Going to extremes never before heard of in the state by indicting 23 young men, some of them among the most prominent and upright of the city, for playing pool “loser-pay-for-the-game,” the grand jury adjourned to enjoy the satisfaction of having made Rome the tightest town in the state. The indictments for playing pool under the arrangement in vogue from time immemorial but nevertheless were construed by the jurors to be a technical violation of the gambling law. The lid was on and tight. ... Judge John W. Maddox at a hearing ordered the sheriff to seize all the liquors and alcoholic drinks in the Metropolitan Social Club and keep the club closed until further orders from the court. Later, by unanimous action, members of the club voted to abandon the locker features for all time. The Rome nest of the Order of Owls also voted to discontinue the buffet. Seaborn Wright, of the Law and Order Club, said he expected all the locker clubs to stay closed. …
Theodore Roosevelt, former president of the United States and candidate of the Progressive party for the office, was shot and wounded in Milwaukee by a man giving his name as John Schrank, of New York, banner headlines in the Rome Tribune-Herald reported this week a half century ago. At first it was thought that the colonel had not been wounded and the discovery of hole in his overcoat as he was on his way in automobile to the auditorium to speak led to the discovery. His manuscript probably saved his life as the bullet passed through it, slowing it. He refused to cancel his speech and would not go to the hospital until he had ended it. Then he was rushed to the hospital where an examination showed that the bullet was lodged in the chest wall but did not penetrate the lung. The colonel had just entered the automobile from a hotel when shot. It required the services of our policemen to keep the assailant from being summarily dealt with. The man was declared an insane socialist. It was found that he had been visited in a dream by the spirit of Will McKinley, who, he said, indicating Colonel Roosevelt, “this is my murderer – avenge my death.” After reaching Chicago, Roosevelt was hospitalized again, and it was found that he was more seriously injured than thought at first, X-rays revealing that the bullet had lodged in a rib. He was ordered to bed and forced to cancel several speaking engagements. In Princeton, N.J., Gov. Woodrow Wilson announced that he would cancel all of his speaking engagements after this week a half century ago, until the colonel was able to take an active part in the campaign.
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A thriller concluded the World Series early this week in 1912, when the Boston American League champions defeated the New York National League pennant winner by a score of 3 to 2 in a 10-inning game before 20,000 in Boston. The Boston Red Sox were one run behind when they came to bat in the last half of the 10th. … Turkey and the Balkan states were carrying out the last formalities connected with the declaration of war. … Hundreds of friends – both white and colored – attended the funeral of Aunt Priscilla Craven, a respected colored woman 100 years old, who had lived a life of fidelity to duty. A grown woman before the Civil War, she remembered the stirring times during the fights with the Creeks and Seminoles. …
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In a football game between McCallie School and Rome High, McCallie won 70 to 0, while Darlington defeated Etowah High School, Attalla, Ala., 25 to 6. … Cotton picking was the order of the day at Livingston, where everybody was reported happy and prosperous. The sorghum mill was kept busy, going from one home to another, filling the air with the sweet smell of “lasses.” The unusually fine crop of nuts was falling, inviting nutting parties.… Citizens in Pinson organized a telephone line with H.M. Penn elected president. Eight miles of line were to be built connecting with the Waters’ line at Model School. … Dr. R.D. Mallary, founder and first president of Shorter Female College, died at his home in Macon at the age of 84. … Convicts were removing the dirt from the site of the old courthouse on East Fifth Avenue. …
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