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ESTABLISHED 1887.
BIG JUMP
INCOTTON
Fleecy Staple is Trying
to Rival Wheat.,
QUARTER OF A CENT
ftt Advance Was Noted in the Markets
Before Noon.
CROP NEWS DECIDEDLY BULLISH
Tremendous Trading In the
Early Hours.
45 POINTS OR NEARLY HALF A CENT
Advance Has Occurred Since Friday—Wnea
Takes a Tumble of Three and a
Half Cents—Latest Reports.
New York, Aug. 23.—The opening
■-•call of the cotton market was attended
■with great excitement. Shorts were
panic stricken by a large number of bull
orders and a sharp advance in Liver
pool. Crop news was also decidedly
bullish, too much raiu in the Atlantic
states and the Mississippi valley, accord
ing to reliable reports, having done ex
tensive damage, while worms in othes
sections were said to be infesting the
staple greatly to its detriment.
The market opened irregular, with
trades in different parts of the ring
showing a range of 2to 3 points. Au
gust opened IB points higher, Sept 17,
Oct. 22 and Nov. 27. The rest of the
list showed an advance of 24 to 26
points, the opening range of 13 to 17
points above Saturday’s closing figures.
The trading was the heaviest in many
months. Over 25,000 hales changed
hands on the call and at 11:30 transac
tions aggregated 55,000 bales. New Or
leans and Liverpool sent selling orders
early, but became active buyers as the
market advanced.
Commission houses were heavy pur
chasers. Selling for profits by timid
bulls caused a reaction of 6 to 9 points
directly following the call and at, 11:30
after violent fluctuations the market
was very feverish at a net advance of
20 to 25 points.
4 . ——
WHEAT TAKES A TUMBLE.
September Open* at 09 1-2, but Quickly
Drops to 05— 4 <»rn un Katnpage.
Chicago, Aug. 23.—0 n anticipation
of seeing wheat go to $1.05. the galleries
of the board of trade were jammed by
sightseers. But they were disappointed
in this, although witnessing a decidedly
lively opening. There was a perfect
flood of selling orders in all grain pits
and this profit taking knocked the top
off prices so quickly as to make the
traders’ heads fairly swim. Opening at
from 99% to 93% cents, Saturday’s
closing price being the higher of the
two figures, September wheat tumbled
to 95 cents almost before the crowd
realized what had happened. But it
was quickly apparent that many ex
pected wheat to go way beyond the $1
mark and offerings of all kinds were
eagerly snapped at.
The limit to the “letting go” was ap
parently reached when 95 cents for Sep
tember was touched and the prices
again bounded, 99% cents being reached
in almost as quick time as the decline
had occurred. Again the market turned
tail, this time a reaction to 98% cents
occurring. The December option in the
meantime was not a whit less active,
the opening in fact showing a rather
bewildered feeling among the leaders.
First offerings of December, which
closed Saturday at 99% cents, ranged
all the way from $1 to 97% cents, and
while September was taking its tobog
gan to 97. December came tumbling,
after to 96% cents. It brought up with
a jolt ami rebounded to 99% cents,
where it struck the wall again and went
back to 98 cents. Ou the curb Septem
ber had sold as high as $1.02%.
Corn was not a whit less active than
wheat and the pit was jammed with
excited traders. The sharp advance in
the Liverpool cables, coupled with some
poor crop reports, started the market on
the rampage, September opening at
from 33 to 82 cents, against Saturday’s
closing pri'.-e of 31% cents, while
December, in which option the trading
was especially heavy, started at 35@%
cents, an advance of 1%@2% cents..
But the break in wheat, the milder
weather and the enormous local receipts
of 1,793 cars checked the market after
the first rush, September declining to
81% cents and December to 83% cents.
When the bulls took hold ot wheat
again, corn followed, September recov
ering to 32% cents and December to
84% cents.
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
TOOK HIS OWN LIFE
Eklndge Caspa Shoots Him
self Through Head.
Rash Act Caused From Brooding
Over the Reepnt Death of
His Sweetheart.
Winder, Ga-, Aug. 23.—Eldridge
Caspa, of Statham, Jackson county,
came here this morning to visit an
aunt who lives about three miles from
this place.
