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ESTABLISHED 1887.
BIG BATTLE
ISBREWING
Insurgents Are March
ing On Havana,
THERE’S NO FEAR
Gen. Rodriguez Has Combined the Cu
ban Forces.
HOT. FIGHT IS EXPECTED HOURLY
Topography of Country Favor
able to Spanish.
EXPLOSIVE BULLETS BY CUBANS
Will Be Used it Is Said—Cubans Driven to
New York Are Dying From
Hunger is the Report.
New York. Dec. 10.—A dispatch to
The World from Havana says: An im
portant battle is expected hourly. The
insurgents have planned the most form
idable demonstration against Havana
for a year. General Parrado has started
from this city with strong columns of
troops to meet the Cubans. Senor Can
alejas,' the confidential agent of the
Spanish government, went with him to
ascertain the real condition of Havana
province.
General Maisia Rodriguez, with the
combined Cuban forces under Juan Del
gado, Nodarez and Rafael de Cardenas,
is encamped on La Luis plantation near
Gaira de Melina, about 20 miles south
of here on the railway to Pinar del Rio.
He has fully 1,000 men who'are well
. armed and are said to have a Hotchkiss
rapid fire cannon.
The topography of the country about
Guira de Melma is favorable is favora
ble to the Spanish troops.
Emilio Collazo hanged Antonio Rod
riguez Riviera and the negro, Osman.
They went to Collazo with money and
a proposition to lay down his arms, ac
cepting autonomy. A note was pinned
on the breasts of the hanged men, an
nouncing that any one coming on a
similar mission would meet a like fate.
It is reported authoritatively that on
Sunday the Spanish guerrillas of Cai
manera, near Guantanamo, deserted to
the insurgent leader, Rodriguez, with
$14,000, 52,000 cartridges and their
arms They were supposed to have
numbered about 50 men.
Juan Delgado’s party lately attacked
Santiago de las Vegas, near. Havana.
The place had three companies of guer
rillas and an infantry column. There
was a hot fight for three hours. The
insurgents did not enter the town. The
Spanish losses were heavy; those of the
rebels are not known.
The latest reports of the recent fight
in Pinar del Rio province show that the
Spanish loss was greater than was
claimed. The dead or wounded include
one colonel, one major, seven captains,
11 subordinate officers ami 72 privates.
Most of the wounded will die. The rebel
loss was 14. The rdbels really used ex
plosive bullets. Their agents here ad
mit it. • \
HUNDREDS DIE OF HUNGER.
Cruel C»A*Crtutratioii Policy Drive* the Cu
bans to New York City.
New York, Dec. 10.—The Journal
and Advertiser says: Weyier’s policy of
» extermination, that he called concentra
* tion, has resulted in an enormous influx
of Cubans into New York. Hundreds,
if not thousands of them, are dying
from hunger here.
The number of these refugees is va
riously estimated at from 12.000 to 20,-
000. Perhaps the great major, cy are
absolutely without means. There are
men and women among them who were
worth hundreds of thousands of dollars
before the war began, but who are now
penniless. Some of these are working
as waiters, porters or seamstresses.
Emillio Agramonte. president of the
Marti ChaYlty association, says that
many of them have actually died from
starvation and that the majority have
preferred to live quietly in misery rather
than let their desperate wants be known
to those who could help them, but who
have in the past known them to be peo
ple of wealth, influence and refinement.
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A Slayer I. Aa.aa«inate<r.
New Orleans, Dec. 10.—Joe tleid, a
prominent lawyer of Tangipahoa, and
widely known as a figure in the feuds
in the Florida parishes, was assassinated
during the night. He was shot in the
back on the stairway of the courthouse
at Franklinton. . _
THE ROME TRIBUNE.
THE SENATE IS MAD
Asked House to Adjourn To
day and Give Ex'ra Time.
Senate Passed Measure to Hold Un
til Friday, House Refused-Con
viet Bill May Fail.
Atlanta, Dec. 10. —There is another
row on, and it is not improbable that
the convict bill will fail to become a
law.
