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SENSATION
IN ATLANTA
Editor of Looking Glass
Slapped in the Face,
HE DRAWS A PISTOL
Cry Solicitor O’Neill Denounces a Story
Published as a Lie,
CHARGE ABOUT POKER PLAYING
SEDUCTIVE GAME IN BRUNSWICK
Ihe Looking Glass Said That the Fining
of the Savannah Men Was An Outrage.
More Trouble Expected.
Atlanta, Dec. 18. A very sensational
encounter occurred here today between
Orth Stein, editor of the Looking Glass,
and Solicitor O’Neill, of the city court.
In today’s issue of the Looking Glass a
story was published abo.it the fining of
the Savannah party, SBO each in the city
court for playing poker. Judge Berry
presides over the city court, and Mr.
O’Neill is the solicitor who prosecuted
the Savannahians. It was charged by
the Looking Glass that Judge Berry and
Solicitor O’Neill had be th played peker
at a hotel in Brunswick, and that the
fining of the Savannah gentlemen was an
outrage.
Today O’Neill walked up to Stein in
the lobby of the Kimball house aud
denounced him as a liar, and slapped
his face- Stein drew a pistol, but be
fore be could use it, (Chester Pearce,
representative from Houston county,
caught and held him. The two men
were then separated.
More trouble is anticipated, and it
is said will shoot each other on sight.
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Chicago. Dec. 18.—D. Y?‘l*earson of
Chicago has pledged $25,000 to Olivet
colege, Mien , ou condition that the col
lege raises $75,000 more within a year.
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CHRISTMAS AND HOLIDAY EDITION
THE ROHE TRIBUNE.
HIS POLITICAL PLANS
Cev. Atkinson Is Said. To Be
Laying Broad Ones
He Wants to Go to U. S. Senate
and For Terrell to be the Next
Governor—Trip to. Mexico
Atlanta, Dec. 18.—It is announced
here that Gov. Atkinson and Attorn
ey General Terrell are laying big poli
tical plans for the future. They have
entrenching themselves in power, and
will continue to do so.
Atkinson expects to succeed Bacon
in the senate and Terrell hopes to be
the next governor.
The political slate is said to be
made up.
Gov. Atkinson to Mexico.
Atlanta, Dec. 18.—Gov. Atkinson
and a party of friends are preparing
to take a trip to Mexico shortly after
Christmas. They will travel in a
special ear and expect to be gone a
month.
CYRUS WILL HANG.
The Slayer of Annie Johnson Dies Next
Wednesday.
Atlanta, Dec. 18.—Tom Cyrus, the
negro who killed his mistress Annie
Johnson, will be hung next Wednes
day.
Annie Johnson was at one time Mrs.
W. Y. Atkinson’s maid.
BEARD’S NECK IS BROKEN.
Fourteen.Y«ar>Old Negro Boy Hanged at
Car roll toe For Assault.
Birmingham, Ala, Deo. 18.—Bud
Beard, a negro, aged 14 years, was
hanged at Carrollton, Pickens county.
Beard assaulted the 8-year-old daughter
of Ben Crockett, a farmer, at Reform,
Ala, in December.
Beard was cutting wood near the
house of Crockett, who employed him.
The 8 year-old girl was picking up chips
near by. The negro assaulted the child
aud fled to the woods. He was ruu
down and confessed aud was jailed be
fore efforts to lynch him could be put
into effect. «
Afterwards he was removed tfflputaw
to thwart a mob, aud the jail there
guarded by troops. When he was taken
back to Carrollton, a week later, for
trial, au augry crowd gathered and the
sheriff feared that if he undertook to
carry .his prisoner to jail the negro
would be lynched. He was kept in the
courthouse until the Warrior guards
arrived from Tuscaloosa and prevented
the threatened lynching. .
After his conviction Beard was lodged
in Birmingham jail for safekeeping,
where he remained until two days ago,
when he was taken, to Oarrollton to die.
THE ROME TRIBUNE, ROME, GA, SUNDAY DECEMBER 19, 1897.—TWENTY PAGES.
Washington, Dec. 18. —Both branches
of congress have adjourned until Jan. 5..
Very little has been accomplished by
either house since the formal opening
two weeks ago, but it is expected that
the lawmakers of the nation will settle
down to bard work after the holiday
recess, when many important matters
are to come before them for action,
among which may be mentioned the
various appropriation bills, a currency
measure, the Klondike relief question
and possbly a Cuban resolution.
