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SIXTH YEAR.
s. S. King SC), the Hustling Retail Crocerii Sells Warters Rome Made Cigars. Best in the Market.
IWO ELEVENS
Will Contest da The North
.ux - Roms field
FOOT BALL GAVE
On Saturday October 17th Rome
Will Meet Cedartown. Y v
Can Bank <>n The R me
BoYS.
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There will be no exciting game
of foot ball on the North Rom«
Field on Satu d y.
The R >me eleven is comp >st-d of
strong, brainy, Htheleiic’ young
men wh - are Dot afraid to tack e
or to be trampled m der loot.
They have been in the hands of
Cliff Bayard Seav who was i-clio 1-
ed in the te hnicalil ies < f the .game
at the in?ti’ute over jo Auburn,
Ala.—The place where you have
to p ay and play hard
Cliff Seay will coach the hoys
on Saturday and they are going to'
spring several new tricks on the
Cedartown crowd.
The Cedarto.vn team is being
bandied by Stubbs who w .s Ca >-
tain of tbe Athens-ieam last year.
H- makes them do good work » nd
the R one cr »wd know i.e II make
1 MINISTER
TORTURED
Rev. William Tucker was in Agony
Many Years.
Un No Foil m Though Ho Had Bom Stabhad by a
Thaus uidKalyta. Ha waaStrickM Blind and Faared
Ha t'Mld Lass Rio Mind. IHThlsinlMlaneaaF
Hw Bast Medical Skill His Rectvtry
| Looked Upon M t Miracle.
<Ae 2Vew RWs, ©rieewMssrv, M,
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REV. WILLIAM TUCKER,
It was publicly talked all over Decatur
*ud Ripley counties for some time before the
otew hru sent a reporter to Pierceville to
}hlly investigate the Tucker matter. The
Tuckers are. prominent people and are all
farmers. The Rev. William
Tucker, subject of all the talk, was pleased
t° allow us an interview. Mr. Tucker
looked well and healthy, although he is
•eventy-five yeflfs old, and forty years ago
nr began preaching in the faith of the F ree
baptists. This is his story as he told the
**porter:
“ I was born and reared on a farm and be
-BAn preaching at an early age. 1 was al
*a7s subject to rheumatism, even when
Tute young. Pains, sharp and acute, would
"loot across my body, causing me much suf
.lering. The doctors pronounced it then a
s Pinal disease. The pains kept getting worse
, the time from day to day as the years
°.lled round and I experienced many years
suffering.
Although I much regretted to, I was
impelled to retire altogether from my
i” ibe religious cause. The pains
ould first start from my spine and limbs,
’*d afterward begun shooting from all parts
‘ the Imdy it neemed’as though a thous
knives were sticking me. After these
| would first come on, my entire body
•n” I sudden] v grow cold. 1 would lienumb
> Over ami all mv muscles would be asleep.
1 would then turn'suddenly blind. I often
- X in this condition for hours, and generally
w as conscious and knew what jyiis going
>“■ but the suffering was ititense and un-
No words ca» describe it.
, frequently, in going about my place or
I would be away from home, these
TnE RUSTLER OF ROME
them work for the goal.
Ihe Rom < team in cooujoterf
of:
Norman Clyiu*, Cap 1 V
Dick Maddox Mngr.
B. .lone-, Ctftlh,
Glover McGhee jlighi Guafd.
Wil L-ahtter U t . guard’
Rob Harper R Ig V tackle
D - Pow «l Les tack'c :
'F. Huffaker Bight
p.-Mnddox Left Kuor
Dick Maddox Quarter Back
John Bailey Full Back
‘.Word Right Half-«
N nnian Clyne Left Half “
The substitutes are Will Me-
, Williams and Joe Patton. -
i The game wip be culled at 3:80
sharp.
Will Speak Thursday
Hon. W. L. Massey, republican
candidate f> r congress will ad
dress the peopl nt he cotiri house
pnßomeun Thursday Oct. 15th
( at 2 :80 o’clock.
' Stv-rai soui.d money men will
al -ospeak on that dr y.