This afternoon at 5 o’clock young
Caspa shot himself through the tem
ple with a pistol, death resulting in
stantly.
It is supposed that his rash deed
was due to mental derangement
caused by his brooding over the death
of his sweetheart. Since her demise
he has been drinking heavily and has
been moody and taciturn. He be
longs to one of the best and wer’th
iest families in Jackson county.
DEATH IN CAVE SPRING.
Mr. Porter Culbertson Succumbs to Acute
“Dyspepsia.
Cave Spring, Ga., Aug. 23 —After
a long illness Mr. Porter Culbertson,
of this place, died yesterday after
noon at 6 o’clock. His death was
sudden, though not entirely unex
pected. For several months be had
been a sufferer from acute dyspepsia
and chronic stomach trouble.
The funeral took place at 3 o’clock
this afternoon. The services were
conducted by Rev. Mr. Pullen, and
the remains were interred in the Cave
Spring cemetery. The friends of the
family share with them their grief.
NIRS, SCRUGGS IS DEAD.
The Lady So Badly I: Jared By Falling From
A Train Passes Away,
Atlanta, Aug. 23.—Mrs. Scruggs,
who sustained many injuries by falling
from a train several days ago, died to
night shortly before midnight.
MOB KILLS A MURDERER.
Negro Who Had Bhot Two Perilous la
Himself Riddled With Bullets.
Tennille, G*., Aug. 23 —At Lovett,
a station on the Wrightsville and Ten
nille road, 24 miles from here, Andrew
Green, a negro, after shooting Lula
George, a woman of his owu color,
killed George Heath, a prominent citi
teu, aud was iu turn killed by a mob
organized to avenge the death of Heath.
Green’s home was at Gabbett’s mill,
near Lovett, and his reputation for so
briety and industry was uot the best.
Early in the morning he left home, af
ter forbidding his wife a visit to Lovett,
which she had arranged. Soon after
dinner Green’s wife decided to disobey
her husband’s orders and went to the
station.
Green reached home in the early af
ternoon, and started at once iu pursuit
of his wife. When he reached the sta
tion he found her chatting with two
friends, a negro man and woman.
Without uttering a word he pulled a
pist >1 from his pocket aud began firing,
apparently at his wife. He was a bad
marksinau aud one of the three balls he
fired went wide of the trio, but the other
two hit the negro woman sitting beside
his wife, inflicting wounds which will
probably result iu death.
The shooting attracted the attention
of several citizens, who started toward
the depot. Among the number was
George Heath, oue of the leading mer
chants aud most prominent citizens of
the place, who, on arriving at the scene
of the shooting, was instantly killed by
Green. AVlnob was quickly formed aud
the double murderer was shot to death.
Many New Specie* of Mammals.
Palo Alto, Cal., Aug. 23.—D. Cool
idge, who has been at the head of a
scientific expedition in the mountains
and desert regions of California, has
just returned. He report d the discov
ery of a number of new species of mam
mals The work was principally con
fined to the San Bernardino and Cuca
monga mountains and the Colorado
desert. The party spent several weeKS
on the desert. In all they collected 280
specimens of mammals.
Attempted Salolde »t Anderson.
Anderson, S. O , Aug. 23.—Robert
L Arnold, aged about 35 years, swal
lowed laudanum, intending to commit
suicide. He had been drinking, pro
cured two or more ounces of laudanum,
toid his friends on the street goodbv,
stating that he intended to kill himse f,
went immediately home aud swallowed
the poison. Pnysicians were summoned,
aud he is now considered out of danger.
Sh« ll»y Seo Aa.atleut Swing.
Raleigh, Aug. 23.—George Brodie,
under sentence of death at Henderson,
has confessed having assaulted Miss
Nannie’ Catlett at Kittrells. Brodie’s
mother went -to sec her condemned son.
He does not appear to be scared in the
least. Mis- Catlett has appealed to the
sheriff to see the hanging and says she
will be present. Toe hanging will be
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ROME. GA.. TUESDAY. AUGUST 24 1897.
THE BOYS
IN BLUE.
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This is Grand Army
Week in Buffalo.
