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THE COURANT AiViERXCAN. VOL. XIX. m HUMBERT ASSASSINATED Italy's Ruler Struck Down by Mem ber of Mafia fcSSASSIN FROM NEW JERSEY, L ree Shots Fired, One Plercin* ■ the Heart—Kina: Humbert I Dies lmm€*J lately. ■ Monza, Italy, July 3°- Humbert has been assassinated. | He was shot here last evening I,V a Ilian named Angelo Bressi End died in a few minutes. | The king had been attending a ■distribution of prizes in connect ion with a gymnastic competition. ■He bad just entered his carriage ■with bis aide de camp amid the 1-heers of the crowd when he was ■struck by three revolver shots ■fired in quick succession. One ■pierced the heart of his majesty, Iwho fell back and expired in a few ■minutes. ... H The assassin was immediately ■ arrested and was with some diff lieulty saved from the fury of the ■populace. He gave ■ his name as ■Angelo Brassi, describing himself las of Prato, in Tuscany. I The prize distribution took place ■ about io o'clock. I THE ASSASSINATION! H Monza. July 30. —Few additional ■details of the terrible tragedy are ■available. It happened so quickly ■am! unexpectedly that the king was ■ dead almost before the spectators ■ realized wliat had occurred. I No special precaution had been ■ taken. Very few police were in ■ attendance and only a small guard ■of soldiers was keeping the w T ay ■ dear for the carriage, The king. ■ amid the cheers of the crowd, came ■out, smiling, accompanied by his ■aide de camp, Gen. Ponzio Bagila. ■He had entered the carriage and ■was just driving off when three re ■volver shots w ere fired in quick ■succession. Some witnesses assert ■that Bressi was seen just prev ■iously waving his hands and eheer- Hing. The first shot wounded the ■king in the neck. The second the ■fatal one, pierced his heart, and the ■tlnrd broke the arm of the already ■dying sovereign. ■ The crowd was stunned by the ■unexpected scene, but speedily a ■ush was made toward the assassin, ■Hedid not attempt to escape and ■was roughly treated until the car ■hineers tormed a cordon and sec ■ured him from the fury of the peo ■ple. ■ An eye witness says that imme ■diateiy after the shots were fired ■the king fell back pressing his ■‘and to his heart. He was in stantly supported by Gen. Ponzio ■jta&'lia, who told the coachman to with all speed to the castle, ■j , r h' s exclamation “It is 110th ■jg he did not utter a sound, but ■hood gushed from his mouth. | the assassin, ■“reaching the guard room of the ■arbineers was in a pitiable con ■ l 0". nis hands and arms being ■derated and bloody and hisclothes ■ l: "“ y the an ßTy crowd. Reply- w questions, he hissed through ■hsclenched teeth: ■ ell them I came from Amer l°" P ur pose to kill Humbert. I ■ “ *J’ JS ,t °uly arrived from Amer ■av ' U n k ; low 110 one - I spent a ■°'Milan ,^ gUa and then came on It o- vva s made at his home ; “u°, which resulted in thefind- Bersfrnt eV v al co,n promising let lv a " New Y rk.., t One signed ■his letterTv was dated J une2 s- 111 K]p j s ‘ tne writer asks whether fhaihe a S n and ex P resses a hope ■had been Vi S °°" return - Br essi ■r rse ‘ a Hsent from Prato for six BhereaVV? r \ His P arents live Btalian , t le las a brother in an [rence tolv. Ut c y reinient - In ref- Ivolver t 16 11(^n g of another re- IhadhJ, ,S assert{d that Bressi lyoung a S , tfcn la company with a fear wher'Vn \ h ? P ar k at Monza fit of riding le WaS * n a ‘ f akeful min, a^ rest he appeared ti’mJv. 1 T° ut suunse after fid-day * he Sept soundl y until I ETedly the man. t in g of Z Kw y s°-" After the shoo fght, as soon a H V;: nbert . here last rod ant could h ‘f- majest >'’ s at ’ I c °ulu realize what had CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. AUGUST 2, 1900. happened, he wasplaced in his car riage and was driven as rapidly as possible to the palace. He was. however, beyond human aid. The assassin’s name is variously given as Angelo and Caetuo Bressi. He was born in Prato, November xo, 1569, and is a weaver by trade. He comes from America' where he had resided in Paterson, N. J. He says he had'no accomplices, and that he committed the crime be cause of his hatred of monaivhial institutions. He reached Monza July 22. for Milan, where he stay ed a few days. A CAVE PARTY, Given in Honor of Miss Johnnye Sturdivant of North Carolina. It was just such an afternoon as the very gods might covet. The world was tiooded seemingly with the most resplendent sunshine. Scarcely a cloud was apparent to mar the rich beauty of the great blue heavenly dome. The visible mountains and hills seemed to clap their hands for joy, and the bright silvery streams furnished adorn ment for all the neighboring land scapes. The gentle zephyrs that were stirring, pregnant with the fragrance 01 rarest and sweetest flowers" excluded all unpleasant ness of weather and made every inhabitant around