The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-11
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWJ STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Midnight at Athens-Two Negroes
Suspected of Murder Under Arres
at Macon.
GEORGIA.
Americas had received over 81 900 bale!
of cotton up to Saturday night.
Mr. Suber of Savannah has rented the
Du~ont Query residence at Americas
Every foreign vessel that comes to Bruins
wick leaves somewhere in the neighbornood
of 81, 900 to seek the channels of trade.
Forty carpenters are busy at Col. James
NJ Smiths place, in OglethOrpe county,
building houses and enlarglng his barns.
The rails on the Georgia Southern and
Florida railroad have been laid about 2J4
miles below Cordelle, and freight has been
shipped from Macon to that point already.
A new hotel to cost $4,000 is to be built
by q stock company at Gainesville. DR..
A. ?. Houston and A. j. Nichols alone sub
scribed s. 900, and it Is believed the $25, 900
more can be raised Each share will repre-
sent 500.
Lewis Heifien was shot and killed by Ellis
Moore Monday night about o'clock. seven
miles southeast of Fairburn, on ex-senator
Paul Favors plantation. Ramon says
Heihen was drinking and had insulted
Moore's wife.
The Townsville National Bank makes
good showing in its report to the comp
troller of the currency. Its loans and dis
counts amount to Sl6S, 227 80; premiums
paid. 81 ,440 Of; individual deposits subject
to check, 1926, 80 20.
At meeting of the directors of the
Americas Gas Light Company, Monday,
the resignation of T. Wheatlev as president
and director was accepted. B. H. Jossey
was elected director to fill the vacancy
and Hon. w. NJ. Hawkes. president.
At Griffin the store of G. W. Clark &
Son was broken into Sunday morning. Mr..
Clark, in closing his safe door, neglected to
turn on the combination. About $50 in
silver was stolen out of one drawer, all the
others being locked. Nothing else was
stolen.
Prof. Coleman, formerly professor of
mathematics in Catadee Academy in South
Carolina, has been elected to succeed Prof
Charles Smelling, resigned. in the South
Georgia College at Townsville. Prof
Coleman took the prize at prize military
drill at New Orleans, where the contest was
opened to the world.
Two buzzards were caught in Albany and
turned loose with little sheep bells dangling
from their necks, Monday. Each bird
sailed off, and the jingling Of the little bells
could be plainly heard until they were sew
eral hundred feet above terra firma. Look
out for the belled b0zEards
A serious, but not dangerous shooting
affray occurred on ZAck PEBBLES place,
near Hampton, Monday no-ninE Aft
Starr and 1som Reid had some words con
corning bet about.the distance Alf's gun
could shoot. Reid won the gun, whereupon
Starr became enraged and went home and
got another gun, came back where Reid was
and deliberately shot him. The shot took
effect IN the neck and right shoulder. Starr
fed to parts unknown soon after the shoot
ing.
Berry Ross (colored) was murdered near
Brentwood Saturday night by Gus and
Albert Washington, alias Robinson, two
negroes living on John Godwin's place near
town Marshal Childs arrested Gus and
Albert and carried them to jail in Dawson
before they were aware Of their victims
death. The murderers laid in wait for Ross
as he was driving home, and attacked him
with clubs. quarrel between Ross and
Albert Washington was the cause of the at
tack.
Mount Vernon was the scene of a murder
last Friday. Lawton Collins had accused
Leonard Williamson of bestiality. Will
hanson asked him abont the report he had
circulated concerning him. A scuffle ensued
in which knives were freely used by both
parties. Williamson succeeded in cutting
in a short while. Williamson stands well
in the community, and is young man Of
good address and fair education, being the
son of local Methodist minister.
A most brutal and murderous assault was
made, Monday night on David Hill lcol-
ored), in Sandy Bottom by John Mcdonald,
a negro living on the Brunswick and West
ern railroad. Hill charged that a friend of
McDonald's was gambler, wbereupon Nc
Donald gave him the lie and heaped abuses
and opprobrious epithets upon him, finally
striking with such foros as to fell him, when
he drew his murderous pocket gun and shot
him in the face. The ball took effect in the
right cheek, striking the bone and glancing
out. Mcdonald was arrested.
Mrs. 0. +. Lagerquist, a handsome
woman who keeps an ice. fruit and fish
store on Fourth street, near the express
Office, at Macon, had a singular experience
Saturday night about 12 o'clock, She sleeps
In the rear part Of the store with her little
daughter. She left light burning in the
store. Suddenly she awoke, and was sur
prised TO see q negro and mulatto man
standing near her. One of the men asked
her little daughter TO go across the street
and bring them some beer and offered the
child 81 Mrs. Lagerquist says presently
one OF the men began to firt his handker-
chief In her face, and she found that she
was becoming unconscious, perhaps from
the effect Of chloroform. BY superhuman
effort, she threw of the effects of the
chloroform and gave an alarm, to which
the police responded, and on the arrival Of
the officers, the two men fed, going In
different directions. The negroes obtained
entrance TO the store by forcing the lock of
the door. Mr.. Lagerquist is at present In
Mexico on Capt. Raoul's railroad, the Mexi-
can National
Macon Telegraph: Tuesday afternoon
two hunters hoped off the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia train with empty
game bags. "We've hunted all over Adams
park" one of them said, land not squirrel
could we find" A bystander, who knew
what he was talking about, remarked
"And vet j. M W. Christian can 90 down
to Adams park and bring back hundreds OF
them. That's the difference between
hunters. You fellows go down there and
spend O whole day and not a solitary
squirrel will be seen. Mr.. Christian will
follow right after you and shoot hundreds
Of them He goes for business, and if YOU
will watch him he generally gets Off To
himself and the first thing you know you
hear two cracks of his gun. Then listen
and you will hear two more, and the re.
ports will get farther and farther away.
About train time you will see him coming
up to the station looking five times as big
as he really is, and when he gets near
enough you will see that he is covered with
squirrels, which he has killed and strung
and thrown over his shoulder. Yes, he il
the finest squirrel hunter in Georgia, and
yet II you were to ask him why il is you
Il.