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PRESIDENT
CLEVELAND
Sends His Last Message
To Congress,
UNLESS TROUBLE
Arises From Spain, When It Is Believed
He Is Fully Prepared
AS TO HIS LINE OF ACTION
Iri That Emergency, Which
Will Be Concise
AND UNMISTAKABLY TO THE POINT.
He Comes Oat Against Snide Papera and
■E.Fake Advertising Serials—He Kec
cotnmentls Good, Comdems Bad.
To the Congress of the United States:
As representatives of the people in tht
legislative branch of this government you
have assembled at a time when the
strength and excellence of our free institu
tiono and the fitness of our citizens to en
joy , .pillar rule have been again madt
manifest.
A political contest involving momen
tous consequences fraught with feverish
■apprenheusion.and creating aggressiveness
bo intense as to approach bitterness and
passion has been waged through our land,
and determined by the decree of free and
independent suffrage, without disturbance
•of our tranquility or the least sign ol
weakness in our national structure.
OUR RELATIONS WITH TURKEY.
At the outset of a reference to the more
important matters offending our relations
with foreign powers, it would afford m«
satisfaction if I could assure the congress
that the disturbed condition in Asiatic
Turkey had during the past year assumed
a less hideous and bloody aspect, and that
either as a consequence of the awakening
of the Turkish government to the demands
of 'human civilization as is the result of
decisive action on the part of the great na
tions having the right by treaty to inter
sere for the protection of those exposed to
the rage of mad bigotry and cruel fanati
' cism, the shocking features of the situa
tion had been mitigated. Instead of wel
coming, a softened disposition or pro
tective intervention, we have been afflicted
by continued and not infrequent reports
of the wanton destruction of home and the
butchery of men, women and children,
made martyrs to their profession of Chris
tian faith. While none of our citizens in
Turkey have thus far been killed or
wounded, though often in the midst of
dreadful scenes of danger, their safety in
the future is by no means assured. Our
government at home ami our minister at
Constantinople have left nothing undone
to protect our missionaries in < Ittoman
territory, who constitute nearly all the in
dividuals residing there who have a right
to claim our protection on the score of
American citizenship. Our efforts in this
direction will not be relaxed; but the deep
fueling and sympathy that have been
•roused amoung our people ought not to
so far blind their reason and judgment as
to lead them to demand imposible things.
The outbreaks of blind fury which lead to
murder and pillage in Turkey occur sud
denly and without notice, and an attempt
on our part to force such a hostile presence
there as might be effective for prevention
or protect ion would not only be resisted
by the Ottoman government, but would
lie regarded as an interruption of their
plans bv the great nations who assert their
exclusive right to intervene in their own
time and method for the security of life
•ml property in Turkey.
Several naval vessels are stationed in the
Mediieranean as a measure of caution and
to furnish all possible relief and refuge in
case of emergency.
We have made claims against the Turk
ish government for the pillage and de
struction of missionary property at llar
poot and Maresh during uprisings at those
places.
Thus far the validity of these demands
baa not been admitted though our min-
Mter. wrior to such outrages and in antic!
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
pation of danger, demanded protection tor
the persons and property of our mission
ary' citizens in the localities mentioned,
and notwithstanding that strong evidence
exists of actual complicity of Turkish sol
diers in the work of destruction and rob
bery. The facts as they now appear dJ
not permit us to doubt the justice of these
claims and nothing will be omitted to
bring about their prompt settlement.
A number of Armenian refugees having
arrived at our ports, an order has lately
been obtained from the Turkish govern
ment permitting the wives and children of
such refugees to join them here. It is
hoped hereafter no obstacle will be inter
posed to present the escape of all those
who seek to avoid the perils which threaten
them in Turkish dominion.
Our recently appointed consul to Erze
rum is at his post and discharging the
duties of his office, though for some un
accountable reason his formal exequater
from the sulta. has not been issued. Ido
not believe that the present somber pros
pect in Turkey will be long permitted to
offend the sight of Christendom. It so
mars the humane and enlightened civili
zation that belongs to the close of the
nineteenth century that it seems hardlv
possible that th ■ earnest demand of good
people throughout the Christian world for
its corrective treatment will remain un
answered.
NO HEXP FOR THE CUBANS.
The insurrection in Cuba still continues
with all its perplexities.
It is difficult to perceive that any pro
gress has thus far been made towards the
pacification of the island or that the situa
tion of affairs as depicted in my last an
nual message has in the least improved.
If Spain still holds Havana ana the sea
ports and all the considerable towns the
insurgents still roam at will over at least
two-thirds of the inland country.
