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ESTABLISHED 1887.
CASE OF
COBAN GIRL
Evangeline Cisneros is
in No Danger.
IS STILL IN PRISON
She Does Not Wish to Enter a Convent,
It Is Said,
SHE MAY BE RELEASED SOON
Soldiers Pull Up Sweet Potato
Vines
TO CUT OFF REBELS FOOD SUPPLY
Spanish Army Seizes Every Horse and Cow
In Sight and Uproots All the
Growing Crops.
Havana, Sept 2.—ls the Dake of
Tetuan’s order for the removal of Evan
gelina Cisneros from Recogdias to a
convent has been received here, which
the authorities will not admit, no ac
tion has yet been taken. According
to precedent, nothing will be done
until General Weyler returns from the
field. The date of his return is un
certain.
In the meantime there is no danger
that the girl will be harshly dealt with.
It would appear that her release from
prison is only a question of time.
Evangelina does not wish to go to a
convent. Her chief desire is to face her
accusers in open court. She still re
members that she has a sweetheart and
very anxious concerning her father’s
fate. •
She is as comfortably situated now as
possible in , a Spanish prison. She is
full dressed, has her meals sent from a
restaurant and is afforded privacy.
There is a fortune lying in chancery
here to which she has a better claim
than anybody else. It is not publicly
alleged that any official is trying to
cheat her out of her inheritance, but the
matter will be investigated.
Five thousand of proud Spain’s sol
diers. commanded by blueblooded Oas
tillian officers, down on their knees
pulling up sweet potato vines, is not an
edifying spectacle, yet that is what
General Weyler and his troops are do
ing since they left the capital last Sun
day. General Weyler’s idea is to cut
off the food supply of the rebels. From
the outskirts of Havana to Tapaste,
where he is at present, General Weyler
has cut a swath of destruction. Every
horse and cow in sight has been seized
and growing crops uprooted. Some
military commanders would simp!, y
matters by destroying the rebels first,
but that is not Weyler’s plans.
REPORT ON THE LATE WAR.
Dr. Senn Say* Neither Greek* Nor Turks
Recognized the Ked Crow.
Washington, Sept. 3.—Dr. Senn of
Chicago, organizer of the National As
sociation of Military Surgeons, has sub
mitted a report on military surgery in
Greece. He says that in the recent war
neither the Turk nor the Greek race r*
nized the Red Gross, and that some of
the attaches of the medical hospital
branches of eaoh army were not re
regarded as noncombatants.
At the entrance of every military hoc*
pital, he asserts, was an armed guard—
much to the astonishment of the Amer
icans and Europeans present, who re
garded the offices of surgeon and nurse
as removed from the active influences
of the war.
"The war,” the doctor says, "was
charactered by an immense waste of
ammunition, and the marksmanship on
both sides was exceedingly poor. The
Greek surgeons say that nearly all the
wounds which they saw were small and
presented all the appearances of having
been inflicted with a projectile of small
calibre, and the firing was dons evl-
. dently at great distance.”
The doctor declares that the most in
teresting feature of the Greek army
was its wowy soldiers. Three of them
became famous. Conspicuous among
them was Katrina, who joined the in
’urr/its with her brother, did brave
«k, was wounded and brought to one
of the field hospitals. Another woman
did similar service with her brother,
and a third carried water to the
wounded in the firing line and received
several wounds, from one of which she
died.
At the Scoue of Hie Crime.
Vinton, la., Sept. 2.—Frank A. No
vak, the Walford murderer, brought
back from the Klondike, has been
turned over to the Benton county offi
cials by Detective Perrin. There is no
excitement qr ajjticjpatiop of trouble. *
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
HE DIED FIDDLING
Edward Register Was Shot By
His Step Soo.
Boy Was Tool of Henry Tyree and
Register’s Wife—All Three
Are In Jail.
Jacksonville, Fla., Sept. 2.—A hor
rible crime came to light today.
Last night in Duval county Edward
Register, a prominent young farmer, was
sitting on the front verandah of his home
playing a violin. Suddenly a shot rang
out and Register fell forward with his
brains oozing out of a great hole torn in
his head.
Today Robert Register, the thirteen
year old adopted son of the murdered
man, and Henry Tyree, a farmer living
near, were arrested on suspicion of hav
ing committed the crime. When ques
tioned the boy, Robert, admitted that he
fired the fatal shot.’
Tyree was in love with Register’s
pretty young wife, and frequently met
her clandestinely. The husband had
caught them in a compromising posi
tion several times and threatened to kill
Tyree if he did not stay away.
