The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-20
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Former Merchant of Lumpkin Ar
rested on Charge OF Larceny After
Trust-Freight Trains Collide Near
Jesup-A Strike for Nine Hours by
Plumbers Of Americas.
GEORGIA
An annual fair for Ware county is being
agitated at Waycross.
Morris and Daniel Mayer and Miss Bertha
Mayer of Albany have started on a trip to
Germany.
James II. Davis shot a negro in q barroom
row at Macon Saturday, but the wound Is
not dangerous one.
A horse owned by John Summerford of
Smithville was killed by Central railroad
train recently. A jury has Just awarded
Mr. Summerford S225 damages and $40
interest.
A negro supposed to be Tom Dom, a
convict who escaped from the Florida peni-
Tertiary at Monticello, has been arrested at
Brunswick. Dom was serving a five years
sentence for rape.
On Friday afternoon Sheriff McMichael
of Columbus arrested A. w. Cottle, the
overseer on Phil Jackson's plantation. near
Chokee, Lee county. on the charge of SELL
ding mortgaged property.
John Morgan of the Twenty eighth dis
trict Of Sumter county recently killed
seven wild turkeys in three shots. Three
birds were killed at the first shot, and two
at the second and third Shots
1t is claimed that car on the electric
street railway of Macon ran six miles in
nineteen minutes day or two ago. 1t is
computed that on Friday each of the cleo
trio street cars Travelled III miles.
An Americas man picked up his beaver
hat from q closet shelf a day or two ago,
and was Mortified to find litter of six
young kittens in it about four days old. He
now wears his last summers straw.
ID. II. Lee, the conductor who was oh arged
with the Killing of W. A. Trip at Suwan-
nee, and Henry Crawford and Cliff Robert,
two negro brakemen, charged with helping
Lee, were found not guilty by the jury at
Crawfordville Saturday.
A negro, supposed to have been drunk,
fell from an electric car on Cotton avenue
at Americas Saturday night, aud narrowly
escaped being run over by another car just
behind. The wheels of the second car were
right against him when it was brought to a
StandstIll.
Near Adairsville Saturday mule belong
ing to Mid Penn was being driven to a
wagon through the woods where the trees
had been cut down for clearing the ground.
The animal stumbled on a stump, the sharp
splinters of which entered its stomach, and
in few moments it died from the wounds.
Payne Sc Harris, plumbers and gas filters
of -Americus, employ number of men, and
some of these inaugurated a strike Satur-
day. The men demanded a reduction in
work hours from tea to nine a day. The
firm proposed compromise, which they
think will prove satisfactory to all con-
cerned.
Two freight trains on the East Tennessee,
Virginia and Georgia road collided near
Jesup Saturday afternoon. The engines and
several cars were pretty badly wrecked.
Engineer Young of the roadway train was
severely but not dangerously scalded. Both
firemen were slightly bruised and pretty
well shaken up.
Several years ago W. NJ. Peed was q
partner of J. w. May, the two conducting
a mercantile business In Lumpkin under the
firm name of Peed q May. A little over a
year ago Mr.. Peed, without warning, sud-
denly took his departure for parts unknown.
Mr.. May claims that Peed carried off with
him a considerable sum of money belong
ing to the firm, as well as a smaller amount
owned exclusively by him May. In &C
cordance with this statement the grand
jury at the April term Of court, 1882 found
an indictment against Mr.. Peed on a charge
of larceny after trust, delegated. Peed has
just been arrested In Alabama and taken
back to Lumpkin. He must give bond of
$500 TO get out Of Jail.