feel as if he were living in a dime that justly belonged to a land of paradise. Such were some of tue conditions , o nature on the afternoon of the 20i.11 ult., at which time a happy baud or young people of the vicin age of Oak Grove made a journey to that place, of great note and in terest, tue Saltpetre Cave, where they were to unite and form what might justly be sty led the Star Cave Party of the nineteenth cen tury. This most interesting affair was in honor of Miss Johnnye Mae Sturdivant, ot Moiuuc, JN. and who has during the past year been the universally admired vocal in structor in Littleton Female Col lege, of Littleton, in the same state. After reaching the dark cavern ous dungeon, a part of the number composing the party gave satisfac tion to their peculiar desires by go ing down into the dark regions and noting its-appalling contents. Some of these had never visited this mar velous scene of nature before, and the expressions that they gave to their leelings as the different parts of it were unfolded to them was sufficient proof that they had never conce ved of such a place having its exigence this side of the gates of the infernal regions. When the exploring party had become satis fied with what they had seen that the Saltpetre Cave w T as numbered among the many wonders of the world, it vvas suggested that Miss Sturdivant entertain the party by rendering a lew vocal selections. In response she first sang one or two of those old familiar songs, which were born never to die. Her hearers, to use a mild expression, were simply charmed with these renditions. Finally, after giving other selections of the -rarest and most pleasing type, she sang that ever-to-be-adored song, “B.cause I Love You.” While this was be ing rendered it seemed as if the dark terrors of the cave had for the time being been dispelled and all that is joyful and harmonious had taken their stead. A wave of sweetest melody seemed to roll over the entire cavernous region, and as it gradually died away in the distance it must have died only to be translated to heaven’s bright realm there to be used as a means for creating the eternal happiness of its creatures, At a late hour the merry party, after going by Gillam’s Springs and taking a draught ui itcon tents, and partaking of some de licious refreshments, repaired to their respective homes, each one realizing that they had just passed through an eioch of their lives that could not be surpassed so far as infinite pleasure is concerned. It is the earnest wish of the writer that the same merry part}’ may be able to meet again some sweet day and enjoy a like occasion. Joseph D. Harling. K. of P. Meeting Notice- A regular con vention of Car tersville Lodge No. 42, of Pythias, will he held in the Castle Hall Friday, July 27; h at 8:00 p. ra. ?harp. Fruit. C. M. Milam, C. C. W. H. Wiklk. K. R. S. HIS BODY PUSHED FROM EAR. Jos Cooper, a Stilesboro Negro, is Shot and Killed- ON AN EXCURSION TRAIN a Terrible Fracas, in Which Sev eral Get Shot—Slayer of Cooper From Cartersville. A lively row occurred on the E. & W. train carrying negroes on an excursion from Cartersville to Sul phur Springs, in Alabama last Sat urday. It is hard to get facts regarding the affair, as many of the negroes who were in the crowd will tell but little about it if they know and* those who do talk at all give stor ies that in many instances conflict with each other. It is said that a good quantity of whisky vvas provided in ad vance for the occasion, and the excursionists many of them were well loaded up pretty soon. One coach in particular contained a rough boisterous crowd of men. In this car was Joe Cooper, a ne gro who got on at Stilesboro. Ed Young, who runs a fruit stand and restaurant in this city made the oc casion one to help out his receipts and carried fruits, confectioneries and lunches to sell tie crowd. Will Alexander was aiong to assist him and carried the things through the cars. When Cooper vvas reached it is said he took from Alexander’s basket some bananas and cooked fish which he was t rid vvas worth 35 cents. When asked to pay for them he refused. A dispute arose over the matter and the fatal shoot ing was the outcome. Some say Cooper starte'd to pull his gun when Alexander shot. Some say Cooper fired at Alexander twice before Alexander shot. Anyway Cooper was shot in the head,a hole being made from which the brains oozed out. It is also said he vvas shot in the body. Several other negroes were hit with bullets. Just how many shots were fired uobedy seems to know exactly but some of the excursionists brought back flattened missiles that had been picked up on the car floor as souvenirs. The dispute between Cooper and Alexandei, several say was shifted from the car to the platform, where the shooting took place. From accounts of others it must have been inside. The shooting commenced a few miles this