The present session of the legisla
ture expires by statue limitation on
on next Wednesday. The convict bill
after many and harrowing vicissitudes
has passed the house, and is now in
the senate for their consideration.
Today the senate decided to ask the
legislature to adjonrn over until Mon
day, and not count Saturday and
Sunday in the reckoning. This would
have given them next Thursday and
Friday. The senate wanted the ex
tension in order to give the convict
bill proper consideration and get it
through in good shape. The senate
passed a measure to hold over the
two days. The house turned it down
refusing to hold over. So the senate
won’t adjourn until Friday, and the
legislature adjourns Wednesday.
Now the senate is mad, mad good and
through. They swear that they won’t
pass the convict bill, and Yancey Carter
says he will spend three solid days to de
feat the bill. It is an interesting muddle,
and lively times are expected.
ANOTHER CANDIDATE.
Hook and Ladder Company Nominate Mr.
W. J. Griffin For Fire Chief.
Hook and Ladder Company met
last night, and in addition to elect
ing officers for another year nominated
'T. J. Griffin as their candidate for
fire chief. This places four candi
dates for the place in the field, A. M.
Word, W. J. Griffin, W. T. Drennon
and Charles F. Taylor. That the
race will be lively goes without say
ing, for eaoh candidates has a per
sonal following,and is popular besides.
Vhe officers elected for the ensuing
year are: Foreman, W. J. Griffin; Ist
asst, H. C. Wood; 2ad asst, Sam Har
din; secretary, W. S. Cothran; treas
urer, A. R. Sullivan; delegate, H. C.
Harrington; Surgeon, Dr. T. R.
Gariington; drivers, T. Fitzpatrick
and J. W. May.
FARMERS THIS MORNING.
Floyd County Agriculturists Will Meet at
the Court House.
This morning at 11 o’clock the far
mers of Floyd county will meet in
convention at the court house.
This meeting is for the purpose of
discussing plans for a reduction in the
cotton acreage of the county, and to
elect delegates to the general conven
tion of cotton growers in Atlanta on
the 13th.
The Atlanta convention will be one
of vast importance, and it is proba
ble that several will go down from
Rome. A rate of one and one-third
fare for the round trip has been se
cured.
Jadge Asa Tenney Is Dead.
New York, Dec. 10—Judge Asa W.
Tenney of the the United States district
court died at his home in Brooklyn.
Judge Tenney was born in Dalton, N.
H, and was graduated from Dartmouth
college in the class of ’59. In 1873
President Grant appointed him United
States district attorney for the eastern
division of New York. Presidents Hayes
and Garfield each reappointed him to
that position. In September last he was
appointed by President McKinley United
States district judge.
Alaskan Schooner Overdue.
Seattle, Wash., Dec. 10. The
schooner Augusta, from Copper River,
Alaska, is ten days overdue and some
anxiety is felt on her account. Monday
night a heavy storm prevailed. The
steamer Farrallon passed a steam
schooner answering the description of
the Augusta off Victoria. A passenger
■poke the vessel and her master told him
that they were from Copper River with
on board. The Augusta
left Seattle the latter part of October for
Copper River.
Mrm McKinley HUI Lives.
Oanton. 0., Deo. 10.—At 10:45 a. m.
Mrs. McKinley was still living, but
growing weaker. It is not thought that
the end will come for some little time
and the younger members of the family
have left the house for a little exercise
in the ouen air. The president rested
only a short time during the latter part
of the night and resumed his vigilant
sick room during the forenoon. He re
mains almost constantly at the bedside
and always within call at a moment’s
notice. . . ....
ROME, GA., SATURDAY. DECEMBER 11, 1897.
SHOT THE
BOBBERS
Five Men Attempt To
Hold Up Train.
ONE ROBBER KILLED
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Southern Pacific Train Out in Arizona
Was Stopped.
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GUARDS IN MONEY CAR USE GUNS
Other Four Forced to Flee For
Their Lives.
