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1 BRIGHT AN9 BREEZY! : £ "All The News." t ! £ North Georgia’s Graart * * Daily. * Only 50 Ceatse Month. £ ESTABLISHED 1887. BLAZE IN : THE TEMPLE Narrow Escape From . Total Destruction.- . THE MASONIC TEMPLE • r- With Paraphernalia and Tenants’ Prop erty Damaged $6,000. SUPERB WORK OF FIRE DEPARTMENT x Great Excitementand Immense Crowd Gathers. FIRE ORIGINATED IN THE SECRET PIT \ From Electric Wires—Fine Ex.inpie of the Aerial Ladder Work—Names of the Tenants 3The handsome Masonic Temple the corner of Fourth avenue and 'Broad street, had a narrow escape from destruction last evening. This is the third fire that ha« oc-* curred in this building within the past six months. But that yesterday evening was by far the most menacing. . The supurb work of Rome’s splen did volunteer fire department alone saved it from utter destruction. Immense Crowd Gathered. An immense crowd gathered quick ly about the building, and watched the firemen work. • All the lawyers in the building moved their books, and they were all more or less damaged. The estimated damage to the build ing and its occupants, mostly from water, is $6,000, and the total insur . ance carried by the Masonic lodges $17,000. Fire Discovered. Mr. George Trammell saw smoke issuing from the roof of the building at 6:15. He rushed up the stairs to the third floor, accompanied by several others. He pulled open a door leading into a shaft, and the flames rushed into bis face, “Close the door, George,” some one shouted. The gentlemen hurried down to turn in the alarm, but Mr. E.'P. Treadaway had sent in a telephone message from W. H. Ennis’ office,and the companies were already en route, when the brazen clamor of the fire alarm bell startled the city. Flames were spurting from several windows in the front of the building on the third floor before the firemen had • reached the scene. Fire and dense volumes of smoke rolled from roof and windows, and in stantly a great panic seized the ocou pants of the building. The streets con gested with people in a few minntes, and everyone felt sure that the magnifi cent building was doomed. Conquering the Fire. Every Are company in the city re. sponded to the call, and in a very brief time the streets were a net work of hose. For the first time since it has been here the big extension ladder of the hooks 'Was brought into use. The serial ladder was run up the front of the temple and Fitzpatrick mounted it first. A hose was carried up it and a stream was playing on the blaze shortly afterwards. There were five streams used constantly until the fire had been conquered. The firemen swarmed over the roof and every section of the front. (Continued on Eighth Pago.) THE ROME TRIBUNE. ■■ • . ROAST FOR JOHNSON Republican Heeling in Atlanta Hit Chairman. Demand That He Call State Conven tion to Appoint His Successor. Atlanta, Aug. 26.—There- was a meetingof redublicanshere today and thirty-nine counties were represented. The meeting was rather a surprise as no inkling of it had become public before they assembled. They adopted some red hot resolu tions in which a corking roast is ad ministered to W. H. Johnson, chair man of the state committee. The resolutions state that the re publicans assembled are outraged at the manner in which patronage is distributed by those in power in the state. That democrats should be turned out and good republicans ap pointed in their places. That the civil service business should not in terfere with thisproeeedure. They go on to give a healthy bast ing to Johnson and say that be is in the place by his own scheming and that he hasn’t the interest of the par ty at heart. They demand that he call a state republican convention withifa sixty days to meet in Atlanta and appoint a successor to Johnlon for chairman. BAD WRECK. Head on Collieion on Southern and Several Injured—Engineer Dead. Birmingham, Aug. 26.—At 6:15 this morning a head on collision occurred on the Southern Railway three miles west of Eden and thirty miles from Birmingham. ’ . Freight tiaiu No. 45 bound for Birm ingham collided with an extra. Both engines were smashed up, and ten curs were wrecked. The following were in jured : John Cheeves, Atlai.ta, engineer on No. 45, died from injuries tonight, J. C. Shemttre; Btrrrrfß^fcatn, -engineer on extra badly hurt. Z. C. Pipkin, Austell, conductor on extra, badly bruised. Parley Strong, Heflin, brakeman on 45, cut and bruised. Joe Hall, Birmingham, flagman, severe ly hurt. An unknown tramp was mortally in jured. , GAFFORD TO SURRENDER. The Slayer cf Rufus B. Lloyd Will Give Himself Up. Greenville, Ala., Aug. 