Tyree then made a diabolical plot
with the woman. He hired the boy to
kill his stepfather. Robert slipped up
behind Register and shot him through
the head with No. 9 shot. Tyree then
finished the work with an axe.
Robert Register, Mrs. Register and
Tyree are all here in jail.
SAID IT’S A LIE.
Nister of Gafford Denies That Francis Lloyd
Had Improper Dealings With Her,
Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 2.—The
stories of the proposed lynching of Gaf
ford, the slayer of Francis Barlow Lloyd
in Butler county, were not believed in
this city, but it is thought were con
cocted by Gafford’s friends to get him
out of the county.
He is here now in jail, but is not talk
ing.
The story he tells about avenging a
sister’s honor is exploded by the sister,
herself, Mrs. Miller, who is in this oity
now with her three children. She
reached here last night and is at a hotel.
She says she came away from her
home in Butler because she has been
threatened with death unless she sus
tains her brother and swears that Lloyd
was intimate with her, which she coaid
not do. She acquits him of any im
proper relations with her and says she
will not swear to anything but the
truth.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
The Bt. Louis Team Dowds Baltimore—Bos*
ton and Baltimore Tied.
Washington, Sept. 2. By sustaining
defeat at the hands of St. Louis today
Baltimore allowed B s oi to tie them for
first place. Rain prevented the .Boston-
Chicago games; The scores:
Brooklyn 3, Cleveland 2, first game.
Brooklyn 2, Cleveland 6, second game
Philadelphia 4, Louisville 6.
Washington 5, Pittsburg 6.
New York 3, Cincinnati 3.
Baltimore 3, St, Louis 4
HON. PORTER KING.
He May Decide to Be in the Race For
Governor.
Atlanta, Sept. 2.—Hon. Porter King,
formerly Mayor of Atlanta, may be in
the race for governor. In an interview
today he neither affirmed or denied the
rumors.
Death of Col. Baird.
Atlanta, Sept. 2.—C01. John B.
Baird, a former prominent citizen of
Atlanta, died at his home in Washing
ton today. His remains will be shipped
here for interment.
Atlanta's First Bale.
Atlanta, Sept. 2.—Atlanta received
its first bale of new cotton today. It
was puichased by H, H. Smith, and
classed as good middling.
THE SYNOD OF GEORGIA.
It Will Meet In Home in November—lOC
Member* to Attend.
The Presbyterian Synod of Georgia
will meet in Rome November 10th.
There will be more than one hundred
members present. The opening sermon
will be preached by Rev. Dr. S. L,
Morris, of Macon. Several prominent
ministers will attend the Synod as vis
itors, representing the different com
munities of the church.
ROME* €FA., FRIDAY, SEJPT.EMBEK 3, 1897.
LUETGEBT
TO TESTIFY
I , pjf-"
Sausage Maker Will Be
Witness For Himself.
HE WILL EXPLAIN
About Experime its He Was Condiictirg
in the Basement.
THINKS HE CAN CLEAR HIMSELF
Case Continues to Attract
Crowds at Chicago.
SMOKEHOUSE MAN ON THE STAND
Odorafsky Say* the Stuff He Took From the
Storehouse and Placed in the Vat
Looked Like Cauitlc Soda
Chicago, Sept. 2. —Crowds of eager
spectators, equally divided between the
two sexes, kept the bailiffs of Judge
Tuthill’s courtroom busy when the
Luetgert murdej trial was resumed.
For a time it was impossible for those
not connected with to get in or
out. Before the court was called to or
der the doors were locked and kept so
until the crowd had been dispersed by
the bailiffs.
It was definitely announced that
Luetgert would be a witness in his own
defense. The big sausage maker said
the matter had been discussed between
his attorneys and himself and when the
time Domes he will take the witness
stand and tell the jury about his actions
on the night of May 1. Luetgert said
he will explain what he was doing,in
the basement of his factory and the ex
periments he was conducting there.
The court opened with Frank Odoraf
sky, Luetgert’s smokehouse man, still
in the witness chair. His direct testi
mony was concluded in a few minutes,
the state showing him a tin box con
taining caustio soda. This the witness
said was like the stuff which he took
from a barrel in the shipping room and
under the direction of Luetgert brought
up and placed in the middle vat.
