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SUMMARY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS of 1397
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' at enaiftF-.net, K. r., ac-stroyea oy nre, to
gother with several houses; loss, $200,000.
22. The phosphate works of I. P. Thomas* Sons
& Co. at Paulsboro destroyed by Are; loss,
*225,000
SEPTEMBER.
< 4 warehouses burned at Philadelphia; loss
$250,000.
16. John A. Logan. Jr.’s, stock barn, 8 fine
horses and a number of vehicles burned at
Youngstown, O.; loss, $75,000.
28. The works of the Youngstown (O.) Bridge
Co. destroyed by Are; loss, SIOO,OOO.
28. Most of the business buildings in Bain
bridge, 0., destroyed by Are; 1055,550,000.
The John Guhd Brewing Co. *s plant at La
crosse, Wis., destroyed by Are; loss, S3OO,
000.
The Star Coal Co.’s No. 1 mine at Braid
wood, Ills., destroyed by Are; loss, $75,000.
29. Destructive Are at Ironton, O.; loss, S4OO,
000.
80. Power house of the Capital Traction R
R. Co. burned in Washington; loss over
$1,000,000.
OCTOBER.
8. 100 buildings burned at Austin, Pa.; loss.
$200,000.
4. Hotel Fayette, a Ane summer resort at
Minnetonka Beach. Minn., destroyed by
Are
6. 18 business buildings burned at Medora
Bls.; loss, SIOO,OOO.
7. 7 buildings. Including an opera house, burn
ed in Detroit; loss, $600,000.
8. The Second Presbyterian church burned at
Lafayette, Ind.
14 7 tobacco warehouses and 8 dwellings burn
ed at Durham, N. C.; loss, $250,000.
17. The town of Windsor, N. 8., wiped out by
Are; 8,000 people homeless; loss, $3,000,000.
20. A SIOO,OOO Are at Osceola, Ark.
27. The offices of the Wabash R. R. in St. Louie
burned; loss, $600,000.
28. Sturges grain elevator burned at Buffalo,
loss over $200,000.
NOVEMBER.
8. Central hotel and Corry block burned at
Marlboro, Mass.; loss, $150,000.
6. A SIOO,OOO Are at Texarcana, Ark.
7. Hotel San Marco at St. Augustine, Fla.,
burned; loss, $250,000.
10. Large machine works burned at Middle
boro, Ky.; loss, $200,000.
IL The Riverview hotel burned at Kankakee,
Ills.; loss, $85,000.
12. The Lion department store burned in Mil
waukee; loss, $200,000.
18. Steamer Bluff City of St. Louis burned at
Chester, Ills.; loss SIOO,OOO.
19. Great Are in the business portion of Lon
don; loss, $25,000,000.
21. A million dollar blaze in Melbourne.
22. Keenan’s department store burned in
Streator, Bls.; loss, $250,000.
-25. A $150,000 Are at Pensacola, Fla.
DECEMBER.
-®. The "Brick” Pomeroy block and McMillan
Opera House burned at Lacrosse, Wis.; loss,
$200,000.
12. 4 Arms burned out on Chestnut street, Phil
adelphia; loss, $750,000.
16. Litts, Fletcher & Co. ’s wholesale grocery
store at Marshalltown, la., burned; loss,
SIBO,OOO.
17. Hotel Dakota and other properties burned
at Grand Forks, N. D.; loss, $850,000.
THE STORM’S FURY.
Fatal Disasters Caused by the Raging Ele-
ments,
JANUARY.
2. The heaviest rainstorm of recent years in
Missouri, Arkansas and Indian Territory.
25. Extreme cold all over the country; mer
cury dropped 60 degrees in 24 hours
March.
22. Tornado in Georgia; sohodl demolished at
Arlington; 8 children killed and many fa
tally injured.
80. Tornado destroyed the town of Chandler,
O. 4T.; about 50 lives lost and nearly 200
people seriously injured.
APRIL.
28. Violent earthquakes and great loss of life
in the Leeward islands.
Flood at Guthrie, O. T.; great damage done
and 50 to 250 lives lost.
MAY.
81. Earthquake in the south Atlantic and cen
tral western states.
JUNJB.
