The Hustler of Rome. (Rome, Ga.) 1891-1898, August 17, 1894, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextTHE HUSTLER OF ROME. T NiTgREATLOVE skP - * HURiESKELTON MARRIES. Herold Sweetheart Dr Free man. Sequel to a bean die That.has Caused Murder and grace Ga |o re. T™».. Aw»tl7. , eprcuil to th" Tin,m frora .k r. Ala. »a* 9 th,lt the Scottpbor \ , tnwu H all torn up «w a rumor lh ,l Miss Aooi" Se»i'ou.° f b .d marrird !«>■ bumrd.y. Miss Skelton left for a vtait to be i sister. Mrs. K.rby at Little Rock A rk., on last Thursday. Dr. Freeman left on the train f 1 ov - iu g and it ie said that the pa>r m et and were married in Mem- Dr. Freeman is still absent from Scotsooro and his where bouts are not known. Miss Skel ton is with her sister It will be remembered that Miss Skelton and Dr. Freeman were old sweet hearts before the trouble with Koss and he was all broken up over it as he was said to be madly in love with her. The rumor seems to be well founded and the people of Scotts boro are very much exetcised over it. FOR WOMEN FOLKS A MAD AMAZON. Forced to Ride a Horse in her Parlor and Show her Ankles. Wilkesbarre, Pa., Aug. 17. —A furious woman, who had been held upon a horse’s back against her will at a social gathering last night, shot two young men .for revenge, one of whom may die. The vic tims are Constable John Hart and an unknown man, and Mrs. John Barry did the shooting. The ehte of Archibald turned out last night to attend a party given by Mrs. Barry. The guests were lively and on the lookout for amusement. As a climax to the evening’s enjoyment a number of men went out, procured a horse and returned 1 leading the animal into the parlor. There was a scattering of girls and women, accompanied by shrieks of terror. But several -tiong arms siezed Mrs. Barry, the hosti'ss, and she was vaulted upon the steeds broad back. A shout of laughter greeted her elevation. As she was not arrayed in a riding habit ankles and hose be tame unuxpestedly tfonspictious.aud the fair rider was mortified. JJ* hoise waa ltd about the room while the audience laughed loudly °fi their hostess’ dis n lure Mrs. Barrys entreaties to t iM r e e eaßed * ere UUUe eded for a long was^ 11R ■ 6 gl ' eW 80 furious that she h annH U,tted t 0 dlSmoUnt - RußhiQ g J v O a o^ r room, she seized a ruvoL festivh re T UrnGd t 0 the Bcene of the W Itlßß - Le ’ her revolver at fired. 0 " I<?lghtened tormentors she Hart in Bfcrucli Constable avX u d whose name h & T Ukn ° W “ « ot a the hou-a -r ne ® uests fled from AX?r tab,eHstft^d- arr eHt 3 BWOm ° ut for T 1 **’—' —— — ■»<« «lc™ tw> with the"" T' 1 C °“’ c *«An',' ro , rt, i‘='’ “populist rity, J1 d jubt it, ask McGar- A WATERMELON Tenpted a Chattanooga Negro Ex-' cursionist AND CAUSED HIS DEATH At Cohutta, Ga. Three Coons Worked a Countryman Bnt Only two of Them Managed to Board the Train. Yesterday afternoon’s Chatta nooga News contains the following: A fatal accident happened to one of the colored excursionists who left the city yesterday morn tug for A'lnieton, Ala. The accident happened just as the train was pulling out of the station at Cohutta, Ga. At that point the tiaiti was halt ed fora few minutes to take water- An old countryman "was near the deppt with a large load of water melons. Several of the negroes jumped off the train and asked the rural gentleman the price of the melons. They kept talking with him un til the train started off,when three of them grabbed a melon each and made a*quick jump for the trun, which had theu started. Two of the negroes got aboard, but one a Jim L-’Wia failed to do so. His melon was such a large Qiie that when he made an attempt to get on the train it. OVERBALANCED HIM, And he was thrown underneath th whei Is of the car and his head was mashed into a pulp, being mangled beyond recognition and presenting a horrible sight as the corpse lay under the coache«, He was about 21 years old and be louged in this city He wiH be’ brought here for burial Several col ored women who were present when the corpse was taken