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f BRIGHT ANO BREEZY 1 * ’’All The News." 5 $ North Geor~ia's Great J * Daily. X Only 50 Cents a Month. £ WMMMMftMMtMCr ESTABLISHED 1887. HOME FORGES AHEAD OF COLUMBUS IN TRADE Commercially This City Now Ranks Fifth Among The Cities of Georgia. 904 CAR LOADS HERE TO COLUMBUS’ 803 Magnificent Showing For Rome as a Trade Center-Sixth in Population and Fifth in Volume of Business. Rome now ranks the fifth city in commercial importance m Georgia. This enterprising city led by its enterprising newspaper, The Tribune, has . climbed a step higher. The number of car loads of goods received by a city shows its business rank. During the month of August Rome received 904 full cars while Columbus got only 803. This was 101 more cars for this city than Columbus. It is certainly a magnificent showing and one of which Rome may proudly boast. The following communication explains itself: Rome, Oct. sth., ’97—To the Editor of The Tribune: That always readable writer, Frank Weldon, gives us an interesting article in Sunday’s Constitution, under ‘Our Tiade Grows Month by Month.” All of us are proud to note that capital city more than holds its own in every thing that goes to make up a progressive, wide-awake city, and that her commerce is widening at all times. The article allhded to has reference to reports of bulk cars received at several cities and towns in Georgia, such reports being issued monthly by The South East* ern Car Service Association. This is the best index at our command to show the actual business of a community, for only cars containing solid loads of freights for city delivery are included. No cars destined to points beyond, or to be delivered to connecting lines are covered by such reports, • In reading the article, I was astonished to note that so important a city as Rome was omitted, especially so from the fact that Mr. Weldon gave statistics relative to the business of Cordele, Cartersville, Griffin, Newnan etc. From a standpoint'of actual population, Rome ranks sixth in the state of Geor gia, the order being as follows: Atlanta, Savannah, Augusta. Macon, Columbus and Rome. lam gratified to state that by the reports of The South Eastern Car c Service the issue'd fir month of August, Rome ranks fifth as to cars ' handled forging ahead of Columbus, Ga. Here is a report as to their relative stand ing. . > Rome 904 cars handled. I Columbus 803 cars bandied. Brunswick 533 cars handled. Athens 357 cars handled. Albany 279 cars handled. A good many people fail to appreciate the commercial standing of Rome. They sometimes forget that we have about twenty manufactories in operation, their .capital aggregating more than three million dollars, and their output reaching nearly every state in the Union and also to foreign lands. There are few cities in the wide land possessing more solidity, financially -speaking. I know of none that can show so few failures, and judging the future by the past, Rome will make an admirable showing as to population and growth at the next census. I gi*e you these statistics as to cars handled during month of August, thinking same might prove of interest to our people generally. Benjy. S. Barker. CASE OF DEFENSE CLOSED? Saasege Maker Luetgert Fall, to Toll HI. Story ou the Witness Stand. Chicago, Oct. 5 —The defense in the -famous Lnetgert murder trial has rested I Its case. Luetgert did not go on the witness stand in his own defense. The big sausage manufacturer yielded to the advice of his attorneys, but the dis appointment to him was great. He has declared for months that he must tell his story to the jury. His counsel feared to put him on the stand and he -accepted the situation with a frown. Soon after court convened ex-Judge Vincent and Attorney Phalen askeu permission to consult with their client privately. Judge Tuthill said they might do so and Luetgert and his law yers retired to a private room. It was known that the matter under delibera tion was whether or, not Luetgert .should go upon the witness stand. Ex kludge Vincent vigorously opposed the ■bggestion. He pointed out to Luet- Rjert that William Couries, his business ?artner. had told practically the story .uetgert would tell. "You cannot add to it anything that will benefit you,” said Judge Vincent. "Il you go upon the witness stand yon will bo subjected to a cross, examination lasting days and covering the entire pe riod of your life. You wil. get confused and you will say things which will in hjure your case. My advice to you is tu ■keep mum ■ Attorney Phalen was inclined to fa- Luetgeit’e desire to go unon the HUness stand. Ha thought he might ■Paola to .exntain sobm things more THE ROHE TRIBUNE. satisfactorily than other witnesses nad. Ha also believed that the absence from the witness stand of the principal actor in the great tragedy might prejudice his case in the eyes of the jury. HIS HEALTH LEAVES HIM. Divorced Hasband of Lily Lane try, the Actremt, SaddMitly Break* Down. London, Oct. s.