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ESTABLISHED 1887.
DUBIGNON |
IS IN IT
He Will Enter Race
For Governor,
ATLANTA SPECIALS
Tabernacle Being fixed Up For the
Great Confederate Reunion.
PARDON BOARD HAS TWO SESSIONS
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Recommend Reduction of Sen
tence of W. E. Sanders,
SHIPPING CLERK STOLE GOODS
Nothing Pone On Tom Cyrus’ Case—Dirty
Trick of Republicans to Oust
Democrats.
Atlanta, Dec. 28.—8 y special ap
pointment, Hon. Fleming dußignon,
Senator Clay, Judge Gober and other
friends of the first named met here to
day.
It was definitely .decided that Mr,
dußignon would be in the race for
governor. Some sort of formal an
nouncement it is expected will be
made soon.
For the Great Confedera eßeunion.
Atlanta, Dec. 28—A meeting will
be held tomorrow to organize a stock
company to take charge of the Sam
Jones tabernacle. It will be fixed up for
thereunion of the Confederate veterans
i ext summer. It is tl e !arg< st rssembly
hall in the city.
Later on this tabernacle company will
tear down the present structure and
build an auditorium.
Pardon Board Meets.
Atlanta, Dec. 28.—The peniten
tiary commissioners held two ses
sions today to act .on applications for
pardons. No decision was reached in
the Tom Cyrus case.
It was decided to recommend that
the sentence of W. E. Sanders, the
young shipping clerk of Draper, Moore
& Co., for three years be reduced to
one year. He has served nearly one
year. He is not twenty-one years old
and is of a good family.
To Oust a Democrat,
Atlanta, Dec. 28.—The republi
cans are resorting to dirty tricks here
to oust democrats. James T. Payne
is chief janitor of the custom house
and has four negroes under him. His
salary is SI,BOO per year and he is
virtually custodian. He holds his of
fice under civil service rples. A few
days ago he received orders from
Washington to clean out spittons,
sweep stairways, etc.
He refused to do this, as he has ne
gro help for menial work. Charges
have been preferred against him, and
the republicans will try to have him
removed.- Abotix fifteen or twenty
different republicans want his job.
REM CRAWFORD.
Atlanta Constitution Has a New and Bril
liant Night Editor.
Atlanta, Dec., 28.—The many
friends of Mr, Remsen Crawford will
be glad to learn that he has returned
to the city and has been given tbe po
sition of night editor on the Consti
tution.
Mr. Crawford entered the profession
of journalism some years ago, and ac
cepted a position as a city reporter on
the Constitution seven or eight years
ago. His capacity for work and re
liability as a reporter soon won for
him the confidence and esteem of his
employers, as his geniality of disposi
tion and polished manners won for
him the respect and admiration of bis
associates.
Sometime afterwards he'accepted
the position of editor of tbe Athens
Banner, but after a short experience
in that sort of work he resigned and
returned to his old work on the Con
stitution.. Having been offered' a
lucrative position with tbe Plant Sys
tem, he accepted it, and was connect*
ed with that great corporation for
several years, when he left it and was
’connected with tbe Savannah Morn
ing News for a time, and then accept
ed the position of Macon correspond
ent of the Constitution.
THE ROITE TRIBUNE.
POETESS LOVED HER
The Strange Case of Orelia
Key Bell and Mrs. Asbury
It Seems That the Atlanta Poetess
Became Completely Infatuated
With the Young Woman.
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Blackshear, Ga., Dec. 28—There
have been rather romantic and peculiar
developments io the Asbury case.
Orelia Key Bell, famed as an Atlanta
poetess, became infatuated with Mrs.
Asbury who before her marriage was
Miss Ashe. It seems that the young lady
visited Miss Bell in Atlanta. As Miss
Bell indited sonnets to her she became
more attached to her.
Finally Miss Bell arranged for her
cousin, Prof. Asbury to marry Miss Ashe
and she went to live with them.
Prof. Asbury has fallen short of his
wife’s ideal of what a husband should
be, and a family quarrel has ensued.
ARRESTED AT ANNISTON.
J. A. Edwards is Charged With Larceny
After Trust.
The police at Anniston have ar
rested J. A. Edwards on warrants
sworn out byC H. Cuuyus, of Rome,
charging him with larceny after trust,
It seems that Edwards, vho ped
dles oils, drugs, etc., bought a horse
and buggy from W. D. Cunyus in Oc
tober, for which he paid only a small
amount.
