The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1892-07-26
GEORGIA NEWS.
EVENTS OF n WEEK IN TIE EN-
PRE- STATE.
Tersely Telling of Passing Events Calculated
to Catch the Eye and Interest the
Reader-Other Matters.

Hawkinsyille, Ga, July 23.-(Specia.)-
Two hundred invitations have been
printed and sent out to distinguished ora
tors and guests in various parts OF the state
to attend the big barbecue and confederate
veterans reunion in Hawkinsville on
Another wild Man.
Abbeyille, Ga, July 21.-(Special) y
Negroes in the southern part OF Wilcox
county report seeing Wild man IN the
woods They state that the man was i'll
n partIy nude condition, with long hair
falling from his head to his waist. He
fed screaming at their approach. The man
was white.
She IL n Pretty Woman. Too.
Triton, Ga, July 21.-(Special: There
is sensation in Berrien county. knowing
ones say that a very pretty woman is III
the moonlight distillery business, and that
she captivates every suspicious character
who comes prying along. And they do
say that she makes the best corn whisky
a fellow ever tasted.
He WIN Probably Die.
Kramer, Ga, July 1S.-(Special) manuel
Williams, the seventeen-year-old son of Il
widow living near Villa Rica, was knocked
off the track by the Georgia Pacific freight
three miles west If Villa Rica this even
Ing, and he will die. Young Williams
started across the track to save his mule,
which was grazing near by, and was
above.
A Wonderful Dog.
Chokee. Ga, July 20.-(Special. AN ac-
count was recently published of a musical
dog in Kansas Chokee district, in Lee
county can beat that dog and go it one bet
ter A negro living near here is the owner
of hound dog that attends all the relglous
meetings of the negroes, stands up and tries
80 follow them iii the singing, and regularly
goes up to the altar to be prayed for with
the rest OF the mOurnerS. The dog is GER
tainly II wonder.
Two Pupils Killed.
Buckhead Ca. July I9-(Special)-About
o'clock today cloud from the NOR morthw yth
electricity. 4 very slight rain fell. The
heavy lightning caused vivid sensations over
area of mile or more. In lew MN.
utes the village aroused by the news that
the colored schooihouse. with about fifty pu.
pills and two teachers. had been struck. Al
Were We're Killed e Outright. and two others are
Thought to be fatally shocked or burned. The
lady teacher, Willie i'utler, was dangerously
killed outright were Sidney Stanfield and
George Turner. =
He Had Killed His Wife.
Savannah, GA, July 23.-(Special.)-
Tilly Fredericks, the young lady to whom
Charles Hahnemann, who is suspected of
poisoning his wife, was paving pronounced
attentions at the time of Mrs Hahne-
MAINS death, made a statement tonight.
She claims that on the day of Mrs. Hahne-
manns sudden and fatal illness Hahne-
mann took her driving and told her that he
intended getting divorce from his wife,
and would then marry her. Prior to that
ne had told her that he would give 81 900
10 get rid of his wife. The body will prob
ably be exhumed in n day or two. Hahne-
mann is now in jail on a charge of cheating
and swindling.
The Augusta Conference.
Hephzibah, Ga, July 1S.-(SpeciaI.)- The
Augusta district conference, after II har-
monious and profitable session, lasting
three days, has adjourned. The reports
from the churches comprising the district,
consisting of eighteen pastoral charges, and
embracing the section OF country lying be-
tween Augusta and Milledgeville, show the
most gratifying results, large acquisitions
10 the churches and Il greater interest and
zeal in the general work of the church.
Plans were perfected for the payment of
the indebtedness of the district parsonage
in Augusta. DR.. Chandler submitted re-
ports of Emory college, and collection for
the benefit of the loan fund was taken up,
resulting in n subscription of $40.
Murdered for Money.
Savannah Ca July 19.-(Special. News
of the shocking death of Arthur w. Clarke,
n well-known young man formerly of tins
CITY. was received this afternoon. Early
this morning his manglcd body was found
on the railroad track at Lyons, where he
had come yesterday afternoon to receive
large amount of money, usually sent To- nm
to pay off the hands at the sawmli 1t Iatt-
nall county. of which he WAS manager.
The money had not arrived at Lyons, but
it is supposed that parties Who We're lgho-
rant of this fact murdered Clarke to get
ii and then placed his body so that the
train would run over 1t. Clarke was mar
ried last December to Miss Cccilc Hunter
of this CITY lie was Il son of James N.
Clarke, of Daricn. and was widely known
Buticr swept by Flames.
Butler. GA July .-(Special(-J. w.
McCrary's block of stores was burned yes
terday morning at 2:30 o'clock. 1t was the
biggest fir. Butler has ever had The ori-
gin of the fire is not known. Some are of
the opinion that it was the work of an N
ccndiary Others think that it caught from
the stove, the fire breaking out i'll the stove
room.
wonder is that it did NOT burl the whole
town Mr.. McCrarY is not at home and
the amount of his insurance is not known,
but his bookkecper tells me be thinks that
he had only 81, 800 on the buildings and
stock His loss is estimated at 10000.
Mr.. Corithers who occupies the second
story Of the main building, lost $1,000: no
Insurance, about half of his furniture, bed
ding, etc, being lost.
Rejoicing at brunswick.
Brunswick, GA, July 1S.-(Special) AT
3 o'clock this afternoon dispatches came
from Congressman II. g. Turner and
Rufus T. Lester to Colonel G. IL. Good
year notifying him of the passage of his
houter-bar' bill by the house. These mes
sages were good tdings to the citizens and
ali interested here, as this bill provides for
a contract with Colonel Goodyear for
r.s.apening the channel across the ocean bar
Of This port by Me use of dynamite. This
will secure ample water for the deepest
hraught vessels now atoat up to the wharyes
of this city Those who are deepest inter
ested in the bill here are assured that it
will pass the senate. and, it is thought, will
go through this week
If 50 before ter days work will be ac-
fuaily begun on the bar, and in less than
three months brunswick will have the
deepest water of any city on the coast.