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About The Hustler of Rome. (Rome, Ga.) 1891-1898 | View Entire Issue (July 2, 1896)
31XTH year. Gus Johnson the Hustling Retail Druggist, sells Warters Rome Made Cigars. Best in the Market. prompt justice - . '■ n Black Brute Catnessed his Crime and WJS SHOT TO DEATH Choked His Victim and she is Now lying at her home Un conscious. An Innocent Negro Arrested, Washington, Ga., July 2.—Tl e 1)0W s has just reached Washington of the lynching of a negro yester day in Lincoln county, ’A negro tramp passing by the home of Mr Henry B- Mercer, which is two miles from Lincolnton, about 8 o’clock Tuesday morning, found Mrs. Mercer alone. He eaught hold of her, choked her into in sensibility and accomplished his fiendish purpose. Mr. Mercer v\as working in the field some distance from home at the time, and when he returned home he was horrified to find his young wife the victim of such an awful deed. He was not long in spreading the ne«s. In »n almost inconceivable short space of time fnllv half of Lincoln connty wa s acaemhled, impatient for the blond of the bru‘e who had pssau’tftd one of Linr>.".o q j r daughters pi d well nigh wrecked th» home of one of her worthiest sons. No time was wasted. Poss n «w o re peni posthaste in every direction, with instruc tions not. to r< turn un’il the biule was found . A negro wr»° soon ar rastedon suspicion und lodged in jail at Lincolnton. CONFESSED THE DEED. '•’lie indignant citizens contin ued scouring the country and about 5 o’clock came up on a strange negro making his way to ward South Carolina, on the road between Goshen and Barkesdale ferry. He was stopped and told to give an account, of himself, where upon he broke down and confessed the deed, saying that he deserved any punishment that they should see fit to’administer. The angry and avenging crowd hi! not wait for more, and volley after volley of shots from weapons of every discription, aimed by men whose determination seemed to add fury and speed to their missiles, was poured into his body until it was nothing but a quiver ing mass, hhrdly recognizable as that of a human being. The negro, then in jai], was turned loose. Nothing has ever happened in "hl Lincoln to arouse its citizens to such a frenzy of excitement Mr. Henry B. Mercer is one of the prosperous farmers of Lincoln e °unty and a member of one of th ' prominent families of Georgia e has only been married about i"Ui years, his wife being eighteen a t Hie time of their marriage. The ut'-'t reports state she is still un conscieus. round atolbert dead Ns Lived Under Every Pres'dent ’ Was Aiwavs a Democrat '' 1:1 Rica, Ga , July 2.—Mr. ‘" lf ‘A. 1 olt ert died this morn -at 4 o clock at the residence ‘O- son. Mr. Thomas Tolbert. n 11 " Role was a remarkable 11 1 ' in niany respects . He was j l ' Toly 3, 1799, an j would a '' " ni ninety-seven years old. i " as perhaps the oldest man C( h ,l! ‘ oil county. He was able to , l . r ll h'> town up to about one year p • 1“ could have seen every pre- ± nt of tbe Uniud gtates jh.. , r t ' ne this section during ' in ‘ n ’ng excitement about He - * democrat s.’nce the be- THE HUSTLER OF ROME. ginning of the party, and had no I patience with carpetbaggers oi | union leaguers; was in the fore front fcr democracy during recon | struction days; served as consta ble of this, the 642nd G. M. dis trict for almost a half century. He professed religion during ths | administration of Rev. M. S. Wil liams and joined the Methodist i church about six years ago. His youngest child, Mr. Tom Tolbert, is now sixty years of age. Thus passes away one of the first settlers of this country. Boies Mav Attend. Waterloo, 10., July 2. —A local paper yesterday published the statement that Boies~ would net attend the convention. When the paper was shown the Governor, he said : ‘‘That statement is unwarrant ed, as I do not know' myself whethi r or not I will go to Chica go.” It is known, however, that Mr. Boies has declined the oiler of a private car made by the Great Western. The Boies Club, several hundred strong, will leavy Sunday evening. $lO IN GOLD GIVEN AWAY To the Student who makes the greatest improvement in his or her hand writing during the next six weeks. Enter this week and you can join the contest free. If you do not win first prize you may win the second, —a fine gold pen. Tuition, rates cheap. Everything,/ AT Actual Cost AT HOLMES GROCERY CO- FOR 10 DAYS ONLY. The following prices are whole sale prices at retail: 25 lb. sack Best Pat. Flour 50c 18 ft> Granulated Sugar SI.OO 1 Bushel best meal 40c 1 pk Grits 25c 3 Market Baskets 10c 12 H> Best Lard SI.OO 8 Bars Best Soap 25c Tobacco from 20c t0.50c ft) Sardines per box 4c Pickles per bottle 8c Cot-on seed Hulls per Bale 25c 1 oz. Snuff per box 4c 2 u u u u 7c 4 « “ “ “ 10c 3 B«st 5c Cigars 10c 3 Boxes Best Blueing 10c Scans Oysters 25c 1 tb Crackers 5c Hams 10 and 11c per ft) 6 Lamp Chimneys 25c 1 sk. Bran 60c 1 “ Cotton Seed Meal 00c Hay 30c. 40c, 50c, and 60c bale Breakfast Bacon per ft 10c 2 Brooms for 15c 2 Bottles Pepper Sauce 15c 1 bu. Oats 35c 6ft Dried Apples 25c 2,400 Matches 15c 4 Bottles Vanilla Extract 25c 4 Bottles Lemon Extract “5c 1 Gal. Best Oil 15c I bu. Irish Potatoes 35c 1 Pint Bottle Catsup 15c 2 Bottles Best luk “ c 3 Bottles Mucilage 10c 30c Brooms 20c 6 lb Dried Peaches 25c 3 Packs best Chewing Gum 10c 1 Gal. Churn Jars 6c 1 tb Macaroni 1 lb Vermicella 1 ft> can Baking Powders 8c 1 tb Starch 5c Tea 20c, 40c, 50c, 60c per lb. FOR TEN DAYS ONLY HOLMES GROCERY CO- Masonic Temple - - - Home, Ga. ROME GEORGIA. THURSDAY EVENING JULY 2 1896 THE REBEL YELL Heard Once More but this tirr.e it Makes The UNION SOLDIER HAPPY Corporal Tanner’s Tongue Wags Pleasantly Before The Scarred Veterans of the Gray. Richmond, Va., July 2. —Chief among the transactions of the the coufedera'o veterans in ses sion yesterday was the election of officers for the ensuing year. Tbe present ones were all re-elected fcr a other term by acclamation. Nashville was selected as the next meeting place over St. Louis and Baltimore, Atlanta giving way this time to Nashville, declining to make any bid against her neigh bor. •‘We did not come with any in tention of making any antagonistic bid against Nashville,” said Col onel W. A. Hemphill, prominent among the Atlanta delegation, to night. “On the contrary, we came with the full purpose of doing all we could for Nash .'ilte, and our delegation voted solid for the Rocky City.” GEORGIA SHOWS A FULL HAND. Tomorrow brings the grand cli max to the reunion with the parade of milita y and veterans, and the aving of the corner stone to tut numument of Jefferson Davis. Georgia will be conspicuous in the parade. Governor Atkinson, accompanied by twenty members of his staff, in full uniform, will have a prominent place in the pa rade, and. strange to relate in the face of tbe late opposition to his coining to Richmond on the part of the Sumter county veterans, the Georgia governor will wear a badge of the Sumter camp on the lapel of his coat when he rides in the parade. It seems he and the vets have made friends. Governor and Mrs. Atkinson have been invited to receive with the governor of Virginia last night. Georgia fared well at the meet ing of Sons of Confederate A der ails yesterday afternoon. Captain Preach Hardman, of Macon, was elected vice president, with do minion covering the states of Georgia, A aba ma, Tennessee, Florida, Mississippi and Louis iana. Mr. Tom Cobb, of Atlanta, was elected judge advocate general of the order of Sons of Confederate Veterans. MRS. DAVIS NOT WAOLLY PLEASED To a well known gentleman of this city Mrs. Jefferson Davis to day criticised some what adversely Mr. Perry Griffins’ design of the monument to her husband. Mrs. Davis said she had only seen the newspapers cuts of the design. Basing her epi. ion upon these Mrs. Davis’s criticism is that the Griffin structure is too heavy. The dome she thinks is too massive for the remainder of the structure. In driving io the auditorium last evening with a member of the mon ument committee, Mrs. Davis said she had no doubt the design wobld make out satisfactory. She ex pressed perfect willingness to cheerfully abide by the decision of the committee,and accept their judgement as superior to he: own. It was feared that Mrs. Davis would object to the monument on account of its lack of individuali ty as a memorial. The award made is final, and the committee will at once proceed with the work. Remsen Crawford. Ripans Tabules cure liver troubles. "BUCrjL NE,LL Causing a Panic in an Apart ment House KNOWN AS A “BAD MAN” • Almost Frightens Five Girls to Death bv Rushing on Them with a large Knife Waving it at Them. N«w York, July 2.