The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-19
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS

the Johnstown Flood Survivors In
Trouble-A Fall Into Well at Lees
burg-Negroes Tunnel Out of the
Station House at Rome,
GEORGIA.
George Hungerford OF Columbus died
Monday.
Robert BroEn, prominent resident Of
Baldwin county, died Thursday.
Ed BlondeI and his wife. two Johnstow
sufferers who started out with show, have
just been arrested at Atlanta for not pay
ing board bill
June "a is ST. Johns day. The Masons Of
Fulton county will celebrate it by having a
large meeting, in connection with the alli-
ance. at Hemphill.
The Atlanta Journals lion fund amounts
TO $500. The cost of the beast will be 500.
There is no doubt that it will be bought
within a few weeks.
Judge Emory Speer will deliver an ad-
dress at Culloden on the Fourth Of July in
connection with the big barbecue set for
that day to celebrate the advent of her sec
ond railroad.
The barbecue gotten up by the memorial
association of Monroe for the purpose of
raising funds to procure headboards for the
graves of the confederate dead at that place
will be served to-day.
Hail came down in solid streaks on the
Wagner dairy farm, near Milledgeville,
Monday. 1t accompanied small cyclone
which demolished the barn and other out
buildings and leveled fencing. The storm
was local
Capt. Bob Ledsinger, who travels for
Farmer, Kelley a. Co. of Columbus, few
days ago while at Leesburg, stepped out of
the back door Of the store of customer
and fell into dry well about twenty feet
deep, breaking his collar bone in two places.
Monday morning the crew of the east
bound train on the Columbus and Western
road found the body of a negro man near
the sixty-two mile post. The body was
badly mangled, and was identified as that
of Gus He Iderson. he is supposed to have
fallen from a freight train while trying to
steal ride.
Friday night jeff Bennett, a negro in the
employ of the Central railroad, was riding
on the top of a freight car through the
freight yards in Albany, with his legs
dangling over the side Of the car, when he
had one leg broken by striking against
piece of lumber protruding from car on
the side track, and his other leg was severe
~ confused about The ankle
Last week strange negro applied to E.
I. Maynard Of Monroe for work. which
Mr. Maynard readily gave him. During
the week evidence upon which to ground
buSpiClOI O5lllE mT. maynard
arrested the negro and turned him over to
Sheriff King, who identified him as Henry
Finch, who mad recently escaped from the
Jail in Clinton, and for whom $25 reward
had been offered
A negro named Bob Owens approached
the ticket office window of the East Ten
nessee railroad at Brunswick Tuesday to
purchase ticket. He had i'll his hand a
SO note, and he was Just in the act of
handing it to Ticket Agent Norris, when
big, black negro walked up and snatched it
from him. Inc negro ran with the bill and
hid under the Oglethorpe hotel Policemen
were notified, but neither tue negro nor the
money could be found.
The first car of melons from Southwest
Georgia for the season of 1890 for Cincin-
natl left Cairo via the Savannah. Florida
and w Western railroad Banbridge, and the
Alabama Midland railway at 4 o'clock D.
IN. on June 8, arrived at cambridge at D.
IN. the same day. arrived at Montgomery 6
a. m. on June 10, and arrived at Cincinnati
and ready for delivery at o'clock a. IN. on
June II, thus making the Quickest time on
record to Cincinnati from Cairo. The Ala
bama Midland railway is prepared to render
this service right along.
AT Rome, Sunday morning, Officers
Guice and Collier arrested negro man
named Henry Burnett AMI locked him in a
cell with another negro named Austin Kin
hebrew. klnnebrew was a convict in the
city chain gang aud had served several DAYS
on the streets. Sunday night they escaped
from the city prison. They pulled up the
hoor over sewer and descended to a sink
or open space framed beneath the floor.
They then, by some means or other, sue
ceeded IN making an embrasure in the brick
wall OF the buildings, and through that en-
brasure they escaped to the outside.
Talbotton Nelo Era: On Monday morn
ing several citizens went down to Capt
Persons home to hear some music. The
performer is 9-year-old negro boy from
Union Springs, Ala. He and his mother
are here to see old friends. Mary Preer.
the mother of this boy, belonged to Uncle
Wesley Maund in days of slavery The
boys musical talent was discovered last
February. He played splendidly the first
time his fingers ever touched the KEYS, and
II is truly wonderful how well he PLAYS.
While at the captains he played twenty
two pieces on the piano, and his mother
says he can play fifty. The boy will give
public exhibition of his wonderful talent in
few days.
The negroes of Rome had an ice cream
festival at Mobley's Spring Monday night
They left on the dummy to return to East
Rome about midnight. When the car was
near the residence of Col. Hamilton
Yancey, Ward Stancel, the negro who had
charge OF the dummy, undertook to put Off
woman who was drunk Frank Hardy
interfered and gave Ward an expression
OF his mind on the question. Ward imme-
diatey drew his pistol aud commenced
firing promiscuously into the crowd. A.
Ballips undertook to go to Ward and take
the pistol from him, and he received a
bullet In his left arm. Frank Hardy re-
ceived two shots in the stomach and a
woman was shot through the ear. There
was general stampede and general
whistling of lead, and some of the passen-
gers lit off the dummy and hustled away.
A terrific electric storm ragged around
Decatur for two hours Monday afternoon.
During the continuance of the storm the
lightning was incessant, and the thunder
ratified and roared and shook the hills as the
bolts fell in shower to the earth. Few
that saw the storm had ever seen one
that was more terrifying, and no storm in
recent years could be compared with it. At
one house two ladies were severely shocked.
in another one lady was stunned, and an
other received a slight shock, though no
one was seriously injured. An electric
phenomenon occurred that has never
before been seen, at least in this part
of the world. In the severest part of the
storm the lightning struck the telegraph
wire of the Postal company, on the Coving-
ton road, about a mile from Decatur. It