. ..
j Vi ith two little children subject
ipb croup - we do not rest easy wi.th-
I out a bottle of Chamberlain’s
Cough Remedy in the house, for
ihe most severe attacks quickly
succumb to a few doses ot it. ——
ornsoii, Colo ~ Bud. Fi>r sale at
‘35 ami 5U cents pet uotile by LCiw
r, Bros., Druggist Rome.
PIERCEVILLE, INDIANA.
burg, but they wid ra^ L ?** I “
"“A prom.nent doctor of
TolSo, Ohio, di-.i«ed me as «d
1 gave up in 1 least
medicines but none of t
"i)r WHli^’Pink WE I
□ no faith in them, for
good but 1 tried them as a last
, 4^ ,ng I taken Over a dosen boxqsncw
feel that 1 P crn ’’ in ? J ' WOU M come
la-fore, as the
suddenly on me in walked
became numb. Many a nme j ( . nn
the floor in agony an 4 appetite
| sleep perfectly aoun- , weigh more
i« T r ' hHn v e vX fecHlmt*l owe my
life to the Pink I His. nnt
' r,iek Z\ a hi" r teltimon> for his family
doubt n word o > - h< _ gpoke
will vie. with him • in all the
Dr. Williams’Pmk Hfe an d
elements restore sheered
richness to the • boxes (rtf’ver m
nerves. Th hvt ß he dozen or hundred) at 50
IX Ki, - » 3
tndy, N. V.
ROME GgORPIA, TUcSDAY EVENING OCTOBER 13, 1896
W HWW
Continues to Set in Msl De-
Wmk
The mattress factory
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Zat 1 O’clock Thb
MorMpKg. Beyond a Dortr
The Fire Was of IncejM
diar Origin,
At a few minutes after* 1 o’clock
the tower alarm was sounded fro in
box No. 15, calling many from
their firpt and soundest slumbere
of the night.
None responded more promptly
than the fire laddies. The run was
quite a long one, out Broad St.,
to the Rome matress factory,; lo
cated near, Jlortb Rome.
The fire, however, had gained
such headway that it wat useless
to put water on the blaze. Nd. I
connected with * plug on Gibson|
street, about 150 yards away, and
by prompt worls saved a tenement
house near the burning factory,
the property of Deputy Sheriff
Bill McLepd.
The Rome mattress factory, a
small gtist mill and wood yard—
all connected and under the same
roof, were owned and operated by
Messrs. Pat and George Allen.
Their loss is nearly |l,ooo with
only $382 insurance; the latter
with the Mechanic? Mutual, of
Atlanta,
Those who first saw the fire
state that the building was burn
ing at the frent, with no signs
fire about the engine shed. Mr.
George Allen was seen by the Hus
tler of Rome this . morning and
asked about the fire. Mr. Allen
stated that he had used the engine
yesterday morning, that he used
wood in firing and that no fire had
been about the place ail the after
noon. , *
He was of the opinion that 8|
rat and a match might have ori
ginated tbe blase, but he really
believed the source to have been
an ideeudiary match . He suspects
no one of the crime, however.
The fire laddies made a fine run,
every thing considered, though
the tongue of the Houk & Ladder
truck was crac ed at Cains store
crossing, going out and was brok
en at the same crossing, returning
•o the city.
.The factory building was the
property of Messis J. A. Glover
ana Charles Hight and was un in
sured.
Many people have talked over
the . fire bug problem, on the
streets, today. The truth is the
majority of Romans are of the
opinion that afire bug or gang of
fire bugs are operating in the city.
The three past weeks show
four very m> sterious fires, each of
them entailing seriou® loss and
great in convenience to the owners
toFproperty and the public.
Human life may be held cheap:
in this city, but if a fire bug is
caught the public is certain to be
treated to a neck stretching con
vention to which all will be invit
ed.
MILLERY.
Bass Bros. & Co., as in thb past,
are doing the leading Millinery
business of Rome. Ihe Basses are
leaders in everything they under
take. Mrs. Ramey in charge of the
sales department and Miss Myn
son the artistic trimmer ’are both
unequled each in her department
while their stocks are drawn from
the largest, most up-to-date sup
ply agencies in the country. L
you want the best to be had in
millinery, go to Bass Bros.
111 •
Smoke the El Regalo 5 Cent cigar'
at Curry’s.
