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THE HUSTLER OF ROME.
HIRO YEAR
Linevah falls.
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MIUMONGTHE STARS.
ii Heister Smites a cow
in the Presence of Kev. y
e and Pays $ 4 as
License for Manu
facturing Milk Shake.
The Monday corning matinee of
..fall of Niuevah” drew a good
«se and put up a fine performance
l t for iToVlock, sharp, Recorder
)U llock took his seat and Deputy
■ ice opened the book of charges
Bailed the court to order.
lhe first number drawn was fer-
But Toni Riplev, a knight of the ra
’r an d proved a blank as Tom show
l’that he had been “fout’‘ more
ian be had fit .
Tiie next was a speciality m which
, e daandMarv Benjamin, darktown
nnsel- ag“d 12 and 9 were stars as
bll as “debutantes.’’
This case was very amusing to
lB audiecce and witnesses. . bur
ie young Mies were nervous,
irhsps because of an attact of
lage fright.
The evidence showed that at th<-
enjamine household there was a
who was possessed and
,at certain fortune tellers and
erb doctors were sent for.
There was a‘'turningof the cup’
ad a reading of the coffee grounds
-then Mrs. Benjamin went to a
certain place by the door steps
od took mud and pasted the
iughter.
There were counter charges of
injuring and hoodooing; cer
>in witnesses had been too curious
i find out what was going on and
eila, the 12 year old twinkier
ith whom Pluto might well “pin
lek” the famed‘‘curtain of night’
iretchedherself akrost the winder
lich was histed,” He.
Stella, the star-eyed was fined $4
I 8 davs and she wept, while Ma
’ the 9 year old, on account of
>r tender youth escaped, she and
e rest of the house of Benjamin
■back into the plains of Dark
wu.
Nellie Parish, a manly colored
iter from Darktown, entered a
Ba of guilty to a charge of cruel
to animals. The charge was
angedto one of “disorderly cou
rt and the evidence showed
pt Nellie had, with a stone,
Mtten a cow hip and thigh and
at the cow fell wounded nigh
to death and the Etowah river.
In the language of Rev.’ Billy
done, the preacher with the he
langh ot darktown, Miss Nellie
®te the strange cow under the
uttment of the bridge. Billy
ts that Nelly were very wroth
a that the cow trembled and
nted.
smiled a-1751b-all-muscle
11] e and was fined $4. She should
K* her name charged from Nel
to Daizy— the tender hearted
u!
°hn McMadden, the only white
y on the program, entered a
aof guilty to drunk. Officers
and Collier testified
• r - McMadden was “full”
[that they found him “ditch
ifa7 ar \ UU I)yk " S ’ I,lat he was
leand boisterous and boast-
U»’ r ' ,h «>hewa l > "•••> Kil
' , '’'“'O’ '■<■ Ik»I helped
Jl *nnie S . He waß
w w or 8 days.
1,1,1 J <>hn Guice savs when he
K?? “under £
ion K CaU return to Lex
th’d? and writ eastory un
-11 -Kilpatric’s Kav-
Givens’ Infantry
in the battled
WHO IS SHE?
A Remarkable Case of Mistaken
Identity
DISCOVERED IN MEMPHIS
Says She is Mrs. Rosenburg
ofiHelena, But Proves to
be Mistaken. Held
With her Baby at
The Asylum.
Memphis, Tenn., August 6—A»
the ttheiby county insane asplum
is a woman who is puzzling th"
authorities and is a: mystery t»
herself.
March 15th she was found by
the Memphis police wandering th
streets with a baby some three
weeks old in her arms. She said,
when she was taken in charge,
that she was Mrs. Joseph Rosen
berg, the wife ot the manager of
the Davis plantation, near Helena
Ark.
It was only l ou condition that
her husband be at once notified ot
her plight that she would consent
to ba taken to asylum, and she ex
pressed the utmost confidence that
she would ba obliged to remain in
durance only a day or so. Tlte
woman, when found, was well
dressed. She is of more than ordi
nary refinement,
Since that day she has evinced
not the slightest sign of insanity
and today, if werd could be ob
tained of her family she would be
released at once.
The only sign that she is not all
that she should be mentally, is
that although she sppearently re
memers the names of her friends
and family perfectly no such per
sons exist so far as can be learn
ed.
The case seems to be one of lo Q t
indentity. She says her fatners name
is Moses Klein and that he lives io
Cincinnati, where she was born.
She relates that she was educated
in the public schools of Cincinuatti
and afterwnr Is graduated at the L°
banon, Ohm, normal college, where
she was the class poet in 1888,
She also studied in the Boston
school of oratory and afterwards
taught in the north side public school
of Chicago, aud boarded while there
with Dr. Arnets on Lincoln avenue.