If the determination of Spain to put
down the insurrection seems but to
strengthen with the lapse of time, and is
evinced by her unhesitating devotion of
largely increased military and naval forces
to the task, there is much reason to be
lieve that the insurgents have gained in
point of numbers and character and re
sources. and are none the less inflexible in
their resolve not to succumb, without
practically securing the great objects for
which they took up arms. If Spain has
not yet re-established her authority, nei
ther have the Insurgents yet made good
their title to be regarded as an independ
ent state. Indeed, as the contest has gone
on. the pretense that civil government
exists on the island, except so far as Spain
is able to maintain it, has been practically
abandoned.
Spain does keep on foot such a govern
ment, more or less imperfectly, in the
large towns and theii’ immediate suburbs.
But. that exception being made, the entire
country is either given over to an
archy, or is subject to the mili
tary occupation of one or the other
party. It is reported, indeed on reliable
authority, that at the demand of the com
mander-in-chief of the insurgent army the
putative Cuban government has now given
up all attempt to exercise its functions,
leaving that government confessedly (what
there is the best reason for supposing it
always to have been in fact), a government
merely on paper. Were the Spanish armies
able to meet their antagonists in the open,
or in pitched battle, prompt and decisive
results might be looked for and the im
mense superiority of the Spanish forces in
numbers, discipline, and equipment, could
hardly fail to tell greatly to their advant
age. Bnt they are called upon to face a
foe that shuns general engagements, that
can choose and does choose its own ground,
that from the nature of the country is vis
ible or invisible at pleasure, and that light
only from ambuscade, and when all the
advantages of position and numbers are
on its side. In a country where all that is
Ji dispensable to life in the way of food,
clothing ami shelter is so easily obtain
able, especially by those born and bred on
the soil, it is obvious that there is hardly
a limit to the time during which hostilitlei
of this sort may be prolonged. Mean!
while, as in all cases of protracted civi
strife, the passions of the com
batat’M grow more and more in
flamed aud excesses on both side!
become more frequent and*more deplora
ble. They are also participated in by
bands of marauders who, now in thenamt
of one party and now in the name of the
other, may best suit the occasion, roam
the country at will and plunder its
wretched inhabitants for their own ad
vantage. Such a condition of things
would inevitably entail immense destruc
tion of property, even if it were the policy
of both parties to prevent it as far as prac
ticable. But -'bile such seemed to be tin
original policy of the Spanish government
it has now apparently abandoned it and ii i
acting upon the same theory as the insur I
gents namely,that the exigences of the eon- j
test require the wholesale annihiliatioc
of property, that it may not prove of tint
and advantage to the enemy.
It is to the same end that in pursuanc*
of general order. Spanish garrisons art
now being withdraw.: Ir >m plantations ant
the rural population required to concen
trate itself in the towns. The sure to
suit would seem tobefhat the industrial
Value of the island is fast diminishing and
that unless there is a speedy and radical
change in ixisting conditions it will soot
disappear altogether—that value consist!
very largely, of course, in its capacity tc
produce sugar--a capacity already much
reduced by the interruptions to tillage '
which have taken place during the lasi
two years. It is reliably asserted
that should these interruptions con- I
tinue during the current year and
practically extend, as is now threat I
ened, to the entire sugar producing terri- |
tory ot the island, so much time and so
much money will be required to restore ,
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TRADE REVIEW—ROME, GA., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1896. •*
DISASTROUS WRECK
Three Peo Killed and a Number
Bidly Injured.
PROPERTY LOSS IS VERY LARGE
i
The Two Locomotives an Al
most Total Loss
THE SAME OLD STORY OVER AGAIN
I
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An Accommodation Train and a Special
Carrying the General Officers of tJie
I B. &O. S. Collided Near Cincinnati
With Frigljtlul Kesultn—Engineer and
Conductor Xorgot Their Orders.
Dec. 7.—A wreck oc
curred at Ba. m. about three-quarters
of a mile west of Storr’s station, on the
. Baltimore and Ohio Soutwestern rail
way, in which two persons were killed
and a number injured. The trains col
liding were No. 22, an accommodation
coming in from Cochran, Ind., and a
special made up of a passenger coach
and two private cars. The special was
carrying all the general officers of the
Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern, ex
cept Captain W- W. Peabody, the vice
president and general manager, aud
President Bacon, the latter being in ,he
east, who were starting out to make a
tour of inspection of the road. The en
gineer and conductor of the special had
orders to follow 15 minutes behind a
preceding regular train, and to keep out
of the way of train 22, which had the
right of way.
| The special stopped at Storr’s, where
it should have waited for No. 22, but
the engineer and conductor both forgot
the order concerning that train and
pulled out. When three-quarters of a
mile west of Storr’s the trains came to
gether. There was a fog, which pre
i vented from seeing clearly, so neither
engineers suspected a collision until the
shock came.