18. 26 persons buried in the ruins of a barn
crushed by a tornado in Lincoln, Logan
county, Ills.
24. 8 persons killed and considerable damage
done by tornado near Salina, Kan.
SEPTEMBER.
14. Sabine Pass, Tex.,*wrecked by a tornado:
10 dead and many missing.
22. 40 persons killed and 70 injured in Italy by
hurricane.
OCTOBER.
6. Over 6,000 deaths in a typhoon on the Phil
ippine islands.
25. Destructive storm on the Atlantic coast
from Long Island to Hatteras.
NOVEMBER.
11. Mt. Vesuvius in active eruption.
17. Terrific gales and shipwrecks in the Med
iterranean.
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WRECKS AT SEA.
JANUARY.
SO. 9 sailors, a woman and a child drowned in
the wreck of the schooner Nahum Chapin
off Long Island.
MARCH.
9. The French steamer St. Nazaire wrecked
off Cape Hatteras; many lives lost.
JUNE.
9. Wreck of the steamer Aden on Socotra is
land; 78 perished.
80. The German vessel Rembek sunk by col
lision in the Dardanelles; 16 sailors drown
ed.
SEPTEMBER.
11. 27 of the crew of the British steamship
Polyphemus drowned in a collision tn the
Red sea.
22. Torpedo boat No. 26 sunk off Cuxhaven,
Hamburg; 8 of her crew, including the
commander, Duko Frederick William of
Mecklenburg-Schwerin, were drowned-
OCTOBER.
18. The coaster Triton wrecked off the Cuban
coast; about 250 soldiers and civilians
drowned.
28. Steam schooner Caspar wrecked off Point
Arena, Cal.; 13. sailors drowned
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ty driving through the proper channels
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7. Transit steamer Idaho foundered on Lake
Erie; 10 sailors drowned.
DECEMBER.
14. Schooner Susan P. Thurlow wrecked on
Cushing Island, off the Maine coast; 6 sail
ora drowned.
POLITICS AND PERSONAL ITEMS.
MARCH.
5. President McKinley’s cabinet nominated
and con Armed as follows: Secretary of
state, John Sherman of Ohio; secretary of
treasury, Lyman J. Gage of Illinois; secre
tary of war, Russell A. Alger of Michigan;
attorney general, Joseph McKenna of Cali
fornia; postmaster general, James A. Gary
of Maryland; secretary of navy, John D
Long of Massachusetts; secretary of inte
rtor, Cornelius N. Bliss of New York; sec
retary of agriculture, James Wilson of
lowa.
16. The president nominated John Hay and
Gen. Horace Porter embassadors to Great
Britain and France, respectively.
APRIL.
22. King Humbert attacked by a political fa
natio.
JUNE.
2. Cabinet crisis in Spain; ministers tendered
their resignations to the queen regent.
18. Attempt upon the life of President Faure
of France.
JULY.
22. Mr. Whitelaw Reid, special envoy of the
United States to the queen’s diamond jubi
lee, gave a notable dinner in London; the
Prince of Wales was among those present.
28. The new tariff bill went into effect after
midnight.
AUGUST.
8. Senor Canovas del Castillo, prime minister
of Spain, assassinated at Santa Agueda by .
an anarchist.
25. President J. Idiarte Borda of Uruguay shot
and killed by an assassin in Montevideo.
26. Gen. J. P. S. Gobin of Lebanon, Pa., elect
ed commander in chief of the Grand Army
of the Republic.
SEPTEMBER
8. The treaty of annexation to the United
States ratified by the Hawaiian senate.
15. President Diaz of Mexico was assaulted,
but escaped unharmed.
29. The Spanish cabinet resigned.
OCTOBER.
13. Senorita Evangelina Gossio y Cisneros, the
Cuban girl who escaped from prison, ar
rived in New York.
2. Sweeping Democratic victory in the state
and city of New York.
5. Dr. Moraes, president of Brazil, attacked
by would be assassins; the president’s
brother dangerously wounded and the
minister of war killed.
NOVEMBER.
28. Political riot in Vienna. •
• DECEMBER
L Justice Stephen Field retired from the
bench of the supreme court after 44 years
service.
6. The 55th congress assembled; President
McKinley’s message treated at length with
currency and Cuba.
