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T'he one paper that lead*—
reache* all classes of people
give satisfaction to adver
tiser*—The Rome Tribune.
ESTABLISHED 1887.
ms. M’KIN-
I LEY IS DYING
■President’s Mother is
I Passing Away.
■WTILL UNCONSCIOUS
Attending Physician Announces That
the End Is Very Near.
MEMBERS OF FAMILY AT BEDSIDE
Thrilling Race of the President
With Grim Reaper.
HIS MOTHER FAILS TO RECOGNIZE HIM
He Knelt at Her Bedside—Special En-
> gine Attached to Coach at Pitts
burg and All Trains Sidetracked
K-. 4
S Canton. 0., Dec. 3. —Mrs. Nancy Al
■ Bison McKinley is still unconscious and
■ shows no dviraence of suffering. She
” seems to be passing quieily into the
| sleep of death. The president and other
r members of the family are at her bed-
■ side, intent ou doing everything possi
| ble to contribute to her cemt'ort and
I hoping almost without faith for a rally
I and for a sign of recognition.
I No encouragement is given them by
‘ the attending physician. Dr. Phillips
i; seriously doubts that the patient can
| revive. He fears the end is very near
| at hand, but says there is a possibility
" of her lingering for several days.
All night long the little group around
i the bedside of the venerable woman
l| anxiously watched for news of the train
I which was bearing her distinguished
' son from his post at the nation’s capital
to her humble cottage. Before she re
lapsed into unconsciousness she was
..given to understand that her son had
1 started for Canton from the capital.
The train bearing the president reached
Pittsburg at 7:15. At each stop during
the night, word had been flashed to
Canton of his progress and at each stop
a yellow missive told him that he was
Still in the lead in his thrilling mid
night race with the grim reaper.
Finally tired nature asserted her
self and the president retired to sleep
**As soon as Pittsburg was reached Judge
Day accepted the offer of the railroad
company and a special engine was at
-1 tached to the car. The president at
that time was still asleep. Without the
| loss of a moment the special engine
I dashed out of the Smoky City. All
I . trains on the route were put on side
* tracks and the last 101 miles were reeled
off in two hours.
At 8:55 the president reached Canton.
His mother was still alive. Upon his
arrival at the home of his mother, Pres
ident McKinley entered the sick room
and knelt by the beds! e. She was un
conscious. The little family group was
•complete. Now all that remained was
to wait for deai h and hope that before
it came the mother would be able, once
more, to recognize her loving children.
Mrs. McKinley came of the race o'
hardy pioneers who laid the foundation
of the American republic. She was
Miss Nancy Campbell Allison, and was
born at New Lisbon, 0., in 1809. Her
family originally came from England to
Virginia, thence to Pennsylvania, and
finally settled permanently in Ohio
She was married tp William McKinley,
Sr., Jan. 6, 1829, and was living in a 2-
story frame house, still standing near
Niles, 0., when her distinguished son
’ -was born, Jan. 29, 1843.
General Pando Not Killed.
Madrid, Deo. 3.—The government
has received au official dispatch from
Havana which states that General
Pando, who was placed in charge of the
military operations in the island by
Captain General Blanco, reached Oiegc
de Avila ou the Moron-Jpcaro trocha ou
, Tuesday, after an engagement with the
insurgents in which the latter lost 19
) killed and the Spaniards 15. This dis
l patch allays the (ears that had been
I raised that General Pando had been
’.killed.
IlNurgents Elect* O*ffi C er*.
Washington, Dec. B.—Consul Geu-
Lee has informed the state depart-
that the insurgents in Cuba
and installed, at Yaza Porto on
r,oct. 20, the following officers: Presi-
I’’ dent, Bartolo Masso; vice president,
Domingo Mendez Capote; secretary oi
war, Jose B. Aleman; secretary of the
treasury, Earnisto Font Stearliug; sec
a retary of foreign affairs, Andres Moreno
■ de La Torre; secretary of the interior,
■ Manual R. Silva; general-in-chief, Max
fllmo Gomez; lieutenant general, Oalixto
■ Garcia.
