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ESTABLISHED 1887.
IT IS NOW
IN SENATE
Tariff Fight is Again ia
Upper House.
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THE PONDEROUS BILL
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Is ia Charge of Senator Allison, of lowa,
Who Was on Hand.
EXCITING CONTEST NOT EXPECTED
Committee Announces Agree
ment to Conference Report
FULL NUMBER OF SENATORS PRESENT
President McKinley is Authorized to Demand
the Release of Ona Melton and Several
Other Competitor Prisoners,
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Washington, July 20. —The tariS
struggle has been removed to the sen
ate, but there was little evidence of an
exciting contest when the senate opened.
• ■ Several senators who were absent from
the city were back again, anticipating
that their vote might be needed. The
.gallery attendance was greater than
usual, although there was no great
-crowd.
Mr. Allison of lowa, in charge of the
bill with the ponderous manuscript, was
present.
- Immediately after the prayer the com
mittee from the house announced the
agreement of that body to the confer
ence report.
Considerable routine business was dis
posed of before the tariff report was
called up.
The senate has passed the joint reso
lution empowering the president to
take steps for the release of Ona Melton
md other Competitor prisoners held by
Spain.
WARM TALK IN WINNSBORO.
Senatorial Candidates McLaurin, Evans
and Mayfield Make Speeches.
Winnsboro, S. C., July 20.—At the
senatorial campaign meeting here Ev
■ans, Mayfield and McLaurin all made
better speeches than usual. Irby and
Duncan were absent.
Evans took the position that the re
'formers and conservatives should get
together on the true Democratic doc
trine of tariff for revenue only. He
urged that factional feeling be laid
aside in this fight.
McLaurin defehded the governor
against the daily attacks of the other
candidates, declaring it unfair to strike
a man with his hands tied. Evans, he
declared, last year, with the full force
of his administration to back him, had
been repudiated. McLaurin’s speech
was an exposition of his tariff views.
Mayfield assumed the aggressive. He
declared that the politicians in Colum
bia were scheming to elect McLaurin.
He attacked McLaurin on the tariff and
declared that his schedule on lumber
was a tax on the people from the cradle
tp the grave. Mayfield attacked the
dispensary before closing.
A WOMAN KILLS HERSELF,
Wife of a Former Asheville Mayor Com
mits suicide by Shooting.
Asheville, N. 0., July 20.—Mrs. W.
J. Cocke, wife of a former mayor t>f
Asheville, committed silicide here in a
fit of temporary despondency and while
alone in her room at her residence. 167
French Broad avenue. Mrs. Cocke
placed a revolver to iier head and fired,
the ball passing through her temple,
causing death instantly.
Mrs. Cocke left a letter to her hus
band bidding him an affectionate
goodby and giving directions for the
arrangements for her funeral and se
lecting the pallbearers as well as the
flowers for the casket. Mrs. Cocke was
Miss Minnie Shawhan Lynn of Cyn
thiana, Ky., and a member of a promi
nent Kentucky family. She married
Mr. Cocke on Sept. 28, 1898, in the
Christian church at Cynthiana.
The news of her death comes to the
people of Asheville with a peculiar sad
dening force, and no occurrence in
Asheville in years has caused more
unanimous expressions of sorrow. Mrs.
Cocke was about 25 years of age.
May Hmploy'ffareh Measures.
Constantinople, July 20.—The am
bassadors have forwarded to their re
spective governments their joint sug
gestions relative to the measures they
think necessary in view of the con
tumacy of the porte. Pending the ar
rival of fresh instructions the negotia
tions with Tewflk Pasha have been
♦entirely suspended.
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
8 PAGES, 48 COLUMNS.
'TROUBLE IS FEARED
Race War Threatened at Riv
erton, Ala.
A Negro Rapist Was Lynched, and
Now a Bloody Riot May
Occur There.
