The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-01
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF rdE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS


ster Killed With al AKA Brake
man Falls Under His Train in a Fit
A Nezress to be Hanged at Calhoun
Next Friday.
GEORGIA.
Rev. Caleb DOVE OF Griffin died wednes
day.
There are twenty-six churches in Butt
county.
The silk flag to be presented to the PERI,
Rifles by their friends will cost at least 500
]. Q. Prather of Harlem had his right arm
cut off above the elbow by gin saw
Wednesday.
John Ash worth, a Walker county farmer
lost $40 while seeing the sights at Rom,
Wednesday night
Sheriff Cornell of Spalding county wa.
relieved by nimble fingers of 800 watct
at the state fair in Macon Wednesday.
Emily Boone, the negro woman con icted
of poisoning the Talley negroes, will be
hanged at Calhoun on Friday. Nov. Z.
George w. Ragans of Thomas county
will probably die from the knife wounds
inflicted bv negro day or two ago.
Several young men in Calhoun have pur-
chased instruments and organized a brass
band under the leadership of j. c. Har kins.
married at her fathers beautiful home, in
Cave Spring, Wednesday, to II. II. Dean of
Rome.
l.. NJ Ward has resigned the position of
city editor of tie Macon Telegraph to be-
come a member Of a real estate firm in
Atlanta.
T. j. Williamson Of Butts county had a
sister, now deceased, named Winnie Ella
Jerela Mary catherine Casada Hasseltine
Williamson.
DR.. @. ". Holmes OF Rome is suffering
from stroke Of paralysis at hot Springs,
Ala. Wednesday night his condition was
considered critical.
Monday Mrs Brown, wife Of DIR. r. e.
Brown of Barnesville. was thrown from her
buggy and though not seriously hurt, she
was considerably bruised about the head
Lizzie Jones, colored girl, 16 years old.
was burned t. death Wednesday afternoon
on a plantation near Macon. Her dress
caught from fire under pot in the yard.
Lender Jordan, son OF Mr. and Mrs. b.
l.. Jordan of Ha Nv kinsville has secured the
position of page in the United States
supreme court, at salary of 800 per
month.
The new Georgia Trotting Horse Breeders
Association, of which Cap. w. F. Ander-
son of Macon is president, held a meeting
regulations. and to transact other business.
The 3-year-od daughter Of Capt Hardy
Smith OF Dublin accidentally swallo wed a
silver quarter last week, aid is now in a
critical condition. Ii is raought the quarter
lodged in her throat, but the physicians are
unable TO locate it.
One Of the most pleasant events of the
present state fair was the banquet given
Wednesday night by Capt. Robert E. Park,
at his elegant mansion on College hill, to the
outgoing and incoming presidents of the
State Agricultural Society and their asso-
ates.
There is much feeling in South Macon
over an attempted criminal assault made
by young white man on a 10-year-old
white girl. The mother OF the child took
out warrant for him and he has been put
under bond. 1t Is said that certain parties
do not wish the law to take its course, but
desire more summary justice.
A little negro child about 3 years old
living on II. B. Herringtons place, near Cal
houn, was left in the house alone by its
mother day or two ago. When she re-
turned the child was missing, but was
found in the woods near by burned TO
death. The child's clothing caught fire and
it wandered into the woods and died.
Vienna Progress: Two of our young men
went up to the fair last week, and not re-
turning on the day promised telegraphed
their employers that they had been caught
on the jury. One of them signed as "lore-
man." the other as secretary and treas
urer." They did not say what jury they
were on. but we suppose they were trying
the merits of John Barleycorn.
Near Louvale, on the west end Of the
Savannah, Apericus and Montgomery
road Wednesday, a train loaded with ties
was backing toward where they we're
needed, on the western extension of the
road, when one of the negro brakemen was
attacked with en- epileptic fit. He fell off
the end of the car directly across the track,
and the heavy wheels passed over him,
crushing off both legs.
Pitt Johnson, a colored citizen of Haw-
kinsville, got on big drunk last Wednes-
day night, and while in this condition,
invaded the premises of T. J. TAYLOR. who
at once proceeded to unload his Smith 81
Wesson on lee line to Pitt. The negro
reached his home with two bullets in his
body, but, as they failed to strike vital
point. he is getting along all right, and will
soon be at his post again.
At Arab last Friday morning two of
Bedgood q Royals teamsters had row
while driving their teams through the
woods. They stopped their teams and
agreed to fight it out with axes. Each one
grabbed Lis ak and made a break for the
other. One of them got in the first blow
and almost cut the others head from his
body. The slayer departed for parts un.
known and has not been caught.
A passenger on the train from Macon at
tempted to get on the train while it was in
motion at Griffin Thursday, and
came very near being pulled
under the wheels of the car While being
dragged along in this perlous position Steve
Boynton, the colored editor of the Echo,
caught hold of him and probably saved him
from being hurt and possibly killed, but
was rewarded for his kindness by being
knocked down. The train afterward
stopped and the passenger got aboard
A negro named Gus Hall escaped from
the convict camp in Montgomery county
last Friday. He had served only one year
OF tifteen-year sentence for rape. All
efforts to track him failed and the search
was finally abandoned. Monday morning
he walked into the camp and surrendered.
He explains he had no idea of leaving for
good, Tut merely went to see his folks in
Washington county He walked nearly all
the way there and back, and, having seen
his folks once more, was perfectly willing
to go back to work, totally indifferent as to
his future.
GAINESVILLE Gazette: A serious cutting
difficulty occurred last Saturday night be.
tween Jim BRITT and Minna Brown, in
which Britt was cut in nineteen different
u n