The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-09
ITEMS IN THREE STATES
GEORGIA, FLORIDA, AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE

Train at Holton-A Negro Shot by
a White Man at Barnesville-An
Athens Factory Cancels the Debts
of Its Operatives.
GEORGIA.
The new Jail at Townsville is in use.
Columbus is arranging for big time on
she Fourth of July.
There is talk of putting in the GaInewell
electric fire alarm system at Athens.
Jim Roper of Cumming was killed by
lightning while hOeing cotton day or two
ago.
DIR. w. II. Hutchinson quietly passed
away at his home in Adel early on Tuesday
morning.
As soon as the Macon postoffice is made a
first-class office the employees will try to es-
tablish the eight-hour movement.
W. o. Baldwin. who killed an officer in
Brunswick recently, is at home with his
parents at Cuthbert under $4,000 bail.
G. W. Maddox has purchased from NJ L.
Jones the Shewmake place, about six miles
west of Dublin, paying $500 therefor.
THERE'S talk of REMEMBERING the houses
of Atlanta under the centenary system
that is, giving each block 100 numbers.
The barn Of the Brown House at Melon
ough was burned at midnight Thursday.
The hotel was saved only by hard work.
John J. Weaver, on Friday last, sold to
Capt. Hardy Smith for 5000 his dwelling
and ninety acres of land located near the
river at Dublin.
At Thomasville, Friday, while Mrs. Hem
rfetta Armstrong was absent from her
home on jackson street, some sneak thief
entered the house and stole $40 from Mrs.
Armstrong; room.
A merchant of Milledgeville is said to be
so absent-minded that he walked from his
house to bis store bareheaded in hot sun a
day or two ago without missing his head
covering until he reached his place Of bust
ness.
e. f. Gould of Atlanta says the suit
brought against him by Miss Hall, the
artist, for 5000 damages because, accord
ing to her story, he housed women of ILL
repute in the block where she had a studio,
is nothing but matchmaking scheme.
w. T. McGargh, a white carpenter, while
working on one of the trestles being built
near Soffkee Thursday, cut his leg with an
adz, infiIcting a wound about four inches
long and one inch deep. A physician
dressed the wound, and nothing serious was
anticipated, but the man died Friday.
At GAINESVILLE Friday, in an alteration
between Ben Thweatt (white) and Jack
REVERE (colored), the latter was seriously,
but not dangerously shot twice by Thweatt.
One bullet plowed through the negroes left
ear and fiattened against the skull. 1t was
extracted. The other ball is buried. in the
flesh of his back, and, though it was probed
for by DR.. Perdue, it cannot be found.
Milledgeville Chronicle: The asylum ZOO
was the scene Of much excitement last
Monday. The monkeys by some strategy
escaped from their apartment, and lively
chase ensued, in which DIR. Harris Hail
took a very active part, as the monkeys are
his pets. They jumped fences, ran over
housesas if they possessed wings, and occa-
sionally would collide with a negro, soaring
him half out of his wits. The pets were
finally captured and the usual quietude was
resumed at the zoo.
Newman Herald: The committee ap-
pointed to arrange the time and place for
holding the annual reunion of companies ID
and r, Phillips Legion, met at the court
house on Tuesday last. After some discus
sion it was agreed to hold the reunion on
Thursday, July 81, at Pearl Spring park.
1t will be a basket dinner, and the surviving
members of all other cavalry companies Of
the county are cordially invited TO partici-
pate IN the reunion, viz: the companies
commanded by Capt. Fl. A. North, Capt. J.
d. Simms and Capt. j. w. Trammell
]. G. Mosely, a white man about 80 years
of age, was run over and fatally injured by
a freight train at Holton, on the East Ten
nessee railroad Friday afternoon Whan
tbe No % local fre;gbt train stornod Ie %
Holton man wac saen 70 1xall ~ - +to
side Of q oar and ist as tha tra;n , " va9
away he nlaced HE hands ~, the Iad AZ, 81 :.
the side and attemnted IN climb nm Refore
he conId crash the Iaader tirr,fr b;s go
slipped off a rock on which he was standinc
and he fell with his laos undsr tha oa,-s
His RIGHT Iao, yves nasba3 int ILL 800
the knee dossr and the Iaft soot , !uny aaO
c1t off Ha died half a., 49, 49, VOC Aoaii
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Aenens Dohher: Io-oay was payday
WIN ,ne A.nens ManuIactuIlng company,
anu al tne operatives were happy. Ii will
oe remempereo tnat iast summer the fac
eoly was 1 Eonpeieu 70 close down TOT some
weess' Anis caused quite number OF
nanus 70 get III oeot 10 tne company, and
s soms Oh Snen were CONSIDERABLY In debt.
Io-uay wnen one enveioPes containing their
Pay VIZ nanoeu aro s ~ was Iouno tnat
not onIy tne money Tor the months work
had become indebted TO the connanv
through being out OF work last summer.
We are Informed that some of the women
we're IN oeps as mucn as Soo, out now all
aie,,S ~ 81. u ueo' anu many neretoiore
r. y,nst he We tarra sa,,ora, a.sS IA siales.
To 10 this 81 H"A"ieu uoiiars
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