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L THE NEWS, $ evidence that The T appreciated by the T he way Its subscrip- F icreases dally. F 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 •.s' • ’ ' ■ fl 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. —————— # 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. v IP wMBr 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. •• • < s 1 UF" 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 .... SIT IS TRUSTWORTHY. J The one paper that leads— T reaches all classes of people V r —give satisfaction to adver- $ • Users—The Borne Tribune. $ . PBICE FIVE CENTS 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