The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-09
ACHILD IN A BED OF FIRE
ITS MOTHER ABSENT WHEN IT
MET IT'S HORRIBLE DEATH.

Gov. Gordon May Thrill the Sweet
Girl Graduates of Wesleyan College
Five Negro Convicts Bscape-1he
Aldermen Refuse to Pass the School
Book Ordinance.
ATLANTA. GA, March S.-The 2-year-old
infant of Carrie Ivey, negro woman liv-
ing on Smiths alley, in the Third ward, fell
into the fire Yesterday afternoon and was
burned to death The mother of the child
went out on an errand, and on returning to
her surprise its charred remains were found
lying on a pile of burning logs in the fire
place.
Gov. Gordon has been invited to deliver
the annual address at the commencement of
Wesleyan Female College at Macon in June.
He will probably accept
Night before last five negro convicts
working ON the Chattanooga, Rome and
Columbus rail- DAD overpowered the guard
and escaped. The conVlcts were: Mack
Holloway, from Chatham county, sent to
the penltentiary for four years for cattle
stealing Alpheus Martin, sent from Liberty
county for a life term for murder; Calvin
10 1ett. sent from Macon county for ten
years for burglary; Sandy Polite, sent form
Fulton county for seven years for burglary:
lfGBD OOnlcN, SENT from fNochudIe county
for two years for cattle ealing.
VOLUNTEER FIREMEN.
The members of the Volunteer Fire Asso-
cation OF Philadelphia were in the city to-
day, enjoying the hospitality of Atanta's
olu volunteer fire department. The visitors
are Ell route home from the tiremen's parade
in New Orleans. They are a fine looking
body of men, forty-four in number. They
arrived i'll Atlanta at l o'clock
this afternoon on the Atlanta
and West Point railroad This
aud the Atlanta volunteer f1remen paraded
the principal streets in the following order:
Philadelphia Volunteer Firemen, headed
by their band.
Atlanta Volunteer Firemen bringing up
the rear, drawing the reel of the visitors
After the parade the company LIFT the
city at . O'Clock on the Air Line railroad for
home.
PURCHASE OF SCHOOL BOOKS.
The aldermanic board met this morning
and by vote of three to two refused to
concur in the action of the City Council
last Monday in adopting an ordinance APP
propriating one-fourth of the receipts from
the license on beer and liquor saloons to the
purchase of school books 10 5e given those
attending the public grammar school free.
The measure is now dead, but there
is some probability of new
ordinance with several changes
10 as to appropriate money separate from
the income on liquor licenses to school
books. This would probably pass the Coun-
Gil and Aldermanic Board. The petition of
Thomas Scrutchin, w. l.. Hubbard and
DIR. :. 7. Biggers, asking to be relieved
from the bond of w. K. Biggers, formerly
City Clerk, upon payment of $50, 900 in lieu
of $50, 900 lost by the failure of the Citizens
Bank, was granted.
A BIZ = AGAINST HARLE
Green & BaJeman, of New York, brokers,
flied bill to-day against j. w. Harle & Co,
cotton spectators of Atlanta, asking for
the appointment of receiver for the prop
elty Of the firm, or of Mr. Harle pc ,sonally
The petitioners aver that Mr. Harle owes
them $4,000 for advances made in New
York on cotton mar ins, and they also ask
for an injunction to prevent Harle d Co.
and Mr.. Harle from disposing of any prop
erty in making preference TO any creditors.
Judge Clark named March II as the day to
require Mr.. Harle to show cause why
a receiver should not be appointed.
To-day records were filed IN the Clerks
office of several pieces of Atlanta real es-
tate sold by Mr.. Harle to s. NJ. Inman and
to f. II. Austin. The latter is Mr.. Hairless
bookkeeper.
KILLED BY A TRAIN.
"Col." OMEN, a marble cutter in the emf
ploy of the Ge rgta Marble Company az
Marietta, was killed by the north bound
passenge. train about a mile above Mariet-
Ia this morning. O'Neill was seated on the
track when the train came along, throwing
him off an crushing his skull