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JIT IS TRUSTWORTHY. $ The one paper that lead.— X V reaches all cla..e. of people F T —give eatiafactlon to adver- w V Users—The Rome Tribune. • 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. I '' V . 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 \ * Southern Pacific Train Out in Arizona Was Stopped. ♦ 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. , —— - - * 2 TELLS ALL THE MEWS. $ x The best evidence that The X T Tribune Is appreciatedhy the F w people is the way its subscrip- w * tion list Increases dally. • PRICE FIVE CENTS 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.