Only a few senators and representa
tives will spend their Christmas in this
city, the majority of them having al
ready left for their homes in different
parts of the country.
This being the last day of the session
before the holidays, the chaplain of the
house took occasian in his opening
prayer to refer to the approaching sea
son of peace and good will, and to pay
a tribute to the late Representative
Cooke of Illinois.
The conference report to the emer
gency relief measure for the Klondike
country was presented and agreed to.
It compromises the amount of the re
lief fund at $200,000.
OUTLINE OF HOUSE WORK.
Appropriation Bills to Be Reported After
the Holiday Recess
Washington, Dec. 18.—The program
of the appropriation bills to be reported
to the house has been outlined In a gen
eral way. The appropriations commit
tee will get to work ou the District of
Columbia bill just before congress con
venes after the holiday recess and it
will be several weeks before it can be
put in shape for report.
The next bill the committee will take
up is the fortifications and the sundry
civil bill will be brought up late in Feb
ruary or Mdrch, as now indicated.
Meantime the urgency deficiency bill
will be taken up and put through. All
these will originate with the appropria
tion* committee. The army bill will be
reported to the full committee in the
first week after the recess and will go
to the house probably early the follow
ing week. It will carry a large decrease
from the estimates, though an increase
over the last year’s appropriations.
The agiicultural bill will be finished
by the subcommittee the first week af
ter the recess and will be reported im
mediately. The naval bill is now pend
ing the consideration of the committee.
The poatoffice appropriation bill may be
called up on Monday if the subcommit
tee is here then, but at any rate will
not be reported until the middle or lat
ter part of January.
CHANGE IN CIVIL SERVICE.
Kopublican Honne Member* framing it
Bill to Reform the Law.
Washington, Dec. 18.—The Republi
can members of the house who are
framing a bill to reform the civil ser
vice law have not yet got together to
draft their measure. Chairman Hep
burn of the special committee that has
the matter in charge says he expects
the bill to be matured soon after the
holiday recess closes. Thue' far, how
ever, he aud his associates on the spe
cial committee have not discussed the
form tbiMhe reform
Representative’Tawney, wno is cnair
man of the committee to look up evi
dence Os the maladministration of the
present law. is making an elaborate col
lection of the material calculated to
show defects in the law and its enforce
ment.' He will supplement this with
a careful review of the law in the case,
the purpose being to show that the orig
inal law never contemplated the wide
application which it is given, and that
the powers exercised by the civil service
commission are supported only by usage
and not by law.
Mr. Tawney says the powers exer
cised by the commission have stood
merely because they were not contested
by any legal process which would se
cure a rtrict adherence to the law.
THE ALASKAN RELIEF BILL.
Military to Be Used in Carrying Oat Pre
▼talons of the Measure.
Washington, Dec. 18. When the
Klondike relief bill, which has passe '.
both branches of congress, gets into
conference, a provision will be added
giving the war department authority to
use the military arm of the government
in the execution of the relief measures.
While there is little doubt as to the
right to detail officers and men for this
purpose, yet the department officials
want specific authority in order to ob
viate any question as to using the mili
tary arm for civilian purposes.
I It is not anticipated that a large mili
tary foroe will be required. It ha* been
itated to member* of congress that the
officers to have charge of the expedit on
have not yet been selected. The selec
tion will not, however, come from the
highest rank of the army, as it is felt
that from the grades of captain, major
or colonel a choice can be made which
will insure the executive ability neces
sary for the execution of such a task.
The war department authorities look
with much favor on this expedition, as
it will draw officer* and men from the
inactivities of garrison life and give
them a mission in which courage and
daring analogous to that of actual mili
tary service will be required.
MORE NAMED BY M’KINLEY.
The President Sends a Number of Nomi
nation* to the Senate.
Washington, Dec. 18.—The president
has sent the following nominations to
the senate:
Treasury—William P. Williams, to
t>e assistant treasurer of the United,
States at Chicago; William Penn Nixon,
collector of customs for the district of
Chicago; Archibald A. Young, surveyor
of customs for the port of Indianapolis;
Henry 0. Greuuer, collector of interna)
revenue for the First district of Mis
souri; John H. Walkeuhorst, appraisei
of merchandise at the port of Sr. Louis;
John L. Hodges, assayer in charge of
the mint at Denver; Joseph Spear, Jr.,
surveyor of customs in the district ol
San Francisco.
