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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 THE BEST PLACE IN ROME! 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