A COLOSSAL CROWD
Trainloads of Veterans and Friends Are’
Already Arriving.
GENERAL T. S- CLARKSON IS THERE
Some of the Posts Which Are
on The Grounds.
V
WOMAN’S RELIEF CORPS OPPOSES
Uniting With the ‘‘Ladlßs of the G. A t K.”
Two Organizations Wil' Likely
R< m tin Sepm
Buffalo, Aug. 23. Grand Army
week opened with fair weather. All
indications point to a colossal encamp
ment beyond the expectations of the
the most sanguine citizens. Trainloads
of veterans and their friends are cou
constautly arriving and a person might
think there was a great parade iu pro
gress as the poets march up Main street
to their quarters.
The woman’s headquarters at 256
Delaware avenue have been formally
opened. Here the visitors will be care
fully looked after. Everything possible
has been provided for their comfort. A
Th ad de us 8. Clarkson, commander
in-chief of the Grand Army, arrived at
his quarters at the Iroquois hotel and
his reception constituted the first event
us the week’s encampment. He was
met at the station by local G. A. R
men and members of the reception com
mittee and escorted to the hotel, where
he was officially received by Colonel
Winans, chief of the headquarters staff.
Among the G. A. R. posts which have
arrived are the following:
Naval post department, Pennsylvania;
Farragut association, U. S. Grant post
and Burley posts, all of Philadelphia;
Welch post, Columbia, Pa.; Depart
ments of Tennessee and Georgia; John
A. Andrews Dost of Boston; Rankin
post of Brooklyn; Lafayette post of
New York; Harding post of St. Louis;
Tod post of Youngstown. 0.. aud the
New Hampshire delegation.
The latter has a boom in its posses
eion, as it is pushing the candidacy of
General John C. Liuneban of Concord,
N. H., for commander-in-chief.
Rear Admiral Cyrus Spears has ar
rived and will hoist his flag on the
steamer Idaho. The Idaho has been
assigned to the naval veterans.
During the week a further effort will
be made to unite the Woman’s Relief
Corps and the Ladies of the G. A. R.
There has been a good deal of discussion
over a possible union, but it is the de
sire of the Grand Army that the tenets
of the Woman’s Relief Corps prevail as
to the eligibility clause, and the Ladies
of the G. A. R. do not want to give up
on that point, so that the matter of a
union seems as far away as when the
two organizations took to different
paths.
“To cherish and emulate the deeds of
our noble army nurses and of all women
who rendered loving service to our
country in ner hours of peril.” is the
aim of the Woman’s Relief Corps.
■ The Ladies of the G. A. R. accept only
the “wives, mothers, sisters and daugh
ters of honorably discharged soldiers, ”
aud reject the "loyal” woman who had
no relatives in the war to whom she
can trace relationship.
PRESIDENT ON PROSPERITY.
MoKluley Says Better Times Are at Hand.
»alses Republican Pnrty.
New York, Aug. 23.—A dispatch to
The Journal from Hotel Champlain, N.
Yl, says: President McKinley stated to
a Journal reporter that it should be a
pleasure to every American citizen to
know that there was a return of pros
perity to the country.
“The cause of the present boom in the
west,” he said, “is undoubtedly due in
a great measure to the large crops and
high ptices earned by the failure of
crops in other countries. But the fact
that prosperity has sot in in the east
cannot be accounted for in any other
way than by the wise policy of the Re
publican party in restoring a protective
tariff
“The present boom is not spasmodic,
but will continue to increase, and uot
only the manufacturers, but the people
generally will soon realize that it is only
with a protective tariff and sound finan
cial principles that the country wi 1 be
prosperous and remain in ciiat condition.'
"With the restoration of confidence
j, will cpiue a restoration of prosperity.”
TO SPEAK TONIGHT
Great Oratorical Contest in the
Gate City.
Hon. John Temple Graves’ Medal
For Oratory—Distinguished
Judges Present.
Atlanta, Aug. 23. - One of the most
interesting oratorical contests that has
■ever occurred in the South will take
place in the Grand Opera house here to
morrow night.
