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EIGHTH YEAR ROME GEORGIA.
smoke a “Bill Arp’ waiters New Brand
OIfTHK KI VERS’ BED
Hidiltd With Billlets, the
Negro's Body was Found.
VICTIM OF EHRAGED HOB
Negroes ar* Excited and Threat
ening Reprisal.
Griffin, Gd.’ Sept. 12—The
country between this *:ity and
Brook# Station was in a ferment
of excitement today over the
death penalty inflicted upon
George Burden, the colored
men who attempted an assault
upon Mrs Coggins Friday eve
ning-
The finding of the dead body
of the suspected man at the bot
tom of the Flint river, near Dig
by, told but too well the story
of the punishment which had
been meted out to him. The
body was riddled with shot and
heavily weighted with rocks, so
that it might be held secure in
the water.
The worse feature of the whole
tragedy is the rumor that large
bodies of armed negroes are
marching around that section,
and that they may probably put
the entire Digby and Coggins
families to death before morn
ing. The whites, it is rumored,
have hurriedly organized, and in
the excited state of feeling it is
nard to say what may happen
before the next sun rises.
About five miles from Senoia
lives a well-to-do farmer named
Coggins. He married the daugh
ter of ex- Tax Collector Digby,
of Spalding county, and the en
tire family is well connected,
belonging to the very best class
oi agricultural people,
It was about sundown Friday
evening when Mrs. Coggins,
busied about her household du
ties, was suddenly aroused by
the entrance of the negro Bur
den, who insolently demanded
her eabmission. The lady fought
valiantly against the attack of
♦he wretch, screaming in the
meantime so that assistance
came, when Burden broke
through the back door and ran
lor the woods.
The white men of the neigh
borhood organized at once and
♦•arched the country for the
guilty wretch. Having but a
P°or description of him, several
®en were arrested,,sum? of
whom aroused extra suspicion
by their impudent conduct, and
io one case there came near be
ift S • tragedy in which the
»rong man would h ive been
•lain, but he would have only
’•d himself to thank for having
fought down vengeance upon
him.
Harden was arrested late in
night in Senoia by Biiliff
cGullough and taken before
t • lady for identification. She
outnd it impossible, however,
owing to her extreme nervous
excitement, to identify him, but
ft t«r on evidence developed
W iich was considered sufficient.
( rUi ’ morning aba ut 2 :30
firing w*as heard in the
•entity of Flint river, and a
ttt e »ater men were scattering
onae in all directions. About
0 clock thia morning several
•rniers who were not with the
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party went down to the river
bank, whence the sound ol
shooting had been heard during
the early morning. On the river
bank they found several pieces
of clothing, blood-stained, anu
other evidence qf a struggle.
This led to a dragging of the
river, the body was dis
covered.
NEGRO TROOPS RIOT
Tried But Failed t > Rescue A
Comrade From Jail.
Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 12
Members of the Third Alabama
(negro) engaged in a riot at An
niston Saturday night which came
near haying serious results.
A member of the regiment was
arrested by the police for disorderly
conduct and lodged in jail. Mem
bers of tne Tnird Tennessee and
Second Aikansas assisted in up
holding the law.
At night nearly 500 of the
Third Alabama slipped out of
camp aud went to town with the
intention of liberating thiir com
rade.
At the prison they were met by
provost guard. They then gathered
at another point, where there were
white eoldiers and citizens.
Here a riot was soon in progress
and a dozen or more pistol shots
fired. Two negro soldiers and a
member of the Second Arkansas
were «hot. The white officers final*
ly formed the negro soldiers in
line and marched them back to
camp. The wounds were slight.
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SHOWS CHANGE.
Physicians Say Their Patient
Has a Comfortable day.
Narragansett ' Pier, R. 1.,
Sept. 12.—The condition of
Miss Winnie Davis, daughter of
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, continues
comfortable, and during the day
there was no material change.
Her phssicians say that the
day was an encouraging one for
the patient.
ISLAND HAS DISAPPEARED.
Volcanic Action Wipes Out A
Piece of Pacific Land.
Victoria, B. C. September 12.
News comes frjm Suva by the
steamer Miowera that Falcon
island, recently situated between,
thd Tonga Tabu and Haafai groups
and immediately opposite the
Nomuka group of islands, has
disappeared beneath the waves
owing io volcanic action.
There were about twenty native
fishermen ou the is'aud, who have
doubtless perished.
HARGEDWITH STEALING.
Nashville Man Arrested In Chi
cago By Detectives.
Chicago, Sept. 12. —John T.