NO PASSENGERS HURT; NO MONEY
Another of the Robbers Strack By a Ball
From Guard Jennings Gun—He
Was Seen to Fall.
El Paso, Tex, Deo. 10. —Meager par
ticulars have been received in this city
from San Simon, a small station just
east of Wilcox, A. T., on the Southern
Pacific, of •. train holdup. Train No.
20, the Sunset limited, had just left
Stein’s Pass, N. M., near the Arizona
line, when the engineer noticed a dan
ger signal and immediately placed the
brakes.
No sooner was the train brought to a
stop than five men stepped out from
their hiding places near the track,
heavily armed. One covered the en
gineer and fireman with his Winches
ter, while the others gave their atten
tion to the train proper, more especially
to the express car, firing their guns in
the air and otherwise frightening the
passengers.
At this point the guards in the ex
press car took a hand in the fusilade.
Thirty or 40 shots are said to have been
fired by botii sides? One Wells-Fargo
guard, Jennings by name, succeeded in
killing Robber Oullon, who was nearest
to the car and who was evidently the
leader, for as soon as the othgr robbers
noticed his body lying on the ground
they lost their courage and made a break
for their horses.
Another bullet from Jennings’ Win
chester evidently struck one of the flee
ing robbers, as he was seen to fall and
was assisted out of range by his com
rades.
No express money was stolen and none
of the passengers were hurt.
SALE TO POSTPONED.
Kansas Pacific Road Will Not Go Upou
the Block Jost Yet.
Washington, Dec. 10.- Attorney Gen
eral McKenna already has taken steps
looking to the postponement of the sale
of the Kansas Pacific road. As soon as
he received a copy of Thursday’s senate
resolution he telegraphed its substance
to Special Counsel ex- Governor Hoad
ley at New York, with the request that
he prepare at once a motion asking for
a postponement for 60 days, or until
about Feb. 15
Up to noon Mr. McKenna had heard
nothing of the reported decision of the
reorganization committee, as stated by
a New York newspaper, to offer the
government a guarantee bid of $6,303,-
000, the amount of the principal of the
government’s claim, nor would the at
torney general say, in speaking of the
matter, what would be done in case
such an offer was made before the mo
tion for a postponement was filed
There is no reasonable doubt that this
offer, if it had been made prior to the
adoption of the senate resolution, would
have been accepted. May be. it is said,
that the president would consider him
self bound, in courtesy to the senate, to
ask for a postponement irrespective of
any offer that might now be made, or
as seems probable, he might ascertain
the views of the leaders in congress upon
the acceptance of a bid of $6,303,000
should be made, and act accordingly.
The attorney general expressed no
doubt that a postponement would be
granted by the court upou the showing
that the senate, representing the people
of the whole country, had requested
this action.
at Fioreucd.
Florence, S. 0., Dec. 10.—The ona
hundred and twelfth session of tha
South Carolina annual conference oi
the Methodist Episcopal church is in
session here. Bishop W. W. Duncan,
D. D., of Spartanburg is presiding.
Durrant to Bo Hangod.
San Francisco, Deo. JO.—The papera
on the Durrant case have been filed
here. It is expected that the murderer
will be sentenced for the third time on
Tuesday and will be hanged on the first
Friday of the pew year.
TWO HOT CAMPAIGNS
Columbus and Brunswick Have
Municipal Elections.
Both Cities Have Two Tickets in
the Field, and Negro Voters
Are Corralled.
Columbus, Dec. 10. -Oue of the hot
test municipal campaigns m the history of
Columbus closed tonight, and tomorrow
the matter will be settled at the polls.
The administration ticket, known as
the conservatives, is headed by Cliff C.
Grimes. The municipal reform ticket is
headed by Capt. L. H. Chapell. The
race is heated, and the town is torn with
excitement. »
Hot Times in Brunswick,
Brunswick, Dec. 10. —This city is in
the throes of the warmest municipal
campaign in her history and tonight
scenes are being enacted that bear close
resemblance to those which occuired
recently in Augusta. Four aidermen are
to be elected, and the fight is between
the administration forces and the good
government crowd. Speeches aie being
made all over town, and negroes are
corralled in droves to march them to the
polls tomorrow.
