The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-30

and on Wednesday morning Mrs. Inman
died There were three physicians in at
tendance, but the unerring archer had
drawn his bow, and his arrows went straight
to the mark. The Inman family dates
away back into the early history of Burke
county. They were people Of high respect
ability, and possessed ample means,
before the war ranked .ong the number
Of the wealthy planters of Georgia.
There are over $75, 900 worth of buildi Is
in course of construction at WRycross, and
these will scarcely De completed before as
many more new ones will dot the earth by
their Sides Here Is partial list Of those
going up on the west side Of the branch: j.
H Gray is building 81, 800 residence for
Pollard is building a 1900 residence for
Henry MCGEE. Mr.. Pollard is also building
a 81, 500 residence for Miss l. G. Remshart.
Mrs Eliza Evans is having
81, 800 residence erected Contractor Nun
gazer is building 81. 800 residence for Col:
A B. Estes. Contractor }. b. Strickland
is about completing $1,000 residence for
Councilman Lsnier. j. ID; SALISBURY Is
having 81, 500 residence built. j. Cronln
is having a s1,600 residence built. Con-
tractor Lowther is building 81 400 res
idence for j. ID. Smith, and one for himself
to cost 81, 200. II. A. Cannon is having two
residences built on Gilmore street,
to cost about $1,000 each. Hon.
Lem johnson is putting up
residence on Gilmore street, to cost
over $4,000. John Russell is building a
residence for himself to COST over $1,000.
j. X. Knight is having a thirteen-room
residence built on Elizabeth street, which
! will cost over $1,000. Capt II. W. Reed is
| having three residences erected TO cost up
ward of $500 each. Contractor Hurbert
Murphy has fifteen OF twenty houses in
course of construction for the railway COM
pany. The opera house is rapidly nearing
completion. This will cost $4,000.
I Augusta Chronicle: Instead of being
confronted on the highway by a fellow with
a six-shooter and required to stand and de-
liver, he is arraigned in a temple of justice
and faced by a smiling attorney with de-
cision of the supreme court Of Georgia in
one hand, and the supreme court OF the
United States in the other, and called on to
shell out his shekels The latter is the more
orderly mode Of procedure, but it gets there
just the same. This is the solemn pred lea
ment in which Augusta subscribers to the old
National Express and Transportation Com
pany, away back in the '60s, now find them
| selves. They subscribed to the project, and
20 per CEN. of their subscriptions were
called in and paid. Then the thing "ker-
fiummuxed,' and nothing more was heard
of it until John Glenn was appointed
| trustee for the concern in the chancery
court of Richmond. Va, and got decree
of the court allowing him to call in a new
assessment of 80 per cent. TO hquidate the
Indebtedness Of the corporation. Tnis ia
debtedneSs was bought up, as Chronicle
reporter heard Monday, for few hundred
dollars, by John Branch, and he has
since then collected $270,0O0 from the
| original subscribers to the stock
The amount due 10y the thirty odd stock
holders IN Augusta is equal to $75, 600, but
not more than $4,000 or $4,000 of the
same are now due by solvent defendants.
The first case, against O'Dowd and Null
herin, was settled; the case against Thomas
q. Barrett was postponed; against II. A.
DAntlgnac, was dismissed; against j. b.
Carter, was dismissed; against @. K. Carr,
Judgment was entered; against w. j.
Pollard, was settled; against James Purcell
is now being argued before Judge Roney.
Mrs. Miller, wife of the planter muir
dered in Houston county, tells the follow
ing story Of the tragedy: MIR. and Mrs.
Miller lived alone They were sitting by
the fire, reading. Each had small lamp.
Mrs. Miller heard h r husband say: Don't
do that" The she felt herself struck, and
was knocked unconscious. When she re-
gained Consciousness she heard the clock
strike IL. She saw that Mr.. Miller was
for help, fearing that her assailant was still
there. She lay until O'clock, when
her sufferings were so great that she called
for help. Her calls were soon answered by
the cook. whose house was forty or fifty
yards distant When the cook came in
Mrs. Miller asked to be put to bed. Or
the bed was the ak which had
struck the blows and the marble
top of bureau which had been removed
IN rNlaca IN ahIo fba e.
rife the drawers. Tne drawers were
locked. 1t is supposed that Mr.. Miller saw
| the parties as they raised the AK. and asked
them not to strike. Mrs. Miller did not sec
| them. She was nearest the door, and wal
| struck first with the ak. She wa knocked
senseless, and was probably thought to bt
| dead. Then it is supposed that Mr. Miller
was attacked. He was struck five blow
with the ak, and his skull was badly
smashed. When found he was still sitting
in his arm chair, with his head and arm
hanging over the side. The blood had rur
from his wounds, and made pool on til,
| floor. His lamp had fallen In the blood,
pool, and was extinguished. His dealt
must have been instantaneous. He prob
ably saw his murderers, but Mrs. Miller dit
not, nor did she hear any noise mad
by their entrance. Mr. Miller's poke
were rified, and his pocketbook gone. HI
II
conspicuous place, was not taken. Tn
| murderers went into other rooms, an,
drawers, trunks. ETC., were searched, bu
nothing was taken. 1t was evident tina
| the parties wanted money and nothing else
A little box containing papers was carries
about 100 yards from the house and left
At the spot where the box was lef
were the footprints of two people. On,
track was large and the other smaller. TIL
lamp which Mrs Miller had by her ia miss
ing, and cannot be found. The ak who
did the murderous work was one which lie
at the wood-pile, near the house. Mr.. Mi
Ter was one of the most respected citizens c
Houston; well-to-do farmer. upwar
of 80 years old. He has two children
William, who lives at Hawkinsvillt
and Mrs. Mitchell of Eastman
Monday morning all the hands on the plac
were called toge her, all responding say
one, who could give no excuse FOR not going
He, of course, was suspicioned. and is nov
under arrest. Monday morning the mur
derers were traced q half mile from tn
window where they ju nped out of ia
house, through the cotton patch, and 10
of papers, including land deeds and mort
cages, were found. A posse of fiftee
armed men left Unadilla for the purpose G
securing the country for tue fiends. The
had not gone far before they were on tn
track of two of the suspected negroes, ant
tracked them to Vienna, where they los
trace OF them.