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THE HUSTLER OF ROME.
THIRD year.
((Ml Vl*
Th ej Move, Steal Trains And
Raise Sand
MINERS don war faint
. Three Thoisand March o» Taco
''’ato Force Men out. A Plueky
sher iff Armed aud Ready to Meet
Them,
Forsyth, Mont., April 26.—Al
though Colonel Page and his 250
United States regulars moved with
great caution in capturing the Mon
tana Coxey army this morning near
ly 100 of the train stealers escaped to
t he woods. Those captured made no
resistance whatever: The number of
those taken by the detachment of the
Twenty-second regiment was 331,
including General Hogan, Engineer
Harmon and Fireman Brady.
Ihe common weak rs were redicu-
Joudy and poorly armed, only three
revolvers being found. Three of the
men were f ,und to be slightly wound
ed, their injuries having been receiv
ed in the skirmish at Billings yester
day.
Seventv-five deputy United States
marshals arrived here during the
afternoon’and the H >gan contin
gent of Coxeys army was turned
over to them. The train in charge of
the marshals, escorted by the detach
ment of the Twenty-second regiment,
started foi; Helena this evening. The
prisoners will be arranged in the
United States district court there
without delay on tb e charge of the
theft of a train and disobedience o
an injunction. The general belief is
that only six or eight of the leaders
will be held and the remainder will
be hauled to Butte and set at liberty.
Colonel swaine had prepared for a
r etrograde movement on the part of
the commonwealers by placing four
companies from Fort Custer on the
railroad after the train passed east
of Custer.
MARCHED ELSVEM MILES.
Hyamsfown, Md., April. 26- Coxey ’.4,
comand marched eleven miles to
day from Frederick to this place. It
has lost fonr members since yester
day.! party of Hungarians got
drunk and then to fighting in camp
last night. The police took a hand,
captured one man who was shooting
and he was lek at Frederick in jail.
Thiee others of the fighters escaped
to the woods.
KELLI MARCHING ON.
Atlantic, la, April, 2«. Kelly’s
reunited army, again harmonious*
marched fourteen miles today to
Anita, a small station on the Rock
s and road. Only twenty farm wag
ons \\t te forthcoming, so the army
had to foot it.
TROUBLE IN ILLINOIS
THREE thousand miners march
IN( ' ON TOCULA TO FeRCB MEN
OU T.
I-a Salle, HI., April 26—Three
thousand miners from Peru, Sea-
Salle, and Ladle left
er « this evening on the march
the country to Tocula, a
nrining town tweuty-eigbt
south Os here. They will
r a-h Tocula at daybreak tumor
ow. 1 rouble is feared, as the To
_‘ a ru ’ lier « do not want to quit
iff J hundred deputy sher
* ave been sworn in bv the
a companies and blood is sure
ed ’ J V ' Slt^ed ar * determiu
J ’H.ErAIuINQ For battle.
Tocula, 111., April 26 _ The
operators here have prepa.r
str tr ° Ubleuit h the marching
inkers w ho left La Salle tonight
flee a large , ‘ u PP , y of ri
‘ .pistole and cartridges
200 * Ut *derstood there are fully
lhe munitions were
quietly delivered yesterday and
are now in the hands of a fore* of
deputies sworn in for the occ e -u
by the sheriff- The opera., ves
have given orders, it is understood
for another consignment of arms
and ammunition m case they arc
needed,
Tocula is iu Marshal county, on
the Santa Fe railroad. 100 miles
southwest of Chicago, in the heart
of the co <1 regions,
BARTLETT RESIGNS.
HE WILL UNDOUBTEDLY MAKE THE
RACE FOR CONGRESS.
Macon, Ga., April 26. —Judgr
Charley Bartlett, of the superioe
court has tendered his resignation
to Governor Northen.
Judge Bartlett made his an
nouncement this morning at a
meeting of the Macon bar. The
bar meeting requested him to re
consider, but he stated that his
mind was made up.
This action on the part of Judge
Bartlett has been foreshadowed in
The Constitution. It has been ex
pected for some time and created
no surprise. The generally accept
ed reason for the resignation is
that Judge Bartlett intends to
make the race for congress from
this district. He was a candidate
two years ago, but was defeated.
He was appointed to the superior
court bench by Governor Northen
to succeed Judge Miller who re
signed to resume his practice.
The congressional campaign in
this, the sixth, district now opens
up in earnest.
There is no question but that
the candidates will be Cauiniss
and Berner from Forsyth, Judge
Bartlett from Macon and Robert
Whitfield from Milledgeville.
WILL BE HOME TO DAY. (
COMMISSIONER NESBITT WILL BE IN
ATLANTA THIS MORNING’
Eady yesterday the rumor gain
ed ground that Commsssioner of
Agriculture Nesbitt had a stroke
of 'paralisys in Statesboro.