Odorafsky was turned over to the de
fense for cross examination and Attor
ney Vincent questioned him first about
his connection with the police since the
arrest of Luetgert. The witness said
an officer had been with him nearly all
the time. No money, he said, had been
given him, and no position promised
him, but his wife has received money
from Inspector Shaack.
"Just a few cents,” said Odorafsky,
"to keep body and soul together. lam
not giving my testimony for money,
but for conscience,” ’
Odorafsky, on his cross examination,
was subjected to severe examining with
the object of showing there were dis
crepancies between his testimony and
various points and statements that he
had given at Luetgert’s preliminary
hearing and habeas corpus proceedings
before Judge Gidbons.
The smokehouse man declared can
didly that on the former occasion he
had been examined in the German lan
guage, which he does not speak. When
questioned he said he did not under
stand thoroughly, but answered to the
beet of his ability.
To all of Attorney Vincent’s ques
tions about former testimony he an
swered that he did not remember what
he said.
TRAIN JUMPS THE track.
Engine and Three Oar* Pinnae Through
Building* at a Station.
Syracuse, Sept. 2. Train Na 4,
the New York vestibule train on the
Delaware, Lackawana and Western
railroad, leaving Syracuse at 9 o’clock,
jumped the track at Blodgett's Mills,
the first statipu south of Cortland, and
pluiiged through the station buildings.
Locomotive, bagguge car and two
coaches went entirely through the struc
ture. Several people are reported killed.
A relief train has left Cortland with
every available physician for the scene
of the wreck. A wrecking train has
just left Syracuse. Superintendent A.
R. Schwarz of the Delaware, Lacka
wanna and Western was one of the pas
sengers on the wrecked train, but has
wired his wife that he is uninjured.
Hank Failure lu Indiana.
Washington, Sept. 2.—The comp
troller of the currency has been advised
of the failure of the First National bank
of Greensburg, Ind. It had a capital
stock of *100,900, and on July 2d the de
posits were *084,000. Examiner Pack
ard has been instructed to take charge, i
This is the first bank failure reported Io
the comptroller for some time, I
HOWELL COBB DEAD
Eillid Bj Explosion oi an En
gine oa His Farm.
He Was a Grandson of Gen. Howell,
Secretary of Treasury Under
President Buchanan,
Atlanta. Sept. 2 —Howell, Cobb, sou
of Captain John A. Cool) o' Americus,
and a grandson- of General Howell
Cobb, one time speaker of the house of
representatives, and secretary of the
treasury in Buchanan’s, cabinet, was
Instantly killed by the explosion of an
engine on his plantation near Americus.
He was 37 years old and leaves a wife
and two little children.
RAILWAY MEN TO RUSSELL.
Commissioner* Answer Charges Keoeutljr
jßruught by the Governor.*
Raleigh, Sept. 2.—A hearing was
held here in the matter of the answers
of Railway Commissioners James W.
Wilson and Otho Wilson to Governor
Russell’s charges against them, which
he says were based upon information.
These charges are that J. W. Wilson,
jointly with Vice President Andrews of
■ the Southern railway, owns the hotel
at Rouud Knob, whjch is a railway eat
ing house, and that Otho Wilson leases
aud operates it. Both the Wilsons filed
absolute denials. These were read to
Governor Russell.
John D. Shaw, counsel for the Sea
board Air Line, represented J. W. Wil
son and argued that section 1 of the act
creating the commission, under which
section the governor had acted in citing
the commissioners to show why they
should not be suspended, was uncousti
i tutional because a later act made the
• commission a court. He also said the
' commissioners had a property right in
| their offices. He said the commission
had been charged with corruption and
tould not be removed save as judges
may be removed—that is by impeach
' ment.
I Governor Russell took the answers
and said he would cousider them and
arguments of the counsel.
I It is the expressed belief of many per
sons that he had made up his mind to
remove, and the above proceedings put
him in an extremely awkward position.
PRIVATE CAMPS DOOMED.
Governor Will Oall un Judge* to Bring
About Convict Law Reform ' ——
Atlanta, Sept. 2.—Colonel Phil G.
Byrd, who was recently appointed by
Governor Atkinson, a special commis
sioner, to inspect and report upon the
b condition of the county misdemeanor
1 convicts confined in private camps, is
i now in the city engaged in the prepara
i tion of another report, supplemental to
that which was filed with tne governor
two weeks ago aud which created so
great a sensation throughout the state.
The supplemental report was re
quested by Governor Atkinson, aud,
while he will not say a word about
either the facts in his possession or the
disposition which he proposes to make
of them, there is little doubt that as
soon as Colonel Byrd gets his informa
tion digested into individual county re
ports the governor will take action that
will speedily break up every private
convict tsamp in Georgia.