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
STILL ANOTHER ONE
Bill To Keep Mrs. Nobles
From Callows. ■
It Wiil Allow Judges to Commute
Death, Sentences—Will
She Hang*
Atlanta, Dec. 3. —It is said that
another will bill be introduced in the
legislature looking towards saving
Mrs. Nobles from hanging.
It will be introduced by Mr. Reid,
of Bibb at the instigation of Mr. Ma
rion Harris, Mrs. Nobles’ attorney.
The law now is as follows:
“An act to amend section 63 of the
penal code so as to bestow upon, the
judges of the superior courts oi this
state the authority to sentence persons
convicted of capital crime to the peniten
tiary for life, whether upon original sen
tence or at any time thereafter upon re
sentence.”
The amendment reads as follows:
“Tbe amendment for persons convict
ed of murder shall be death, but may be
confinement in the penitentiary for life in
the following cases: If the jury trying
the case shall so recommend, or if the
judge shall see proper so to order in any
case, whether upon original sentence or
thereafter upon resentence.”
ROASTED LEGISLATORS
Speaker Jenkins Disgusted With Their Dila
tory Methods,
Atlanta, Dec. 3.—At the session of
the house tonight Speaker Jenkins ad
ministered a severe roasting to the legis
lators for their dilatory tactics.
He wanted them to quit fooling with
local measures and get down to business.
Mr. Boynton introduced a measure to
put aside all local matters and take up
more important. It was voted down,
and then Speaker Jenkins gave it to
them good and hot.
Russian Oißo'ials Are Reticent.
Sr. Petersburcl Dec. 3.—Great reti
cence is observed in official circles here
regarding the political situation in the
far east, but the opinion prevails that
Germany will not permanently occupy
Kiao Chou bay, on the Sbaug Tuug pe
ninsula. The Russian newspapers pro
test against the occupation of Kiao
Chou bay, as being calculated to injure
tbe interests of Russians in the far east,
and they say that the Russian govern
ment ought to demand its evacuation
or else obtain an equivalent.
Robbers Torture an Old Mae.
Akron, 0., Dec. 3.—Two masked rob
bers entered the home of John Har
tong, a farmer 89 years old, in Green
township. They tortured the old man
into insensibility, but he refused to give
up his money. When he was uncon
scious they searched the house and
found in a belt the farmer wore night
and day 8800. Hartong lives alone and
is wealthy. Local talent is suspected
and bloodhounds have been put on the
track of the robbers.
Zola to Work For Dreyftuu
New York, Dec. 3.—A dispatch to
The World from Paris says: “I have
substantial proof of Dreyfus’ inno
cence.” Emil Zola asserts. “He shall
not remain in exile. I have made hie
liberation my affair. I will devote my
life to it. France is no longer France,”
he continued, "if she can be so de
ceived and driven to mad rage against
an unfortunate being, who for three
years has been expiating, under atro
cious conditions, a crime he never com
mitted. ”
Collision on th® Monon.
Lafayette, Ind., Dec. 3.—A south
bound passenger train on the Monon
road collided with a northbound freight
near Myersburg. Engineer Miller of
the passenger train had a leg broken.
Others of tbe crews of both engines es
caped by jumping. Freight and pas
senger cars are piled high and traffic
will be stopped for hours. The damage
Will be heavy.
Barnard’s Death Accidental*
London, Dec. B.—The coroner’s jury
which has been inquiring into the death
of Cecil Barnard, the well known so
ciety entertainer, who was killed an
Wednesday evening last by falling from
a second story window of the Savage
club, has rendered a verdict of acci-
-"•VW* MwwewSZ*
State of Kansas Hflg snotr.
Topeka, Dec. B.—The first snow of.
the season fell in Kansas during the
night, extending over the entire state.
The snow generally was of great benfit
to the wheat. In central Kansas wheat
goes into the winter this season in bet
ter condition than in ten years.
Sybil Manderson a Catholic.
New York, Dec. 3.—A dispatch to
The World from Paris says: Sybil San
is.--Bga was received into the Ostholin
cnurch two days before she marcted
Antonio Terry, the immensely rick
Cuban.
