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About The Hustler of Rome. (Rome, Ga.) 1891-1898 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1896)
SIXTH YEAR. in a m i To Call F« BidsFor JIGO OCO,- Goc ol congress is run over " □ thp intrepid Carlisle. Might' By Have Been Sola at 3 per H Cent >o the Peop ' 6 ° f - United States. Washington, D C., Jan 6.--bec retary Carlisle has issued the fol lowing which explains itself and buthereiti“- ■■Treasury Department, Office of the Secretary, Washington, Jami arT 6 1896 —Notice is hereby given that sealed proposalswill be received at the office of the secre tary of the treasury, at Washington D.C., until 12 o’clock noon on Wednesday, the sth day of Febru ary. 1896, for the purchase of one hundred million dollars ($1,000.- 000,000) of United ,States 4 per eent coupon or registered bonds, in denominations of fifty dollars (SSO) and mu tiple« of that sum, jg may be desired by bidders. ‘•The right to reject any or all bids is reserved. “The bonds will be dated on the let day of Februrry, 1896, and be payable in coin thirty years after that date and will bear interest at 4 per centum per annum, payable quarterly, in coin, but all coupons February, 1896, will be de tached and purchasers will be re. quired to pay in United States gold coin or gold certificates for the bonds awarded to them and all interests accrued thereon after the let day of February. 1896, up to the time of application for deliv ery. “Payments for the bonds must bo made at the treasury of the United States at Washington, D. C., or at the United States sub treasuries at New York, Boston Philadelphia, Baltimore, Cincin nati, Chicago, St. Louis or New Orleans, or they may be made at HANKS FURNITURE CO- * Leaders in low prices, Furniture, Ma.ttings, Car pets. Rugs, Shades, Lamps, Pictures, Stoves, Ran ges, Tinware, etc. We buy ou cccs for cas as cheap as the cheapest, and sell them Than the We never letour Stock run low, or old goods accumulate We have no old stock. Our goods are all new and well select ed, althoughthe youngest Furniture house in Rome. Honesty fair-dealing and perfect satisfaction always given by our goods have placed Us in front with any house 11ST THE SOUTH. We are now offering some rare and unprecedented bargains, and ordially invite the people of Rome and vicinity to call and inspect our goods before buying, either for cash or onjthe installmen UNDERTAKING AND EMBAJ MING Our line of.Coffins and Caskets is-the largest in theZcity. Our prices are the lowest. Ourequipmentsiare perfect. Give us a call and be convinced. Yoursifor.business • HANKS furniture co Undertakers and Emba'msrsi PHONB 52 - ROMI GA Till. HUSTLER OF ROME. Sau Francisco with exchange -on New York. And all bids must state what dem tu.nations of bonds are desired and whether coupon or registered tind at what place they will be paid for. “Payments may be made by in stallments as f Hows: Twenty per I cent upon receipt <f. fiotiqo of I acceptance ot bids aud 20 per cent at the end of each ten days there I after, but all accepted b dders may pay the whole amount,*! the d-»te o' the first installment, and those o have paid all installments p eviously maturing may pay ’he whole amount of their bids at any time, not later than the maturity » ; he last installment. “I ha bondswill be ready for delivery on or before the 15th day of February 1896. 1 Notice is dur 1 her hereby gived that if the issue and sale of sn a<P d'tional or different form of bonds for the maintainance as the gold reserve shall be authorized by law before the sth day of February, 1896, sealed proposals for the pur chase of such bonds will also be recieved at the same time and place, and up to the same date,and upon the same terms and consid erations herein set forth, and such bids will be considered as well a? the bids for the 4 per cent bonds herein mentioned. “J.G. CARLISLE. Secretary of the Treasury.” A Bottle. ’ Henderi-on, Ky •, Jun. 6. —Two unknown white tramps were found oarlv tWa morning frozen to death in the barn or Farmer Didrake, three miles above this city, in In diana . A quart liqnor bottle was . found empty in the grasp of one | of the unfortunates. Twenty-four Below. West Superior, Wis., Jan. 6. — Yesterday was the co dest in sev eral years. The thermometer regis tered 24 degrees below zero. Italian’s Knlfj. Piedmont W. V., Jan. 6. —James Corbett, an Italian, stabbed Pent Dean to death at Whitmer, M est Virginia. 