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ileus of M Caroliaa.
330 ARMED NEGROE3
paraded tha Sheets of Wil.
mington at Midnight.
Wilmington. N. C., Nov. 7.
Yesterday and especially last
night was one of intense anxie
ty and ffloomy forebodings.
AVhile no clash oc» urred rowdy
ism prevailed which came near
preciph»ting a conflict, yet there
pervades the community an air
of suppressed excitement, an ap
parently deathly calm, such as
soldiers say precedes and to
jeen* a fearful battle.
Tne strain h is become almost
unbeaiabie. Ever/ citizen is on
the expect.inc; , and the wildest
of minors are afloat. r l ha ne
groes. while outwardly quiet,
are iiianoeuvering in secret. They
have recont’y received another
supply of arms, as shown by
100 of them parading the streets
at midnight last night, with ri
fles and other arms. They give
it out that their various orders
have sworn death to the red
shirt®.
But few white citizens slept
tonik.ly last night. Lawless
bauds i f armed negroes gather
ed in the Northern portion of
the city. An outbreak was mo
netarily expected. A number
of w..ite women in that section
were nearly prostrated with fear.
Some were thrown into hister
icks.
White men guarded tbe hous
es and the Wilmington Light
Infantry and naval reserves
rendezvoused all night at their
armories.
Every street corner has been
a meeting place for both races
today. While on one corner a
party of white men could be
•een quietly discussing the omi
neus events that are imminent,
just across the way could be
seen a squad of negroes engaged
in serious conversation.
The impending crisis was dis
cussed, perhaps, in every pulpit
yesterday. One white minister
advised his congregation to be
»ober and thoughtful and to
avoid a a riot, if possible ; that
the situation is grave in the ex
treme, and that the lives of
women and children are at stake.
With a gesture of the hand he
then declared that it was possi
ble before next Sunday the
streets would be slippery with
blood, and the pall of death and
devastation would spread over
the city.
Street cars were stoned by the
negroes last night, so white
people were compelled to desert
them and walk. The police force
was unable to command order.
Ihe republicans have issued
a circular advising the negro; s
to go to the polls and vote the
state ticket . The white people
then refused to accept police
commissions unless the circulars
were withdrawn. Republicans
who are in charge of the city
would not discontinue the cir
culation of the posters, hence
the white people will not serve.
Every cetizen In re is appa
rently his own officer, judge and
jury . Ti ie ciagh j s cmning, ev
erybody believes, and w tun it
does, the probability is that it
will be a bloody, fearful holo
caust.
toucan get, what you want
cooked as yo U want jt at. tbe
Wottu z ca <- e .
I PHfONfL MIhTION.
j* Mr. J. I). Barnts, o f Atlanta,
is at the Am;stroni’
t 3 ’
Mr ,1. i). Harwell, o f the Gate
k ity, is iti Ruin« today.
Capt.Cruwf Moore, of Fk.yd
Sprit gs, is in the city today.
Hon. John C. Foster, of Fos
ter’s Mills, is in the city today.
Mr. V. E. Oi r, of Atlanta, is
among the visitors in the city
today.
Mr J. D. Bar ph, if Atla.ta,
arrived this forenoon ami ,s nt tht
Central.
Go to Mrs. A. O. Garrard so
best brand of zephyrs at 2j cts
per ounce.
Mr. J. L. Young, of Atlanta,
ajieut Sunday in the city, t gueet
0; the Centra 1 .
Gotmzs case continues the
most delightful creature of the
kind in the city.
Mr. K. E, Bell, of the Gr ite
City, came in today and is abas
ing business at a lively step.
Mr, M. L Palmer. President of
the Farmers Alliance of the State
and one of Flood’s leading popu*
lists, is here today.
Kuttner s bargain figures have
knocked competitors out. The
big sale is on and the crush at
the Kuttner emporium is grow
ing.
Fresh eggs, chickens and tur
nips are very scarce and hard to
get, but you’ll find a good sup
ply at Lloyd & Harper's at rea
sonable prices.
A variety to eat is essential to
health and a cheerful mind and
you can ever find something
appetizing and of the best at
Lloyd & Harper’s.
For Kidney, bladder, and
stomach troubles, drink Ingram
Lithia, for sale at the soda
founts of Curry-Arrington
Co., Jervis & Wright and J. T.
Crauch.
•
The most delicious Maple
Syrup ever brought to Rome can
be had at Lloyd & Harper’s.
