The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-10
STORE 144 CONGRESS
3ENNETT EYMES PROPRIETOR, SAVANNAH CA

while they were plundering the county.
Inc county Is to be congratulated that they
have been broken up long ago and chased
away. and that the sheep business is now on
a safe basis.
Twenty-Five years ago Troup hill, near
Macon, belonged to the wife and children
of Obediah +. Adams, recently treasurer of
the city council of Macon Mr.. Adams and
wife sold the land to the late Noah A,
Megrath about 1869. Mr.. Megrath died in
1896. The land was worth but very little
when Mr.. Megrath bought it. Lawyers
wrote the deed for Megrath and assured
him 1t was all correct and perfectly safe.
Now one OF Mr.. Adams daughters. who
married some years ago, asserts that she
was minor child when the Troup Hill land
was sold and has filed suit for the property.
There was a bad wreck on the Atlanta
and Florida railroad at Atlanta Friday.
AS the train was backing into the she'd
countryman attempted to drive his team
across the track at the Wells street crossing,
be was not quick enough, and the rear end
OF the coach struck the team, killing both
the mules and demolishing the wagon.
The driver was thrown from the wagon
and pretty badly bruised up. but suffered
no serious injury. The trucks of the coach
We're thrown from the track, and the train
so badly shaken up that 1t was impossible
for 1t to 60 out last night. There were a
number of traimen on board the train, and
several of them were slightly injured
Last Thursday night a fight among me-
groes occurred on the plantation of Craw-
ford Grimsley, in Clay county, in which
Aaron Bee was completely disemboweled
dying the following morning. A difficulty
had occurred between Aaron's brother and
Perry Hazley in regard TO a woman. Perry
called at Bees house and asked him to come
out. be did so, not expecting fight. but
was Immediately attacked by Perry and
two accomplices. Bee called to his brother
Aaron, who was In the house, to come to
his rescue. Aaron ran out, but no sooner
reached the scene of conflict than he was
knitted by Haley as described above. All
three of the attacking party have made
their escape.
The indications now point to the holding
OF another exposition In Augusta next fall.
There is quite a unanimous movement on
foot to take up the encumbrances on the
exposition property and hold it for expo
sltion purposes. A committee has been at
work Tor several days devising the best
financial scheme for saving the property to
the stockholders, and they print a call for a
general meeting on Monday night. at
which time they promise to furnish a plan
which is simple and practicable. At the
same time the talk of an exposition next
year is earnest aud general, and if the
AHoASAoi uiA uhksihShtn LudQ6 OY which
the exposition company shall own the prop
erty, there is no doubt about the show being
given.
Bill Finch. white man who keeps j. A.
Fowler's bar in Madison count. was in
Athens Friday. He said tha1 he had kined
| a negro boy. 1t appears from his statement
that Friday morning about l o'clock h
closed up the bar and went down in the
woods, where there was regular negro
gambling den, and while watching The
game, which was for SO cents. they fell
out and had a regular negro QUAR-
REL Finch stepped aside, but one of
the negroes came up to him and called
him by name. The other negroes began
throwing rocks at this negro, who was near
Finch. One Of these rocks struck Finch In
the stomach, infiicting a painful wound.
This enraged him, and drawing his six
shooter he blazed away. Instead of hitting
those who were throwing rocks, he hit Ed
Pendleton, the legro boy who had run up
to him. The ball passed directly through
the brain and death was instantaneous. Ed
Pendleton was only Is years old. This is
one side Of the story. 1t is said that the
negroes claim that it was cold blooded
murder. Finch escaped, and has not yet
been captured.
brutal double murder was committed
seven miles south of Dupont Clinch county
last week. The victims were an old man
named Hughes, 7S years of age. and his
aged wife. The murderers are supposed to