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THE HUSTLER OF ROME.
THIRD year.
ruiPi'i f
ULvlinlj uLLnllM’ lu
Tnc Ex-Ja»l Beaker of Floyd
is Behind the Bars
qF the marietta jail
Art u-C<l of Stealing a Watch From
SB m Jones and a I’iiU.l Found<■
Hi . Person The Watch Recov
ered ■
George Clements, one of the six
Jail Breakers of this city, is in trou
ble again.
It will be remembered that Geo.
was the first of the escapes to be
re captured. Later he made bond
and since then has been around
Rome, until last week when he de
parted those coast
In yesterday's Marietta Journal
appears this bit of news, which tells
of the young rounders whereabouts:
Mr George Clements, of Rome,was
arrested on a South 1 ouud train
Thursday evening 5:30. a on a charge
of abstracting a silver watch from a
fellow passenger
The party missing the watch was
named Sam Jones, and as he star 1 -
ed to get off the train at Acworth,
Conductor Lewis Turner asked
him if he had his watch. He
replied “Yes.” “You had better
look and see,” said the conductor.
Jones pulled out the watch chain
from his pocket and the watch
was gone.
Clements, who was standing by,
jumped off the train and ran back
to the rear end of the coaoh and
got on. Sheriff McLain was on the
train. Clemen’s came up and said.
•'lf you think I have the watch
search me'’ The sheriff searched
him and instead of finding the
watch, he found a pistol.
He handcuffed Clements and
brought him to the Marietta jai l .
Subsequently the watch was found
on the ground at Acworth, where
it bad been dropped. Clements, we
'learn, has a wife and child in
Rome.
Tam.. . . >i* ij*
STONED THE LECTURER.
Kansas City, Mo., January 18.—
A crowd of 2,000 men collected out
I side the Turner hall last night lo
: lake vengeance on an American
Prot°c.ive Association lectur t
I known as the “Ex-Priest J. V.
| McNamara.” The speaker. McNa
mara, appeared on the platform
with a rifle, and stated that there
wis murder in the air, and asked
for p.election. After a bitter lec
ture, he and his wife, both armed,
entered a carriage. A stone war
thrown at them, and McNamara
ured on the crowd, after which a
inning fight for two blocks took
’’ !ace ' McNamara and his wife
hual] y scaped, no one being hurt
GEAR ELECTED SENATOR.
Moines, la., January 18-
, P legislature today formally
glared ex-Goveruor John H.
jear -> the republican candidate
r ‘ l( Be uatorßhip, elected for
ie y nu of six years, beginning
... rilc ' l 4ih. After Senator-elect
■Lt th i a ma^e a s hort speech,
Ij' houses ajourned until Tues-
| Sir ANGLED BY ROBBERS.
Ils'mT M id8 ‘ Mieh ” Jau - 17 -
■tv a 168 1 r ‘CK was found
l o r l in , ’T r ’ 8 deHver *’ 111911 this
trh 8 yi ' lg dSad 011 th « n ° or of
fr a th/He7 i'. tiy i byeU Btra,) S led ,0
Bind he ' indß were tied hc-
B i:h rope^? 81, fet>t tied to getbe w
Bhatthku Ap P Para '*ces indicate
Be ct K,UUe * iad cobbed.
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•dura/; d advantages
,p "' 5e5 low. Course ’th"*” l ’f sirin e 1 si
. ca 'fare tn R wnd mwdem
1 V ?IU l'T ’ll ’ll
A Hit a ’Au i
fl 11 J 11 kJ I jfl 111 Jll *
It Will ply the Waters of the
Oostinaula.
THE ROMAN NAVY GROWING.
M ms rs George Trammell and Frank
| Holbrooks are theOwuerior tk“ new
Boat. Will Make its Trial Trip in
Next Month.
Messrs George Trammell .and
Frank HolebrooktJ have launched
their new steamer an 1 hope to
have the machinery set <u d n?ake>
their trial trip inside the next
four weeks.
