Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1889-04-18
GEORGIA..

No less than 100 applicants appeared on
Monday before the Police Board of At
lanta for the position of policeman.
Rev. Sam Small will make the race for
Congressman in the Fall. He has not
decided which district he will run in.
The young postal clerk, H. S. Moore,
Jr., who murdered Legislator James
Hunt, is on trial for his life at Atlanta.
Mayor Glenn, of Atlanta, has directed
the police to regulate" the Salvation
Army because some citizens complained
of them.
Iardmaster Salter and Conductor
Lavender, of the East Tennessee Road,
were arrested on Monday at Macon,
charged with robbing freight cars.
Atlanta is going through the throes of
arapid transit fever, and if plans now
projected are carried through, it will be
one of the best ''railroaded" cities in the
country.
At the session of Dooly superior court
Just closed, the grand jury discussed and
decided upon the erection of a new
courthouse at Vienna. A committee
was appointed by the grand jury to pre-
pare plans and specifications.
A railroad construction company was
organized at Savannah Wednesday. 1t
expects to carry through several pro-
Jected roads, especially one connecting
with the Americas, and possibly the
road now built from Atlanta to Fort
Valley.
Jordan Harris, oolored farmer,
caught small negro boy, Erwin Cato,
setting fire to his kitches on Monday.
The child, who is only eight wears old,
had placed the firebrands beneath the
sill of the building when caught. The
boy is the son of a convict. Harris has
lost thousands by incendiaries.
Governor Gordon pardoned Charles
johnson on Tuesday. johnson was con-
victed of manslaughter at the August
term of 1882 of Gordon county He has
been confined in the penitentiary more
than seven years, crediting him with
time for good conduct. johnson killed
his best friend, under the impression that
he was an armed desperate, who had q few
moments before shot at him.
Maj. -Gen. Howard, U. S. A., who
commands the Atlantic district, told the
Savannah city council that President
Harrison remarked to him Just before he
came South: ''Look around and see
where can do something for that sec
ton. want to pay it some attention as
early as possible" That came direct from
the head of the administration, and it
has encouraged the city to redouble its
efforts.
John Weathers, who killed his brother
last Christmas, was taken from Monroe
Jail, and he goes up for three years. 1t
is a short service for the homicide of his
brother. He leaves wife and several
small children in absolute destitute cir
cumstances, and all of his relatives are
poor people. Starving children and wife
in rags clinging to a departing father in
stripes, was indeed sad spectacle.
f. G. Jones had an alteration with
special policeman, Robert Walker, in
Albany on Wednesday. Jones had ad-
vanced towards Walker in threatening
manner, and some claim had drawn a
knife upon him, when the officer drew
his pistol and fred twice, shooting Jones
thiOuSh Vic IlSHt dIIu. WHEN INC pO-
liceman fired, number of little girls
were directly behind Jones, and they
were terribly frightened.
A collision on the East Tennessee road
on Tuesday, resulted in the killing of
George Gillon, passenger engineer, and
the wounding of a freight engineer, two
conductors, several trainmen and four or
five passengers, The collision was be-
tween south-bound passenger train and
a north-bound freight train, and hap
pened near Stockbridge, and about
twenty miles south of Atlanta. Just
south of Stockbridge, there is deep cut
and near that cut there is a side-track
known as Makers quarry track. The
freight train reached the cut and was in
the act of pulling into the side-track
when the collision occurred. Both en-
gines were badly demolished. Four box
cars were splintered, and the mail coach
torn to pieces. George Fl. Gillon, the
dead engineer, was born in Macon, and
was about 81 years of age. The indica-
tons are that the freight train was on
the passenger trains time. The run out
on Tuesday was not Engineer Gillon's.
He took it to accommodate friend.