A MISCELLANEOUS RECORD.
A Chronicle of Domestic and Foreign
Happenings.
JANUARY.
24. Mrs. Hungerford, famous as a novelist un
der the nom de plume The Duchess, died
in Dublin.
25. Mrs. Mary M. Windsor White, '“the es
caped nun,” died at Annapolis; aged 80.
81. Samuel W. Stone, author of "Wait For the
Wagon,” died at Topeka; aged 84
FEBRUARY.
1. Martini, Inventor of the rifie bearing hi:
name, died at Frauenfeld, Switzerland.
10. Castelmary died on the stage while sing
Ing the role of Tristano in the opera o’
“Martha,” at the Metropolitan Opera
House, New York.
11. Capt. Philo Norton McGiffin, a hero of the
naval battle of the Yalu river, died in
New York city by his own hand.
21. Cretan insurgents attacked Khania and
were fired upon by the foreign warships.
28. Matthew Buckley, the veteran showman
died at Delevan, Wis.; aged 87.
MARCH.
5. James P. Kernochan, the New York caps
talist, died of injuries received in a run
away on the Ist.
18. Shiel Barry, the actor, died in London.
15. The 55th congress assembled in extra ses
sion.
21. Crete blockaded by the fleet of the powers.
' APRIL.
8. Maj. Edward P, Doherty, Wilkes Booth’s
captor, died in New York city.
19. War between Turkey and Greece declared.
24. After a fierce fight at Mati the Greeks re
treated from Tyrnavo and Larissa to
Pharsala.
26. Antonio Maximo Mora, principal in the
Spanish claims case, died in New York
city.
27. The Grant mausoleum on Riverside drive.
New York, dedicated and formally turned
over to the city of New York.
MAY.
2. The Greek army in Epirus to Arta.
Trinity church, New York, celebrated its
200th anniversary.
8. John V. Crum, the celebrated runner, died
at Des Moines; aged 23.
4. Edwin F. Thorne, the actor, died in New
York city.
6. The Greeks retreated from Pharsala.
21. Mrs. George Holman, known as "the moth
er of opera, ” died at London, Ont.; aged 75
JUNR
4. A negro lynched by a mob; 2 men killed
and 10 wounded in the crowd at Urbana, O
8. Robert Johnston Finley, manager of the
McClure Newspaper syndicate, died in
New York city, aged 29.
14. Charlotte Wolter, known as “the tragedy
queen of Germany.” died in Vienna; aged
63.
Barney Barnato, known as the South Africa
“diamond king,” leaped overboard while
on the way to England.
21. Capt. Boycott, the first man subjected t<
the “boycott,” died in London; aged 55.
22. Anniversary of Queen Victoria’s corona
tlon; a jubilee in England.
25. Alice Dunning Lingard, the actress, died in
London; aged 50.
ji/ly.
6. The strike order of the national executive
board of the United Mine Workers ol
America obeyed by from 10,000 to 15,01 K.
miners in the Pittsburg district.
10. Aeronaut Andree's expedition to the north
pole; ascent made July 10.
19. Lieut. R. E. Peary and party sailed on
board the steamer Hope from Boston
bound for northern Greenland.
AUGUST.
15. The Count of Turin and Prince Henri of
Orleans fought a duel with swords near
Paris; Prince Henri was seriously wounded
22. James Reynolds, one of the leading spirits
in the old Fenian brotherhood, died m
New York city.
88. Curly Chief, one of the most noted Pawnee
Indians, died near Perry, O. T.; aged 100.
SEPTEMBER
8. The Jackson-Harmsworth expedition re
turned fr6m Franz-Josef Laud after spend
ing 8 winters there.
10. From 14 to 20 miners killed and 40 wounded
by deputy sheriffs at Lattimer, Pa.
26. The new North German Lloyd steamer
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse broke the west
ward record from Southampton by 26 min
utes.
OCTOBER
9. Gen. Pulger, Venezuelan warrior, states
man and philanthropist, died at Caracas.
19. O. P. Caylor, well known writer on base
ball, died at Winona, Minn.
21. The 100th anniversary of the laonciitng of
THE SOME JRIBLJNE FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1897.
iffb war frigate* OIU L-OL’.-is' CeieL.'J7to
in Boston.