Justice—John O. Ames, marshal of
the United States for the northern dis
trict of Illinois; Frank W. Parker and
John R. McFie. associate justice of the
supreme court of the territory of New
Mexico; James L. Martin, attorney of
the United States for the district of
Vermont.
Postmaster—L. F. Watson, at Wat
seka, Ills.
State—George L. Dart of Pennsylva
nia, to be consul at Martinique, West
Indies.
HEAVY LOSS
BYFLAMES
LaFayette College Suf
fers From Fire.
GREAT PARDEE HALL
Magnificent Four Story Stone Structure
Badly Damaged.
CENTER AM WEST WING GUTTED
Flames Discovered Early, But
Had Already Done Damage,
PROFESSORS LOSE COSTLY PROPERTY
Ward Library, Consisting of 10,000 Vol
umes and Valuable Museum of Min
erals and Birds Totally Destroyed,
Easton, Pa., Dec. 18—Pardee Hall,
the magnificent 4-story stone structure
I that stood ou the brow of College hili,
■, this city, and was the pride of Lafayette
college, was badly damaged by fire.
) Only the east wing was saved from the
flames. The center of the structure
and the entire west wing were gutted
aud only the blackened walls are left
standing.
Besides the damage to the building,
thousands of dollars worth of valuable
property belonging to professors at the
college were destroyed by the flames.
A heavy portion falls on J. Masidou
Porter, professor of topographical en
gineering. His machinery, instruments,
etc., were valued at $15,000, on which
there was no insurance. Dr. T. O. Por
ter’s botanical collection, probably the
finest in the United States, was also
destroyed.
The'Ward library, consisting of 10,-
000 volumes of valuable books, is in
ruins along with a valuable museum of
minerals and birds. The fire was dis
covered at sa. m., but it had evidently
been burning a long time. The fl sines
raged so fiercely and spread so rapidly,
aided by a stiff wind from the west,
• that for three hours... the jrork of. the
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CZAR IS IN CHARGE
Aoßounced That Russians
Have Port Arthur.
Place Will be Used by Nicholas as
Headquarters For His Fleet In
the Far East
London, Dec. 18. —A dispatch to The
Standard from Vienna says it is ru
mored there that the Russians have oc
cupied Port Arthur.
Port Arthur, which is situated at the
extremity of the Leao- Long peninsula,
has practically been in the hands of
Russia for some time past. After the
Japanese evacuated the port, which was
the scene of the terrible massacre of
' Chinese by Japanese, Russian engineers
began supervising the reconstruction of
the docks and forts which had been de
stroyed by the Japanese previous to
leaving the place.
Previous to tne war between China
and Japan, Port Arthur was the largest
naval station possessed by the Chinese
and was strongly fortified. There was
a naval dockyard there, built by the
French company, a large refitting basin
with a depth of 25 feet at low water,
spacious wharves and quays, two docks,
one 400 feet long, and facilities for re
pairing ships of all sizes, from ironclads
to torpedo boats. Tne foundries and
workshops were constructed on the
most improved models and contained
the best modern machinery. Japan
was very anxious to hold Port Arthur
permanently, but Russia strongly ob
jected and would have backed up hex
objection by force.
Russia’s great anxiety to possess Port
Arthur is due to the fact that the har
bor is free from ice all the winter, which
is not the case with Vladivostock, the
present headquarters of the Russian
fleet in the far east. It is proposed to
connect Port Arthur with the Russiau
railroad, now being built through Man
cheria, which in turn will connect with
the great Transsiberian railroad. ,
Engineers' strike finding.
London, Dec. 18.—The joint commit
tee of masters and engineers are said to
have reached an agreement on the three
principal points in dispute—freedom of
employment, piece work and overtime.
When the other points are settled the
committee will report to the conference.
Blsmnrek Rapidly Declining.
London, Deo. 18 —A special dispatch
from Hamburg says: Prince Bismarck,
who braced up for his visit, has lapsed
into his former weakness, despondency
and persistent insomnia. Mentally and
physically Prince Bismarck is rapidly
declining -
firemen v>as ■’* n'u’iVul,. Then .X'dc'uhie
from Phillipsburg, N. J.
The students suceeded in carrying
from the building many valuable in
struments, books, experimental plants,
eta The fire originated in the biolog
ical laboratory.
The loss will probably reach $200,000;
insurance. 9180-000. , w