The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-29

Verdict of the Coroner's Jury In the
killing of Pink Lawrence at Barnes
vnle-An Editors House Burned at
Rutler-Christmas Week Casualties-
GEORGIA
The state directors of the drummers' as
ISOLATION held a close session at Macon, Fri
day.
Editor Binns' house at Butler was burned
Friday. The loss is about $500, with nc
insurance.
IL is reported that Judge c. T. Ward Of
Vineville IS a candidate for the Macon post
mestership.
Congressman Crisp remained in Wash
ingtun during the holidays. He IS studying
mp his election cases.
The first bale Il cotton over the Hawkins
vile, Empire and Dublin railroad reached
Hawkinsville Thursday.
The Kennon Manufacturing Company
will commence operations at their factory
at Brunswick next Wednesday.
The adjourned term of Houston superior
court will open next Thursday, and on that
day a special grand jury will begin an in
vestigation of the Miller murder.
Charters we're closed Friday by Bruins
wick lumber firm for six large vessels to
load lumber at an early day. All the YES
sells named in the several charters fly the
stars and stripes.
The most unique and useful things In At
lanta are the electric cars. Those who now
use them will have no other. The way an
electric car climbs hill is like cat going
up q stone wall.
Richard jackson, colored, was killed by
Cyrus Horton, another negro, at Owens
Bluff Wednesday afternoon. A jug OF
whisky and pack of cards were at the bot
tom of the trouble
The First National and Oglethorpe Ma
tional banks of Brunswick have Just de-
clared dividends, the former semi annual
of per cent, a d the latter one Of per
cent. for the same time.
William Butler of Cuba, Early county,
attempted to commit nameless crime upon
the person Of William Houston's daughter
Tuesday night, was foiled in the attempt,
and has fed the county.
The other day a white woman living at
Augusta gave birth to q baby with only
one arm. The other was represented by a
stub but few inches long. The father of
the child Is robust and not in the least de-
formed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Trotman have lived
In Stewart county for the last TWENTY-FIVE
years, and have reared family of seven
or eight children to be grown, and have
never had the services Of a physician in
their house during all of that time, as they
have had no use for one.
The report that Smith Davis had been
shot by Nelson Jones in the rencounter near
Clyattville some months ago, and that he
had died recently from the effects of the
wound, near Balm ridge. is untrue. Smith
is alive and well, and has been seen in Val
dosta by his friends several times since that
shooting affair.
The annual meeting of the Atlanta board
of education was held Thursday. The re-
ports showed that the expenditures for the
year would foot up s97,0OO, and that the
total enrolment was $50 pupils There
will be deficit of Sl2, OBS, and an appro-
priation of $l6S,0 will be needed. 1000
of which will come from the state treasury.
$4,000 to be furnished by the city for next
year.
Thursday Joseph Dickerson (coloredl Of
Brunswick bought new dining table from
one OF the furniture merchants of the city.
The table was sent out rather late SO Joe
decided that he would leave it on the porch
for the night Some time before day the
next morning an unknown thief came
along and took the table off, stopping long
enough to tear up the steps to Joe's house
before he left.
Jack Proctor was hurt at the residence of
). +. Barksdale at Geneva Thursday by the
bursting of hack weight used in hacking
turpentine trees, while attempting to fire a
Christmas gun. The neck of the ball hay
ing been flied with powder, and a heavy
weight having been placed upon it. Mr..
Proctor touched it off, causing an explosion
which hurled fragment weighing three
ounces through the tieshy part Of his arm,
lnf1lctlng painful and serious wound.
A balloon ascension and parachute lean
LOOK nIaRA n Itxv sIa
when the ascent began, veered to the south.
west, going about one mile up into the air.
In descending the parachute caught in the
coughs OF large pine, hanging there
until the tree was felled by axmen.
cruising and scratching the professor %
some extent, though not seriously, and
damaging his canvas to the amount of SIS or
90 Inc balloon also hung in the top of
another tree and had TO be cut down.
On Sunday night last large number of
negroes boarded the cars at the yarious
points on the Gainesville branch of the
savannah, Florida and Western, between
Live Oak and Dupont, and before reaching
the latter point some negro men got into a
row, and one went to the car door. drew
ms revolver. and opened an indiscriminate
hre upon those who occupied the car. Jen-
ME stewart, negro passenger, was shot
ana seriously wounded in the shoulder The
negro who fred then jumped off the run
ming train and made good his escape.
William ]. Kiser, a prosperous Young
farmer of Hall county, suicided last Tues-
aay night between midnight and day BY
hanging himself with pillow line to a rafter
OF vacant house half q mile from where
he resided with his mother Mr.. Kiser was
single man and about SO years of age. and
was to have been married to a young lady
OF an adjacent neigbborhood on Thursday
last. IL IS supposed by his mother that he
Tor some cause became dissatisfied with the
engagement he had made, an from worry
over it his mind became unbalanced. and
caused hum to end his life in this tragic
manner.
AT GAINESVILLE, Friday. Coroner Bevill
impaneled jury, which, late in the after
noon, rendered its verdict The substance
OF the finding is that Pink Lawrence came
to his death from gunshot wound; that
Hiram Brown did the shooting, and Is
therefore guilty of murder in the frs,
degree. They find further that, as acces
series to the crime, Hiram Matthews and
Lon Cauther are guilty of murder in tbs
second degree. The lawyers who have beer
engaged 60 defend the accused claim thai
the coroner's investigation was ex parte. s.
much 30 as to prejudice the minds of the
1urymen against the accused One of the
men, all OF whom are white, bears an ugly
wound in the neck, inflicted, it is claimed,
by Pink.
Thursday morning Frank Wright and
Gus johnson found the dead hod,v Of !