He claimed be had left the team in
Alabama, and on December 15 got an
other horse and bugg r Q*om W. D.
Cmyus. He promised to send back
ttie money for both at once.
Nothing was heard from him. In
vestigations made by C. H. Cunyus
showed that he had sold tbe first horse
and buggy at Rock Run, Ala., far S6O
cash.
When this was learned W. D. jfun
yus left for that place to investigate
the matter. He is now in Alabama.
Last night C. H. Cunyus said he
could forward requisition papers and
have Edwards brought here for trial.
THAT GREAT WHEAT DEAL.
Leiter Wine a Victory In Hl* Flight With
a Grain Elevator Owner.
Chicago, Dec. 28.—Joseph Leiter has
apparently won a victory in his fight
with George A. Seaverns. the grain
elevator owner, as to the quality of
wheat to be delivered on Leiter’s con
tracta Leiter’s commission men, Al
exander Geddes & Co., sent the steamer
Iron King last week to Seaverns* ele
vator, the Alton, to load with No. 2 red
winter wheat. By the time 8,000 bush
els of the steamer’s cargo of 75,000
bushels had been spouted into its hold
Leiter’s private inspectors turned the
wheat down. They declared it not up
to the contract. Mr. Seaverns now
offers to take the wbeat out of the ves
sel. and to give a different grade.
Leiter and his commission men say
the big fight of the great wheat deal is
now on; that they intend to get just
the kind of wheat they bought and no
poorer. They have a fleet of vessels, of
which the Iron King is only one, ready
to take all the No. 2 red winter wheat
for which they hold contracts in the
Alton elevator, about 270,000 bushels.
It is understood that the elevator peo
ple will move wheat already in the boat
and tender a new lot Exciting times
may follow. The Leiter people look for
the same sort of wheat over again,
claiming that the Alton grain has been
mixed down too fine and that it is too
late to change it If this happens the
private inspectors employed by Leiter
will protest the appeals committee will
at once be called anew and the fight will
be made over again.
If it should happen that the appeals
committee should throw out any quan
tity of grain tendered by any elevator a
sensation might follow. The state grain
inspection department has inspected the
grain in the houses, thereby permitting
warehouse receipts to be issued against
it The state could be.held responsible
in case it developed its employes had
been too lenient.
There are about 8 a .000,000 bushels of
contract wheat in the Chicago elevators.
Leiter owns it all. It is still in the pos
session of the elevator .people. Certain
cargoes were taken from Armour and
found very satisfactory. It is, however,
only as Leiter begins to load wheat out
of the elevators that he can tell what
kind of grain he is to get on hie cow
tracta
' FOUND I '
Hilton Trophy Was In Express Office in
Washington.
Washington, Dec. 28.—The Hiltoa
trophy won by Savannah marksmen at
Sea Girt. N. J., last summer, which it
was supposed was lost has been * found
here.
It was in the Adams express office. A
lot of charges were due on it, and it was
mixed up in red tape.
ROME, GA., WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 139. 1897.
GAGE TO
RESIGN
He Has Offered to Quit
His Job.
IF MONETARY VIEWS
He Holds Ara FmbarassiDg to tbe Ad
ministration.
PROMPTLY REFUSED BY M’KINLEY
Believed That the Report Is
Substantially Correct.
DID NOT WANT HIM TO RES>Gi
What Assistant Secretary Vanderlip Has
To Say On the Subject—Ordered
To Hold Office.
Washington. Dec. 29 Assistant Sec
retary Vuuuerlip, wneu asked concern
ing a ieport that Secretary Gage had
tendered his resignation and that Mr.
McKinley had re:used to accept it. said:
"There is nothing lu it”
The report in question gave Mr. Van
derlip as authority for the assertion
Secretary Gage himself has left for New
York.
Mr. Vanderlip, when questioned
further, said that so far as he was
quoted as authority for the assertion lie
could say that there was nothing in it.
for he had never so stated to any pprsop
As to whether or not Mr.’ Gage had
offered to resign and Mr. McKinley had
refused to accept it, he (Vanderlip)
could say nothing, for he did not know
Whether it were so or not.
It is believed in some usually well in
formed circles that the report is sub
stantially correct, but that there was no
formal tender of a resignation.
It is regarded as probable that at some
conversation with the president Mr.
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LYMAN 3. GAGE.
Gage, In an informal way, said that he
would resign if his financial views were
embarrassing to the administration and
that the president, in reply, stated very
positively that he did not want his sec
retary of the treasury to do any such
thing.
