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ESTABLISHED 1887.
MAY BE A
MISTRIAL.
Lester Echols’ Fate in
Hands of the Jury.
CONCLUDING SPEECH
Solicitor General Mose Wright’s Eloquent
and Logical Plea,
JUDGE HENRI’S ABLE CHARGE
He Defines Officers’ Rights to
Make Arrests.
JURY WENT TO HOTEL AT 9 O’CLOCK
•
The Court Room Crowded to Utmost to Hear
Hose W right Speak—lt May be
a Mistrial.
Lester Echols fate is in the hands of
twelve men.
If it is known to mortal man it is
yet locked within the breasts of these
men.
Judge Henry held himself in readi
ness to receive the verdict, until 9
o’clock last night. But at that hour
no agreement had bean reached, and
the jury were carried to the hotel for
the night.
The opinion prevails generally that
it will be a mistrial.
MR. WRIGHT'S SPEECH.
A Large Crowd Present to Hearthe Conclud -
log Argument in Echols’ Case.
Whbn Solicitor Mose Wright rose at
8:30 o'clock yesterday morning to deliver
the concluding speech for the state in
’the Echols trial, the courtroom was again
jammed with humanity, •
Such intense absorbing interest in a
«trial has rarely been manifest in Floyd
county. The great auditorium was, if
any thing even more densely packed with
people than on Friday afternoon when
Hon. Seaborn Wright maae his speech.
A number of ladies were present, and
the bright colors of their apparel as they
sat here and there over the court room
added a pleasing change to the usual
sameness of the scene. They were in
tensely interested, in every glowing
sentence uttered by the brilliant orator.
And rarely has it been the pivilege'of
those present to hear such a magnificent
speech. From the time he . arose at
8:80 until he closed in a peoration that
was sublime, at 11 30 the vast concourse
sat in almost breathless admiration.
Solicitor Wright’s speech not only
glowed with rarest gems of eloquence
and wit, but was logical, impressive and
telling.
The fifteen minutes closing part of
his argument was. language of exquis
ite beauty, chaste and polished.
“That was the grandest speech I
ever heard in a court room” said one
gentleman when Solicitor Wright sat
-down.
He concluded at 11:30 after having
spoken three hours. After a few min
utes intermission, Judge Henry de
livered his charge.
JUDGE HENRY’S CHARGE.
He Cover* The Lew Fully in The Case A* To
The Right* of Arresting Officer*.
Judge Henry in his lengthy and able
charge said:
“The grand jury of this county dur
ing the term of this court, has found
true and has returned a bill of indict
ment. charging and accusing Lester
Echols with the offense of murder, and
specifying that in this county on the
24tb day of September, 1896, said
Echols did unlawfully, feloniously, wil
fully of his malice aforethought kill and
murder John R. Tidwell by shooting
him with a certain pistol. That the in
dictment having been lost, a copy
thereof, which you now have, has been
established by order of the court, and
Continued on Page Two,
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.'
PRAYED FOR LIFE
Ik till Negro Brute Was Brought
to Justice.
Young Lady Crlminaly Assaulted.
Man Brought Before Her For
Identification.
Ashville, N. C., Aug., 10—Last Sun
day at Weaversville, near here, a negro
named Bob Brocket criminally as
saulted Miss Kitten Henderson.
She was seriously injured. A posse
was immediately formed and started in
pursuit of the brute. Today be was
captured and brought back to Weav
ersville to be identified by Miss Hen
derson.
She said she bad prayed God to spare
her life to see the man who had ruined
her life punished. She identified the
negro, and told them to take him out,
and bang orburn him.
The crowd started to lynch the negro,
but two men on horse back persuaded
them to act within the law. They
finally gave the negro over to the
sheriff and he was carried to jail.
DAUNTLESS AGAIN SEIZED.
Famous Filibuster In Charge of Federal
Authorities at Jacksonville.
Jacksonville. Fla., Aug. 10.—Th*
Dauntless, whose many elusions of th<
federal authorities have made her fa
mous in filibustering circles, has been
on the ways, having her boiler repaired
and bottom scraped, ever since her re
turn from that perilous boiler bursting
trip to the south. She seems to have
been under especial espionage of late
and her every movement is scrutinised
closely.
