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THE DALTOH AFFAIR
Each Day’s Sees lai Sen-
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Tee New Developmante.
Sensation follows swift upon sensa
tion in the Dalton ear robbery eases.
The accounts read Use stories of the
Beadle & Adam's variety. Yester
day’s Constitution contains tbe> fol
lowing about Wednesdays proceed
ings.
With every revolution of the wheels
in this mill of justice the state wins.
The Bohannon banditti and their
fences lose every play. Why they
don’t quit the game is to be account
ed for only on the supposition that
thev do not realize how strong the
evidence is against them. But they
ought to begin to tee that the state
what it Is doing. All the crooks are
coming over as fact as they are con
victed.
Ralph Ellison, who was convicted
yesterday, came across today and vol
unteered to testify for the prosecution
in any case if needed
Ellison was one of Bohannon’s
main fences. He was a clearing bouse
for stolen goods. They were deliver
ed to him and be disposed of them.
He did a brokerage business. He
bad regular customers, merchants
here and through the country, who
w \?nld give him orders for a case of
shoes, one hundred pounds of tobac
co, ten bolts of prints, a bolt or more
of <ilk, hams side meat, butter, snuff,
eagar, eoffee—anything, in faet, that
they needed to replenish their stock.
This “Mother Mandlebaum” could
fill such an order in two days less
time than an Atlanta or Chattanooga
drummer and for half tbe money.
These robbers and the associates
kept warehouses in whieh’they stored
their booty and they always had a
large general stock of dry goods,
groceries and provisions on hand.
Waiter Bohannon says that his custom
ers treated him badly. They would not
pTy him more than a fourth or a third of
the value for goods.
“They got to beating me down on the
price until they would give me only |1 a
bolt for dre«s goods. It did not make
any difference whether it was calico or
silk, muslin or plaids. All they would
pay was JI a bolt.”
“Your customers must have made a
great deal of moneywas suggested.
“No, they did not,” Bohannon ans
wered. “They got to cutting prices on
each other and selling so cheap'y trying
to run each other out of business, that
there Was very little profit in it, even for
my trade. As for the other merchants
who did not buy from me, they were
almost ruined. I guess some of them
were ruined, because they could not c rm
pete with my customers,”
Railroad Agent Indicted
Sensational developments came
thick and fast today. An indictment
was found against Tom Peeples,
agent of tbe Western and Atlantic
railroad here, and his son, Drew N.
Peeples. They are charged with
stealing nine barrels of New Orleans
syrup from tbe Western & Atlantic
freight depot in August, 1896.
Drew Peeples is another city coun
cilman. He is a young man and has
posed as a desperate character. He
and his brother, John Peeples, Jr.,
were under indictment for receiving
stolen goods from the Bohannonites.
This last case is the worst in tbe bag.
The evidence before tbe grand jury
showed that Tom Peeples, the father
opened the railroad freight depot
about 4 o’clock one morning and Gyp
Arnold, the firm’s porter, rolled the
barrels across the street and into Pee
pies store, the rear entrance to which
is about sixty feet from the freight
warehouse. The barrels had been
shipped from Chattanooga to Flemis
ter & Riley, of Dalton. They were
marked “F. R. Dalton.” The bar
rels were placed in tbe cellar of the
Peeples store and that afternoon Drew
Peeples scraped off the letters “F. R”
and marked them “D. G. Co.” The
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Ths MAoriKLD rcoulator co. , Atlanta, Qa
»010 tr all onueatSTS.
People boys were doing business as
the Dalton Grocery Company.
Voe fIM For Cnw.
Things got too hot yesterday for
Drew and bis brother Tom and they
skipped. Last night she councilman
and young Tom were missing. They
could not be found this morning, and
Sheriff Johnson telegraphed Chat
tanooga to have them arrested. Tbe
brothers are well known in Chatta
nooga, where they were in business
and failed.
An interesting incident connected
with this larceny from tbs house is
tbe faet that Flemlster &-Riley bad
paid tbe freight on tbe nine barrels
and bad released tbe railroad com
pany. Tbe firm left the molasses in
tbe depot without storage license,
/heir own store being crowded. The
railroad company was not liable for
the lose.
Perhaps two dozen witnesses were
examined by tbe grand jury. Every
body knew about tbe investigation
and tbe testimony seaped through
tbe walls or tbe door and became
common property. Fathers and sons
learned what was going on and when
council meets next Monday night
there will be an empty chair—maybe
two of tbenr.