side of Piedmont Just before the cars reached Piedmont Cooper’s body vvas pushed from the train. It is intimated that it was shoved through the car wiu : dovv. One of the train men, look ing back along the train, saw the body fall out. The train ran to Piedmont and then backed and the train crew placed the bodv on the cars and carrying it to Piedmont, left it on the platform there. Life vvas not extinct when the body vvas picked up. Officers from Piedmont went to Sulphur Springs to arrest Alex ander, but although he was there selling his things for some time, he skipped out before the officers arrived. The officers came back up the road some distance this side of Piedmont searching the cars, supposing Alexander vvas aboard, but they did not find him. Cooper, the negro that was killed, lived with Mr. Joe Cannon at Stilesboro, and white people give him a good name. Some, however, say lie was rough when he was drinking. Alexander, who it is claimed, shot him, has been about Cartersville a long time and vvas known by the singular nick name of “Cornbread." He lias been a number of times in trou ble. Suburban Fire, A fire alarm at about 3:30 o’clock Monday- morning called out the fire boys who observing a flaie in the heavens southeastward started toward the scene but soon found it vvas beyond the city limits. JThe house of Francis Leake,color ed, had caught in some way, while she was not at home, and burned so fiercely that no efforts could nave saved it after the fire was discovered. A few from town reached the scene. The house vvas a three room house which with the entile contents vvas destroyed. WHAT THE DIREST SHOWS. Bartow’s Wealth as Shown by Books of the Tax Receiver. INCREASE IN VALUES IN YEAR- Property Va ues *139.623. More and 254- More Polls—Colored Values Are $76,35?, Mr. E. C. Bennett, Bartow’s tax receiver, has jhst finished his books. The digest as made out. shows up as follows: Polls—Whites, 2373; colored, 511; total 2884. Lawyers—l 7. Doctors —27. Dentists— 3. Presidents banking institutions l. Acres of land —Whites, 256,526; colored, 5,475; total, 262,001. Value of land—Whites, $1,685,- 115; colored, $19,437; total, $1,704.- 552. Value of city property —Whites, $584,610; colored, $29,220; total, $613,830. Value of banks—sß2,ooo. Sink ing fund, $15,400. Building and loan values —$2,- 000. Value of bonds—sß,49o. Money, notes,/etc —Whites, $379,- 266; colored, $1588; total, $386,854. Value of merchandise—Whites, $ 129, 170; colored, $750; total, $129,- 920. Value of bicycles—ss76. Value of raw material, factories — $38,697- Capital invested in mining— s6oo. Value of household and kitchen furniture —Whites, $154,010; col ored, $8,482; total, $162,492. Value of jewelry—Whites, $14,- 526; colored, $2917 total, 14,817. Value of live stock—Whites, $255,665; colored, $13,727; total, $269,392. Value of wagons, buggies and machinery—Whites, $78,771; col ored, $2,320; total, $81,091. Value of farm products—sl3,- 869. Value of all other property not enumerated —Whites, $79,362; col ored, $538; total, $79,900. Total value of property —Whites, $3,522,127; colored, $76,353; total, $3,59 5 ,480 Professions —$480. Increase over last year’s digest— -280 polls, property, $139,628. The increase is the greatest shown in any year for many years past, and is a gratifying showing, considering the times. STILESBORO FARMERS~CLUB- Spend a Pleasant Day at Mrs. Dr. Jones’. The Stilesboro Farmers’ Club met last Saturday wdh Mr. T. F. Jones, Jr., at the delightful home of his mother, three miles from Cartersville. A good attendance was present and the morning was devoted to the regular routine business of the club. At noon a sumptuous dinner was served in the dining room, and seats were arranged at the tables for forty guests. The dinner was all that could be desired and was greatly enjoyed. After dinner the club reassem bled and heard the reports of the n embers on the condition of the crops and their farms. All report ed their crops backward on ac count of the June rains, but had been recently cleared of grass and were now i.i fair condition. The general opinion of the members was that cotton would average ab nit sixty per cent, of a full crop, and nearly all of them had abandoned a number of acres of both cotton and corn on account of the grass. Wheat had turned out better than was expected and very little was lost on account of the rains. A few of them had lost some stock during the hot spell the first weeks of July. The next meeting of the club will be held with Mr. T. W. Leake on the second Saturday in Sep tember. The day was most delightfully spent by the members and their friends, and Mr. Jones and his mother and sisters are most charm ing entertainers. OA.STORXA. Bws tfc* yf Th€ Vou Har< Always Bought Quality It is the high quality of Royal Baking Powder that has estab lished its great and world-wide reputation. Every