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ninth year
smoke a Bill Arp’ warters New Brand
dr. WILSON SHOT.
fy a PiJrajlniD' Posse anil
broilfilit to bay.
CHASED BY BONDSNEN.
Inflated Severe Wounds, He
May Die.
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Warwick Ga., Nov. 1. —A
’ tragic sequel to the sensational
Worth county ii-urance fraud
developed at <’• ok’s Ferry, six
miles from Leii, in Lee county
last afternoon, in the probably
fatal shooting of Dr. Hugh Wil
ton, one of the principals in the
case.
Ever since Tuesday Dr. Wil
son has been engaged in evad
ing the officers of the law, but
the posse, consisting of his
bondsmen, has been steadily on
his trail. '1 hey tracked him
from place to place. With an
accuracy excelled only by a
trained bloodhound, they would
find where he slept in cotton
hous s and b .rns on the planta
tions. and ear y la t morning,
win e pursuing their seach in
such places as they had found
that he stopped, as the posse
approached a cotton b >use on a
plantation in Dooly county,they
heard what they thought was a
gun being cocked.
Cautiously examining the
Lous; they discovered the doc
tor within. It is imported that
the posse then c tiled upon him
to surrender, but instead of his
doing so, he jumped out of the
house and ran eff in the direc
tion of a nearby sugar cane patch
with bis gun pointing back at
the posse in a threatening man
ner, still refusing te halt, where-'
upon the bailiff, armed with a
*hctgun, loaded with buckshot,
shot the doctor just as he ap
proached the cane patch.
It is reported that he was hit
with four buckshot in the back
part of the thigh. The doctor
then surrendered and was
brought back to his home in
this county, where he is now
being guarded by a * bailiff, he
being thought too weak from
loss of blood to be brought to
jail now.
Ihe people of v. orth county
are determined that justice shall
be meted out to this trio, and
ancli frauds as they endeavored
to perpetrate t ffectually discour
aged. Judge Smith is presiding
for Judge Spence, and it will
require fully two weeks to clear
the docket. Ramseur and Pat
terson are securely c nfined in
the jail at Isabella. awaiting
trial.
blr. \\ ilson was appointed
postmaster at this place about
, Tp month ago as a republican,
tough he lived at Att, fifteen
1111 e8 from here. All the chanc
are against his recovery.
KITCHENER a load
hisTiNGUiBH General Raised
1 o The Pker«e.
L »odm, Nov 1 —lc i> officially
Te pOit6dthat General Kitchener
Wlll tak« the title of Lord Kitche-
U' r of Khartoum, and of Aspall, in
’b* County o f Surrey.
A. G. Bradshaw, of Senev, was
18 tb * city yesterday.
THE ROME HtSTLEH COMMERCIAL
SUG'JSTfI BIIK
Stores DesWyi il du Broad
Street by Fira
CONSIDERABLE LOSS.
Landrum & Butler Closed. Mc-
Coy Convicted.
Augusta, Nov. I—A general
alarm last night at 11 o’clock
called out trie entire fire depart
ment. The fire started io the
store of William Nixon, 8«7 Broad
etroet and the entire building wa*
dtetroyed, also the olh adjoining,
occupiey by Davidson & Matthew-,
sou and th? Phoeriix Job Printing
company.
The building occupied by Rich
ards & Sl’.av: r was also damaged,
and their stock of bo®ks flooded
with water. The losses are: Wil
liam Nixon, stock, $7.C00, Phoe
nA Printing company plant. $5,-
001 Divds n & Matihewson,
'A, $5,000, Richardson Sha
\ r stock, $2 000, estate of Fred
Cumming, which owned both
houses, $14,000. fully insured
Landrum <fc Butler, on® of the
oldest dry goods bosses in the city,
were today closed by H. B. Chat
liu & Co., of New York, their prin
cipal creditors.
Joe McCoy, a negro, registered
fraudulently in the Fourth ward,
was convicted and sentenced hv
Ihe recorder to pay a fine of SSO or
serve sixty days on the public
works
’ PARSONAGE BURNS
Pastor Was Sion in Bed and
Was Carried From Bui'dinSf•
Tifton, Ga., Nov. 1. —The Me
thoditt parsonage here caught fire
iibout 4 - 80 o’clock yesterday af
ternoon from a defective kitchen
flue and burned to the ground.
