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eighth year smoke xtra good and rebel veil cigars ®L SITUATION q d tiie island of Gdba, Says Senor Bock i$ not so very bad. Thinks uncle Sams Soldiers Have a Job on Hand. Key West. May 19,-Senor G. Bock, the wealthy Havana cigar merchant, who is waiting here for permission to go to Ha vanaon the German steamer Polaria, demes the stories of suffering and starvation in the large Cuban towns. He claims to have over 6,400 men working on his tobacco plantations and who, incidentally, are raising food enough for themselves and a large community besides}. Senor Bock says he is inform ed as to the real situation and can set as many more men at work raising food stuff whenever needed. The farmers who are raising produce for the Span iards, he explains, are armed I and protected by the government. I and he asserts that the present ■ blockade cannot starve Havana ■or any other part of Cuba into ■eurrender in a hundred years. ■ When asked what was becom- ■ iug of the Cuban population ■meanwhile, he shrugged his ■shoulders and remarked : ■ -‘The stories of the burned ■fieldsand desolated farms be ■tween Havana, Sagna La Grande ■and Matanzas, told by Ameri ■can investigators, were true ■when written, but a fortnight ■puts those farms in working or ■der unprotected by the govern- ■ went, and we are raising crops ■every forty days. | ‘‘The island will be captured ■by the United States, the force ■against us is too great, but it ■will be many months yet.l am a ■German. Yes, I am also a Span- ■ iard, but I wish it were all over ■tomonow. Yet it will never be ■ended as the war is now being ■carried on. Twenty thousand ■ American troops landed there I 'lllflftihfSiMtTJii I When • I ■'• I I ma " talls out ‘—“i of a ten-story 1 — 1 _ -. I window lf~ II you’d natu r-JL a 1 IT" ~|| rally s ay lie WjZN® ' —, ’ s a dead QK S' —man. Well, —" perhaps he Ssss ~—l is and then , 11 again, per- haps not. • Something , may save * ■>!/', him. There k\ S ”’,ay be a i \/'v friendly awn. ■iliD - '" K ‘ bat wiU let him down W easy ’ so tie C Ba may be sound '*■” well to •ever morrow. Yon •terns to be a* hat save a man who Mai>v a KOod as dtad n''4}° s . eemed ‘"be dyinp of Bounce/ iust’at” 11 Y'°' n . the doct °ra pro and strong as dead, has pot wel’ fierce’s c , J d bearty again by usir- Dr. 'onderful’°-n M' . ile<bcal Discovery. ’This that consumnHn 1 ”® h , as sh,,w " ‘be doctors It can P l-° ’ Bn I a .’, ways a fatal dis- Mms of it in ih»ki rt a lf , yon get at ‘be ,L ..utiirhlv ti> . b °? d a ”d clear them out does II at ' S Y bat lllis “ Discovery ” L gernuo? 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BLOODY BRINKS. / ft Yoilng Negro Murderer Kills Three Officers.] ft GLINGH COUNTY RIOT _ » In Which Two Are KiEed And Two Wounded. Horn Lake, Mies., May 19. —At the Foster plantation, four miles southeast of this town, at 10 o’clock this morning, four deputy sheriffs R. B. Campbell, H R. Campbell, W. C. Cooper and C. I. Jones—visited the Foster p ace t? arrest Nimbrod Littlefield, and William Littlefield, his son, Loth negroes charged with a mub der committed in Boliviar county several years ago. The negroes resisted the officers, whereupon Deputy R. B. Campbell fired, killing Nimrod Littlefield. The younger negro seized a win chester rifle and used it with fear ful effect. His first shot struck Deputy Cooper squarely’ in the foiehead, killing him instan’ly. The intursated negro then turned on H. R. Campbell, shooting him in the head, death result ng in stantly, whi ea third shot brought Depnty Jones to the ground a corpse. Deputy R B. Campball having no available ammunition, beat a hasty retreat for assistance, and upon returnin g to the scene of the tragedy, a posse found the bodies of the dead white men hoi ribly mutilated, their heads h - ing been beated into a jelly. Bloodhounds were secured and im mediately put upon Littlefield’s track, and if caught a lynching will occur. There is great excite ineut throughout the settlement where the shoottng occurred. TWO MEN KILLED Storekeepers Near Valdosta At tacked By Rowdy Negroos. Valdosta, Ga., May 19—News has been rece’ved here of a fearful tragedy in the southern part of Clinch county. Last night a white, man, named Charley Griffith, and a negro, named Charles Thomas, were both killed and a white man named James Drawdry, and a negro named Henry Minsue, were