house wife knows she can rely upon it; that it makes the bread and biscuit more delicious and whole some —always the finest that can be baked. It is economy and every way • better to use the Royal, whose work is always certain, never experimental. There are many imitation baking powders, made from alum. They may cost less per pound, but their use is at the cost of health. ftOYAL4AKINQ POWDE* CO., 100 WILLIAM ST., NEW YORK. THE CANNING FACTORY. In Full Operation, Giving Employ ment tq Quite a Number. The Georgia Elberta Canning Company’s factory is now in full operation and a busy and a refresh ing scene is presented as the blush ing and luscious ElbertaS have their rough jackets taken away by the several dozens of peelers and they undergo the several processes fitting them for the marketable stage. The factory is giving attention alone to Elberta peaches at present, and the effort will be to utilize that crop to best possible limit un til it gone. Mr. Walter Akerman has sev eral fine orchards, from the oldest of which many bushels of the fruit are gathered daily. Tne factory, besides this, uses the product of a number of fine orchards in this vicinity After the peach crop has been used up the factory will begin can ning tomatoes. A number of plats in the town have been devoted to j this crop in view of furnishing the I factory and they will have all they can use. The factory pays 50 cents a bushel for peaches and 15 cents per bushel for tomatoes. The ca pacity of the factory is 3,000 cans j per day. An expeit from Balti-j more has been engaged and was j not long in having things running j smoothly and successfully Mr. I Hampton Field, the clever and en-! ergetic manager, is taking great 1 pride and interest in the affairs of the factory, and shows a notable aptitude for mastering details. For the present season a building on Mr. Walter Akerman’s place just in from lower Tennessee strie 1 to which a large sited addition h s been made, will be utilized, but ! the company contemplate improv inents to quarters and equipme t. The enterprise will be quite an 1 addition to Cartersville industries. | It gives employment directly and j indirectly, now to over fifty hands, and many of these people would be otherwise without employment. CURES WHErTaLL EISEFAILS fa IS Best Cu*h Syrup. Tastes Good. Use R In time. Sold by druggists. : njpi-r- 1 ’’■-■"‘'-"■flf l The Health Troblem 1m much simpler than is sometimes su, s posed. Health depends chiefly upon perfect digestion and pure blood, and the problem is solved very readily by Hood’s Sarsaparilla. You may keep well bv tskirttr it promptly for any stomach or blood disorder. Its cures of scrofula, salt rheum, catarrh,dyspepsia, rheumattsrn. ami other diseases are numbered bv the thousands. Constip. t. n .0 cute, by flood's Pill*, live, Never experiment with so important an article as the human food OLD MARY IS DEAD Faithful Family Mule Succumbs to Old Age- Old Mary is dead. The shifting zephyrs chaut a madrigal over the little pink mound that rises above her re mains. Mary, only a few days ago show ed a stage of feebleness too pro nounced to ahum of her being led out for duty. The end was a short step. Old Mary has for many years been giveu tender care and best at tention on account of her past val uable services. Lately her master jhts used hm to make short rides over the farm and occasionally, perchance, to draw a backboard on a short journey. Mary, it may as well be said mw, was the faiihful family mule of Ur. W. H. Felton, ana has u his tory as notable a any Georgia mule could possibly have. She was about 36 years old, and no <’is ere caused her death— i was sheer old age. During Dr. Felton’s memorable campaigns for congress beginning when Mary was in her prime and a trim ten year old an imal, the candidate used Mary con stantly as his buggy nag, and the doctor believing in mingling with the masses, Mary was driven along every road and by-path almost in the fourteen counties composing this district. Mary was given a decent burial. No cruel chain was used to drag her form to the carefully prepared grave and leave ugly gashes on her fetlocks. She was placed in a wagon and hauled to the place of her interment. Daisies will soon nod a silent, delicate tribute to her faithfulness. Jackson. Griffin & Cos. Furniture and Undertaking. Our Stock of FURNITURE Embraces cheap.medium and tine goods in many designs and at prices that will please all. Our Undertaking Department is complete in every detail, and we are I prepared to supplv and arrange tor ev ! erv reqaisite t■■ font rats. A large as -1 snrtment of Collins and Caskets and other burial appurtenances kept on hand Our Mr. .Jackson is competent ami ready to direct iu leials and do em balming, being poss‘s>ed of embalm er’s license Wo fur.isli Hearse; #lso j car.iages, with nice gentle homes JACKSON, GRIFFIN & CO. NO. 49.