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ELLS ALL THE NEWS. Th* bwt evidence that The Tribune i» appreciated by the people is the way Its lubecrlp tion list Increases dally. ESTABLISHED 1887. BIG BANK GOESUNDEB Merchants’and Traders’ at Brunswick Fails, CAPITAL IS SIOO,OOO Majority of Stockholders Solvent and Depositors Won’t Lose a Dollar TROUBLE CAUSED SOME MONTHS AGO Plan to Put Bank In Receivers Hands, Caused DEPOSITORS TO WITHDRAW FUNDS This Compelled Bank Officials to Put Institution Into the Hands of the Court. Other Banks Not Affected. Atlanta, ‘Dec. 29.—A'special to The Journal from Brunswick says: The Merchants’ and Traders’ bank of thia city has failed. The capital stock of the bank is fIOO.OOO. Some months ago there was a plan to put the bank in the hands of u receiver and ever since the depositors have been withdrawing and the bank has been Icsiug outside busi ness to such an extent that it finally de termined to close and let liquidation proceed in the court. A majority oi the stockholders are solvent and the de positors will be paid in full if the court i expenses do not consume all the cash realized. Dr. J. M. Maddox is president and Mr. A H. Lane vice president of the bank. A proposition has been made and is now being considered by the di rectors to raise sufficient cash to pay all depositors and then liquidate. Should au agreement to this end be reached the doors will be reopened, but such a step is improbable. No run will be made on the other banks, the National of Brunswick and the Brunswick Savings and Trust com rpany. These institutions are perfectly and have the confidence of the entire community. They have ample cash on hand for any emergency, how ever. PREFERS A PRISON CELL. Wiatanglll, After Twenty Year* Spent Therein, Declines a Pardon. Columbus, 0., Dec. 29.—01 d Ralph Wintersgill, the Columbiana county murderer who was pardoned by Gov ernor Bushnell on Christmas day, de clines to leave the penitentiary, which has been his home for M years. His son says that he is 76 years old, which is six years older than the prison record indicates. His mind is clear and there is not a suspicion* of insanity. He . is of a lovable disposition and is univer sally liked by the officers and guards, at whose request the pardon was granted. Fifteen years ago Wintersgill asked for a pardon, but since then he has never indicated a desire to be free. He cut his wife’s throat because he believed her faithless and then tried tc cut his own throat. He still breathes through a silver tube inserted in his trocha at times by the surgeons. He waa sentenced to death, but Governoi Young, who succeeded Rutherford B. Hayes, commuted the sentence to life 'imprisonment. When he asked for par don 15 years ago his wife’s relatives op posed it. This had a depressing effect upon him, and he never alluded to the subject again. * NEW YORKER IN TROUBLE. Warrant Oat For the Arrest of a PromU aont Wall Street Man. New York, Dec. 29.—A warrant it out for the arrest of Henry Oliver Gold smith, one of the best known men oi Wall street. The specific charge against him is grand larceny in the first degree for appropriating a check for 13,000, the property of Oscar E. A. Wiessner oi i Brooklyn. I The officials of the district attorney’s I office say that Goldsmith has managed ■ to get away with something like $500.- 000 by operations similar to those which . brought the E. 3. Dean company before I the public. L Goldsmith was indicted by the grand S jury on last Tuesday. Detectives have ■ followed dines all over New Jersey, I Pennsylvania, Boston and other places, | but so far Goldsmith has eluded them. I Goldsmith and a man named Weissner F operated under the firm name of Hoy I & Go. 9 George Hazelweids and William A. Mitel ell, who were their brokers, were three weeks ago fur their part Hi the operations, but the charge! yagaiust th<- x -> have not been .tried. THE ROITE TRIBUNE. AGENT BAS SKIPPED P. H. Mabry, of Brunswick Stole SIO,OOO Young Man Had Always Borne Best of Characters Bruns wick Stirred Up. Brunswick, Dec. 29. -Following fast on the failure of the Merchants’ and Traders’ bank came another sensation here today, and the bank failure pales into insignificance before this new one. P. H. Mabry, local agent of the South ern Express Company, has disappeared with SIO,OOO in money consigned to the National bank and the Merchants’ and Traders’ bank by the Citizens’ bank of Savannah. He may have also taken $4,500 consigned to the Johnson Steam ship Company for transportation. It cannot be learned positively about the latter sum yet, but is absolutely certain that he took SIO,OOO. Mabry was one of the best known and most popular young men in the city, and has always borne the best of character. He was last seen last night about 8 o'clock. He has succeeded in covering up his racks well, but it is more thau probable that he will be caught. COBB CANNOT LIVE, Brilliant Young Atlantlan Is at the Point Os Death. Orlando, Fla,., Dec. 29.