Other kinds may be good, but
this is the best of all. One trial
will convince-
The McCall Baza- Patterns
are known a* the most stylish
and Reliable Patterns in the
market; no alteration; no eona
plaint-s ; styles are strictly up to
dale. Lanham A Sons.
BUCKLEN’S ARNICA SALVE
The best salve in the world
for cuts, bruiese sores, ulcers,
Salt Rheum,Fever Sores, Tetter,
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
lington Co.
UNDER PROTIST
Spain Will Sign A Peace Treaty,
It Is Reported.
London, Nov. 7. — Iha Madrid
correspondent of Daily Mail says.
“Spain will sign tht peace trea
ty under protest.’’
The Berlin correspondent of th#
Times, after givmg ex racts from
aiKtber long and violent ar icle in
tbe Kolniscl e Z’ltung, declaring
that the sale cf tin Philippines
cannot be a matter cf iudiff
to Germat y, expres-J the opinion
that such nit-rances will only
xtitfeo the attitude of th» Unit-id
States,
The B ilia correspondent of the
Standard save:
The semi-official papers have re
ceived a hint tos‘op thmr attacks
upon America. I have good reason
to believe however, that Germany
will doff her reserve so soon as
other powtrs seek a share in tbe
spoil of the Philippine®
Dfi. BULL'S BURD
Blamrs The Woodmen of The
World
FOR NOY NOTIFYING
Members of Fami'y Hence their
Absence From The Unveiling.
An ANTA, Ga , Nov. 6.
To Editor ofThk H ustler-
Commkrcial: —Will you kindly
publish the following statement
which I deem necessary to make
in justice to the memory of the
late Junius A. George of your
city, and in justice to several
members of his family.
By virtue of the membership
of Mr. George in the order of the
Woodmen of World his wife was
entitled to a benefit of two
thousand dollars and in addition
to this the Woodmen ware to
contribute one hundred dollars
toward a monument upon the
death of a member.
The benefit of two thousand
dollars was paid promptly and
the family fJt very kindly to
ward the order owing to many
courtesies received from its of
ficers and members. Mrs. George
selected the momument tc be
erected over the grave of her
late husband and there concur
red in her selection my wife,
Lottie George Bell, her ward,
Rugar E. Gearge, and Mrs.
George also consented in capac
ity of guardian for her daughter,
Margaret. Various members of
the Woodmen informed Mrs.
George that up©n her indicating
a time convenient to her the
monument would be unveiled
with suitable ceremonies, that
the matter awaited her direction
and could be arranged for upon
shprt notice. Owing to the ill
health of her mother and the
illness of her little daughter she
decided to have the unveiling in
the fall, near the anniversary of
the death .
On Sept. 18 she wrote to a
member of the Woodmen asking
if the ceremony ceuld be had
tbe following Sunday, the 25th.
On the next day my wife was
passing through Rome and Mrs. I
George telegraphed Mr. S Funk
houser to meet her so that she
could request him to arrange
details and also to learn if Pan
sy Sunday School, of which Mr.
Funkhouser is superintendent,
could attend in a body. Mr.
Funkhouser met her with the
astonishing statement:
“Why, it is all over. I did not
Know a word of it until I saw
the report in the paper.” It had
taken place without a word of
notice to Mrs. George, to my
wife, Lottie George Bell, or to
Corporal Rugar E. George en
camped with his company at
Griffin. Whether any other rela
tives were notified I do not know.
These members of the family
wish it to be known that they
did not decline to show this
honor to this good man. The’r
failure to attend the unveiling
was a mistake, a grave mistake,
but not the fault of Mrs George
or the three children I have
mentioned.
This statement is not made
with a desire to injure any one.
It is simple justice that the
truth be known.
R. H. Bell.
TO CURE A COLD IN ONE
DAY
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine
Tablets. All druggists refund
the money if it fails to cure. 25c.
I'he genuine has Q. on
each tablet.
luC &i Ki*F Pf hihGS*.
F< r Rent.— 9 ro'm house on
4th Ave. 2 blocka from Broad St.
Apply to N M. Gem.
From Honey Moon Th p:—Mr,
and Mrs. Jot» Glover have re’uru*-
ad from their bridal tour to Wash
ington New York. Boston an 1
other points and, for the present
are at honia tc their many friends
at the elegant Fourth Ward homo
of Mr. Glover's father.
At Home To V< th —Senator
R. T. Fouche and Representatives
W.C. Bryan,J L. Joh son and
R. A. Denny are tn the city, hav
ing cnm» home fiorn the legisla
tive halls in Alla ita for the pur
pose of cas iue a ballot lomcrrow
for that peerh'-ie Democrat, Hon.