The doughty little ship, all equipped
to make the race of her life, slipped off
the marine railway and took a turn in
the river. She was about to go by the
Boutwell, but that vessel blew her font
blasts in inquiry as to- where she was
going. The Dauntless failed to answei
and the Boutwell blew again. Again
no answer, and once more the Boutwell
blew and an officer shonted out from
the gangway: “Slow up or we’ll let
drive a cannon ball”
This time the suspected filibuster
came to a halt. A boat with an officer
put out to the Dauntless and boarded
her. The boat returned to the cutter,
but without the officer, and the Daunt
less proceeded to her dock. The officer
remained on board and is now in charge
of the vessel
The Cubans are glum over the action
of the government, as they were hoping
that McKinley would give them a little
leeway.
Some great movement is on foot here
among the Cubans, as they have accu
mulated a big lot of sto’ es in the state
within she past month at four different
points.
PRESIDENT IS PETITIONED.
■Friscao* Want Him to End the Slavvry
In the Chineve Quarter.
San Francisco, Aug. 10.—A petition
to President McKiuiey at king that he
advise in his forthcoming message to
congress that a special committee be ap
pointed to visit San Francisco and de
vise means of putting an end to the
slavery in the Chinese quarters is being
circulated and receiving thousands oi
signatures. Tire petition declares in
part:
“There is now a condition of slavery
in this city and state whereby more
than 1,000 females are held in bondage,
bought and sold as chattels and kept in
a condition of involuntary servitude.
These slaves ore scourged, beaten, tor
tured, and even killed by their owner,!
in insolent defiance of the laws of the
land. The number of these slaves is
annually renewed by importations oi
others from China, in violation of the
exclusion act.”
Workers in Christian missions in this
city are in constant receipt of afipe.ili!
from these unfortunate women calling
for aid to escape from their bondage.
A Narrow Escape From Death.
Oakland, Oal., Aug. 10.—Paul Oa
rosso and. his family had a narrow es
cape from death when the building al
Temescal in which he lived burned
down. The fire occurred shortly after
Ba. in. Oarosso was awakened by the
smoke and escape seemed entirely cul
off. Outside his window, but a consid
erable distance below and to one side,
was a little platform used as an ap
proach to a roof garden. The Italian
took his four children and threw them
to the platform, landing each one safely.
He and hie wife then leaped to ths
ground.
Mather 97) Youngest Child 70.
Richmond, Aug. 10. Mrs. Fannie
Cosby of Frederick’s Hall, Louis;,
county, now 97 years old, has boughr
her coffin and brought it home in un
ticipation of her death. She has an un
married daughter aged 80, one son 76
and another about 70. Up to a few
years ago she did all the weaving for
the family. The four do all of then
own household and farm wdrk, rarely
employing servants, although they are
well- to- do.
Chicago Hard ware~U»ier* Fall.
Chicago, Aug. 10.—The O. M. Gur
ney company, heavy hardware dealers,
have failed under a judgment by con
fession obtained by a creditor. Liabili
ties are $60,000; assets slightly more.
ROME, GA., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST U. 1897.
GOLDITES
AT CHICAGO.
National Executive Com
mittee in Session.
Oi
FOR CURRENCY PLAN
They Will Select Commission of Eleven
to Investigate and Report,
CAREFUL SELECTION TO BE MADE
'Major J. F. Hanson, of Macon
is In Attendance,
A NEW FINANCIAL SYSTEM ON FOOT
I
For the Go'emoien: is to be Mapped Out.
Members F. om Bueineas Men. Bank
ers and Farmers Present,
Chicago, Aug. W.—To carry forward
Its object the sound money executive
sommittee appointed,a> Indianapolis last
January met in this city to endeavor to
proceed with the task of creating a na
tional commission. Which President Mc-
Kinley was prevented from naming by
the failure of congress to pass the bill
presented during the closing hours of
the session. The committee is composed
of 1b representative business men, re
siding in various parts of the United
States, a strictly* nonpartisan body.