—The police of the East Sixty-seventh Street Station say that David O’Neill, of No. 340 East Fifty-fourth street, is a “bad man.” He is twenty-five years cld and is generally known as “Buok” O’Neill. Yesterday he was arraigned in Yorkville Police Court and held in SI,OOO for trial. O'Neill had caused a panic in the hallway of the apartment house No. 313 East Seventy-fifth street, and had almost frightened to death five girls, ranging in age from three to nine years. They were at play, when O'N;il appear ed and waved a big curving knife in their laces. The children screamed with fear, and their parents ran panic-strick en out of their apartmen's. “I’ll kill thefirst one that dares come near me,” O’Neill shouted and the parents, with their chil dren, lied back to their rooms. Mrs. Fannie Cantor, the mother of one of the little girls, just man aged to escape with her child, O’Neil following her to the door and trying to slash her with the carver. The blade struck the pan el of the door a a she closed it be hind bar and barred it. “Buck” stormed about the hall way for a time and then left the house. Mrs. Cantor on seeing him go, called from her winnow to Po liceman Weiner, of the East Sixty- £ 0 V V V' J p BABY CARRIAGES! t* >4 YOU CAN FIND ’ J# J J THEM ANY STYLE > AND PRICE AT: - f * t HANKS FURNIIURE CO. 9 f >J J > We are better prepared to serve you in thio W line than ever before, as we have bought heav ilyandthe most magnificent assortment ever brought to the city. All new, modern and right up to date vehicles, in every particular. We will be pleased to show you through this übeautis and will guarantee that prices * styles, values, designs and everything else "W will delight you. Our Stock of * |* MATTINGS. RUGS & * f 11 WINDOW SHADES is replete with bargains--ln fact, you wii? X serve your own interests by recognizing our * stores as headquarters for anything usually A p kept In a furniture house. J J| Hanks Furniture Company. PhoUe b 2, * Rome, Ga. seventh Street Station, to arn st him. In calling Weiner’s attention to “Buck” she shouted. “Lookout. He’s got a knife!” In leaving the house “Buck” had slipped the knife up his sleeve holding the handle in the palm of bis hand. Weiner recognized O’Neill and when he attempted to draw the knife knocked him down and Mubbed him into submission. After getting possession of tl:e knife, betook “Buck” handcuffed to the Bt*tion-hoiis\ w here he was locked up on Mrs. Cantor’s com plaint . Yesterday morning she went to court accompanied by three of the children, to press the complaint. Used His knife. Thomasville, Ga ; July 2. —Will Johnson colored, was locked up here today for attempting to kill Will Smith colored at Meigs last night. He cut at Smith in the ab domen, almost disemboweling him He may die. JUGGLING WITH HEALTH That’s What You're Doing If you do not exercise proper care and precau tion in buying your medi cines and drugs from the up-to-dats Drug store. JERVIS & WRIGHT’S DRUG STORE Sell genuine and absolute ly pure goods at the low est possible prices. They never substitute and have the confidence of the best physicians. JERVIS & WRIGHT Prescription Druggists. Cor. Broad St., & sth Ave. Rome Georgia. IO CENTS A WEEK BOLTS MCKINLEY Juctea Rent I Ot Omaha Lsa ves The Republican Party CAN'T STAND GOLD Savs The Par*y is only a Trit’ Wary To Wall Street and is no longer Worthy, the JO” Name. Omaha, June 2. —Judge Cuw ningham R. Scott, one of the most prominent Judges on the dis trict bench in Nebraska,,, a life long republican, and who last fall ran ahead of his ticket for re-elec tion, appears w’ith the statement that he cannot endorse the' plat form on his party. He styles the the gathering at St. Louie a gold syndicate, tributary to Wall street.” In the course of his letter he says: “That convention renounced its traditions and doctrines and aban doned the republicanism of Lin coln, Grant, Blaine and Garfield by inviting a foreign interference with our financial system invit ing tie stamp of royalty upon our silver before it can be remonetized in America I charge the St. Louis convention with bolting the tradi tions, the tenents and doctrines of the party for nearly half a cen tury. “It has billed the consciUitioi”, the American people, the Ameri can Hag and ad American product —silver —greater than that pro duced by any other country and then gone wild in cheering for American protection." 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