The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-31


Investment Company Of Bridgeport, Conn, said
Harris and Mitchell refused TO accept the loan.
The petitioner further alleges that his commits
sion on the loan of 81, 900 should have been 500
or 10 per cent, and this amount he prays 10 re-
cover.
against three members of the present city couu-
Gil of Dawson have been brought TO sudden
close by the fact of Judge II. Guery's being
disqualified to try the case When another
iudhe is procured it will lengthen out lndeh-
nitely, about $50 witnesses are 20 De
examined. The fight is on. and 1t bids fAr TO
20 on until next December when the regular
election for municipal officers takes place. IL
will be a financial bleed all around. The con-
test will cost Terrell county at least $1,000 per
haps more.
The state supreme court has rendered de-
cislon in the case Of Mrs. Mckeon, who has been
trying to make clear titles on property that she
owns in the upper portion Of Augusta, and the
decision settles the matter, and she Will De able
to satisfy the one who buys the property. Inc
trouble arose over the will of her first husband,
James Adams, who died IN 1885, as certain items
in it related to the establishment or free
school. The matter has been settled and the
property can be legally turned over TO I'm
Whit, who bought it some time last spring Tor
$4,000. Mr.. White contemplates erecting sew
ersl abrasive dwellings on the property, which
is on the north side Of Broad street. corner OF
Mills and Broad, with frontage OF 700 Feet
Mrs. Mamie Tiller keeps boarding house at
739 Telfair street Just opposite the Catholic
church at Augusta A week ago rock, from
some source unknown, smashed WINDOW pane
in her house. The next day another pane was
smashed. The next day two more were Knocked
into stomssa This thing kept up until Tuesday
when the window smashing was gone into on
the wholesale plan. and it seemed that every
pane Of glass IN the house was TO be broken.
Wednesday orning bricks and rocks were
rained on the house No one could tell from
whence the missiles came. Chief HOOD was
appealed to. The detectives went to work on
the case Wednesday. AS Detective Howard was
peeping about well directed rock caused him
to dodge quickly, saving himself from severe
blow Rocks continued to come. the detective
continued TO dodge and the window panes to
shatter. lt Is safe to say that the WINDOW
smasher will be in custody before long.
The petition of w. H O'Pry and the Macon
Auction Company, to be protected, as they put
it, was taken up by the city council OF Macon
Tuesday night 1t involves q nice point. They
are the only licensed auctioneers in the city
and claim that any other person selling or Of
| ferng to sell at public cutlery is an auctionaeF
and liable for the license. This is their con-
! struction Of the word auctioneer. II they are
| right, then merchants who sell their wares, as
| was the case of Julian and others, must either
| employ the regular licensed aucttoneers for the
purpose pay the license of 500 per annun.
| This also includes real estate men VINO sell
| property before the court house door and else
| where. The position heretofore taken by that
| city is that merchant paying license as mer-
| chant has a right to sell bis goods in any man
ner chosen, but that he cannot sell for others.
| An Ructioneer, they have claimed sells for
other people and is therefore an auctioneer in
fact. The matter goes to the finance commit
| tee
| Rome Tribune: The bauxte business prom
ises to be- one of the biggest things in Georgia
| The scientists say we are now in the iron age,
but that will soon pass and will be succeeded by
| the aluminium age. If this is true Georgia will
| be the empire state of the world Nowhere is
| the bauxite of this region exceled The Tribune
has printed some accounts of the bauXite works
at Rome and now has information of a large
company operating fourteen miles from here in
Barlow county on Connasena place, near the
Barnsley homestead The latter place is also
operated on. The work is carried on by com
pany which is said to have a capital stock
Of 100000 all paid up. Its name is The
Georgia Bauxite Company, but its principal
stockholders live in Philadelphia The concern
has been mining bauxite in Barlow county and
shipping it to Philadelphia. where it is made
into aluminium. The work is carried on through
lease contracts with the owners OF the land
One of these contracts is with the owners OF
the Oonnasena place, covering 500 acres, anc
another is with the Barnsley estate for opera
tions on their property. Within the last few
days a number Of Philadelphia and Pittsbura
capitalists have been to Barlow county to in
spect the property.