both badly wounded. The two white men are in the mercantile business, and the ne groes were cursing about their store. The negroes were ordered to leave the place, and both pulled their weapons anil opened fire upon the merchants. The whi'e men were unarmed, and were at, the mercy of the desperados. A negro named Charles Smith was outside the store when the shooting began, and he ran it side to defend the whites. He killed one of the negroes and wounded the other. It is believed that the negroes intended to rob the place and tha' they stirred up a difficulty to get in thei - work. The sheriff of Clinch county is said to have gone to the scene, though he has not returned, r l he tingedy occurred in a thinly set tled settlement. ca inot take the island. It is i ot like the Philippines. The people of Cuba are armed by the gov ernment and they will fight How soon I go? I do not know ; I wait now for the permission. 1 know the situation and am not afraid of starvation' of Ha vana. Further, you have tour weeks now to the sick s< ason and fighting for you then, wi 1 be impossible.’* ROME GEORGIA, iHU RS DAY EVENING, MAY 19. 1898. MANAGERS NAMED. Chairman Harper Hamilton ftppoints THE PRIMARY MANAGERS For The De nocrapc Primaries In Floy l on June 6th. The following list of managers appointed by Chairman Harper Hamilton of the county demo cratic executive committee, to hold the primaries in the various distric sos the county on June 6th was handed the Hustler- Commercial too late for publica tion on yesterday . MANAGERS OF TIIJ£ PRIMARY ELEC TION., June 6th, 1898. Rome district—Walter Harris, Nat Harris and Halsted Smith. Cave Spring district—J. C. Watts, Eli Harrison, W. P. Trout. Flatwoods district—lT. J. Huf faker, John H. Rice, A. C. Mor rison. Fosters Mill district—W. A. Carr, J. M. Lathan, A. J. Fite. Livingston district—W. H. 11 Camp, John Webb, H. L. Huff man. State Line district —Chas. V. Irvine, Thomas S. Millican, T. R. Early. North Carolina, district—L. W Early, John L Hardin, N. 11. Biss. Texas Valley district —W. M. Hardin, Thomas McKinney, Bil ly Selman. Floyd Springs district —J. C. Garlington, J. 0. Horton, Dug Barnett. Everett Springs district—J. P. Earle, Jr., J. Z. Lynch, J. J. Mann, Sr. Watters district—W. J. Brow.n, Matt Penn. J. F. Ward. Ridge Valley district —T. N. Pinson, E. P. James M. Watters. Etowah district—George A. Gray, J. C. Eve, J. T. Carver. Chulio district —John I). Wade. Jonn Terhune, W. L. Wade. ■ Ilowells dkJrict—ll. - D. Brad-1 shaw, Will Rikli, C. T. Callo way. , Barkers district— W. C. Bick-1 ers, John Marian, John Kyle. | Lindale district—ll. A. Pow- - I ers. George S. Black, John B.; Porter. Vtuis Valley district —W. P. Hunt, Alex White, W. 0. W eems. As chairman of the Democrat ic Executive Committee of Floyd county I have- ajrpoitiled the above well known citizens of Floyd county to hold the demo cratic primarv*of JuneGtli 1898. May 19 th, 1898. Harper Hamilton, Chairman. Chairman Hamilton stated to the Hustler-Commercial that he had furnished the Rome Iri bune with a copy of the appoint m nts. But tor some cause < t other that enterprising nevs, gatherer saw fit to suppress the same and th-us give two other newspapers a “scoop” on it. It will be seen that Chairman Hamilton has appointed the committeemen from each di trict ou the board of managers. I erPat ie rn s only 5c each LANI IaAVsONS. We have discontinued and are closing TH® out all au only 5c each. In their place we 'pf '■C® have put the justiy famous •—TNRX. A"AUK u —j M'cau Bazaar Patterns. the nnL h i ey F ar V+u b9st and m; >st highly artistic patterns on Fashion Plates Free to Each and Every Caller. PFIV,- MILLIDERY. Our'millinery department is the m 3st complete and uptoda»-e of anv in Rome a id our prices are the lowest. New hats at prices that cannot be met b/others. New sailors for .ess rnsney than at any other millinery store. EMBROIDERIES u AND DACES. Large stock and small prices Come see them and vou will be pleased the way we sell th yn. NF. VC DAWNS- WEW ORGANDIES Pretty and Real Cheap PPPttll sbere Linen, only 3 1-2 cents per yard, 11 Obby India Linen, better quality, 5 cents pe.’yard. Beautiful india linens for less money than at any other store WHITE & COLORED DUCK PIQUE .Hid LININ CRASH an i lots of Summer goads real cheap. NKW ju t received and selling ch >ao, Come to see us and you will be pleasd LANHAM'S 1 O CENTS PER WEEK