NOVEMBER.
1. Union Pacific road sold at Omaha to reor
ganization committee for $57,564,982.76.
15. Mme Verdi, for 50 y ears the consort of the
famous composer, died at Rome.
17. German warships landed troops and guns
in China with hostile intent.
DECEMBER
L John T. Jackson, a noted American jour
nalist, died in Paris.
7. M. De Fourton. French statesman, died in
Paris.
8. Dr. Campbell Morfltt, distinguished Ameri
an chemist in London, died in that city.
9. William Blakely, English comic actor,
known in America, died in London.
IL Orion Clemens, brother of Mark Twain,
who was 4 “forty-niner” and a picturesque
literary character, died at Keokuk, la.
16. Actor William Terriss, well known in Eng
land and America, assassinated at the
Adelphi theater, London.
SPORTING CONTESTS.
MARCH.
17. Fitzsimmons defeated Corbett for the
world’s heavyweight championship at Car
eon, Nev.
KAY.
12. Kentucky Derby won by Typhoon II at
Louisville.
81. Howard Mum wta the Brooklyn Handicap.
G. A. Soden won the Irvington-Millburn
cycle race.
JUNE.
2. Princeton won the third and deciding series
of baseball with Harvard at New Haven:
* score, 2to 0.
10. Octagon won the Brooklyn Derby.
17. Michael beat McDuffee in a 15 mile cycle
race at Cambridge, Mass.
18. The steam yacht Ellide broke the mile rec
ord on the Hudson.
19. Third and deciding game of the Princeton-
Yale series of baseball won by Princeton
in New York; score, 22 to 8.
22. Ben Brush won the Suburban Handicap at
Coney Island.
25. Cornell won the intercollegiate boat race
at Poughkeepsie over Yale and Harvard.
JULY.
2. Cornell defeated Columbia and Pennsyl
vania in the shell race at Potighkeepsie.
10. The Friar won the Realization stakes at
Sheepshead Bay.
AUGUST.
2L Michael defeated Starbuck in a 83 mile cy
cle race at Manhattan Beach, winning by
2 miles; time, Ih. 6m. 14 8-ss.
Star Pointer outpaced Joe Patchen at Chi
cago; best mile, 2:02.
24. L'Alouette won the Futurity at Coney la
land.
28. Star Pointer paced a mile in 1:59)4 at Read
ville. Mass., breaking the record.
SEPTEMBER
1. Requital won the Flight stakes at Sheeps
head Bay, defeating Hamburg.
OCTOBER.
L Star Pointer lowered the racing record at
Chicago by pacing a mile in 2 .-00)4, defeat
ing Joe Patchen.
8. Starbuck defeated Michael in a 25 mile
cycling race at Philadelphia.
NOVEMBER
J& The annual football game between Harvard
and Yale at Cambridge resulted in a tie:
score, 0 to 0.
20. Yale defeated Princeton at football at New
Haven; score, 6to 0.
25. Michael defeated Starbnck In a S mile
cycle race at Madison Square Garden,
New York; time, 50m. 29 l-ss.
DECEMBER
8. Slosson won the final game in the billiard
tournament in New York; Schaefer came
out second, Ives third, Daly fourth and
Sutton fifth.
12. Charles W. Miller of Chicago won the six day
cycle race in New York; the four leading
scores were as follows: Miller, 2,098 miles;
Rice, 2,026; Schinneer, 2,000; Hale, 1,929.
17. "Kid” McCoy defeated Dan Creedon, the
Australian, for the middleweight cham
pionship in Long Island City.
NOTABLE FAILURES.
Merchants, Bankers and Capitalist* In
Financial Straits.
JANUARY.
7. J. H. Johnston &Co., jewelers, assigned in
New York; liabilities over $200,000.
25. The National Bank of Potsdam, N.Y., dosed
its doors.
FEBRUARY.
15. C. Bunting & Co. ’s banking house at Black
foot, Ida., went into the hands of a re
ceivqr; liabilities, $200,000.
APRIL.
5. The Globe Savings bank of Chicago assign
ed.
27. BurrnSs, Son & do., bankers of Norfolk
Va., failed for $340,000.
MAY.
