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prarxaMfMKMMM# REVIEWS ESTABLISHED 1887. f OUR ANNUAL"'TRADE" RE VIEW?** * t . —. _ = J »' Read by 40,000 people, every- - Rome’s unrivalled advantages S\ S This edition will be carefully U/ W °“ e Wh ° m ° r oUght W/ \W make »« »>« industrial and U/ distributed throughout North vl/ tride With ROme ’ ‘ he “ atUra ‘ W \if commercial center of North its Us GeM B la ’ N ° rth and East Ala- .1. commercial centre of 300,000 - Georgia and East Alabama. bama > the richest fami ”S “nd ~ people. 'JSSk* mineral sections in the South. w ' I J# 7»--3 ••3'3 3-3 -•» 3333 -3 33 33 33eees®isr s-e- S- e- STS' «■;£: && s■: £ 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 , (Continued on Second Page.) j 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 I 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. x 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 (Continued On Fifth Page.)