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About The Hustler of Rome. (Rome, Ga.) 1891-1898 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1896)
SIXTH YEAR. ROAMING ROHS Two Citizens §o Wrong and Have Skipoed WILL BROWN, A FORGER While Mr. Bud Quarries, the Wellknbwn ZDrayman De faults the Home Hard ware Company. Two citizens of this city seem to have gone wrong and skipped by th. light ot the—disclosures. Last Saturday, Will Brown, son of Mr. C. Brown, formerly street over seer and a well known citizen of R ime, forged the name of his employer Mr. J. Darcy, the profes sional hor-e-shoer t» a check for $5. Betook the check, on Satur day night, to Mr. W. T. Lane, the Singer eviug machine man and stated that it would be considered a great accomodation both tv him self and his emppyer if Mr. Laie would cash the same. The check was cashed, and now Mr. Lane is minus his money, Mr. Darcy is very angry and — Mr. Brown has “marveled furder.’’ It is claimed too, that young Brown clothed himself in a hand some brown overcoat, the property of Mr. Frank J. Evans, the popular young insurance man- It seenn that Brown found the coat in Mr. Evan's room at his boarding house and hypothecated it. The police were notified and are on the trail of the fugitive Mr Darcv says he proposes to push the case. He also says that since Bnw.i'g departure he has learned that Brown had been in the habit of stealing horse shoes and selling them to a negro at half price and pocketing the change. This is not the first offence of the young fugative. BETRAYED THE CONFIDENCE The other refugee from justice is Mr. Bud Quarles, the veteran dray man. It seems that Mr. Quarles has played the Roma Hardware Co. very deeply and, on account of the confidence in which he was held by President Haynes and treasurer J. B. Hill, very successfully. For many years Quarles has been doing the draying for the big Rome Hardware Co., and about the only fault that the company could find with h'm was his habit of 1 getting on an occa ion tl dr nk. Quarles has a most estimable wife and six bright little children. Many good peop'e became interest cd in them and in him and some Months ago he was induced to take the Keely Cure treatment. . kiuce that time he was more dil ig" m to busmess, hrs been making a model husband and father . He Jeanie a constant attendant at ■ un<lay school and church. His employers were de'ighted, and es pecially w as this the case with Mr J . ameß B- Hill, the b.g hearted man who hid done so Much for Quarles and his fami'y. ut Quarles it seernes was only faringßh»np’ s clothing. Through e system of paying freight bills i t l,l ' d -h the confidence hie th»b°i IU ’ b ° got into Mbit of ringing in freight bills tW cft ;l«o«Bi ng bogus freightbills . Thursday afternoon by the susni lnCldent Mr ' HiH Hearne and uaidea wa 's watched ul.nr ' i ' layß detected of fraud uU tyobtamig nearly S3O. broMitV C,l^ed in and when admit-n Ce to face with tb ® facts or said! 118 ° ffence b «t could not intercXr g ". Wron ß- Mr. Hill king oVpr 11 n *' n and after ma- P r °P®dv which ” s4o ° worth of stMd - for ed > Quarles.,,. ‘ ll Was redeem- Quarles by™ . f J for secrecy' and THE HUSTLER OF ROME. it was promised. But it seem, that before he skipped, on last Sunday, he told some oi e, and thus tho sto ry became known. The Rome Hardwarh Go's freight bills often amount to SI,OOO per month and when paid from time to time to Quarles by Mr. Hill, were turned over tv Mr. Haynes. Sometime. Quarles would say he needed a paid bill to check goods out of a car —he would then, in stead of giving that bill to Mr. Haynes, present it in the next batch and get Mr. Hill to pay t again.' The Rome Hardware Co, with the railroad officials of the tbr.e roads ar. now checking up and in a few days Quarles’ shortag. will be known. M.’ 'f. CHINESE ANO JAPS Ten Thonsans Insurgents Attack Four Towns in Formosa’ St. Petersburg, Feb. 13. —A spe cial dispatch to the Novoe Vrem ya from Vladivoetock, says that tho fighting in Formosa has been renewed. i The insurgent, to the number of 10,000 have attacked the towns of Tamsui, Jiram, Sunko, Kozukua and Taipe. They rre destroying the r.ilroads and cutting the tele graph wires. Th* Japanese brigadier arrived at Keheng February 7th. , The in surgents are fighting d,speaately and have inflicted defeats on de - tached bodies of Japanese troops. The Marion Minister Haigo has taken the place of th. governor of Formosa, who is ill. From Turkestan comes news that the governor of the disturbed district of Kansu-has been depos ed by the empera of China, and replaced by the governor of Tas. Interest is displayed as t» wheth er the new governor will dare to go up country, where the Dren- ( gauis are killing all Chinese on sight, and are making active cam paign around the town of Umruc' i. A Wondertul Escape. Anderson, Ind , Fe >. 