—The condition of Edward Langtry, the former husband of Lily Langtry, the actress, is the same as when he was admitted Munday into the asylum for the insane. The sudden break down of Langtry’s health is strange and unexplained up to the preseut He has always enjoyed' the best of health, was an urdetit sports man, lived a good deal out of doors and was temperate in hu habits. Langtry was traveling last Sunday from Cork to London. At Crewe, the great railroad junction, 21 miles southeast of Chester, he wandered from his train aud was twice found in dangerous positions ou the rails. He appeared t,o be dazed and his face was disfigured. He accounted for his wounds by saying »hat in cross ing the Irish channel l.d had fallen down a companion ladder and had badly injured himself. It is supposed that Langtry wandered about all Sunday night, for he was dis covered in a cabyard on Monday morn ing. The unfortunate man was then delirious and much worse 1 than on the previous day. During the afternoon Monday Langtry was taken before u magistrate and was committed to au asylum for 4he insane, pending inquiry into his mental condition. ROME, GA., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1897. SENSATIONAL WORDS Judge Fite Dwelt About Dalton Train Robberies. Daring and Nerve o" Infamous Gang Beyond Anything in Criminal Dalton, Ga., Oct. s.—At the opening session of the Whitfield superior court Judge Fite delivered a sensational charge to the grand jury. Contrary to the usual custom, he touched upon cer tain specific crimes in his charge and ' fiwelt at some length on the car robbe ries which have been so universally talked of throughout Georgia. Judge Fite stated that rumor through out Georgia had given* Daltou a bad case of the black eye; that the town was regarded by . many as “a den of thieves,” and it was currently supposed that the city’s most influential mer chants have for years been knowingly receiving stolen goods from the Bohan non gang. The grand jury was charged to fully investigate the affair and if any mer chant, no matter how influential, is in any way ’ suspiciously connected with the affair a true bill should be found against him. The present grand jury is a very strong one and will probably do its duty. Excitement is quite high and general talk seems to indicate that some very sensational cases will I e brought before the court within the next two weeks Ralpn Ellison, a prominent witness in the cases, has been placed in jail on su.pieioq that he would leave the conn tiy. Bohannon is now in jail at At lanta. but will be brought hire in a few d.irs for trial. Walter Bohannon was the leafier of this infamous band of thieves, and ten men are known to have been asso ciated with him. Bohannon, Pierce and Sam Paynter are in jail in Atlanta. Tom Kennoyman and Ed Morris are in jail here, while two men named Long escaped, There nerve and daring was beyond anything in criminal anuals Bohannon twice went to Atlanta and offered his services to Superintendent Vaughn of the Southern to assist him in running down the gang. Governor Smith For George. Helena, Mon., Oct. 5. Governor Smith has received a message from John O. Sheehan, Tammany’s chief, anent the present mayoralty fight in New York and the support of Van Wyck. To this the governor replied: "Judge Van Wyck having been nomi nated by a convention that was afraid to indorse the national platform of the Democratic oarty as promulgated in Chicago in 1 90, should be defeated in my opinion. Henry George should re ceive the vote of every true Democrat or lover of liberty.” Van Wyck the Choice nt Voter.. New York, Oct. 5 —The Journal has taken a straw ballot of 28,244 voters on the candidates for mayor. Os these Siu Wyck. the Tammany man is.the oice of 8,888; Henry George, Inde pendent, 7.962; Seth Low, Citizen’s Union, 6,567; General Tracy, Republi can, 3.482. The World has taken a poll of 85,522 voters, with the result: Van Wyck, 12,125; Low, 10,642; Tracy, 6,- #B7; George, 4,451; Patrick Gleason, 1,917. Victory For Rockefeller. New York, Oct. 5 —The suit of Rev. Daniel C. Potter against John D. Rock efeller for $250,000 damages for libel was dismi sed by Judge Gildersleeve in the supreme court when it came up here. Judge Gildersleeve intimated that he would entertain a motion to dismiss if made by the lawyers for ths defense ami this was done. Dr. Pot'ei declared that he would at once have the case reopened. This can be done on payment of costs. Municipal Improvement Society. Nashville, Oct. s.