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BIG CONSPIRACY.
Unearthed In The Seventh
District and Arrests, of
CONSPIRATORS FOLLOW
A Pointer Dog Sent Through
Registry Mail Pouch.
Cartersville, Ga., Oct, 17. —Ons
of the moat unique, if not gigantic,
schemes to swindle the govern
nient ever brought to light in this
taction is being unearthed through
the arrest of participants already
mace and others that may follow.
The postoffice inspector of the
southern division of the depart
ment, W. C. Baird, whose head
quarters are at Chattanooga, has
been under the impression for
suDi* time that some sort of swin
dling was going on through the
poatoflioe department throughout
north Georgia and north Alabama,
and locating the seat of the crook
edness as near as he could, be de
tailed Special Inspectors Bass and
Peer to investigate the affair. They
went quietly and carefully at their
work and their early and thorough
success reflects much credit on
both the chief inspector and them
selves.
The first suspicions were aroused
through the reports of railway
clerks of excessive amounts of
mail coming to them to be han
dled from remote localities.
There seems to have been a reg"
ulargan>of operators, composed
mostly of men with mail contracts
in the rural communities, and
thsir scheme was to cause tbs es
tabiishment of new postoflice, the
receipts from which they largely
shared.
An operator would gc to a farm
er and ask him to apply for a
postoflice, suggesting a short name,
which the government would more
readily grant and when it had
been established ths farmer was
told in order to hold the office he
would have to send ofl and receive
a great deal of mail. Letters would
bs written in numbers and news
papers wou'd be regularly regis
tered.
The operator would tell the
postmaster it made no difference
to him, as he received the benefits
of the cancellations, but the oper
ator would receive an amount for
carrying the mail (qual to two
thirds of the cancelations.
At the end of the quarter the
operator would go around and
make the postmaster’s report for
him, in order to save him any in
convenience and make his busi-
Unless the
proper precau
/tionsare taken,
I C? death will lurk
in every home.
_• -
I t~i |'• step sof hus-
”l
( T i ’ children alike.
I - IMIK tbe husband
i “ ’®|r p l -* is an ambitious
Er- DC man, the
B ~u-' ' l Icha nc ea are
Vk-\ - that b e will
M 1 L Alug-WV f~—; overwork and
" _JL~ overwort y and
’L—’ Hk 1 110 nth
r 'Q-' fISACm D 1 - ci-. nt time to
' ••"■J ' r . rest, ami
• = sl ee P- At first
' nsy'Dr ‘ Dr- he may feel
gz*D*j —~iV— but trifling ill
—-—ED I effects from his
gjj— -D indiscretion.
< I Then he will
suffer from headaches, loss of appetite, loss
of sleep, lassitude in the morning, drowsi
ness during the day and a general “out-of
sorts” feeling. If these conditions are
neglected, almost any serious malady *nay
be the result. Frequently it is some nerv
ous disorder or dread consumption. Dr.
Fierce's Golden Medical Discovery is the
best medicine for hard working men. It
gives edge to the appetite, makes digestion
and assimilation perfect, invigorates the
liver and purifies and enriches the blood
It is the great blood - maker and flesh
builder. It cures 98 per cent, of all cases
•f chronic or lingerirfg, bronchial, throat
and lung affections. o
All too frequently, death dogs the foot
steps of the wife, in the guise of weakness
and disease of the delicate and important
organs that bear the burdens of wifehood
and maternity. There is an unfailing cure
for disorders of this nature. It is Dr.
vice's Favorite Prescription. It acts di
settle on the sensitive organs concerned,
them strong, healtny and vigorous.
It fits for wifehood and motherhood.
• bey are sold at all medicine stores
During early childhood death lurks in
every corner for these fragile innocents.
The mother can only protect her babes by
acquiring some practical medical know!
edge. Dr. Pierce’s Common Sense Medical
. Adviser imparts this knowledge. For a
jt paper - covered copy send 21 one - cent
B ' cover cos t mailing onlv, to
V plerce - Buffalo, N. Y. Cloth
binging ji stamps.
RoYal
Baking Powder
Made from pure
cream of tartar.
Safeguards the food
against alum*
Alum baking powders are the greatest
menacers to health of the present day.
ROYAL BAK I N(1 ROWOCR CO., NEW YORK.
nees show up correct.