It developed later that the re
port probably grew out of the fact
that Judge Nisbet, of Macon, who
was Governor Gordon’s private
secretary, had been thus attacked.
The Commissioner telegraphed
yesterday that he was well and
would reach Atlanta to day.—Con
stitution.
ON TO MACON-
WILL BE THE WATCH WORD FROM ALL
OVfiR THE SOUTH, NEXT J ALL.
The Dixie Interstate Fair, which
opens in Macon Ga., Oct. 23rd, 1894
promises to be one of the best and
most extensive Expositions ever at
tempted in the State. The manage
ment is in the hands of the Macon
Expositisn Company, with a capital
stuck of SIOO,OOO, The purses offered
tor the races will bring the best horses
of the South, as the program calls for
$ 0.000 distributed, over a seven day
meeting, and this feature is in com
petent hands.
The Agricultural departments are
in the hands of the State Agricultural
Society and will bt> conducted on a
liberal scale, calculated to draw at
tention to the resources of the South
The city of Macon will enlarge and
improve the splendid buildings at
Central City Park.
In these buildings a’o ie 86.000
square feet of space will be available;
al the exhibits being under one roof
Arrangements are being made to se
cure the very best attractions, which
will be announced later. The Indus
trial features will be a novelty, A 200
foot building is reserved for manu
facturing of southern product, and
the best article made on the grounds,
will receive large premiums.
The Dixie Interstate Fair will be
open for eighteen days. All inform: -
tion can be secured by addressing
‘he Secretary. J. R- Kennedy, at
Macon, Ga
ROME GEORGIA. FRIDAY EVENING APRIL 27. 1894.
“■WS FALL."
Netted the City for Only
About “Fourteen Fifty.”
SINNERS ALL BRUNE PTS.
The Heroics of Oscar and Arthur Re
counted While the Doings of Joseph
and Isaac Were Narrated. Other
Disoords Were Hushed.
Recorder James Spullock is mak
ing for himself a record. He has a
peculiarly patient way of getting
down to brass tacks and snaking the
truth out of the most i rdened old
Annias who frequents the “Fall ct
Ninevah.’
And then he has a refreshing way
of using an original term when he
passes sentence, for instance, if he
believes a poor devil his had only
about $2,6 5 qents worth of fun he
dont say “$5. or ten days' 1 but “well
I'll let jou off this time with $4.
Thus placing.sentence more in keep
ing with the tightness of the times
and tightness of the victim's purse,
Among tie Jim Dandies brought to
judgment’ ‘tnis moning were Oscar
Reynolds and Arthur Sumlin. both
sons of darktown and each of the
ginger k:ike color persuasion.
Those over grown youths wer e
charged with fighting. The rucus oc
cured at a [nigger glance in which u
fiddle and razor were the implements
of war while the diplomatic relations
were conducted in dialect affrican
and the profane languages principal
ly
Oscar was fined $7;50 while Ar
thur was requested to surrender $4,
Joe Walker and Ike Shropshire,
col. were next arranged on a charge
of disorderly conduct. They entered
a plea of guilty, and weie assessed
$1 ;50 each.
This rucus also grew out of the ne
gro dance.
The only other case was against R.
L. Morris, charged with doing busi
ness withotit a 8
ablv defend: d oy Cui F. G. Govan
who produced two sets of license,
one of resent date for the other mem
ber of the Commission branch of the
business, and succeeded is having the
case dismissed.
GREENVILLE VOCES LIQUOR
HER CITY COUNCIL MET AND DECID-
ED BY A VOTE OF 6 To 4.
Greenville, S. C., April 26.—The
liquor question was brought to au
issue this afternoon. At a meeting
of the city council, called to take
action as to the right of the city to
issue license, the discussion was
long and at tim<?s animated. A
test vote was ‘aken, which resulted
in a vote of 6 to 4 in favor of issu
ing liquor licens.
The city attorney was instructed
to prepare an ordinance to license
the sale of liquor. The sense of the
council was tor stringent regula
tions to prevent the sale of any
intoxicants to minors, inebriates
and men under the influence of
whiskey, and to limit the hours
when liquor can be sold.
This action of the Greenville
council may lead to a legal solu
tion of the question by resort to
injunction and appeal to the su
premo court.
A SHERIFF REPORTED SHUT
Greensboro, N.C.. April 26.—A
report reaches here from Elkin that
Sheriff J* A. Adams, of Surry county
was shot and killed at Low Gap,
near ML Airy, by a man whom the
sheriff was trying to arrest. No fur
thur particulars are given.
OGDEN WAS ELECTED.
Shreveport, La, April 26 —H.