She shcitly afterwards married Jo
seph Rosenburg a jawe'er and went
to Brooklyn, N. Y., and lived there
until she moved to Helena.
Her story is connected and btraighr
giving names but letters and
telegram are returned with uo such
person known inscribed thereon.
KLOSTER OF
BULL’S EYE SHOTS.
I notice that Col- John Reise, < f
Reeseburg.is in the city organizing an
expedition to capture that famed and
fabled fake, the ‘ Mexican lion-with
a-collar on” alias 'the-mountein- ter
ror of terra-firma,” alias “the mid
night- niarauder-of-Reese ourg, ’ ’ nee,
“the dogeat-ndogketcher.” Recruits
armed with three days rations and
plenty of 4 X snake pizen antydote
will do well to konsult with Colonel
John before they stampede towards
the wilderness.
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Those who heard the morning hot
monos Rev. Dr. Headden of the
First Baptist Church yesterday, pro
nounce it bo be * most powerful es
fort and those who failed to bear it
missed a pulpit treat.
I notice that the County Commis
sioners went over the pauper lists of
the county today and cut down the
allowances of the paupers who do
not reside at the Alms house. Quite
a slice was •shared from the monthly
stipend of the unofrtunates. I mean
by that that the shave was 50 cents
from s3oo.And then, I notice that
after nil the reductions are made that
the county of Floyd still pays to her
poor who do not go to the Alms
house the sum of s272l,oo|Generous
ain’t it?
ROME GEORGIA. MONDAY EVENING AUGUST. 6
WARY JAPS
I
They Seem to Know how to
Laundry Wastes Washes man 1
* CAPTURE 3 CHINA SHIPS
Moks in Both Kingdoms do
Vilonce. The London Stan-
ard Maintains That the
Japanese are
Brutal,
London, August 5.—A dispatch
to The Central News from Shang
hai, dated August sth, says:
“It is reported that there has
been another engagement off the
Corean coast in which three Chi
nese warships were captured by
the Japanese. The report has not
been confirmed.
“A Japanese mob attacked the
Chinese residents in Kobe a day or
two ago, severely maltreating
them. A dangerous riot ensued in
1 • ——
which many were injured.
“A Chinese mob in Takan in
sulted the members of the Japan
ese legation as they were return
ing home from Pekin. The mob’s
action led to a tumult, which was
speedily suppressed by the author
ities. The Japanese in Canton have
been attacked by a number of
roughs, but so far there has been
no serious trouble there.
“The European municipal coun
cil of Shanghai has warned the
volunteers to be ready to act
promptly in the event of rioting
or incendiarism.
“The Smith & Cass coasting
vessels, which now fly the Aineri
can flag, have been forbidden by
the American consul to land muni
tions of war in Formosa.”
The officials of the Chinese legation
in London say that they have receiv
ed no information concerning the na
val engagement mentioned in the
foregoing dispatch Thev also pro
fess to regard the tight ot July 29th
as a trilling and overrated affiir
SAYS THE J.iP.3 AIIB BBUTAL.
London, August 5. —The Standard
maintains that, despite every excuse
p oev. a >le from later iep irte, there is
nothing that exoneiates Japan from
the charge of brutality and barbar
ism towards the Chinese.
Not long ago, it save, an incident
like the Kow Siung affair would
hive immediately brought a Biitis i
s piadron to Toki . The Standard
proposes that Russia and En, land
jointly demand that bit i China and
Japan withdraw their forces from Co
tea forthwith and enforce the govern
ment of the peuin ula to an interna
,ion»l conference. • •’ailing in this,”
the Standard adds, ‘we must antici
pate a very anxi ms period, aud no
time should be lost in increasing the
British squadron in the far east. ”
TIID NEW STATE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE. %
Following is a full list of the
memlxTs of the new State execu
tive committee appointed by the
Democratic convention on Thurs
day.
First—B. A. Denmark, Chatham,
W. T Herring, Burke.
Second —W. W. Dews, Ran
dolph; W. H. Love, Berrien.
Third—C. R. Warren, Pulaski;
W. S. Thompson, Dooly.
Fourth—J. E. Dunson, Troup;
B. H. Richardson, Muscogee.
Fisth —John S. Candler, De-
Kalb; C. J. Haden, Fulton.
Sixth —Richard Johnson, Jones;
Douglas Glessner, Spalding.
Seventh —John J. Black, Floyd;
Sam P Maddox, Whitfield.
Eighth—Janies M. Smith, Ogle
thorpe; R. I). Calloway, Wilkes.
Ninth —J. C. Allen, Gilmer; C.
11. Brand, Gwinnett.
Tenth —W. H. Fleming Rich
mond; James Whitehead, Warren.
