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FOURTH YEAR Fire Crackers 2cts a Pack. They are new goods inil size and full count and at nu’s the prices others ask or them SEE OUR SHOW WI NDOWS TUESDAY Santaclause will make our window his head quartersand will be there to amuse and in struct both old and young. Be sure to see him and brinA the children, We have an immense stock of Dolls Toys Games etc forthe lit tle ones, and fine China bric-a brac Dinner sets Toilet sets, and a thousand and one nice things suitable for presents for the Holi days. All of our good are ne w selecte lin pers in the market of the East. No o/d shop w Plugs but bright games Toys Dolls etc at / price than any where else Remember we are the original when itcomes to cutting srices, COME AND BUY BEFORE/THE LAST DAY. Dont buy until you see our goods, LANHAM & SON 236 Broad St Christmas SLIPPERS. There is nothing you can give a loved one or a friend that will afford the comfort nnd supreme satisfaction to be found in a pair of these elegant slippers WE HAVE THEM In endless variety and cordially in vite you to cal and examine them be- 1 fore you make your Holiday purchase. Cant roll & Owensit* 240 BROAD STREET- FomTStarLoaii Association. HOME OFFICE ROME GEORGIA, 325, Broad Street A National Building and Loan »a ) i Purely Mutual, safe Investment and Good Pro Made by small Month I Payments, OFFICER*-. J - A- *SLO V ER, President J- *>. MOORW. SeCty ft Tress. CHAS-1. GRAVES,(Vics President. J- H. RU..DES, M P r’ Land Dept. IIAL4TED SMITH, General Council. L- Hoclihbl zer = UN & LOCKSMITH. I All kinds of Machinery Repaired on Short notice. dewing Machines and Bycles repairing a speciality. A l kinds of inn bineryJandJjStationary engines repaired with and depatch. Broad fr Ij r ( t Rome Georgia THE HUSTLER OF ROME. ROME GEORGIA. FRIDAY EVENING DECEMBER. 21 1894. BYRNE'S NAME Drdwn into the Maelstrom of New York Corruption. DAMAGING EVIDENCE Against the World-famed Su-| perintendent of the big Po lice Force of the Ameri can Metropolis. He Denies. New York, Dec. 20. —Superin- tendent Byrnes figured conspicu ously in the testimony of two wit nesses before the Lexow Com mittee to-day. John Marrett. formerly an agent of the Society for Prevention of Crime, testified that Superintendent Byrnes had bulldozed him with threats and force, into divulging the secrets of his society, and had afterwards re lented wnen ne learned that the witness was a brother Mason. Hattie Ros, a colord woman, wh 0 goine years ago conducted two ' disorderly houses in this city swore that she paid “protection” money to Ward men under Captain yrner, how Superintendent of I Policy. Superintendent Byrues denies the niiagutiuti against him. Other incidents of interest oc Mirred befone the committee to d”.y, but nowo of them caused such exsitf-meut «a did tihe ne tion oi -Snperintemiteut Byrnes. Ex-Inspector Steers was in th" J Court room today. He tmuoiwjced a readiness to go on the stand and deny Sergeant Tsy lor’sxccusationi- Inspectore McA«oy, Williams and McLaughlin w«e subpcepaed to appear before the committee, but Wifiliamw was temporarily trxcuaed, and the ether twz-o were loot called during tha dny. Dr. '(}# nJ„ W *rd of Govern i»«r Hospital, w»ho was yesterday appointed to-eK*mino "“Honest” ■John Martin reported that the 1«»- 'ter was really r-wry ill,, and not i 1 a condition to Metity before tne I com mitten. Mt. Goff aonounced that <ia connection witfe the evi >d«>uce atrea i v adduced regarding snBnuejaaaaMMWBBMiMBUB JUST RECIEVED f One of the most com plete assortments of TOILET SOAPS ANO ; TOILET ARTICLES Ever brought to the city. See cur line of fine IMPORTED TOOTH BRUSH They have no superior on this or any other market SOLE AGENTS CANDIES J. T CROUCH & CO. MedYcal Building the payment of pensions to retired | officers, he had discovered that po licemen Thoma. Bradley wen now i acting a. cuihl ut pol'C* in N ,,r walk, Conn., ami at P.a a >uie •> e drawing a puucu pension from this! city- BYRNES DENIES IT 1 And Will Tell His Story-New Sen ( sations Coming New York, Dec., 20.