This is tbe particular sensation for
which Dalton has been impatiently
waiting for nearly a week.
Clee Cumby stepped up to the bar this
morning and plead guilty to receiving
stolen goods. He bought a bag of coffee
from the gang. Tbe bag weighed 140
pounds. It had been stolen from tbe
Southern railway, of course. The detec
tives massed tbe evidence against
Cumby, and be had sense enough to see
that it was folly and a heavier penalty
to go to trial.
Jesse Langston, who pled guilty last
night to receiving stolen goods, was sen
tenced this morning to* pay $750 and
serve twelve months in tbe chaingang,
but tbe imprisonment was conditionally
suspended.
Sentence Is Indorsed,
Public opinion indorses the sentence
as just, all the circumstances considered.
This was the first sentence passed in any
of the car robbing and receiving of stolen
goods cases.
During the morning session the cases
against the Peeplei boys and their father
were called. Some of them charging
the boys with receiving stolen goods were
nol pressed, new indictments having
been found. The bills which were nol
prossed had been returned before the
Bohannon pirates were convicted.
There must be a conviction or plea of
guilty of robbery, burglary or larceny
before there can be a prosecution for re -
ceiving the stolen articles.
This accounted for the many nolle
prosings this week and the large number
of new bills.
There were eight indictments against
the three Peeples. . One of them charg
ed Tom Peeples, the father, with getting
a carpet which had been stolen. Soli
citor General Maddox decided to go to
trial on this. The defendent was charg
ed in tbe bill with procuring from his
sou, Drew, a carpet which had been
stolen from the Southern railway. The
evidence before the grand jury was that
the elder Peeples had the carpet on the
floor of his house.
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CHAS. BRO ID WAY -KOUSS.
The Girl Through Whose Eyes He Has to
See.
In a recent New York letter Miss
Emily McLaws, of Augusta, writes of
Charles Broadway Rouss, the Confeder
ate millionaire:
“My impressions of Mr. Roues always
bring to mind the pretty, intelligent
face of a girl as she Bits at his right
hand in Ms office, taking the place of
his eyes. You are not conscious of his
blindness until he begins to move or un
til he wishes something requiring eye
sight.
“In the last instance the name which
springe to hie lips ‘Blanch’ and the girl
with the eweet, earnest face is always
there and knows where to find and how
to got whatever he wishes.So to see Mr
Rouse seated in hie office without that
girl at hie side would seem moat un
natural.’’
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IH« HOME TRIBUNE, FRIDAY. OCfOBBH 15. 189 .
AWIMW TBB Mtmrs FHOGRBM.
WkatlHe Sonthen* KeSway Bas Done la
Tai* IMrrcUon
In his annual report just eat Presi
dent S unuel Spencer of the Southern
Railway Company, mates the follow
ing significant statement:
Daring the year 40l new manufactur
ing establishments of various kinds were
located at points upon the company’s
road. There have been compieced during
the year on the lines of the company cot
ton factories alone working 60.000
looms, tbe total coat of which has been
nearly *2,000,000, and at the close of tbe
year there are under ad
ditional mills whteh will include 62,-
500 spindles. The construction Joy the
company of 92,861 feet, or 17.59 mills of
new sidetrack to industrial establish
ments during tbe year indicates this
general growth and tbe appreciation of
the company’s policy in fostering* such
enterprises,’’
Mr. Spencer’s statement is important
for several reasons. First, it indicates
the rapid and substantial industrial
growth of the South, and, secondly, it
demonstrates the importance of a lib
eral’ broad-guaged policy by tbe rail
roads to aid in building up new indus
tries, thereby promoting tbe welfare of
the community and the railroad alike.
The Southern Railway Company has
been particularly active in peopling tbe
vacant territory along its lines with de
sirable settlers, and in fostering in
dustrial enterprises. The result is evi
dent in Mr. Spencer’s report. It is tbe
wiser plan for all railroads to exercise
a spirit of this kind. It cannot fail to
profit them in ths end.
The Southern Railwav is undoubt
edly doirg much to advance the South’s
progress, and as the Baltimore Manu
facturer’ Record suggest, “those un
happy individuals who are collecting
evidences of the damage wrought by
railroads in the South should clip and
file away President Spencer’s state
ment’ as quoted above.