The steamer has a water line of
65 feet and is 11 feet wide. The
d-fck is 14 feet by 75 feet,
The boat is built especially for
the Oostinaula tale, and w i 1 ply
on regular trailing trips between
Borne and Carters Landing, about
105 miler.
She is a steam wheel* ir and a
yet has no name. In ballast she
only draws nine inches of waler
while with thirty tons on board
she will draw only twenty inches.
In addition to the steamer a
barge that will carry one hundred
bale • of cotton, has been construct
ed, Messrs Holebrooks & Trammel
say they will comply with all the
laws governing river navigation
and will then push Reme s com
merce into this unworked Teritory.
ARRESTED ON SUSPICION.
A Mother Charged With H ving
Murdered Her Daughter.
Sterling, Col , Jan. 18 —Mrs Eliza
both Driscoll and her son Floyd of
Willard, Col. were lodged in jail here
today, charged with murdering Mary
Driscoll, Mrs, Driscoll’s daughter,
aged 13 years, last August. Mary was
shot in the neck and her mother raid
the girl in taking her cloak from a
closet accidentally knocked oxer th
shot gun and it was discharged. The
coroner's jury rendered a verdict of
accidental death, but this did not
-atisfy some of the girl's frit nds, who
knew she led an unhappy life at
home. It is claimed the gun must
have been at least twenty-five feet
from the victim when fired, there be
ing no powder marks on the girl.
NOPLACE FOR HIM.
When the Shooting Began Me
Elwee Fled and ran Twelve
Miles.
Greensboro N. C. January 18. —
Additional facts have ccme out in
regard to the recent shooting af
fair at this place, It seems that
Mr. E. R. McElwee was in the par
lor of the Gilmers house with Mrs.
Julia Dick, sister of Mr. Gilm°r.
when the shooting commenced in
the room above, and M r . McE
wee at once fled from the house,
leaving town on foot. He contin
ued fleeing until he reached Cli
max, about twelve or fifteen mile?
from here, where he remained Ur
aday, until he was notified that
he could safely return to town Mr.
Gilmer has retained Colonel
James Morehead as his attorney
and it is stated here today that
his wife has employed Colonel
James E Boyd to fight the suit
for divorce.
HOWARD MUST DIE.
Jefferson City, Mo, Jan. 18
Governor Stone today refused to
interfere with the death sentence
that was imposed upon V\ illis
Howard, the Kentucky desperado,
who is charged with thirty mur
ders. Howard will be hanged at
Vienna, Maries county, for the
murdei of a deaf mute. He is be
lieved to be the worst criminal
ever convicted.
.«'dings rutile, or cluio-ec .... vamtvJlfi
ing up, should take
nnow> ‘ IRON BIITKHH.
•» pie&aant; cures Knliuia, indigestion
'nuonan&a. Liver Conu>l‘u.'iu ana xsetiraUr-s
ROME GEORGIA.
THURSDAY EVENING JANUARY. 18. 1894.
SENSATIONAL.
Lord Beresford was not treat
ed as a Conv’ct.
HIS SUNDAYSCHOOLSCHEME |
Failed to draw Sheckles From Ron".
Was the Mail Carrier for Gress Camp
Now in Stripes and lions and Work
ing at the Muzzle of a Shot gun.
Beresford still has his villainous
eye on the devoted people of this
city.
Just a few days before he and
his chum, whipping—boss—Crabb
made their famous trip to Ameri
cus and other points, he wrote a
long letter to a young Roman, who
is greatly loved and respected for
bis piety, by all who know him.
In that letter the “lord” wrote
beautifully of th'-* mission work he
was doing in the convict camp,
and dwelt at great length on the
description of a Sunday school be
’.ad organized two and a half
miles below Kramer, and which the
Penitentiary authorities permitted
him to operate.
He finally woundup with a post
script, saying, that he was greatly
handicapped in this particular
field oh account of lack of Sunday
literature, and requested the young
Roman to send him funds, to sup
ply this almost “fatal defect in
his equipment for training these'
dear little children in the ways of
life, and the paths of God”
The money was —not sent. Fol
lowing this letter, comes these inter_
esting paragraphs from the columns
of the Americus Fenny Press giving
an account of the recent arrest, etc.
