The morning news., 1889-05-16

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ruption.
City Warden Hunter of Atlanta, better
known as Jumbo Hunter, is suing the
! American Press ASS ciatioa for $40, 900 for
libel. Some time duri & the early part Of
/ h present year the manager Of the Atlanta
I braGch Of the as ociatisn sent out the fol-
/ lowing paragraph: "a scounare'ly police
ma Jumbo Huater, a notorious local
| plOceman, claims to have discovered a state
law which says that tao bodies Of all dead
paupePs who have no relatives can be
! turned over to tie medical colleges after
having besn neld twelve hours. One day
last week poor colnrsd women died, a1d
nO.withsta ading the pleading Of ner poor,
strickeo husband, Hunter seized the body
and sold it to a medical institution. Ee
seems rather proud Of the occurrence. The
public indignation is great.
Inspector Robertson, W 10 has been down
| on the Flint river inspecting the govern
| ment boats tlers, is not afraid Of snakes or
any poisonous reptile M. Robertson
makes q practice of catching snakes with
his iands. He watches for favorable
opportunity and grabs them by tie neck,
then they cannot bic him. Last Thursday
afternoon Mr. Robertson had been walking
around considerable. Being rather old he
wears glasses all the time His eyes had be-
come dimmed from perspiration, when he
ran upon a snake. Watching his chances. be
directly caught the snake by the neck. But
mis- sight had misled hisl, and he caught the
snake too far back, and it turned ard bit
him upon the hand. The next morning,
after he had bean bitten, and his hand was
badly swollen, he was standing among the
workmen, whea large scorpion ran out
from pile of lumber, and ole hands trisd
to kill it. He stepped them, aad catching
the scorpion, played with it some time be-
fore killing 1t.
The stockholders of the Middle Georgia
Cooperative Manufacturing Company met
at Griffin on May IL. The charter granted
April 30, 1889, was received and the COM
pany organ zsd The following directors
were elected: B. n. Barrow from Midway
Alliance, D. L. Patrick from Rpggold AL
lance, ". E II. Searcy from Rover Alt
ancs, II. T. Patterson from Pomona ALI
Anco, F. NJ. Gravity from Orchard Hill
Alliance, j. D. Williams from Mt. Zion
Alliance, Willis Champion from Creswen
Alhance, J. ). Elder from Evening Sua
Alliance, F. M Scott from Line Creek Alh-
ance, j. p. Brown of Pike county, J. c.
Wood Of Cowets county. The directors
elected tina following officers: W. E. Il.
Ssarcy, president; B. N. Barrow, treasurer;
John 7. SElwell. secretary. TIE directors
nave employed Bro. B. n Barrsw to visit
the allia aces contiguous to Spalding county.
At the meeting iast Saturday $4,000 was
raised. From the 90 alliances thas trade at
Griftia the subscriP Ption will easily run t.
S4J 900. The company will build an Oil
mill AID & gIano factory.
A mass meeting was held at Villa Rica
Saturday to d scuss the subject of organ
iZtng a new county. After a speech by n.
A Windsor, j. T. He derson explained the
object of the nesting On motion, J. T.
Henderson was ele tel permanent chair
man, and S. c. Ca sdler secretary ana w.
A. Maxwell treasurer All the territory
proposed for the new county was largely
rspreSO ted, viz: Villa RIca, TemBl9 ana
FHirplay districts, in Carroll; Corners dis
trio, in Douglas; Calais, Tallap ,osa,
and Nineteenth or EnbrJ's districts.
Pauldiug, "bioh will make q c0u sty Aobut
fifteen Ia les across either way, and about
1900 vsters. Since tas Georgia Pacific
road "as built, taat section has become
very thickly populated, and 1t is very in
conveniently situated as to court house
facilities. The people ia tsat territory q 9
compelled to travel through the country
from twelve to eighteen miles, wasn re-
quirsd to attend npsrior court The terri
Tory mentioned does all its business al Villa
Rica Ths citizens propose, by private
subscription e ound and in Villa Rica. TO
raise $4,000 to 81, 500 for building court
house, etc.
from pistol shot wound received Monday
night at the hands OF young white man of
Macon, named Charlie Farris Emma's
home is on SDriug street, but against the
wishes of Farris, il is sal i, she went on
Mo day night b a notorious house Of i'll
fame kept by Jane Kendrick, tge conan to
whose house James Moore carried Mamie
Lstle, the woman about whom James
Goore was lyRchsd. II will be remembered
that lana X 9ud-irx nlcA ntt-lv nd
bsisg lynched BY TIE mob on tna- me no
rable occssi n. FArrls vent 20 Ke2dr ck's
house Monday night searching for Emma but
sac aad been bid in room by Jane Ken
dries and Farris did not fad her. Later
Emma came out Of the roam, thinxizg
Farris had gone. He was sitting on t4e
front porch of the house and saw Emma
when she cams ous Of the room. He called
ber ana IL Is said chat size got out on the
fro porch going towards him, when she
perceived a pistol in his hand, aud she turned
and started 10 run. BarrIs, while sitting
down, took deliberate aim at ser aud fired
Ins ball, 32-cali yer, entered at the lower
part of the right lung, ranged upward,
passing through the lung and body, and
lodged under the skin near the front Of the
breast, an inch or two below tie rigat col
lar bone. DR.. W. c. Gibson, who was sum
mOned to at end her. cut the bullet out.
DR.. Gibson tanks the wound will prove
fatal, though this he will not positively
state Immediately on firing the pistol,
Fsrris jumped up asd ran from the house
RAPIDLY, going in the direction of the park
Aaotaer ell-s -snowh youag mal fed with
him into the darkaess. Fdrris has not vet
been rested.
Willian Bogajski, the Atlanta fireman.
has returned home from his journey to
WARSAW, Polaad. He has bssn gone ever
siEcs Msrcn ana he has quite an interest
ing story TO tell in con ection wi .h his trip.
About twenty years ago Bogajski came to
America from Germany, aad ma riea q
lady OF South Carolina He left in the old
country a mother, three sisters aud two
brothers, who moved 60 Warsaw, z land,
l. 1865. Both the brothers died, leaviEg
William the only sarviving mae member
of the family. He came to Atlanta
and secured a position with the Atlanta
fire department. On JaR. 10 last he re-
csivsd letter frOm one Of his sisters say
ing that his mother, who was 70 years old
was very Ill, and would not IN all Prsba-
bility recover. Tee letter had been on the
road two weeks and Bogajski did not know
whether his mother was sEill alive or not.
He wrote, however, saying that he would
come at oLcs. lie had never been natural
lied, SO 1t as with some difficulty tia. he
procured papers. On March 8 he started
on his journey, aud in fifteen days he had
reached the fr nier. 30 could 90 no far
ther unless be had papers showing that he
was au American citizsi. He could have
slipped through the line, but il ho hsd con
detected he would have been put