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S BRIGHT ANQ BREEZY 8 "AU The News." * £ North Georgia’s Great J * Daily. * a Only 50 Cents a Month. * ESTABLISHED 1887. SLANDER DENIED Associated Press Sends Ont a Correction. 1 “ THAT FALSE REPORT « About :he Lynching of Two Negroes Near Snmm rville. THE TRIBUNE’S COURSE APPROVED Sensational Correspondents Must S op Libelling Rome. MAYOR KING EXPRESSES HIMSELF He p ayg the Tribane Did NJt Mike it Strong Enough on the Sensational Cor reepondent. > The Associated Press denied the lynch ing story in yesterday morning’s papers as requested by Mayor King. The following is the denial as pub' lished: , WERE NOT LYNCHED. NEGROES TAKEN FROM OFFICERS NEAR ROME WERE RELEASED. <• Chicago, Oct. 10.— MayorS 8. King, of Rome, Ga., wires the Associated Press tonight that the report handled last night that two negroes were lynched for arson near Summerville, Ga,, was an error. The negroes were taken from the officers last I Friday night and an attempt made to | extort a confession from them, but they were later released. B II Was Approved. ■ The Tribuns’s action in the matter was ■ heartily approved by all classes of K citizens yesterday. ■ • You did not make it strong enough ■ against the sensational correspondent,’> | said Mayor King yesterday. “We must h stop the work of those who would injure g our city by spreading false reports.” B The newspapers continue to come in I with headlines from which a hasty reader I would suppose the lynchings had occur' g red in Rome. B The only trouble is that not al I the H newspapers which printed the story of H the lynching will print the denial. The Tribune hopes the sensational cor- M respondent will not be heard from again ■ GIN BURNED. ■ Capt, George Gould Looses His Giu and Con- ■ tents by Fire Monday Early, Ga., Oct. 20,-y-The big gin I house oi Capt. George Gould in Fos ter’s Bend was totally destroyed by | fire Monday night, I There were thirteen bales of cotton in the building, which were burned. The fire is supposed to have caught , from a match. There was no insur ance. ~ t- , SUPERIOR COURT McDona’d vs. Dougherty Case Conies up To day—Cases Disposed of Yesterd y. Business dragged along in city court yesterday in a dull and uninter esting manner. The following oases were disposed of in superior court yes terday. Dr. James Ivey, vs. A. B. Hedden, suit for professional services. Verdict of SBO for the plaintiff with sll inter est. M. F. Johnson vs. Lace Jones, suit dismissed for lack of prosecution. D. W. Barnett vs. Champ, Riley and Frank Whitehead. Suit dis missed. Watters & Garland, vs. Rome Street Railroad company. Suit dismissed. The case o's McDonald vs. Dougher ty which was to begun Monday, was postponed until this morning on ac count of the illness of Hon. Seaborn Wright, one of the attorneys interest ed in the ease. THE ROHE TRIBUNE. PEEPLES ACQUITTED Capt. T. J. Peeples Cleared o[ Second Charge. Dalton Grocery Company Placed in Hands of Reeeivei— Col. Wat Harris Fined. Dalton, Oct. 20 —Capt. Tom Pee ples was acquitted on the second charge today. Last week he was con victed of receiving a roll of carpet from Bohannon. The charge of which he was acquitted today was of receiv ing tobacco. The jury was out three hours. The Dalton Grocery company, which was operated by the missing Peeples brothers, was placed in the hands of a receiver today. Col. Wat. Harris, of Cartersville, was fined $5 by Judge Fite. Col. Harris remarked that it seemed that Capt. Peeples had been singled out for prosecution. Judge Fite told him that if he persisted in such remarks he would be fined. Col. Harris per sisted and it cost him a V. The case of Mack Cannon was called, but counsel for the defense asktd for a continuation on account of the illness of Silas Clements, his principal witness. It was postponed. KING SPARKS MARRIED. A Former Rome Boy Weds a Pretty Girl of Salma A Runaway Match. The Tribune received the following di*-, patch from Selma last night. Selma, Oct. 20.—1 n Marion, thirty miles from Selma, in the parlor of the King House, Miss Lillian O’Neill Scott, of this city and Mr. King Sparks for merly of Rome were married last night. The marriage came as quite a surprise, the young people not being missed from their respective homes until a telegram was received announcing their marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Sparks will return to Selma tomorrow and will for the present reside at the home of the bride’s father Maj. D, M. Scott.