—Thomas K. R. Cobb, the brilliant young At lanta lawyer and politician, who came here a short while since for his health, is dying tonight and cannot live until morning. NECK BROKEN. Atlanta Boy Falls Under Wagon and Wheels Pass Over His Neck. Atlanta, Dec. 29.—Carl Chambers, the 9 year old son of a prominent citizen, while riding on a wagon fell to the ground. The wheels passed across bis neck breaking it, death resulting instantly. -a.- • - - —' •. . 9 ' «• No EuoFmpment at Griffin. Atlanta, Dec. 29.—1 tis now proba ble that early in May the soldiers of the state will all be ordered to Chickamauga for five days and that there will be no encampment at Griffin. At least these are the plans which have about been de cided upon by the adjutant general. They may be changed before the time arrives, but it is not probable. The plan of the state authorities is to make the encampment this year more like actual duty than has ever been known to the state troops in any of the en campments heretofore. Reciprocity Negotiation* On. New York, Deo. 29.—A special U The Herald from Washington says: Co incident with the rejection by Lord Salisbury of the latest seal propositior submitted to him by Ambassador Hay, Sir Julian Pauucefote. the British am bassador in Washington, has resumed reciprocity negotiations with Special Commissioner Kasson. Some officer! of the administration believe that on the linking of the reciprocity and th« sealing questions depends the final de cision of Great Britain on both. ▲ Bad Bear-Bud Collision. Decatur, Illa, Dec. 29 The accom modation train on the Wabash railway, which meets No. 16 at Palos, was five minutes late. When all the cars except the rear coach had made the siding Na 16 came along and struck the rear coacL The engine of No. Iff and the rear coach of the accommodation left the track. There was quite a number of passeu gers in the coach. Several received cutt and bruises and among them w»s State Senator John Humphrey, who waa slightly out on the head. Ta. Freuch lake A>wm> Paris, Deo. 29.—The French, it is an nounced, have occupied Qdienne and Sambatigila. It is believed this indi cates that an advance agaiust Chief Samory is imminent. Chief Samory is a West African, chief tain who, for ovei 12 years past, has been the most dan gerous antagonist the Europeans have had to deal with. Yukon Relief Expedition. Vancouver Barracks, Wash., Deo. 29. —Eleven puckers with 60 mules, in charge of Lieutenant Ryan of Fort Robinson, have arrived from Chicago. The party will proceed to Dyea on the next steamer for the purpose of assist ing Major H. L Rucker iu selecting a route tor the government relief ex pedition. Gladstone Is Eighty-Eight. London, Dec. 29.—This being the eigh ty-eighth birthday of the Rt Hod. Wil liam E. Gladstone, the usual congratula tions were sent to Hawarden and Cannes, where Mr. Gladstone is improving, though still juffering £rom neuralgia. ROME. GA., THURSDAY. DECEMBER 30. 1897. MAJ. HANDY VERY ILL He Is At a Noted Resort Near Augusta. FAMODS JOURNALIST Maj. Mises P. Handy. Special Envoy, to the Pjrls Exposition, RECENTLY RETURNED FROM ABROAD Since Then He Has Suffered From Nervous Prostration. C INDITION IS CONSIDERED SERIOUS He Is Now Chief Editorial Writer On the Ch'cago-Times Herald, and His Ar ticle* are Wld-ly Head. Augusta. CL., Dec. 29 —Moses P Haudy, special United Slates commis sioner to the Parii exposition of 1900 is seriously ill at the Bon Air hotel, e winter resort in the fashionable subur- MAJOR MOSES P. HANDY. ban district of this city. Major Handy, accompanied by Lieutenant Baker, U. S. N., auditor to the Spanish commis sioner, together with Mrs. Handy and Mrs. Baker, came to Augusta on Dea 17, suffering from nervous prostration. He has been steadily confined to his house ever since with no sign* of im provement. Major Handy only recently returned from Paris, where he went to secure ■pace for American exhibitors at the great exposition to be held there iu 1900. The United States governmeut will also make a display at the show, and it was Mr. Handy’s work in behalf of his country’s interests that resulted in nervous prostration. He came soutli immediately after reaching New York, in the hope of regaining health, but so far there has been no marked chang-i in his condition. SAVANNAH HAS A STRIKE. Laborer* Putting la the New Sewer Sy.