There is good reason to believe that
the governor intends to invite the co
operation of the superior aud county
court judges and of the solicitors gen
eral in a scheme to break up the private
camps by 10-al action on the nart of the
courts in all the counties concerned.
STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS.
CoL S. M. Cai ter. of Dalton, in a Precarious
Condition.
The many friends here of Miss Pauline
Carter and Mrs. Hal Divine will be pained
to learn that their father, Col. S. M. Car
ter, was stricken with paralysis yesterday
at his plantation near Dalton, Ga., says
the Chattanooga Times. Col. Carter is
70 years of age, and it is feared that the
stroke will be fatal, though hopes for his
recovery are]entertained. Col. Carter is
one of the *most promi sent citizens of
North Georgia and is highly esteemed
throughout a wide circle of friends and
acquaintances.
A SAD OCCURRENCE.
Bright Little Bon of Mr, J, H. Camp Receive*
Injuries Which Caused Death.
Rosa, the bright ten-year-old son of
Mr. J. H. Camp, who lives in Foster’s
bend on the Coosa river, died Wednes
day evening from injuries sustained last
Friday.
Roes was coming from school one week
ago today, and in climbing a fence,fell,
sustaining Internal injuries. Medical
skill was brought to bear, but the little
fellow gradually grew worse until death
ensued. The burial took place near the
Camp home yesterday.
Capt. R. G. Clark and Mie* arrle
Clark have gone to New York on a
three weeks visit. They will return
via Sweet Springs, Va., bringing Mrs.
Clark with them.
AMBITION
OF THE JAPS
They Wish to Build
Nicarauga Canal.
AGGRESSIVE POLICY
< >
Os the Japanese Muy Yet Get Them Into
Trouble
THEY ASSUME A DEFIANT ATTITUDE
Dickering With Central Ameri
can Nations,
ABOUT THE BUILDING OF THE CANAL
Independent of the Interests and Influence of
the United States—Costa Rica Has
Not Been Consulted,
New York, Sept. 2.—A special to
The World from Washington says:
Japan, not content with the iuterfer
.ences of President McKinley’s Hawaiian
annexation policy, now has designs npon
the Nicaraguan caual. According to
semiofficial advices just received herd
from Nicaragua, the Japanese govern*
erument is secretly negotiating with the
diet of the Greater Republic of Central
America, which recently met in Salva
dor, for the coustructiou of the Nicara
guan canal, independent and in defiance
of the iuterests aud influence of the
United States or other nations.
This action of Japau, taken in con
nect! >n with her recent attitude in re
gard to Hawaiian annexation, is of the
.greatest significance, showing as it does
to the authorities that there is no limit
to the ambition of the nation, and that
her aggressive policy may yet get her
into trouble with the United States.
That the administration will resent any
interference with the Nicaraguan canal
project, as it did in the case of the Ha
waiian annexation treaty, goes without
saying.
If Japan can encompass it, according
to the Nicaraguan advices received here,
she would like to obtain the abrogation
of all treaty rights possessed by the
United States in relation to iuteroceauic
transit aud the forfeiture of the Ameri
can canal concession from Nicaragua
aud to immediately make a treaty with
the diet of the Greater Republic of Cen
tral America, giviug her control of the
canal route through Nicaragua. In the
negotiations Costa Rica has uot been
consulted, it being well kuowu that she
would not consent to a violation of
treaty rights.
It is suspected in some quarters that
England, which has been always anx
ious to acquire at least a joint con
trol of the caual, might be working in
collusion with Japau in the "dickering”
with the diet now understood to be
in progress, but nothing has yet
come to the surface to indicate that she
has encouraged Japan in the move.
Farmers Fighting Marsh Fire*.
Laporte, Ind., Sept. 2.—A dispatch
just received says that marsh fires are
causing great destruction in Union
township, where a vast area has been
burned over. Several hundred men are
fighting the flames, which threaten to
sweep away houses and buildings and
cause a loss not possible to estimate at
this writing Fields are being plowed
to stop the progress of the fire. The
hay crop has just beeu harvested and
thousauds of tous of hay are stored in
the Kaukakee valley.
Charge* Against Colonel Crab.
