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THE HUSTLER OF ROME.
THIRL) year
NEW YORK COST
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TO CLOSE OUT EVERYTHING
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B- MeArver <Sc Co- have decid
ed to make a change in their busi
ness and throw everything in their
house at New York cost.
Dry goods, Notions, Hats, Shoes
and Oxford Ties- Everything in
this house will be sold at New
York cost for cash-
We have decided to make the
change and everything must be
sold. Come and get your share of
what you need.
A.B. McAR VER&CO
401 NORTON CORNER.
McDonald-Spaiks-Stewart Company.
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have bought 500 of these Hockers
and will sell them at the extremely
low price of $2.00 each
*i t forget our Matting sale. We haw
just leceived another large ship
ment and offer this week
® 'rat Matting for 8 1-2 cents per yar.
Scat Matting f or 10 cents per yard;
" I_ ‘ Wnt Matti ng for 12 1-2 per yard,
erat Matting tor 15 cents per yard,
cut Matting for 17 j_2 cents per yard
„ WM ’ lattin 8 fo r 20eerts per yard,
111 Matting tar 25 cents per yard.
I n S2.CO S2.CO. $2.00
Wi-sparks-Stewari Co.l,'S.a'id Third Ave Rome, Ga.
ROME GEORGIA. TUESDAY EVENING JULY 3. 1894.
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Are most Unreasonable in
Their Demands.
HAD SIBB,OOO OF DEPOSITS
AND THE PULLMAN PAY ROLL*
AMOUNTED TO $7,000 PER DAY
CARS WERE BEING BUILT AT LES-
I THAN COST TO THE COMPANY IN
ORDER TO GIVE THEIR EMPLOYEES
WORK.
The boycott of the Pullman Car
Company had its beginning in a
reduction of w«ges caused by the
ianic of last year. The company
promised to restore the old rates
of wages as soon as business con
ditions would permit.
The ability of the company
to restore wages of course depend
ed upon its ability to secure con
tracts for building cars at good
prices The company was natural
y anxious to preserve the organi
zation of the men, both as a mat
ter o F hum -uity and to have its
forces in readiness for renewed
activity when business revives.
Meantime the depression in
business continued even with
greater seventy than last year. On
tbn 7th of May of this year the
employees of the Pullman Car
Company made a formal demand
for the restoration of the old
wages.
Mr. Pullman met the men and
gave what seemed to him to be
suilicent reasons why the old rates
of wages could not be restored.
He said that the business de
pression and the reduction of or
ders for cars had compelled the
company to reduce their torce
from 5.816 men in the beginning
of 1892 to 2,000 ou the Ist, of No
vember; that by hard struggling
and by underbidding for work he
had been able to keep the latter
number employed and to increase
the number gradually until he
had 4,200 employed.
How he had done this he ex
plained in detail. He took an or
der for fifty-five passenger cars for
the Long Island railroad at 's3oo
per car tees than the actual cost to
’he Pullman company. He took
an order for 300 cattle cars and
250 refrigerator cars for the
Northwestern railroad at sl2 per
car less than cost, and twenty-five
curs for the Lake Shoie road at
$79 each less than cost,
*‘l mention these particulars.” lie
-aid, ‘so that you may understand
what the company has done for the
mutual interest and to secure for Hie
people at Pullman and vicinity the
benefit of the disbursement of the
ktrge sums of money involved in
these and similar contracts, which
can be kept up only by the procure
me nt of new orders for cars, for, as
you know, about three-fourths of
the men depend upon contract work
for employment. ’
He added that there was less than
sixty days’ contract work in eight un
der all orders, and no possibility of
getting any more woik at prices
measured by the wages of May, 1893.
In order to provide work and
wages for the town of Pullman,
where the company’s largest interests
iay, he had closed the Detroit works
altogether. Furthermore, the com-
GUARANTEED LARGEST SIZE MADE
pany had expended $160,000 in in
ternal improvements which, under
normal conditions, would have been
postponed or spread over a numl e”
of years.
The day following this statement
of Mr. Pullman as to the company’s
affairs the local committee ordered a
stnke, which was at once carried in
to effect.
As an evidence of the prosperi
ty of these Pullman workingmen,
they had on deposit in the Pull
man Savings Bank at the begin-*
ning of the strike $488,000. They
pay roll before the s’rike amount
ed to $7,000 a day. These savings
wiU, of course, rapidly melt. awa\
if the strike should continue.
But we do not think it will lasi
long. The American Kailway Un
ion will find it has made a serious
blunder in throwing out of em
ployment these thousands of men
many of whom W’H be brought
rapidly to the point of suffering.
Mr. Deb may find also, when th<
families of these men begin to
suffer and he unablo to supply
'heir d- mauds for bread, that
these hungry and disapointed
men will turn upon him and hit
committee.
Besides, society at large may
take a hand and resent this at
tempt to paralyze the business ol
.the whole country. It is a much
more serious matter than these
men seem to consider it to cut oil
our food supplies by stopping the
movement of trains.
We do not ;deny the right of
these strikers and bovcotters to
dispose _of themselves as th»y
please, but there are no condition*
by which they can be justified in
bringing on a state of things that
might result in untold torture to
society at large—Macon Tele
! graph.
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MAY NEVER BE HEARD OF
A POSSE IS HUNTING FOR A FIEND IN
WARE.
