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ESTABLISHED 1887.
BRYAN, THE
NEBRASKAN,
Stopped a Few Minutes
in Rome
AND SHOOK HANDS
With One Hundred and Fifty Cit’zzens
Who Met Him T ere.
WAS GLAD TO RM GEORGIA.
A Big Crowd Turns Out to Meet
Him A ; the Train.
THE BOY ORATOR OF THE PLATTE,
Accompanied By a Number of Newspaper
Men and a Large of Friends.
Oti to Atlim a.
Honorable William Jennings Bryan,
of Nebraska, was iu Rome a few
minutes last night.
The distinguished nominee, for
president, of the democratic party,
reached the city in a special car at 8:35
on the Southern .Railway vestibule
and was greeted by a big crowd of
Romans.
Late yesterday afternoon the follow
ing message to the Tribune told of bis
coming:
Chattanooga, Dee. 22.
Tribune, Rome, Ga.
Hon. William J. Bryan passes
through Rome at 8:35 tonight over
Southern. Please bulletin.
Signed. Frank Weldon.
Immediately the bulletins were put
op and the news spread over the city
rapidly yet many who had not seen
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WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN.
the bulletins and only ben rd the news
thought the rumore a joke and the
Tribune’s phone was kept busy affirm
ing the news.
The Electric railway massed its oars
on the Becond avenue Hue after supper
and did a rushing business. A great
many ladies were at the station to meet
the distinguished orator.
Promptly at 3:35 the vestibule head
light flashed over Che Etowah river
bridge, aud the whole crowd was astir
and it was a mass of moving, squirm
ing human beings th it crowded
around the car. Mr. Bryan came
out at the rear and was kept busy for ten
minutes shaking hands with the eager
anxious throng. Several of the local
newspaper men shook his hand. He nid
his journey bad been pleasant and that
he was glad to be in Georgia. Some one
jocularly asked if Tom Watson was along
bat Mr. Bryau eithei did not hear it or
t was too busy to answer.
The crowd was good humored and had
rf'HE ROHE TRIBUNE.
a good deal of fun at the south eud of
the car by putting upon their shou’der a
young Roman and shouting here he is
which caused a stampede that way for a
moment or two until the hoax wus dis
covered.
The train being a few minutes over
due to leave rang the signal for de
nurture and quietly glided away under
the street bridge in East Rome.
Mr. Erank Weldon, of the Constitu
tion, was along with the party, and
said a big crowd met the train at Dal
t'>u. Quite a party of Atlantians and
others who had gone to Chattanooga,
was on the train.
If Mr Bryan’s coming had been
known earlier quite au ovation would
have been tendered him, as it was some
enthusiasts fired off a tew '-toman can
dies and cannnn crack rs as Mr. Bryan
waved good-bye.
WOMAN BURNED TO DEATH.
Mrs. <. W. llankv'la UolatiTe of the Van
derbilt*, Cremated in California.
San Francisco, Dec. 23.—0. W. Has
kell, superintendent of the Savannah
mine in Giug Gulch, in Madeira county,
has arrived in this city with the remains
of his wife, who was burned to death
last- Thursday night. The body will be
placed in a vault here preparatory to
sending it to New York city for burial
in the Trinity churca graveyard.
The lady was a daughter of Dr. Liv
ingstone of New York and a relative of
the Vanderbilts apd Kissatns. She was
married five years ago in Dsnver to Mr.
Haskell, who is a graduate of the United
States Naval aca.iemy ar Annapolis and
was for a number of years connected
with government engineering work in
various parts of the country.
Mr. Haskell’s hands were badly
burned in attempting to smother the
fire iu his wife’s clothing. She had
placed a candle on a box in the kitchen
ot the house and got a box of cake and
other food to prepare a luncheon for her
husband and herself. Her clothins
touched the caudle aud in a moment
her clothing was in flames. Site ran.
screaming, out into the yard towards
her husband’s office, where he was en
gaged iu writing a etter.
r Seizing a blanket from a bed in the
office he ran to his wife's assistance and
tried to smother rhe blaze. He was only
partially successful in his effort and
only succeeded in extinguishing the
flames with a bucket of water. He car
ried the dying woman into the hops*’
aud attempted with the remedies at
hand to alleviate her agony, but she
died 24 hours after the accident.
A FIELD FOR OUR RUBBERS.
United State* Consul at Chemnits Gives
Advice to American Manufacturers.