' Engineer John Price and fireman
Homer Dixon of the special were in
stantly-killed; General Traffic Manager
George F. Randolph was severely in
jured, collarbone broken; General Pas
senger Agent J. M. Chesbrough was
thrown through the glass of a door and
his face severely cut; L. Zepernich,
assistant engineer, riding on train 22,
was badly bruised; Fred Moore, chief
clerk to the chief engineer of the Big
Four, was badly cut; Charles E. Whiting,
passenger, Lawrenceburg, Ind., badly
injured; Charles Chapman, brakeman,
special, bruised; R. S. Johnson, super
intendent of telegraph, bruised; Tom
Jones, engineer No. 22, badly hurt; N.
N. Sexton, conductor No. 22; P. Harvey,
baggage master, severely bruised; Mrs.
Alex. Patterson, Aurora, Ind., severely
hurt.
The engines were badly wrecked.
The propertv loss is estimated at from
SIO,OOO to $15,000.
Later, Zepernich of Delhi, clerk in
the office of chief engineer, died of his
injuries. General Traffic Manager Ran
dolph’s injuries are found to be less se
rious than was at first supposed. His
shoulder was dislocated. General Pas
senger Agent Chesbrough, had 11
stitches taken in the cuts about his face
and is suffering from a slight concus
sion of the brain. He was taken to the
Graud hotel. None of the others in
jured are supposed to be dangerously
hurt.
Hundred* View the Ice Gorge.
Chippewa Falls, Wis., Dec. 7. i
Sightseers to the number of 2,000 vis
ited Chippewa Falls Sunday for the
purpose of viewing the immense ice
gorges. The visitors catne frem all the
towns on the Central road between this
I city and Medford and from Minneapolis
1 and St. Paul. Two train loads of ex
cursionists arrived and the city was
thronged with a crowd of strangers. It
is confidently believed by close observ
ers ot the situation that the river will
cause no further apprehension this win
ter. It is impossible to get any esti
mate of the loss, but it is now generally
thought the damage to property will bo
lighter than at first reported.
No T.eain FGr the Pre.ent.
Raleigh, Dec. 7.—At Newbern, Judge
Robinson of the superior court contin
ued the order heretofore issued restrain
ing the state proxy and directors from
leasing the Atlantic and North Carolina
railroad until the February term of the
Craven county superior court. This
wil-give the new state administration
• pool innity to take control. The
Governor eiect Russell os to
the road are nut known.
MOB LYNCH TWO MEN
Missouri Farmers Hang Jesse Winner
and James Nelson.
MGRBERERS BEGGED FOR MERCY
A Brave and Trusty Jailor Who
Did His Duty
A TALE OF BLOODY WOES AND DEEDS
£ut Their Pleadings Were of No Avail
and They Were Taken to a Convenient
Spot and Quickly Dispatched—Brutally
Killed a Woman aud Two of Her
Babes.
Lexington, Mo., Dec. 7.—At about
1 a. m. a mob of 150 Ray county
farmers, all masked, broke into the
county jail here, secured Jesse Winner
and James Nelson, held for the murder
of Mrs. Winner and her two babies, and
I lynched them. So quietly did the
lynchers approach the jail that no one
ccnuected with it knew how the mob
crossed the river. They overpowered
the jailer, James Goode, and made a
demand for the keys to the cells of
Nelson -and Winner. Goode had hidden
them aud Ute-of the mob said:
“There is one way to make you give
. them up.”
| The jailor replied: “You can’t make
I a dead man give them up, so shoot me
: if you want to. ”
And then the doors were battered
; down and the two prisoners led out.
' The two murderers begged piteously
for mercy- Winner looked the picture
of distress. Nelson stood up better, but
said not a word. As he had passed his
cell Winner told one of the other pris
oners he was guilty. The captain took
i the culprits into Day county, just across
■ the river, at about 2 o’clock, and the
I men were quickly dispatched,
j Lon Lackey, who has beeu in jail
- here under a charge of complicity in the
murder, was taken to Richmond Satur
day, which saved his life, as he would
have beeu lynched also. Tiie proabili
ties are that vengeance will be meted
’ out to him later, possibly before morn
ing.