Some time ago Mr. John Temple Graves
offered a handsome gols medal, to be
known as the State Championship Ora
torical Medal, and a public spirited citi
zen of Atlanta has offered a jewel as a
second prize. These trophies will 1 be
contended for this evening by the young
debaters, who have been chosen to re
present their respective colleges. The
entries are from the University of Georgia,
Emory College, Meicer University, the
State Technological School, and the
North Georgia Agricultural and Me
chanical College.
Tlie judges will be the following dis
tinguished gentlemen: Dr, J. B. Haw
thorne, Hon. Hoke femith, Senators A.
8. Clay and A. O. Bacon. It will bring
out a ery large and fashionable audienee
and visitors are expected from all over
Georgia.
The young men who will speak and
the subjects of their addresses are as fol
lows:
Mr. M. M. Muiphey, of Barnesville,
Emory, “Arbitration;” Mr. C. A. Wed
dington, of Atlanta, University of Geor
gia, “A plea for Conservatism;” Mr, J;
R. Straton, of Atlanta, Mercer, “The
Southern Young Man the Hope of the
Country Mr. R. V. Glenn, of Macon,
Techdlogical School, “Character of Al
exander Stephens,” and Mr. B. P. Gail
lard, or Dahlonega, North Georgia Agri
cultural College, “Our Republic.”
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Boston Downed Louisville Twice. Bains
Stop Three Games.
Washington, Aug. 23 —Rain pre
vented Baltimore-Chicago, Philadel
phia St. Louis and Washington-Cin
cinnati games today. Bostons in
creased their lead by defeating Louis
ville twice. Clevelands continued
their swift clip by doing New York.
The scores :
New York 7, Cleveland 8.
Boston 4, Louisville 1, first game.
Boston 9,’Louisville 3, second game.
Brooklyn 12, Pittsburg 6, first game.
Brooklyn 1, Pittsburg 0, second
game.
BUSINESS OUTLOOK BRIGHT.
Reports From Swath*™ Trade Centers
Continue
Chattanooga, Aug. 23.—Among the
most important new industries for the
week just ending The Tradesman re
ports tne following: The Decatur Com-*
press compauy, capital $15,000, New
Decatur, Ala.; an electric power plant
to be erected at Per sacola. Fla., by a
$200,000 company; large flouring mills
at Crisman and New Market, Va., and
Sedan, W. Va.; the Gulfport Land and
Improvement company, capital $200.-
000. at Gulfport, Miss.; the G. W. Mc-
Donald company, capital $1,000,000, at
Clarksburg, W. Va., to mine coal, man
ufacture coke, etc., aud the Columbia
Gold Mining company, capital S3O 000,
at Richmond, Va. The Colgin Cigar
ette and Tobacco company, dapitai $lO,
000, has been chartered at Richmond,
Va., and woodworking plants will be
established at Musgrove, Ga., Hartford,
Ky., Shrevepart, La., and-at Nat Moore
and Wilmington, N. O.
AU reports from southern manufac
turers and business men continue en
couraging aud business prospects have
not been so favorable for many years.
A number of idle manufacturing plants
have resumed work during the past
week and Bessemer pig iron has been
advanced. Prices for agricultural pro
ducts are also advancing aud heavy ex
ports of wheat and corn are reported.
In the south the iron and steel trade
is steadily improving and business
among the textile and lumber mills is
active.
rroippea ay a n»un «■ *w*h.riac»ps.
Columbia, S. 0., Aug. 23.—A band
of 120 masked whitecaps went to a
house about 4 miles below Camden, in
Beulah section, and took out three Mor
man eiders, stripped them and admin-'
istered a whipping. It is supposed that
the whitecaps came mostly from Fair
field county and that the Mormon eid
ers who were whipped were the ones
that escaped the whit caps on a previ
ous occasion at the house of a man
named Sharp.
Charged With Killing n Negro.
Vicksburg, Miss., Aug. 2h —The se
quel of the affray on the steamer Luke
Palmyra, occurring on her return trip
to Yazoo City last Friday night, and in
which two negroes were killed, occurred
here when Phillip Rusconi, chief engi
neer of the boat, was arrested, charged
with the murder ot Louis Collins, one
of the men killed. Rusconi will be held
until the authorities “t Vuuo Cicv »>•••
CHICAGO
• MURDERER
Wife of Rich Sausage
Maker Disappeared.