Florence, Ala,, July 50. —There is
a threatened race war at Riverton, a
place of 600 Inhabitants, and much
blood may be shed before morning.
| Monday night a negro criminally
assaulted Mrs. S. L. Vaughn, leaving
her in a critical condition. An infu
riated mob pursued the fiend and
1 literally riddled him with bullets.
The entire community became in
censed at the negroes, and deep mut-
I terings were heard on all sides. As a
consequence both whites and negroes
armed themselves heavily. This af
ternoon a white man was fatally in
jured. It will only take the slightest
provocation to precipitate a bloody
riot. The entire town is in arms,
. ANOTHER LYNCHING.
Alabama Mob Mete Justice to a Negro
I F.end.
Birmingham, July 20.—Last night
near Alexandria City, a negro named
George Richardson criminally assaulted
the wife of Neal Baker.
He was caught by a mob shortly after
and hung to a tree. His body was rid
-1 died with bullets.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Boston Won and Lost in Cincinra’.*, While
Baltimore Lost to Cleveland.
Washington, July 20.—Following are
the scores in the national league today:
Cincinnati 3, Boston 9, first game.
Batteries, Dwyer and Peitz; Lewis • and
Bergen. Cincninnati 12, Boston 1, sec
ond game. Batteries, Rhines and Shriv
er; Klobedanz and Bergen,
Chicago 6. Philadelphia 9. Batteries,
Friend and Donahue; Taylor and McFar
land.
Louisville 4, Washington 6. Batter
ies. McGee and Wilson; King and Far
rell.
Cleveland 7, Baltimore 2. Batteries.
Young and Zimmer; Blackburn and
Clark.
Pittsburg 4 Brooklyn 1, first game.
Batteries. Hughey and Sugden; Kennedy
and Grimm. Pittsburg 3, Brooklyn 0.
Batteries. K’i'en and Sugden; Payne and
Smith.
St. Louis--New York game postponed
on account of rain.
LOOKS A SURE THING.
8 id That Rucker Will Certainly Be Ap
pelated Internal Revenue Collector,
Washington, J uly 20.—1 t is a pretty
straight tip that the negro H. A.
Rucker, will be appointed internal
revenue collector at Atlanta. There
has been a great deal of talk concern
ing this matter. Rucker will handle
half a million dollars annually.
Maj Smythe seems a certainty for
the Atlanta postoffice.
PROPERTY TO BE SOLD.
Georgia Mining rid Invermwt Compiny On
tbe Block.
Atlanta, July 20.—The valuable
properties belonging tb the Georgia
Mining Investment company will be
sold to the highest bidder by Receiver
Julius Brown tomorrow.
These properti s comprise valuable
mineral lands throughout North G'org'a,
worth in the neighborhood of $1,000,000.
ONLY FOUR CASES.
81-n- nghain Smallpox la We' 1 . Under Con
. jolNow, Four C es Developed,*
Birmingham, July 20.—The acting,
mayor sends out the following bulletin;
Only four well developed casts of small
‘pox, and they have been isolated. All
suspected cr°es have been :<, olated. The
scare is over now,
McKinley and 111. Money Message.
Washington, July 20.—1 tis semi
officially announced that President Mc-
Kinley will withhold his currency mes
sage until after the conference renort on
the tariff bill has been adopted by the
senate. The Republican leaders in the
senate do not desire to have any new
question thrown into the senate while
the debate is on, lest it may lead to
complications and delay. It is in def
erence to their opinions that the presi
dent has postponed sending the message
to congress. .....
OFFICIAL ORGAN OF THE
City of Rome and Floyd County.
SOME, GA„ WEDNESDAY. JULY 21. 1897.
THE BOARD
OF PEACE
Arbitrators Will Assem
ble at Pittsburg.
“TRUE UNIFORMITY”
Is Dependent On Agreement ol Operators
in tbe Different States,
THE STRIKE MAY THEN BE SETTLED
More Coal Shipped From Ohio
Mines In One Week
THAN WAS IN TWO MONTHS FORMERLY
Vely Little Coal Being Shipped From Connels
ville Coke Region—Latest From the
West Virginia Situation.