Washington, Dec. 22.—There is a big
field in Germany for American rubbers,
says United States Consul Monaghan,
at Chemnitz, iu a report to the state de
partment. At present Russia is supply
ing most of the rubbers worn in Ger
many, selling through agencies all over
• ■- - ••••i o •«!> ■fir. ft- the Rus-lan not
■ ,«. <r« ... flf
American product, oeing clumsy and
lacking in durability, although it com
mands the market just now by reason
of its lower price. ,
The consul also submits some sta
tistics to sb w Germany is building up
a large trade at England's expense with
New South Wales. He gives a list of
the principal German exports to that
colony and says they are not nearly as
good os our own wares, but with the
advantages of cheaper and quicker
freights across the Pacific, the United
States should certainly have this trade.
The Germans, however, have kept their
goods up to or above sample, inspect
them with great care and employ com
petent salesmen who can speak several
languages and thus continue to extend
their trade in nil quarters. Circulars
are, iu Mr. Alouaglmn’s opiui n not
worth the paper they are printed ou as
a means of introducing goods.
Buffavj? Dei.7 227 —" Fire, whic h
started in the basement of Walbridge
& Oo’a hardw ire store, caused a loss to
that firm of $30,000. while other tenants
of the building suffered to the extant of
12.000 tQ $5,000 ea.h.
ROME, GA., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1896.
TREATY NEAR READY
General Arbitration Agreement Will Soon
Ee Signed.
FINAL CORRESPONDENCE PASSED-
A Pledge of Permanent Peace
Now Made to Olney.
THE MARKET WILL NOT BE AFFECTED.
yleveland Will L*y the Matter Before the
Shortly After the Holiday
The Ehitenle'i* Expected Effect Upon F,n
fiji-sh mtid Other European luVetMinaitlN
In American Securities.
Washington. Dec 22.—The final cor
respondence between Great Br.tain and
the United States relating to the arbi
tration treaty is now being exchanged
and will probably be comp eted iu time
to enable the president to lay the treaty
before the senate after the holiday re
cess, and there is no doubt that it will
be promptly confirmed.
Experts iu finance have assured Sec
retary Oiuoy that the pledge of perma
nent peace between the two countries
will add greatly to the feeling of confi
dence among financiers in the security
of American investments. They antici
pate that millions of pounds sterling
will be invested iu American enterprises
which might never have come at ail
without the treaty. The effect may not
be sudden and apparent, but it is be
lieved that the consideration will be a
potent one with the British investor
that his money can be placed in a coun
try with which -the British empire can
never be at war. This consideration
might turn investments in our direction
where all other considerations were
equal, or might even turn them in our
direction where the interest promised
was not quite so large as in a country
having no .-uch pledge of peace.
The existence of the treaty is likely to
exercise an effect upon the stock market
in times ot political and and diplomatic
excitement which will prevent such
panics as occurred over the message of
President Cleveland on the Venezuelan
boundary a year ago. Tho treasury lost
at that time more than $3,000,000 in
a single day because of the bare sugges
tion of the possibility that the United
States might go to war with Great
Britain. Such a possibility will no
longer exist under the treaty of arbitra
tion. European financiers deciare that
the existence of the treaty will surely
attract British aud other European cap
ital to this country.
A powerful influence upon the rela
tions of other states is expected to fol
low the oouciusiou of. the arbitration
treaty between the United States aud
Great Britain.
It is hoped that other- countries will
ask to bo admitted to the union, the
final result being rhe disbandment of
great standing armies.
BRAZIL TO FILE HER TITLE.
She Claim* the Territory Now In Dispute
Between eJh* land anti Brazil.
New York, Dec. 22. —The Herald’s
correspondent in Rio Janeiro, Brazil,
telegraphs that it is semiofficially an
nounced that the Brazilian government
Is in possession of documents of the
greatest importance in relation to that
part of Guinea which is now in dispute
between Great Britain and Venezuela.
These documents, it is stated, give sat
isfactory proof that the territory in
is properly within the domain
of Brazil. It is also declared, ou the
authority of persons in the confidence
of the government, that when the dis
pute between England and Venezuela
is settled, Brazil will formally present
her title to the territ-ry and expects to
triumph over ail claimants.
Brazil’s claim to territory in the
Guinea began with a dispute over a por
tion now under arbitration between that
country and France. Her claim to ad
joining territory in Venezuela is of a
more recent date. Brazil was much dis
turbed the latter part of lust year
concerning the presence of Brit
ish troops in the territory in
dispute. The English missionaries
then hi the territory declared it to be
neutral until a final adjustment should
be arrived at. It appears now that Bra
zil has extended her claims in Guinea to
all the region in the Yuauri and Delta
rivers. This includes the central gold
fields, in which is the famous Callao
mine and no less than three towns—
Guapatica, El Callao and Tremero. The
claim also involves the possession of
rich sugar estates and profitable grazing
land.