Eleventh —J. L. Beach, Glenn;
J. E. Wooten, Dodge.
The eleven members from the
State at large, together with the
campaign pommittee, will be
named by Steve iClay
today.
THE DEADLY BALL.
i Wild Scenes in a Chicago Base
Ball Park-
THE FIRE FIEND AT WORK
And a Number of Legs and
Arms are Broken by the
Fleeing Visitors. A
Brookly Base Ball.
Player Killed.
Chicago, August 6.—While a
game was in progress at the base
ball grounds today fire was discov
ered under the seats in the north
stand and the game was called.
Inside of three minutes the en
tire stand, together with the
bleachers and a portion of the ele
gant grand stand, was a sea of
flames, which not controlled
until two-thirds of the grand stand
had been destroyed.
In the wild scramble several
arms were broken and a score of
people were slightly burned and
cut by barbed wire fencing. The
fire is supposed to have started by
a boy lighting a cigarette.
KILLED WITH A BASEBALL.
Gloversville, N. Y., August 6. —
Frank V. Edder, of Brooklyn,
while playing ball with the Broad
Albin club in a match game with
the Northampton club at Fish
House today, was struck by a ball
on the right temple with such force
that he was killed almost instant
ly.
STRANGE TO BE SURE,
Something About the Death of the
Late President of France.
An interesting discovery has just
been made by a contributor to a
French periodical, who has apparent
a touch of superstition in his char
acter concerning numbers. Whether
or no be believes in the mysterious
and uncanny influence of number
thirteen is not stated; but he points
out that the unfortunate President
was throughout his life under the in
fluence, so to say, ot the figure seven,
He was born in 1837, and entered
the K-ole Polytechnique in 1857.
He became President of the Re
public in 1887, in virtue of the sev
enth a tide of the cousttitution. Chi
the 17 of May in the present year he
presided at the centenary seres at the
Ecole Polytechnique. He died in the
fifty seventh year of his age and in
the seventh year of bis presidency In
the carriage in which he was seated
there were, including the driver, etc.,
seven perions, the crime being com
mitted on Sunday, the seventh day
of the week by Caserio, an Italian,
there being respectively seven letters
in these two words. I'o conclude this
lists of sevens, it is pointed cut that
M. Carnot’s remains were laid to rest
in the tomb in the seventh
month of the year, and on the sev
enth day after the murder was com
mitted .
It might be added that Caserio
came from Cette to commit it and
that the pronunciation of Cette and
sept (seven ) is identical.
IN A FORTY-FOOT BOAT.
Captain Freitch Starts on His
Journey Across the Atlantic.
New York August 6—Captain
A. Feitch. ths daring navigator
who intends to cross the ocean to
Queenstown in a forty foot boat,
started from tbu battery this after
uouii on his voyage.
There was a large crowd of en
thusiastic Scandinavians on the
battery wall to see him go. The
Mina is a echooner-rigged craft,
with a centerboard,and the cap
tain will also be the cook, mate
and crew. He say« he can make
the voyage in about six weeks.
His vessel has provisions for six
months. The captain will keep
close to the track of ocean liners and
ask them to report him. The Alina
was built by Captain Freitch with
out assistance from any one, and she
is a shapely and- stanch boat. She
has two masts ana a cabin large
enough fur .the crew.
894.
. STAMPJTREWN.
J Is the Path of the Scranton Post
Office Robbers.
I 400,000 STAMPS STOLEN.
I Five men Said to be Implicc
| ted in the Theft. The Mail
ng Clerk Under Ar
rest. Dogs hot on the
Trail.
Scraton, Ohio. Aug. 6. —The went
postofl’ice at this place waa robbed
ou Thursday night of SB,OOO worth
of stamps. Assistant Postmaster
Othaus discovered the theft today
when he went into the vault for
supplies.
The combin tion lock was open
fed, the inner door of the safe was
fired off, dynamite being the arti
cle used. Four hundred thousand
stamps were taken,
The thieves probably were fa
miliar with the workings ot the
office. The mailing clerk heard no
noise and did not know of the rob
bery until the thieves had left fur
several hours.
The United States officers are on
the track of several men, one ot
whim is said to b«« a negro tramp
It is not known bow nu entrance
was effected. The mail clerk has
been placed under arrest, a suspi
cion Laving arose in certain quar
ters that he is implicated in the
robbery.
An officer of the United States
pofeioflice department who obtain
ed a blue to lhe parties who com
mitted the rubber' —and it is said
there are ten men m the thef return
ed here tonight. He had been gone
foui hours and trailed the foot
prints to a Wooded place known
as “Excelsior.”