Pittsburg, July 20 — Great interest
is manifested in the return to the city
of the members, of tbe interstate arbi
tration board, Wednesday, as “true
uniformity” is largely dependent upon
tfie success attained by the members of
the board in their efforts to enlist the
support of the operators of their various
states in the movement. General Lit
tle wires from Philadelphia that he has
had difficulty in seeing the representa
tives of the Westmoreland coal com
panies in regard to the agreement ow
ing to their absence from the city.
L. P. McCormick of Indiana sent
word that he had seen President Ratch
ford of the Mine workers and after a
talk the latter expressed himself favor
ably toward the uniformity agreement
in the Pittsburg district. Mr. McCor
mick also saw J. Smith Talley, presi
dent of tbe Indiana Coal Operators’ as
sociation at Indianapolis, and secured
his consent to come to Pittsburg and do
what he can for true uniformity. No
word has been received from Edward
Ridgeley and Horace Calef, the mem
bers who went to confer with the coal
operators in Illinois.
Reports from the Connellsville coke
region says that very little coal is being
shipped from that region. The miners
there have been receiving better pay for
several years than any other similar
class of labor in the United States.
The sympathy of the coke drawers
and coal miners is with the bituminous
coal miners in the strike, but they say
that suspension of work by them would
in no way benefit the striking miners’
cause.
The situation in the central Pennsyl
vania bituminous mining district, ac
cording to a telegram from Phillips
burg, is dependent upon the outcome
of the strike in West .Virginia and
Maryland. If the.strike becomes gen
eral there, it is thought that it will ex
tend to the central Pennsylvania fields,
otherwise there will be no suspension
of work. At Baruesboro ana Gallitzen
the miners are out on strike for higher
wages. The operators the’re fear that
there is little to do for months follow
ing the strike, owing to the large stocks
being laid in.
The western Ohio operators are said
to be doing a land office business in
coal. One operator estimated that more
coal was shipped from the mines to
Westmoreland county last week than
was sent out during the previous two
months. Three-fourths of this is going
to Pittsburg and western markets. The
Westmoreland coal is selling at $1.25 a
ton.
Debs Is Greatly Discouraged.
Fairmount, W. Va., July 20.—Fifty
of the strikers at Monongah went into
the mines agaiu and ten at Clark fol
lowed their example. This move is very
discouraging to the agitators, headed by
Eugene V. Debs. Twenty-five men
working at the O'Donnell mines came
out for the second time, but their action
is not one of much moment. The Wil
son mines, to which the organizers are
devoting their utmost attention, do not'
as yet show any appearance of expect
ing their men to be strikers. The situa
tion here is not so encouraging to those
who wish to see the miners of this dis
trict win the strike.
No Change Im Went Virginia.
Wheeling, July 20.—The strik? situ
ation shows no marked change. A few
of the miners who struck Monday at
Fairmount have gone back to work,
while some others have come out. The
miners in the central West Virginia re
gions are working full time. The ship
ments continue heavy and there is no
apparent decrease of the output maxi
mum before the agitators ■ began their
work. In the eastern Ohio district all
is euiet. orderly and idle. Local relief
INDICTMENTS MADE
New Turn in Celebrated Dan
forth and Armstrong Case.
Grand Jury Indicted Dr. Baker
and Major Danforth for Per
’ jury and Bribing'.
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Gadsden, Ala., July 20. —The cele
brated case of Danforth and Arm
strong has taken another sensational
turn.
The grand jury today returned a
true bill against Dr. E. H, Baker, of
Gadsden, and Maj. Danforth of Chat
tanooga, charging them with perjury.
An indictment was also found against
Danforth charging bribery.
