The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-01
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF TIE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS

A Postoface Inspector on Secret
! Mission at Macon-Bob Brewer Said
TO be q Frequent Visitor to Bruins
wick-A Burglar Run Down and Cap
/ tured by Two Women at Griffin.
GEORGIA
John Carpenter Of Newman is dead.
w. C. English Of Warrenton had a valua-
BILE horse ruined by running into a barbed
wire fence a day or two ago.
NJ. Nussbaum has resigned as a director
of the Merchants National Bank of Macon,
and Capt. Rolf Sims has been elected in his
stead.
Grand Regent r. ]. Powell of GAINESVILLE
has initiated the new members of the new
lodge of Royal Arcanum, recently organ
lied IN Macon.
A negro named Jack Wilson attempted
TO carve up Ben Jones, colored barber at
Dalton, last Monday, cutting him severely
in the arm, shoulder, and abdomen.
Joseph Medill and family, Of Chicago,
are at the Oglethorpe hotel at Brunswick
Mr.. Medill is an accomplished journalist
and a large stakeholder IN the Chicago
Tribune.
A severe electrical storm struck Dawson
on Monday night. The lightning flashed
furiously and the thunder-peals were deaf
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was riven by bolt.
w. H. Pledger, Jr., the negro postal
clerk who was arrested and taken to At
lanta for embezzling the mails, has given
bond and is now at liberty. The bond was
$500. Young Pledger, it is stated, has
gone back to Athens.
1t is claimed that Bob Brewer has heen
in Brunswick since the Jesup riot. 1t is
said that he has friends there who give him
IL 4 l. Al.
ties These friends also furnish him with
provisions for his stay in the woods.
Griffin Sun: The negroes of Georgia are
organizing an association known as the
Golden Society, which tie whites should
favor and encourage. 1t is opposed to
colonization, requires its members to be re-
spectful to all, benevolent, honest, moral,
industrious, earn their support, and get
homes of their own.
Postoffice Inspector G.. w. Wilde is in
Macon to conduct a secret examination con-
corning certain railway postal clerk and
a conductor, who, 1t is alleged, gave the
postal clerk the tip that the inspector was
on the postal clerks trail. Wilde is the
officer who recently arrested Belcher at
Athens and Postal Clerk Bethea at Savan-
nah on Monday night.
A severe storm passed through Greene
county about noon Wednesday, striking
Greene on the Oconee river, at the junction
with Putnam. 1t passed srom southwest to
northwest and blew down timbers, fences
and out buildings. The Catholic church in
Greensboro was completely demolished.
In addition, several out houses and fences
were blown down within the city limits.
Bill Butler, hailing directly from Atlanta,
but indirectly from Fort Valley, Opelika,
Ala, and other points, broke into the home
Of Scott Reed at Griffin, Wednesday.
SCOTS wife, returning from visit to a
friends, discovered the burglar, and gave
the alarm He jumped through window
and was pursued by the woman and an
other female friend for over a mile, until
he had passed through the city aud landed
in freight car of the Georgia Midland
railroad. From this retreat the two women
dragged him and held him until a police
man came to their assistance. He was
taken before Judge Beeks Of the county
court for trial He pleaded guilty and was
sentenced to twelve months on the chain
gang.