It is learned furthermore that at the
time of this conversation, the president
informed Mr. Gage that their views
were iu accord and that he must not
think of resigning. It is regarded cer
tain that Mr. Gage will remain iu office.
A BIG DAMAGE SUIT FILED.
Woman Wants Fifteen Thousand Dollars
For Death of Her “usband.
Marietta. Ga., Dec. 28. —An im
portant damage suit has been filed iu
the superior court of this county against
the Western and Atlantic railroad.
The suit arises over the killing of W.
W. Combs, Who was a brakeman on
that road, - during last August His
wife, Mrs. Lizzie Combs, who lives at
Ringgold, is the plaintiff iu the case,
and she asks that the road pay her $15,-
000 for the killing of her husband.
The accident which resulted in the
death of Combs was a peculiar one. He
came to Marietta on a freight train and
was doing some switching iu the yard.
While putting a car iu a sidetrack he
started across a track to signal the en
gineer, and his foot was caugot between
a switchbar and tie. Before the train
was stopped it had struck him aud one
car passed over his body.
Despite careful ine.ical atteutiop
Combs died of ins injuries.
Britain Keaoy to Fight.
London, Dec. 28.—The Globe says a
private telegram has reached London
announcing that over 20 British war
ships have' at J*ort Hamilton.
SPAN.ARD HAS A SAY
Minister Delome Talks of Co
ban Relief Measure.
Characterizes the Report That the
Method Adopted By Uaited
States to Help Sufferers
Washington. Dec. 28.—Mr. Dnpur
Delome, the Spanish minister, expresses
strong disapproval of reports that th--
relief measures adopted by the United
States, aud co operated in by Spain, are
a step toward intervention by this gov
ernment in the affairs of Cuba. The
minister characterizes such reports as
■n effort to mix politics with charity,
and as calculated to excite ill feeling
which will embarrass the charitable
movement and impede its execution in
Havana and throughout the island. Rj
fern ng to the subject he said:
“This talk of intervention in certain
quarters has no other purpose than to
embitter both coun’ries and to diver!
the original essential purpose of alms
giving. The extension of aid to the
sufferers in Cuba is no more interven
tion than was the action of all the na
tious of the world—including Spain—
to send help to Chicago after the big
fire, or that of the United States iu
sending a ship load of grain to Russia
and last year to India aud to the city of
London in sending food and money to
Paris wheu the siege by the Germans
was raised.”
Turning to a dispatch just received
from Dr. Oougosto, secretary general at
Havana, the minister proceeded, quoting
In part from the dispatch:
"It is not true that the Spanish au
thorities in Cuba are not equal to the
situation. Succor is being given abund
antly aud relief committees are in regu
lar operation. In two of the provinces—
Puerto Principe and Santiago—there
has been no concentration. Forty plan
tations are grinding sugar and there is
ample work for those who want it.
Many of the recoucentrados who are
reported to be suffering are iu such con
dition through an unwillingness to
work.
“It is perfectly well understood that
the American help will be received With
the spirit that it is given aud the Amer
ican government—as Secretary Sherman
expressed, it in his recent letter—offers
the well known generosity of American
people in the same spirit that they have
accepted foreign help in cases of public
calamity.”
TO INSPECT A PARK SITE.
Bonne Committee on Military -Affiles Will
Vielt Vicksburg, Mis*.
Memphis, Dec. 28.—The house com
mittee on military affairs, headed by
Oongressmr i Catchings of Mississippi,
passed through this city on a special
train, enroute to Vicksburg, to inspect
the proposed site for a naval military
park It was expected that the delega
tion would be re- enforced here 'by Con
gressman Brownlow of the First Ten
nessee district, but illness in his family
prevented his leaving home.
Tbe committee will remain at Vicks
burg 36 hours and will then go to Chick
amauga to inspect the park there.
Five members of the congressional
party submitted to interviews and de
clared in favor of national control of
quarantine regulations iu times of epi
demic.
A Big Cattle Owner Killed.
Baker Oner, Or., Dec. 28.—A tele
phone message to The Democrat from
Canyon City brings the news of the
killing of Peter French, a prominent
cattle and land owner of Harney county,
by a man named Oliver. The victim
was shot in the back of the head, the
bullet coming out between the eyes. A
laud dispute is said to be the cause of
the trouble. French is prob .biy the
largest cattle owner iu Oregon, his
herds running into the thousands. He
also owns many thousands of acres of
land ju southeastern Oregon and em
ploys several hundred men on his ranch.
