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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. i £'.l $ f . ? ■ ()ur entire stock of new and elegantly as sorted millinery goods is on the market at fig ures that defy competition. Years of experi 1 ence have taught us to carryover no gooes SwU from one season to another—and we do not Therefore we have now put all of ou present season’s goods on the market. Re - ' )) r the winter is only half gone and that & what we offer jou row at such sacrifice i. ) prices, is all seasonable goods, 1 aving been carefully selected for this trade. * • * Our trimmers have no superior’s. When a \ * hat goes out o f our store and trimming rooms » : the wearer canalways feel certain that sh . J could have secured nothing better for the price, from any m Hiner anywhere. J : * You are cordially invited to call at your h i joz, S earnest convenience m ; | 1 ‘ A. O. GARRARD. : **OO******O-*«*V * IS Sil swr nmi/r to nrinrm w IfflL |y M- ; •) ’4 I the tel $5 Pants on earths (• 2S THEY ARE THE * ’ TZ'TlVfT'l WW (• / Hi ! % r B g at OTHER PLACES. " nr l p c § oiifiiev I ailonng Lo .Broad (m (• CJ K-r jJELLICO ft- \_y W / Try N W e meet all compe tition and defy competi- ? sfl IHh tors, Our coal is as good ™ 111™ 1 as the best, and we ke< p our scales in apple pie or wt- der, ; We execute’alCorders promptly er the kind of coal that E E. HOLD E R ;. # 1 OFF CE.Wesiarn U., Telegraph Co’s. Cffice. ■# OiCE’FHCNE 169. YARD 'PHONE 120 I