The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-04-22

Harris with a small iron rod he had in
his hand. Harris, quick as flash,
| grabbed a heavy GA stick, which one of the
! bystanders carried aud advanced to within
short distance of his assailant when he
| hurled 1t at him with tremendous force.
| The missile struck Harris on the head,
smashed bis Uranium and felled him to the
| ground. The wounded man is now in a
| critical condition, and will probably die.
The stick which Harris used wss thrown
with such strength that pieces of bone
which had formerly been part of Pullam's
anatomy. were found firmly I'm bedded in 1t.
\ physician also removed sixteen small
pieces Of bone from the locality Of the
wound in the negroes head.
Talbotton NeiO Era: Last Wednes lay
afternoon the news was spread on our
streets chat Scion Bethune had been shot
and seriously wounded by his brother, Mac
Bethuue. DR.. Philpos hurried to the scene
Of the shooting and found Scion suffering
with wound caused by pistol ball which
had entered near the upper edge Of the
cheek bone, ranging around under tire ear
and stopping in the back Of the neck. It
was not deemed advisable to probe for the
ball for several days, owing 10 the patients
nervous condition and attendant high fever.
1t was located in the back OF the neck and
extracted by Drs. Wells and Philpos last
Friday evening. The young man is now i'm
proving and will likely be all right again
IN short while. Mack Bethnne, the young
man who did the shooting, is the youngest
son of Gen. Marion BethuDe. de is q
steady, industrious young man, but it has
been known TO his family and friends for
several years that he was subject TO attacks
Of mental alteration. At such times his
popularity generally manifested itself in the
form Of extreme religious enthusiasm, but
he was always considered harmless. The
causes leading 10 the shooting were trivial
in the extreme, and the absence of any
reasonable provocation proves very clearly
that it was the work Of a disordered
mind. The shooting took place near Mac
Bethune's woodshop.
An attempt was made to blow the Love-
lace hotel, at Buchanan, up with dynamite
Monday night, but, owing TO the dynamite
not being fixed properly, the plot failed.
Detectives Trip and johnson Head occupy
a room on the south side OF the hotel, on the
third floor, and 1t was under this room that
the dynamite was placed. The bomb ex-
ploded about IL O'Clock. No damage was
done to the building, except to the room &C.
cupied by Detectives Trip and Head.
Some therboarding on the outside was
torn off and the window glass broke out,
and the clustering in the room was torn
loose and the lamp broken. The parties
were evidently new hands at the
business, as they did not conine the
dynamite, but placed 1t on the ground
There was twenty-one guests at the hotel at
the time of the explosion. A crowd soon
gathered on the scene. Search was made
for the would be Inurderers, but no trace
could be found. 1t is generally supposed
here that the dynamite was placed there
by some enemy Of Trips, as the circum-
stances show that he was the man whom
the dynamite was intended for. No one
80 Al
tardly deed, but 10 is certain that II the citi-.
zens of Buchanan could lay their hands on
the right man, and it could be proved be-
yond doubt who placed the bomb under
the hotel. justice would be melted out in
short order.
The heople Of Oconee county are greatly
excited over the prevalence OF that dreaded
disease, CHAMBERS. Complaint first reached
Commissioner Nesbitt asking for a remedy
and for relief. There is no provision in the
law for ouch cases. Col. Nesbitt tried to get
the last legislature to give his department a
part of the money he earned in oil inspec-
tons for the purpose Of quarantining borses
having CHAMBERS and other contagious
diseases, but the legislature refused TO pass
the bill. This left the department without
means to do anything substantial in the
way of relief. But In this case the appeals
were so urgent, both 20 Col. Nesbitt and the
governor, that Col. Nesbitt secured the SER
vices OF two veterinary surgeons, Drs.
Gray and Cook, and sent them TO Watkins
vile, where the disease first made its ap-
pearance. They report the disease as that
of genuine CHAMBERS, and that 1t is incura-
BILE. They recommend that the stock be
Guaranteed, and that the neighbors do not
take their stock to places where stock are
congregated. There are cases reported
from Logansville, in Walton county, and
from Shellman in Gwiunett comfy. Il is
said that some OF thess horses we're pur-
chased In Atlanta from stockmen who
brought them from Texas. Mr.. Marable,
who has recently lost three horses from the
CHAMBERS, and who doctored them all the
time, is sick. and the doctors think he has
contracted the disease.