—The American Society of Municipal Improvements be gan its fourth annual session in this city, President Her'rman of Cincinnati, presiding. Addresses of welcome were delivered by Governor Robert L. Tay lor and Hen. A. S. Williams, president of the city council. The response was made by President Herrman. The re ports of the secretary and treasurer were read and a number of new mem bers were eleoted. £_ Khode Island l>ay Observed. Nashville, Oct. 5. —Rhode Island day was quietly celebrated at the Ten nessee Centennial exposition. The cen tennial commissioners for that state de cided not to have any public exercises, but instead observed the day by giving a dinner at the West Side Driving club. Governor Taylor, officials of the exposi tion aud other promiaent people in the city Yvere present. Baltimore Won the Second Game. Boston, Oct. s.—Baltimore took the second game in the Temple cup series today by a score of 13 to 11. Corbett and Clarke were the battery for Balti timore, and Klobedanz and Yeager sos Boston. Haeter Offered a Place. Washington, Oct. 5.—W. Godfrey Hunter called at the white house today and was tendered tbe mission toGau temala by President McKinley. Hun ter has not accepted yet. FRIGHTFUL IS RECORD Thirty-Four New Cases at New Orleans. WORST DAY OF ALL I ——— —— Increase in Number of Cases Cause No / Great Alarm, PROMINENT MAN DIES AT EDWARDS Alabama Freight Quarantine Against Atlanta Relaxed, THEREARE NO FEVER IN (LOUISVILLE Tore? New Cases of Yellow Jack as Reported At McHenry. Mias—Latestißeports on the Situation. New Orleans, Oct. s.—Today broke all records so far there being 34 new cases of fever and three deaths. The increase' in the number of cases continues to cause no alarm, owing to the mild type of the latest cases. A large consignment of chlorinated lime has been received and a depot has been established in each pf the seven districts Ct the city for its gratuitous distribution. The city, in. some parts, looks as if it had been struck by a snow storm, so widespread has been the use of lime on the streets audio the gutters. Dr. Weedon of Tampa, Fla., has ar rived here aud reported to Dr. Carter of the marine hospital service. Dr. Weedon will inspect freights that go from here to Florida by water route. There still continues disagreement between some of the local physicians Olem Coly of 1100 Cadiz street was reported ill with the fever and his name was included in the official bulletin, a flag stuck up yi front of the premises and the inmates guarded. A second doctor was called in to see the case and de clares that the man has not had yellow fever and that his illness is trifling. The excitement here which prevailed among some classes, but was never gen eral, has completely subsided, less at tention is being paid to the fever sub ject by the press aud every effort is be ing made to get freight moving, though up to the preset, suoh efforts have met with indifferent success, ONE DEATH AT EDWARDS. Yellow Fever Kill, a Prominent Cltiaen of tbe Mlaals.lppl Town. Edwards, Miss., Oct. 5. —Dr. Dunn es the state board of health gave out the following statement: Up to 10 a. m. only one new case has been reported, that of George McCallum. Mr. I. O. Wimberly died about 8:30 a. m. He leaves a large family and nu merous friends. He was one of Ed wards’ best citizens, a member of the Knights of Pythias and Knights of Honor lodges. Tbe relief committee is still receiving donations from cities all ov -r the coun try aud we can assure the contributors that their donations are appreciated, as the expenses accompanying an epidemic are large, and, although the money is judiciously spent, it is fast being ex hausted. As the fever doe. not look aS if it intends to leave us soon, we will more than likely need additional as sistance. Captain W. D. Smith is now on the convalescent list and his family are all doing as well as could be expected. Mr. A. J. Lewis and family and Mr. S. B. j Birdsong are doing