WATSON NOT IN THE RACE.
The Populist Leader Declines to Enter the
Contest For Governor.
Atlanta, Dec. 10.—Thomas E. Wat
son, in a special edition of The People*!
Party Paper, announces that under no
circumstances will he make the race for
governor next year. With Mr. Watson
out of the way, it is thought Senator
Yancey Carter’s star will beam promi
nently in the Populist political horizon.
Mr. Watson’s letter is as follows:
“Time and again I have said I would
not be a candidate for governor. My
friends have been asked to take me al
my word. My friends, I think, will d«
so.
“Letters advocating me for any office
whatever will be denied space in this
paper. Letters upou that subject will
not be answered.
“Life is short, and we might as well
save time on a matter like this.”
Receiver For a Big Bal Id lug.
Chicago. Dec. 10.—Judge Tuley has
appointed E. V. McKey receiver for ths
Galena Trust and Safety Vault com
pany, the corporation owning the Fort
Dearborn building on Clark and Mon
roe streets. The complainants are the
Michael Greenbaum Sons Co., A. G.
Becker & Co. and several other bond
holders in the concern. The building, it
is said, has not been fully rented since it
was built several years ago. It is
valued at $600,000.
Charles Fleischman Dead.
Cincinnati, Dec. 10.—Hon. Charles
Fleischman died at his home in Avon
dale from paralysis. The stroke, which
was the second, came at 2:30 Thursday
morning and he never regained con
sciousness. Mr. Fleischman was born
in Hungary in 1834 and came to Amer
ica in 1866. and to Cincinnati in 1868.
The foundation of his great fortne was
laid by the invention of patented ma
chinery for use in distilleries.
South Makes Herself Felt.
Lowell, Mass., Dec. 10.—The re
ported decision of the Fall River manu
facturers to reduce wages has not
aroused much comment in Lowell. The
increasing competition of the southern
plants iias long been foreseen here, and
has been discounted to as great an ex
tent as possible. Several mills have
already installed expensive linen plants
and others have changed over their ma
chinery to run on specialties.
Henry Ne«bitt Is Hanged.
Fitzgerald, Ga., Dec. JO.—Henry
Nesbitt, a negro, was hanged here for
the murder of James Harrington. He
admitted his guilt. The crime was com
mitted last summer.
A New Mln. In White.
Gainesville, Ga, Dec. 10. The
Gainesville ironworks have completed a
five-stamp mill for a new gold mine in
White county, which has been put in
place.
Two Associations Made One.
Nashville, Dec. 10.—The state As
sociation of Sous of Confederate Vete
rans has indorsed the proposition to
merge the state association into the
state organization of Confederate Vete
rans. A state division of United Sons
of Confederate Veterans will be organ
ized at Murphreesboro Jap. 13.
A Quarrymati I. Kilted.
Columbia, S. 0., Dec. 10. —John
mant, a negro, for 30 years an ex
pert quarrymau, was blown to atoms in
the powder house of a quarry near Co
lumbia by tiie explosion of 125 pounds
of dynamite.
Negro Murderer Heoged.
Darlington, S. 0., Dec. 10.—John
Wright, a negro murderer, was hanged
here, the efforts of his attorneys tohavs
the death sentence commuted having
failed several days ago. »
CYCLISTS
ARECBAZY
Thsy May Become Vio
lent Maniacs
RACE ENDS TONIGHT
Only Sixteen of the Men Who
Started Remain.
THE STRAIN TOO MUCH FOR THEM
First Three Dare Not Stop For
Badly Needed Sleep,
SECOND SERIOUS ACCIDENT OCCURS
Moore, the Phllidelphian, Falls .Over
Handle Bars and Splits His Head
Open—The Scores.
