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WANTS NO WHR
McKinley Is Eager To Es
cape ft Conflict.
ANXIOUS TO ADJOURN.
Congress, Hoping The reby
To Controls Matters.
Washington, March 15.—Secre
tary Day had a long conference
with fne president today. Just
what turn the talk look is one ol
the unsolved mysteries, but it is a
notable fact that there is a great
deal of talk around the stale de
partment about arbitration m re
spect to this Maine disaster
While everybody is denying
that the president has received a
preliminary report frem the Samp
son board, it is not denied that
the important features of the testi
mony brought out in the investi
gation have bean presented to
him and that his mind is made
up to what that report will be.
It will deciare that the Maine
was destroyed irom external
causes.
The Spanish version, however,
is directly opposite to this and the
impression is strong that the pres
ident and his advisers are ser
iously contemplating letting other
nations have a hand in the settle
ment of the differences. The pres
ident knows that such a step will
meet the almost unanimous dis
approval of the people of this
country. He knows that such a
step cannot be entered upon or
acceded to expect at the cest of
the national honor, and yet so anx
ious is he to prevent war that he is
listening to the siren song of the
little cotei ie about him which is
calling for peace at any price.
It is pointed out to him by the
people who are the mugwumps of
diplomacy that now that Spanish
board under Captain Feral, has
declared that the destruction of
the Maine must have been due t»
accident, the only way to sa'isfy
the nations of Europe to the con
trary is by submitting to an iuler
uationalboard of arbitration or
inquiry both the American and
Spanish reports.
MUST BE TREATED ALIKE.
When it is argued by these who
are bitterly opposed to any such
methods that the Spanish inves
tigation was on its face a farce,
pure and simple, and that it is for
the purpose to further complicate
the situation with a view to secur
ing sympathy for Spain from the
nations of Europe, th° peace con
tingent cries that this report must
be given the same weight as that
of the Sampson boaid, and being
sticklers for the fine technical
ities of in teruational law, when
they see that stickling will help
their case, they are bringing all
their forces to bear toward mak
ing the president see it as they ao.
The president’s anxiety to get
congress off his hands is as great
as his predecessor’s ever was.
The republican leaders on both
sides of congress have promised
him that they will use every means
in their power to bring an early
adjournment. Tne peace contin
gent realizes that it will have
great difficulty in compromising
t> e honor of the nation so long as
congress is here on guard.
Speaker Reed himself has ex
pressed the opinion that if the
Cuban question is allowed to get
before congress in any shape,
neither he nor his all powerful
committee on rules nor any other
agencies can hold the western and
southern republicans in line, and
so far as the senate is concerned,
it has gone on record too often to
admit of any d 'ubt as to where it
stands.
Under erdmary circumstances
the r e would be no chance in the
world of secure an international
board, that is under ordinary
methods, for these involve rati
fication to an agreement co arbi
trate by the senate. Realizing this
JUDGE BERRY
The “Scrappg” Judge of
The Atlanta
CRIMINAL COURT
Smashed Orth Strein, With a
Bottle of Catsup.
In its volumnious though breezy
reports of the Berry-Stein
Kimball house fight this morning’s
Constitution says:
‘•Judge John C. Berry, judge of
the city criminal court of Atlanta
attacked Orth 11. Stein, editor »f
The Looking Glass in the dining
room of lhe Kimball hwse last
night at supper hour, knocked
him out of a chair with a bottle
and then him severely
with the butt of a revoleer.
Stein was badly but not serious
ly injured. Ho sustained an ug
ly gash just over h's left eye, and
his head is covered with bruises.
Judge berry was not struck. The
dinning room was well filled at
the time, containing a number
of ladies. The attack was totally
unexpected to Stein. Hi drew tis
revolver soon after the first blow
was struck, but in doing so, ac
cording to Stein, unbreacbed it,
Judge Berry’s statement is that he
took the pistol from Stein and
took out the cartridges.
“The attack is the result of an
article which appeared in The
Looking Glass last Saturday, in
which Editor Stein denounced
Judge Berry in vigor
ous terms. Captain Jam j s W.
English a*tacked Judge Berry in
the Capital Club on the grounds
Judge Berry had circulated the
report that Captain English was
backing The Looking Glass, Stein
stated in his paper last week that
Capt. Ejglish was perfectly right
“in punching the head of Judge
John Beriy at the ‘Scraptical’
City Club.”
