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ninth year- femoke a Bill Arp’ waiters New Brand Isr-HOT STUFF" UH lll I fin Euidenee Sesifrsd rYeildau by The War ■> ■ INUESTISftTIfIC GANG. ■•n9.« ,ion F° ,lowod Sensation I All Day. I • . ' I Lexington, Ky , Nov. 2. ■ followel sensation ■uringtheß9 <»f that branch ■{uiewbnnvesug.4ingcommit leno->v<’O'lTe' 1?<I 11Gre ‘ ■ Complete incompetency on lepartol the surgeons, care tnessbythe commisFsry de- Ltrent and want of judgment I- officers were testified to. I Some statements branding the ■ u , ire workings of camp and ■*1(1 were brought out, but lobably the statement excitin ’ Ke greatess comment and show- Kg n (boron < r hly wretched con ■itiou of affair® was made by Ljm William Cogswell, sur- Koiiufthe Eighth Massachu setts regimen •, when he was on ■be stand. Sai I lit: B' The clothing and blankets Belonging to men who died of Byphoid fever without having Ktn washed or boiled and used By other men es the regiment.” B He mentioned other abuses Irhicb he says were reported Ho higher authoriti -s without Kctiun being taken. ■No less sensati *1 was a por ■ioiiof Dr. ThomasC. Chalmers’s Bwimony. Dr. Chalmers was Haptdn and assistant surgeon of ■i» Twelfth Now York. He said: H "The men never could get ■uough water to satisfy their ■hirst. Ice water was sold at ■1.85 a pitcher. The matter w r as ■opened, but the custom was ■lot stopped. The mules and ■horses on transports went for ■wenty four hours at one time Brithout water.” M Lieut.-Col. Parker, of the Brae regiment, was an equally ■interesting witness. He asserted ■hat when the troops arrived at B'bicamauga the men bad to Bleep on the wet ground with Bfi'V one blanket and no change Bjclothing. He said that the ■irst South Carolina regiment Bid not receive their rifles for B month after their arrival at ■ta park, the men being com- Belied to do guard duty without Kuns. The Twenty-first Kansas had te do gurd duty for two Beekswith sticks. Said Col. Parker; I When the volunteers first ar- ■ lve '‘ £ t Chieajnauga their B on gues were literally hanging f u t lor water. For three weeks f le Y could not get water enough |° q nenc h their thirst. Then the P’pe lines were tapped, but the * as n pore in my opin- L c‘ lef Comni >Bsary Marshall L . amp Hamilton was the first I L< S 8 li b w Hen the commission I n ' e ned thia morning. He de fr* Ile statements made by t u • Col. M.tchell, of the First H rri -orial 9 last night. He said L?/ eqUi9itioll keen hon- T , from the Territorials. I 9 second witness was Gen. 9 Who testified as to L ‘ antla Ko campaign, the at M obile aud Chwamau . ••• ~ r ""'- *•—- the home nusTLERi MiviijKLi a l ROME GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 2. 1893. ga He went to see Gen. P.-o< ke regarding the lack of , q ilp ments, clothing and oth r sup plies. “The day before we left Mo bile we got pretty well sup plied,” he said. “These were supplies for recruits. At Siftitiago we had bread and meat alway s. Montauk Point was not the proper place for a camp of sick soldiers at this time of year. At Montauk Point I learned that tlie Long Island railroad had exclusive contract to haul the soldiers to the city. “I i Cuba medical supplies were woefully short. The medi cal officers said they could not get them. “This was especi dly true at Siboney. In going over we had enough medical supplies, but we were cut down. We had trouble in getting ambulances taken to Caba. Got one for each regiment and one for the squad ron. J. think the ambulances I took were the only ones ashore when the Rough Riders’ fidit occurred on the 24th of June.” When asked v 1 at in h s<j in ion was the weakness in the medical departinmt, Gen. Bites said ho 11 ni’ht a great mistake was made in not sending medi cal officers in sufficient number wifi regiments ordered t® the field. Additional transportation should have been furnished for medical officers and medical supplies,ambulances and horses. N ) EXCUSE CAN BE OFFERED “1 think there is not Sufficient excusa for medical supplies be ing shortin Cuba,” continued the witness. “B-tter prepara tions could have been made for transportation. We had no way to shoo horses and mules.” Gen. Bates had no recom men dati®ns to suggest. e Dr. Edgar A. Means, surgeon in charge of the Gibbs general hospital, Lexington, was asked regarding the sanitary condi tion of Camp Thomas, where he was brigade surgeon. He read a report on the Condition of the sites there which showed they were disease breeders. Though the men detailed from the regi ments to the division hospitals were incompetent, Dr. Means condemned the water supply at Camp Thomas because there was typhoid fever there. The order to boil drinking wa ter was generally obeyed when boilers could be procured. THAT JOYFUL FEELING. With the exhilarating sense of renewed health and strength and internal cleanliness, which follows the use es Syrup of Figs, is unknown to the few who have not progressed beyond the old time medicines and the cheap substitutes sometimes offered but never accepted by the well informed. Buy the genuine Manufactured by the California Fig Syrup Co. Masonic Reunion —Oostanaula Lodge, perhaps the in®«t vigorous and successful young lodge of f Mas