--Selma Journal. This news will prove quite a surprise to the Rome friends of young Sparks. But all will unite in extending he and his bonny bride hearty congratulations. MANY REFUGEES. Two Train Loads Pass Through Rome From Montgomery. Bound For Pointe North , Two train loads of Montgomery refu gees passed through Rome yesterday en route for Nnshvil e, Washington and other points north. The train from Selma brought up a 1 rge crowd. Selma has very rigid quar a itine regulations against the Alabama cipital. Over one hundred Montgomery people were compelled to leave Selma a few days ago. It is said that several people from Montgomery stopped over here. No More, *p i.>li.(iue iL, Now. Washington. Oct. 20. —The president has determined not to consider any new appointments until congress meets, owing to the many requests that have come from senators ami representatives that consideration be held up until th can see the president. There is nisi a great pressure of otner business, whi n is occupying the president’s rime. Air. McKinley has begun to collect material for his annual message, and ulthougii he is yet far from beginning his work upon the message, he is making notes and jotting down suggestions from time to time as they occur to him. Made h Law For tlin t’comlon. Omaha, Oct. 20. "lf there is not a law to cover this case I will make a law,'’ is the sentence with which Judge S. R Scott closed a decision granting a peremptory writ of mandamus against the board of police to reinstate 16 po licemen recently dismissed. The grounds for the dismissal was that thecily funds would not support so large a force. Scott holds that tne board has no right to dismiss these men for that reason, that once employed, they must be re tained and paid until removed, for causa Loan *unce' ii t<» L, qu Chicago. Oct. 20 —The stockholders of the Mutual Union Loan and Build ing association have decided to let that organization go into voluntary liquida tion. The assets are $82,130 and the liabilities are about the same. HankGm of Indiana Meet, Indianapolis, Oct. 20 The Indiana Bankers’ association began a two days* session in the Commercial olub assembly rooms, this oily. Over 100 financial in* stitutioiu were represented. HOME, GA.. THURSDAY. OCTOBER 21, 1897. MAY YET BE A MISTRIAL Announced That Luet gei t Jury Can’t Agree. MINORITY IS FIRM Rumors of Attempts Made to Bribe the Jurors. ONLY FOUR ARE NOW HOLDING OUT Other Eight Stand For Con viction and Hanging. ANOTHER REPORT SAYS ONLY TWO Are Causing the Disagreement—Wife Mur derer Expects An Acquittal, But His Bon Says it Will be a Mistrial. Chicago, Oct. 20.—The jurors in the famous Luetgert wife murder trial, after being out 48 hours, stood: For conviction and death penalty—Boyd, Heickhold, Bibby, Mahoney, Hosmer, Shaw, Franzen and Fowler. For ac quittal—Barber, Hollabird, Harley and Beh miller. The minority have argued since the beginning that there is an element of doubt in the case. The corpus delicti was not established with sufficient di rectness to convince them that Mrs. Luetgert is dead. Therefore they con tend that they possess a doubt. They are in duty bound under the instruc tions of the court to give Luetgert the benefit of it. For that reason alone it is said these jurors have cast their votes for an acquittal. Juror Harley is a German and the claim is made that he sympathizes with Luetgert on the score of nationality. Harley was once indicted in the crimi nal court in connection with the cofinty commissioner’s boodle scandal of ten years ago. He was never tried, the case being dismissed by ex-Judge Longe uecker, who was then state’s attorney. The state’s attorney is free to confess that had he known Harley’s record.with reference to the boodle scand'al of the county board, Harley would never have been permitted to serve on the jury. The prosecution is now convinced that the matter of procuring a jury to try this noted case was pushed along too vigorously. Only one week was re quired. At the time the matter of get ting the jury was under way it was thought the case would not take over three weeks in its trial. The magni tude and importance of the great case was not fully realized. Luetgert is still confident of an ac quittal. "I will be acquitted, I am sure of it.” he said. “Yes sir, the sweetest music I shall ever hear will be that verdict of not guilty. It will be a just verdict, too.” Arnold Luetgert, his son, shared the enthusiasm of his father to a degree. He was not as positive in his declara tion of his belief that his father would be acquitted. < "But they will not convict him,” as serted young Luetgert. "I look for a disagreement, and that is not so bad.” It is rumored that Judge Tuthill opened three letters offering bribes to the jury. Tin- .eport cannot be veri fied, as the judge and those connected with the trial are absolutely inacces sible. The announcement is given out from State Attorney Deneen’s office tonight that no verdict in the case will be made public before 10 o’clock tomoirow. Judge Tuthill will not dismiss the jury before Saturday night at the earliest. The trial has been so expensive that he wishes all doubts of a verdict to be gone before letting the jury go. Emprron Kl»< Kan II Other. WeisbaDen, Oct. 20.