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r BRIGHT ANB BREEZY? ! "All The News." * I North Georgia's Great ? Daily. I Only 50 Cents a Month. $ 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. - —*> — 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, $ Increase Your Trads. s It A Klondike Strike * {J By advertising in The j | Best medium In North 6eo 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. •- ■ r 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.