Elert Addressed a Crowd of Fire
Thousand People at Gadsden.
Gadsden, Ala., Oct. 23. —Governor
elect Joseph F. Johnston spoke here in
Kyle’s Opera House to 5,000 people. He
made a telling speech and was most en
thusiastically applauded throughout.
He read a copy of a letter from a New
York banker, a single gold standard
man, to a friend in Birmingham, in
which the banker stated that if Bryan
was elected cotton and all products
would advance greatly in value. Cap
tain Johuston said that as the letter
was confidential he would withhold the
name of its author.
He then went on to say that he be
lieved in predestination and was fully
convinced that it had long been foreor
dained that Bryan was to be the David
who would lead the south and west
back to prosperity. He said that if the
Populists voted for Bryan and Watson
electors expecting their vote todo-Bryan
any good they had just as well put their
votes in the stove, for uuder present
conditions if Bryan aud Sewall got 50,-
000 votes, Bryan and Watson 50,000 and
McKinley and Hobart 50,001 the latter
electors would, be elected.
He then spoke a few minutes on be
half of Colonel Bullock, saying unit if
he were elected to congress he could be
depended on to nerform his duties. He
then touched on his own election to the
governorship, saying he stood upon the
same platform that he did before elected.
He proposed to administer without dis
crimination, fair and impartial to all
alike, only he would be a little stricter
on Democrats than others, as they ought
to know better.
VERY SMALL POTATO CROP.
Estimated at About Fifty Million Bushels
Less Than That of Last Year.
Chicago, Oct. 23. —The Orange Judd
Farmer says:
“The smaller acreage and a decreased
rate of yield/jue resulting in a decidedly
.smaller and more- manageable crop of
potatoes. The amount available for
market is by no means as burdensome
as was the crop of 1895. The crop now
being harvested is placed by this author
ity as 245,480,000 bushels, a decrease of
more than 50,000; 000 bushels, or .17J£
per cent, as compared with a year ago.
The total area harvested approximates
2,865,000 acres which in turn is
per cent short of last year.
“Growers almost uniformly devoted
less attention to this staple, this being
part cularly true in some of the north
western states, which in 1895 showed
an abnormally increased area. Un
equally distributed rainfall was given
as a chief cause for the shorter rate of
yield.
“The average yield per acre of the
whole country is placed at 86 per cent
per acre against 93 last year. This re
port makes the Canadian crop 55,300,000
bushels, a decrease of nearly 13,000,000
bushels, compared with 1895. In view
of the shortage on this side of the ocean
and the smaller crop in Germany and
England, the outlook for prices to the
farmers is certainly better than a year
ago."
BRYAN IN PRAIRIE STATE.
Democratic Nominee Enters Illinois, the
Battleground of. the Campaign.
Mattoon, Ills., Oct. 23. What is
considered the battleground of the cam
paign by that portion of the Democracy
at •present aboard the private car
“Idler” was entered by the nominee
Friday moruing. Illinois had been
looked forward to and it was under
stood that Mr. Bryan would put.up the
best fight he had about him when the
Prairie State was reached. Eighteen
places were put down on the itinerary
for the day.
The Illinois Democratic politicians
met Mr. Bryan at Terre Haute and es
corted him through Illinois. Among
the party were Railroad and Warehouse
Commissioner W. H. Cantrell, who
took possession of the train; Theodore
Nelson, Judge William Prentiss of Chi
cago; Judge John A. Mahoney, Judge
Charles Shackleford, Fred H. Morris,
L. C. Whitney, J. M. Graham of Spring
field, and Senator David Evans.
Danville was the first stop of the
morning, and from a stand near the
courthouse Mr. Bryan spoke to an as
semblage which numbered up in the
thousands. Enthusiasm prevailed at
the meeting and Mr. Bryan quoted
Congressman Joe Cannon in support of
the free silver doctrine. The crowd
gave noisy evidence of its appreciation.
Mr. Bryan, in his speech, said that he
did not come to talk to those who be
lieve in free silver, but he wanted to
talk to those who, up to this time,- have
'been afraid of the results of free coin
age. After saying that he could prove
the benefits of free Silver by Republi
can testimony, he quoted from a speech
made by Congressman Cannon in the
house of representatives in 1878.
CARLISLE ROTTEN - EGGED.
The Secretary of th. Treaearv Roughly
Treated Iu Hie Native City.
Cincinnati, Oct. 23.—The insult to
the secretary of the United States treas
ury, Hon. John G. Carlisle, by men of
his jiative state and city, is the leading
topic of conversation today. While ac
counts disagree as to the degree of bru
tality manifested in the hall and on the
streets around the building, there is no
dispute as to the bitterness of feeling
manifested.