LDETGERT BID BODY
A- . -
In a Yat of Boiling Caustic Potash Which
Destroyed It
THE CASE A VERY STRANGE ONE
State Will Try to Prove Woman
Was Strangled.
}
DEFENSE TO PROVE SHE’S' ALIVE
They Will Try to Show That Potash Could
Not Eat Up The Body—Large Venire
of Jurymen Summoned.
Chicago, Aug. 23. After two pre
liminary hearings aud three mouths’
confinement in the county jail, Phillip
Luetgert, the rich sausage manufac
turer, was put on trial, charged with
the murder of his wife, before Judge
Tuthill in the criminal court here. The
big sausage maker has declared to his
■attorneys, ex Judge William A.-Vincent
and Albert Phalen, that he desired no
further delay. Both the state and the
defense prophecy that 1,000 veniremen
will be examined and that a week will
pass before 12 men who are acceptable
to both sides are found. Then the trial
will begin iu earnest
The theory of the state is that Luet
gert induced his wife to accompany him
to his sleeping apartment in the factory
office and there strangled her. Then
he is thought to have taken her body to
the basement and to have immersed it in
a vat filled with a solution of caustic
potash, heated to the boiling point.
What remained of the body after this
process, it is alleged, was gathered to
gether and thrown into the furnace of
one of the factory hollars. Then the fire
had beeu kept ud under one of the boil
ers under express orders given by Luet
gert to' one of his watchmen, Frank
Bialke. The state has made several ex
periments in support of this theory.
Luetgert’s attorneys will also experi
ment with crude potash, and from the
results they hope to successfully combat
the testimony adduced by the state in.
investigating the conditions of a cada
ver placed in a solution similar to that
found in the vat at the factory in which
Mrs. Luetgert’s body is alleged to have
been .placed.
The cadaver used by the state, say
the attorneys for the defense, was sev
eral days oid. Iu it there was not the
resisting power of nerves and muscles
as in a body just deceased
While the trial is in progress de
tectives all over this country and Ger
many will be searching for Mrs. Luet
gert, who is reported to have been seen
in various places since her husband’s
arrest. All of these have been run
down by the police, who claim to prove
that they have had little foundation.
Nevertheless, the defense hopes by the
reiteration of sucli stories to raise tne
question of doubt in the minds of the
jurymen.
Tragedy Iu Taibbt County.
Atlanta, Aug. 23. —In Talbot county
E E. Lowe was discovered by Q K
Womble in a comprosiing position with
his daughter. Womble fired on Lowe,
but missed him. Lowe ran, but Wom
ble pursued and coming upon him, beat
his brains out with a rock, killing him
instantly. He then went to Talbot and
surrendered himself. Both men art
prominent farmers.
No Hospital For Asheville.
Asheville, N. 0., Aug. 2J.—The Cit
izen has received a letter from Charles
McNamee, with George Vanderbilt, at
Lubeck, Germany, denying the recent
widely published story to the effect that
Mr. Vanderbilt intended to build 8
SIOO,OOO hospital in Asheville. Mr. Mc-
Namee says the story has no foundation
in fact. _
Dr. Burg-ess Thought to Be Dying.
New York, Aug. 23.—A dispatch to
The Herald from Havana says: Dr. D.
M. Burgess, United States sanitary offi
cer here, has been serionsly ill since his
return from Washington. The chances
are that he will not recover. ,
Bey of Yanis to Abdicate.
Paris, Aug. 23.—The Figaro pub
lishes a report to the effect that the Bey
of Tunis, Sadi Ali, will shortly abdicate
in favor of his son aud take up his resi- I
deuce at Nice.
Talk to Your Trade. '
The Tribune has the
largest circulation of any
newspaper in North Geor
gia. It reaches your trade
. daily.
PRICE FIVE CENTS
WAR ON BACBELORS
Plan to Compel AH Marriage
able Men to Wed.
Scheme of Charlotte Smith—No
Bachelor Should Be Allowed
to Hold Elective Office.