Tarheel Negro Iu Trouble.
New York, Dec. 28.—J. W. Harris, a
North Carolina negro, was arraigned
here on the charge of sending threaten
ing letters to William K Vanderbilt,
Charles Broadway Rouss, Jobn Wana
maker and other prominent men. The
letters demanded money under threats
of personal violence and alleged that
the writer was a member of a society
formed to extort relief from millionaires
at any price. As no one appeared to
prosecute Harris, he was committed tt
the workhouse as a vagrant.
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tool linkers Korin a I rust.
Pittsburg, Dec. 28.—Eighty per cent
of the edge tool manufacture's in the
United States have consolidated their
interests and have arranged for the
erection of a new plant near Charleroi,
about 40 miles south of this city on the
Monongahela river. The concern will
be known as the American Ax and Tool
company, aud wiil have a capital stock
of $2,000,00V The consolidation plant
will be in operation within six weeks.
Cremated In His Rwid.nce.
Cincinnati, Dec. 2& Martin E
Ohristein, an old and prominent citizen
of Newport, was burned to death in his
residence. A mysterious explosion was
heard in his house, and a fire quickly
followed consuming the building aud
burning Mr. Ohristein with it. There
is no known cause for the explosion.
No coal oil or other explosive was kept
iu the house.
BAD FOR
THEBARBER
Gnarles Zanoli May Be
Tried For Murder.
BIS FOURTH WIFE
Three Distinct Poi ons Discovered in
Chemical Analysis.
SUSPECTED OF SLAYING SEVERAL
Mercury, Arsenic and Zinc
Were Discovered,
COLLECTED THE INSURANCE MONEY
Examination Is Now Being Hade By An
Expert—Damaging Discoveries
Are Made.
New York. Dec. 28. The Herald
says: Three distinct poisons have been
discovered as a result of chemical anal
ysis iu the body of the fourth wife of
Charles Zanoli. who collected insurance
money on the lives of at least five per
sons. He is suspected of being respon
sible for some of these deaths and is
now in the Tombs awaiting the termi
nation of the tests begun by Professor
Witthaus, the chemical expert em
ployed by the district attorney?
The professor has found traces of ar
senic, mercury and zinc iu the parts of
the body of Jenny Suhmer—Mrs. Za
noii No. 4—given to him for an analysis.
She died, supposedly of typhoid fever,
last August. Notwithstanding his dis
covery, Professor Witthaus does not
feel justified yet in making a report to
the district attorney that death was due
to poisoning, for the presence of arsenic,
zinc and mercury might be accounted
for as a result of the use of embalming
fluid by the undertaker who prepared
the body for burial. This must be in
vestigated and. Professor Witthaus will
not complete his analysis for at least a
week.
Zanoli will not be brought into court
again until tin findings of Professor
Witthaus can be placed in evidence.
Professor Witthaus has been working
days, nights, Sundays and holidays on
the case and does not expect to be able
to make a report for several days.
Assistant District attorney Van Wyck,
who has the Zanoli cnee in charge, had
a long interview with the professor in
the latter’s laboratory. He called there
by appointment to learn if possible if
enough progress had been made in the
analysis to. furnish information on
which to base a 1 ’.ore serious charge
against Zanoli. He did learn that the
three poisonous substances mentioned
had been discovered, but until he has
information to dispell the doubt as to
whether or not the poisons may have
been part of the embalming fluid used,
he will not change the charge standing
against the barber who has collected so
many life insurance policies.
When the autopsy on the body of the
fourth Mrs. Zanoli was performed an
examination was made of the arms to
see if there were any evidence of any
drugs have been administered hypoder
mically. So far as could be judged there
was no evidence to sustain this suspicion.
LARGE FIRE AT DETROIT.
Over a Hundred Thousand Holl ir. Worth
of Property Wiped Oat.
Detroit, Dec. 28.—The Arcade build
ing, owned by the Heiuetnan estate, on
West Larned street, burned, completely
destroying* the paper stock of William
0. Jupp, the stock and plant of Charles
L Roehm & Son, wholesale stationers,
and the stock of perfume materials of
the Elysium Manufacturing company.
The fi-story structure to the west of
the Arcade, occupied by the . Detroit
Free Press Printing company, was for
a time threatened with destruction.
The building was flooded with water
aud the stocks aud plants of the Free
Press Printing company, Vliff & Hig
gins, book binders, aud the Habbin En
graving company were nearly ruined.