Several attempts were made to lynch
Winner and Lackey while they were in
jail in Richmond, which led to their re
moval here for safe keeping. Nelson
has been in jail here only since Satur
day, having been arrested on the
strength of a confession by Miss Maggie
Katron, who made a sworn statement
that she, Winner, Lackey and Nelson
committed the murder.
The crime for whidh Winner and Nel
son were lynched ww the brutal mur
der of Mrs. Winner, wife of the lynched
man, and of Ciara Winner, aged 3 ,
years, and Perle Winner, a boy, aged 18
months. The Winners lived northeast
of Richmond. On Oct. 18 Winner left
home for a day or so and the next day
Mrs. Winner and the two children were
found with their throats cut. Mrs.
Winner’s body lay just outside the
house and was frightfully mutilated by
hogs before it was discovered.
Winner looked weak aud disheart
ened all day, and it is thought he would
have made an open confession before
morning. Winner came to Ray county
about five years ago, coming from Tip- ,
ton, Paulding county, 0., where his
wife resided. Both were well collected,
she having two brothers back in Ohio
who are considered very wealthy.
GOVERNMENT TROOPS WIN.
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Defeat Sara Iva, Leader of the Revolution
In the Republic of Uruguay,
New York, Dee. 7.—A dispatch to
The Herald from Buenos Ayres, Argen
tina, says: A correspondent in Monte- i
video, Uruguay, sends advices to the I
effect that the government troops have
defeated Saraiva, the Brazilian leader
of the revolutionary outbreak in the re
public. A rumor was current in Mon
tevideo that Saravia had beeu killed,
but the correspondent of The Herald
sends word that the report is without
official confirmation.
The steamer San Martin of th • La
Pl ate use Floatilia company, linvted, ar
rived at Montevideo from Buenos Ayres
with passengers and a large cargo on
board. Her captain at once filed u pro
test with the authorities. Be ore the
ship entered the port she was fired upon .
from three steam launches in the bay. I
The boats contained about 150 soldiers, I
and they opened fire with their Norden
feldts, thereby placing the passengers
and crew of the steamer in great peril.
It is believed that the soldiers, who :
I were aomg coast guard duty, suspected
that there were filibusters concealed on
the ship.
The British cruiser Retribution and
the Italian cruiser Piemonte have ar
[ rived at Montevideo. They are charg* I
with the protection of Englishmen and
Italians during the progress of the
revolution.
I STUDENT~RiOTS‘IN FRANCE.
Disgraceful Scenes Occur at the Fete of
St. BurbarH, In Paris.
Paris, Dec. 7.---The disturbance at
Brest, at the fete of St. Barbara, the
, patroness of the artillerymen, were
’ most disgraceful, and continued from 2
o’clock in the morning until midnight.
The rioters invaded the Folies Bergeres
concert hall and wrecked the tables and
furniture. From 2 until 10 o’clock in
the morning they tried with drawn
swords to capture the police office at the
town hall, but were kept at bay by the
occupants, who were armed with re
volvers. Affrays occurred all over the
town. The damage to property was
considerable.
The artillerymen had no weapons,
but they were well supplied with stones
and clubs. Twenty-one arrests were
made. Admiral Barrera, the com
mander at Brest, has ordered an inquiry
into the matter.
Similar student riots occurred at
Montpelier. The mayor was hooted
and the university officials were de
nounced.
The gendarmes finally cleared the
streets of the mobs.
I .
WINDER’S SUIT DISMISSED.
The Director* of the Seaboard Air Line
Railroad Meirt Nu Offense.
Atlanta, De:-. .’.—John W. Winder
has dismissed his suit against R. O.
Hoffman, the Seaboard Air Line, and
others. Burton Smith, attorney for
Winder, filed the suit, which was for
SIOO,OOO, and was brought upon the
ground that certain resolutions h d
been passed by the roads composing the
Seaboard Air Line implying a misa
propriation by him of certain funds
the company during his administration
as general manager of the system.
In their answer the defendants de
clare that these resolutions were not so
intended, and furthermore that a full
investigation of the accounts shov d
that uo such misappropriation was ever
made.
Mr. Winder, who is one of the most 1
prominent railroad men in the south, ,
states that the suit was brought simply
for the purpose of a public vindicati- -
of himself, as the resolutions referred to
received general publication. Inasmuch
as the defendants’ answer did this,
when a proposition was made by them
to pay his salary to Oct. 1, his attc -
ney’s fees, and his court costs, he im
mediately accepted it.
CITY FATH EASARRAIG NED.
