The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-11-10
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

County - Serious Charges Against
Factory Operatives of Vineville-A
Physician Fatally Injured in Trying
to Board Train.
GEORGIA
The Jewish citizens of Albany will proba-
bly, build a new and elegant synagogue.
The stolen tax books of McDufiie county,
have not yet been found. and probably never
will be-
The mother of Senator Jones, who fell
dead in Atlanta recently, died in Macon
Thursday night.
DR.. 6. A. Nunnslly, president Of Mercer
University. has received call from the
Nashville Baptist church.
The drug firm of Hall & Minis of
Americas has been dissolved by mutual
consent, John Hall retiring. ". F. Minis
will continue the business.
The adjourned term OF Oconee superior
court begins on the third Monday in No
vember. The court is to be convened for
the special purpose Of trying the White
head case.
Sunday morning the buildings and entire
crop OF rice belonging to J. H. Nightingale,
at his New Hope plantation in Glynn county
were completely destroyed by fire. The
buildings were insured for 81 200 aud the
rice crop for 81 800.
ming rooms at the cotton factory at Bruns-
wick, has left town without telling his wife
where he was going He took his months
earnings with him and left his wife in a bad
predicament Davis is about 60 years old
and his wife about &c. He told parties at
the mill that he could not endure his welded
life
Sunday night fire of incendiary origin
destroyed the barns and stables on one Of
.lamaa Ilanfana MI irup ha
Bait place, near Millen. The loss is con-
siderable. being six head of good mules,
1000 bushels of corn, about 600 bushels OF
oats, a good many tons of hay and fodder
and few hogs. There is no clew to the per
petrators of the crime.
There was an elopement and a fight in
jackson county on the road leading from
Monroe to Jefferson, last week. A young
man named Booth ran away with the |
young daughter of Jerry H. Spence. John |
Hopgood young man, aided in stealing i
the bride from her home and this got him |
into trouble. He was attacked by the |
Spence boys who got the advantage In the |
fight, and gave Hopgood a severe beating
DIR. J. l.. Gable, a we-known young |
physician who lives at Brooks station, |
5pAldiDg county, received very serious, and |
probably fatal, injuries while trying to get |
on board a south-bouud train at that place |
Sunday afternoon. The train was in mo- |
ton, and in catching the rail he was thrown |
from his feet and his hold was broken, pre-
cipitating him to the track, where his head |
struck a crosstie, knocking him unconscious,
in which condition he has since remained. |
He was at once taken to his residence,
where medical aid was summoned. 1t is |
thought that his brain is injured.
Judge Alexander tried his hand on a ool- |
ored preacher at Thomasville Monday much |
90 the discomfort OF the reverend gentle |
lie o1F D.. |
Goshis,n and he halls from Mitchell county. |
Some months ago he went to Thomas |
county and was there only short time be- |
fore he relieved one of his brethren of a |
pair of pants. The aforesaid brother, true |
TO the customs of his race, Immediately had |
the parson arrested, and Monday afternoon |
be was given a hearing in the county /
court He was found guilty and sentenced |
TO pay fine Of $25 and cost or work six |
months on the gang.
In East Athens lives an old gentleman |
named James White, who came from
England in his boyhood. He knew that
he had relatives over there that were very
wealthy. but not until short time ago did
he find out that any of their wealth had
been left to him. His sister has already set
tied her part of the estate and gou 500, 900.
and now Mr.. White is working to come in
for his part. He has employed counsel aud
they have opened correspondence with par
ties in England, and I'D TO the present time
the correspondence shows that Mr.. White is
entitled to large amount of money, but
will have to be properly identified before he
can get it.
A charter has been duly granted by the
secretary of state for Atlantas new street
railway. The petition for the charter was
eigued by W. l. Zachry, Aaron Haas, J. B.
Zac6ry of Fulton, andJ. r. Nell and Clyde
l.. Brooks of DeKalb. The company is to
IL II
way Company, and the line is to be run to
Decatur and through certain streets Of At
lanta stopping at the Markham house. The
petition sets forth that the road has already
been mapped out and that it will be nine
miles in length, asking for the privilege of
frightening it whenever it may be neces-
sary or desired. The capital stock of the
concern is s25, 900 with power to increase it
TO $500, 900, II it should so be desired at any
time
The west-bound train on the Savannah,
Americas and Montgomery railroad was de-
layed two hours or more Sunday morning
by an accident near Milan. caused by the
engine running over a COW. Engineer
George VanRiper was in charge Of the 100
and when the pilot struck the animal the
wheels Of the engine left the rails and ran
quite distance upon the crOssties A
switch was just ahead and this caused the
locomotive to leave the track altogether
Fortunately neither Engineer VanRiper or
Fireman Bosworth were hurt. beyond a
slight bruise sustained by the former which,
however, was but trifing. None of the
coaches were derailed and the passengers
knew nothing of the accident until in
formed of it by the conductor.
4 A murder was committed on Beach
Island, near Augusta, Saturday night. Ii
occurred at a festival given by Ellen Dernil
at the old store Of Rankinson and Page.
Win Williams was shot and killed by Jim
Bird. Bird was drunk and vowed he would
break up the supper and kill negro before |
cleft. He got up in the loft Of the builJ- |
ing and threw planks on the dancers Will |
Jams went with his brother and Isaac
Durham to make Bird stop and to make
him leave il he did not behave himself,
Bird cursed and abused the committeeman
and struck Durham over the head with a |
pistol and then shot Williams, who was
standing behind Durham. The ball struck
Williams in the forehead and penetrated
the brain. Williams lived until sunrise YES
tsrday morning. After doing the shooting
Bird ran off.
Several days ago young woman named
Rhoda Edwards disappeared from the home
OF Mrs. Lloyd, who lived ten miles from
Rome. The girl had haan Jiviuu With Mre