CANE ANDPISTOL
Solicitor George Brown Pun
ished A D famet
BWDGR’S POOR PISTOI
’and Pad Vai KrWAkfßir All
i TwXtSaved Mr BRowN’t-Cuv.
FIGHT OcqURRED At CIID-
T'.n Yesterday.
Th’s D>or.iing’B Constitution con
tains th'- i owing report »<f ;a
fiensat’oo D fight CaiT'm, yes
terday: /■ . Y‘:
Tom Blodgett, who is well known
in Atlanta, shot at Solicitor Gsn
eral George Rrown, of the Blue
Ridge circuit, yesterday, and came
.very near killing him .
The shooting.occurr-d-durnu a
fight at Canton, Cherokee county.
Blodgett, who is a son of the late
Foster Blodgett, made a political
speech during the morning in the
Cherokee county courthouse at
deuton. The republicans of that
seation were ho ding a political
meeting. The speakers were Colonel
Farrow,'republican candidate fur
congress >n the ninth district; S.
A. Darnell, formerly JJni’ed States
district attorney, and Tom Blod
gett. The lust named farms in<
Miltdn county and take-* an active
interest in republican politics.
In ihe course of his speech yes
terday morning he used language
about like the following;
‘‘Thb judge who presides over
this c<airt is a disgrace to the
He offered to grant roe a
new tnitl and to nnl pros my case
if I would take the stump in the
state campaign for Atkinson. I
Would not do it and vo*ed the eu J
lire populist ticket.’’
The case to which Blodgett re
ferred was one against him for
perjury, of which he had b«-en con
victed, mid he is now under a sen*
tence for four years in the peni
tentiary, but a motion for a hew
trial is pending and he is out on
bond.
The judge to whom he referred
was Judge George Gober, of the
Blue Ridge circuit. Judge Gober
was not in Canton, but Solicitor
General tiecrge Brown was, his
home being there. The accusation
made by Blodgett was reported to
Mr. Brown and he sent a friend,
Colonel G. I. Teasely, to see him
and asK if the so icitor general
had been coupled with the alleg
ed proposition ; o quash the in
dictment against him. Blodgett
replied to Colonel Teasely that he
had meant to associate Solicitor
General Browi: with tbe matter,
and.declared Jba* Mr. Brown was
connected with it. When this was
repea ed to Mr. Brown he w»s en
raged mid started out to look lor
Blodgett. The la ter was found at
the ticket‘»ffioe of the Marietta
and North Georgia railroad in the
act of buying a ti
Mr. Brown approached him,
and, touching him said:
“You are t be infamous scoundrel
wLo slandered Judge Gober and
myself in a spe<ch here today. ”
Blodgett wheeled around, and
as the two men faced Brow'll struck
him over the head with a cherry
wood which he carried in
his hand.
Blodgett bucked and attempted
to def-nd himself. Brown brought
his cane down with both hands “nd
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Mruck four or five blows. Then he
'afanftbird □ver a chair and fell to
floor. As he fell Blodgett drew
• pistol and snapped it. Before
Bro»n was on hi« feet again Blod
gett had snapped it two or three
times. As Brown arose on his feet
one cartridge wus exploded, but
the bullet missed the solicitor.
Mr. Brown ran out of the office
and in a moment reap|>eared with
a pistol, which he had secured in
the agent’s private office.
By this time a erow'd had rush
ed into the Waiting room and seiz-d
Blodgett.
Mr. Brown was surrounded by
friends, and the men were kept
apait. Blodgett’s pistol was ex
amined, and it was found that
every cartridge bore the mark of
thei>hamtner, indiejating that every
chamHer had been snapped jn the
fight. One who saw the tight say
that if the first chamber had been
discharged. Brown certainly would
Would have been killed, as the
weapon was right against his
head.
Tbe train for Marietta came
along in a few minutes, and Mr.
Brown got on board and came on
to Atfanta,. where he spent the
night,
Blodgett wos arrested and put
in jail at Canton. A telegram from
Canton says that it is presumed
that Blodgett expected trouble,
and went prepared for it.