Many Armenians t»» Be Released.
Constantinople, Dec. 23.- The large
measure of clemency on the part of the
sultan toward Armenians recently re
ferred to will probably bring about the
release of 4,000 prisoners and the remit
tance of all sentenced to death. This
has been promised to the patriarch Ar
menian, but it needs ratification. At a
meeting of the ministers, at the request
of Mr. Terrill, the United States minis
ter, Hatonm was impris
oned at Trebizond, has been released.
Nine individuals who surrendered to
the government as revolutionists at,
Aleppo, have also been set at liberty.
Grower Blit,
Washington, Dee. 20. —The president
has signed tne act providing for govern
ment participation in the Centennial
exposition at Nashville, Tenn., and
making uppioj nation for a government
building and exhibit.
YO PINAR DEL RIO
(hp aio Gentrd Wtybr Le.ves the Chy
of Havana.
A MAM LKTIER PRODUCED.
And He Has Taken It and
Boards a Cruiser
HE LEAVES BEFORE EARLY DAWN.
fs Informed That Something Must Be Done
Before the First of the Year In Order to
Prevent Action bv ConffrcM on the Cam- '
ernn Cuban Resolution— A Spanish Vic
tory In Santa Clara Province.
Havana, Dec. 22.—Captain General
Weyler left Havana at 3 a. in. on board
| the Spanish cruiser Legazpi. bound for
Mariel, north of the military line, across
1 the produce of Pinar del Rio, with the
intention of resuming personal com
mand of the operations against the in
surgents in that part of Cuba.
General Saiano reports from Santa
Clara that Lieutenant Colonel Oliver,
in command of the Granada battalion,
has had an engagement in that district
with aforceof insurgents. The general
adds that the enemy had over 200 killed
i and wounded.
The insurgents have lifted the rails
■ and ditched an exploring engine near
Yaraguaimas, provin e of Matauzas,
killing a conductor and so seriously in
juring the engineer that both his legs
had to be amputated. The whereabouts
of the fireman is not known.
Weyler to Force the Fighting.
Nuw York, Dec. 22. —A Key West
special to The World says: General
Weyler proposes to take the field in
Santa Clara province now, it is learned
from Havana, aud force the fighting.
The captain general is disturbed by re
ports of insurgent operations in Santa
Clara. Besides a strong hint is said to
have reached him from Madrid, that
something must be done by Jan. 1 to
forestall action by congress on the Cam
eron resalutibit
A number of dead bodies of pacificos
and fourjjwdies of women were found
by the Cubans on Saturday near Al
fonso, where a Spanish column nad
passed. All the huts and dwellings in
that section had been burned aud the
crops destroyed, so the country people
have bad little left to live on. Many
v-rge of starvation.
The picificds HVi tig' oti fiinris near
Esterves were driven from home on Sat
urday and were forced to go to the town
or starve. When they went there, ac
cording to reports, they found no pro
visions awaiting them. With nothing
to do nor money to buy food their cases
are pitiab.e. It is said if they go back
they will be killed; if they remain they
wi i starve.
Affairs east of the troclia grow worse.
officials there cannot cope
with the insurgent bands in operation
in that section, using the hills as their
base of operations, and they are con
fined to the lowlands.
A Spaniard <»u the Situation.
Paris, Dec. 22. —The secretary of the
Spanish embassy here, the Marquis de
Novailis, iu an interview has declared
that but for American interference the
Cuban insurrection would have termi
nated long ago. Le is quoted as add
ing:
‘•The recognition of the independence
of Cuba by the United States will be
only the result of a whim. I beiieve
the struggle will terminate before the
end of February.”
The Solid says:
“If the United States recognizes the
independence of Cuba, European opin
ion will unanimously support Spain
against America.”
G. A. K. Men Oder Their Services.
Rochester, Dec. 22. —A special dis
patch from Newark. Wayne county,
says: William B. Vosburgh, post G. A.
R. of Newark, unanimously adopted the
following resolution: “Resolved, That
this post, consisting of 100 ablebodied
men, hereby offer their services to the
insurgent army of Cuba to aid them in
securing their .ndependence.”
Three Powers to Offer Their Services,
London, Dec. 22.—A special dispatch
from Paris says it is suggested that
Great Britain. France aud Italy, the
three powers most interested, offer their
services in the Cuban question in order
to prevent, a conflict between Spain aud
the United States and to terminate the
revolt.
German Warship Nails For Manilla.