‘ ‘After arriving here he shaved
his upper lip of its handsome mus -
tache, aud took refuge in Leona Lee's
bawdy house, a place he visited when
here before”
Then after the arrest the Press
man passed through a crowd of
“several hundreds” and entered the
station
Beresford was standing at his ceT
door when I entered smoking a ci
”ar. He had on citizen's clothes, but
bis shirt was ill-fitting and his
boots muddy, and bis whole expres
sion a woe-begone one that contrast
ed strongly with his neat appearance
and jaunty air when lie was up here
the other day.
Speaking of his escape the “Lord”
said;
He ha<l premediated fli, J.
That the change of administration
and the discharge of Capt Crabb, of
which he was the indirect cause, Led
preyed upon his mind and made the
camp very uncomfortable for him.
He finally became imbued with a
morbid desire to get away.
“It Las been the custom at the
camp for a long time to send him to
the depot for the mail."
Last night when the train pulled
into Kramer the temptation evercame
him and he boarded the train paying
his way to this point.
He thought there was a train
leaving this place during the night
for the South, and this he intended
to board.
But as no train goes out, tie was
brought up short of bis calculations,
and so took refuge here. The idea
of getting out and “hitting the
grit" on foot seems never to have oc
curred in his weak and excitable
mind.
“His chief fear is that he will
be whipped by the new whipping
boss wheu he gets back to camp.
“Os course, he will not find
things pleasant on his return, but
I hope he will not be whipped,
That is a shameful barbarism
that makes a decent man shudder,
“A 10-year-old negro boy would
have made a better job of it.”
“It only goes to show what the
Penny Press has before paid, that
eo far from being a “sleek duck,’,
NEW YORK COST
WE ARE FORCED TO SELLOUT.
The entire stock of A. B. McArver & Co is now on
the market at New York Cost. This is no fake
sale, everything goes and for spot Cash.
SPOT CASH SALE.
M Dry goods. Dress goods. Whit £
& goods Silk w.trp Henrietta All wall
cashmire Half wall cashmire All
$ wool dress, flanel B'ack Sateens
•I Collcred Sateens Check Nail sooka L
# Check Lawns plain white Lawns f
J India Lawns White and cream
T mull Hamburg Edgings. India -k
T Linin Torchon
Laces Ribbons Table Linens'fowls ;
i| Dress Liningfl Red and white flan- ♦
* el White and Red Spreads Jeans ♦
$ 10i Sheeting 5| Pillow Casing
Black Domestic Drillings. Sheet- v
ing Shirting, Callicos, Buttons
U and thread. Blankets and Com— a
t forlß ' (
; SHOES •
Ladies Shoes Fine Shoes Good J
Shoes Qfieap Shoes.
4 Misees Shoes. Childrens Shoes
“ Rubbers
A B.McARVER&Co.
Beresford is a very weak-minded
and silly individual.”
“This may not be very compli
mentary to the Rome s ick‘ rs, but
it is a frozen truth.”
That last remark is a heavy
b’ow a s the Rome Board of Trad •.
But instead of hurting the feelings
of the people who “know” Beres
ford there is no one iu Rome who
will not smi e •r- d smole at
the freshuflF? < ■ e ss reporter,
who “hopes” the '’lord” “r. o it be
whipped” —and insinuates that
the same D “r. decent man” and
could shudder ns such,
Sw much for the Americus ead
of the story, now see what the At
lanta end of it develops and the
course the matter takes.
This from this morning's Con
stitution will be read by the peo
ple of Rime with much interest:
That well-known aristocra 1 ,
“Aiais Lord Beresford,” the gen
tleman who has done so much in
the few months ofhis penitentiary
life to elevate prison society, is
now working under the muzzle of
a double-barreled shotgun at the
Gress lumber camps.