N. Ogden democratic candidate
for congress from this district,
yesterday was elected to fill the
ucexpired term of M. C. Blanch-1
ard. His majority is abeut 5,000.
WHO IS IT
Engaged in Dragging Down
Into Political slime
MEMORIES OF LOST CAUSE?
Ao Right Thinking man who Knows
The Facts Will Charge it to W. Y.
Atkinson, and yet it is Being Done
to put a wan in office.
Here is an ‘ item ’ from the Macon
Telegraph to which The Hustler of
Rome invites the frigid eye of the
Editor of the morning ‘Jonah’’—al
so the cursory glance of his brilliant
so lowers in the Hill City, and it will
also make interesting reading matter
for many of the honest hearted Evans
biethren—so let all of them read it:
We are told by every Evans
newspaper that the general is not
running for office on his war rec
ord ; but his speeches show that
he does not himself labor under
such a mistake. His opening re
mark in the fiirst speech he made
in the joint debate was to lhe ef
fect that it did his “old Confeder.
ata heart’’ good to meet the people
there present. Since then he has
continued on the same track.
We think nobody should object
It is a glorious thing to have been
a good Confederate soldier, and
Gen. Evans was one, We know
nothingof which a man has a better
right to be proud than the record
of such a soldier. But a good rec
ord in the Confederate army, made
thirty years ago, does not prove
that the man who made it is the
best man for governor of Georgia
to day.
This is acknowledged by Gen.
Evans’ friends when they say he is
not running on his war record.
Tnere is some inconsistency be
tween this claim of his friends
and Gen, Evans’ own care to make
his record as a Confederate sol
dier conspicuous in his speeches;
but we do not object to it. Per
haps it is inevitable. But we do
protest when Gen. Evans tries to
make it appear that those who op
pose him as a candidate for office
as a politician, do so because they
art* out of sympathy with the
S lutheru people and lacking in
the sentiment which makes the
memories of the war period dear.
We are sure he does his opponents
great injustice.
In his Carrollton speech Gen.
Evans went further than he has
done heretofore on this line. So far
as is shown in the report of his
speech in the Atlanta Constitu
tion, his appeal for votes wai bas
ed on only two pleas—that his op
ponents were enemies of the Con
federate soldier and members of a
ring, organized in the legislature,
including the judges and solicitor
“A political clan has been formed
over the state, ’ he is quoted a>
saying, “for the purpose of rob
bing the people of their rights.
From the methods employed
against me, I would feel that I
was running against a candidate
for constable in a New York slum
instead of the governorship, of one
of the original thirteen states.”
And he closed his speech by say
ing"
“My friends, never listen to a man
who decries sentiment and who
wants to put. the old soldier down.
You will be giving aid to those who
would teach your children that their
fathers were traitors. In this case an
effort is being made to make me the
victim of the cry that no more Con
federate generals shall be promoted
to civil office, if so, I am willing
that the last shot aimed at a Con
federate breast ahould enter mine,
if it should spare mv com’a les the
mortification which is keener than ;
wounds received in battle.
“Let the question be plainly i
stated to the people. The ; sßue is I
between the old soldier and the 1
• politician, the man defending Con
federate sentiment and tho ma>
who would degrade it.’
Gen. Evans is very much mis
taken if he thinks he will elrvab
politics by vague indefinite charges
against public officals whom In
gives no opportunity to defend
themselves, or that he will save
Confederate sentiment from de
gredation by using it to ex’ort an
office for himself from an unwill
ing people,
It is not his opponents who are
trying to u»e that sacred sentiment
to accomplish a selfish purpose. No
objection whatever has been raised
to him on the grounds that he
was a Confederate soldier. Nobodi
in Georgia wants to ‘ put Hie old sol
dier down.’ But there are plenty ol
men in Georgia who believe Unit the
office seeker who is willing to de
grade the judiciary by chargee too
vague to be answered, an 1 the high
est sentin e t of the people bv putting
it to an unworthy, selfish use is not
the proper man for the represenat
tive of the governor- -ever
t hough he be an old soldier.
«♦»—
A SNAKE STORY,*
WIIAT CONTRACTOR WHITFIELD FOUND
IN A HOSPITAL CHIMNEY.
Os all the snake stories any so
ber editor ever kame in kontact
with here is one that takes the
kake and throws the bakery into
the hands of a reciever.
The story is told by contractor
Whitfield, Rome's veteran brick
mason and is vouched for by sev
eral of his employees who were
' eye witnesses.
Mr Whitfield, formerly known
as “Uncle Whit,” contracted with
Dr. Robert Battey to remove a
large old fashioned chimney at
the Martha Battey Hospital, and
replace it with a more modern af
•fsir - . .
( 11l tearing down the old chim
ney, through which for forty years
coal and wood, fat pine and kero
sene have been going up the flume
in smoke, the woodmen when near
the ground, found the snake.