The papers abtained from Jack
King, of Rome, showed that Barker
was promised SIO,OOO if a verdict for
SIOO,OOO was rendered, and $15,000 if
he coul’d influence the jury.
The case has been tried four times
and tbe sums arose from $6,000 to
SIOO,OOO, Two men have already
served a term in jail for being mixed
up in this matter.
Work has been undertaken by menroers
of the various tradesunions now em
ployed and no suffering is reported.
Shops Running on Full Time*
St. Joseph, Mo., July 20.—The force
of men in the tin department of the
Burlington shops in this city have be
gun working ten hours a day and all
employes of the company are working
full time for the first time in several
years. The force has also been increased
in all departments. A general rush of
work necessitated tbe increase in hours
and the number of employes.
Illinois Miners Get au Increase.
Hillsboro, Ills., July 20.—The Cof
feen miuers have received an additional
raise of 5 cents, making 10 cents in all
since the beginning of the strike. The
mine receiver says he will continue to
make reasonable raises to keep his men
at work and will pay the scale agreed
upon at the end of the strike.
Cloudburst Dainagei Property.
Pittsburg, July 20.—A cloudburst
near Carnegie damaged property to the
extent of $25,000. At the Panhandle
mines of M. A. Hanna & Oa, the pow
der storehouse, railroad tracks and cars
were washed away. The water rose so
rapidly that the miners were forced to
flee to the hills for safety.
Coal Being Mined at Canonsburg.
Washington, Pa., July 20.—Work
has been resumed at the Boone and Al
lison mines at Canonsburg, Pa. All
but 35 men went into the mines as
usual. Everything is peaceful and
nearly all the deputies have returned
home. '
Miners at Uniontown Quit.
Columbus. 0., July 20.—Cameron
Miller, ‘at Uniontown. Pa., has tele
graphed President Batchford that all
miners on Bedstone branch have sus
pended.
The Convicts Mode Goods Win.
Bichmond. Ind., July 20.—Judge Fox
of the Wayne county circuit court has
declared unconstitutional the Indiana
statute of 1895 providing that no con
vict made goods from other states can
be sold without a state license and bond
of $5,000. The law also required that
the goods be labelled "convict made.”
The case of William H. Porter, sales
man for the Frankfort Chair company,
will be carried to the supreme court.
Civil Service Examinations Coming.
Washington, July' 20. The civil
service commission gives notice of ex
aminations to establish registers of elig
ibles for appointments under' the gov
ernment as follows; At Springfield,
Mo , for the position of elevator con
ductor, a vacancy in this position now
existing in the customhouse there; at
Shreveport, La., for the position of
janitor, a vacancy of this kind now ex
isting at the courthouse there.
Spanish ub nt Policy la Scored.
Madrid. July 20. Seuor Moret y
Prendergast, Liberal leader and former
minister, delivered a speech a* Sara
gossa on the Cuban question. He vio
lently attacked the policy of the gov
ernment, especially the methods of the
campaign in Cuba, and declared that
autonomy must be proclaimed. "Au
tonomy,” he said, "for Cuba is as much
a necessity of Sonin, us of Cuba.” He
dwelt impressively upon the dangers io
which monarchy is exposed if it does
not obey the force, of public opinion.
Hern Demand* an Indemnity.
Paris, July 20. —The Figaro says that
a mouth or two ago Dr. Cornelius Herz,
of Panama canal fame, wrote to M.
Faure demanding an indemnity of 1,-
000,000 francs from the French govern
ment for false accusations brought
against him by French officials and
members of the French parliament. In
the course of his latter he laid great
stress upon his American citizenship
and asserted that he expected his claim
would be energetically supported by the
United States government.
SIX DOLLARS A YEAR,
JUBILEE
OFMORMONS
Semi-Centeniiial of Utab
Settlement.
OLD BRIGHAM YOUNG
And His Followers Located Salt Lake
City in 1847,
ONLY 650 SURVIVORS OF MARCH
Each Presented With a Hand
some Gold Medal,
"ZION,” BEAUTIFUL CITY DECORATED
Monument to Brigham Young Unveiled.