gons in th® state, has issued in vitations to lodges in Summorvile. Trion, Dalton, Kingston, Carters vilD, Rockmart, Cedartown,.Floyd Springs, Cave Springs, Adairsville Calhoun, and other north West cities and towns, to attend a nn eonie reunion in thia city on the nigktofNov. Btb. That worthy master C. W. Underwood and his lodge will give the visiting breth ren a royal .time, goes without saying. ■ fl MP SHOOTER. Detailed it Wotind a Naniac So That HE COULD BL CAPTURED. Nine Men Sh»t By The Lunatic Before He Was Winged, • Peaven Dam, Wis.. Nov. 2- Adam Hammer, of this city, be came suddenly insane today and securing a gu > wounded nine men and was finally shot Irmas f to prevent hisdeing further injury. Hammer was employed in the machine shops of the J. S. Rowel’ Manufacturing Co. He was a good woiker, but at timas had spells of supposed insanity, the result, it is said, of religious excitement. His peculiar ways made him the but for practical jokes. Today some one placed some tacks on a stool where he worked aud this angered him. He*left the shop, went to a hardware store, where he rested a shotgun, load'd it with shells, and t»kmg up his position south of the main build ing of the plant, kept every on? at bay for ever an bcur, the while shooting several employees through the window, Finally L : eutenaut Arthur T. A . Tibbetts, of company K. Sec ond regiment, who has a repots. I ion for good tcarkemar ship, was selected by the mar hal to shoot him in such a manner as to bring him down without killing Lin L’eutenant Tibbetts shot Hac in the right shoulder with a Ci caliber rifD, bringing him to the ground. He was quickly arrestod by the marshal and taken to th P lock-up, whirs his wounds were dressed, They were found to be not serious. DR SMITH MISSING It is Feared That He met A/ith Foul Play. Scottsbore, Ala., Nov. I.—-Dr. B. B Smith, Jr., of Larkinsvil'e, five miles west of this place, is missing and it is feared that h» has met with foul play. Dr. Smith was last seen io Nashville, where he was attending the Nashville Medical college and also was col lector for the W, E. Bateman Tranfer company. Last Friday morning he started out 0.1 a col lecting trip having bills to the amount of $l5O. This amount he collected, about one-half of it being in checks He has since failed to put in an appearance and Mr. Bateman and his friends fear that he has been robbed and per haps murdered. He wassrfud-bsg ged and robbed of about SBO .a couple of years ago in Nashville’s black bottoms. Smith was consid ered to be thoroughly reliable and has bean trusted with much, great er sum a number of times. Search is new being made for Dr. Smi;h and his many friedsjn this countv hope that the mystery will be promptly cleared up entirely in his saver. » 1 r—r Use Cihap Package Coffee? —I would not do so any longer whan you can get something free from dirt, old glue, sticks and stones for nearly thd same price. We have just received » good Santos tkat we will supply at 16c lb just two or three cents alb more in price, but worth 10c more in quality. Be sure to try one or two pounds, to be had only at.Llcyd & Harper’s. I A nIU Hfl B J IVI J?®/ \l liMX Hllllriin W uUllu TEE BEST PLOS IN ROME Tlllfflß TRADING » f iHij, fen Quarter Blankets, each 17c Ladies’ Capes,trimmed with braid,l9c II Shoes as low as, per pair 15c All-Wool Flannel, per yard, 9c IS Bleaching as low as Everything J\[ew and Stylish. No Gid Carried-Over Goods! * .The Best Millinery Department I • THE BEST DRESS EDDDS DEPARETMNT find Tim Prices are under finu in Rome. _ We have the biggest stores in Rome™one at 245 Broad street,Bass’ old stand, filled with the very newest not an old piece of merchandise in the house; then we have our Fourth ward stores, and you can get these goods at either store. Our line of . FINE DRESS GDDnS • Is the newest and most complete in the city. We have from the cheapest to the best, and the price is right »n every piece. Don’t buy your Winter Dry Goods, Mli nery, Shoes, or anytning in our line till you see our goodsand get our prices. Beautiful all wool Dress Goods, double ‘ . 6 Papers Pins for •« width 9c Coats’ 100-yard Spool Cotton 2e Pretty double tvidth Plaids 9c Cheap Spool Thread 1® Fine black D-ess goods,worth 50?,0n1y 29c Best Table OilcloLi 10® Pletty double width Casbimere all Window Shades wool filled, only 9c Lidies Seamless Hose 5® 75c Corsets for only 49c Ladies’ Heavy winter Vests Tie 50c Corsets for only 29c Ladies’ and Children’s Handkerchiefs 1® Sheeting, yard wide . 3Ac Hooks rnd Eyes, per card le Best full standard calico . 3| Safety Pins, per card ‘2c Beautiful plush capes, tri mined with 45 45 Linen Towels, each braid and j» t, Thibet collars worth 45 45 Pretty Knott'd Fringe Towels 13« $2 25, fur only $1.50 45 45 Good Jeans 10® We have capes and jackets from 19c up to 45 45 Ladies’ Fine Trimmed Hats and Sali- ns high as you care to go, all new. Zl\ ors for less money than any other stor® in 40 Crimped Hairpins for 1c the city. Come to our store for your Mil— -8 Balls Sewing Thread for 5c linery. • I Clothing, Shoes. Hats! Big StoCk, All New and Prices Right. Come to See us Before You Buy LANHAM’S STORES OLD STORE, NEW S I ORE, Fourth Ward. 245 BroadSt IO CEMTS PER WEEK