2 ROME GEORGIA, MONDAY EVENING JANUARY 6, 1896 THREE ALARMS Tab "Usual [Numb ir” Sent in Sinct Yesterday Morning ONE BLAZE ON WHEELS A Sort of an Imported Fire to day. Pansy Chapel ;' Fire Yesterday Morning. Damages Small Another trio of fire alarms have been sent in, the department did the rest ; and uow expect a few davs truce with the fire-fiend. At 9:15 yesterday morning an alarm was sent in calling the de partment to Pansy Chapel. The blaze was extinguished before it did much damage. The next alarm that went in was a bungled up, murdersom, alarm ing alarm that alarmed and bewildered. Something was wrO g with the box and the liremen were at sea all along the center. The blaze was in a house belonging to Mr. VValter Reece in the Fourth Ward. It was occupied by Mr. Bud Quarles. The fire was extinguished by a branch of “No. 5” better known as the “Exciteables of the Bucket Brigade' —one of the most effec tive of suburban territories. The damages were slight. The last of the three alarms was sent in about noon today and call ed, as I.ee Murphey says, “t ie en tire department and the Hook -& Ladder company with M ill May Fitzy” to the lower end of Broad street. The Fire was an im ported one, being a car of charcoal which had ignited in East Rome aud had been prougi,» i.. .xtv o. R. & C. tracks. There being a “good water pres sure” and No. I's nozzle being in “goodfix” the coal was none the blacker,but weighed les t while the cir was a little disfigured but still on the track. No city in the South has a better fire department than this same city of Rome and no city in the Union has a better chief than Chief I Cornelius. BUTCHERS Cuban Women Massacred while fl! a Festival PATRIOTS CLOSING IN Every Province’of The Island is Now Under Martial Law A Deadly Cigarette tac tory has been Fired Key West, Fla. , Jan. 6—A Cu ban leader in th b city has received a letter from Santiago de Cuba giving details of the massacre es Cuban women and cnildnn by Spanish guerrilas commanded by the infamous Solo Benitez. On the night of Dec. 27th. a large number of women and children and a few old men were gathered at a Christ mas festival near Manzanillo. While the festivities were in progress Benitez, accompanied by about twenty guerrilas. entered the room. The guerrilas began to take shameful liberties with the women and young girls. Some of the old men protested and one ®f them, maddened by an assault on his daughter, struck Benitez over the head with a car.e. Enraged by the blow, Benitez shot the old man dead and then the bandit and his men poured a volley into the cowering crowd. Benitez then threatened to fire the building, but for some reason did not carry out his threat. Three men, sevan women and four ehil dren were Benitoz is a renegade Cuban who was released from a Spanish dun geon on a promise to fight the insurgents. His men are ex-con victs and they have committed many atrocities on Cuban women and girls. General Pando, the Spawish commander at Santiago, recently complimented Benitez for bia bloody work. BEBELS ARE CLOSING IN. Kay West, Fl*., Januarv 6. Passengers tonight by the Olivette report great excitement in the prov ince of Havana. The city is under martial law and there is secret ser veillance on all people lea . ing the ci tv. The largo cigarette factory of Sibornev, on Gervasio street, was set on fire this morning at 6 o’clock. It is supposed to have been the work of sympathizers of the insur gents. The streets of Havana are full of soldiers, called out by t e military authorities to prevent crowds from assembling. La Discusion, a prominent Spanish newspaper, warns the au thorities that insurgents are near ing the gates of Havana. Gomez, with a large army is it Guinea, in the province of Havana, about forty two miles from the • 'y Maceo and Roloff have joined forces and are working their way up the Southern coast, about thirty miles from the city. “fl BIT OF A JAG.” How Katie- Aged Seven Years. Ex plained h:r Condiiion. New York, Jan. 6.—Katie Harti gan, aged 7, who was brought up in Cat Alley, opposite Police Head, quarters, in Mulberry Street, was arrested yesterday on the charge of being drunk and disorder!}. .A policeman found her lying in the gutter apparently suffering from alcoholism. He took her to the Mulberry-Street Station. A hos pital surgeon treated her and she was sent home. “I got a bit of a jrtg on,” she said to the police in an off-hand way, “but that ain’t nothing. Pop per has one nearly*6very day'and so has mommer.” The Hartiguus now live in the rear tenement'house on Mott Stree’. They were ejected from Cat Alley not long ago. “She didn’t have any whiskey at all.” said her father. “Where |, could she have got it? We haven’t a bit in the louse. I wouldn’t mind having a drop myself. It was a fit that she ha 1.” It is likely the Gerry,Society f< r the Protection of Children will in- - veetigate the case IN DIXIE LAND Kuoxville, Tenn.: Ten per cent i of the tax levy is the amouut rug gested for Knox County as a con ribution to the Tennessee Cen tennial Exhibition fund. L K oxville, Tenn. : Great inter est is being taken in the endeavor t o have Knoxville made a port of entry for foreign goods . Chattanooga: The Park Woolen mill, which has been in course of erection for a number of months, will begin operations Jan. 15. A force ols’iilled mechanics is now at work putting the machinery in the building. Athens, Tenn.: Wash McCree, an aged negro, fell in a fit in his I woodshed and lay all night in the] cold until he was nearly frozen stiff. He died shortly after being discovered. Clarksville