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'Don’t Waste Money On circulars and hand* bills when you can put an advertisement in such a far-reaching medium as The Tribune. 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 nrlvulA u.l-1 «•:!.' o;e.ur. W.ediusdar- 1 ROME. GA.. TUESDAY. AUGUST 24 1897. THE BOYS IN BLUE. —■— 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.