from under the cars fainteddead away. After the killing an old darkey ex claimed : I done told you niggers about stealing dem millions. K. OF P. ATTENTION! Bi-ennial Encampment of the Uniform Rank Knight Pythias. At Washington, D. C., beginmg Monday August, 1894. Tickets will be sold to Washing ton and return by Agents of the Southern Railway Company, West ern System, at one fair for the Jr rand trip acount of Knights of Pythias Conclave. Tickets on sale August 23rd to 28th inclusive, good to return S-*pt 6th. Tickets may be extended to Sept. 15th 1894. A Through Special train will leave Sunday August 26 at 1:15 p m. aud will arrive at Washington, D. C., Monday August 27th at 9 :30 a. m. For sleeping car reservations and further information, apply lt» J. J. Farnsworth, Dist, Pass. Agt, Atlanta. Ga. J. M. Sutton, Trav. Pass. Agt.. Chattanooga, Tenn. W. A. Turk, Genl. Pass. Agent, Washington, D. C. The piles of old London bridge, driven 800 years before, were found to be in good condition when the new bridge was eredted in 1859. Great care should be taken lest the annouecement that Mr. Breckinridge has become a minister should occas ion confesion. It isn’t the Colonel and it isn’t the minister of the gos- ( pel,—Augusta Chronicle, Mrs. Debs says of her husband,the 1 ex-strike agitator, that“he doesn’t go 1 to any church at all, He’s an infidel. 1 We are a family of infidels, every one of us, Col. Robert Ingersoll, whom we all know aud admire, is our only Pope * ROME GEORGIA Ft I DAY EVENING AUGUST. 1718P4. THE PlCTAjlWftll. I latest News FiOin the Land of Buitahism THE KING OF SIAM DEAD The war is being watched with a Greatl deal of Interest in Nova! Circles First Battle Between Armoured Ship Victoria. B. C., August 17. — The ormural papers which were re ceived bv the Tacoma yesterday differ as to th° relative strength of Japan and China but the opin ions prevail that all things con sidered t b-y are on tolerably equal terms. The war will b« watched with intrast as it will be the first occa sion when st j el armored vessels will be in cm tlict. English pa pers in Japan ridicule the claims of Japan to a great naval victory iu the first engag-ment as the ves sels engaged were in no way equal The k ng of Slum was reported to be dead when the Tacoma left apd her maj-»sty’s steamship Rat tler hid gone into the Siamese waters. Since the navel fight at Gasan the running of Japanese steamers between J msou and Fu son has been susp ended. General travel on smaller Oriental line® is much broken and news of an au thentic nature is difficult to ob tain, • That the western world knows more about the Corean situation than can be 'earned either in Hong Kong or Yokohama was the verdict of-passengers on the Taco ma after looking over the late dispa’ches in local papers. HARPRE CAPTURED. Livery man Fields Apprehended him in Cartersville. A telegram from Cartelville re ceived at the Sheriffs office stated that J. R, Harper,the Atlanta picture man who departed these coasts with Mr, Ed Colciougbs horse and buggy bad been arrested by Liveryman Fields and the turnant lecaptured. Mr, E H.Colclough in the absence of his son Mr.Ed Colclough who had gone to Atlanta in quest of the thief and stolen turnout wired tie Car tersville offices to hold Harper until officers from Floyd could come. Pony For Sale: —Will take lum ber for payment Apply at No 1 En gine house. 8-16-3 t Go by the Southern Railway to At lanta, on August 22nd. $1.50 round trip. Three trains each way daily. Tickets good, returning on any train until August 24. Fiue observation chair cars free. T- C. Smith. P. & T, A., Rome Ga. J, J. Farnsworth, D, P. A. Atlanta Ga, The man of whiskers seldom * gets into scrapes with thi members of the brotherhood of barbers. London police authorities are wor ried over the arrival of a large numtier of anarchists from the continent, —No mercy should show n these in human fiends. The sooner they are outlaw ed and hunted down like wolves, the better for civilization, Meichant —Do you think adver tising pays? Book Agent—No, I don’t. Merchant—Why not? Book Agent—Why? not? Be cause it takes all the people to your store to buy goods, and I can not find anybody at home to sell a book to; that is why not. —De- troit Free Press. ’ . » • ■ ■ r i. ' r.'Cfj ; ccru-.s. .. .. ... ■ <••,. ■ •■<.. .»;■ . . { iJun'.x*bu..