Hugh Hanna of Indiauapblis is at its
head and its chairman. The other
members are: ' t
M. L. Crawford, Dallas, Tex.; W. B.
Dean.' St. Paul, Minn.; J. W. Fries,
Salem, N. 0.; J. F. Hanson. Macon,
Ga.; W. O. Harrison, Philadelphia,Pa.;
Rowland Hazzard. Peacedale, R. L;
John P. Irish, Oakland. Oal.; H. H.
Kohlsaat, Chicago, Illa; John J. Mitch
ell, Chicago, Ills.; A. E. Orr, New York;
George Foster Peabody, New York;
J. O. Power, Helena, Mon.; E. O. Stan
nard, St. Louis, Ma; A. E. Wilson,
Louisville, Ky.
The business of chief importance will
be to select 11 men to devote their time
to the work mapped out for them to
compose the commission. They will be
intrusted with the responsibility of un
dertaking to devise some satisfactory
and acceptable plan for revising, reform
ing anti regulating the currency system.
The selection by this committee of
such a commission is in accordance with
the powers conferred upon it by resolu
tions of the convention of business men
held in Indianapolis last January. The
sessions, for the most part at least, will
be executive.
The qualifications of every man whose
name is presented for membership in
the commission will be discussed. Great
care is to be taken in the makeup of
this body. Bankers, business men and
farmers are the classes from which it is
proposed to frame it.
Seven members of the executive com
mittee responded to their names when
the chairman called the meeting to or
der. Those present were:
Hugh H. Hanna of Indianapolis, E.
O. Stannard of St. Louis. J. F. Hanson
of Macon. Ga; George Foster Peabody
of New York, Augustus E. Wilson of
Louisville, Ky ; J. W. Freis of Salem,
N. 0., and H. H. Kohlsaat of Uhicaga
The committee held an executive ses
sion and discussed plans for the future.
Nothing definite was done pending the
arrival of the remaining members of the
committee.
The present outlook is that what is
known as the Chicago plan wiil proba
bly be adopted. The commission ap
pointed will work upon the general
Scheme mapped out by the Indianapo
lis convention and will have exclusive
power regardless of the executive com
mittee and of the convention, in the
construction and presentation to con
gress of a new financial system for this
government.
Injunction of a vourt Ignored.
Evansvillh, Ind., Aug. 10.—The
marching miners, notwithstanding the
court injunction issued against them,
lined up on the public highways leading
to the Ingle mines, and as the men came
to work they were again appealed to by
the strikers with the result that the few
who had started to work decided to join
the strikers. The entire force is now
out and the marchers are devoting their
energy to the other mines of the city.
It is the opinion that if the Ingle men
were induced to join the other miner*
here and at Newburg would quit The
strikers continue to remain orderly.
Thtalm.un Appointed Trenanrar.
Berlin, Aug. 10.—The appointment
of Baron von Thiel man u, the retiring
German ambassador to the Uniter,
states, as secretary of the imperial trena
ary. in succession to Count Posadowsky
Weiner, is gazetted.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
I
Boston Defeated New York in
a Close Came.
Baltimore Won One Game From
Brooklyn and Tied Second.
The Other Games.
Washington. Aug 10.—There has
never sec# anything to equal the
magnificent&akttle among the leaders
now fdfc .■Ml’i'T )ennan t in the national
leagued “Boston won from New York to
day on one of these contests that shatters
the nervous system of the partisans. It
was a truly and magnificent contest in
which the Bean-eaters were finally vic
torious.
Baltimore beat Brooklyn with ease in
the first contest, but could only tie in the
second. Cincinnati defeated St. Louis.
Chicago continues the swift clip they
have set recently and overwhelmed the
Fall City nine today. The scores:
Boston 1, New York 0.
Baltimore 9, Brooklyn 3, Ist game.
Baltimore 3, Brooklyn 3, 2nd game.
Washington 7, Philadelphia 6.
Cleveland 9, Pittsburg 5.
