The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-05-03
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN PARA GRAPHS.

A Difficult Surgical Operation suc-
cessfnIly Performed at Columbus.
A Bullet Fired Into a Negroes Leg.
Athens to Have a Hanging in a
Month~A Failure at Atlanta
GEORGIA.
Baker county superior court is in session.
The Georgia Pharmaceutical Association
meets at Columbus to-day.
Many sections Of Southwest Georgia have
been without rain for five weeks and crops
are suffering.
IN. Ragsdale, q wholesale grocer Of At
Ianta, has been forced to suspend business by
the foreclosure Of a mortgage for Sl,60J.
William johnson, the condemned negro
murderer, now behind the bars OF Clarke
county jail, will be hanged on Friday,
June 8.
M. T. Lewman & Co., contractors of
Jefferson vile, Ind, who built the De Soto
hotel aud First Presbyterian church in
Savannah, have occurred the contract to
build the new Presbyterian church at CO.
lumbus.
The other night gang of negroes in
Athens were singing the favorlte gag" OF
the students of the university. Saw my
leg off--saw ~ when a 32-caliber pistol ball
whizzed through the air and entered the leg
VI OUb VI LLl6 SOuSbbcAss AIC NNNA0 AhAAASSoN
is a painful one, but the negro is not seri'
ously hurt. He did not expect for his leg to
be sawed off, so suddenly. No one,has any
idea as to who fred the shot.
Parks Fears came near sustaining serious
injuries at Athens Saturday. He was driv-
ing down jackson street. when some of the
harness came loose and the horse took fright
and ran. He began running directly in
front of J. F. Rhodes &c Co.'S livery stable,
IA If IlOnyHaTfW
street the wagon upset, throwing Mr.. Fears
violently TO the ground and dragging him
some distance. The wagon ran over bis
body two or three times, bruisinR him up
considerably. The frightened animal was
caught by w. B. Loehr, else Mr.. Fears in
jurles would have been serious.
Columbus Enquirer Sun: An operation
which for fifteen years has been considered
impossible WAC successfully performed Sat-
urday afternoon. For many years Mrs
Fannie Hudson, who lives near Wynnton,
has been a terrible sufferer from DANGER
Gus tumor al the angle of the jaw. All the
doctors she consulted declined 20 remove the
tumor, because gthe jugular voinHand the
carotid artery we're involved and the
chances of success were too small. Satur-
day, however Mrs. Hudson went to DR.. Il.
w. Jenkins office, and after careful ex-
animation he decided that the operation
was practicable. He summoned Drs
Blanchard and Sims to his assistance, and
the three surgeons succeeded in removing
the tumor. After the operation DR.. jenkins
took his patient home, and Saturday night
she was resting easily with every prospect
of recovery.
1.-THE Dresden, )" the pretty crockery store
Of L. A. Mueller, at "a Whitehall street,
Atlanta, is in the hands Of a receiver.
Two months ago the store was closed up
by the foreclosure Of a mortgage held by
Mrs. Josephine Mueller the wife of the
proprietor Of the store. Tbs mort
gage was for $4,000. and COW
cred sums of money lent by Mrs. Mueller to
her husband. The day following the fore
closure of the mortgage held by Mrs Mueller
the Atlanta National Bank foreclosed
mortgage which it held for $1,000
Since then the matter has been in the
courts and the keys OF the establishment
have been jingling in the pocket Of the sher-
iff. Application for receiver was made by
unsecured creditors of Mr.. Mueller, and that
application, together with the mortgages,
have been waiting the action OF Judge Mar
shall J. Clarke. Rather than have the
stock sold at sheriff's sale receiver was ap-
pointed Saturday.