The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-13
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA, AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PUT IN TYPE.

eide Found Dead in the Woods
Whipped by Mob.
GEORGIA
Iagrippe has struck McDonough.
Tallapoosa is to be lighted by electricity.
W. r. Smith will establish weekly paper
at lYhitesburg.
Hog cholera is reported at Machen, on the
Macon and COvingtOn railroad.
One hundred and forty-three marriage
licenses were issued in Randolph county
during 1889
The saw-nill Of D. W. Roberts & Co.,
located above Red Bluff in Decatur county,
was burned one night last week.
R. ". Marel Of Shoal Creek was found
dead in his bed Monday morning. 1t is sup
posed that heart disease was the cause.
The grippe, which has been victimizing
Rome for the past week, is now on the
decrease, and people have almost ceased to
sneeze.
The Mcintosh county authorities have
given out the contract for the erection of
poor-house near Darien. Work will DO COM
meuced at once.
Caroline Thweatt was committed to jail
at Columbus, Thursday, until the next term
OF the superior court to answer the charge
of child murder.
Mrs. T. ". Christian of Chattahoochee
county, who is about 90 years of age, took
her first ride on a railroad over the Column
bus Southern last week.
Katie Banks, the 7-year-old daughter of
james Banks of East Macon, who was
burned on Thursday afternoon, died Satur-
day morning from the injuries.
While Manager J. l.. Cook was bending
piece Of scantling at the Georgia mills at
III.
piece flying in his face and breaking his
nose.
jeff Rogers was robbed by two negroes
near Newtown, in Wilkes county, last week.
The negro thieves, Tom Jordan and Alex
Wallace, have been arrested, and confessed
the crime.
TIE Georgia Quincy Granite Company
has secured the contract for building an
5000 iron and stone bridge at Madison for
the Covington and Macon road. The work
will be started at once.
Capt. J. X. Wright's barn, on line of
Morgan and Putnam counties, containing
$4,000 pounds Of hay and 5000 pounds of
fodder, was destroyed by fire last week. The
origin of the fire is unknown.
During the month of December, 1889.
about 100000 feetof lumber was measured
at the public boom. Very few timber RATS
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river is too low to allow for timber to come
down.
At a meeting of the Mcintosh Light
Dragons at Darien last week, a committee
was appointed with full power to act in re-
gard to the selection of a site for the new
armory, and to solicit subscriptions from
the citizens for said building.
Saturday morning while the 11-vear-old
son of Mrs. Mary Barnet, at Macon, was
fooling with pistol, it went off, and the
ball passed entirely through the jaw and
into the mouth of the little fellow,
making quite a severe wound.
Willis Lay, who lives in ''the fork" in
Terrell county, made, with three mules
last year, forty-ive bales of cotton, 400
bushels of corn, besides peas, potatoes
sugar cane, and ground-peas in abundance
He killed enough meat to run his place this
year.
An attempt was made last week to burn
E. 5. OBrien's gin house at Barnett, but its
occupants were aroused from their midnight
slumbers by the smell of burning oil and
turpentine which the incendiaries had used
to fire the house, and thus saved the gin
house.
Monday night Henry Bell and jeff Fears.
two negroes living on Judge II. w. Bald
wins plantation, near Madison, were play-
1ng with pistol, which they thought wasn't
loaded, when, without warning, it went of.
the ball striking Henry Bell in the head
killing him instantly.
The largest sale of cotton land nade in
Georgia in many years has recently been
consummated. Col Thomas 2. Stovall
purchased "A, 900 acres of land in Twiggs
county for the Union Real Estate Trust
Company, composed of New York capitel-
lists. 1t is the purpose of the company to
Improve property, and place upon it a
thrifty and reliable class of people
Just after the East Tennessee north-bound
passenger pulled out of Dallas last evening
a large, sharp-edged flint stone came wins.
ting with tremendous force through the
window of the sleeper, nearly buryin5- itself
an the hard wood beyond. 1t was by the
narrowest margin that the stone. thrown
perhaps with a murderous intent, missed
the heads of the party in the sleeper. in
which case there would have been a trap-
edy to recount.
Thursday night, at thesresidence of Mrs.
Charity Lummus, some eight miles west ~
Cumming, three men went to the house
and demanded to be let in. Mrs Lummus
opened the door, when the parties rushed
IN and knocked down Aaron Duggen. a weII-
known Africo-Indian, who was at work for
MRS. Lummus. One If them hit him with
brass knucks, while the others beat him
with clubs, They then dragged him ont Of
doors and again beat and shot at him
finally leaving him more dead than alive
Friday night, two young men from Ber-
rien county, ID. B. Rowan and Thomas
Corbett, we're in Valdosta. A negro fell in
with them, and, thinking that the Young
men were in condition to be handled snc.
cessfully, struck Mr.. Rowan a terrible blow
on the back of the head, it is supposed. with
brass knucks. He fell, and the negro made
pass at his pocketbook, which Contained
the proceeds from the sale of a bale
or two Of cotton, but Mr.. Corbett assaulted
the would-be robber. The negro struck
Corbett down. Fortunately, Rowan was
not knocked senseless, and before the negro's
attention could be again directed to the
pocketbook he rose, and the negro saw that
his calculations had miscarried, and he fed
away into the darkness. Suspicion fell unon
'Lish Simmons, son of old Tom Simmons
reared in Valdosta, and he was arrested next
day. AT the committal trial both Rowan
and Corbett identified him as the man. and
In default of 81, 1000 bail he was committed
to jail.
David, the 10-year-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. M. w. Coates, residing in the neirh-
borhood OF Macedonia church, was acct
dentally shot and killed Thursday after
noon. MIR. Coates had just moved to the
place where he Is now living, and left an
old double-barreled shotgun in the wagon
not knowing that either barrel was loaded
Both tubes were broken off and IL had
been left with him for repair by some one
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