The total loss on the two buildings
and their contents wiil reach $125,000,
of which the Free Pr ss Printing com
pany sustains about $60,000, with $45.-
000 insurance. Tue other losses are
fairly covered by insurance. Cause of
the fire is unknown.
Ballet Far a Wile Beater.
Blackshear, Ga., Dec. 2&—Very
meager details of a homicide committed
iu Wayue couuty have just reached
here. Clint Henderson was killed by
youug Berry Morgau, both parties being
white. Henderson was killed for beat
ing his wife, who is Morgan’s step
daughter ....
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ACTOR SENUROUND
The Man Who Beat His Wife
Given Six Months Trim.
Convicted Matinee Favorite Sen
tenced In Presence of a Great
Crowd
New York. Dec. 28.—Edward J. Rat
tliffe, the actor who was found guilty
of assault in the third degree for strik-
EDWARD 3. RAT CLIFFS.
Ing his wife, has been sentenced to six
months in the penjtentiary.
Lawyer Towns, counsel for Ratcliffe,
made a motion for a new trial, which
was denied. Mr. Towns said that* there
was some justification for the assault.
Judge Newberger looked at Mr. Towns
in astonishment and said:
"I am surprised to hear counsel make
such an admission. ”
The judge, after referring to the
recommepdation for mercy made by the
jury, said:
"Wife beating may be popular in
some countries, but not iu America. I
propose in your case to mete out such
punishment as will serve as a warning
to others that they must not reapeat an
offense of this kind. ”
Ratcliffe was taken to the peniten
tiary on Blackwell’s island, where he
will be confined at hard labor. This
does not carry with it the deprivation of
civil rights that is involved in a state
prison sentence.
A large crowd was present to hear the
actor sentenced. Mrs. Ratcliffe aud
her father, Peter Delacy, were absent.
MAN SHOT WHILE IN JAIL.
Mineworker Killed by a Relative of La.
dies He Had Insulted.
Birmingham, Ala., Dea 28 —At Bes
semer, J. H. Howell, a mine foreman,
aftf d 38 years, was arrested on complaint
of Mrs. Tom Collius, wife of a promi
nent saloonkeeper of that place, who
informed the police that while she aud
her daughter were going home about
dark Howell followed them for some
distance and acted in away that fright
ened them. .
Au hour or two after Howell had
been jailed, Co.lius went to the prispu
and asked to be allowed to see him.
The request was granted. Ou approach
ing the cell Collins pulled a pistol and
shot Howell through the heart. Collins
was at once taken into custody and sent
here to the county jail.
Collins claims that he killed Howell
to protect his wife aud daughter aud
that he is glad he did it.
Stenographers on a 'trike.
Chicago. Dec. 28.—Stenographers em
ployed by the defense in the Luetgert
case have struck, aud the defense may
have to depend npon the notes taken by
the state’s attorneys’ stenographers if
it is found necessary to take the case to
the supreme court. Attorney Harmon,
it is said, will ask the court to require
tue state to furnish the defense with a
copy of the testimony each day, on the
ground that Luetgert has no money to
pay for stenographers and that the life
of the prisoner will be imperilled unless
provision is made t'o protect his rights.
Power of Speech Restored.
Louisville, Dec. 28.—Patrick Kelly,
a Bardwood finisher, who, for more than
a year, has been dumb, suddenly re
covered the use of speech during a fit of
anger. He was greatly surprised to
find himself talking and changed his
words from curses to a fervent "thank
God.” He was formerly employed by
Mapleson & Co., at Wilmington. De...
and it was when about to curse one of
the bosses there that hie voice was
palsied.
Japanese Cabinet Kealgng.
Yokohama. Dea 28—Owing to the
failure of the premier, Marquis Saigo,
to reconstruct the cabinet, all the mem
bers of that body have resigned. The
newspapers demand the formation of a
very strong ministry capable of-coping
with the situation iu the east.
No Lynching In AllsalMlppl.
Memphis. Dec. 28.—There has been
no lynching at Glendbra, Miss., reports
to the contrary notwithstanding. One
is hourly looked for, however, as a
posse is raid to be close on the trail of
the negro. Hopkins, who murdered a
couple of white farmers.
fcott " ould Be Secretary.
Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 28.—1 t is
stated here that Colonel S. 8. Scott, uu >
old warhorse of . Lee county, will be in\
the race for secretary of state of Ala
bama Six or seven gentlemen ha.«
already announced fo£_the place. 7