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The Tribune can .truthfully
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FIFTY-NINE YEAR! A TEICHER
Miss Mat'lda Johnson Died At Meulo Satur
day. Was 75 Years Old.
Miss Matilda C. Johnson died at
Menlo, Ga., last Sunday morning says
the Chattanooga Times. Miss Johnson
at her death was 75 years of age, and
nntil last spring had never lieen sick a
day in her life.
Miss Johnson was the daughter of
Theodore Johnson, an early settler of
Tennessee, She was highly educated and
from her 16th year taught school in
various towns in north Georgia. Nearly
every native Georgian in this city went
to school to Miss Johnson, and there is
hardly a person in north Georgia who
is not one of her eld pupils. She con
tinued teaching school until 72 years of
age, since which time she lived in High
land Park. Last spring her health be
gan declining for the first time in her
life, and she went to Menlo, Ga., in the
hope that it would improve.
Her extreme old age, however, was
more tbe cause of her death than any
thing else. She died as she had lived,
peacefully and quietly. Her life time
was spent in good works, she being a
true southern lady of the old school.
Miss Johnson was in one way or an
other related to nearly every prominent
family in north Georgia and Tennessee.
She was closely related to Dr. MoCallie,
Chancellor Branford and G. H. Jarna
gin.
Tbe funeral took place at LaFayette,
Ga., Tuesday, it being the largest fun
eral cortege ever seen in north Georgia.
Tne people of north Georgia have al
ready started to work raising a fund
with which they propose to erebt an im
mense monument at La Fayette to her
greatness.
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is the only line operating tourist sleep
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points and the Pacific Coast.
Parties contemplating a trip should
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Lamps
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r
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS
Dr. HENRY H. BATTEY
Surgwn and Pbplcia,
-t«.ona.e, G!r®ox d*
Dr. D.T. McCALL
Office 401 Broad Street,
In Building Occupied by Rome Drag Co
TELEPHONE 167.
DR. JAMES E. IVEY,
Physician and Surgeon
ROME, GEORGIA.
Office'over Rome Drue Company.)*
Telephone 157.
ATTORNEYS. J
Wm. J. Neel,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
• ROME. GEOR&IA.
Office in New King Building. 'i
WIU practice ic an to.ne. sp, cul »fen-
Hon given to Commercial us* snd the exami
nation of Land TltLes
Halsted Smith.
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Office n City Hail, Eom Ga.
Stop
When in Chattanooga, either on
business or pleasure, at the most
comfortable and convenvient hotel'
in the city.
Stanton House, -
Near tbe Central Station and
convenient to business center
Rates, §2 a pay.
M. M. Eline & Co. Proprietors. '
Pawtucket Fur Company.
294 Main S', Pawtucket, R. I.
WANTS ALL KINDS OF
Raw Fws, Skins, Ginseng, Senaca, etc -
Prices quoted for next 60 days are as fol
lows: Silver Fox. sls 00 to 8150 00; Bear,
85.00 to 825 00; Otter, 84 00 to 89-00; Martin
82.00 to 89.00; Beaver, 83 00 to 83.50 oer
pound: Wolf, SIOO toB2 00; Red Ftx,Bl,oo
to 82,00; Mink, 75c to 81 00; Skunk, 25c to
S 1.00; Gray Fox, 50c to 75c; Rat, 20e to 25c.
-Price list on all other furs and ekins fur
nished upon application. Full prices guar
anteed, careful selection, courteous treat
ment, and immediate remittance on all
consignments.
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Cei-tCLirirti
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Diseases Peculiar to Women,
Prolapsus, Ulcerations Leucorrhea, etc.
Write, giving history of your case and it will
receive immediate attention An opinion, price
of treatment, pamphlet and testimonials will be
sent you fbkx
Dr. S. T. Whitaker, Specialist,
206 Norcross Building, Atlanta, G “
Application for Letters of Dis
mission-
GEORGIA. Floyd County,
Whereas .lames O. Garlington, executor of
Mrs. Harriet D. Jone*, deceased, represents to
the court tn hie petition duly died, that he has
administered Harriet D. Jonea’ eetate. This is
to cite all persons concerned. Kindred and cred
itors, to show cause, if any they can, why said
administrator should not be dlroharged from
hie administration and receive letters of. die
mission onthe first Monday in December, 1887.
This September 6, 1897.
11 JOHN P. DAVIS. .
Ordinary Floyd County, Georgia, fl