26. —John A. Gafford, the slayer of Rufus B. Lloyd, the writer, will surrender to morrow. Gafford charges that Lloyd was in timate with his (Gafford’s) widowed sister. He had warned Lloyd that he would kill him on sight, which threat he carried out. TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS. Hot wave is predicted for Georgia. Whiskey war is on in Columbus, Ga. Anti-prohibitionists claim they will win. by 500 majority. Miss Ellen Dorch refuses place of first assistant librarian under Gen. Clement A. Evans. Atlanta has excitement about a horse with hydrophobia. It was killed yesterday morning. The county commissioners have fixed Chatham county’s tax rate at $6.99 per SI,OOO. This is a big in crease over last year. Compulsory vaccination is being enforced in Atlanta. Colonel HII<«« Orowlng Wealcer. Narragansett Pier, Aug. 26.—Col onel George Bliss of New York, who is very low at Shadow Farm, has passed a comfortable day, but is constantly growing weaker. Alien Tmx Law Unconstitutional. Pittsburg, Aug. 26.—The alien tax law has been decided unconstitutional by Judge Acheson of the United States court. <'hol||"H Attaoka British Troopw. London, Aug. 26—A special dispatch from Bombay says that cholera has broken out in the Northamptonshire regiment. Dutlew on ( hi uhlb Ktniid. Paris, Aug. 26.—The cabinet has de cided that there is no ground at present tor modifying the duties on cereals. ROME. GA. FRIDAY. AUGUST 27. 1897. MEET AT ■ i HARRISBURG 1 Pennsylvania Repub- 1 licans in Session. J SAME OLD PLATFORM ■ I Declares “Dollar Wheat Has Knocked • Out Free Coinage.’’) M’KIXLEY IS HIGHLY COMMENDED His Administration Has Mat Highest Expectations. / —.. TWO CANDIDATES ARE TO BE NAMED Men For State Treasurer and Auditor Gen eral to be Nam d—Senator Penrose Given an Ovation. Harrisburg, Aug. 26.—The state Re-. publican convention met in the opera house to nominate candidates for state I treasurer and auditor general. The hall■ was filled when the proceedings began. ; United States Senator Penrose was greeted with loud applause from the galleries when he entered the hall and took a seat at the- head of the Quaker 1 City delegation. The convention or- ' ganized, on motion of Senator William H. Andrews of .Crawford, by the elec tion of State Chairman Elkin as tem porary chairman.’ State Chairman El kin congratulated the party on its vic- I tory last November and its prospects of succcess in Pennsylvania this fall. He laid every ante-election pledge was re deemed. Referring to the state issues and the action of the legislature on the reform bills presented, he closed by saying: . “With more gold on the Klondike, I gold in the harvest fields, the Republi- : can party directing the administration of national affairs, the Dingley bill on our statute books and McKinley hold- | ing the reins of government peace and prosperity shall dwell within our bor ders, let us hope! forever. ” The platform adopted* is in part as , follows: • “The Republicans of Pennsylvania ratify and reaffirm the doctrines enunci in the national platform adopted at St. Louis in 1896 and approved by the peo- i pie in the last presidential election. rejoice with the people of the nation upon the passage of the Dingley tariff bill. Its enactment redeems the pledges made by the Republican party to our prostrate manufacturing, commercial and business interests and holds out to them the bright promise of prosperity and material development, such as has ever attended it upon legislation de- I signed for the protection of home in dustries and the preservation of home markets. “ ‘Dollar wheat’ has sounded the death blow of the ‘free coinage’ heresy. I In the late presidential campaign the strongest bid made for the agricultural i vote by the Democratic party was the promise that their success in that elec tion would raise the market price to $1 per bushel—payable in silver. They I met overwhelming defeat at the polls and the farmer now receives for his wheat $1 a bushel—payable in gild. I We pledge ourselves anew to the Re- , publican doctrine of sound money and an honest dollar.” j The platform then declares in favor of a just and reasonable civil service system, denounces President Cleveland’s ‘‘unjust and partisan abuse of the spirit of the law” and requests congress to remedy the wrong done. The follow ing tribute is paid to President McKin ley’s administration: “We heartily and cordially indorse the administration of President McKin ley. Although but a few months have passed since his induction into the high office to which he was chosen he has proved himself worthy of the confidence reposed in him by the American people. , Firm us an executive officer; diplomatic | and dignified in his official relations with other countries, he has met with the highest expectations of the Repub lican party and of the American peo ple.” Charged Will, an Awful Crime. Atlanta, Aug. 26.