Offices were found to have been
put at every farm house along
some of the routes. Inspectors
Bass and Peer went to Haralso.
county, the seat of operations, and
got their full bearings before mak
ing arrests. Last Friday they ar
rested W. J. Head, Jr.. Delia, Ga .
who seemed, from all indications,
to be general manager for specal
poetoffices. They found him while
carrying a pointer dog from one
postoffice to another as registered
mail matter, the stamps being put
on the animal’s collar and cancel
led They arrested also as his
accomplice John Lowe, of Ledge,
Ga., and Butler Davis, of May,
Ga. These men were brought to
this city and tried before Judge
Aaron Collins, United States com
missioner, and we r e bound over to
the United States courts cn bonds
of $2,500 each for violating sec
tions 5440 and 5480 of the Unite
States statues, which. it ’s s.'d,
they will successfully mak°.
Colonel Baird and his capable
aids, Messrs. Baes and Ptfer, are
being warmly congra'ulated on
their work so far, and they ex
press themselves as determined to
break up the conspiracy by wbich
the government has been so shame
fully defrauded. It is believed
they have only made a fair begin
uing, the participants Icing more
numerous and extensive than
would casually seem, and whole
sale arrests are expected and like
ly at once.
WELL PLEASED CUSTOM
ERS.
We have sold hundreds and
hundreds ol the McCall Bazar
Patterns since we have taken the
agency, and upon inquiry of the
salesladies in the department,we
find that not one pattern has
ever been returned as unsatis
factory, and with hundreds of
sales, not one word of criticism
has ever been heard against the
McCall Patterns.
On the contrary many ladies
are delighted with the McCall
Patterns, because reliable, and
because the prices a:e only 10
and 15 cents each.—None High
er. Lanham <t Sons 245 Broad
street, Bass old stand.
lALLFVE FOUND DEAD.
Galician Man and Four Children
Murdered—Wife Missing
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Oct. 17. —
4 Dominion City dispatch to The
Free Press says a cold blooded
butchery took place in the Gali
cian settlement, east of th*re,
some time within the last twenty
four hours. A Galician man and
hie four children were found dead
in their house by a neighbor. The
wife is missing and is suspected to
be guilty of the crim*. The weap
on used was aa ax. The man’s
head was neaily severed from his
body and the children’s bodies
were more or less multilated.
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The best-salve in the world I
for cuts, biuiese sores, ulcers,
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Chapped hands, Chilblains,
Corns, and all Skin Eruptions,
and positively cures Piles or no
pay required. It is guaranteed
to give perfect satisfaction or
money refunded. Price 25 cents
per box. For salu by Curry Ar-|
gton Co.
FOUR BOYS
Pay the City S3O for Rock
ing a Yo'lng Man.
THE VICTIM BADLY HURT.
4
Mayor Protem D. B. Hamilton
Satin Judgement.
Recorder’s court was quite a
lively event this forenoon.
There was a case against a
young “coon” for looking too
often on the larger when the
schooners came over the bar.
He was fined $2 50
The same fine was entered up
against a youns man who is the
head of a family and who can
ill afford to pay the same.
And then, two colored dam
sels were fined $3 each for en
gaging ia a fistic bee and a
wordy war.
But the star members of the
morning matinee were against
four youths—boys still on the
sunny side of their teens and all
of them of good families.
These boys were charged with
rocking a popular young em
ployee of a Rome drug house,
All parties at interest were in
court, the parties engaged in
the boyish outlawry looking
penitent and humble, while their
victim, minus a couple of front
teeth and with his lip cut
through by a cruel rock, was
there looking the worse for
wear.
It seems that the young man
had escorted an uptown young
lady to and f'-om chu ck, and"
was returning to his boar dug
house.
As he came down upper
Broad he was met wirh a show
er of macadam and a whirlwind
of brickbats. Ordinarily the vic
tim of a nocturnal rocking par
ty takes to his heals. This young
man, however, faced the music
and captured one of the rockers
and made him give the namei
of his fellow conspirators, all of
whom he reported to the officers.
The courageous stand as the
yound man caused him the loss
of two teeth, broken off by a
well aimed stone ; he also had
his upper lip badly cut and was
struck in other places by rocks.J
Mayor Protem Blunt Hamil
ton lectured the boys most se
verely and fined each of them
$7.50. The fines were paid and
Eczema
All Her Life.
