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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 THE ROME HUSTLER-COMMERCIAL - • 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. , 1 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 &SONS. KIUTIBNU SO OF SAILORS I■> ‘ ' 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 STARTLING ANNOUNCEMENT. “W 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 ** * 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. ;♦ •♦♦♦® «* * * • . TpNHHM -fM». J ■* , ■ / * 12, IB9S, 10 CENTS PER WEEK