—Superin tendent Byrnes heard of testimo ny given against him by John Mar rett a few minutes after that wit ness testified. He immediately locked himself in his office at po lice headquarters, and for an hour examined papers bearing on the matter referred to by Marrett. Afterwards, the Superintendent said of Marrett-:‘‘All he says is 1111 true except that he came to my house Tinder false pretense. When the proper time comes 1 shall tell my story in the proper, place. ” Further than this the Superin tendent absolutely refused to say anything. Marrett said before the comniit i tee today that he had gone to the home of Superintendent Byrnes with a letter to “Mrs. Byrnes,” which had been given him by an other Parkhurst agent; that the Superintendent took the letter, read it, took him by the collar, threw him into the parlor aid forcibly detained him there ; that Byrnes threatened tu have him imprisoned for lb years, and by force and threats forced him to tell all he knew of the case of Charles W. Gardner, another Park hurst detective who had been ac cuses! of extorting blackmail from one Tillie CWtou. Marrett also said that Superintendent Byrnes had trumped up the case against Gardner. Senator Lexow expressed his opinion that Superintendent Byrn»s had a right to extract in formation from Marrett. Then the witness said: “He would have sent me to .prison except for one reason—we wera both Masons. ” SAY THEY KNOW THE MAN Who Burned the Tally Shee s in the Chicago Mayoralty Ejection. Chicago, December 21.—Elec tion Commissioners Bade nock and ex Police Inspector Ross went be fore the grand jury today and te.-,- tifiad that they had learned the identity of the man who had burn ed or otherwise destroyed the tally sheets in the Swift-Hopkins may ora ty election. They asked the grand jury to delay the investigation pending an arrangement they hope to make with the man who did the lawless work. They refuse to disclose the man’s name, but stated that he is at present out of the city and that they hope to induce him to return and tell all he knows. His story i will reveal, it is said, that he was j simply the tool of men high in power and that he did the work for the money there was in it. Don’t forget that W. N. Hawthorne has greatly reduced price of Coal for the Christ mas season. Call him at Telephone No. 120. i Big Cut in price of Coal for spot cash. See me at 230, B oad Street- Office, Tele phone No. 93. Te'e phone at Residence N 0.90. C. I.Gvaves KEROSENEJOUTE Taken by an Ag id CouZle at Ely ria, Onio. THE 0!L CAN EXPLODED And in a Moment Mr. and Mrs Cook Were Wrapped in Flames Dying a Most Agonizing Death Con scious to the Last. Elyria, Olno, December 21. This morning J. B . Cook took a can of oil and poured the contents onto some kindling in the kitchen stove. There were some live coals un der the kindling. The blazing oil flew in all directions, completely Mr. Cook and his wife, who had rushed to his resue. They ran out to the yard, a mass of flames, and screaming in agony. The neighbors gathered and at tempted to smother the flames, but this was not accomplished un til the victims were burned so that the flesh hung in shreds. Mrs. Cook lived until noon and her husband died this afternoon. His mind was perfectly clear ai d a lawyer was called in to draw up his will. He left his property to his children. The house was near ly destroyed by the tire. Mr. and Mrs. Cook were about GO years old and came here a short time ago) from Kipton. NaPoleon Nearly DastroyeL Napoleonville, La., Dec. 2,1 —a an early hour this morning, tire broke out in the residence of Attor ney Va Here, and spread, "rapidl*. destroying eeven blocks of build ings. Loss, $125,000 to, $150,000. 11 ma Robt. W. Graves & Co made a big reduc tion for Cash in price cf coal Yard Telephone No. 96; Office Tele phone. No. 93. S. M. STARK 1 desire to inform my Friends and Patrons and the Public gener jy, that my elegant line of Fa'! and Winte WOOLENS Has been receive. Land are now opt n for ail tpection, And I will fur ther s a e that ’ am now better pejratd than ever o turn out FIRST CLASS WORK A?il> WC f 485 GOODS, At prices never before heard of in Rome, S.K. STARK, ffiKHMI i'JM 16 ARMS! RUNG HOTlel 1' CENTS AWEEC Come And EXAMINE Oursl6slß& $2£P dollars suits r Made to your orderT Trimmed andj made elegantly, If yoir dont say the?* are worth 50 per cent more than we ask for hem. then we wffV . re it * Treat you to a stiowr of the 'argestand be® selected Stock of panffiL goods yju ever sar— and at prices you new er dreamed of.. Prices that makefaE ready made deatarr t ashamed of his busi ness and wish that Im • couid buythem at t iwe prices we will give yoox .. Come and see us. - We will sell you come and will'give more than satis BURNEY I TAILORING Cl 220 BROAD STMBESr ROME, GA.