Mr. B. D. Jenkins, of Lithonia, Ga.,
i Bays that his daughter, Ida, iuheritad a
aevere case of Eczema, which ths asssd
aaqrcury and potash remediea fallad So
relieve. Year by year ahe waa traatod
with various medicines, external appli
cations and internal remediea, wftbont
mult. Her sufferings were intense,
and her condition grew steadily worse.
All the so-called blood remedies did eet
a seem to reach the die
eaae at all entil &.
B.S. was given, whaa
an Improvnatal
waa at once noticed.
The medicine wee
continuerd with fav
orable iwanlta, and
now she is eared
sound and well, hes
skin is perfectly
clear and pare and
she has beaa saved
from what threat*
ened to blight her life forever.
B.S.S. (/waraa/rrtf partly
cures Bcseaia, Scrofula, Cancer, RJieu
matism, or any other blood troahle.
It is a real blood remedy sad always
cures awan after all else fails.
A Real Blood Remedy.
Taka a blood rtmtdr tar a blood dheaMf
a tonic won't cure It.
Our books
on blood and
skin diseases
mailed free to
any address.
Swift Specific
Co., Atlanta,
fife
I S—l I • —■ CTI
Woman’s Friend
The Great Medicine that Gives
Nerve Strength
Mood’s Sarsaparilla Makes ths
Blood Rich and Pure, Creates as.
Appetite and Restores Health,
Vigor and Vitality.
"I feel that I ought to write • few
words in praise of Hood’s Barsapariila.
which has done great things for me. 1
wee In a delicate condition and wa» lick
at my stomach and constipated. I tried
remediee highly recommended for female
weakneieee, but the medlcinec brought
on other troublee. I waa so weak 1
could not attend to my household duties,
and I then determined to try Hood’s faar
aeparilla. After I bad taken thin medicine
a abort time I began to gala strength. 1
Crow Stronger Each Day
until I was able to work all day without
any inconvenience. I have taken Hood’s
Pilla for conatipation, and I am better to
day than I have been for five yean.
olnoa taking Hood’e Baraaparilla and
Hood’a PHU I feci reeted in the morning.
I am lesa nervoua and am aun I have
richer and purer blood. I have always
been bothered with scrofuls, but sow I
am rid of It. Before my Isst child was
born I took Hood's Sarsaparilla, and
my girl baby was fat and strong, while
my other chi’d was not well and lived
to be only two yean old.” Mm, g, Jr.
Peal, Box 4iy t Misuari Valley, lows,
Hood’s •XS.
la the beet—in fact the Oue True Blood Punier.
Hncid’c Pillc *r»P«relyveaetable,care
11OUU S VIII 3 fully prepared. M eeate
more than one of the boys have
filled engagements with a man
in the wood shed, since.
Public sympathy is with the
manly young fellow who stood
his ground. The fine was ex
ceedingly light, but the experi
ence will doubtless prove a val
uable lesson to the prankish ju
venile desperadoes.
FIFTEEN PQISENED,
Toadetool Prepared for Supper
And Cause Two Deaths.
Mammoth Springs, Ark.,OcL 17
—Mrs . Jce Williams and her sis
ter, Mrs, Brinkley, while visiting
at their mother’s home near this
place, prepared what they thought
to be mushrooms for supper- Tne
dish proved to be toadstools and
all of the fifteen persons who ate
of it were poisoned, three slightly
and the others seriously. A thir
taeu-y eer-old daughter of a neigh
bor named Gteer and Mrs, Brink
ley’s young son died. The others,
though in a serious condition, may
recover.
A GENTLE NOTICE.
Wishing to close up my old
business of Crouch <fc Watson,
also of J. T. Crouch & Co. I
must insist that all parties in
debted to either firm must cal
and settle, or the accounts wil
be placed in the hands of a col
lector with instructions to col
lect. Respectfully,
J. T. Cxguch.
Headquarters for pure Drugs
Prescriptions and Toliet Ar
tides. Read my Sunday Add.
DAMAGE TO SCHLEY’S SHIPS
Naval Board Inspicts Bbooxlyn
And Makes Rmport.
Washington, October 17 —A
special Laval board appointed to
investigate the repairs neccessary
to the Brooklyn, Commodore
Schley's flagship, because of dam
ages sustained in ths battle in
which Cervera’s fleet was destroy
ed finds that the principal injury
to the Brooklyn was caused by the
entrance and explosion on the
berth dock of a six-inch shell, shot
holes ic throe smokestacks and
two escape pipes shot hole through
hammock netting injury to after
engine room ventilator by six-inch
projectile thne one-pounder shot
holes in plating and one six-pound
er shot bo]6 forward.
