The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-12-12
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| A serious shooting effray took place at
| Ame -icus TUESDAY in j. w. Russelrs store,
on Forsyth street, and on Cott avenue,
| by which one Ieyro ad lis jaw shattered,
and another had q W.nches. er rifle ball put
4 through his body. George Parker, car
! penter, was showing a now felf-cockiug pis-
/ tol to George Williams, = hen the latter
! pulled the trigger. and the ball crashed
| through the jaw Of an unknown negro
| standing by. Che wounded man ran at
| full speed down Cotton avenue. while
1 policeman arrested George Parker. the
ran after tie wounded negro TO bring MIN
back, 70 prove that the shoot
ing was accidental. The latter
ran into a CO oref boarding. SO IN
Cotton avenue, aud ca ed out to a man
inside to ge mis- NIuc-es.er and -hO5J
Parker. The occ lpsnt Of tie no So
seized a gun, and, II spite Of Packers
shouts that he meant no harm. and although
he turned back AID started of when he saw
the hostile demonstration, the man with the
Winchester fred at Parker and shot him
through the bowels. TIE man with the
brok en- jaw and his would-be defender then
both flew, ana made good their escape.
Parker is seriously, and probably fatally
wounded.
At9 o'clock Monday night the dwelling
house If K. +. Webb, situated on the out
skirts of Cumming, was discovered 70 be on
fire. help was summoned, the household
goods removed at once and the work of
fighting fire begun, and with vigorous
and continued efforts the building was
finally saved before very great damage
was done to it. At II o'clock. ard
before the smoke of the fire had disap-
peared, another alarm was sounded. THIS
10 n cyin bala
John j.. Hudson was 70 nd to be on fire,
and the gn house and its con
tents were destroyed. The gin house
was situated on the west side OF
and ear the public square, aud with the
wind blowing from the northwest it ro-
quired herCulean efforts 70 prevent the
fire spreading over the entire public square
Several buildings caught from the flying
sparks, but were put out before any ma
terial damage was done. There were
about 5000 pounds of seed cotton and
2 700 bushels Of cotton seed In the burning
building. Eighty or ninety bales OF cotton
were on the grounds near the gin house, bnt
were all saved with slight damages, exceD
one, which was burned entirely up. ne
loss is estimated at about So 200. Mr.. Hud-
sol ID tie heaviest loser. Nobody knows
how the fire originated. Some believe it
the work OF an Incendiary. Others think
1t ca ught from matches, etc.
The particulars of bad cyclone were
brought to LaGrsnge Tuesday from over
the river about Antioch, in Troup county,
The storm came in to the left Of Antioch.
As it came on down it struck the Balling
place, blowing down barns and outhouses
and killing a valuable mule belonging to
Euler Crowder. Coming on, it struck the
of Rev. Hugh Houston, unroofing
his house, blowing away his dining room,
cooking ON, one bedroom, all the verandas
all the chimneys, and playing havoc gener-
ally. Mrs. Houston was in the dining room
just about minute before the cyclone
struck it, but, fortunately, had gone into
her own room just as 1t came Besides
the damage done the residence all the out
houses were blown down, the barn ruined
and several cattle killed. Some of the ar
ticles blown away haven't been seen or
heard Of. There were four ladies in the
house at the time of the storm, Mr.. Hous-
ton being away filing an appointment. The
storm continued in its course after
striking this house AMI blew down
several barns and outhousss on
other plantations. The forest are
said to be completely demolished, the trees
being cut off about half way up and scat
tered everywhere. After doing all this
damage, the tornado seems to have risen,
and it is supposed that it spent its fury
higher up in the atmosphere. The storm
passed about O'Clock a. III. No one was
killed The damage done will amount to
about $4,000. A terrible rain followed
the blow, and extended as far as LaGranoe