Ho ng-Kong, Dec. 22.—The German
warship Irene, with Admiral Tirpitz on
board, has sailed for Manilla under or
ders from Berlin to protect German sub
jects and the subjects of other powers in
the event of the severe fighting which
is anticipated there.
An»rcltl«t« <o lie sec rree,
Barcelona, Spain, Dec. 22.—An ad
ditional batch of anarchisms will bo set
free during the day. Most of them
were condemned to 20 years’ imprison
ment, aud 28 to eight years in orison.
RrVolallnnary Band Dispersed.
Madrid, Dea 22.—The Correspond
erieia 'asserts that gendarmes have dis
persed a small revolutionary band that
has been organized near this city.
Queen of Spain Congratulated,
Madrid, Dec. 22.— The Galicau colony
of Cuba has cabled its congratulation to
the queen regent on the death of Anto
nio Macia.
Cuban M.tssmeellng In Missouri.
Sedalia. Mo., Dec. 22 —A massmeet
ing. held at the courthouse here, adopted
resolutions calling upon Missouri’s rep
resentatives in congress to support the
Cameron resolution for the recognition
of Cuban independence.
Th, LauradA Lonves Madrid.
Madrid, Dec. 22. The American
steamship Lauradahas returned to Mes
sina.
CHRIST’S SECOND COMING.
Ainni'icau. Go to Jerusalem to " Itausa the
Advent of Our Lord.
Washington, Dec. 22. —There are a
queer lot of American colonists in an
cient Jerusalem, according to United
States Consul Wallace. In a report to
the state department he says that of
530 citizens residing iu Palestine 438 are
Jews who are nominally Americans,
having stopped in the United States on
their way from Russia to Palestine only
long enough to take out American pa
pers aud passports. Os the other 92.
nearly all have come to Jerusalem be
cause of some peculiar religious belief.
The one idea that seems to possess them
all is that there will be a second advent
of our Lord and that this will take place
in Jerusalem. Some of them during
the period of waiting are suffering for
the necessaries of life, but are content
to endure this privation in the hope of
witnessing His coming.
The Spoffordite colony or “overcom
ers,” as they call themselves, have re
cently been increased by tho addition of
117 Swedish Americans, mostly from
Chicago. Their leader, Mrs. Spofford
claims to be under the direct protection
of the Almighty and to possess prophetic
powers. They are a peaceful and law
abiding community.
BIG IRRIGATION VENTURE.
The Company'Schulz Wrecked Before Com
mit ting Suicide to Be Reorganized.
Washington, Dea 22—The Yakima
Investment company of Washington,
which Paul Schulz had wrecked before
committing suicide, is to be resuscitated.
A new corporation is to be formed and
one of the largest irrigation enterprises
of the Pacific coast is once more to be
placed upon its feet. A. M Booth has
just returned from Boston where he
went as attorney for the Safe Deposit and
Trust company of this city to consult
with an electric corporation. He reports
that the plan of organization has met
with approval aud is now practically
agreed upon by the principal parties
The property involved is estimated at
from $1,250,000 to $1,500,000 in value.
It is located in the Yakima valley, east
of the Cascade mountains. Ninety
thousand acres of land were bought
from the Northern Pacific railroad, and
a main canal with-dicches with a length
of 320 miles were built at a cost of $700,-
000. From time to time the land, water
and water rights were sold. An issue
of $150,000 in bonds were again secured
by mortgage, in which the Safe and
Deposit company was named as trus
tees. Hard timescame on, Schulzcould
not raise money to complete Ins scheme,
suit for foreclosure was brought by
trustee and receivers were appointed, of
whom Schulz was one. Soon after he
committed suicide under sensational cir
cumstances.
After a brief interval receivers’ certifi
cates to the amount of $25b,000 were
issued and it is thought the holders of
these and the bondholders who were
interested in the reorganization plan,
in which the Safe Deposit and Trust
company has taken the iuiative. Lou
don and San Francisco hanks and au
electric corp iration of Boston are also
largely concerned as helders of the
bonds and certificates.
That C'lilcngo Ha„k Fall are.
Chicago, Dec. 22.—The excitement
attendant on the collapse of the Na
tional Bank of Illinois and its three de
pendent banks appears to have died out.
Runs of more or less magnitude were
made on several banking institutions,
notably, the Garden City Banking and
Trust company. The doors of that in
stitution were opened au hour or more
before banking houis. but by 10:30a. m.
withdrawals had ceused aud depositors
taken out their amounts. The with
drawals at other banks were few and
far between. It is generally expected
that Bank Examiner McKeon will be
appointed receiver permanently for the
National Bank of Illinois.
May Contest Laster's Election.