- tem Say Wage* Are Too Low. Savannah, Dec. 29.—About 100 men, all Savannah laborers, who have been employed by Messrs. Delaney & Zips. contractors putting in the new sewer system, have quit and positively refuse to work at the wages being paid. It was understood at the beginning oi the work that the men. were all to be employed from Savannah, and were to receive from $1.25 to $1.50 p r day, ac cording to their capacity. It appears, however, that they have been receiving 10 cents an hour for pretty hard work, and they do not like it. At the present status of the work, however, the contractors have refused tv pay any more, but they do not intend that the work shall be delayed. About 100 hands from Montgomery, Ala., will arrive and will be put right to work. It is expected that this will bring about some trouble, in view of the fact that the claim has been made that this is a Savannah work, being done for the city, and that home labor should be employed. The contractors have been willing to use the home labor, but they do nor want to pay too big a price for it. The Bank t<» L quid ate. Washington, Dec. 29.—Mr. Eckel states that there will be no delay i> placing the Chestnut Street Nations bank in voluntary liquidation in cr.s< the creditors of the bank accept the pla;. proposed by the committee having it jj charge. EXCITING ADVENTURE Two Revenue Officers Pursued By Moonshiners. At Bay In a Mountain Cabin Be tween Rockmart and Dallas All Night. Atlanta, Dec. 29.—Two well-known revenue officers, Pat Moore and J, S. Whatley, returned to Atlanta today and tell a thrilling ’story of their ad ventures in Paulding county. They left Atlanta Monday and went to Douglas county, where they de stroyed several stills. They went then to Dallas, in Pauld ing county, and started out on a raid. They went in a hack, and while in the woods left the hack and driver by the roadside. A crowd of fifteen mount aineers came up and made the hack man leave, following him several miles with bloodhounds. When the revenue officers returned they found their vehicle gone and started out to find a place to spend the night. They came to the home of old lady Smith, between Rockmart and Dallas, and she consented for them to remain until morning. Daring the night the band of moon shiners came and demanded that the revenue officers come out. They re fused and stood in the cabin all night with their weapons ready for instant action. Mrs. Smith stood on the door steps and prayed most of the night. VACCINATION ENDED. Bared Arm* and Legs are No Longer Exposed. Atlanta, Dec. 29.—The vaccine brigade, composed of nearly two-score doctors and as many police, have finally closed up shop, as it were, and it is given out that daring the crusade about 72,000 people have been vacci nated. Mobile the sanitary inspector gives this as .the number that have been harpooned, the prevailing im pression is that not near so many have felt the effects of the knife. The announcement that the cam paign is over, will be hailed with much pleasure, by a large portion of the colored population of Atlanta, who during the last few weeks have run their legs of in an effort to escape the vaccinating brigage. The colored people got it into their heads that the work had been turned over to medi cal students to perform, and that al most daily the students would send one or to negroes to the hospitals to be dissected. Tennessee' M iuer* an Strike. Chattanooga, Deo. 29.—Several hun dred miners at Dayton, Tenn., are on ■trike on account of a notice posted by the Dayton Coal company a few dayi ago, stating that thereafter the men would be docked for all slate found in their oars. The probabilities are that several hundred other men employed at the mines will go out on Jan. 1. A few hundred men at stations along the Cin cinnati Southern, who struokon May 1, are still out. At Paint Rock, Tenn., there has been some trouble between strikers and imported men. The striker! have fired on working miners several times from ambush. Accused of Committing Arson. Springfield, Mass., Deo. 29. —Georgt R. Hodgdon, proprietor of the Haynet hotel in this city and the Tremont hotel in New Haven, Conn., has been ar rested here on a warrant charging him with being an accessory to arson com mitted by Frederick Cook in attempting to set fire to the Tontine hotel in New Haven Christmas night. Cook is said to have made a confession, stating that Hodgdon, who formerly owned the Ton tine, had him S6O to set the hotel on fire. Hodgdon protests his innocence. The Stools holders Must Walt. Atlanta, Dec. 29.