New York, Aug. 23. Charlotte
Smith, president of the Woman’s Res
cue leagbe, called on the Central Labor
union to explain her new scheme for
compelling marriageable bachelors to
marry. She was too late to get the
floor, but she buttonholed several of the
delegates. She said she had statistics
to show that there was an intimate coni
nection between her scheme and the
labor question. The great competition
of women in the field of labor, she held,
was because 60 per cent of the men
refused to mafty.
She said she was going to Boston to
start a campaign against the Republican
and Democratic candidates for mayor,
as both of them are bachelors. She does
not believe that a bachelor ought to
hold an elective office, because no man
could possibly act on questions of public
morality without being married.
She was preparing a pamphlet upon
her scheme and. intended to show that
if bachelors were compelled to marry
and the army of unmarried women were
to become housewives and mothers,
wages would go up. Even if all the
bachelors in Greater New York were to
marry there would be 100,000 women
still without b usbands.
It is reported from Boston that Mr.
Curtis, the Republican candidate for
mayor of that city, has already an
nounced his engagement to a young
woman.
SHOOTS TWO AND HIMSELF.
A Nashville Man Kills His Wife, Her
Brother and Tries Suicide.
Nashville, Aug. 23.—Robert Blum
Rich, a young cabinet workman, while
under the influence of whisky, mur
dered his wife and her brother and then
attempted to commit suicide, inflicting
wounds from which he will die.
Rich is 34 years old and was married
to Mary Oliva Porter, Deo. 25, 1887. A
week ago he filed a bill asking for a
divorce, charging his wife with infidel
ity. A few days later his wife pub
lished a card iu the newspapers charg
ing Rich with druukenness aud cruel
treatment.
On the same day that the divorce bill
was filed Rich’s sister went by the
wife’s home and took the older of his
two little girls home with her.
Sunday Rich and his sister drove by
the place with the child, which was
crying to see its mother.. She came out
and attempted to kiss it, when Rich
jumped from the buggy, and after at
tempting to choke her. struck her twice
with a buggy whip. He went back to
the house at night and tried to break
the door down, threatening to kill his
wife. She slipped out the back way
and called for police protection, but
Rich disappeared.
The police had been looking for him
all day and one had just left the house
When Rich suddenly appeared on the
porch aud shot into the room where his
wife, her brother, Lee Porter, aud
mother, Mary E. Porter, were sitting.
One ball, passing through a panel of
the door, struck Lye Porter in the heart
and killed him instantly. At the next
fire Mrs. Rich fell to the floor.
Rich then left the room and on reach
ing the front yard turned the pistol on
himself and sent a ball through his
body just under the heart. He fell to
the ground aud fired again, the second
ball passing above the heart.
The wife was 27 years old and her
brother 24.
A Workmau Instantly Killed.
Chattanooga, Aug. 23. John T.
Long, a workman in the Cincinnati
Southern railroad shops, while jacking
up a car, was instantly killed by ths
handle of a jack striking him in ths
head. Master Mechanic P. H. Schrei
ber, who was standing a few feet away
aud witnessed the accident, fell over in
a fainting fit from which he could not
be aroused. Mr. Schreiber has beeu
troubled with heart disease for some
time and his physicians say he cannoi
survive the shock.
Bombs For T|ie«e
Constantinople, Aug. 23. —The con
fessions of two Armenians, arrested on
Saturday, aud at whose residences
bombs were found bv the police, are
said to have beeu prompted by the
Turkish authorities. The prisoners are
alleged to have confessed that they in
tended to use the bombs at the Russian
and German embassies.
Smallpox Has Abont Died Ou*.
Montgomery, Ala, Aug. 2a t- No
new case of smallpox has developed here
within the past nine days, and it is evi
dent that the disease has spent its force.
All places, except two small towns,
have raised the quarantine against
Montgomery, aud business has resumed
its normal condition. '
A Negru Kills His Employer.
Fitzgerald, Ga., Aug. 23.—Edward
Strickland", a prominent and well known
turpentine muu, whose still is about
8 miles northwest of Fitzgerald, was
literally cut to pieces by Charley Nich
ols, a negro who was iu his employ. A
dispute over wages was the cause. The
murderer escaped.