The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-05


This week-Suicide in Madison-The
Ganows on Which Vann Was to
Have Been Hanged.
GEORGIA
There were twenty-nine marriages at
Rome last month.
There were only thirty-six deaths at
Macon last month.
Small manufactures are rapidly increas-
ing in Brunswick.
At Griffin Saturday Mrs. John i. Hall
fell and broke her hip.
An effort is being made to establish a
Masonic lodge at Lumpkin.
John n. Scarborough of Americus has
been granted patent on an automatic car
brake.
Twelve negroes are now under arrest in
connection with the murder of Capt. Miller
Of Houston county.
Walter Nolan, aged 20, ended seven
day spree at Madison Saturday, by COM
uniting suicide by taking morphine.
William Nelson, fagman, had one of
his arms so badly crushed by cars at AmeE-
icus Saturday that amputation was una
voidable.
Considerable excitement has been created
at Vienna by discovery Of the fact that the
chester rifles.
Mrs. c. D. Horn is now in New York in
the interest of the Magdalene home, which
she hopes, with the generous help of Others
soon to found in Atlanta.
At Athens, Saturday, J. A. Dalton was
accidentally shot in the leg by little
negro, who escaped before he was identified
The wound is not serious.
jesse d. Lotion, an aged planter of
Coffee county, was in Brunswick Saturday
looking, as he said, for his young wife, who
had left him without notification.
The postmastership change at Harmony
Grove, which has been hanging In doubt
for some time, was settled Saturday by c.
G.. Alexander assuming control of the office,
and W. T. Gordon, the former postmaster,
retiring.
There is a rumor around Rome to the
effect that Chicago capitalists have inter
ested themselves to the extent Of over
&, 000, 900 in Bluffton and Piedmont min
eral lands, and intend to develop them i'm
mediately.
At Athens, Sunday, Deputy Murray
seized a wagon loaded with whisky that
was being sold. There were four men in
the party, and the liquor belonged to a man
named Rich, from Jackson county, near the
Walton line
A Norwegian sailor named Frank Week
sole, while at work in the rigging of the
schooner Minnie A. Bonsan at Union Island,
near Darien, on Wednesday last, lost his
balance and fell to the deck, his head strik4
ing the edge Of plank, dashing out his
brains
The grand general council of Royal Arch
Masons will meet in Atlanta Nov. 49,
There will be delegates from all the states
and territories, and from Nova Scotia. New
Brunswick and Canada. 1t is the first time
that the convocaton has ever been held
south, and the delegates will be the guests
of Mt Zion chapter.
London Graham (coloredl was found hid
den in the store of w. H. Hausman, at Madl-
son, after it had been closed few nights
ago He was bent on robbery, had trunk
and valise packed with goods. Mr.. Haus-
man, as is his usual custom, went into his
store after everything had been closed to see
that all was right This led to the discovery
and arrest.
Saturday Rev. Edwin d. Matthews was
sent from Atlanta to Zebulon Jail in de-
fault of IS, 500 bond. twill be remembered
that he was arrested and brought to Atlanta
by Detective Shackleford, on a charge Of
having made way with funds left in his
hands by the tax collector of Pike county
last week. Ee will have hearing before
the superior court Friday.
A son of Robert Davis (colored), who
lives six or seven miles south OF Madison,
had the Misfortune to send a charge of bird
shot through one of his feet Saturday
afternoon. He was in the woods and vine
caught his gun and turned it in such a
manner as to discharge the contents into
his foot, which produced wound near by
or quite an inch in diameter through it.
The decomposed body of negro woman
was found in a swamp near the city limits
of Americas Sunday. Two weeks ago the
woman very mysteriously disappeared, and
a few days later her clothing was found
within short distance of where the body
was discovered. When the body was found
IL presented a horrible spectacle, buzzards
having dragged it about and disfgured it.
Section Master w. T. Young was badly
bruised last week at the water tank at the
Notchaway creek, between Leary and
Williamsburg. Young was sitting on the
side Of the railroad track when the morn
ing passenger train came along and he was
struck by the first hub box of the mail and
express car, and hurled from the track, sus-
tanning a bad cut on the head, and other
bruises.
Senator Bradwell presented Gov. Gordon
Saturday with beautifully polished cane,
which was taken from the heart of a red
cedar tree III Mcintosh county. Senator
al oAWCA was AC4uooISu W Lldh0 INC pre-
sentation by the Mcintosh county commit
the at the state fair in Macon. They wished
to express in some way the esteem in which
they held the governor, and he was as much
pleased as though the stick had been made
of gold and studded with precious stones.
A negro living on the plantation of B. +.
Ryle, near Gordon, missed COW a few
days since, and he began searching the
woods for the missing animal He soon
learned that one Dave Jones (colored) had
hired wagon and started TO Macon with a
load of beef. The premises of Jones were
searched, and, buried in the ground near his
house, in one hole, were found four COWS all
dressed and ready for market. The hides
were all found in house on the place
buried in cotton seed.
Hancock & King, stationers and paper
box manufacturers, corner Alabama and
Broad streets, at Atlanta, are financially
embarrassed. They have given a blanket
mortgage on their stock. The cause of the
failure is unknown, and neither gentleman
cares to talk just now. 1t is understood
that the assets are about S75, 900 TO 500, 900,
and that the liabilities are something over
S5OO,00O. For several days past they knew
that trouble was threatening them, and on
Friday executed a blanket order for the
Merchants bank for about SIG, 100. They
were indebted to that bank In about that
sum.
Sunday morning, when the passenger
train from ALBANY dua aft Macon at YAK