19. The Belmont Savings bank of Laconia, N.
H., dosed its doors, owing depositor* SL
-000,000.
JULY.
L The Globe Building and Loan association
of Louisville assigned; liabilities, $400,000.
AUGUST.
2. The Golden Rod Silk Co. of Paterson, N.
J., failed; liabilities, $106,000.
SEPTEMBER
9. J. R Willard & Co. of New York made an
assignment: liabilities reach $1,000,000.
OCTOBER.
22. W. G. Hitchcock & Co., importers, assign
ed in New York city; liabilities, $1,000,000
The Fowler Cycle Co. of Chicago assigned;
liabilities, $500,000.
The National Bank of Asheville, N C., closed
its doors.
NOVEMBER
9. John A. Willard, a banker of Mankato.
Minn., assigned, with direct liabilities of
$480,000.
18. The bank at English, Ind., failed, also clos
ing its branches at and Ma
rengo.
17. Henry Sherry, lumberman and paper mill
owner at Neenah, Wis., failed, owing near
ly $1,000,000.
ACCIDENTS AND COLLISIONS.
Disasters on Railroad*, In Factories, Mine*
and Elsewhere.
JANUARY.
6. 7 nuns perished at the burning of a Ursu
line convent at Roberval, Que.
10. 16 children burned to death in a fire at th*
Orphan home, Dallas.
81. 6 deaths in a fire in Hoboken, N. J.
FEBRUARY.
9. 12 workmen killed by the collapse of a scaf
folding at Cornwall, England.
MARCH.
4. Over 50 people injured by ■ gas explosion
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10. S killed a.ld ’ in/ured tn a railroad wreck
at Hazleton, Ind.
12. 8 killed and 2 injured at the burning of the
Chicago hotel in Buffalo.
15. 15 men killed and many wounded by ths
explosion of a gun on a Russian turret ship
in Cretan waters.
APRIL.
11. 8 killed and 6 injured in a railway collision
at Harrisburg, N. C.
80. Many lives lost and 2 city blocks destroyed
in San Salvador by an explosion of dyna
mite.
MAY.
4. A charity bazaar burned in Paris; over 100
deaths and about 200 injured; several ladies
of rank were among the victims.
9. 18 lives lost by fire on the Mallory line
steamship Leona at sea.
18. 10 killed and 9 Injured in an accident in
the ore mines at Pinkney, Tenn.
BL 5 tallyho excursionists killed and 15 injur
ed in a collision with a train at Valley
Stream, N. Y.
JUNE.
7. 5 men killed and 4 injured in a collision on
the Omaha R. R. near Hudson Junction.
Wis.
8. Explosion of fireworks; 26 persons injured
in Chicago.
27. 7 persons killed and many injured by a
train falling through a trestle at Missouri
City, Mo.
JULY.
7. 9 persons killed and 5 badly wounded by an
explosion near Hartsville, Tenn.
14. 8 persons drowned by the bursting of 2
reservoirs at Matteawan, N. Y.
23. Explosion on the steamer Nutmeg State at
Bridgeport, Conn.; 4 men killed and 6in
lured.
AUGUST.
7. 56 people killed and a large number Injured
by an explosion in a cartridge factory in
Rustchuk, Bulgaria.
28. 8 men killed and 8 injured by the explosion
of a boiler in Cairo, Ills.
SEPTEMBER
A 5 people killed and 25 or 80 Injured by ex
plosions of natural gas in Broad Ripple, Ind.
7. 6 men killed by the explosion of nitroglyc
erin at Cygnet, O.
9. 12 persons killed and 14 injured by railroad
collision at Emporia, Kan.
10. 80 persons killed and 185 injured in a rail
way collision near New Castle, Colo.
12. 7 men killed and 6 injured in a railroad
wreck at Hanson, L T.
OCTOBER
A 7 deaths in a railway crossing accident at
Willow Springs, Mo.
5. 7 schoolgirls and a teacher burned to death
at Plankinton, 8. D.
15. The dome of Robinson's Opera House fell
in Cincinnati during a performance; 5 peo
ple killed and 60 injured.
23. A Hudson River R. R. express plunged int*
a washout near Garrisons; 20 killed, many
Injured.
NOVEMBER.