The following advertisement ap»
pears in the Portland Oregonian;
“Wanted, small boy to deliver
oysters, that can ride a wheel.”
OCTOBER WEDDING.
Lieilt. Jack, of Roue, and
JUiss Grists, of Chattanooga
WILL WED o|i THE 27TR,
At St- Paul’s Episcopal Church
in the "Look Out’’ City.
The following invitations are
being received in the city by
many of Lieutenant Howard P.
Jack’s friends:
Mr. and Mrs. Allan Gnste
invite you to be present
at the marriage of their daugh
ter Allien Whitfield,
to
Lieut. Howard Percy Jack,
Thursday, Ootober the twenty
ty-seventh, Eighteen hundred
and ninety-sight, half past
seven o clock p. m.
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church,
Chattanooga, Tenn.
Miss Griste, the bride elect, is
the daughter of a prominent
Chattanooga family, and is one
of the prettiest and most attrac
tive yovng ladies in Tennessee.
As for Lieutenant Jack—lie
needs ne introduction here. Ev
erybody kmws the handsome
young First Lieutenant of Co.
H. Second Georgia. Brave, gal
lant, handsome and generous—
he is a success in business fields
or in the tented camps of war.
The people of Rome unite in
extending a hearty congratula
tion to his beautiful bride-eleet
and at the same time join in
wishing him and his long life,
unbroken prosperity and un
ending happiness.
For K idney, bhdckr, and
stomach troubles, drink Ingram
Lithia, for sale at the soda
founts of Curry-Arrington
Co., Jervis <k Wright and J. T.
Crouch.
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We offer One Hundred D o |
Reward f or c „. '
Catarrh that cannot be cursd l.v
Hall’s Catarrh Cure. X
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We, the undersigned k /
known F. J. Chene, for’the TJ
U years, and believe him to t*
financially able to carrv out an*
obligation made by their firm.
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Wholesale Druggists, Toledo. Q.
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the blood and mucous surfaces
of the system. Testimonials ism
freo. Price 75c per bottle. Sold
by all Druggists.
Hall’s Family Pills are
best.
Coke ohepper than
Coal- Can be used in
stoves for heating and
cooking purposes. No
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see ROME GAS CO
PBOFISSIONiI tllDi
ATTORNEYS.
J. BRANHAM,
Law OffieeSOO, VlmyeeVM,
CHAS W. UNDERWOOD
A rtornay at Law, Rom«<
Craporaioa Jjlw Onlyr
"W. J. NHJHJL,
Attorney at law. Will practice In all uctftu.
Special attention given to commvreial
and the examioatlon ct land titlev.
office in King building. Rome, Ha.
WALTER HARRIS.
Attorney at law and J. P. Office avu F. Ji
Kane A Co.’s.
LIPSCOUH Sc .WILLINUM AM
Commercial Lawyers.
Office in Armstrong hotel building, Heme,
M B EUBANKS,
Attorney at law. OSceKlng Builiiac.
Rome, oa.
■W M. ENNIS,
Attorney at Law. .Will Practice la all eeurtS
Office, Masonic Temple, Moms, Ga.
J. SANTA ORWT ) < I
Attorney at law, Rome, Ga. Colleetlea* *
specialty.
Masonic Temple. Rome, Go.
MOSES * RIGHT. JUMPMR BAbdMDi 4
WRIGHT A HAMILTON
Attorneys at Law.
Office: No. 14 Postoflice Building
w 3g.‘AgLJ ■ L if fi I I II—
DENTISTS.
J. A. WILLS, D. D. 5.,
Office U4C 1-3 Broad. # Over Cantrell A UV<*
J. L PENNINGTON. D D S..M ••
. SNTIST 1
Office, AJ6 l-g Broad atreet. Over Raakf Fat
enure Co.
PHYSICIANS.
O HAMILTON, AC D •
Physician and Surgeon Office, MMlrtl
Bnildlng Rome, Ga. On ee ’phone Ne.
Li F. KAMICOND. AC- D-
Phyaiclan and Surgeon. Office In Me44<»
building. Realdenoe, No. 40# Weal Pint at
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