Cincinnati 9, St. Louis 6.
Chicago 16, Louisville 6.
BROOKS ON TRIAL.
Brooksand Reynold* AocuteEich Other of
Killing Hunt.
jKFrERSONVILLK, GA., Aug., 10—
Bud Brooks trial is coming to a close,
and Grady Reynolds trial will com
mence tomorrow.
Both made statements on the stand
today. Brooks said that Reynolds
killed Jlunt, cut up his body and threw
it into the riven. Said that Reynolds
got most of th** money also.
Reynolds said in his statement that
Brooks wrack the fatal blow. That
he only lured Hunt to the place for
Brooks.
COAL OPERATORS UN&A6Y.,
Fear -There Will Be a Scarcity of Can
When,Miners Return to Work.
Pittsburg, Aug. io. —There is a grow
ing feeling of apprehension among coal
operators that the prolonging of the
strike for a few more weeks will bad for
the lake shipper* It is cited that when
the miners return to work there will be
such a demand for coal for lake ship
ments that cars will not be obtainable
to rush it through for shipment before
lake insurance rates advance, which oc
curs near the time for rough weather on
the lakes snd greater riskgfor cargoes.
At present the lake freight rates are
low and the vessels are moored at all
the shipping points waiting for cargoes
up. When coal again goes forward, it
is feared that the demand for vessels
will cause much inconvenience While
nothing has been done by local operat
ors looking to a settlement of the strike,
they explain by saying the miners’ de
mands are impossible of compliance,
and until they are modified there is no
use of talking about a settlement.
Contracts are said to have been taken
for all of this year at a low profit price,
waiving the customary clause, which
will make the price so much above the
mining rates that coal contracts are
said to have been made without this
Qlause this year, and operators say that
to jump th6 cost of mining to the point
demanded by the miners, or any near
approach. to it, would mean that the
sheriff would become an important per
son in their business.
They say they are doing nothing re
garding the settlement of the strike,
but trying to get the uniformity agree
ment in operation. They maintain that
the adoption of this agreement offers
the only hope of improvement in the
condition of the miners or an enlarge
ment of their earnings next year, and
following years, and any ratq above 60
cents for the remainder of this year is
impossible.
STEAMSHIP LINES AT WAR.
Great Slash lu Freight Rate* From New
York to Galveston.
New York, Aug. 10.—The freight
rate war from New York to Galveston,
by which the Morgan and Mallory lines
are trying to defeat their recently es
tablished rival, the Lone Star line, has
reached an interesting stage. Rates'to
Galveston have been cut to 8 cents a
hundredweight. As a result the town
is full of Texan buyers and goods are
being shipped to the Lone Star state in
large quantities. Both the Mallory and
Morgan lines are running extra steamers
to Galveston to meet the tremendous
demand for shipment*
It was July 10 that the war was de
clared; On that day the Lone Star line
was established by Hogan & Sons, with
three steamers to run to Galveston. A
number of outs have been made since
and now everything shipped to Galves
ton on the Morgan line goes at 2 cents a
hundredweight and it is said the Mal
lory line will also come dow« to these
figures.
Flrat Hale of New Hop Crop.
Waterville, N. Y„ Aug. 10.—The
first bale of the New York state 1897
hop crop was shipped to Boston. The
price paid was 85 cents per pound.
LOUISIANA
AT THEFAIR.
Pelican Day Celebrated
in Appropriate Style.
ORLEANS WOMEN
Assisted by Washington Artllledy Band
at Grand Concert.
THE GOVERNOR AND OTHERS TALK
S'.iam Battle at the Exposition
Next Saturday.
MANY SOLDIERS NOW ENCAMPED
On the Ground*—Extensive Preparation* For
German-American Day to be Cele
brated on Oct. 6th.