splendidly aud if there are no relapses they will be able to sit up in a day or two. RULES AT LAST ~RELAXED. Alabama Ralaea Her Quarantine Agalaai the City of Atlanta. Atlanta, Oct. 5. —Little Carrie Flem ing, the Mobile girl who was stricken with yellow fever here about two weeki ago, is now free from the dread disease. The house in which the patient has been confined will be thoroughly fumi gated with formaldehyde gas. H. R. Lucas, the man who has been at the de tention camp for the past ten days, has been set at liberty. Dr. Sawtelle, ths government physician, is well pleased with the situation in this city, and ex firesses the opinion that there is abso uteiy no danger of a spread of yellow jack. The quarantine against freight from Atlanta has been raised by the state ol Alabama and the ciyy of Montgomery, except on goods packed here. All orig inal packages shipped from Atlanta will pass the state line quarantine aud will also be admitted into. Montgongerr., IN HANDS OF JURY McCullough Trial Closed' Last Night. Tom Watson Makes Brilliant Effort For Defense—McCullough’s Statement. Jonesboro, Ga., Oct. s.—The Mc- Cullough trial has come to a close, and the case is now in the hands of the jury. 'Torn Watson'closed the argument in a brilliant speech for tbe defendant. Should the jury agree upon a verdict during the night it will not be heard until tomorrow, Judge Candler so di rected. . The preliminary battle has been brief and sharp. for the fight of tbe defense rests almost entirely in the strength of tbe argument. To gain the opening and closing speech the defense has allowed their case to rest solely on McCullough’s statement. The testimony this morning was de void of new features, the prosecution following out the line of substantial proof taken up yesterday. They at tempted to establish McCullough’s love for his sister-in-law, Miss Jones, as a motive for the murder of his wife and to prove that an illicit relation existed between the defendant and his wife ( s sister. . McCullough closed his statement with these words: “I have not seen the day since we married but what I would have given my own life for hers. • There never was a family trouble in my home. There never was two people—l don’t care who they are, or where they come from-that lived more devoted ly than my wife and I did, and I ask you, gentlemen, as a man with clean hands and a clear conscience, to give me my liberty and children. And if you don’t do it, I will still have to suffer for what someone else has done.” unis appries to ouvii turougn and lo cal freight, and raises the embargo on the great bulk of business going through or out of Atlanta into Alabama. NO FEVER IN LOUISVILLE. Indians* Will Ha Ankad to Kal«e Her Quarantine Against Feile City. Lowsville, Oct s.—Ata meeting of the Couiuiercial club and board of trade, the suggestion of District Passenger Agent Haggerty of tbe Pennsylvania road that a special train bearing a num ber of prominent be sent to In dianapolis at once was adopted. » Among those who will form the del egation to call on the governor are Mayor George D. Todd, Q. O. Mengel, Jr., president board of trade; Gil Boyle, Evening Post; W. B. Haldeman, Cou rier-Journal; Lewis Stewart. G. O. Nor ton, Logan Murray, W. T. Rolfe, B. M. Creel, J. B Speed, John' L Dunlap, Andrew Cowan, Dr. W. P. White, health officer: George Gaulbert, M. R. Belknap aud A.. H Beckman. Twelve Indianapolis physicians are here attending the meeting of the Mis sissippi Valley Medical association Wired Governor Mount that it was ab surd to think there was yellow fever here It is hoped that the committee Will prevail upon the governor to re scind the order quarantining agaiust Louisville. Mora Yellow Jack In JlrH.lry. McHenry, Miss., Oct. s.—Dr. Mc- Henry reports three new cases. All others are doing well. The town pre sents a deserted appearance. About midnight an attempt was made by au unknown party to assassinate W. O. Wise, who is under arrest for violating quarantine regulations by entering the hotel where /he first yellow fever pa tient lies. Five shots were fired at him where he lay in bed at a window. Two of the balls did not miss him more than three inches and two would have passed through his body had he remained in bed. The shots were evidently fired from a Winchester. Two Deaths In Mobile. Mobile, Oct. s.—Only two new cases of fever developed here today, but there were two deaths. No Salvation Army Union. San Francisco, Oct. s.