Savannah, Dec. 22.—Joseph F. Doyle,
who was the Republican candidate for
congress from the First district, s.tys he
has not fully determined whether or n<>t
he will contest Colonel Rufus E. Lester’s
election. Under the law notice must be
served on Colonel Lester by Wednesday,
but he has not fully decided as yet to
serve it. He has bben gathering evi
dence, however, and says be has die
covered extensive frauds in Bulloch.
Burke and Liberty counties, and ulso
come irregularities in Chatham.
Ker. W. E. Dockery Dying.
Chimjcoihk. Mo., Dee. 23.—Rev. W
E. Dockery, a wqil known minister of
the M. E. church, and father of Con
grei»man A. M. Dockery, was stricken
with paralysis of the brain some rime
during the night. A physician win.
summoned, but the venerable gentle
man soon became unconscious and his
condition is. critical. He is 75 years old-
PRICE FIVE CENTS.
DAMAGING
EVIDENCE
Men Accused of Murder
Now On Trial.
A LETTER PRODUCED
That Will Get Three Suspec's Now
I Held Inti Trouble.
DEATH OF PREMIER STAMBULOFF.
A Note Written By Him Now
Being Evidence
READ BEFORE A MIXED TRIBUNAL.
The Mode of Hie Death Was Known to the
Great Bulgarian Three Months
Before.
[Copyrighted. 1596. by Associated Press.]
Sofia, Bulgaria, Dec. 22.—The trial
of the persons accused of the murder of
ex-Premier sitainbu.off, who was stabbed
iu the streets of this city on July 15,
1895, resulting in his death on July-18,
was formally opened iu the courthouse
before a mixed tribunal Monday and
was continued Tuesday. The accused
are: Boni Georgieff, ag-d 34, a former
servant of Major Panitza; A. Zoff, a
Macedonian, aged. 33, the coachman who
drove Stambuloff from the Union'club
to the scene of the crime, and Nani
Tauffektchieff, an employe in the build
ing department of the ministry of pub
lic works here, aud brother of Dimitri
Tauffektchieff. who died in prison as
the enemies of Stambnloff as a result of
the tortures they inflicted as the di
rectors of the prime minister.
The courthouse was strongly guarded
by gendarmes and the general public
was excluded from the building. A let
ter written by the murdered statesman
to a friend some three months before his
death was read by the judge, amid a
profound silence. The latter w dated
Sofir, March 6, 1895 and gave in minute
detail the plot for sstambuloff’s murder.
The letter came from one Zachariew,
who was in close touch with a band of
ten or 15 assassins, who had “sworn to
free the country from the tvrant Stam
buloff.”
The letter declared that his assassins
expected clemency from the prince after
a short imprisonment and that a plot
was also afoot for the murder of the
prince himself. It implicates a number
of political agitators besides those now
on trial. The letter concludes as fol
lows:
“These statements I have written in
order that it may be known that the
plan of the murderers was known to me
aud that sooner or later my friends and
my children may demand their punish
ment.”
The murder of M. Stambnloff was
brutal iu the extreme. He was stabbed,
shot, hacked and beaten in the most ter
rible manner by his assailants, who
stopped his carriage while he was re
turning home during the evening of
Juiy 15 from the Union olub. accom
panied by a colleague. M. Petcoff. Both
of the ex-premier’s hands were chopped,
one wrist was almost severed from the
arm. He was repeatedly stubbed about
the body and shot in the head. After
he fell the assassins continued stabbing
and hacking him until compelled to run
away. The murder is said to have been
committed iu sight of a number of gen
darmes who ran away with the mur
derers and made no attempt to chase
them.
Fought an Imaginary Foe.
Kansas City. Dec. 23.—Myrtle Gil
lette, the young woman who was with
J. B. Tucker, the wealthy stockman of
this city, when he killed himself in the
Lindell hotel in St. Louis. Mo., on Aug.
5, has been sent to the city hospital.
She was arrested at Twelfth aud Main
streets white fighting au imaginary foe
on the sidewalk and is thought to be
insane. Miss Gillette’s father is a pros
perous stockman at Fredonia, Kan.
Tucker met her in Kansas City two
years ago. They traveled about the
country until Tucker lost his fortune
and killed himself. His death unbal
anced Miss lillette’s mind and her fam
ily has since made her an outcast.
Seventeen Hnrt lin a IVrHk.
Danville Junction. Me., Dea 22.
Train No. 71, on the Grand Trunk rail
road, was derailed at a point about 2
miles below the junction and four cars
were partially wrecked. Seventeen pas
sengers were hurt, but not seriously.
The injured were taken to Boston. The
cause of the accident win a broken rniL
Traffic was delayed for several hours.