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NINTH year
linoke a “Bill Arp/ waiters New Brand
[SLOW WORK
He Doos Will be in Cuba
MUoli Langer Than
L ALLOWED THEM.
— ——
I Limit is Extended to
January Ist-
| asbington. Oct. 22.—1 tis
■ certain that the complete
■uation of Cuba will be de
ll beyond the period origin-
■ fixed by the administration.
I win follow entirely with
[eference to anything that
Occurred in Paris before the
I'cace commission.
■ie wardeoartment has about
Med itself that the task im
|d upon the Spanish author-
I—the removal and traaspor
ln to a great distance by sen
lout 11,000 soldiers, sick
[well, with their accoutre
|i»— beyond the ability of
■Spaniards.
lie magnitude of the task is
Ln by the fact that the great
l-Ailaiitic steamer lines
Ling the Atlantic from New
L all combined in prosper-
Ltasons transport only about
■OO persons in one year—less
I half the number that the
Lishcfficials with their poor
lities were expected to trans-
■ in about ten weeks.
Lliy in the evacuation of
■ will cause ad. lay in the
muishment of sovereignty
■ie Spaniaids over the entire
Li which was set for Dec. 1.
■is hardly deemed prudent
■idertake to assume charge
Lt municipal affairs of Ha
il to long as the city contains
jtrong garrison of Spanish
Ip?, and it is felt that law
■ order could be better main
leliii such centers by allow-
Itheiu to remain under Span
jurisdiction until they are
juated by the troops and re-
Ipied by United States
Ls.
| is not to be understood from
| that the American military
■mission is in any sense
L u g the pressure it has
[ght tubear upon the Span
■ Military commission to se
j the evacuation of the is
| and the relinquishment of
| rei gnty.
| n the contrary, the commis-
Il as redoubled its efforts to
| re these objecls, but is not
|nnce of impossibilities and
and its da
| will be largely shaped by
knowledge that the Span
r are ac ting in perfectly good
P intheir eflorts to carry
| l6 lt ‘ r, ns of the protocol.
T HE NEW YEAR
F tbjc Limit of the
' i miimatum Proposed.
r" 01 k, 0ct.22 —An agree-
F JvtWeen the two commis
r a s to the date of evacua
again Be ems probable. The
eilc «n ultimatum is Jan. 1,
date will be finally ac-
f e J y the Spaniards.
“ e commission has served
Ise i° n who pur-
Co ri' i and bronze guns
THE ROME HUSTLEK COMME KCI AL
, WAR IN AFRICA.
Twenty Thousand Tribesmen
Attack Transml Army.
REENFORGRMENTB MEED
Bloody Battie fought by Gen
eral Joubert.
Pretoria, Got, 22.—Seri on a
trouble is brewing with the Maga
f© tribe in the Ziutpansbsrg dis
trict, south of the Limpo river.
The natives recently massacred
a Lutheran missionary and his
family at the town of Zoutpans
berg, and the Transvaal govern
ment sent an expedition to puuisb
them.
Chief Opefu. with 20,000 follow
ers fully armed, and four cannon
supplied by white traders, has at
tacked the Laager. Heavy ight
iug is proceeding The nltimatum
of the c im-nanding officer of the
Transvaal troops, Gen. P. J. Jou
bert, demanding an unconditional
surrender, has hwen ignored by
the tribesmen and ha has sum
moned 3.000 burghers to reinforcs
the 5,000 now in the field Ths
campaign promises to be pro*.
longed.
The score of the fighting between
the Transvaal burghers under Gen.
Joubert and the tribesmen who
fellow Cheif Opefu is the extreme
northern section of Transvaal ter
ritory, west of Gaza country
(Umslengaland) and southeast
of the country of the Matabele. It
is in the very heart of a district
inhabited by some of the bravest
and most intractible of South Af
rican tribesmen Cheif Opefu has
long been a tborn in the eide of
the Transvaal government. Geu .
