The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-09-04

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The negro escaped
Il is understood that Mai. J. f. Hanson,
one If Macon's most progressive and valu-
able citizens, has purchased a half interest
If E. b. Waters in the Elmira cotton mills
at Butler This purchase includes the large
body Of land upon which the factory IS
locnted, and all the property connected
with the factory. The ant is an excee l..
inglv vain bic one. MassrS. Waters and
Hanson will largely increase the produc-
tion OF the mills by the addition of 5O,OOJ
worth of new machinery. and will erect
new building al the east end OF the dam 10
make room for the additional machinery.
The convention 10 nominate a candidate
for senator for the TweIty-first senatorial
distric met at Gordon Saturday. Iwlgss
county presented two sets Of delegates.
respectively ftvoring the nomination OF l..
/ y. Shannon and q. Z Glover. 10th OF
Twig.s. which county IS entitled to name
the eL3tor for the approaching legislative
term The contest was conferred 70 tho
I committee on credentials, VIII r"pDi tel
70 the convention favoring the seating Of
the Glover dele -ato:. This IepOrt, how
| ever. was rejected b the convention. which,
! by resolution, referred the dispute back 10
/ the Twiggs county lie nOcTacy, t. be settled
! by primary election, to be held Sept. II.
! The convention then took a recess until
! sept -, on which day it will again meet
| at Gordon u make the nomination.
The Griffin Canning Company has filed
suit at Atlanta for 5000 against A. p
/ Stewart & Co. OF Atlanta The canning
| company are Andrew Bates and Richard
| FutraL The Go" with A p. Stewart is
John F. Steinhaur. The petition states that
! the plaintiffs put up an e,tabl. Shment. cost
ing 81, 90, for canning fruit. They plant d
ten scres in tomatoes andin May, ISIS, they
entered into q contract with Stewart * Co.
by which the latter were to furnish $1,000
first-c ass tin cans at SPA per thousand. Re-
lying upon this agreement, the canning com
pany made no other arrangements for pro
curing cans Twenty thousand cans were
actually delivered, but 1900 of these were
worthless for the purpose intended, icing
leaky and RECONSTRUCTED, 50 that time wa,
lost IN repairing tn IN and in recoOking he
tomatoes to be canned. The other 5000
cans were never delivered, the result being
that for several days no work could be done
by the canning establishment. A large
quantity of fruit rotted during this time,
and the expenses Of the establishment went
on just the same.
At Atlanta, Ida B. Ivy has filed a suit
for divorce. The petition states that
on April IL, 1887, the plaintiff
was married to Robert H. wv,
and that since that time no has cruelty
treated her. On May l, 1897, he c@ed her
up in a room and went off in the evening,
leaving her alone until after o'clock next
morning. He did this repeatedly afterward.
He would moreover compel her TO go to Bis
store and meat market and wait upon
customers. Without cause he would becon
sullen and angry, going OFF and leaving
her for hours together. During the
earlier months of this year he made a
practice Of locking her up with an old
dog that subsequently, went mad. la her
sickness he left her without Medical atten-
ton and without food, and would put out
the fire in order to torment her The day
before her baby was born he compelled her
to stay in the market and wait upon Gus
toners. When her baby was two months
old she wanted TO have it baptized, and he
became very angry and threatened to shoot
her Since their marriage no has refused
to let her attend church, and on Aug. % he
took away her bed, the baby's cradle, and
the shoes from its feet. She asks that her
maiden name Of Flynn be restored to her.
She wants the custody of her child, alimony,
and divorce.
Lightning got in its work Friday night
on the dwelling house of n. Is. Corbin, in
Vineville, suburb of Macon. and did con
siderable injury to the building and almost
produced fatal results to humah life Mrs.
Corbin, her children and Mr.. Corbin'5
mother were in the house at the time. Mr..
COrbin was on his way home from the st re
of Cox & Corbn when the dreaded light
ming paid It's visitation, aud when he reach
his home, he found his family in a state of
great excitement. and discovered that the
terrible electricity had done at least 500
damage to the house on which hs had but
recently expended 81 900 i'll improvements.
The house is two stories high, has nine rooms,
and eight OF tne rooms we're la lily dam
aged. There is cupola ON top, and Mr.. Cor
bln thinks the lightning struck the cupOla
and then separated, apparently into five
different bolts, and descended along the four
sides of the house, striking In five different
places In descending the front lide Of the
house, which faces south, a bolt entered
between the two windows of Mrs Corbin's
bedroom, In which she was sitting in
chair near the bed. she was
hurled violently from the chair
several feet across the floor toward
the opposite wall. Marvellous to say, she
escaped death, and beyond being slightly
bruised by tine fail escaped all injury.
Near her chair was the cradle containing
her baby. The lightning passed. betN cen
the bed and the cradle. leaving a scorched
trail behind on Tho floor, and seemed to
bury itself in a hole which is burned in the
middle of the floor VIII re all trace OF it was
lost. The taby was awakened by the light
ming. In the same room was also a daugh-
Ter OF MIS-. OOrDln SluUlng IN cualT. BOtl
the baby and the daughter escaped injury.
FLORIDA.
The cane crop in Taylor county is very
fine.
Fernandina has a wide-awake bandana
| club.
The DeI.and AgriculturiSt will put in a
new plant this fall.
The volunteer quarantine guard Of Pa
latka numbers l55 men.
L. w. A. Rivers is a candidate for the
position of county treasurer of Columbia.
Lightning struck valuable horse belong
ing 10 w. w. West, at Orange City, last
week.
Harry Bryan of New Smyrna caught a
9-foot shark at Douglass Bluff, near the
inlet, recently.
X. II. Church of Suwanee Shoals is a