After travliug through this place
on foot he came to a large cam
brake into which he believes the
robbers have gone. He knew it
would be useless for him to follow
the men any further witbout aid
aud returned to get the assistance
of local detectives. He says that
the robbers are railroad men and
that he believes they are armed.
Detectives Carol and Bleakney,
who went with the United States
officer, Daniel Savage, telegraphed
hers that about 3.0U0 of the stolen
stamps were found on the water
edge of the canebrake. For over a
of the place at which the
stamps were found the officers whu
followed up the trail say that the.
stamps are strewn over the roadi-
The mail clerk,Thomas Mallov,
has tola something to the chief of
police the exact nature of which
is not known. It is now believed
though,that he has not only admit
ted his complicity in the crime, but
gave the plans of the robbers away
Tne wires are being kept hot.
DEATH OF A CHILD.
Little Mamie Edna Aycock Goes
to her Mother.
Little Mamie Edna, the ine
months old baby of Mr. F. M. Ay
cock, passed quietly away this
morning at 5:3U o’clock
She had been unwell ever since the
the death of her mother Airs. F. Al.
Aycock, which occurred several
months ago.
The funeral was conducted from
the residence of its grand mother.
Airs. Alooney, on East Second street,
after which the remains were taken to
the North Rome cemetery where they
were tenderly laid away. There they
will sweetly sleep in peace until the
great Master gives the signal on that
final day, when mother and daugh
ter shall meet to part no more.
Pimples blackhead jmoles, freckels
tan and sunburn removed by John
son's Oriental Soap, Aledico”', For
sale by J, T. Crouch & Co.
10 CENTS A WEEK
RAISED TOJARTH.
t The Walls of Our Old Land .Mark
Coming Down.
. OLD ODD FELLOWS HALL
Ons of Rome's Most Historic
Links Demolished to Make
Way for a hand
some New
Block.
Work was begun this morn
by contractor Dick 'L’readaway
on the tearing away of the old
Odd Fellows Building, corner of
Broad street and Fourth Avenue.
The removal of this building, is
caused by the City Council, that
august body having baditinspet
ed and finding it to be in a dan
gerous condition, have ordered its
Immediate removal.
The building is one of the old
est brick business houses in Rome
and at the time of its completion
was one of the finest business
bouses in the state.
Dr. P. L. Turnley, the veteran
druggist, tells me that the build
ing was erected in 1853 by Colonel
M iley C. Denson, an uncle of Con
gressman Denson of tin* Seventh
Ala., congressional district.
He says that when it was built
that the Rome Lodge of Odd Fel
lows, No. 40, bought the third sto
ry from Col. Denson and paid him
SI,BOO lor it and that for many
years the Rome Lodge flourished
in its then elegant home.
Here Dr. 1 urnley branched out
and remarked, “I came here in
53 and helped the Lodge pay for
the hall. In those days Masonry
wasn’t knee high to Odd fellow
ship in Rome.”
“I remember mighty well, there
was Dr. 11. V. M. Miller, now of
Atlanta and Bill Arp now of Car
tersville.
“And Col. D. s e Printup, long
since gone to his reward; and there
was J. W- M. Berryrian, father of
Mis, \\ iiitmore aud Mrs, ChiJsey.who
Has also joined the gjeat Encamp
ment.
‘Aud there was J, E, Veal and
Oliver Sth well and R, T. Hurgmve, alj
charter members of old ‘No. 40,’ and
we had the finest work in the state.
‘¥es, utd there was Ca.pt, Efly, the
Ne w Yorker who came down here’and
built the first steamboat that was ev
er put on our rivers, and lots of oth
ers whose names I can t recall just
now,
I don t remember who the fire t
firm that did business in the corner
store, but I know that Wood & Veal
occupied the next store room with a
big stock of jewelery.
In talking with Capt. Ji ra T om
Moore, the city water collector, he
remarked that he remembered the
day when the old building stood
in its majesty and glory very well.
Said he: “Quite a number of
young men had rooms in the se
cond story; one of these was J, E.
Bearden, now of California.”
“Another was S. J. Hall,as brave
a man as ever drew a sword or fired
a musket. Capt. Hall fell white
eadiug the Rome Light Guards in
a charge at Knoxville. ”
“Another tenant was Ford
Hudgins, long since dead—while
one of his neighbors was Henry
Gartrell, afterward mayor of Rome
lawyer and legislator.”
“Then I remember IV. R. Hendrix,
better known as Bill
Algernon Hamilton and- yes "hose
were the days before Photography
and there was a deguerotype gallery
on that same second flaor. ’
Many others of the cld timers pause
as they pass the work of raising the
cld landmark and.many is the inter
esting remark or bit of historic fact
that may be picked up by a rep< r -
er ’ “Kash.”