Joubert, who is conduction the
''piration against the tribesmen,
is vice president of the South Afri
can republic as well as comman
der-in-chief of the Transvaal army.
He is one of the founders of the
South African republic.
sold at auction, that the Ameri
can government would contest
the legality of the sale, and that
he would dispose of the gunk at
his own risk. A New York agent
who was about t» deposit a
draft of SIOO,OOO to psrehase
the guns from Mr. Hamill, was
also warned, and later refused
to complete the deal.
MADRID PAPER SUPPREBED.
Journal Fails to Comply With
The Aules.
Madrid, Oct. 22.—El Nacional.
the conservative organ which is
supporting General Weyler, was
ordered suppressed for publishing
mi article not previously submit
ted to the censor though its editor,
Seuoa Figuera, a member of the
chamber of deputies, nas been im
prisoned . The affair caused a
great sensation and the suspension
ordered was eventually annulled.
Senor Gamazo, minister of pub 1
lie instruction and public works,
has tendered his rasignation as a
protest against the arrest of the
editor of KI Nacional. The resig
nation has been accepted, Senor
Sagasta taking Senor Gamazo’s
portfolio ad intel im.
The newspapers have addressed
a complaint to the supreme court
against the refusal of General
Chinchiller, governor general of
Madrid, to respect the alleged in
violability of Senor Figuera as a
member of the chamber of depu
ties. ™
ROME GEORGIA. SUNDAY MORNING, CCTOBR 23, 1898.
STMTS NORTH
The Maria Teresa Will Leave
Cuban Waters
FOH HER MEW HOME
On Next Thursday, at Last
That’s the Rian Now.
Caimanera, Cuba, Oct. 22, —
Unless there is some unforeseen
delay. Capt. Harris and Engineers
S;ms, Gowes and Scott, of tt»
Vulcan, and Cupt. Crittenden, of
the wreckers agree that the Teresa
will start north next Thursday.
The cruiser will begin coaling on
Saturday. Steam ie on in the en
gines daily. In filling the boilers
with fresh water today the pumps
aft became choked below.
Roofing of the quarters abaft
the smokstack and the decking i«
almost completed and the sand is
nearly removed from the bottem
of the hull. Work on a differ dam
was begun today by a sea crew from
the Newark, Vulcan Cinciu'-
nati and the wrecking tugs.
The gunboat Sandoval is taking
on water and coal preparatory to
an early trial of her engines,
Other vessels now here are the
Cincinnati, the Glacier, the Poto
mac, the Leonidas and the
and Polo, Tolca and
Palmer.
SUGAR WAR
Promises to Gause Another
Material Cut.
New York, Oct. 22. —It appears
that prices are going to be cut
still further in the sugar war.
Both the sugar war and the in
dependent interests have an
nounced that guarantees of the
prices have been withdrawn.
The guarantees, which were
given after the recent cut in
prices, were to the effect that if
the market should decline be
fore purchaser? received their
sugar, they would get it at the
price billed on the day they re
ceived it.
FIVE LIVES WERE LOST
Hotel Burns in California With
Fatal Results.
Susanville, Cal., Oct. 22.
News just received here from
Clairville, a new town in Plumas
county, California, reports the
burning of a hotel and the loss
of five lives.
WHITES AAD BRACKS
Politics Leads to a Desperate
Battle at Fort Worth Tex 1
Fort Worth. Tex. October 22,
Trouble between white# and blacks
over polities has culmieated in h
fight io which Hope Adams inde
pendent candidate for #heriff and
leader of the independent move-,
ment against the white men’s un
ion association wat shot and kill
ed.
Adams was fired on by unknown
parties concealed in the county
courthouse. The shooting was pre
cipitated by a negro named Jen
kins, who fired on the white m°n
in the courthouse.
The sheriff has wired Governor
Cu barson that be is unable to
preserve order and wants troop e
seut to the scene atonee.
Mr. W. H. Robinson, us Atlan
ta, is at the Central,
WN&W
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