—The czar and Grand Duke of Hesse arrived here nt 12:20 p. m., on a visit to Emperor Wil liam. They were met at the railroad depot by bis majesty and the Prince of Schaumberg-Lippe. Tne two emperors cordially embraced and kissed each other. After the usual presentations, their majesties drove to the castle, warmly cneered by the crowds lining the route. The czar will return to Darmstadt after luncu. A Protest Iroui Union Men. Chicago, Oct. 20 —Chicago labor or ganizations have protested against the appearance of the Marine band at the horse show and have anpealed to Mayor Harrison to use his influence to prevent the appearance of the band on the ground that it will deprive union men of employments YELLOW JACK’S DAY Sixty Cases and Six. Deaths io New Orleans. Montgomary Has Five Cases and one Death—Disease at Other Points. New Orleans, Oct. 20.—Today saw the largest number of new cases report ed since the outbreak of yellow fever. There were sixty cases, and six deaths. Tuesday’s record was greater than we have had any day. But people here have not been much affected by the re port. It is conceded that there are nu merous cases that are unreported daily. If the list runs up. it simply indicates that physicians have been more prompt in bringing to tne attention of ths board new cases that have come utidei their observation. r Canes lu Montgnmeryt Montgomery, Ala , Oct. 20.—This ii the second day s nee the existence oi yellow fever has been officially declared here and only about one-fourth of the entire population has left the city. The state quarantine prevents people from infected districts inside the state from stopping at prints in the state and that kept many people at home. The United States government has agreed to estab lish a camp of detention at Mount Ver non and also one near this city if an av.ii abie site can be round. Five cases have been reported and no deaths. Ali of those cases are ooieg well. Later. —One death occurred fmm fever tonight. One I>en; n .. w»uif City. Mobile, Oct. 20 —New eases follow: George Schifflm, Scott street, corner Spring Hill avenue; Denny and Joseph Betancourt, 207 Royal street; Maggie Birch. Pine, corner State street; W. D Scott. 4:3 South Conception street; John V. Fiquet, Pine, corner Dauphine street; Lange Finley, a negro. Walnut, cornet Morton; A. O. Sibley, 565 Wilkinson street. One death: Carl Blonner, i North Charleston street. Recoveries, Robert L. Carter an I Fuller Henderson, negroes. Deaths to date, 23; umier treatman t. 3ft 5 Later, —Another death -occurred to night, making two for the day. i Kt*.. • tv • (» i Da'.vson, Ga., Oct :0-.-At a special meeting of the city c■•uni .1, the quaran tine wa- rene.veo against Montgomery and ail in.eeted points, ow.ng to rhe aim uin eiue.it of yellow fever in Mont gomery. Fever at Other Pointe. New Orleans, Oct. 20.—The follow ing cases of yellow fever reported in neighboring cities. Edwards. Miss. —Four cases. Queen’s Hill, Miss. —Two cases. Clinton, Miss.—Two cases. Kaynga. Miss.—Five cases. CATHOLICS IN WASHINGTON. The U’»‘ver*hy Board of Director* An Kem ble*—Cardinal Gibbon* Bre*ides. Washington, Oct 20—The board of directors of the Catholic university as sembled in annual session at McManon hall. Cardinal Gibbons, chancellor of the university, wearing his robes of office, presided, and there was a full representation of the members of the board. Among those present were Arch bishops Williams of Boston. Corrigan of New York, Ryan of Philadelphia, Ireland of St. Paul, Chuppelle of Santa Fe, Riordan of San Francisco and Bish ops Keane, Maes, Foley, Hortsmann and Farley. Unusual interest attached to the meet ing in view of the presence of Arch bishop Keane, who came recently from Rome to attend the session, and in view of the fact that questions affecting the personnel of the university and of the status of Professor Schroeder, the cham pion of the German element in the church, were to come up. The meeting was behind closed doors and much secrecy was maintained by members of the directorate. The first question considered was the financial affairs of the university. Michael h.kl 'tnrbuck Hatched. Philadelphia, Oct. 20.