Mr. Brown was seen last night
at the Kinball, but he declined to
make any statement for publica
tion, He said that he had resented
some slanders which Blodgett had
UtteF-d against him and Judge
audthat Blodgett had fLed
at him once. He did not. know
that Blodgett had been jailed. The
solicitor general said that he in
tended to go to Gilmer county
this morning to attend court,
which is in session there this week
He will be bac< in Cherokee in a
day or two 'o answer any charge
that may be brought against, him.
The perjury case against Blod
gett grew out of a judgment
which was obtained against a far
mer ofMiDon county by a woman.
Blodgett swore that e had
bought the farmer’s property, and
it wii, proved on the trial for per
jury that Blodgett had not bought
tno property, but that there was
a plot on foot to defeat the judg
ment creditor. Blodgett was con
victed and sentenced by Judge
Gober to four yeais in the peni
tentiary. She defendant moved
for a new trial, and it is pending
now.
Mr. Brown says that Blodgett’s
charge in regard to a settlement
of his case is absolutely false, and
was such a malicious charge that
he could not allow it to go un
noticed.
The solicitor general bore no
marks of having been in a fight
when he arrived here last night.
Servant's $300,000 Fortune.
Rochester, N. Y., Oct. 13.
Mrs. Orpha Stearns, a domestic
employed by Jerome Palmer, cf
No. 10 Peck street, is probably heir
to a S3OO,(XX) fortune. Her father
Nathan Lattin, died recent'y in
California, and left a fortune of
about $900,000.
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WAS INTERESTING
The 1-cture of Lahib B. Jureidin
nt the First Presbyterian church .
on Sunday night was very inter
esting.
Rlpans Tabulee: gentle cathartic.
IO CENTS A WEEK
Found »n Guauaquii, E*eru
Time Debris is Moves’-
MANY SOUGHT SHELTER
I
From the Fire in The Water,
And Were Drowned, Other
Attempts of An Incen
diary .Nature
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New York, Oct., 13—The Her
ald’s special cable from Panama
says:
“News has been received from
Guayaquil, Ecuador, that fresh at
tempts/ff an incendiary nature
have been made. Several alarming
fires have occurred in parts ot the
city not torched by the great con
flagration, but the vigilance of the
firemen prevented them from
spreading. Several more, arrests
have been made in connection with
these fires.
“A large meeting was held Satur
day, at which a commission was
appointed to procurp relief funds
and provide ten'* and other tem
porary shelter for homeless citizens
*’More than 100 charred bodies
have already been found .tin the
ruins and others are discovered
whenever the d'.bris left by the
fire is disturbed”. It ie now known
a so that many persons were dri
ven by tbe flamee to the water and
Were drowned.’’ ”
COUGHED UP A LIZARD.
- New London, Conn., Oct. 13.
Elisha Hotctiki«a,of Preston, has
astounded th? rniidical fraternity
about him by disgorging a live
lizard seven inches long from
his stomach.
The man has sulTerey with
j stomach pains for some years, and
thinks he drank the iizard when
it was quite small in waler sever
al years ago. Since he dislodged
the creature Hotchaiss has gained
iu strength, he says, and feels
easier.
To vouch for his story Mr.
Hotchkiss has the lizard in alcohol
prsserved to show.th * incredulous.
Physicians say that the man
would soon have died hail he.not
coughed up the lizard, as hi was
greatly emaciated.
SLAIN AT THE HUSTINGS.
Louisville. Kv , Oct. ’l3.
While Congressman John W. Lew
is was speaking at. Chaplin, Ky.
last night, Joe Prather slipped up
behind William Keeling, who
was in the crowd around the*
speaker’s stand, and shot Keeling
three times, killing him instant
lv.
After a frightened horse had
trampled the body, it was remov
ed, and the speaking went on.
DEATH LURKED IN THE
BISCUIT.
Lima, O , Oct. 13.—The mem
bers of the family of Granville
Harbert were taken violently eick
after. part»kiny heartily of hot
biscuit. Harbert and his daughter,
Mrs. Albert King, have since died,
a.id the remainder of the family
are in a precarious coßaition.
Flour with which rat poison had
beeujmixod was used in making
tbe biscuits.
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seys, waabington. D. C., for their 11.81)0 prise oSm
aad list of two hundred JitveuUons wanted.