—Receiver Ander son of the Southern Mutual Building and Loan association announces that nothing will be paid stockholders for at least six months, as he finds much diffi culty in collecting the assets. Tennes see debtors, he says are especially slow, and nearly all of them must be sued. Georgians are paying up more promptly. Stockholders will probably get about 25 per cent of their claims. Save* the Pacific Fur Seal*. Washington, Dec. 29.—Ex-Secretary of State Foster had a brief conference with the president, after which the president approved the bill “prohibit ing the killing of fur seals in the wa ters of the North Pacific ocean,” passed the day congress adjourned for the holidays. O'Hrleu Escapes Coartmartial. Atlanta, Dec. 29.—Colonel Cook, commandant at Fort McPherson, says all charges against Lieutenant Michael O’Brien for bad conduct in Nashville and Washington have been dropped by the war department. DONS FIND A DEFENDER Pope Sides With Spain in Troubles OVER CUBAN AFFAIR Message Is Transmitted to the Mad rid Government. DISTRICT VICTORY FOR DYNASTY Attitude of Vatican Is Anything But Hostile. CALLS THE CARLISTS TO ACCOUNT He Send* Special Blessing to Loyal Sol dier* —Powerful Influence Excited To Save Spain. New York, Dec. 29.—A special to The Journal and Advertiser from Washing ton says: It is current news iu Catholic circles that on Christmas day the pope made a very important communication to the Spanish government concerning the Cuban war and the attitude of the Vatican toward Spain in the present crisis. About three weeks ago it became known that it had been represented tc the pope through the usual channels of information on this side of the Atlantic, that the cause of Spaiu was lost iu Ouba. Tuis was so powerfully influeno ing European opiuion that the pope took occasion on Christmas to addresi an important communication to his nuncio at Madrid. The pope declares emphatically that the Vatican upholds every form of legal government which is not anti-Christian in its character. He proceeds then tu discuss the Spanish situation and calls the Carlists to account, stating that they no less than other subjects of Spaiu owe implicit allegiance to the reigning mon archy and must not attempt to use the cloak of religion to cover purposes that ■re ulterior to the proper aims aud.ob jects of the church. This will tend tc circumvent the Oar'.Lt plots and iu large degree shear them of importance, as the main hold of the Carlisle hag been the positive sympathy received from the priesthood of Spain. It will solve, or at least modify, the dilemma of the present ministry. Following this pronnnclamento, the pope deals with the existing war and sends his especial blessing to the sol diers of his .odson, the present king ol Spain. Discussing the Cuban question, the positive stetement is made that the Vatican has never made any decision ol announcement that could be construed into an approval of the Cuban cause or disapproval of the conduct of Spain. It has suggested that where possible the rigors of war should be mitigated, but uuder no circumstances has it uttered a word that might tend to encourag.i their patricidal and fratricidal strife. Notwithstanding this minimizing, the pronuciamento is a distinct victory fol the reigning dynasty. The whole in fluence of the Austrian court wa! thrown into the balance to bring ii about Christiana, the queen regent, is a Hampbnrg princess and for her sake and the love the pope bears his godson, the powerful influence of the Vatican iu Spain has been again exerted to save the falling fortunes of the present dy nasty. PALMA GIVES HIS OPINION. Think* Spain Ha* Praetle.lty Accepted Our Offer of luterTeution. New York, Dea 29.—“ Governor Gen eral Blanco’s acceptance of President McKinley’s reqnest that the American people be permitted to relieve the suf ferings of the concentrados in Ouba ii tantamount to acceptance of the offer ol intervention by the United States io the conflict so long in progress betweeil the people of Cuba and the Spanish government,” said Tomas Estrada Palma, chief of the Cuban junta in tbit city, to an Associated Press reporter. “As the administration believes that peace in Ouba can be restored only by political intervention, it cannot reject the favorable opportuuity that thus pre sents itself to intervene for the purposg of ending the war in Cuba,” continued Dr. Palma. “The deplorable condition of the concentrados has been caused by the cruel warfare waged by Spaiu, and the government, finding itself unabl* to relieve tue situatiou, has applied t< the United -states for a.d. “President McKinley must see by noM that there is no ohance for peace to be established iu Cuba without iuterveu tiro. ajidJ’.vjngxjip 0 hjs word, as gjvel The one paper that leads— x T reaches all classes of