Louisville, Sept. 2.—A special to
The Evening Post from Eminence says:
Colonel L B. Crab, a prominent dis
tiller and a member of the firm of Fible
& Crabb, which assigned several weeks
ago, was held to answer to the grand
jury on two charges of ■selling bouded
whisky belonging to another. Bond
was fixed at *I,OOO in each case, which
was given. The testimony against Col
onel Crab was stronger tbau his frieuds
believed could be brought against him.
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BARBECUE TODAY.
A Number of the City and County Official*
Will Feast at Rios’*.
Probably the last of a series of very
enjoyable barbecues the city and county
officials give every summer will lake
place at Rice’s spring today.
These barbecues are always well pre
p .ted, usually by that artist, Burt Allen,
<nd the crowd tLat attends enjoys them
to the utmost. The mayor, several coun
cilmen and a number of other officials
will go out this morning,
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
WAS PHOTOGRAPHED
Picture of Louden In Dalton
Jail.
It Will Be Carried to Miss Heathccek
to See if She Can Identify It
as Her Assailant.
Dalton, Ga. .Sept, 2.—Albert Low
den, the supposed assailant of Miss Ed
die Heatheock, of Chickamauga, was
photographed in jail here today.
This photograph will be taken to the
girl tomorrow to see if she can identify
it as being that of the man who assault
ed her so brutally.
If she cannot or is in any doubt, she
will be brought here to see Lowden n
person. It is known that if he is car
ried to Chickamauga a lynching woulc
be inevitable.
LAST YEARS’ RECEIPTS.
The Enormous Amount of 8.737,964 Bales
Raised in the United State*.
New Orleans, Sept. I.—Secretary
Hester’s annual report shows receipts
of cotton ac all United States ports
for the year of 6,820,100 bales against
5,420,246 last year, overland 940,482
against 873,465, southern consump
tion taken direct 988,382 against
863,635, making the cotton crop for
the United States for 1896-97 amount
to 8,757,964 bales against 7,157,346
last year, and 9,901,251 year before.
Altogether the southern mills took
1,042,671 bales, an increase of 138,000.
Mr. Hester makes the actual cotton
crop of Texas, including Indian Terri
tory, 2,247.554. His report on the crop
of the different states is given as follows
on thousands of bales:
North Carolina . . . 500,000
South Carolina . , . 800,000
Georgia .... 1,300,000
Alabama .... 1,019,000
Florida .... 60,000
Mississippi .... 1,226,000
Louisiana . . , . 575,000
Arkansas , . ... 700,000
Tennessee .... 330,000
Texas . . . , 2,248,000
Total crop ... 8,758,000
North Carolina above includes Ken
tucky and Virginia, Tennessee includes
Oklahoma. Missouri, Kansas and Utah.
Texas includes Indian Territory.
HUFFMAN’S BURGLAR,
The Story es How He Captured (?) a Bold
Corn Thief
One night not long since Policeman
Jno. Huffman sat in his home in the Fourth
ward. He was at peace with all the
world, and sat drowsily nodding the
early hours away.
Suddenly he heard a great commo,
tion in the little corn patch near his
house.
"Listen,” he said, breathlessly to his
wife, ‘‘l believe somebody is takin’
them roasting ears off. ”
A rustling sound floated in through
he open window that sounded very
much like somebody stripping off ears
of corn from the stalk. Huffman sat
and listened for a minute to the noise,
and nerved by the thought that his corn
crop was rapidly diminishing, he
grabbed a gun and stole quietly out the
back door.
He crept stealthily along the fence,
and at last crouched down in a dark
spot, but where he oould see anybody
leaving the corn patch.
The tearinig noise continued, and still
the brave officer waited for the bold
bad burglar to make his appearance.
* *Gee, he’s going to get the whole
patch, I believe. But I guess he’ll
get an arm full or sack full after
awhile,” he mnttered.
Huffman sat for more than an hour
and still no burglar made his appear
ance. Tired at last he determined to
risk his life, and climbing the fence,
plnnged bravely into the dark morass
of com stalks.
He proceeded a few feet, and then a
great bulk loomed up before him It
was the faithful old milch cow, ana
she had devastated about quarter of an
acre. Huffman’s language was more
expressive than elegant.
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FOR LABOR DAY,
Those Subscribing Meats for Barbecue Leave
at Stoffregen**.
Everybody who subscribed meats for
the Labor Day barbecue are requested to
leave their contributions at Stoffregen’s
bakery by Saturday afternoon.
Everybody is requested to turn out to
the meeting at the court house tonight at
7:30 o’clock as the final arrangements for
the day will be completed.