ROME. GA., SATURDAY. DECEMBER 4, 1897.
$10,968.49
IT COST
Trials of Judges Sweat
and Reese.
THE CASES OF CARTER
Appropriation Bills Displace Everytlilng
In the House.
NO ACTION TAKEN ON CONVICT BILL
Mr. Hall Demands Special Or
der Time and Again.
THE LEGISLATURE VOTES IT DOWN
Bill to Make Women Eligible as County
School Commissioner* Adversely Re
ported By Senate Committee.
Atlanta, Dec. 3. —Three bills by Mr,
Little of Muscogee were the special or
ders for the opening of the morning
session of the house. All were passed
without opposition, as follows:
A bill to authorize a judicial sale of
the franchise of insolvent private cor
porations; a bill to provide for the re
newal of charters by the superior courts
and a bill releasing aud granting to the
Oolnmbus Power company all right that
the state may have to the bed of the
Chattahoochee river opposite fractional
lots 86 and 89 in the eighth district of
Muscogee county.
A number >of special appropriation
bills came up for consideration. The
first bill passed was one to reimburse
the state treasurer tor 84,917.43 spent
on t e Carter investigation of Judges
Reese and Sweat.
Another bill to reimburse the treasu
rer for 85,781.96 paid the members for
per diem and mileage at the extra ses
sion of the legislature last February.
Tbis session was called ou account of
the Carte** charges against the judici
ary, which makes the total expenses of
that famous tribunal 810,968 49.
The house theu passed a bill by Mr.
Awtry of Cobb to require the state me
morial board to make an investigation
of the condition of the various confed
erate cemeteries in the state and to ap
propriate 8500 for the expenses of the
investigation.
The convict question did not come
up, everything being displaced by the
appropriation bills. Several votes to
displace these measures aud bring np
the bill drawn by the committee of 11
were taken, but without success. The
convict question will not come up be
fore next Tuesday.
Mr. O. L Branan’s bill putting the
county officers on salaries aud abolish
ing the fee system in counties having
60.000 population came up with an ad
verse report from the general judiciary
committee, which was adopted by the
senate.
Senator Carter’s bill authoizing that
United States marshals be xempt from
the law against carrying concealed
weapons was defeated |in the senate by
a vote of 15 to 16.
The bill to make women eligible as
county school commissioners and clerks
of boards of education, introduced by
Senator B. F. Walker, was unfavora
bly acted upon by the committee on
education.
Stove Repairers Indicted.
Chicago, Dec. 3.—True bills have
been voted under the Illinois antitrust
law by the grand jury against five prom
inent stove repair manufacturers. The
complaint was made by Allen O. Sel
leck, a hardware merchant, aud follows
a civil suit for 825,000 damages, iu
which Mr. Selleck charged the five
manufacturers with having conspired
to ruiu his business by forming a com
bination to force up the price of stove
repairs. The case is said to be the first
of its kind since the antitrust law went
into effect.
—•■abtfans Being Vaccinated.
Atlanta, Dec. B. Thousands of At
lantians have sore arms today as the re
suit of the execution of Mayor Collier’!
order that every person in the city be
vaccinated. At noon a small army of
physicians, accompanied by policemen,
began a house-to-house canvass, and all
the occupants were forced to bare their
arms aud submit to the knife. This
step, it is thought, will effectually stamp
out the smallpox that has prevailed
here for some time.
- -
British Steamer Dl*a&ed.
Liverpool, Deo. 3.—The Britsh
steamer Tropic, Captain Barber, which
sailed from here Thursday for Galves
ton, has returned with machinery disor
dered.
LYHCJIN6 EXPECTED
Two Men Arrested Near .Can
ton For Assault.
Young Lady Has Identified One of
the Men and a Lynching Is
Probable,
Canton, Ga. , Dec, 3. —Charlie War
dy, who. assaulted Miss Markburn,
near Cummings, was captured by the
«h er riff and posse near this place to
day.