—A special to The Journal from Abbeville, Ga., says that Martha, the daughter of J. A. Outlaw, a farmer living 8 miles west of Abbe ville, swore out a warrant for her 60- year-old father, charging him with com mitting an outrageous assault on her per son. A sister of the girl corroborates the charge. Outlaw is now in jail at Ab beville. There is great indignation in the community, but no prospect of mob ■ "’•■"■'"Ma I NATIONAL LEAGUE. Baltimore is Crowding Boston Very Close. Orioles Only 10 Points Behind Lead ers—rhe Race is Getting Exciting. Washington, Aug. 26. —Baltimore is again crowding Boston close for-first place and are only 10 points behind the leaders. Another win and lose like to day will place the Orioles near them. New York knocked Chicago down badly. The scores: New York 19, Chicago 6. Brooklyn 8, Louisville 16. Boston 1, Cleveland 7. Philadelphia 3, Pittsburg 4. Baltimore 3, Cincinnati 2. Washington 6, St. Louis 1. SNOW BEGINNING TO FALL. Gold Seekers Cannot Reach the Klondike Before Next spring. Victoria, B. C., Aug. 26.—More good news has come from the Klondike. The steamer City of ’i’ipeka left Juneau just after the arrival there of J. B. Reach, James McKay and Archie Shelp, who made the trip from Dawson City tc Dyea in 20 days. They did not come auy further than Juneau, but intended to go back to the mines. They had a rough trip,' having to paddle and tow their boat up the rivers. Shelp, in conversation with one of the passengers who came down on the Topeka, spoke very highly of Stewart and Indian rivers, although there have been no sensational finds, from SIO,OOO to $15,000 being taken out of these rivers. Close upon $2,000,000 in dust j had gone down on river steamers, oth ers intending to take the steamer Port ! land at St. Michaels. Gold passed at 1 sl7 an ounce at Dawson City. j Shelp gives a list of Juneau men who ; struck it rich. They are Dick Law’, $120,(100; J. Smith, $50,000; Oscar Ashby and W. Leak refused SIOO,OOO for their claims; Joe Brant, $10,000; Cornelius Edwards, $25,000; A. Whipple, $10,000; 1 Harry Ash. who left on the last boat for ■ San Francisco, has SIOO,OOO, and an old man, who a few months ago was cut ting wood around Juneau, $60,000. The trail from Skaguay is now en tirely blocked. On the Dyea trail pack ers are charging 40 cents a pound. This | is, of course, prohibitory as far as a poor man is concerned. All are unani mous in saying that the men cannot get their outfits over before winter closes in, and that snow is already beginning I to fall on the summit, the first flurry having come down last week. The men are selling their outfits for what I they can get for them. CONVICT LEASES ILLEGAL. Private Contractu Said Co Be In Violation of the Lnw, .Trr-?-*- Atlanta, Aug. 26.—The stir which followed the publication of Colonel Phil G. Byrd’s report showing the horrible condition of misdemeanor convicts leased by the county authorities to private individuals, has just been suc ceeded by a big sensation. It now de velops that every convict so leased has merely to appeal to the courts to secure prompt release, owing to the fact that his incarceration under such circum stances is as much in disobedience to the law as was the original offense which led to his conviction. Prominent attorneys say that, accord ing to a recent decision of the supreme court, every man employing misde meanor convicts for private gain is breaking the law, and that every county official who leases or permits to be leased a misdemeanor convict for other than public work does so in violation of the plainest statute in the law books of the state, and in addition is probably liable for personal damages. T.IUIIC Girl Burned to i<eath. Buffalo, Aug. 26. —A distressing fa tality occurred in this city. The Giles residence was burned between midnight and day. The family awoke to find the house in flames. The flames were all around them, and the inmates of the house who escaped, ran out in their night clothes. The escape of three of the children was cut off by the flames. Miss Florence Giles was burned to death, the body being almost cremated. Two of the other children were horri bly burned and cannot recover from their Injuries. Fort Lu<»dl-hTotal Has Fallen. Pkshawur, Aug. 26.