8. 4 killed and 17 Injured in the wreck of *
vestibule express on the Chesapeake and
Ohio R. R. near Charlottesville, Pa.
DECEMBER
A 4 killed in a trolley collision at Birming
ham, Mich.; 4 others injured.
16. 6 killed in a head on collision near Fori
Smith, Ark.
CONVENTIONS OF THE YEAR.
National Gatherings of Representative So
cieties.
MAY.
1. Exposition opened at Nashville.
20. The 109th general assembly of the Presby
terian church began at Winona, Ind.
The general assembly of the Southern Pres
byterian convention began at Charlotte,
N. C.
JUNE.
L The semicentennial meeting of the Amer
ican Medical association held in the Acade
my of Music, Philadelphia.
22. The 18th national saengerfest held in Phila
delphia.
7th annual reunion of Confederate veterans
begun at Nashville.
AUGUST.
A The 18th annual national meet of the L. A.
W. began in Philadelphia.
8. The annual convention of the National
Christian alliance began at Cleveland.
17. The 23d annual convention of the American
Bankers' association met in Detroit.
The 13th annual convention of the Society
of American Florists opened in Providence.
8. The 9th annual convention of the Young
People’s Christian union of the United
Presbyterian church met tn Indianapolis.
19. The National Temperance society in ses
sion in Saratoga.
20. The 28th reunion of the Society of the
Army of the Potomac held at Troy, N. Y.
28. Annual encampment of the G. A. R. open
ed in Buffalo.
SEPTEMBER
9. The Sons of Veterans began a national en
campment at Indianapolis.
1A The International Association of Police and
Telegraph Superintendents met in annual
session in Nashville. '
The supreme lodge of the Knights and La
dies of Honor opened it* 11th annual meet
ing in Detroit.
22. The American Forestry association met in
Nashville.
23. The annual conference of the German Bap
tists of the east began in New York city.
OCTOBER
15. The Pan-Slavic Press association organized
at Cleveland.
28. The biennial meeting of the world’s W. C.
T. U. opened in Toronto.
27. The 29th annual meeting of the Society of
the Tennessee began m Milwaukee.
28. The national convention of the Woman’s
Christian Temperance union opened at
Buffalo.
Annual meeting of the Association of Col
legiate Alumnm opened in Detroit.
NOVEMBER
9. The annual general assembly of the Knights
of Labor began at Louisville.
DECEMBER
8. The American Forrestry association held
its annual session in Washington.
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Christinas Holiday Excursion Rates.
On December 22 , 23, 24, 25; also
December 30 31.1897, and January 1,
1898, the Southern railway will sell
holiday excursion tickets at very low
rates, with extreme limit returning
January 4,1898.
For Students of Schools and Colleges.
Upon presentation of certificates
signed by the superintendents, prin
cipals or presidents thereof, tickets
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with extreme limit returning January
4,1898. For tickets and full informa
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town, and a complete line of Squibbs’ Shemicais for
prescription use. Everything of the purest quality
that money can buy or experience select 1
Prescriptions compounded •
By a careful and experienced prescriptionist.
Everything at reasonable prices.
ROME PHARMACY,
309 Clark Building, Broad Street, Rome, Ga.
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The leading tourist and commercial hotel of the city
American and European plan. Free ’bus meetsi
all trains. Prompt baggage delivery. Most
desirable location. Corner Peachtree and Ellis
streets, adjoining Grand Opera House.,
Jas. E. Hickey,
Hard Pushed For Money
A a man most be to ride in an old ram
‘Vail’S ehackle rattling vehicle that has seen
-“--M better days, when we are selling our
handsome and stylish stock of new
designs in buggies, pbsetons,
rockaway s, spring wagons and carts at
such extremely low prices that it is
almost like making you a New Year’s
gift of one. We have a big line of har
ness and lap robes at low prices. <
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SATTERFIELD & WILLIAMS, as Agents, k
Telephone 173 509 and 5 I I Broad Street, Rome, Ga
JAS. DOUfiLAS & CO.
Rome, Grcu
Horses and HolesloiSaleteYeaißound*
Livery, Sale and Feed Stables!
Finest Turnouts in the city furnished W
at most reasonable prices. ...
TELEPHONE No. 108.