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ill The News. T HIRLi year : —-HEADQUARTERS FOR— Owfoods. taShoes, and Mk. Best goods! Lowest prices! Till-: HUSTLER OF ROME. THE FLOOD. I it took 1000 mon to Repair the Damages. I TRAINS RUNNING AGAIN. Caucasses of Horses and Cattle and Wrsoked house held Furniture Lodged In the T'ees Behind the Flood. .San Antonio. Tex.. September 4. —The 1,000 men who have been at work repairing the 40 miles of track on the Southern Pacific rail road, overflowed and washed out west of here, by the recent flood, completed their work yesterday afternoon and trains are running over the temporary structures. The first through train since the deluge occurred, arrived here at 9 o’clock last night. It was a pas. aenger train and brought in a large number of people who had been tied up by the great washout. They report a terrible condition of affairs along the distance for a hundred miles or more. In the branches of trees where the high water left them are debris of all kinds, including horses and cattle, household furniture, etc., and the broad prairies are still covered with water to a depth of two to five feet, and overland trips to the remote ranches and settle” inents are matters of impossibility It is expected that relief expedi tions will be sent out today. Mr. Tom Lowry, who has been visiting Dr. Battle at Shorter Col lege, for some days, will leave in I the morning for his home in Ma con. Mr. Howard Jack left today for Dalton. He will go on the road for Railroad Snuff. JUST RECEIVED One of the most com plete assortments o f TI.'LET SOAPS AND TOILET ARTI-LES / Ever brought to the city. See our line of fine IMPORTED TOOTH BRUSHES Theyhsveno superior on this or any other market SOLE AGENT FOR CANDIES J. I. CROUCH & CO Medical Building. ROME GEORGIA. TUESDAY EVENING SEPTEMBER. 4 1894. THEY ARE COMING General Clement A. EVans anS Eloquent Bob Gumer. AT WAREHOUSE FRIDAY. Bacon Will not be Here but ' Our John” Will be on Deck. The Biggest Ral ly ofthe Camoaign er, for Floyd. Friday will be a big day for the Floyd county democracy. It is the day on which General Evans and the peerless Bob Burn er will meet with the' “wool hat boys” and preach pure democ racy to the great crowds that will gather to hear them. A Hustler of Romc reporter dropped in on John J. Black, of the Floyd county democratic exec utive comniitte', this morning ai d was show'll a letter from Hon. Steve Clay, chairman or the State executive committee. Mr. Clay informs Chairman Black that Genera! Evans and Bob Burner, the eloquent, will be sent to Rome on Friday and guarntees that they will not only make it warm for the enemies of demo cracy but will more than entertain the democrats themselves. Major A. O. Bacon, Ou account of au engagement on the 6tb. can not reach Rome ou the 7th, but will sneak in the city ou some date within the mouth. Reduced rates will be given over the railroads for Friday, and everything now p >iuts to a large and enthusiastic crowd, The dares for Floyd o< uuty ral lies, begimng on Saturday the Bth are as follows: Foster’s Mills and Livingston, Sat urday, September Bth. Flat wood’s, Saurday Bth. Cave Spring, Friday 14th. Van’s Valley, Friday 14th, (night ) Texas Valley, Monday 17th. Howell’s (at Seney) Monday 17th. Chulio, (Bryant’s Mill) Wednes day 19 th. Barkers,(Porters store) Thursday 20. Etowah, Thursday 20. Watters, (Pinson’sstore) Friday 21. Everett and Floyd Springs, Satur day 22 North Carolina, Saturday 22. CONDUCTOR GOES MAD. He Carries his Train Through: Then Comes the Reaction. St. Paul. Sep. 4—Conductor Sullivan, of the train that was caught by the fire near Hinkley and backed to Skunk Lake, be came a raviug maniac after reach ing comparative safety. He was heroically cool and col lected while his burning tram was making its fearful, run, but at Skunk Lake his mind gave way. Engineer Root, of the same tram is so badly burned that he may not live. There seems no doubt that this train would have pulled through in safety if the engineer had not stepped to take up two or three hundred refugees who lined the track. Mrs Gardner has a fine night blooming cereus. Several of the flowers opened last night, and a number of people went to see them, Letters of Administration. GEORGIA, Floyd County: To all whom it may concern: E. H. Colclough having in proper form applied to me for per manent letter* of administration on the estate of W. H. perry to be and appear at my office within the time allowed by the law and show ciuse if any they can, why permanent admin istration should not lie granted to W, H. Ennis Ccunty Administrator on W. N, Ferry’s estate. Witness my hand andofficial signature this 3rd day of Sept, 1894. John P. Davis, Ordinary Floyd County Georgia. THE FIRE. Michigan and Wisconsin’s Forest Holocaust. ■HUNDREDS OF BLACKEND Bodies Mark the Track of the Fire Fiend. The Number of Dead May never be Known. Black ened bodies. Ishpeming, Mich., Sept. —The gravity of the situation from the for est fireg continues to increase every hour. The long continued drought displays no signs of abatement, while every morass adjacent to the city is aglow with flames. A dense eloud of am ke envelopes the country for many miles, obstruct ing business and offering constant menace to travel, Dust and ashes are falling in showers. The volunteer fire brigade is divided into convenient squads, which are doiu g effective work. The district lying between the Bradford farm and the Dead river to the north is a vast fen, filled with underbrush, and is now’ a lake of fire. The same is true of the course of the Cairo river. Ashland, Wis., Sept. »4.