—Fort Lundi- Kotal, situated at the extreme end of the Khyber pass, and garrisoned by 300 men of the Khyber rifles, has bean at tacked and burned by the Afridis. The famous Khyber pass, leading from Af ghanistan to India, has now fallen com pletely into the hands of the insurgent tribesmen. No Wholesale Lynching as Yet. Little Rock, Aug. 26. -jThe reported wholesale lynching in Cleveland county proves to have been premature, though it is liable to occur at any time. It seems that the ring leaders in Satur day’s riot at Kendall’s mill have not yet been captured. Alabama State Alliance. Jemison, Ala., Aug. 26.—The Ala bama State Alliance convenes here Sept. 22 and 23, and large crowds are ex pected from all points of the state. WHEAT AT IT AGAIN 1 ■ September Sells for Dol lar and Three Cents. THE HIGHEST POINT Yet Reached Was Touched By Grain Market Yesterday, ALL PREVIOUS RECORDS BROKEN Within Five Minutes After Opening Prices Shot Up. MARKET WAS VERY MUCH EXCITED Recession of Prices Was Almost ae Rapid as the Upward Rush—Market Closed at 98 1-2—The Fluctuations. Chicago, Aug. 26.—Wheat shot up ward as if a volcano had burst under the market. September, which closed at 96%, started on the regular board with rates all the way from 98 to sl. Within five minutes it was selling ‘at $1.03. The market was very excited, but not broad. Before the upward rush ceased the quotation was $l.O3J£. September. This was the first time the bulls had carried the price past the dollar mark in Chicago, dollar wheat having only been . just touched for a moment a few days ago. Opening quotations at Liverpool showed an advance equal to per bushel. The fact that the French government took action contrary to expectation proved a strong bull card. Later ad vices from Liverpool, timed 1:30, showed a recession in prices there, and Chicago followed suitj September declining al piost as rapidly as it had advanced. The price at 9:50 a. m., 20 minutes after the opening, was 98>2- There was heavy selling of December wheat and this helped to pull down the September price. Later a rally carried September up to BATTLE NEAR BIRMINGHAM. White Farmers and Negro Miners Fight* Three Blacks Killed. Birmingham, Ala., Aug. 26.—Re cently the farmers near Martin’s ore mines, in Bibb county, found themselves without sufficient negro labor to gather their crops. The farmers concluded that the ore mines, which began opera tions a short time ago, had monopolized all the available negroes by paying fancy prices, and they determined, if possible, to conipel tne mines to close down. The mine operators refused to shut down the mines, but the whites suc ceeded in persuading a number of the negro miners to quit work. The strikers went to the mines and endeavored to drive away those of the negroes still at work. A battle was fought between the two negro factions. Pistols, guns, clubs and knives were used, and as the result William Page, one of the men who insisted upon working, was shot dead; Ephraim Davis and John Alexan der, two of the strikers, were shot and cut so badly that they afterwards died. White men armed with guns went to the mines and ordered those negroes who persisted in working to leave. The negroes refused to obey. Another bat tle was fought. In this fight six men are reported to have been wounded; two negroes, it is said, fatally, two other negroes severely and two whites slightly. The whites were finally driven away. The scene is remote ftom telegraphic communication and in one of the wildest ■actions of Alabama. A New German Anib4„<dor. Berlin, Aug. 26.—The North Ger man Gazette announces that Dr. Von Hollben, the Prussian secretary at Stun ..art, Wurteinburg. has been se lected for the post of German ambassa dor to the United States, made vacant by the appointment of the minister to tjje United States, Baron Von Thiel inuu.us minister of the imperial treasury. American Bar Association. Cleveland, Aug. 26. —There was a large attendance! of ladies and members of the local bar at the meeting of the national association in the Y. M. O. A. hall in anticipation of the .discussion on the arbitration treaty, which had been promised. However, the discussion did not materialize. As soon as the meet ing was called to order President J. M. Woolworth introduced Governor Griggs, who made a short speech. i Increase Your Trade ( £ J A Klondike Strike £ * By advertising in The J w Tribune. jj ±Best medium In North Georgia £ PRICE FIVE CENTS KILL WITH BAYONETS Alter Assassination of Burda Soldiers Charge Crowd. Personal Hate Drove Man to Kill President of Uraguay—Crowd Was Very Much Excited. New York. Aus. 26.