His snake ship proved to be s
rattler, about 9 incher lung and he
was certainly a serpent of art, for
he was not only done up iu plaster
paris, but had been living there, a
hermit, for 40 years. There was
no opening in the brick or mortar,
that formed his dormatory, and
when tumbled out koiled himself
up and prepaired to do like a koal
miner “strike” —and strike right
now.
It is thought by some of the old
soldiers, that the rattler, with his
deformed tail and remarkable
‘‘Evanescent-democratic’’ record,
may be related to some of those
“hissing serpentine” outputs of a
War time Mortar,
Be that as it may, his snake: bin is
one of the “oldest land marks ” for
on his tail there are 44 small deform
ed.corn shaped bumps, which would
doubtless have, had they only had
room to grow, been today a regular
44 rattle- snake rattler.
So for 44 years lhe bricks of this
chimney have been pressing his but
tons while he did the—rest. The
above stoiy may be konsidered most
remarkable—in fact the most remark
able ever heard in Rome, but it isn’t
for on May the 26th, when the wool
hat boys, and privates have voted and
Evans has failed to karry a district
in the kounty—then their “seven to
one” klaim will be appointed receivi r
of this snake story.
HOLCOMBE RICHARDSON’S
CONDITION.
Knoxville. Tenn , April 26.—Hol
combe Richardson is still very ill,
but hia physician tsnight feels i
amply assured that there are strong
grounds for hope This is the (
ninth day of his illness and no ,
complications have arisen. ILs (
temperature is fluctuating between 1
102 and 104 degrees. t
IO CENTS A WEEK
th wa
Now tn at Evans Finds Some
of the Judiciary
AND THE LEGISLATORS
Are his Supporters. He and the Con
stitution are More Modified in their
Expressions and Blame Atkinson
With their Error.
.Milledgeville, April 25 Gen.Evafis
n his Jonesboro speech, thoughthe
•iad found a “mare's nest” and with
ireat stage effect announced to the
ne >ple of Georgia that he had discover
a political ring in this state.
He charged Atkinson with having
formed a ring denominated“the leg
islative ring,’’and composed of mem
bers of the legislature and judeges
)f the superior court and the solic
itors general The Evans papers pro
•laimed the discovery with fiauang
tieadliness
The people were warned.Atkin
4on’s “legislative ring’’ ramified all
teorgia. The thing was done like
“swapping knives.’’ Gen. Evans re
peated this charge in his Carrollton
speech.
He went so far as to advocate that
m future the judiciary be elected by
the people. Atkinson was made to
> bear the blame for all the evils of
>ur system of electing judges and
eolcitors by the legislature.
Great were the expectations from
this charge! But on investigation it
> ip peered that at least half of the ju-
IK-iary of the state were for Gen.
Evans.aud the oharge fell flat. The
Atlanta Constiution, thongh having
’ sustained Gen. Evans in the charge
1 concerning th Atkinson legislative
' ring, saw in a few days the charge
1 could net be sustained.and in its is-
- sue of today editorially,! k s water,
md sa.s that Atkinson rs the man
- who put the judges and solicitors iu
8 m exceedingly embarrassing po«i
. ion,and that he circulated the report
, that the judges and solicitors were
. with him in the race, tninking such a
report would benefit and strengthen
:im.
The Constitution now takes sides
with the judges and solicitors, tiie.s
officers of the law,and repudiates t's
bought their forming a c j-nbim
tion or A’ nson.Then what becorj
of Gen. r.vans chargePWhere is ‘ tb„
i ing 4 , he discovered?
BURIAL OF MP. INGRAM.
Quite » large number of the friends
>t the late C J. K- Ingram gathered
it the Cbapsl of St. Peters this morn
ing to participate in the List sad
rites over the remains of the man
they had loved so well in the days
gone by.
The beautiful Episcopal ceremony
never seemed more impressive while
th** holy melody of the song service
b< r ■ comfort to the aching hearts of th
■ oved ones who mourn the dear
deported.
From the church the procession
resumed its interrupted march to
the grave where ou Myrtle Hili
the weary frame was laid to sleep
GIVE US THE TRAIN.
Au effort is being made to get
a special train from Rome to
Chickamauga, going up Sunday
morning May 13th and returning
that afternoon, for the benefit of
those who desire to attend the
Walker county singing convention.
If the arrangement can be made
satisfactorily, no doubt a large
number of people will avail them
selves of the opportunity. Due
notice will be given in the News,
if the matter is adjusted.—Chat
tooga News.
By all means give us the spe
cial and let us join Professor Cain
on the oanks of the river at Ch ic
amauga. What say you Mr. Jones
Will the C. R. Ji C. trot out a
train?