—The auxietj felt at Ashland for the safety of northern Wisconsin towns was somewhat relieved this morn iug by reports of ram in nearly every locality where the fires had been the worst. It is a Godsend to this country. J < The northern Wisconsin towns that have been burned are as fol lows : Benoit, Poplar, Marengo, Sneticer, partially ; Highbridge, partially Ashland Junction, scorched; City of Washburn, scorched. Bessemer scorched. BAINING Ort THE RUIMB, Hinckley, Minn., Septembers.— A gentle rain is falling today and quenching the burning embers of the immense forest fires that did so much damage in this city Sat urday afternoon and night. The blackened ruins of two or three brick buildings are all that re mains standing of the once pros perous town of Hinckley with its 1.700 people and its busy railroad and lumbering interests. This is today a place of ramm ing and the burial of th » charred and unrecomzahle b»d es of the hundreds of victims has saddened the survivers even more then the disaster itself, - The number of dead at Hinckley is placed at 200. The correspondent has counted 194 of these, and the margin allowed about all that is nec essary. The figures are as follows: Hinkley 200; Sandstone 92; Miller 12; between Skunk lake and Miller 12; Pokama 28; in lumber camps and scattering, estimate, 50. Probably 200 people left town on foot or in vehicles, plunging in to the woods to the north, across the Grindstohe river, which skirts the town on the north. They were literally fleeing before the pursu ing demon of fire. Over the hill that rises behind the Grindstone river is a swamp and to this most of the peopl, with teams Leaded, but it proved no protection. The fire g .ve them no opportunity to go further. Some abandoned their teams and ran into the lower portion of the mo rass, but the fire sought them out. Not one was left to*tell the tale, and there yesterday morning in a space of little more than four or five acres, were counted over 180 corpses. There were families of five, six and seven, and there they lay, the men generally a little in advance, the mothers surrounded by their little ones, cut ofi by the most horrible of deaths. OLD FLOYD The “Banner County” of the “Em pire State of the South.” HAS SAFELY WEATHERED The Fearful Panic of'93 and '94 and With only a Half Million Slump in her Tax Returns faces the good times The tax slump in Floyd county amounts to <547,873. County tax receiver, M.D. Mc- Osker, wai seen by a Hustler re porter this morning and gave the above as tho exact figures in the decrease. Last year the entire taxable property of Flovd amounted to <8,328,495, This year it is 17,780,- 622. Mr.McOsker saysP'The decrease is not nearly so large a-> I had ex pected some time ago, but the peo ple have been giving in their prop erty fairly, and have not sought to evade taxation by taking ad va itage of the natural shrinkage in the value of realestate. “The bulk of the taxes fall on the people in the Rome district, because nearly $6 000,000 worth of the property is in this district. The slump is pretty evenly di vided over the country.” Floyd is in as sound a "financial condition as any county of her wealth in the state, and the people should feel very well satisfied with the present condition of affairs. With the best crop we h'ave had for years, every enterprise in the city on full time, and all the channels of trade quicken ng into busy life, Rome sits se rene on her seven hills and scoffs at the mention of hard times. The County Commissioner will meet in a few days to fix the tax rate and it is more than probable that it will be the same as last year. 8. M. STARK. I desire to call the attention of my patrons and the public general ly to the fact that ON bEP’T 10th. My large and well assorted new stock of FALL AND WINTER WOOLENS Will arrive, and further that I am now prepaired and will turn out FIRST CLASS WORK AM) FIRST GLASS GOODS, Cheaper than ever before. Paste this in YOUR HAT and remember yc ur own i> t rests 8. M. STARK, ■!« UILOB 16 ARMSTRONG HOTEL} Eight Pages. IO CENTS A WEEM -t : ■--.— 'v _ ... .fc * ,w--- L Will* Ijiilgi --M * f ’< F I U n IF SO DONOT FAILTb VISIT ip - r > T • 111 I* Do You Need Carpets? ''-'"yr.ys Mam Inis Week.