The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-15
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
rp News Of the Two States Told in
Paragraphs.

n posident of Hamilton Appointed
,.sreetor and Auditor of Indian
AGENCIES in the West-Miss Wright
naries That Her Engagement With
Gen. Ezeta Has Been Broken Of.
A Georgia Actress Dies in New
York.
r Couch, city court bailif OF Atlanta,
Il .os resigned on account of i'll health
One Texfngtonian sold over So. 900 worth of
.otton the other day, mostly his own produc-
Tbe firm Of Bitch s. Newton at Halcyondale
80. Geen dissolved D. j. Newton will con
grne the business at the old stand.
walton wilkinson of Terrell county has lost
81 .DumDer Of valuable mules by strtchnine
Sosoning There is no clue to the culprit.
Ham Taylor Of Elberton received inteln-
gence that his brother, Mat Taylor, who was
n iving out west, was shot and instantly killed
Il ~ some unknown party while he was asleep
10 his bed near window
Il negro man by the name of Tom McKin-
nav was shot and killed Monday night at
n Pocl,y Ford by another negro. 1t is said to
nave bpen a cold blooded murder. The negro
who did the shooting was captured at Scar
u boro Tuesday, but has since disappeared.
The company who we're to have built an
n franklin have failed, and the bridge, which
vas TO have been completed by Oct /, may
not get any nearer to Franklin than Hogans-
& Vile. where it has been for two months or
more.
DR.. Chedel of Lexington has gathered from
one-half acre this year two good cuttings of
a rye twenty bushels Of corn, 235 bundles of
fodder. two big one horse loads OF pea vines
and hay He has soWn the lot down IN rye
again and by March will be gathering more
Of the land.
The interesting article on the value Of COW
peas which appeared in yesterdays issue of
II The MORNING NEWS was written by the as
sstant chemist of the Georgia experiment
station at Experiment Mr.. Hardee's name
should have appeared as the author but it
was accidentally omitted in the types
Fed Matthews, a negro boy living near
GreshamVille in Greene county, was bound
over before Judge Weaver last Tuesday on
two warrants sworn out by Sid LabOn, an
a other negro, one for assault and artery and
Fl one for cruelty to animals. The negroes had
difficulty about a small puppy, and Labon
charges that Matthews pulled of the dog s
leg out of malice toward the complainant
Captain $ R. Murphy of Hamilton has re-
Gently received an appointment as inspector
and auditor of Indian agences and discussing
agent. He will probably locate somewhere in
the west. but Will hrst travel over his terri
tory and see what locality he would like best
for home. Captain Murphy took trip to
Atlanta last week and resigned his POSITION
w.
The 12-year-old-son of John Sinquetield, col
ored. who lives near Warnerville,
Meriwether county. was KILLED at
J. b. Reynolds gin last week under very
. singular circumstances. He was on the Wag
on when 10 was driven under the hopper, the
receptacle into which the cotton seed are
carried from the gin. His head was caught
fetwecn the htndgate of the wagon and the
hopper, breaking his neck.
Mrs. Annie Iceland Finnegan, an actress
qr14r Of aNrr Arnply lnt ~. fErO urpC
q native of Augusta. Her maiden name was
Mccarthy, and on her fathers side, she was
first cousin of Mr. Justin Mccarthy, the
Iish statesman. On her mothers side she
was a cousin of the late John BrOugham, the
actor, She went on the stage nearly thirty
years ago. She was for nine years in Austin
/ DAILY company and for ten in Wallack S.
just after the war she starred in Leah, the
Forsaken," Red Light" and other plays.
She has also played in Europe. Her hust and,
George Finnegan, died about IA years ago.
Dawson Journal Mrs. Rowena Hasty, of
Parrott, was Sugars Of age last Saturday.
She is the mother of seventeen children
eleven Of whom are living, and has eighty
seven grandchildren and twentysiX great
grandchildren, and has lived within four
miles Of Parrot siXty-one years. She was
here when the Indians rOamed over this sec
ton, and was witness OF the excl
ting scenes of the war of 1886
She married at the age OF II years,
and has a feather bed given her by her
mother seventy-five years ago She draws a
pension for the services of her husband in
the Indian war.
Greenville Vtndicator News has reached
Greeuville that Miss Josie Wood, the young
est daughter of Mrs. e. >. Wood, made an un-
successful attempt to commit suicide last
week in Memphis ly taking morphine 1t
seems Miss Wood was engaged to lie mar
ried to young man on the 18th instant. Her
intended husband egan to drink very heav-
lily and she refused to marry him Driven to
desperation by this refusal, Miss Wood s
sweetheart chose to end his existence by self
destruction rather than to live without the
one he loved. She became Respondent after
the death of her lover and seemed to feel that
she wa, the cause of his death and took "A dose
Of morphine with suicidal intent. some one
discovered that she mad taken the poisonous
drug before it was too late, and physicians
We're called in, who, after few hours sue
ceeded in restoring the young lady to con
n sclousness. Mr.. onJ. II. Strozler left for Mem
II phis yesterday morning to bring Miss Wood
II TO Grcenville.
Albany Herald: The readers of the Herald
will remember that some time ago it was an
"a nOunced that Miss Ida Wright of Georgia,
II well known in Albany, where she was born.
n would marry Gen. Ezeta, field marshal of the
army of Salvador. 1t will also be remem-
1ered that the engagement was subsequently
N denied by correspondents in the general 5
ID country 1t has been very generally accepted
In The United States that the engagement had
been declared of, but it seems now that it is
10 he a marriage after all. From a private
n letter received in Albany last Saturday the
Herald learns that Miss Wright is now in
New York city, having just returned from
PARIS where she had gone to purchase her
rousseau. In the letter, Miss Wright says
That il is false that the engagement IS de
cAred off. She says the reason the
marriage has not been COnsummat-
ca before Is owing to The dis
Wrbed political situation in Salvador She
writes that if the condition of affairs in that
country DO not improve in short time that
Sle Will be married to Gen. Ezeta by proxy.
Inc letter from Miss Wright was to her God
mother a lady. formerly resident of this
guy but now OF New Orleans, and it has
n seen forwarded to her by her son who resides
mere at present.
"a ~ adosta Telescope: On Monday night last
MI williamson Stiller for Mr.. N E. Fry. re
ISsIled tohis home ut MelroSe about II o'clock
81 t'e Aad Teen TO Lake Park and was drinking
rooA a'jer entering the house he became an
~ ana his wife and stepson were the recip
N nus OF cruel treatment at his AandS. Both
III , ,e' rom home, and Mrs. Williamson ran &c
W4e residence of Mr. Fry and called for aid
ile'Nr> g. T.. and NANNY Fry went to the
Ha1uSt hey tried for awhile to reason with
~. williamson, but his vile eplthets soon
.uu- III about difficulty between himself
SDH mr. Nanny Fry. MIR. Williamson was
yc. 'yAe the worse by the tussle, and
,s NaFtled to the railroad track and
"t .o leave. He made departure. but soon
,'.'ie with couple of revOlverS The re
~ tl.'""H "t The nj ht he walked to and fro In
r "' immunity in q defiant manner Tuesday
e hr spent the greater part of Ills time
s 'Ae store of j. Is. Martin co. FOl
V-.. .0oe he had become offended a MI
t... u and wit his REVIEWERS in hauu dared