Leonard, assistant superintendent
of Armour A Co. s lard refinery at
the stock yard, is under arrest at
central station charged with grand
larceny.
Leonard, some tims ago, was
superintendent of John Cudahy s
lard refinery at Nashville. Tenn.,
and it is asserted that while in
that position he robbed hie em
ployer of
TROOPS WILL PARADE
Soldiers Returning From Porto
Rico To March Along New York.
Washington. Sept. 12 —General
Miles on leaving the white house
today said the president had con
sented to a parade of Porto Rican
troops in New York Saturday. It
lie expected that ».000 of these
troops will participate.
MONDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER,
DEADLY GASOLINE
Wrecks Houses And Destroys
Hilman Life
1W ARE WOUNDED
Forty Gallons Os The treacher- ’
ous Fuld Expolded.
Philadelphia, Pa, Sept 11.—By
the rxplosion of forty gallons of
gasoline in the cellar of a grocery
store 1441 South street lastnight
four and posibly a dozen moia lives
were lost.
As an immediate conseq lence of
the explosion, the building where
it occurred and those adjoining it
on either side collapsed.
Up to 10 o’clock, four hours af
ter the occurrence, four bodies had
been recovered from the ruins and
three of these identified as fo'lows:
Samuel Schattsnsteiu, keeper of
the grocery store.
Abraham, hie nineteen yaer-old
son.
Max Goldberg, a ten-months old
child of the furniture storekeep
er.
The fourth was that of a girl
about ten years old.
The cause of the explosion is
unknown. The front of 1444 was
blown out and this was followed
by the collapse of that structure
and No. 1442, occupied by Morris
Goldberg’s furniture store, and
No. 1446, Li s Sallonose’s shoe
store.*
The west wall of 1440 occupod
by L. Wauger’s clothing store was
blown out. All the buildings were
of hr : ck, three stories in height.
In the confusion and excitement
folloei ng the disaster it is as yet
impossible to secure anything like
an accurate census of the occupant?
of the building but it is said that
the upper floor were crowded with
families huddled together in tene
ment fashion. ,
Coming as it did at the supper
hour, it is feared the loss of life
was heavy. The list of injured will
be long. After the recovery of the
four bodies the authorities decided
to postpone the search for addi
tional victims until toworrow
morning, thus obviating the dan
gers of working upon the mass of
debris and wrecking in the dark
ness.
The injured at the Howard hos
pital are: L. Schattenstein, aged
twelve, Alexand-r Schattenstein,
aged six, Mary Healey, aged aixty
five. Annie McPbilomy, aged fjrty
Maggie Golobarg, age i thirty-two
Sasah Goldberg, aged fourteen.
At the Jefferson hospital are . A.
F. Fieh, thirtysoine years, fireman
of truck D. and Yetta Goldberg
nine years. •
At the Polyclinic is Rosa Schat
tenstein eight years.
Estimates of the number of
missing vary from eighteen to
sixty.
The accepted theory of the acci
dent is that Schattsnstein went
into the cellar wkh a lighted lamp
which ignited the fumes of the
gasoline. The collapse of the
building occurred within two min
utes of the explosion, and the
occupants had little time or
chance to escipe. Mrs. G^ldb a rg
snatched up her ten-montha old
child in her arms and rushed for
an exit, but the child was so badly
injured that it died while being
borne to a hospital. Strangely
enough, the mother escaped with
onlv trifling injuries.
A good deal more light is
needed in the war office., These
scandals make it
UNHAM
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KIUTIBNU SO OF
SAILORS
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WE have just D3ughtthe en stock of LAdies and Misses Fino
Sailois of one of the Largest Millinsry houses of New york
and new place'them on sale at a price that is certainly most*
remarkable. While we know the people of Rdm e have been faked
time and again, yet we
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That these Sailors are wurth $ 1,0 3. $ 1.53 and $2.70 eachandwa
will sell the/w at the astonishing 10 -v price of
50T1EACHI
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There Is Twenty-one Cases or One Thousand and Eleveo Hats . ar‘d
♦ not a plug in the lot, but the prettiest an I latest th > i i 3*i. »
• Some fine Milan,some fine sp it straw,soma rough brim j.nd smooth
• crown, some colored brim and white crown,some of all colors of t'e
» rainbow. Bell crown, straight fro m, wide brim, narrow brim, some
♦ fine white and in fact all kins d except cheap tra«n and those wa do
♦ not want. This is a chance to buy fin e sailors at a price •♦ ♦-♦ * |
♦ that will probably not come again. ;♦ •♦♦♦® «* * * •
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