Secretary Carlisle was purposely de
tained in the hall by his friends in the
hope that the outside crowd would dis
perse, but as soon as Carlisle discovered
this, he insisted on going out immedi
ately. then a police escort was pro
vided, aqd by main force, a passage to
the street was obtained.
Vile epithets were then shouted at
the secretary, and one man, John Fa
gin, threw a lighted cigar in his face
and stooped as if to pick up a more
formidable missile. He was promptly
seized by the police, but was discharged,
no one preferring a charge.
Secretary Carlisle, on reaching Helms’
door, thanked the chief of police for his
1 protection. There is no doubt that Sec
retary Carlise feels deeply this indig
nity in his own home, but his only re
mark Was:
“They are not hurting me; they are
only harming themselves.”
He did not kpow that eggs had been
thrown until some time after it had
been done.
Charles Brown Is Discharged.
Boston, Oct. 23. —Charles Brown, one
of the crew of the barkentine Herbert
Fuller, on board of which the captain
and his wife and second mate were
murdered last July, and who, with
Mate Bram of the barkentine, was held
by the United States commissioner on
the charge of murder, has been dis
charged under a “no bill” report re
turned by the grand jury. Brown has
not been released, however, as upon
recommendation of the district attorney
he is held as a witness.
The Wheat Yield of Manitoba.
Winnipeg, Oct. 23.—The government
has revised its estimate of the wheat
yield of Manitoba, reducing the amount
to something less than 15,000,000
bushels. The acreaire under wheat was
a little short of 1,000,000. This does
not include wheat of the northwest
territories.
Ivory Again on the Stand.
London, Oct. 28 Edward J. Ivory,
alias Edward J. Bell of New York, the
alleged Irish-American dynamiter, was
again brought upon the stand at the
Bow street police court here, charged
with participating in a conspiracy to
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FOUR STABS!
Mr. Fletcher Smith is
the Victim.
KEEN BLADED'KNIFE
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In the Hands of George S. McAfee
Was the Weapon
USED WITH SUCH PAINFUL EFFECT
Mr. Smith is Seriously But Not
Fatally Hurt
HIS LEFT WRIST CUT TO THE BONE
The Fight Took Place in Mr. Smith’s Job
Establishment Yesterday
Afternoon.
About 3:30 o’clock yesterday after
noon a great deal of excitement was
caused by a cutting affray in the office
of Mr. Fletcher Smith, the well-known
and popular job printer and pub
lisher.
In a few minutes George McAfee, a
printer, who has been doing odd jobs
about the city, came down stairs with
blood on his hands, walked across the
street to a saloon where he was
arrested.
In the meantime a crowd had gath
ered in Mr. Smith’s office and it was
found that he was bleeding from four
ugly wounds on his person.
He was taken to Dr. Will Johnson’s
office in the Medical building where
Dr. Johnson and Dr. Will Shaw
proceeded to examine and dress his
wounds.
There was one ugly stab just over
the heart, another severing the mus
cles of the left arm to the bone, an
other nearly severing the middle
finger of his right hand and the fourth
a gash four or five inches long down
the fleshy part of his left thigh'.
They were very painful, but not con
sidered of a very serious nature, and
the physicians think that he will re
cover in a few days with proper care
and attention.
McAfee was arrested in the saloon
and carried to the station house. He
was very cool over the affair and said
that he cut Smith in self-defense. He
said that he had been waiting for Mr«
Smith and that he went to get his
wages when Mr. Smith attacked him
and he cut him,
The knife used was a new one, and
parties in the office had to break the
blade to get it out of his hand.
Mr. Smith says that he was accosted
by McAfee, whom he had given work,
and who had gone off and taken sev
eral drinks, afterwards met him on
the Hiles corner and he' told McAfee
that he did not want to talk to him
while he was drinking.
He went on to bis office and Mc-
Afee followed him, when he told him
to get out and led him to the stairs.
McAfee soon returned, when he
slapped him with his open hand.
McAfee had a new pocketknife open
in his pocket and he whipped it out
and began cutting. A scramble en
sued, and that is how he came to be
slashed in so many different places.
Smith said that it was a cowardly
attack, and that he did not at first
realize that he was cut.
McAfee was once a cadet in the
United States navy, and first ap
peared in Rome last summer. He
left the city and returned about
two weeks ago. since which time he
has been drinking a great deal.
He was locked up and will be held
for trial on a charge of assault with
intent to kill.
Prominent St. Louis Broker Aanlgn*.
Sr. Louis. Oct. 23 —L A. Coquard, a
well known Third street broker, filed
an assignment shortly before noon. He
gives bis assets at SIOO,OOO. It is not
stated what the liabilities are, but it is
said his business is heavily involved,
and they may exceed the assets. It ; s
claimed that during the past six months
he has loet heavily in stocks, the total
amount for which he has been squeezed
being estimated at $300,000. He was
one of the most prominent dealers of
stocks and bonds in th* qity.