The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-15

Trein-A Negro Desperate Killed at
Cordele - hYsn's Creditors Won't
Compromise.
GEORGIA.
McDonough is 20 have oank under
charter from the state.
W.D. Cowdrey and Mrs. J. B. johnson
ara building new residences at Arlington.
Merchants Of Lumpkin say trade is i'm
proving. and there is better feeling in
business circles.
The society event Of the year at Atlanta
will be the marriage of Tom Cobb jackson
10 Miss Sarah Frances Grant.
The experimental farm is sending out
one-half bushel of the celebrated Appler |
oat to each county in the state.
The New York creditors of Steve Ryan
have refused to accept his offer TO COM !
promise at 30 cents on the dollar.
Clark Howell, managing editor of thu |
Constitution, will not DO a candidate for |
reelection as speaker Of the legislature.
Lumpkin Independent: There are rumors |
of the iynching Of a negro for rape In this
county within the last few days, but we
have heard nothing definite.
Willis Stevens, colored man living about
six miles below Columbus, in Russell county,
Alabama, is the possessor Of COW which
gave birth to twin calves last Sunday morn
ing.
a special passenger train killed J. W.
Bowen on the crossing at Bronwood Saturo
day. His buggy was torn to pieces and the
mule killed. He leaves a wife and three
children.
Capt W. B. Burnett will not enter the
race for mayor of Athens. He assigns as
his reason for this course the increasing de-
mands of his law practice on his time and
his attention.
A negro baby was carried by it's mother
TO DIR. McDonald's drug store at MoDonough
Thursday for some medicine, and when the
doctor went to examine it, it was dead. It
was sick when taken from home, but the
mother had no idea when it died in her
arms.
Boston World: Old Aunt Abbie Barnes.
of whose age mention was made In these
columns last year, died in this city last
Thursday, at the advanced age of 12l years.
Aunt Abbie was born in Maryland, and
came to Georgia ere the red man thought of
giving up bis hunting grounds.
Friday evening two yonng ladies of Sum-
merville seated themselves on a wheelbar-
row in front of a store, when a gentleman
friend proposed to roll them home. They
agreed to the proposition, and the novel
spectacle was seen Of a man hauling two
handsome ladies on q wheelbarrow.
Glenn Lodge, No. rs. 1. o. o. F., recently
established in Athens is growing with won-
derful success. It's charter membership was
made up of some of the best citizens OF
Athens and since organization it has been
steadily adding to its roll unfit it now has
nearly forty active and energetic workers
in its ranks.
1t is said that a once popular drummer,
who was accustomed to pay frequent visits
toQuitman. will make his visits few and far
between in the future. Reason; He owes q
good many dollars in town obtained by bor-
rowing and getting friends to indorse drafts
which were never paid. The name and
face Of this knight of the grip are familiar
to nearly every one.
At Dawson Saturday, while the streets
were crowded with negroes, a notorious
woman known as Big Lucy. became drunk
and disorderly, ard when Chief Hatcher
arrested her she refused to submit. A
crowd OF negroes gathered, and cries Of
''don't hit her," and You wouldn't do a
white woman that way" could be heard. A
riot seemed imminent, and il was only by
hurrylng the negress to the guard house
that a conflict was prevented.
About three weeks ago as the Sam pas-
seDger train No. l, west bound, leaving
Americus at p. M, was on its way to
Omaha, the engine ran into a new crosstie
that had been placed across the track about
one-quarter of mile west Of Lumpkip
The tie came very near tearing the engine
all to pieces, but it was removed
and the engine started again. When
about two or three hundred yards
from where the train had run into
the first one two more ties were
discovered on the track. Abe Burrows, a
section hand on the road, has justsbeen ar
rested for the crime.
John Kitchen, white man, killed a
negro by the name of Jordan Durham at
the Willingham Sash, Door and Lumber
Company's mill, near Cordele. Saturday
Durham was desperate negro who has
given great deal of trouble to that section.
de has been out of the chain-gang only a
few years. He had served term for some
mlsdemeanor, and since his release has been
worse than ever. Ii is understood that he
had made frequent threats against the life
OF Mr.. Kitchen, and was very abusive and
aggressive before he was killed He was
seen In Cordele Saturday morning, where
ne bought some cartridges, with the re-
mark that he would kill some white man
that day. Mr.. Kitchen shot him in the back
OF his head with load of buckshot from a
shotgun. Durham was killed instantly.
Squire A. M. Richardson, with an appar-
ent feeling Of the weight of responsibility
resting upon him, brought to the Dalton
Argus office, from the Dawnsville district
last week a sworn statement made before
him by sixty-four disguised men, as to the
minutlae OF circumstance aud incidents. of
their whipping of the Rollins boy, several
days since, on charge Of stealing Will am
Stevenson's gun. The purport of their af-
hdavit is a denial that they threatened to
kill the boy if he did not admit the stealing.
They, however. seem to admit the whip
ping Of the boy to extort confession.
which he made, to the effect that he did
steal it. They admit that they did threaten
TO kill him to make him tell IL he knew who
burned David Delks house, knowledge Of
which he denied. Squire Richardson was
forced to get up at midnight and take the
statement OF the men, with orders to place
1t with the Argus for publication.
The trial of John r. TrulI, at Sanders
Vile. on a charge of killing his brother-in-
law, Thomas j. Tauton on Oct Is last.
ended Saturday in failure to agree on the
part Of the jury. On the night 10 question
Tauton was sitting with his wife and chill
dren at his Preside. with his right side facing
window, when, without warning, some
one approached the window and, placing
pistol almost against the pane, fired. The
leaden missile, a 3S-caliber cartridge, shat
tered the glass and, striking the victim over
the right ear, plowed its way through his
head and found au outlet about two inches
above the left ear. A quilt that was being
made was hanging in frames overhead in
the humble cottage, and through it the
ball passed, lodging in the ceiling.
IL seems that suspicion fastened upon him
Immediately, from the fact that he had
been defendant in an attempted asIassina-