Tenn: F. B. Ives’ alias Gray, was arrested by Chief Robinson on a telegram from Chief of Police Morgan of Dubuque, la., on the charge of defrauding mer chants. Ives was a. rested at the Arlington Hotel were he had regis tered as J. G. Gray, of Calafornia UatfonGa: Five unknown negro men made a murderous attack on Misses Ruby Arling on and Carri-* Drawhorn. At night while crossing the Tindall field, just beyon 1 the city limits, they were accosted by the negroes, The ladies com menced to run. The negroes com manded them to halt, but the la dies only ran the faster. The ne groes then began firing at the ladies but they were not hit. The ladies took refuge in Mrs. Adwell’s store and were pursued nearly to the store by the nogroes. Nashville, Tenn: State Treasur er E.<B. Craig has made up the re port of his office, showing receipts and disbursements for the quarter. The to al leceipts were $289,801.61 and total disbursements $323,628.- 91. The largestitems of receipts were from County Court Clerks, $127,197.40; delinquent taxes, $67, 147.98; County Trustees, $45.- 880 72 ; lessees of the convicts, $.28,- 860 20. Gadsden, Ala: Aman sleeping in an Italian lodging house was found in a 'lying condition from an overdose of morphine. It is thought that he was August Hoim, of Rockford, 111. He had worked at the Alabama Furniture Facto 'y- Jackson, Tenn : The residence of Mrs. F. L. Lock was consumed by fire. Nothing was saved and the furniture and household effects were not insured.' Dayton, Tenn: The 5,000 resi dence of Dr. A. C. Blevius caught fire and burned to the ground. No one was in the house at the time, Dr. Blevins and wife being in Scottsboro, Ala. Into SJaveru- Colon, Colombia, Jan. 6. —The Chilean Western Courier states that the Governor of the Territory of Magallanes is brutally exter- I minating the Indian, some of whom he is distributing among his friends as slaves. * M *"*"*"***"^ l^^*— — * f Do not take any subetiiu’e when you ask for the one true blood purifier, Hood’s Sarsaparilla. In sist upon Hood's and only Hood’s. lOCENTS A WH< LOWEHROAD Is to be Placed on The City’s Es labUsheo Grade THE COUNTY CHAIN GANG To Begin Work on Next Wed nesday Morning. Now at Work at the Massachu sc'.'.s Mill Bridge The new year is upon the i Hili City but Rom< is keenly awake to the occasion and has her eyes turned toward the sunshine of progress. She fully realizes the magnifi cence of the present golden Oppor tunities and has on her work cloths and iu all her lusty strength she is pushing ahead and securing the prizes. Laet week she secured a million dollar cotton mill; a day or so ago she organized a vigorous young Board of trade —tommorrow she begins the elevation of lower Broad street; growing sturdidly and ‘rapidly, strengthening her loins for the fray ; winning prizes ! enough to keep her ambition keen ■ly alive, to every contest —Rome grows. : On Wednesday morning, the weather permitting of out of d';or , labor Capt. Crows Moore, the king of Road builders, will put the big f county changang to work on Lower t Bread street, and as rapidly by as possible this street will be elevated ’ io the city’s highwater grade. This is work that the Hustler i of Rome suggested and advocated ' last summer and Mayor John D. i Moore and his most economic al dermen now propose to have begun and finished as vapidly as practi -1 cable. The cotton season . being * over and ihe lower end of Broad r street being clear,compared to the I scenes of the fall season, the work I e*ii be done more now 1 than it could have been done »ar» lier. Most of the business housed along lower Broad, are elevated . to the grade and the land lords as } well as the me ichants are anxious that the grading should be donw. Supt. Moore has the chain-gang at work at the Massachusetts mill bridge today, but will finish out there tomorrow aud will then be gin Broad street’s elevation. Three Indians Escaped. Leavenworth, Kan., Jan. 6. Three Indians who were confined in the United States penitentiary at Fort Leavenworth, made a break in the brush today and made good their escape. The prisoners were engaged in clearing a piece of land intended for cultivation iu the spring by the prison officials, and they got away from the guards before the latter knew of their dis appearance. The fugitives belong to the Creek Nation, and as two of them have means, the officers think that they will try to join their families in the Creek Nation. They are full blooded and of dark swathy appear ance. A reward of S6O is offered for the arrest and return of each of the fugitives. This marks the first es cape from the penitentiary since it was tuaned over to the Department of Justice on the Ist of July last. Change of Schedule —ON THE— SOUTHERN Z RAILWAY At 12 o’clock noon Jan. 5 ’96. Trains for Atlanta leave Rome 3:28 a. in. 12 :30 noon and 8:24 p. m. Trains for Chattanooga leave 1:30a. m. 7:22 a. m. and 2:43 p. m. r - For Selma 7 :15 a. w. and 2 :50 p. m. except Sunday. For Gadsden 2 :40 p m. Sundays 3p.m.