The prisoner was carried to For
syth county. Joe Edwards was ar
rested as Wardy's accomplice. Ed
wards is unmarried.
Wardy denies his guilt but his face
is badly scratched up, and the young
lady has identified him. There is
great excitement in Forsyth and a
lynching is not improbable.
DID MRS: HAWLEY SUICIDkA
H®r Ketnaiua MCxhnmed and Ska!l Is Mwfl
Being: Examined.
San Francisco, Dec. 3.—Mrs. Wil
liam E. Hawley committed suicide at
Oakland Sept. 7, and tiie coroner’s Jurj
rendered a verdict oi suicide that same
afternoon. The remaius were buried
the following Thursday at her formei
horns at Napa. The will that Mrs.
Hawley left bequeathing her property
to her husband has been contested by
her sisters and brothers, her remain!
have been exhumed and her skull ii
now in the hands of a San Frauciscc
chemist for examination. <
The relatives charge that the will
produced by her, which is intended tc
benefit her husband to the extent oi
840,000, is a forgery, and while they
will say nothing as to the purpose oi
the examination of skull, they have
put detectives on the case and the sup
position is that they will try to prove
that Mrs. Hawley did not to commit
suicide.
Ha.iTk alfiik au a cofiiaion.
Bordeaux, France, Dec. 3. The
French bark Bonnie Josephine, Captain
Lecerf, from Bordeaux to Granville,
has been sunk in collision with an un
known vessel. Nine men of her crew
who took to her boats are misring. The
French bark Bonnie Josephine was oi
222 tons gross register. She was buill
at St. Malo in 1867 and was owned by
M. Jacquot of Granville.
Export* to <MKuc«Urag*d.
St. Pertersburg, Dec. 3.—The rail
road tariff committee has reduced the
freight on kerosene between Baku and
Batoum. on the Black sea, from 19 to
12 kopeks per pood, with a view of en
couraging exports.
Train Wreck Kill* Throe.
Lima, 0., Dec. 3.—A passenger train
on the Chicago and Erie was wrecked 7
miles east of here. Three persons were
killed.
TO FAST SIXTY DAYS.
Mis* Coppage of Columbus Expects to
Break All Previous Records.
Miss Helen Alice Coppage, who says
she will break all fasting records, arrived
in New York recently from Columbus,
O. She expects to fast 60 days. Her
principal reason for attempting the feat
of endurance, she says, is to show that
woman can do everything that a
man cando.” She hopes, however, to
do better in the fasting line than any
man has ever done because she thinks
she will be able to hold out longer than
Giovanni Succi did, who lived 58 days
and two hours without food. Dr. H. H.
Tanner’s fast lasted from June 28 to
Aug. 7.
Miss Coppage is 27 years old and good
looking. She has not been weighed re
cently, but thinks that if she were to
’step on a scale now about 175 pounds
would be indicated. Professionally the
coming faster’s feat is the first one Miss
Coppage has attempted. Twice before,
however, she has fasted for long peri
ods. One of these tests occurred in Pitts
burg in April, 1893, and lasted 31 days.
The other took place in Cincinnati, in
October, 1895, and lasted only 24 days.
According to her plans, Miss Coppage
will begin with her period of fasting on
Dec. 6. A public hall—the exact place
has not yet been decided upon—is to be
rented for the purpose of permitting the
faster’s condition to be seen by the gen
eral public as she proceeds with the
trial of endurance.
Miss Coppage is the daughter of a
contractor who lives in a little town in
West Virginia. She was led to test her
ability as a faster by beginning to diet
for the purpose of reducing her flesh.—
New York Herald.
What the Loser Could Do.
A young lady in Muhlenberg county,
Ky., by the name of Miss Helen Hunt
found a pilrse in church one Sunday
morning recently and reported her find
to the pastor, with the request that he
report the finding of the purse and con
tents and that it would be returned to
its owner by applying to her. So the
following Sunday the pastor made this
announcement from the pulpit, “Some
body lost a purse here last Sunday even
ing, and if the owner wants the proper
ty he can go to Helen Hunt for it”—
Louisville £ost
SOON MUST
THORN DIE
He Will Be Electro
cuted Jan. 10,
TORCESWISKY ALIAS
What Judge Maddox Said in Fixing on
The Fatal Day.