‘Vr reunhl’ FALL OFNINEVAH Jess Jones and Mack Madison’s Colored Razor. A HOUSF OF ILL FAME- Ordered Closed in two Days or its Occuoants Arrest ed. The Seamy side of Darktown In ' specte d . Tne “Fall of Ninevah” wap a very good sized circus, at record ers court this morning. The first number on the program, after Deputy Guice rang up the curtains and opened the book ot tribulations was a duet by Joe Walker and Ike Shropshire of Darktown, Recorder Spullock fined these cullud dudes $4 each for cussiu round er Darktown ball—See? Mrs. Nellie Dood, also of Dark town and a resident of Gas house boulevard paid $4 f r being too free in the art of “laying on hands ’ with another sisters kids also for kussin too much with her mouth. Julius Green, a strapping over grown son of darktown, of the Roun saville strain was fined $7.50 for, maulin a little bilsy kooii about some tobaccy. Then came the kase of the konrt: Jess Jones the one legged veteran on police court performances was put on trial for kussiu Mack Madison col. Mack swore he had in the presence of witnesses on last Sunday loaned the white man a razor and a skil'et. A night or two afterwards he went to the Jones domicile for the razor aud Jess not only swore he had not borrowed the razor but kussed Mr madison scandus? Recorder Spullock continues the case and promises when he gets at the bottom of it, to send one of the principles to jail on a charge of perjury. Tne end is not yet. but wil be. Mack recovered his skillet. Mrs. White, her daughter Maha ly White and Mattie Pledger,three notorious white women were de clared to be keeping a house of ill fame and under the new city code was given two days in which to move out, failing to do this, they will be arrested. Anna Johnson, of Darktown on a case of fighting and disorderly, dating back to last April, was fined $5 or 10 days. She plead the baby act claiming that her child was only a month old and ahould not go to the city cooler. Kourt Ad journed. POSITIONS GUARANTEED! UNDER REASONABLE CONDITIONS. Our FREE 120-page catalogue will explain why we san afford it . Send for it now. Address Draugbton’s Practical Business College, Nashville, Book-keeping, Shorthand, P n • mauship and Telegraphy. We spend more money iu the interest of our employment department than half the Business Coclegee take in as tuition, 4 weeks by our method teaching book-keeping is equal to 12 weeks by the old plan. 11 teachers, 600 students past year no vacation, enter any time. Cheap Board. We have recently prepared books especially adapted to HOME STUDY. Sent on trial . Write us and ex plain “your wants.” N, B, — We pay $5 cash for all vacancies as book-keepers, b t e nog r sphere teachers, clerks, etc., reported to us, provided we fill same, Yesterday we looked over several of the 28 volumes of the new edi tion of the Encyclopedia Brittani ca now being introduced in Geor gia by the Atlanta Constitution. Our inspection of the articles es pecially concerning the south, was thorough, and we find thia edition to be entirely free frora errors which appear in books of this class. We can conscientiously recom mend it to the people of Savannah and the entire state. —Savannah Dispatch. * * -» N T- L ' -<u 1. !