Blaze of Electric Lights on the
Main Thoroughfares.
Salt Lake City, July" 20—The pi
oneer jubilee has begun here and foi
the remainder of the week will be wit
nessed one of the greatest celebration)
ever seen in this intermountain coun
try. Visitors have been pouring intc
the city and the streets are crowded.
All the buildings along the principal
streets have been richly decorated in
many colors. At night Maiu street
from the temple to Third street presents
an almost holiday blaze of electric light
and there are many beauti
ful designs from one side of the street
to the other. An extensive program
has been arranged for the four days'
entertainment. This program is as fol
lows:
* A national salute at* sunrise by the
survivorfl of the Nauvoe legion. At 8
o’clock a salute by Battery A. National
guard of Utah. At 9 o’clock assembling
of the pioneers in old Fort Square,
March to Main and South Temple
streets and unveiling of the monument
in honor of Brigham Young and the
pioneers.
Os the 2,000 pioneers who entered Salt
Lake vallev in 1847 there are only 650 sur
vivors. These have each been presented
with a gold badge valued at $lO. The
badge represents typical figures in the
early history of Utah, including an ac
curate medallion portrait of President
Brigham Young.
HE INSTITUTES TWO SUITS.
Kansas City Man Wants a Divorce and Ten
Thou*and Dollar* Damages.
Kansas City, July 20.—Albert’ S.
Nichols, an employe in a hat store, has
instituted two suits in the circuit court.
The first is against his wife. Pearl E.
Nichols, for divorce, naming Ben 0.
Burgess corespondent. The ink making
this record on the court document was
not dry when Nichols entered the sec
ond suit against Mr. Burgess for SIO,OOC
for alienating his wife’s affections.
Probably no man among the swell
clubs is better known than is Burgess.
Almost siuce th6 organization of the
Kansas City club he has been a moving
and energetic spirit in that organization.
He is the Kansas City agent of Sweet,
Dempster & Co. and is reputed to be a
man of considerable means. He came
here 17 years ago from Cleveland, O.
Mr. Burgess says the suit is an at
tempt at blackmail. Mrs. Nichols is
visiting in Chicago.
without'food or water.
An Arliona Gold Miner Entombed For
Nearly Fourteen Days.
Phenix, A. T., July 20.—James Stev
ens, a gold fields miner in the Supersti
tion mountains, is again free, after be
ing entombed in a deep mine for nearly
14 days without food and 11 days with
out water. His survival is due solely to
the presence in the walls of the drift of
moisture sufficient to charge the air
and prevent evaporation.
Stevens is in a pitiable condition, and
the utmost care will be necessary to
save his life. Every bone is outlined
under the withered skin. From a stock
ily built man of 160 pounds he has
shrunk to not more than 90 pounds.
He was caught by the caving in of an
immense ore slope that lay between the
place where he was working and the
only avenue of escape. Only the par
ticipation of the greater number of the
miners in the holiday sports prevented
an awful loss of life.
Held Up, Beaten slid Robbed.
Omaha, July 20. Count John A
Creighton was held up at the gates oi
his home, severely beaten about the
head and robbed of a .valuable diamond
stud and a considerable sum of money.
John Schenck, Count Creighton’s
brother-in-law, who answered his cries
for help, was also robbed of a valuable
diamond. Count Creighton’s injuries
are very severe. ...
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WHO WILL GET IT?
Who Will Be Georgia Railroad
Commissioner ?
Some Rumors Regarding the Ap
pointment, and the Governor’s
Atlanta, July 20.—A spicy bit of
political gossip comes out here. It grows
out of a successor being appointed to
Judge Allen Foit as railroad commission
er of Georgia.
Two men wbo have been most promin
ently mentioned for this place are Judge
Sampson Harris, of Carroll, and Warner
Hill, of Meriwether. Both are warm
personal friends of the governor’s, and it
was a problem much discussed as to
which of these two would receive the
juicy plum.