SENTENCED AT LONG ISLAND CITI
Calm and Imperturbable Dur
ing the Scene.
«
HE IS 35 AND OF GERMAN BIRTH
‘‘Betlect Upon tbe Death of JHim Whom You
Slew,” Said tbe Judge-Appeal For New
OSQ [Trial Made By Murderer’s CounseL
New York, Dec. 3.—Martin Thorn,
or Torceswisky, convicted ou Monday
of the murder of William Guldensuppe,
has been sentenced to be electrocuted in
the week beginning Jan. 10, 1898.
When Thorn was brought into court
in Long Island City he stepped as
briskly, walking between two officers,
as he had -done on the days when he
was on trial. He preserved the same
calm, imperturbable expression of coun
tenance tint* he had worn at every cri
sis in the working out of his fate during
the trial, and when, as a preliminary
to the passing of sentence of death. Jus
tice Maddox put the customary question
to him he responded promptly, col
lectively and with no outward evidence
of emotion.
"My name,” said the murderer “ii
Torceswisky. I was born in Germany
and am 85 years old. I am a barber;
have never been in prison before. 1
was brought up in the religious belief
of the Roman Catholic church. I can
read and write. My father is living. 1
am not married.”
Theu Judge Maddox proceeded topass
sentence solemnly and impressively. He
said:j '
"Thorn, you were indicted, charged
with having premeditated and deliber
ately designed and caused the death of
William Guldensuppe. You have had
a fair trial, in the course of which yob
were defended by the ablest and most
astute counsel They could, not have
done more for you. Every ’effort was
made by Ahem to save you. After that
the jury found you guilty of murder in
the first degree aud the punishment foi
that is death.
"Reflect upon it. Reflect upon the
death of him whom you slew. It is the
duty of the court to fix a time for the
execution —the law pronounced the pun
ishment. I shall give you a reasonable
time —the law permits me to do that.
It is needless for me to state anything
touching the facts in this case more
than to say the evidence justifies the
verdict.
“The judgement of the court is that
you shall be taken hence to the state
prison at Sing Sing within a reasonable
time, and that you shall be executed in
the form prescribed by law in the week
beginning Jan. 10, 1898.”
Thorn listened without moving a
muscle and when the judge had finished
he inclined his head slightly forward aS
if bowing to the court. The prisoner’s
lawyers then handed up an affidavit
applying for an appeal. Justice Mad
dox took the affidavit and will pass on
it later. Thorn was then led to ths
jail below. It is likely that the con
demned man will be removed to Sing
Sing soon.
FOOD SCARCE IN ALASKA.
Authorities Advise All Persons Not Well
'’applied to Leave.
San Francisco, Dec. 3 —Edgar L
Strauss of this city, a member of the
Pacific State Exchange, has received a
letter from his brother-in-law, James
W. Morrison, who is now at Dawson
City, which confirm* the news of the
scarcity of food iu the Klondike. He
says:
"The steamer Bella arrived, bringing
about 80 tons of provisions, but still
that will not be sufficient. Tbe au
thorities have posted notices, advising
all persons not supplied with a year’i
provisions to go to Circle City or Fort
Yukon, where provisions are to be had.
The stores are closed. The cargo of the
Bella did not fill half the orders. The
provisions were sent ou the City oi
Weare aud are only placed at 68 tons. ”
Gernuii Troops For China.
Berlin, Dec. 3.—The naval depart
ment has sent instructions to Kiel to
dispatch 200 aitillerymeu with field
guns aud 1,000 marines to China.
X The best evidence that The x
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F people Is-the way Its subscrlp- W
W tion list Increases daily. ■
PRICE FIVE CENTS
TIME FOR THE ROADS
Hearing Before the Interstate
Commission Has Ended.