New York, Dec. 10. —When enthusi
asts over the six-day bicycle race reached
Madison Square Garden, they found
only 16 of the 36 men who started on
the record breaking task on Monday
last. The second serious accident of
the contest had forced Moore from the
track. The Philadelphian, while he
was in fifth place, slipped on a turn and
went over the handlebars. He struck
his head violently against one m the
rails and lay unconscious on the track.
It was found that his injuries consisred
of a bad cut on the head and a strain to
the chord on the right side of the neck.
He is not expected to take any further
part in the race.
Although Miller had a lead of 68
miles at 9:15 am., it was anybody’s
race. -Both Miller and Rice, the Wilkes
barre Boy, who has followed so closely
on his heels, showed painful evidences
of the heartbreaking pace they had
maintained since Monday. Miller’s
trainers fear that their man’s mind is
giving way. The sleep which would
put him right is an impossibility, for
the pursuing riders would then cut
down his lead. Bice, held by the fear
of Rivierre, and urged by the hopes of
overhauling Miller, dare not stop. Os
the first three men, Rivierre looks by
far the best conditioned.
Teddy Ha'.e is among the men who.
the experts say, is certain to last to the
end. He had smashed his own record
of last year when he completed his one
hundredth r.our. Schinneer’s eyes are
in bad shape, and unless they get better
his trainers say that he will have to quit.
Rice is b< .'inning to show the effects
of the terrioie strain, and his handlers
are having a hard time to keep him on
the track. Last year Rice became crazy
before the end of the race and it is
feared that his mind is going again.
At 1:15 p. m. the score was: Millgr,
1,743 miles; Rice. 1,674; Rivierre. 1,659;
Schinneer, 1,615; Hale, 1,550; Waller,
1,541; Pierce, 1,500; Moore, 1,495; Elkes,
1,402; Golden, 1,388; Enterman, 1,375;
Gannon, 1,348; Kinz, 1.225; Julius, 1,261;
Beacom, 1,019; Gray 988; Johnson, 962.
The score at 2:15 p. m was as follows:
Miller, 1,761; Rice, 1,690; Rivierre, 1,676;
Schinneer, 1,621; Hale, 1,567; Wailer,
1,551; Pierce, 1,592; Moore, 1,459; Elkes,
1,419; Golden. 1,400; Enternian, 1,390;
Gannon, 1,365; Kinz, 1,269; Julius,
1,245: Beacom. 1,028.
The best previous record for 118 hours
was 1,515 miles made by Hale.
A CRAZY NEGRO IS KILLED.
Shot Down by an Atlanta Policeman,
" horn He Was Trying to Brain.
Atlanta, Dec. 10—Clark Smith, a
crazy negro, apparently 35 years of age,
was shot and killed by Patrolman B. L.
Arthur at the corner ot Mitchell and
Haynes street, in this city.
The negro, it seems, is subject to crazy
spells, and was seized with oue of these
shortly before meeting the policeman.
Smith was in a raving state ana was
raising the mischief generally. The po
liceman attempted to place the negro
under arrest and the latter ran.
He was commanded to halt by Ar
thur, whereupon he seized an ax and
was in the act of striking the officer
when he opened fire upou the lunatic,
hitting him three times, and killing
him almost instantly.
Diamond Thief Captured.
Baltimore, Dec. 10.—The residence
of Isaac E. Emerson, president of the
Emerson Drug company and commander
of the Maryland Naval reserves, at 2,500
Eutaw Place, was entered during the
night and diamonds valued at nearly
SIO,OOO were stolen. After a desperate
struggle the thief was captured as he
was leaving the house. The prisoner
was searched and the diamonds found
in his pockets. He says that his name
is John Davis, 29 years of age, and that
>heis a stenographer. ,
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THE CIVIL SERVICE
Scored in a Sensational Speech
By a Republican
Lustily Applauded By Many of His
Colleagues-House Adjourns
Until Monday,
Washington, Dec. 10 —A’fthe open
ing of the session of the house it was
agreed that when the house adjourned
it be to meet on Monday.
On motion of Mr. Foss (Rep., Ills )
Saturday, Dec. 18, was set apart for
paying tribute to the memory of the
late E D. Cooke of Illinois.