—Frank J. Starbuck and Jimmy Michael, the mid dle distance bicycle riders, have been matched to race 25 miles, paced, at Madison Square Garden, New York, on Thanksgiving night. The pacemaking will be done with tandem teams, the number of which is limited to 12 teams on each side. The terms of the race are that Michael is to get a guarantee of SI,OOO and Starbuck gets a guarantee of SBOO and 50 per cent of the gross re ceipts over that amount. Alger Protect* the Alaskans. Washington, Oct 20.—The secretary of war has issued an order creating a military reservation in that part of Alaska lying within a radius of 30 miles of St Michaels. The purpose is to con fer on Lieutenant Colonel Bardall the necessary legal authority to preserve or der and protect property in this section of the country, both ot which are be lieved to be jeopardized by .the large number of lawlee* characters gathered near the mouth ,of the Yukon. LAST DAYS OF SHOW Tennessee Centennial Will Close Soon. IN ONLY TEN DAYS West Virginia Day Was Celebrated Yes terday. GOVERNOR ATKINSON WAS ON HAND Today Will Be Known as Di rector General’s Day. ALABAMA DAY COMES TOMORROW Florida Tobacco Growers Welcome Visitoii to Their Exhibit—State School Childrens Day. Nashville, Oct. 20.—West Virginia day was celebrated at the Centennial exposition. Governor Atkinson and party, of that state taking part in the exercises, which were held in the New York building. The Virginia Military institute cadets ei-corted the governor and his party from their hotel to the exposition. There was a good attend ance at the New Yorn ouuding. Hon. John M. Thompson, speaker of the senate, delivered the address of wel come. and after Governor Atkinson had made a response there were brief ad dresses by other prominent West Vir ginians. The visitors were given a luncheon at the woman’s building, and a review of the military took piace dur ing the afternoon. The West Virgin ians will remain in the city several days. The Florida tobacco growers assem bled at the exposition and received and welcomed all who cared to view the ex hibit of Florida tobacco in the agricul tural building. The exhibit is a most creditable one. Thursday is Director General’s day and an excellent program has been ar ranged, including one of the handsom est parades yet seen at the exposition, and a grand display of fireworks at night. The city and public schools will be closed in order to allow the pupils to attend the celebration. Next Saturday will be State School Children’s day, and ihousands of chil dren will be present Friday will be Alabama day and Farmers’ day. THE NATIONAL CHRISTIANS. President Hagermnu on "Bible Example* of Mlftßionm and >1 iasiouarie*. Indianapolis, Oct. 20. —At the morn ing session of the National Christian church President B. O. Hagerman spoke on "Bible Examples of Missions and Missionaries,” Jabez Hall on "Our Plea to American Christianity” and A- M. Atkinson on “Ministerial Relief.” Reports were submitted by the fal lowing boards: "Church extension;” "Negro evangelization;’’ "Education.” A statement of the national secretary, Bible superintendent and Christian en deavor. The statistical report showed gains, but that the increase in states of larger membership was not equal to the in crease in the weaker states. The following are the gains for the year: Churches, 422; communicants, 47,407; in bible schools, 627; scholars and teachers in bible schools, 36.418; minis ters. 420. The total number of commu nicants is 1,051.079. The value of church property is $16,586,677. Anaefica is ’’orjjliic Ahead. London, Oct. 20.—The Pall Mall Ga zette, during the course of a long article on American competition in the iron and steel industries, says: "Today we find the United States not only chal lenging our supremacy in neutral mar kets, but even obtaining a foothold in England. The causes which are giving the United States such a favorable re ception are permanent, and everything points to the United States remaining the cheapest steel producing country in the world. ’’ Mrs. Pullman RexO tn* < li c»fo. Chicago, Oct. 20 Mrs. George M. Pullman, accompanied by her son San ger, arrived in Chicago on the Pennsyl vania limited from New York city. She was mer at the union depot by her son in-law. Frank Lowden, and was driven at once to the family residence at Prai rie avenue and Eighteenth streets it was stated at ths bouse that no arrange meii'i for the dead man’s funeral have as yet been made or hardly even dis ooued 2 Increase Your Trade. ; * A Klondike Strike * * By advertisin'’ in The £ * Tribune, £ Best medium in North Georgia* PKICE FIVE CEJNTB CROKE IS CONFIDENT Predicts Election oi Vaa Wyck by a Big Plurality. The Tiger’s Candidate For Mayor Makes Publie His Letter Accept ing the Nomination, New York, Oct. 20.