The building was worth about $1. 1 -
000 and was insured for S6OO, The
furniture was insured for S3OO.
Over half of the furniture was sav
ed and loss on it is fully cov
ered.
Rev. Charles E. Crawley, the
pastor, was convalescing from a
severe illness and had to b® car
ried from tbs building. He is blis
tering greatly now from the pros
tration and probable relapse,
The residence adjoining belong
ing to Captain John A. Philips,
was only saved by hard work of
the tucket bridgade, leveral out
houses belonging io him were
burned and are a total loss. His
furniture was badly damaged and
the house damaged, by scorching.
The t"tai loss on house and furni
ture is about S2CO The house was
insured for SIOOO and the furni
ture for S4OO, fully covering the
loss.
COL. WARING’S REPORT.
Was Practically C®mplot6d and
Will be Sent to The President.
New York, Nov. I. Dr. Stim
son said that Col. Waring's report
on his investigation in Havanna
and his suggestions as to sanitary
improvements in that city for
President McKinley was practical
ly completed before his death. On
Thuisday last be wanted a stenog
rapher so that he might finish it.
He was too weak at that time,
however Dr. Stimson, however,
said the President can obtain a<l
the information that Col. aring
had gathered essentially from the
reportasit stands. Col. U ar
ing had three copies of bi# re
port made. They will be for
warded to washington at an ®ar y
date but will first be thoroughly
disinfected.
ROME GEORGIA. TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER I, 1898.
VIGHM«PRIEST
Rev, Father Heise, of New
Drleais Assaulted.
GIVEN CHLOROFORM
By Three Desperado’s. Cover
ed His bed With Broken Glass,
New Orleans, La , Nov. 1 —lt
transpired last night that Father
R. V . Moise, rector of St. Francis
d’Assisi Catholic Church, had been
the victim last Wednesday night
of one of the most sensational
burglaries and brutal assaults in
the criminal annals of this city.
Father Moise is a brother ®f the
Judge Moise ofthe criminal Cour',
berore whom the burglars, if
caught, may be tried, and inas
much as it is a capital offense in
Louisiana to commit burglary and
be armed with a dangerous weap
on, the brother of the victim may
sentence the criminals to death
The crime presents some unique
features. The burglars, three in
number, chloroformed th® priest,
and lest he should surprise them
at their work of opening the safe
in the corner of his room, spread
broken glass about his bed. lie
came out of the influence of the
chloroform while they were work
ing at the safe snd jumped from
his bed, severing an u rtt ry in his
foot. The burglars threw them
selves upon him, beat him about
the b dy , and when, between the
beating and the loss of blood b
was near fainting, forced him. a:,
the point of a revolver, to open li.e
safe, They rifled it of about s2tfc)
and then departed,
Meantime Father Moise, who
had managed to tie up his foot
suflicieutly to stop the free flow of
blood, had fainted from exhaus
tion and pain, and the burglars
j est him Ijing on the floor uncon
scious They wrote a note, sarcas
tically thanking the priest for his
hospitality and generosity.
This note was found in Father
Moise's room by the eouk when,
alarmed at his nonappearance at
bis usual hour in the morning, she
went to his room, and finding the
door open, looked in and saw the
rector lying with his feet in a pool
cf blood and his face discolored
from the brutal beating he had re
ceived.
Father Moise was loth to make
public the burglary and aesualt,
but Judge Moise, of course, had to
be told of the serious cendition of.
his brother, and the facts were
made known to the police by the
Judge, despite the priest’s plead
ing that bis assailants be allowed
to go free with their ill-gotten
booty.
There is absolutely no clew to
the identity of the perpetrators of
the crime beyond Father Moise's
statement that two of the men
were white and the third a negro.
LU I— !■
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Yesterday at 11:80 "the fire de
partment was called t® extinguish
a small blaze on Seventh „venue.
The fire laddies soon did the work.
Damage elight.
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I Shoes as.low as, per pair 15c
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We have the biggest stores in Roine-==one at 245
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Beautiful all wool Dress Goods, double 6 Papers Pins for S«
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Pretty double width Plaids 9c Cheap Spool Thread le
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