The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-04
START OF THE CENTURY MEN.
Twenty Wheslmen on for loo-Mile
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Twenty wheelmen on for Ioo~Mile
Ride ia the Country.
/ Twenty members of the Savannah
wheolmen will leave the DE soto at =
I O'Clock this morning for a century run 10
/ Josselyn, on the savannah, Florida and
Western railway. and return.
Capt. OFT OF the whcclmen will make
the pace The route viii be by the Oree-
chez canal path and the road TO
Hinesville, which will be reached
BY noon, according to programme
Dinner viii be served at Hinesville where
rest will be taken.
The run viii then be continued to
Josselyn, about six miles farther. It's eX-
pected 10 reach Josselyn by2 o'clock. The
pace will be set from there direct home,
covering leo miles. The party ought to
reach Savannah between S and 9 O'Clock
tonight.
The indications are for good weather,
and with good riding and no accidents the
run ought to be made in good time. Those
who finish the run viii be eligible to
membership in the Century Club.
The party began assembling at 3 O'Clock
this morning ready for the long pull
through the sand of Southeast Georgia's
cross country roads
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brigade to the state encampment.
Dahlonega was excited the other day
over the advent of a bicycle there.
Never before in the history of that mount
ain town had a modern wheel been seen,
and the inhabitants turned out almost en-
masse to look at the strange machine
lnnumerable questions were asked of the
blcyclist, and when he took a rapid turn
abO1lf bo laI
with rapt admiration by the young and
with wonder by the older ones, and was
treated with the Difference due a hero or
some other eminent individual
People on Mulberry street were
startled Thursday afternoon, says the
Telegraph, by loud report almost in
front of the Telegraph office, and in a few
minutes the street was filed with people
wanting to know who was shot Officer
Travis, who was standing near Davis
stable, heard the report, and with visions
of horrible tragedy whirling through
his mind rushed up the street at break
neck speed so as to prevent the muir
derer from escaping. Just before the
officer reached Burr Browns he saw sew
eraI young men carrying what he thought
was the lifeless body Of man through
the crowd into the store, and increasing
the first man he came in contact with:
Who did it2'' The man pointed to Julien
Price, and the officer pushed his way
through the crowd and grabbed Julien
by the arm and told him to come along"
Julien did not know of the officers hallu-
cination and held back. The officer told
him that it would be best to come along
without offering any resistance. Then
Julien grew indignant and told the officer
that it was his own bicycle, and he would
like to know what he was to be arrested
for. By this time the crowd had caught
on and began to laugh This convinced
the officer that he was mistaken, and he
asked who it was that fired the pistol
shot and what did bicycle have to do
with it. After good laugh at the officers
mistake, some one in the crowd told him
that Julien Prices bicycle tire had explod-
ed while he was riding down the street and
sure enough it had Mr.. Price was riding
along in front of the Telegraph office,
when, without any warning, his tire ex-
ploded with such force as to make it
sound like the report of a pistol, and inn
mediately shrunk to a timber piece of
rubber. No one seemed to be able to ex-
plain the cause.