—The letter of Robert A Van Wyck, Tammany candi date for mayor, accepting the nomina tion, has been given out. It discusses municipal affairs solely. A part of the letter arraigns the present admin istration for extravagance and calls at tention to the discomforts the people are enduring through delay in street improvements now in progress. Mr. Van Wyck then takes up the city’s alleged grievances against the State legislature, saying: "The flagrant violations of the princi ples of home rule, by the Republican majorities in recent legislatures, have challenged the attention and excited the indignation of our citizens. The usurpations of the rights of our mu nicipality and its people has become such an intolerable wrong that it can not be too strongly rebuked. A cosmo politan constituency exceeding the pop uation of the United States at the time of the adoption of the federal constitu tion should not be required to protest against sucn interference with the purely domestic concerns as attempts to dictate even its harmless customs, habits and pursuits. And yet again and again we have been subject to legislation con ceived either in ignorance of or con tempt of th ■ wishes and sentiments of our people and enacted as a revenge upon our politics or an assault upon our revenues.” Judge Van Wyck condemns the Raines liquor law and favors its prompt repeal. He pledges himself to favor increase of schoolhouses, the establish ment of a rapid transit system, more bridges across East river, more parks, better docks, $1 gas and enforcement of the eight-hour law. Much Bitterness Displayed. Politicians of all sorts are greatly in terested in the probable effect of the bitterness displayed in municipal poli tics upon the results on the state at large. The questions principally discussed are those affecting the chances of Wal lace and Parker, respectively the Re publican and Democratic nominees for chief judge of the court of appeals, and those of the legislative candidates indi vidually. It is conceded that the bitter ness developed between the partisans of Low and Tracy, if not stronger than that between George and Tammany, is more in evidence and likely to be more widespread in its results. The straight Democrats claim, though they can give no substantial basis for their assertion, that Parker will run so far ahead of Wallace in Greater New York as to assure his election. Already there are charges of trading in legislative candidates and the unus ual length and complexity of the ballots eanuot fail to confuse the more illiter ate voters. Henry George's Strength. Conservative men are beginning to comment upon the belittling of the George vote by the leaders of the regu lar Democratic party, and recall to at tention the vote of 1886, in which the single taxer received more than 63,000, when before election no one would con cede him a third of that total. The deduction the conservatives make U that George will surprise the minimi sers of 1897 as he confounded those of 1886. The straight Republicans left no means untried to make the massmeet ing at Lenox lyceurn noteworthy for attendance aud influence. Secretary of Interior Bliss presided aud General Tracy and Governor B a i spoke. Richard Croker is credited with the prediction that Van Wyck will have a plurality of 75,000 and that 50,000 is "safe to bet on. ” Meanwhile there is much more talk of wagers and odds than there is outward aud visible signs of betting, and the actual placing of money has not as yet begun to any marked extent. The Cabinet Crisis lu •**ervla. London, Oct. 20. —The London papers, dealing with the crisis at Belgrade, va riously attribute it to the political disa greements between King Alexander add his ministers, to the arrival of ex-King Milan at the Servian capital, and to the disclosures made during the recent trials of 200 brigands and receivers of stolen property at Tschaischak, where ! the evidence has revealed systematic plundering and murdering of members of the Liberal party at the instigation of Radicals, under protection of the Servian Radical minister of justice. ~ Why the Cabinet Resigned Vienna, Oct. 20.—The Nene Freie Presse publishes a dispatch from Bel-, grade, Servia, which says the Servian premier has declared the cabinet re signed because of differences with King Alexander and owing to the strained relations existing between the premier ami ex-King Milan, making the conduct of business impossible while the latter remains at Belgrade. L«»ui* Hh* « * hooting. _ St. Louts, Oct. 20.—Thomas Y. Rey-] Holds, aged 30, for many years court reporter for one of the local papers, shot aud killed Joseph Kirby, aged 29, a clerk in a railway office and a talented singer. The shooting was the result of * qnamL Reynolds save himself **