Grant Prayer of Railways-Will
Give Them Three Years to
’ Comply With Car Coupler
and Train Brake Act. <
Washington, Dec. 3.—The hearing
given by the interstate commerce com
mission on the question of extending
the time within which the railroads o;
the country may comply with the pro
visions of the car coupler and train
brake act was concluded at noon. The
commission intends to take some sup
plemental testimony under oath before
coming to a decision.
There seems to be no doubt whatever
that au extension will be granted and
that the extension will be general in its
character, the hearing having demon
strated that any discrimination would
fall as heavily on roads which have
complied with the law as on those which
have thus far disregarded it. The gen
eral impression among both the railroad
men and the labor leaders who were in
attendance on the hearing is that the
extension granted by the commission
will be a compromise.
The railroad representatives asked for
five years with the condition that one
fifth of the unequipped rolling stock of
each company should be equipped each
year and the representatives of the rail
road organizations protested against an
extension in excess of one year. Three
years is generally believed to be the
maximum extension which the commis
sion will grant.
Th© commission are evidently in great
doubt as to their ability to impose con
ditions on an extension and it may be
! that they will grant but a year’s exten
sion at a time with the understanding
that against those roads which do not
complete the yearly portion of their
equipment during that period tbe law
ch all become operative.
HE STRUCK HIS SUPERIOR.
Superintendent ot the Mail* Kenan Hit
Postmaster Herts.
Macon, Deo. 3.—The Macon post
office was the scene of a fisticuff when
Major O. T. Kenan, superintendent ot
the mails, struck Postmaster Hertz in
the face and precipitated a row. Major
Kenan owed a small bill to the Strong
Shoe company of this city, which had
passed some time overdue. The firm
wrote to the acting first assistant post
master general, telling him that they
could not collect it. He referred the
matter to Postmaster Hertz, who dropped
a note to Superintendent Kenan asking
him to make settlement of the account
as soon as possible.
Having received instructions from
the acting first assistant postmaster
general to see to it that the account was
paid as soon as possible, Mr. Herts
went to Major Kenan once more and
told him he must pay the account.
Major Kenan declared he would at
tend to his private affairs without any
assistance from the postmaster or the
department.
Mr. Hertz then told him that he
might consider himself suspended for a
week for his conduct.
When he said this Major Kenan struck
him in the face in rapid succession.
Friends intervened.
KANSAS - RIVERS ARE DRY.
Never Iu tbe History of the State Was
Water So 'carce.
Topeka, Dec. B.—Owing to the ex
tremely dry weather this fall water was
never so scarce in the history of Lyon
county as it is today. Emporia is at
the junction of the Neosho and the Cot
tonwood rivers and for weeks not a dr sp
of water has been flowing in either. In
many places the beds of both rivers are
as dry as a sandy desert.
So meager is the supply above the
dam in the Neosho, from which the city
receives its supply, that the city coun
cil has taken the most stringent meth
ods to curtail the use of water from the
hydrants and has entirely stopped the
supp y to all users of water motors.
Mayor Addis is digging a big well above
the waterworks from which he hopes to
obtain a supply.
Allen senteiiOHu <galn.
Macon, Dec. 3.—Tom Allen, the mur
derer of Charley Carr, has been resen
tenced by Judge Candler of Atlanta to
hang Jan. B. The crime was committed
in 1894 in a barroom in Macon. Alien
shot Carr, who was a bartender and
stranger in Macon, having just come to
this city three days before from Ashe
ville, N. O.
Smith Won’t Leave Atlaata.
Atlanta, Deo. 3.—Mr. Hoke Smith,
ex-secretary of the interior, announces
in the Atlanta Journal that there is nq
foundation for the rumor that he in
tends to move to New York.
rxoneratet C«»ui**C i£?t«rhiMy.
Paris, Dec. 3.—The Gaulois says it
learns that the report of General Pelliux _
to General Billot, minister of war, ij
unfavorable to a revision of the sen
tence of Dreyfus and completely exon
erates Count Esterhazy. La Soir say*
■ass as a result of General Pelliux’* re
port Count Esterhazy will be prosecuted
for actions and lettters unworthy a
French officer, but quite unconnected
With the Dreyfus case.