John \V, Maddox.
A 10 lb. Bor -Mr. Will Cul
pepper, of the firm of Lanhan it
Son«, is the proudest young man
in the state today. The new ar
rival is hia first born and is as
handaotne alO lb. boy as the
Fourth Ward has ever produced.
Mr. Culpeper is busy today rw
ceiving congratulations.
Frksh Norfolks. —Mine Host
Gomez, of the Gomez case on
Second Avenue received a fresh
shipment of luscious, fat Norfolk
oysters this afternoon. Have you
tried an oyster at the case? If
you haven’t don’t loose any
time but go at once and get the
bivalve served in all its glory.
No Place Like Homr.—Mr.
Ben F. Ward, who left Rome some
Reventeep years ago and who has
been all over the world since then,
has arrived home and says he has
come back to settle down. Mr.
Ward is a son of Mrs. H, C. Wood,
of Mobley’s Park. Ha is wide
awake and ei ergetic and will
make a most desirable citizen.
Wilson’s Minstrels Comin-g
—The anrouncement that Geo.
Wilson, by many esteemed the
prince of minstrels, is coming to
Rome on next Wednesday, has
met with the- approbation of
theatre-goers Wilson’s minstrel
is said to be superb this season,
and no doubt exists that he will
have a large house here. Fuller
particulars will appear later.
Ordinary’s Court. Ordinary
John P. Davis has been unusually
busy today in disposing of a heavy
run of work that has come up in
its erder in regular Ordinary’s
court session. Up to the noon
hour he was still up to his eyes in
business, but was hard at work
carving to the line and doing things
-up according to law .
A Pretty Day. —This has
been a most delightful day, so
fair and so fine that only press
ing business has bi ought farmers
to the city.’ In the country cot
ton pickers are hustling on a
thousand hills while the bottom
lands are alive with the gather
ers of the stalk-wool. A few
more days like this and the cot
ton planters could see daylight.
With the aid of a good pat
tern, dressmaking becomes a
very simple art'
For this purpose the McCall
Bazaar Patterns are superior in
every respect, in fact they are
referred to as “The Reliable
Pattern,” not only is a perfect
fit guarante -d (if the proper
size is selected), but the appear
ance of any figure is sare to be
improved by wearing a bodice
cut after these models. Sheets
free at Lanham A Sons.
M< viaG To The City, The
manv Rome friends of Mr. Geo.
W Fleetwood will be pleased to
leai'u that be is moving his inter
esting family from Cav - Springs to
this city, Mr. Fleetwood’s sun
Mr. Will Fleetwood is with The
McDonald Sparks-Stewart Co.,
while his daughter, Mi.s Hattie,
is at'ending Shorter Coilsg''. Mr.
Fleetwood and family will occupy
the Dr. Hoyt residence, on Fourth
Ave., Dr, Hoyt and his daughter
tatami: g rooms and hoarding with
the Plsetwoods
• FMFUL WHELK
.The U. 8. Supreme BiUrtnom
Has An Explosion
DAMAGE IRRdPaRABLR
ll'.oufch I s Eif nd is Yet un
known.
Washington, Nov 7. —An ex
plosion and fire at 5:l8 o’clock
yesterday afternoon wrecked th
supreme courtroom and the rooms
immediately adjoining it on the
main 11 >or of the capitol. The
damage i« en ■rmous. T he eoti-e
central eastern pirt of the great
maible pile hum tha main floor to
the subterr mean basement, is
plastically a mass of ruins.
The force of the explosion was
so heavy thit the coping stonesen
the outer walls just east of the
point where the explosion oecurred
were bulged out nearly two inches,
windows in all that part of the
batldiiig were blown out and lock
id doors were forc-d from their
hinges quit 3 150 feet from the
scene es it.
Fire fallowed the .explosion to
quickly as to be practically sim
ultaneous with it. The explosion
-hook the immense structure to its
foundation and was heard several
squares from cbe c 4 pi to 1. It occut
red in a su all room tightly inclos
ed by heuv. stone walls in the
subterranean basement immedia*
tely below the main entrance to
the old capitol building,
In this roosn was a 500-light
gas meter, which was fed by a
four<«inch main. Very little gas is
used in that part of the building,
but at the time of the explosion
the gas had not be«m turned of at
the moter . The meter itself was
wrecked and the gas pouring from
the main caught fire.
The flames originating from the
•xplosiou darted tip the shaft of
the elevator, which had been com*
pletely destroyed by the force of
Ihe explosion, and communicated
with the record room of the su
preme court, the office of the mar
shal of the court and the supreme
court library.