Nashville, Aug. 10. —Louisiana day
was very appropriately celebrated at the
Tennessee Centennial exposition. The
weather was delightful and the attend
ance large. The Louisiana visitors
spent the morning in visiting the build
ings and Vanity Fair, and witnessing
the drills by the Tennessee and Ohio
regiments encamped on the ground*
In the afternoon they assembled in the
Auditorium, where an excellent musical
program was rendered by the Washing
ton Artillery band and some of the lead
ing society women of New Orieans. An
address of welcome was made oy Gover
nor Taylor, and the response was de
livered by Adjutant General JumeL
The occasion was one of the most en
joyable of the series at tip exposition.
A special fireworks exhibition was
given at night. The visitors will re
main in the city until Saturday, and
during Uwij stay they will be hand
somely entertained. Adjutant General
Jumel, who represents Governor Foster
of Louisiana, entertained Governor Tay
lor and staff at dinner in the evening.
Wednesday the women’s board will en
tertain the visitors at a reception.
Thursday will be Kentucky Red Men’s
day, and several hundred members of
the order from that state will attend
the celebration. There will be military
drills, concerts by Victor Herbert’s band
and a fireworks display in observance
of the day.
There arc now over 1,000 soldiers on
the grounds. They are the Fourteenth
Ohio regiment, Company B, of Colum
bus; Company G of Waverly; Company
Fof Gallatin; Companies A and E of
Nash Vide kJ Company G of Clarksville;
Company D of Lawjeiijfiburg, gnd Bat
tery' A of Nkshville, all of the First
regiment. National guard, state.of Ten
nessee. Drills and dress parades are
given daily. The troops will remain on
the grounds for a week. Next Satur
day the soldiers will give a sham battle.
Extensive preparations are being made
for the celebration of German-Ameri
can day, Oct. 6. Hon Carl Schurz. Hon.
John Ruhn of Nashville, the mayors of
Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chattanooga and
others have been invited to deliver ad
dresses.
GREAT IS QUEEN’S GRIEF.
Her MwJeMy Unable'to Be Oat as a Result
of the Assassination.
Madrid, Aug. 10.—The queen regent
has decreed that the military honors
observed in the case of a funeral of a
marshal shall be accorded the remains
of the late premier of Spain, Senor
Oanovas del Castillo, who was shot and
killed at Santa Agueda by an anarchist
named Micheio Angine GollL
The body of the Spanish statesman
will arrive here on Wednesday morn
ing, accompanied by his widow, the
minister for the colonies, Senor Goah-
Gayon, and the chief major domo, the
Duke of Sotomayor, representing the
queen regent. The pall bearers will be
an academician, an admiral, the presi
dent of the senate, a Knight of the Gtfi
'den Fleece, and Marshal Martinez de
Campos.
The interment will take place in the
Pantheon. Funeral services will take
place simultaneously in all the churches
throughout the country and the official
mourning wiil last three day*
The queen regent is greatly affected
by the tragedy and Is still confined to
her room.
Congressional "Election Contest*.
Washington, Aug. 10.—The records
in the various election contests are now
being printed at the government print
ing office. Twenty cases make up the
nominal record. Os these perhaps four
or five practically amount to nothing.
In the Alabama case of Comer against
Clayton, Comer gave up the case after
starting in, anti nee lined to take further
testimony The testimony is, therefore,
not primed in that case.
Talk to Your Trade.
The Tribune has the
largest circulation of any
newspaper in North
gia. It reaches your trade
daily,
PKICE FIVE CENTS
THE COTTON CROP
Government Report Shows Im
provement in Georgia.
Averages of the Different States
Are High Except Texas, Whie ‘
Has Declined Ten Points.
Washington, Aug. 10.—The returns
for cotton to the department dt agricul
ture indicate an ave/age condition v.
86.9 on Aug. 1, as compared with 86 0
on July 1, an increase of nine-tenths of
one point. The average condition Aug.
1, 1896, was 80.1 and the average condi
tion on Aug. 1 for the last ten years is
86.1. There has been a decided improve
ment in Georgia, North Carolina and
South Carolina, where the conditions
have advanced ten, seven and six points <
respectively.
In the lower Mississippi valley the
improvement is much less marked, and
in Texas there is a, decline of 10 points.