—A dispatch to The Herald from Montevideo, via Bue nos Ayres, gives these details of the as sassination of President Idarte Borda: Montevideo was in gala attire in cele bration of the independence of Uru guay, which was proclaimed on Aug. 25, 1825. The day, according to the program mapped out, was one replete with festivities and feasts. Os the offi cial Ceremonies, the singing of the te deum was the most impressive. President Borda had gone to the ca thedral attended by a military escort, the members of his cabinet and diplo matic representatives from other coun tries. His party started to leave the ca thedral about 3:15 o’clock. Hundreds had gathered in fron of the cathedral and the president was well received as he passed out of the door. He had walked only a few steps when Arre dondo stepped forward out of the crowd and raised a pistol. Before any one could stop him he had fired two shots at the president. The first bullet went wild, but the second struck President Borda in the left breast. He fell back into the arms of Bishop Soler and sank to the ground. Slayer Seized by Soldiers. For an instant there was an awful silence, then a frightful uproar. The crowd poured forward with cries and shouts, and while Arredondo was seized by several soldiers the other troops were thrown into line to keep the crowd from tramping upon the prostrate body of the president. Sharp cries for “order” from the of ficers were unheeded, as the crowd con tinued to push and struggle. The of ficers, impelled by the belief that the lives of the other officials were in dan- ■ ger, gave the order to force the crowd back. The soldiers attacked the crowd i with bayonets and finally drove it back ‘ after many had been wounded and sev eral killed. The president, still breath ing feebly, was then removed under military guard to the city palace, wht -e :he died in a few minutes. The body was then wrapped in the flag of Uru guay and removed to his late home.. When .shot down the presSeut was on his way to review a body of troops, which would have closed the exercises of the day prSper. Great 'excitement was caused all over the city bythe as sassination. The assassin is Avelinp Arredondo, an officer of the Uruguayan army. He is a Uruguayan and only 27 years old. Now that Uruguay’s chief is dead, he is calm and declares that ne . is content with his action. I 7-3 ■ Canae or the Crime. | Arredondo, who is now in prison un- ■ der close guard, declares that his crime was not inspired by anything more than a personal hatred for the president. He had. he said, no accomplice, and is will ing to take upon himself all the conse quences of the deed. Jose Cuestas, president of the senate, was nominated for president ad interim j by the chamber of deputies. He imme ' diately dismissed all members of the cabinet except General Luise Perez, who will continue at the • head of the war department. As the ministry ceases to hold office on the death of the president, Senor ! Cuestas, president of the Uruguayan senate, who assumed the presidency of the republic, ad interim, has appointed General Perez to be minister of war. The city is quiet, but fighting contin ues in the country. NO FOOD IN MINERS’ CAMP. For the First Time the Strikers Feel the the Fangs of Hanger. Pittsburg, Aug. 26.—There was no food in Camp Isolation at Plum Creek for the strikers’ breakfast and for the first time since the camp was inaugu rated the miners experienced the hard ship of doing without anything to eat. The absence of provisions, however, will not continue. It is due to a break in the arrangements rather than to any helplessness on the part of the commis •ary department. Captain Bollingham of the Plum Creek camp sent two men into Pittsburg to purchase supplies. They were expected to arrive during the night, but failed to show up until late in the forenoon. Dinner will be served in tne camp as usual and there was no marching indulged in by the men at Camp Isolation. Both sides are confident of victory and are resting, awaiting developments. The miners are satisfied with the work which is being done by the men who go over to Center every night and have not marched since last Monday The men at Center were out early do ing active missionary work. The depu ties were not taken out to the cross roads at 4 a. m. as usual and the roads Were left completely unguarded. A Killing »ar ‘Gainesville. Gainesville, Ga, Aug. 26.—James M. Pool was stabbed to death by W. P. Cape, at Lula, in the Upper edge of Hall county. The coroner held an in quest over the dead body and the jury returned a verdict of voluntary man slaughter. Cape says the killing was done in self defense. Thecause of uw trageqp is due to Cape’s love for a young woman, and Pool was jealous.