The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-07-16

goods and clothing establishment at Columbia
at the corner OF Main and PLANE streets
At Columbia the jury in the Walling case
brought in a verdict Thursday morning
against the CongaTee Construction Company
for IS 90. The former verdict was for 1900
This was taken to the supreme court. AS
soon as the verdict was announced a notice
was given Of motion for . new trial. The
trial OF the case consumed three days. The
jury that rendered the verdict gave the city
hospital 81.
The annual meeting OF the York county
alliance was held at YorkVille last Friday.
Sixteen subalnauceS were represented by
about forty delegates Ofncers for the ensu-
ing year were elected. r. T. Higgins was
made president, and J. f. Asbe secretary. 1t
was decided to hold a big camp meeting at
Tirzah during the latter part Of July. The
object OF the meeting will be the discussion
OF leading alliance questions by prominent
speakers. The encampment will last for two
days
A charter has been issued to the Okeetee
club OF New York. The company proposes to
own and conduct a fish and game preserve.
I The corporatOrs named are Samuel Thorne,
Geo G. Clark and Julien Il. Davies. The capt.
tai stock of the company is S45 900, which has
| been divided into shares OF $500 each. OF
this amount $2S, 600 has been paid in cash and
the balance in lands in Hampton and Beaufort
counties. The company has elected the fol
lowing officers John K. Garnett. president;
Samuel Ghorne, vice president; Geo G.
Clark, treasurer, and Julien T. Davies, secre-
tary.
| County Auditor Waters has completed his
abstract OF the taxable property in York
county as returned by the taxpayers and
| eeualzed by the county board Of equaliZa-
| ton for the fiscal year 1893 "a AS compared
| with last year the returns show q heavy re-
duction Of both realty and personally. Last
| year the assessed value OF the realty was
50 443 AS, this year II Is 50 228 $50 The aggre-
| gate valuation Of personally for 1928 was
S. 1872 625; for 1893 o. it is IL 965 655 The total
! decrease in the two items amounts to 1889 2S5
| There was a falling of in each township
| Fort Mill leads off with a shrinkage of Sll2-
| 1876, and Bethel brings up the rear with 1920
On the plantation of United St ates Com
| missioner h. II. EOungblOod viii CHI is stu
ated in Edgeteld county, near the AbteVille
| line, negro named James A. Nelson was
lured from his house in the dead Of the night
| by forty white men and beaten numerically.
| He was then told to run for his life AS he
| ran they pursued him on horseback and shot
| him terribly. The object OF this brutal as
sault was not to punish the negro for any
| thing that he had done, but to prevent him
| from giving evidence in case before the
| United States commissioner where the de-
| PENDANTS were accused OF selling whisky llle-
| gally, and in which case Nelson had been
| summoned as a witness. Illegal whisky
| selling is said to be carried on to an alarming
extent in that portion OF the county.
! The Gardner Il Lacey Lumber Company of
| Georgetown have entirely rebuilt their, i'm
| meuse dry klns, which were destroyed by
| fire a short while since, and they are again in
!
| Improvements in the construction OF these
| kilns, and they are now considered almost II
| not quite hreprOof The walls are built of
| brick, with fire clay joints, and the roof is
covered inside, first with asbestos sheetlng
and then with tin, which insures this from
| being ignited. The railway upon which the
cars are run which convey the lumber into
the kiln is built entirely Of iron, and Is most
complete. At intervals along the side and
| overhead are spray noZZles," which when
| fire occurs IN the kiln can be opened and be
Of sat Gar wi % in vt tiQt1i fra Ag
I nothing but cypress lumber is sawed by this
| company greater degree of heat is required
in the drying process, the temperature re-
| quired being about 25O'
News has just reached Camden of a very
shocking accident which occurred near Pisgah
| church, in the upper edge OF Sumter county,
last Tuesday night The Rev. 7. w. Scruggs
was conducting protracted meeting at
/ Pisgah Baptist church, and after sevices
Tuesday night mule hitched to wagon ran
| away with RoCert C&tOe, a son of Marion
| Catoe and throwing him from the wagon
killed him instantly. His neck was broken
besides receiving other Injuries. There were
several other persons in the wagon at the
time, including negro boy but all are re
ported 10 have escaped injury except Miss
Hancock, a young lady, who was painfully but
not seriously hurt. The unfortunate boy who
was killed was about IS years OF age. The
cause of the treacherous animal getting away
| from the lad was his giving il a cut with the
whip. The mule started a little too fast down
grade and the boy tried to hold him back,
against the mule Catoe was powerlesS to
manage the animal.
The York county democratic executive
| committee met at IorkVile Thursday, pur-
suant to call of Chairman Brice, for the
purpose OF appointing managers of election
, in the August primary. Fifteen of the
eighteen preclnts in the county were repre-
seuted by one delegate each. After the meet
ing came to order Chairman Brice read a let
ter from Senator Butler requesting that he
be allowed an equal number OF managers
from among his friends at the coming prt-
mary election with Gov. Tillman, and sug-
gested that two managers be his friends and
! the other manager and the clerk be those OF
the governor, or vice versa. The committee
decided to appoint one Butler man on each
board OF managers and recommend to the
board that they select as their clerk person
VINO IS friendly TO senator Butler. com
mtttee appointed to assess the candidates to
! raise funds for campaign purposes reported
| as follows: Candidates for congress. $40:
representatives, $3.50; auditor 81; treasurer
Slli county supervisor Sl5 school
commissioner, IS; judge Of probate
Sl2. The report was adopted. On mo
ton it was decided to petition the
state executive committee to allow the
county executive committee to use omnibus
tickets the same as those used two years ago
and about which Chairman Irby and Mr.
Brlce had some very spicy correspondence,
the IDEA being TO have the names of all the
candidates printed on the same ticket, and
allow the voter 30 scratch on all except those
for whom he desires to vote. The opinion
prevails that John Gary Evans is losing
ground every day and that Mr. ElerUe is
gaining II Is a dtfficult problem at this
stage, however, TO determine which OF the
three leading candidates will carry the
/ county. II is very probable tnat the COnSer-
natives will support Tindal Pope does not
seem TO hgure in the race at all The list OF
candidates for the various county olices is
gradually lengthening and the outlook indi-
Gates that there Will be a suf1ciency to keep
any OF the places from going "A hanging.