The averages of the states are as fol
lows: (
Virginia, 99; Louisiana, 90; North
Carolina, 97; South Carolina, 92; Geor
gia, 95; Florida, 88; Alabama, 88; Mis
sissippi, 85; Texas, 78; Arkansas, 90;
Tennessee, 84; Missouri, Soj’ludian Ter
ritory, 94; Oklahoma. 86. v
BLUE GRASS STATE REPS.
Convention Meet* to Name an Appellate
Court Clerk Candidate.
Louisville, Aug 10.— The Republi
can state convention for the nomination '
of a candidate for appellate court clerk l
was called to order by State Chairman
C. M. Barnett of Ohio county, in Musio
hall at Bp. m. Dr. W. J. Deboe, the
newly elected United States senator i
from Kentucky, was temporary chair
man. while Hon. George Denny of Lex
ington waa permanent chairman.
There will be a bitter fight between
Bradley and Hunter-Todd faction* the
former claiming that the state adminis
tration should be indorsed, while the
latter assert that a man who knifed Dr.
Hunter last spring and winter before
last, as Governor Bradley did, is .not
worthy of recognition in a Republican
gathering. Governor Bradley is in the
city and has his friends about him.
They say they will introduce a resolu- i
tion in the convention favoring Gover
nor Bradley’s administration and that
if it is defeated they will make it hot
for the Hunter-Todd men before fall.
There are avidenoee of a bitter and vi
cious fight on all rides, and neither fac
tion will ask or give quarter. AU the
Republicans *f the state are on t ■
The district conventions were held at
10 o’clock, and in the Fourth, Sixth and ‘
Tenth there were contesting delega
tions. Considerable feeling was en
gendered, each set of delegates claiming
to be the properly authenticated on*
The Bradleyites are making a bitter
war on O. E. Sapp, President McKin
ley’s appointee for collector of internal
revenue in this, the Fifth district.
Ohio Miners In West Virginia. • j
Wheeling, Aug. 10.—West Virginia
eoil was peacefully invaded by Ohio
miners. One hundred and twenty-seven
miners from the Wheeling Creek region. )
oyer the river, marched through the '
city and reached the Boggs Run mine,
just below Wheeling, at 4 o’clock. The
Ohio men came for the purpose of clos
ing down the Boggs Run mine, the only
railroad mine in the Wheeling district
now being operated. They announce
they will stay until the Boggs Run
joins the strike, and 200 more Barton,
Maynard, Pascoe and other mining
communities in eastern Ohio are to join
the Wheeling Creek men now at Boggs
Bun.
Man Murdered by Moonshiners.
Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 10.—While
on his way to serve warrants on charges
of “wildcatting,” Dink Wharton, a
deputy sheriff, in Cleburne county, was
assassinated from the bushe* His body
was literally filled with lead. Wharton
left Edwardsville with several papers
in his possession. The assassination
was most brutal, the .men dot giving
the brave officer a chance to defend
himself. The sheriff of the county,
upon being notified of the killing, or
ganized a posse and has gone to the
place, determined on hunting the mur
derer* down.
Son Succeed* His Dead Father*
Richmond, Aug. 10.—R. Carter Scott,
son of the late Attorney General Scott,
has been appointed attorney general to
fill his father’s unexpired term. He
has accepted, and his name, it is under
stood, will probably go before the Roa
noke convention for the nomination for
the office, though he will himself make
no effort in that direction.
A Briton to Wad an American.
London, Aug. 10.—Ties approaching
marriage is announced of Captain Ar
thur Hay, a brother of the Earl of En
roll, and a captain in the Second bat
talion of rhe Queen’s Own Cameron
Highlanders, to Hermoine, daughter of
Mrs. Sohenley, who has large property
interests at Pittsburg, Pa.
Diamond IhleVe* Get a Delay.
Nkw York, Aug. 10.—Arguments in
the habeas corpus proceedings in behalf
of the alleged New, Orleans diamond,
thieves. Jean Antonio Magan and Ro
gelio Guinea, has been postponed until
Wednesday. The adjourn men t was
taken to allow time for the arrival o ’
important legal papers from New Or
legn*