Attacked Because They Accepted a Me- '
mortal to a Kansan City Brewer. 1
Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 7 - —Mrs. 1
Helen Dickerson Harford, of Oregon, j
national organizer of the W. O, T. U., 1
created a sensation while filling the ’
pulpit of the Dundee Methodist Episco
pal church in this city, by denouncing ,
in unmeasured terms the acceptance by ,
the city of a memorial to be erected in '
the center of the city to the memory of
I Ferd Heim, the brewer, lately deceased.
I The Heim brothers, who succeeded
their brother in business, had drawn '
plans for an imposing structure to be 1
erected to the deceased’s memory, and 1
1 successfully tendered it to the city '
i officials. 1
In the course of her sermon, Mrs.
Harford arraigned the city fathers for <
their action, alluding to the memorial I
as a “monument of infamy,” and ap- i
pealed to her congregation to prevent
its erection. ,
That F*-op<*.«d Gilt to Bayard.
London, Dec. 7.—The Globe, refer- ,
ring to the Daily Telegraph’s proposi;
tion to present United States Ambassa- i
dor Bayard, by populrtr subscription, 1
with a Christmas gilt as a token ot the
high esteem in which he is regarded in 1
Great Britain, which suggestion Mr. >
Bayard has decided to decline, says: <
“The proposal was so obviously im- 1
proper that Mr. Bayard won <i have <
done well to take an earlier opportunity I
to decline. His refusal now has tne utr '
of having been dictated by the unfavor- ]
able comments of the press on both :
Bides of the oceiwi.”
Kki-I BiKnei I’m ‘ ‘•iiH '»'J nr t«<i. f
London, Dee. 7.—The libei suit of <
Earl Russell against Lady Se.flnu Scott,
his mother-in-law, and three servants, ’
, was again adjourned until Jan. 4.
| PAGflb- a
PRICE FIVE CENTS ’
GEORGIA’S
JUDICIARY
Condemned By Carter
Populist Senator.
NAMES ASKED FDR
By a; Resolution o( the Senate and Is
Demanded In Writing.
MUST SPECIFY THE GUILTY ONES
Carter’s Remarks May Get Him
Into Trouble.
SENATORIAL SENSATION CREATED
A Number of Other Blits Introduced in
the House—Some Anti-iquor
Leg;’slation.
Atlanta, Dec. 7.—Senator Yancey
Carter, of the Thirty-first district,
leader of the populists in the upper
branch of the legislature, has been of
ficially requested to furnish to the sen
ate the nan es of the judges of tne state
who he referred to as corrupt and unfit
to sit on the bench during the discussion
of the Hopkins bill to make judges and
solicitors elective by the people. The
senate adopted a resolution this after
noon calling on the populist leader to
furnish the names, and Mr. Carter says
that he will do so. The matter created
something of a sensation in the senate
and it is regarded as the beginning of
what promises to become an important
issue in the state.
It will be remembered that one day
last week Senator Carter spoke in favor
of tbe Hopkins bill, and that during the
discussion he used the following lan
guage, in substance;
“Some of the judges on the Georgia
bench are a disgrace to the people.
There are judges who are unfit to serve
in that capacity, and who are no better
than some of the convicts they sentence
to the penitentiary. And let not the
senators call on me for names, lest I
give them. ” exclaimed Senator Carter.
Since the delivery es the fiery speech
by the senator there has been considerable
talk in the senate as to what -should be
done This morning Senator Battle, of
Columbus. Senator Ham, Senator Starr,
and others, held a conference and it was
agreed that notice should be taken of the
charges made by Senator Carter. The
result was that Senator Battle was re
quested to draft a resolution calling on
Senator Carter to give the referred to and
to substantinate the charges. The reso
lution was introduced by Senator Battle
this afternoon and it was almost unani
mously adopted by the senate. The
author explained that the insinuations
made by Senator Carter leflect on every
judge in Georgiat nd that the justice to
the j.dieiury ami the people some notice
ought to be taken of the charges.
The resolution requests Senator Carter
to submit in writing the names if the
alleged corrupt judges and evidence to
sute-tantiate the charge. No time has
been fixed for the preferring of tbe
cl arges, but the matter will be push'd
by ine democrats. Mr Carter says he
will not back down and that at the pro
per time lie will give the t ames aud
speciflcations
Tie senate has fixed Thursday
morning as the time for tbe consid
eration of tne i.nti liquor bills, ii tro
duced by Seua'ors Turner aud Wray.
The Turner bill will be taken up on
that, morning, and tlie Gray bill is to
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