The original plan, it is said, was tb ap
point Judge Harns to the place, and
then appoint Mr. Hill in his place on the
Coweta circuit.
But now another plan has developed,
and one which seems most probable, as
it concerns materially Gov. Atkinson’s
futur*.
It is said that Judge Spencer Atkin
son will resign from the supreme court
beach, and be appointed railroad com
missioner. Judge Harris will be placed
in. his seat as supreme court justice, and
Warner Hill will be judge of the Coweta
circuit.
What lends plausibility to this is the
fact that Gov. Atkinson is known to
covet the congressional honors from the
fourth. These appointments will remove
irom the field two men who have been
prominently mentioned in this connec
tion, and will give bim practically a fair
sweep.
TO FORM A SYRUP TRUST.
Conference Held at Chicago May Result
In a Big Combination.
Chicago, July 20.—The glucose trust
will have a little brother, oue of them
days, soon. He will probably be call*
for short the "syrup trust.” During
the evening there was assembled at the
Commercial Exchange representatives
of nearly all the leading makers of
syrups and jams, known to the trade as
“mixers,” iu the country.
The meeting was held* behind closed
doors, but it is learned that a commit
tee of three was appointed to confer
with O. B. Mathieson of the glucose
trust Tbe committee had the proposi
tions to place before Mr. Mathieson.
Naturally, one of the most important
had to do with his future plaus of deal
ing with the "mixers.”
The committee met Mr. Mathieson,.
but he was noncommittal.
•‘Wait until, after Aug. 1,” said he,
“and I will oe able to talk with you. ”
He had only reached Chicago, he ex
plained, and had not yet got well set
tled in ’his' new possessions. Indeed,
the factories would not be operated by
his association until Aug. 1, so he could
not be expected to say what he would
do until after that.
The committee, which comprised John
W. Bradshaw of Chicago, P. J. Towle
of St. Paul and Mr. Wiuterman of St.
Louis, reported back to the meeting the
result of their conference. After some
debate the delegates decided they should
take no action towards forming an asso
ciation until they knew Mr. Mathie
son’s intentions. So the meeting was
adjourned to be reconvened in August
at the call of the chairman, O. B. Bliss,
of Kansas City.
BANK THIEVES CAPTURED.
Two Men Attempt to Hold Up an Illinois
Caahier, but Are Foiled.
Odell, Ills., July 20.—Two men en
tered McWilJiams’ bank, and placing
revolvers at the head of Cashier Van
Buskirk, ordered him to throw up his
hands and pass over the cash. Van
Buskirk was ready to meet just such an
emergency, as he had weapons at his
command, whichhe raised to shoot at
the intruders. *Tbe robbers did not
wait, but opened the door and escaped.
The cashier at once ran out of the door
and gave the alarm.
People on bicycles, horses, wagons,
buggies and afoot followed the would- be
robbers, who ran to the east of town,
where they jumped in a buggy driven
by two boys. They drove the horses
hard until they saw that the Odell pur
suers were gaining on them, when they
leaped out of the buggy and made for
the corn fields. Hundreds of people
were soon oh the scene. They sur
rounded the fields and after several des
perate attempts to get away, the rob
bers were caught. Numerous shots
were fired but no one was injured. The
robbers were brought to town and
lodged in jail to await the action of the
grand jury.
At a preliminary examination they
gave the names of Frank W. Jackson
and Harry Howard, both hailing from
New York. It is supposed that they
are the same persons who made two at
tempts to wreck the Wabash pay car
between Fairbury aud Forest last Sat
urday. ,
Mrs. Grade at Loa Angeles.
Los Angeles, July 20.—Mrs. N. O.
Orede has arrived from luka, Miss. She
refuses to say anything about her pro
jected contest for the estate of the dead
miner, but it is thought she will claim
about