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Today's Paper Consists . . of . . TWENTY PAGES, 120 Columns. ESTABLISHED 1887 i M -lisrffersi®Bll®JfSS <j* Hl 71 : wm sWW^rli / W)l STATESMEN ADJOURN I FOB THE HOLIDAYS ' /u * ■\wJwli/ ''' *— w! vWim Vlrlffffiuxl' a ° assaDdSenateWitl T akeaVacation ° n ’ l&rSMii ' WjfflWHfWa til January 5tL SamSR 5 t SEYERAL WILL REMAIH 1N — ■ ~. , ’ 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. •M M s.r W|,. r (, 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. \ • . . . "* 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 ; The ’ Best Advertising Medium k . • in , , North Georgia. PRICE FIVE CENTS, ,' 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