The house then resumed the consid
eration of the pension appropriation
bill.
Mr. Brown (Rep., O.) attacked the
civil service law because it protected
some of the pension examining boards
appointed under the last administra
tion. He styled it an “abomination,”
and was lustily applauded by many of
his colleagues. He said the soldiers of
his district regarded this law as inimical
to their interests and he favored its re
peal or radical modification.
He declared that the president was
mistaken when he affirmed that the
oivil service law had the approval of the
people. The Republicans and the press
of his district had denounced it. The
last Republican State convention of
Ohio had declared against the law and
on the platform he stood.
HARVEY ALLENDER HANGS.
The California Double Murderer Executed
at San Queutiu Penitentiary.
San Francisco, Dec. 10. Harvey
Allender, the double murderer of San
Jose, was hanged at San Quentin peni
tentiary. The crime for which Allen
der paid the extreme penalty was a
most revolting one. prompted by jeal
ousy. He was infatuated with Miss
Wallberga Feilmer, au intelligent, in
dustrious girl of irreproachable charac
ter, who repulsed him and became be
trothed to Viuauzi Orossetti, an Italian
blacksmith, about 24 years of age.
After having repeatedly threatened
the couple, Allender met them walking
together along Third street, San Jose,
on the afternoon of Aug. 19, 1893. He
accosted the girl and as she attempted
to pass him Allender drew a revolver
and shot her in the neck. She fell to
the sidewalk and Allender then fired
again, killing her as she lay at his feet.
Orossetti attempted to arrest and dis
arm the murderer, but Allender turned
his pistol upon him and shot him in the
abdomen, inflicting a fatal wound.
Later Allender was arrested and at
tempted to commit suicide.
A BOILER MAKER’S PERIL.
Michael Purcell of ’Frisco Narrowly Es
cupes Death by Burning.
San Francisco, Dec. 10. Michael
Purcell, a boiler was making
some repairs inside the smokestack of
the steamer Wellington, at the Folsom
street wharf, when six fires were started
below him. He was strapped to a chair
suspended from the top of the s ack
about 40 feet from the dampers below.
It was impossible to go up and to go
down without assistance meant roasted
alive on the hot dampers.
Dense volumes of 'hot smoke began
rolling up the stack while Purcell loudly
shouted for help. The heat increased
every moment until the boiler maker’s
clothes caught fire. He beat on the iron
with all his power and shouted for fully
ten minutes before his helper on the out
side, Martin Philpot, realized his plight
and rescued him just as the rope sup
porting him was catching fire.
Purcell lies at his home in a critical
condition.
Strike Catpes a 'hooting.
Knoxville. Dec. 10.—The strike in
TLintrock company’s coal mines at Almy
has culminated in the shooting of two
miners. They are William West and
James Garber. Both were shot from
ambush, and it is not known who their
would-be murderers are. Neither was
fatally hurt. A number of men have
gone to work on the day shaft, but are
being blacklisted. Further trouble is
predicted and the company has sent for
bloodhounds.
Burned Alive T
New York, Dec. 10.—A dispatch to
The Herald from Madrid says: A storm
of indignation has been provoked here
by news of tortures inflicted by the
Cuban rebels upou the inhabitants of
Guisa, women and children being bound
and burned alive. The details are given
by The Imparcial, a paper by no means
favorable to the present government
policy, and the news is now officially
confirmed. One of the ministers says
that as far is known at present the only
crime the unfortunate creatures appear
to have been guilty of is that they fa
vored the acceptance of autonomy.
To Huild Two More Tracks.
Philadelphia, Dec. 10.—The Penn
sylvania Railroad company will begin
at once their proposed improvements on
its line west of Altoona. There are to
be constructed two additional tracks
between Altoona and the Horseshoe
Curv“. and from that point to the tun
nel on the main bne near Gallitzin
there is to be one additional track con
structed. When this work is finished
there will be four tracks from Altoona
to the Horseshoe Curve and three tracks
from the Horseshoe Curve to the tunnel.