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US TRUSTWORTHY. 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 X Tribune 1* appreciated by the V 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.