The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-15
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS.


Death at Helena-A Couple OF Chill
dren Burned to Death.
GEORGIA.
Mrs. Ruth Williams of cambridge die
Monday.
Eiitor J. H. Nesbet of Milledgevile die
Wednesday.
TIE eighth session of the Macon annua
: conference Of the African Methodist Epis
copal church is in progress at Columbus.
A new postOffice has been established a
z. A. Rawis' place in Bulloch county.
is called Rufus. Mr.. Rawls is postmaster
The Statesboro Eagle is printing a frs
class local page 1t is not surprising, there
fore. that the circulation of the paper is in
creasing.
At "A Conference Of the Marietta Baptist
church Wednesday, Rev. A. II. Mitchell OF
Atlanta was unanimously called TO the
pastorate Of the church.
Samuel A. TownsIey of Perry was found
dead in bed at Brunswick, Thursday, &;
Mrs. NJ. Z. Bailey's boarding house. Con
sumption was probably the cause.
A child Of Dan Craigs tcolored), about
years old, was burned to death near Law
renceviile few days ago. It bad been left
at home alone and played with fire.
The gin house Of W. A. Herring. a few
miles from Newman, was destroyed by fire
Wednesday, gather with the gin and from
three 10 five bales Ct cotton. There is NJ
insurance.
The killing Of T. c. Dawson on the expo
sition grounds at Columbus has been de-
clared murder by the c0roner's jury. The
men i'm picated are Robert Howard. Rich
ard Howard and James Bickerstaff
There is a mystery connected with the
wreck that occurred at Adams station, on
the Central railroad. Monday night. 1t is
thought that some malicious person lamp
cred with the switch, thereby causing the
accident
On y ednesday, Nov. 10. a committee Of
the National NOman's Christian Temper
snce Union will visit Indian Springs to
consider the advisabiity Of establishing an
ineb-iats asylum. Tne cit.zs 5 Of Butts
county Will enter ain them with an open
sir dinner.
A. Sandersviila. Wednesday, Hodges c.
RcughtCn and Warren Lovett quRrrelled,
Mr.. Lovets strgcz Atr. Rosghton with his
list, wheseuDCn NJ R0GshtOn immedi-
ate.y sh9. ~ him 7-l-h pisto, bu fortunately
did nos strike IL Friends then iaterfereI
and Guet wss res-1-ai
q. c. N-cE. T-1 lives rear Enal, in Bul-
loch. had BIS Dwelling, together with his
Cotton crop. Gss1r1v ei oy fire iast Wednes-
day niElE Tie rs started in such a way
as . couTi--s M-. Neck that j: was the
v0-k Ct a. i-csu,zlzrT. HIS loss IS several
buEdr=1 11-Lrs, s--h II Insurance
Abbev-lls Tiq1g1- SINE days ago S. d.
Wslksr 1T tss 1aE sister. who left this
country whe1 Sc was quite small. Mr..
Walker kneE nothing Il her whereabouts
until he met her here the other day locking
after some property that belonged to her
mother. Her home is in Savannah, where
she was married few years ago to a Mr..
Thorn.
At Americas Thursday. the 1O-months-old
child Of Frank Price, a carpenter residing
on jefferson strest, was very seriously
burned. While Mrs Price was absent from
the house the child's clothing caught fire
from the fireplace. When the mother re-
turned she found the child almost suffo-
Gated, and had she been away few min
utes longer it would have been dead. The
wounds were dressed and the babe will
recover.
Lee West Ccolored) was stabbed to-death
by Green Norwood (colored) at a negro
festival in Decatur county Saturday night.
West cursed in the presence of Green's
wife, and when requested TO stop attacked
Green. A fight followed. At the close
West was hors du combat. with fifteen
knife wounds In his body. head and limhs,
and soon after furnished a subject for both
coroner aud undertaken, while Norwood
took 10 the woods.
Last Wednesday afternoon a negress
found the body of negro lying on the rail.
road track owned by TcDonough 81 Co.
a mile and half from Mershon, 10 Pierce
county. Near the body lay the negroes head
covered with blood, as Yves tine ground
for several feet around, which showed that
there had been foul play. I. p. Walker OF
M1rGhOn tn ar tina nrlU Et Vo
could be- accounted for was that the negro
must have been an accomplish in the recent
riot at McDonald's mill, and was quietly puI
out of the way by the citizens Of tho com
munity.
At Wednesdays meeting of the CON-
mittee on ceremonies for laying the corner
stone of the GIRLS Industrial school at Mil
ledgeville, Mayor Cline appointed the
following gentlemen TO go to Atlanta and
extend the Invitation to the legislature
Messrs. Solomon Barrett, r. n Lamar, W
w. Lumpkin and Joseph K. Pottle, includ
ing the mayor and aldermen of the city
The orations of the day will be made by
Gov. Northen and Hon. John S. Davidson
while speeches are expected from Hons
Clark Howell, Patrick Walsh, President Of
the Senate Mitchell. duBigon, and others.
The shelves in Smythes crockery store al
Augusta fell Thursday and broke So. 20C
worth OF crockery. Miss Mary Martin wa
standing between the lamp counter and tn,
shelving. which fell. She was caught under
the falling debris and tainted away. Luck
lily she escaped with only slight injuries
though during the time which elapsed
before she could be extricateC
from beneath the overturned shelve
and shattered crockery the gray
est apprehensions were entertained
Mr.. Smythe had the shelves and thei,
fastenings inspected by expert builders
Wednesday, and it is understood he will
bring suit for damages against the owner
of the property.
McRae Enterprise: Chas. Powell, col
ored, is at home again. He received his
pardon on last Saturday and reached Nc
Rae on Tuesday. The crime for which he
was sent to the penitentiary was the killing
OF Sam Staten In Melville in 1875 or 1879
He was tried, found guilty and sentenced
to be hung in April, 1880, by Judge Pate
Before the day Of execution, however, hi
white friends got up a petition for commu
tatlor OF life Imprisonment, and Gov. Col
quit committed the death sentence Fol
the past year or two Col C. G. Smith o
Haw klnsvillelthas been irving TO get hin
pardoned, and by hard work and untir
ing energy succeeded in getting his petition
granted, and on last Saturday he was re
leased by order of the governor
McRae Enterprise. w. H. Boothe ESCAPED
terrible death early Monday morning
While going up to Helena, Just before day.