13 While the 18-inontns-oid child of J. E, Jeffries, of Alexandria, was playing in the electric light power house today it grasped two plug*. The entire current of 2,000 volts passed through its body. The thoek threw th. child away and burned its hands badly. It was not injured otherwise and the brain is in no way affected, Electricians say under or dinary circumstance- 500 volts would have caused death. Bank will Issue Paper. Havana, Cuba, Feb. 13. —Ac- cording to Madrid advices receiv ed today, the Spanish Bank of Cu ba will shortly .issue $14,000,000 in paper currency for local ciicula tion . The same dispatch says that Capt. Gen. Weyler will invite the principal capitalists in the island to reinforce the metallic deposits' of the institution to enable the re organization to be made upon a more stable basis. A Woman Strangled to Death San Francisco, Feb. 13. —Miss May Smith, a young woman of un questionable repute, was strangled to death in her room in the Ten derloin district at an early hour this morning. The murderer called upon the girl, and when a favorable opportu i nity presented itself he garrotted his victim, stole what money she possessed and left the room unob served. The body was not discovered for several hours, but the purple marks of the murderer's fingers were prominent on the unfortunate worn in’s throat . ROME GEORGIA, THURSDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 13, 1896 MISS-ARIZONA A Stan That Wanted to Jo»n the Union But Failed SHE 13 STILL A MAIDEN And will have to Wait and try it all Over Agam Some Other Year. Fearedfree Slb'er Washington, Feb. 13. — Notwith standing the v.il of secrecy with which the house territories com mittee surrounded their meeting yesterday, the fact is known that a vote vas taken on the Arizona statehood bill and 'hat the meas ure was defeaten by a vote ofß to 5. The six gentleman who voted in th > opposition were Messrs. Had ley, of Illinois ; Knox, of Mass.; Taft, of Ohio, and Low, of New York, republicans, and Harrison, of Alabama, and Owens, of Ken tucky, democrats. The affirmative vote was cast by Chairman Scranton, of Pennsyl vania; Messrs. Perkins, of Iowa: Avery, of Michigan; Turner, of Virginia and Cooper, pf Texas The absentees were Harris, of 0., and Lefevre, of New York. After some discu-sion if was agrt.d that if Messrs. Harris and Lefevre uni tedly desired a reconsideration of the vote their request will be granted. It was said after the com inittee adjourned that Mr. Lefevre is satisfied with the defeat of tbe bill and that he will npt ask for a reconsideration. When seen last night he stated that he had not committed himself in the .matter and "Would not say how he would vote. Nobody, he said, had author ity to state that he wvuld not ask Lra reconsideration. It is als< stated that Harris had he been present present would , have op posed tfie measure. The significace of this vote will be better understood when it is re membered that the opposition to the admission of Arizona is based, on the objection that the granting of statehood would increase the number of free si ver advocates in the senate, and this was the prima ry cause of the defeat of the bill. It is also regarded as an indication of the sentiment of the committee with,reference to New Mexico and Oklahoma bills, the passage ot which, in addition to the Arizona bill, would add six new senators to ■ the list of free coinage men in the body. AN INCH °F WOOD Successful test of the Roentgen Svsteir. at Hanover, N. H. Hanover, N. H., Feb. 13. — Profs. Emerson and Frost have successfully photographed objects through an inch board. They placed several articles in a paste board box, inserted this in a large wooden box and filleel the space between with paper. The contents of the inner bo x were clearly pro duced on the plate. They also secured distinct pho tographs of a fracture in the fore arm of the Hanover youug man. No camera was used in these ex periments. The plate-holder was laid upon the table, the article to the photographed laid upon it, and a Crookes tube was suspended above . The exposure was ten to fif teen minutes. Prof. Fro-i used a Grove bat tery of seven cells and an induc tion coil of about eight miles of wire. Prof. Frost asserts that the re sults are more satisfactory than any experiments previovsly made in this country. ISTIRtDJUT. Told a Friend That he Has Had liough of The Presidency. HE WANTS TO RETIRE. Attorney Genera! Harmon is is Urged as a Good Demo cra*ic Candidate Who Would Rouse Ohio New York, Feb. 13. —A new Presidential boom and an impor tant bit of political news arrived in the city yesterday byway of Ohio. They were brought by Johu J Lentz, one of the meat prominent lawyers of the Buckeyo State,Pres ident of the Thurman Club, and the man who got up tho fapaous Columbus dinner at which 1,000 Democrats from all parts of the country gathered in the interest of Grover Cleveland’s nomination in 1892. Mr. Lentz wants Attorney-Gen eral Judson Harmon nominated by the Democrats to succeed Mr. Cleveland- Mr. Lentz is a personal friend of Mr. Cleveland, and says that the President is not a candidate for renominatien. “I met Mr . Cleveland not long ago,” said Mr. Lentz at the Hol land House last night. “He told me that he wanted the future for leisure. The cares and responsi bilities of public office we e grow ing too heavy t for him. He had had the honor of vffice and there was nothing to gain by being again a candidate. From the conversation, I am sure that Mr. Cleveland does not desire a re-nomination. “Ohio is going to be a debatable state this fail, I think. There is THE HANKS FIMITDBF CO. Are “tbe people” and own the place’to buy Furniture. Carpets, Mattings, Rugs, Window shades, Stoves & Etc. We have just received large shipmentsol Rugs, Baby Carri ages and window shades and we are selling them at the lowest prices possible. 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