Waycross, Ga., July 2. —Abou
4 o’clock this morning an unknown
negro forced an entrance into the
house of Mrs. Banks, a respectable
white woman of this city, and at
' tempted to outrage her little elev
en-year-old daughter. ■ Mrs Banks
was awakened by the child’s at
tempt to scream. She hastened to
the room, she caught hold of the
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fiend but he shook her off and
fled. The child was choked almost
into insensibility. Mrs. Banks at
once gave the alarm. Sheriff Mil
ler and a laree posse with blood
hounds are iu pursuit of the ne
gro- .
BOWMAN BROTHERS ARE OUT
ril'KN’s BOND IS FIXED AT SIO,OOO AND
Jhe GIVES li.
Birmingham, Alo,, July 3. —- After
hearing the habeas corpus proceed
ings instituted by Peyton Bowman,
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the Koibite loader, and Lis brother,
John, charged with the murder of
Eugene Jeffers, aged nineteen, Judge
Sharp, of the city court, late this af
ternoon discharged John and admit
ted Pey-on Bowman to bail in the
I sum of SIO,OOO. The bond was signed
in the courtroom by J. Bingham,
ouo of the richest men in Talladega
> County,and T, Deans, <n oueidy conn
• tv. 'lire verdict is the talk of the
city, opinion being divided.
PENDERSRAST SENTENCED,
GENERAL MILES PUT IN COMMAND OF
UNITED STATES TROOPS
Chicago; July 3rd:)special to Hust
lei: of Rome) Judge Davis has just
Sentenced Pendergrast, the murderer
of Mayor Career Harrison, to hang
and fixed the date for July 13th.
General ALiles, the famous Indian
fighter, was this afternoon put in
c immand of the United States troops
of this section and while tha out look
with the strikers is very threatening
every one has confidence in the cool
headed and conquering qualities of
General Miles_-
The program for the races out at
the Exposition grounds to no r v a
said to be an elaborate one. The
first race will in all probabilities be
run about 11 o'clock and then the
balance of the day will be consumed
in the different contests Every body
cordially invited to attend.
M rs. Frank Kane and Baby, ac '
companied by Miss Mamie Lnmpkin
left today for a visit of several weeks
to Marietta and Atlanta.
IO CENTS A WEEK
MH 11l DIE.
From the Effects of his Ter
rible Wounds.
PIECE OF SKULL REMOVED
YESTERDAY. THE UNITED STATZS
MATSHAL HAS A STENoGRA I’HER ’lO
TAKE HIS DYING DECLARATION.
The life of Will Roper, the ill
used mountaineer at St. Joseph’s
Infirmary, was despaired of yestei
day morning.
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There was an alarming chang
in his condition early in th
morning and to the attendants h
appeared to be dying. He bad sud
denly grown feverish and restless
and was suffering great pain-.
The news of the critical condi
tion of the young man was com
municated to Marshal Dunlap and
District Attorney Joe Jomes, and
tnese officials saw the immediate
necessity of securing and author
ized statement from his bps re
garding the terrible assault made
upon him by the half dozen moun
taineers.
About 10 o'clock yesterday morn
ing Mr. James Marshal Dunlap
United Stales Commissioner N. R.
Broyles u d a stenographer went
down to the ir.firn a y to get a dy
ing statement from Roper.
Despi e his powerful physique
Roper was very weak. He was
conscious and able to talk how
ever.
I believe I’m going to die, said
Roper to Mr. James.
He talked about the assault very#”
clearly but his condition impress
ed Mr. James and thhe oter United
States officials with the idea that
he could not live,
The trouble which caused the
change in Ropers condition wae
located in tiio wound in the back
of his head. His skull is broken. ■
and it became event to the physi
cians that a piece ot ii, wwldrhavs
to be removed.
The physicians performed. the
operation yesterday aiiwnoou and
it was feared that tbe-resuk would
be fatal. The eflteet of it wae
awaited with a great dual ut anx
iety, but after the. ■ physicians
finished. with him there war? a no
tab»e improvement in his eondi
tiou. Last night he was resting
lliH. IjCIDV
much easier and the cLanws for
his recovery were* regarded as be
ing heller tha-u i > tne morning.
But his recovery is s.ill regard
ed as doubtful!. The wound iu the
back of his head is a bad cue, and
if he gets over it iU,v. i.'? be noth
ing less than ,a mirical.
District Attorney .lain <2 a receiv
ed official notice from*Dalton yes
terday’ of the surrender of the
three whitecaps, an account of
which was given in y’eeterday'a
paper, fie had pnviuusly fix Xi
the amount of the bonds oi Ui'*-
■ two whitecaps still at large al V'.- '*•
000 each. He made th arncsir
smaller than he otherwise would '
have done, so as to induce the twj
whitecaps who are still fugitives
to surrender. It is thought they
will give up to the marshals today
—Constitution.
JIM TOWNSEND AGAIN,
Officer J. A Collier, bagged ani..
run in Jim Townsend this morn
ing. Jim will be remembered as
the gentleman who, undertook to
swim the Etowah after leading
h i Rome police a wild chase.
This time Townsend is up charg
ed with stealing goods from the
buggy of a patron who put up at
Woolen s stable. Mr. Dem pay
Wooten swore out the warrant,
'nd Townsend was carried to the
city cooler and this afternoon to
jail.
There was no Mattinee at the
■’Fall of Ninev h play house thia
afternoon