Before the flames c<.uld be sub
dued the priceless documents in
ths reccrd room had been almost
totally destroyed and serious
damage had been dona in tbe
m irshal’s offies and some minor
rocwis iu the immediate vicinity.
The library of the supreme
court located immediately beneath
the supreme courtroom, was badly
damaged by fire smoke and water,
water practically destroying the
great •olleetion of laW reference
books. The I’brary contains about
20,000 volumes and was used not
only by the justices of the supreme
court, but by con
gress and lawyers practicing before
the supreme’eourt.
Mr. Justice Harlan said last
night that the library was vary
valuable. Many of the works it
contained would, he thought be
difficult to replace
Librarian Clarke, afrar an ex
amination necessarily made by the
light of lanterns, expressed the
opinion thi t many of the books
could be saved, although they had
been damaged by water poured in
te the library for tw# hours or
mors after tbe explosion occurred.
1 he most serious damage, in the
opinion of the justices of supreme
court, is to the records stortd in
the subsbasemeut. These included
all the records of the supreme
court from 1792 to 1892.
The rooms contain records of
cases and opinions rendered by the
fathers of the judiciary of the
government. Apparently the doc
umenta in this room are either to
tally destroyed or so badly dam
aged b? fiie an i water as to be
useless.
Justice Harlan said ihat while
the loss of tbe records was irrepar
able, it was foituuata that jhe la
ter records of the court, which are
One Large Scar
Is Ail That Remits of Great
Scrofula Sores
Neighbors Could Net Soar to Look
Upon Her-A Grand, Complete
Cure by Hood’s Sarsaparilla
After Others Failed.
“I was taken with neuralgia in my
head and eyes. Not long after thia, a
scrofula aore apjx»ared on my left cheek,*
extending from my upper lip to my eye.
Other sores came on my neck and on my
right irm ami one it my limbs. Tliey
were very troublesome [sinful and
soon became great runniiTfe aorea. My
face looked bo bad that some of my
Beighlaars could not bear to look at me
and advised me to wear a bandage, but I
feared thia would irritate the sore and
make it worse. So I
Could Not Hida the Sores.
My niece, who was familia- with a case
similar to iniae, which h >d been cured by
Hood’s Sarsaparilla, ur,.ad ins to try it.
Finally I wan persuaded to do bo, and la
a short time I eaw it was helping me.
The soroa began to heal and the neu
ralgia In my head was better. In a few
months the sores on my art: i and limbs
all healed; thoss on my neck gradually
disappee?":! end now they are R ll gone.
I have nevsr he 1 any symptom of scrofula
• Ince. Ore larye scar on my right erm is
•’1 tha sign that remains of i iv terrible
• "letjrn. Thar.', algia is r. )so cured.”
J. J*. LATcn. ij’.na, I.cfuim’uh’re.
■I a? ’’ -
pari I la
i O'. • e One "rue Blood Purifier.
’■ '’■■J’s 1,1,1 " ll,y P' !ls to u!io
kept in office of the e'erk on tLe
main fluor, were not injured.
As documents for refi’erence st
this time and la'er Justice Harlsn
thought these were of far greater
value than the records destroyed,
Fortunately, the clerk’s office was
not in th** st danger.
sfeo/ im vn
LjOW L 0
L, ' 4 -g] J1 J
IN; THE DINING ROOM
Every giod'man likes to see a
good, solid look'n
SIDEBOARD.
It gives dignity to the room and
besides it is the right place for
the pitcher of ice water.
Decide how much you want
to pay for this useful and orna
mental article of furniture. We
have them from SIO.OO to $30.00
The least expensive are well
made of cak with 14x24 mirrors.
Serviceable and durable. Those
of higher price are more ornate
in design, some of quartered oak
hand carved, with shaped bevel
ed French plate mirror. Inter
esting to look at even if you
don’t buy.
Rhudy, Harvey & (J \,
837 Broad St.
At V J
0W )
/k WL J
' z x2S^ j?
FOR THANKSGIVING
are those that will give you com
fort, with dry and warm feet,
and you can get them in our
flexible and stylish $2.00 shoes.
We have a superb stock of shoes
for men, women, misses and
children, that combines beauty
and comfort, and that you will
get more solid wear from than
any other shoe that is made.
Special sale in men’s woolen
underwear this week. Come,
you’ll buy.
W. 11. Coker, 11 Broad St.
Capt. Jake Moore, chief war
den, of the state penitentiary is
the city fora frw days
enjoying the luxuries of home.