people T (r —give satisfaction to stiver- F PRICE FIVE CE.NTS A KENTUCKY GIRL She Pleads With President McKinley For a Pardon. Her Brother Was a Good Boy Until He Got to Playing the Races. Embezzled $250. Washington, Dec. 29 —Presdent Mc- Kinley’s heart was touched when a slender and attractive girl, quietly dressed, was led into his presence by Representative Berry of Kentucky. She related her sad story in a simple and pathetic manner. The girl was Miss Maggie-Ayres and she came from Newport to plead for het twin brother. Edward Ayres, who wal sentenced eijpit months ago for embez zling $250 while money order-clerk iu : the Newport postoffice. Miss Ayres told the president what a good boy her brother had been until he was tempted by evil companions and the fascination of the race course to take what was not his own. The president patiently heard het story and after a few moment’s re flection gave the girl hope for het brother’s pardon by directing that the papers iu the case be brought to him immediately. The case of young Ayres has excited sympathy among all classes of citizen! in Newport on account of the popularity of the young man and the high social standing of the family. An appeal for pardon was presented to President Cleveland soon after young Ayres was convicted, but the president could find no extenuating circumstancei in the case. THE MINERS MAY STRIKE. Colorado Coal Diggers Want Their Wage! Increased by Jan. 10. Denver, Dec. 29.—Trouble is brew ing in the .northern coal fields. Th* operators have received notice from th* miners that unless their wages are in creased before Jan. 10 they will close down every coal mine in the Lafayette, Louisville, Marshall, Erie and the smaller camps. The operators say that the schedule demanded is an advance of from 10 tc 40 per cent The present scale rune from 40 to 50 cents per ton for mining after machines and 70 cents for pick work. ’ According to the way the ope rators figure it, the scale demanded would be 55 to 60 cents after machine! and 85 cents to $1 for pick work The operators say that the present wages, together with the other expense i of production, leaves them a very small margin and they declare that if tint miners insist ou a higher scale the oper ator* will be forced to close down ths mines. There are 1,500 men in the territory who would be thrown out of work in the event of a strike. Railway to Be Completed. Chattanooga, Deo. 29.—Colonel Jeu Baxter of St. Louis and associates, Col onel N. O. Chapman of St. Louis, T. O. Doremus of New York and R. L. Morrii of Nashville, have arrived in the city from Crossville, Tenn., where they had been to make the first payment of $125,- 000 on the Tennessee Central railroad Purchased by them a few days aga 'he gentlemen have already raised $1 ,'500,000 with which to complete ths road and have placed an immense ordei with th* Carnegies for rails. The orig inal idea of tne projectors was to build the line from Knoxville to Nashville, and this Colonel Baxter and his associ ates will carry out. Nicaragua Canal CommiMion. New York, Dec. 29.—The Atlas line steamer Alene, which arrived from Central American ports, reports the ar rival at Greytown, Nicaragua, on Dea 17 of the gunboat Newport with the Nicaraguan canal survey party on board, all well. A large force of laborers from Port Limon had already arrived at Greytown to aid in the work of the survey. There was considerable excite ment at Port Limon on Deo. 20, owing to expected trouble with Nicaragua A 1 rge force of Gosta Rican troops were in Port Limon wjien t*»e AJane sailed. in ms p'nv.uus messages, must inter vene, and Spain cannot rationally and consistently reject such intervention. ’* HAULED DOWN OLD GLORY, Captain of a Schooner Unable to Fly an Amer Can Flag In Bpaln* New York, Dea 29.—A special tc The Journal and Advertiser from Nett Haven, Conn., says: Captain Georg* K Kelsey of the schooner Wallace Ward, which has just arrived here from Barcelona, Spain, insists that the Amer ican consul at that port fears mob vio lence and is unable to keep the Ameri can flag flying from Uncle Sam’s vessels. He put into port there Sept. 16, re maining three days. At first the stare and stripes floated from the masthead, but the Spanish loiterers were attracted by it and gathered by the side of the vessel, threatening violence. The Amer ican consul heard a rumor that ths crowd purposed burning the vessel a..d he sent word to Captain Kelsey td haul down the flag. Captain Kelsey defied the Spaniard', but the next day the consul repeated his advice and Captain Kelsey was reluc tantly persuaded to store the stars and stripes below deck during ths remaiudei of his stsy. . .