>■ i;>« v w V* **-* U.i.FV.i*. THEY Lieutenant Henrv Stewart of A. B- MgmiiJF& Cos SPRINGS A GOOD LEAD Paul Reece a Close Second and Misses Delia,McClain and Emma Jackson Third and Fourth Voting Fast The Hustler of Rome contest, uot yet a week old has begun to assume most, interesting propor tions and by Sunday Morning there is no telling how tht» score will stand. The feature of the contest today has been the entry of >1 new Rich mond into the field. JLieutenant H. J Stewart of the hi* dr« good* house ot A. B. McArver & Co. not only has been entered the contest by his friends but by voting early aud often, principally often,he nas been pmced at the head ot the list. Mr. Paul Reese, of Trevitt A Johnson’s drug store is a close sec ond, while Miss Delia McLain ot Kuttner’s and Miss Emmie Jckson of Fahy\ are but few votes ahead of Mr. Pope Wooten of Lowry Bros. Druggists. The lists stancl today : HOW THEY SfAXD. Mr. .II J. Stewart. Mr. Puul Reese, Miss Delia McLai 1, Miss Eiuina Jiwksou. Mr. Pope Wooten. Miss Bena Mis-Mabel Klein. Miss Je'.nie N'>" . Mr Frank Kun . ■ Miss Net!ie Kin; . i Mr. Charley Tuibei'. Mr. Charley M. Green. That’s how they stand now, but ‘ who can guess what a day may ” bring fourth —or first? ; coupon. 1 o □ c : : 72 « J? = " o 1- —< cn ; ; c- ’ ' 11 T i 1J 2 : J ' - ? ? ; J J i 'NOdnOD rilE S St’THEHX [3 ths Ouly lire’ j iinlii >g tine v»»Mi bnle trains wr.n »i er I' -.iree observa tion chair car s, betwe-u lir <ne and Atb .nta an I w.'l a-l round nip tick ets to Atlanta on Auais £2, $1 50 good to ’orarn Ancr-r 2L T C Sruitb P. &T. A . ■ it'>uie Ga. J. J. Fanisworib D L Atlanta, A FEARFUL COUGH Speedily Cured by Ayer's Cherry pectoral _ -W3. “My wife was o= suffering from a O: * Cgr fearful cough, (t which the best o: IT medical skill pro- o: curable was una ffi n We relieve. We O : Ct V'J i!’ ) iIW not expect o: J that she could long / survive; but Mr. o: R - v Royal, <lep ‘ o! ’ ub survey° r . bap- o j pened to be stop- o: ping with us over night, and having a o: bottle of Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral with o j .him, induced my wife to try this remedy, o: The result was so beneficial, that shoo, kept on taking it, till she was cured. o j She is now enjoying excellent health, oj I 1 and weighs 160 pounds.”—R. S. Humph- ®: kies, Saussy, Ga. oj Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral Received Highest Awards gi AT THE WORLD’S FAIR®:. S* »?• •o 5?»»?» I . .■ > tf'.-- r ' u h I. Course thnr 'Ugh int. mt» *« ■.a. j.. .w ati • to Rnme Circulars free ... KAhMISON. President. IO CENTS A WEEK WHO WILL JET IT? A CompetatiVe Exammeation to be Held in Rome for a Naval CADET APPOINTMENT Congressman Maddox Whip ped the fight and now Some Seventh Ccngressinal Young man Will a get Plumb When Judge Maddox, wat elec ted to Congress from this dis trict it did not take him long ta find that his predecessor had been sleeping over tLe rights of ths bloody Seventh, so far as the ca detship in the United States Naval academy was concerned. He found a District of Columbia man enjoying the benefit of a place which the law said belonged to some sturdy, bright boy from North-Vvest Georgia. The fight which Judge Maddox made against the evils growing out of a custom of usurpation and missrepresenta tion in the Naval Acad amy depart ment, is yet fresh in the minds of the people- both in this and the adjoining states, Now as a result of that fight there is a vacancy in favor of the Seventh Congressional of Georgia and to fill that vacancy and to lot the best man win. Congressman Maddox forwards the following fur publication: By virtue of an act just passed by Congress, the 7ih District is entitled to a. Cadet at the Navel \cademy, aud I hereby suggest a competitive examination to be t held in Rame Georgia,on the3oth instant, at Die Court house; the examinatij u to begin at 1 o’cclck, p. m. This examiuatin to be opento all tht young men of the District whs are between the ages of fifteen and twenty, who are physically sound well formed, of robust, constitu tion and who have bona fide residents of the District for two years immediately preceding the examination. Candidates will he examined in Reading, Writing. Spelling Arith metic, Geography, English Gram mar United States History, ants A Igebra. 1 he following gentlemen will b< requested to act as an Examininj . Board to pass up.m and to deter mine who snail ue entitled to the appointment: Proff, J.C. Harns Rome Georgia, J. D Taylor, Summerville “ Capt. 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