The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-01

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miums. Their companies have instructed
them 10 discontinue this credit business
The Brunswick agencies are: W. b. Bur-
rouRhs, 0'Connor & Thomas, Scarlet q
Dent and Harvey & Beach, and yesterday
they issued q notice, which reads: Acting
under peremptory instructions from our
respective companies, the public Is hereby
notified that on and after Jan. !, 1898, all
premiums for fire Insurance must be paid
in cash on delivery OF policy. Failure 70
pay cash as above will necessitate the can
collation. OF policy" The agents say this is
the only way 10 insure prompt returns Of
insurance money from the companies and
also 10 guarantee to the companies strict re-
turns OF premium money.
Great interest has been awakened By the
case OF DIR. J. R Won Pollnitz. the man who
Is sentenced 10 be hanged in BAinbridge on
Jan. 9. He killed his wife in a drunken
frenzy by knocking hsr down and stamping
her IN the abdomen. Gov. Northen has
been beseged With letters written 10 him
asking that Won Pollnitzs sentence be com
muted 90 life imprisonment. The governor
Is also In receipt Of letter from Mrs. N. p
| Lyles Of Linden, Ala, o sister OF Won
| Pollnitz, asking for mercy in his behalf.
| She says the condemned man Is a grandson
OF Baron Won Pollnitz, who settled In South
| Carolina and dropped the Won from his name
soon after he came over from France and
she cannot understand why her brother
s9Sa up b again She o says o-t she
OF the interest taken Ia him, and
that IL he committed the crime he ought TO
| be punished, but she begs for the family's
sake that he be spared. She says he has
been married twice before he took unto
| himself the wife he murdered last summer.
He is a graduate of the University of Vir-
ginia and served in the confederate army
nwzA AaA
During the war he was sent to the asylum
| In Georgia and remained there for several
| months. His first wife was Miss Means, q
niece Of Gov. Means of South Carolina.
| She died and he married Miss Seabrook, a
niece of Gov. SeRbrook. There is one child
from the first marriage, young lady who
is in a hospital In Virginia. The second
wife died in South Carolina leaving an In
fant IL days old and six other children.
The doctor deserted them and since then
his friends have heard nothing from him
until they read of his being condemned TO
death for numbering his third wife.
Augusta EUening Herald: A few min
utes before the midnight train on the Geor-
gia road pulled out OF the depot last night. o
hack drove rapidly up to the Campbell
street end Of the building and three people
alighted. Two OF them purchased tickets 10
| man and woman, their baggage was checked
and they boarded the train. A minute
later Sergt. Shedd entered the car where
| the trio was sitting and informed the two
| that had bought tickets that they must 20
to headquarters with him. At first there
was a discussion. but finally, seeing that he
was policeman, they consented. The bag.
gage was taken of the train as IL was pull
| ing out aud the four went to the barracks.
Arriving there the woman, who gave her
| name as Mtss Hawkins, was questioned as to
what she had done with the child.
10 seems that policeman on duty on
upper Greene street had seen the hack con-
| tanning the persons mentioned and q small
| baby, drive to a barroom aud aftsrward
drive In the direction Of the depot. He sus-
| pected that the child would be left behind
and so telephoned TO the barracks for a man
| to go to the depot, and il II was found that
| the baby was not along to arrest the pair
for deserving the child. Miss Hawkins said
that the baby was left with Miss Powell,
| whose husband was one of the party; that
I, the other man was her brother and that they
had started on visit to their father In
Hancock county. The child Is, of course, a
natural one, aud Miss Hawkins said that
her father would not permit her to enter
the house with it, consequently she had left
il behind, but in good keeping The 40
count OF the Others coinclded with this, and
they were allowed to leave. So the story OF
cruel desertion Of a child by its mother,
which the reporter had expected, was lost.
FLORIDA.
DR.. G. o. Myers has on exhibition at
Sinclair & Cores Office at Orlando water
! melon fr ON a volunteer vine that came up
late and ripened It's fruit sseveral weeks
| since. He has another at home and will
save them for the February fair.
'tOver the counter. !" In the United States
land office at Gainesville. during the past
month, there have been more homestead
entries than have been recorded In the
office for any month In the past Eve years
There have also been $50 applications for
| homestead entries.
The Fruit Growers Bank Of Orlando, nm
der the management Of Judge C. @. Butt
and others. will, under the laws Of Florida
soon be made 3 state bank with a capital
stock of $780, 00 The institution ia now in
process OF formation and those 10 charge
are only awaiting the necessary papers from
the controller.
An attorney in London, England, writes
| to know the whereabouts of Mrs William
| Edward Cotter and her daughter, who the
attorney says resided In Apalachioola In
| 1858, but diligent inquiry fails 30 reveal any
information about the parties. The letter
states that the bus and was killed before
| Richmond In 1861.
Tuesday Capt. Brosdbent Of the life saw
| ing station at Pensacola found the sloop
Clara floating near Santa Rosa island, and
rescued from the wreck Ave people, two
ladies, two men and q boy. The rescued
| parties are still at the life saving station
and no particulars could be gathered save
The bare facts given above.
Miss Dorothy Usner, who arrived at Or
lando Wednesday night from Jacksonville
| over the South Florida railroa d, is in bad
| luck. Thursday afternoon when she went
| down 20 get her trunk it was found that the
| lock had been picked, and upon further ex-
animation it was discovered that the trunk
had been rifled OF $50 in cash and at least
$50 worth of valuables. Miss Usner imme-
diately consulted an attorney, j. Edward
| Allen, and made sworn statement OF the
condition OF the trunk and the missing
money and valuables. Just when, how and
| by whom the trunk was robbed is not
| known, but the South Florida Railroad
Company will investigate the matter.
Barlow Courier I'M ormdnt: There is a
fair, smooth-faced, rather effeminate look
ing youth in this city, who had q world Of
fun on Dec. Il. IL entered into the head OF
this youth 10 attire himself in female ap.
parel, and create a sensation in certain
hotel az which he boards, and his success
far exceeded his expectations. Except one
person, who furnished the female apparel
not a soul in the hotel recognized him OF
suspected that he was other than Miss Flora
| ia RnVUal of Tampa whom ha rapraaapt I'd