Since that article appeared
friends of Judge Berry and Mr.
Stein have been expecting
trouble. They have been at
meals in the dining room at the
Kimball at the same time, tmet
face to face twice on tiie street
since, but no trouble occurred.
They have not been on speaking
terms for some time.
•‘When the first blow was
struck and the people realized
what was happening, J. D.
Johnson, a New York drummer,
rushed to where Judge Berry
wtis beating Mr. Stein with a
revolver, attempting to pull
Judge Berry off the helpless
man. At that moment another
man, whose name could not
be learned, attempted to get Mr.
Johnson away from Judge
Berry, calling to Judge Berry to
“Beat him, John."
Both parties made sta ements
it seems, each airing his views in
detail.
Judge Berry might be censured
on first blush for s’riking from
behind or when his traducer was
not on guard but his Rome friends
say that ho did right, as he knew
Stein to be a desperado and knew
also that he went armed at all
times and to face h.m would be
semi-suicidal.
Judge Berry was not hurt though
the bottle was broken, the catsup
was wasted and much of Steins
blood spilled.
And soon after the “scrape” ten
thousand people gathered in the
S m Jones Tabernacle and heard
the Matchless Bryan speak.
We have the smoothsst line
of soaps in town and prices re
duced one-half. Come to see us.
Curry-Arrington Co.
the state department officials have
been, looking for some method of
reaching that end without permit
ling the senate to have a hand ,
in it. '
HEfll/Y FINE.
Lester Echols Fined S2OO
And Cost in City Court.
ft $5,000 DAMAGE SUIT.
Lot Haden,Col., Sues City Elec
tric Railway.
In the City Court today, Les
ter Echols entered a plea of
guilty to a charge of carrying a
concealed pistol.
Judge George A. H. Harris
sentenced the defendant to pay
a fine of S2OO and all costs, or
to servo 12 months in the chain
gang-
Lester Echols, it will be re
membered, is the young man
who was convicted of murdering
Marshal Tidwell, of Seney, and
who, upon a technicality, was
given a new trial and at the
second trial acquitted.
Some time ago Officer Joe
Sharp, of the Rome police force,
had to arrest Echols. He was
searched and a pistol found on
his person.
The fact that Judge George
Harris was one of Lester Ech
ols attorneys in the murder tri
al did not prevent him placing
a severe sentence upon the young
.nan.
Echols and his father’s fami
ly have moved from Seney to
Rome, and now reside in the
city.
The total sum of fine and cost
is $222.85.
BIG DAMAGE SUIT.
The case of Lot Haden, col.,
vs. the City Electric Railway,
has consumed the entire day in
the city court.
This is a case in which Lot
Haden, a colored citizen of
about 50 years of age, took a
tumble while alighting from an
electric car. Lot claims he was
damaged $5,000 and has em
ployed Mr. W. H. Ennis, Mr.
Hal Wright, Messrs. Wright &
Ewing and Will Barnett, the
old colored lawyer.
Messrs. Reece & Denny appear
for the defense and a hot fight
is on.
This afternoon the defense
stated that they had the car, No
12, from which the plaintiff
claims to have fallen, in front of
the court house and an
inspection of the same.
The plaintiff objected but fin
ally changed whereupon the
court, the bar and the jury ad
journed to the curbstone.
Quite a number of people soon
gathered and while the court
tried to preserve order, Officer
Joe Sharp ordered the court and
jury to “open up” along the
pavement.
Then the gamins began to
poke fun, while bystanders en
joyed the good natured chaffing
and guying.
Lott Hayden, the plaintiff was
present. Some one asked,
“Where is Lott’s wife?”
‘ Turned to salt and now Hay
den is trying to salt the street
cars a whole Lott,” was the an
swer .
“Jury ought to be stuck on
the car anyhow, its No. 12,”
said another.
“Its a ‘North and East’ car
but its not running by the cam
pass.”
“No, its run by the lawyers”
was the answer.
“That car may be alright,”
said another, “but it don’t wear
Burney’s pants—the $5 kind.”
“If the case goes up how will
the lawyers brief the car?” ask
ed another.
“Oh, its a bobtail car and is
brief enough” came the re
sponse.
But curbstoned justice pro
ceeded just as it phased to aper
tain, and the court returned to
the city court room and get
down to its regular grind.
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