—Commander Balliugtou Booth absolutely denies the report that any negotiations are in pro gresslooking toward a union of the Sal tation Army and the American Volun teers. At Salvation Army headquart ers the rumor is quite as vigorously de nied. Brigadier Keppel said that noth ing of the sort was even hinted at by Pooth-Tucker during his recent visit bore. Profeanor Charlen K<»y Dead. London; Oct. 5. Charles T. Roy, professor of pathology at the University of Cambridge since 1884. is dead. He was born in 1854. was a surgeon in the Turkish army during the Servian war. was professor superintendent of the Brown institution and was a contributor to several medical journal* , I’ Increase Your Trad#. S * A Klondike Strike ’ By advertisin'* in The jj Tribune. $ Best medium In Norih Georgia’ PRICE FIVE CENTS WEYLER WILLLEAVE Report Says That He tWill Be Removed CAPTAIN GEN. BLANCO It Is Said Will Most Like Be His Suc cessor. SPAINS’ SOFT HEARTED SOLDIER He Will Offer Peace to the Cu ban Insurgents, LIBERAL PARTV TO ADOPT POLICY Which Will Land Towards Pacification. Many People in Spain are Opposed to Weyler’s Methods Madrid, Oct. s.—The advent of the Liberal party to power has been remark ably well received throughout the whole peninsula aud it is popularly credited that a more salutary regime in Cuba Will be at once initiated with the relief of General Weyler. i It is now understood that his succes ' sor will be General Blanco, former gov i erner general of the Phillipines. Blanco i is considered the softest hearted soldier in Spain. He is a subtle and kindly politician and will, as a warrior, be al- ■ ways prone to employ pacific in prefer -1 ence to violent measures. He will be ' fully authorized to approach the rebels with a view to arriving at a mutuu agreement for the cessation of hostili ties. Should he not go a general will, ill any case, be sent, whose modus operand! ' shall be mercy and conciliation, not ex termination and deliberate inhumanity. Now is the fitting occasion to recall the words of Senqr Sagasta, uttered last 1 May: “I beliete in military combined with diplomatic action in Cuba.” The Spanish nation has remembered > these words and is eagerly awaiting the application of the new minisrry's ideal. There is a good deal of latent curi osity to see what kind of reception Gen eral Weyler will meet with on his re turn to the peninsula. "He had better not come near Spain, ” said a Liberal. The queen fegent is known to hate brought about the retirement of the Conservatives in a most decisive man, per, disgusted, it is believed, by the tjirde phases of national ddtoitiLtratibn, Ijhe unremitting horrors of the Cuban war, the indiscriminate maltreatment and torturing of supposed anarchists and the uupatirotig intrigues and party feuds of the late government The rumor that Germany and Aus tria were jninded to actively sympa thies with Spain in her diplomatic re lations with the United States has been copied into only a very few organs of the Spanish press, and either attracted no attention at all or else was regarded as the merest canard. CUBAN PATRIOTS CLEARED. Report Given Out Charging Insurgents With Cruelty la Kt* fa ted. New York, Oct. s.—General Calixto Gaicia’s official report of the capture of Victoria de las Tunas by the Cuban forces uuder his commend has been re ceived by the Cuban junta. According to the report on Aug. 28 siege was laid to the town which surrendered two days later, after all but one of the 18 forts defeuding it had been carried by storm. The Cuban forces numbered 2,000 men of the Oriental infantry aud 500 men of she Camaguey cavalry. The Spanish losses were 250 men killed and wounded aud 450 prisoners. Those of the latter number who did not join the Cuban ranks were divided into three groups and escorted to the out skirts of Holguin, Puerto Parre aud Puerto Principe. The Cuban loss was: Killed, 26 officers and men, among them Colonel Joseph Chapleau of Boston aud Lieutenant Francisco Sedano; wounded, 70 officers ami men. Brigadiers Miguel Betancourt and Marco Menocal amoniz them. In the articles of capitulation, signed by the Spanish commander of the place aud the surgeon in charge of tbe Span ish hospital, special mention is made of the kind treatment given by the Cubans to the Spanish sick and wounded. The original document will be for warded to Washington by the Cuban junta in order to disprove the false re port given out at the palace in Havana, when by the Cubans are represented as 1 committing all sorts of depredations ou ‘Re place,