And to even further complete
his downfall, instead of the linen
c filar that Beresford was worst to
wear,there will be ab >ut his lordly
neck the tiger striped sack-cloth
of a felon’s clothes, while about
bis leg he will w’ear a single
shackle; with all thia to ber r
down his royal feelings, lately
wounded by a more rigid discipline
which has come on since the dis
charge of his favorite guard, Lord
Beresford narrowly escaped a good
whipping.
Having caused so much trouble
in the camp, it was rumored that
Mr. G. V, Gress would try to rid
COS'X’ Jt±j,
himself of the expensive lumber
checker, but such is not the case.
Mr. Gress said that Lord Beres
ford was too valuable a man to let
go, as in bis capacity of lumber
checker he was most faithful and
accurate. He also said that he in
letided to keep the Englishman
gloser in the future.
“Here’s a telegram that I sent
to the camps,” s t Mr. G. V.
Gress, It read:
“Do not whip Beresford. Work
him under the gun and put a single
•hickle ou him.”
“No” continued Mr. Gress, "I am
not going to ask for Beresford’s re
moval-he has cost me too much, al
ready He is a very correct an 1 reli
able lumber checker, and has always
heretofore been trustworthy. He is
now no longer at< i , but will work
under (he veiy point of the gun.
[f he attempts another escape he will
run the risk of a load of buckshot.
He will a Iso wear a single shackle
as the telegram indicated.
“j suppose that Beresford ran away
because the rules were made too rigid
for him with the new guard. He and
Crabb were as thick as two peas. I
don’t see how it could have got but
that I wanted to be releaved of
Beresford, for I don’t.
So now the gentleman Lorn Eng
land will come down to the level of a
common convict and will no longer
enjoy the privilege which appears to
be connected with the title of "Lore’
and that seems to have remained
with him, despite the garb he was
supposed to have assumed when
convicted of an ofitnee against the
laws of the State and the United
States, and sentenced to a term in
the Georgia penitentiary.”
Read A. P. McArver and Co’p.
advertisement on the front page.
* Gents Furnishing goods
“Scarfs I Hose Suspenders Collars *
“and Cuffs Fine Shirts Flanel
* “Shirts Cotton Shirts Under Shirts *
“Over Shirts Overalls and Jackets
“Rubber Coats.
Good Line of Hats Good Line *
*• of trunks Ladies Hose Misses $
& Hose Childrens Hose. Ladies y
» Under vests *
il, “Handkerchiefs Gloves Shawls M
f “Scarfs Cloaks Jackets Goasimers
Misses Gossirners Misses Corsets
y? Ladies Corsets Boys white waists.
•if Spool Silk Spool Cotton. $
> SHOES
4 t
as Mens Fine Shoes Good Shoes
Boys Good Shoes Cheap Shoe 8
‘ Rubbr Shoes Mens Rubber Shoes
’’ Ladies Rubber Shoes. »
$
10 CENTS A WEEK.
JIMMIE KING’S PARENTS.
Writes A Card of Thanks t
Their Friends
Capt, Byrd,
Will you kindly al
low us space in your paper, in
which to give but a simple expres
sion of the great appreciation we
feel for the many evidences of
heartfelt sympathy extended to
us, by our friends, in the trying
ordeal, through which we hav
passed; also to every officer
whose duty it was to have the care
of our little son, and
Mr.’McConnel and hie n ibl a, eerie
tian wife, who in their tender lov
ing sympathy, took him to their
own homo and hearts. God bless
them all, and if in then lives
some great sorrow should ever
come, may they too find sympa
thy, and above all, find that “Cod
is a refuge in the day of trouble
A very piesent help in time of
need.”
Respt.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. King
Rome Ga., Jan. 18th 1894.
CONFE ED HIS CRIME.
A Hotel Keeper Killed a Gubst and
Bornbd the Hotel.
Milwaukee, Wis., Jan. 18.—Ru
dolph J. Peckman, proprietor of
the Cream City hotel, in which
Mrs, Schrumms was found dead
after the building was partly des
troyed by fire last Friday, confess
ed this afternoon that he strangled
his aged guest for the purpose of
robbing her, and afterwards fired
the room. He failed to secure the
womans money. Peekmann is now
in jail.
