The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-06-17
CAPITAL OF THE STATE.
MRS. HALL ENTERS 4 NEW SUIT
AGAINST GOULD.

She Wants $4,000 Damages for
Defamation of Character, and Her
Husband Puts IN q claim for
SIo,ooo-A Suit Over Notes Given
for Bridal rousseau
=ATLANrA, Ga, June 16.-Mrs. Zeliua
Cole Hall, who recently entered suit for
damages against her former landlord, E. F.
Gould. for keepil g improper females across
the hall from her art school, and thereby
seriously injuring her business, came at the
millionaire a second time to-day with a
fresh claim for s25. 900. This sum Mrs.
Hall demands for defamation Of character,
and Theodore Hall. her husband, wants
$4,000 on the same account. The fresh
suits are basel on pretty salty card from
Mr.. Gould, published the day after the
first account Of the scandal appeared
in the papers. Mr.. Gould denounced
Hall and his wife as blackmailers, and said
be had turned them out of his building for
failure to pay rent. As soon as this card
was read by the Halls they took out a
warrant for. Mr.. Gould, charging criminal
libel The action begun to-day and is in the
hands Of one Of the best lawyers in the
state. and big legal fight is promised.
AsUIT OVER BRIDES OUTFIT.
An extraordinary suit resulted to-day in
q mistrlal before the city court. Rich 6
Bros endeayOred to compel the payment OF
SlS3 by Mrs. S. A. Bonnell, due the
firm for goods purchased for her
daughters wedding outfit. Mrs. Bonnell
bought the things and her husband, city
sexton at Oakland cemetery, ". A. Bonnell,
gave his notes for the money. The case re-
suited in a mistrial. The Judge thereupon
said he would have granted the counsel for
the defendant a non-suit had it been asked
for, as no evidence was before the court to
show that Mrs. Bonnell was liable instead of
the head of the house. The latter appears
TO be insolvent, while his wife has property.
An interesting feature of the case is that
three-fourths of the jurors, instead of agree
ing with the judge, tried hard to obtain
verdict for the plaintiffs.
GORDON WHITE REsPITED.
Gordon White. who was to have been
hanged at Fort Gaines tomorrow for Grim
inal assault upon the 1S-months-oId baby of
Ed Adams, has been granted a respite till
his case can be inquired into. The negro,
who is but Is years old, had been employed
to nurse the child On MAY the crime
was supposed to have been committed On
May 16 a special term of Clay county supe-
rior court was held and the boy convicted
and sentenced to death. 1t now appears
that his guilt is extremely doubtful The
child's mother signed the application for
reprieve. as did its two grandfathers, one
of whom is an able physician, and a large
number of Clay county citizens, among
them nearly all the county and municipal
officers, with the judge, jury and solicitor
who tried the case Execution of the SEN
tence Is suspended till further orders from
the governor, who in the meantime, will
sift the evidence.
THE STATE ROAD EXAMINERS
A note from c. B. Wallace, received at
the executive department this afternoon,
states that after reflection he has come to
the conclusion that the work expected of
the State road examiners under the act
can not be performed In the ten days time
TO which they are limited under tho act.
He therefore retires from the board w.
L. Clark ..sof Columbus, long connected
with the Central and Mobile and Girard rail-
roads, has been rendered the appointment
in his stead, and will doubtless accept, and
reach here tomorrow to be present at the
organization of the board.
SUSPECTED OF swINDLING.
A number of merchants in small Georgia
towns have written here inquiring about a
my sterious patent medicine vender who has
been going about the country doing up the
small dealers. 1t is said that he offers to
take orders for standard goods very much
below the usual prices provided the merchant
will allow himself to be created an agent for
the "Pau Wap Botanical Remedies" and take
good stock of them, paying cash down
therefor. Pocketing the money of bis
victim the man delivers the "Pau Wapn
remedies on the spot and takes orders for
the really valuable goods, which the mer-
chant never sets eve on. The man claims to
have an Office on Broad street, with head
quarters at Baltimore.
A NEGRO BLEEDs TO DEATH.
Henry Stead, negro waiter, left the
restaurant where he worked about IL
o'clock last night apparently in excellent
home and to bed. Early this morning
Stead's companion was awakened by loud
groans and the noise of struggling. Strik-
ing hight the negro found his bedfellow
stone dead He had bled to death, and
blood was still gushing from his nose and
mouth.
THoMAsToN's RAILROAD.
A committee of citizens from Thomaston
came to Atlanta to day and deposited in
the bank, to the credit of the Macon and
Birmingham Railroad company, 1901,
the amount necessary, according to the
engineers estimate, to take the road
| through the town. NJ. Fl. Sandwich, G..
A. Weaver, Joseph Allen, J. S. King,
J. r. A. Mathews and j. W. Atwater con
stitute the committee. This is supposed to
end the fight which has been going on in
the courts, and send the railroad without
| doubt through Thomaston.
NEGRO BOY SHOT.
At the suburb known as Reynoldstown
to-day. Neil Williams, a negro preachers
son, shot another young negro named Henry
| Reynolds in the side, and Reynolds is likely
| to die. The boys were engaged in game
of base ball A quarrel between them grew
into a fight, and Williams pulled out a
| pistol and began firing. He succeeded in
escaping the officials.
A BURGLAR IN A CELL