The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-04
against a telegraph POLE in -urlns him very

against a telegraph pole. inurins him very
. seriously.
/ Thursday night MolIie Lipsey. colo-cd OF
I Columbus had a narrow escape from death
{ Molie lives on lower Third adenue. While
/ asleep IN bed. near a window, pistol was
b fired al her the bail blowing its way through
I the bedding close by her side. Circumstances
/ lmpliCate the woman $ husband. John Lip
sey, as being the party who fired the shot
John recently separated from his wife and
was jealous Of her. He has been arrested
saturday night Madison was aroused ty an
alarm Of fire for the FIRST me- ln quite
while. The ire company readily res bonded
but found upon their arrival that they could
do nothing TO save the property II was the
home Of Milton Jones, cOiOred- living on the
uoIthern edge of town. and the fire had
gained such Roadway before being discovered
as 10 consume the house and its eIt re con
tents The loss falls heavily upon a worthy
negro. Contributions are being taken up for
him.
A belated excursion from Birmingham
reached Atlanta sunday morning just az er
O'Clock The train. carrying 3a1 passengers,
was scheduled TO reach here several hours
earlier Before the arrival OF the lXt-rslon
a tfl gram was received az police headuuar-
tiers gucj T. b. McCorlcy asking for the
arrest o. his boy Pat, who had left home
without his permission Pat, a red-headed
urchln Of L years was carried to the station
house and viii he kept until called for by his
father.
Tlis is not a boarding house. remarked
Ol. Una II IN yesterday morn. ny as TWO stout
negroes lu-ged q large trunk into his oftice on
the second floor Of the custom house. Both
negroes erinned with n geng'nenesS that
Eordered on a distortion OF the te ttIres. ard
one OF them said. De gemmun at d. bottom
er de steps say futch her up Eaze she one er
dem bin tigers as make yer see double
And thai Just what the trunk containeI-
entire ollnt for ul9pOSluE OF WHISKY al the
minimum risk of detection BUTT SO happened
that Deputy Collector Ware was on the pot
and captured the sIghtlesscYed animal ana
its owners
A few nights since. some unknown party or
PARTIES broke into the stree, car shed on the
ooullya ard. at Athens and removing one Of
the cash boxes OJt Of a car. carried 10 up to
vacant lot on Chase street. After working
laborouSIy with siedRe hammers and chlseiS
they sue eeded in opening the drawer, where,
IN return for their nights work they found
10 cents. The robbery was discovered early
the next day. and as ii had ralned the day be-
fore the IN ewes were easily tracked TO where
they bad left the orok n box. The loss to the
cOmpay was about dollars, the value OF
the box plus Is cents cash stolen There was
no clew-as to The identity Of the perpetrators.
The sroeCry store of w. A. Chuds OF
Tenth Leuue. OIambrs, Was hrLkeu mo
twice la,t "Wednesday night, .etVesn-the
hours OF ald 4 o cock Before closing the
store, Mr. Chi d and his negro porter "a "A
man lettering about the place Their Sus-
ptolons were aroused, causing careful eX.
animation OF the premises little later on,
when the inst burglary was diSCOye ed. a
pistol anu o butt Of wlist ey were stolen.
An attempt was made to trace the buriiar
but without success. About II o clock
the discovery was made that tie
store had been broken INTO n second time and
a considerable quantity OF groceries stolen.
The burglar was a very daring one
Morning Call: If there was ever a case
where charges Of disorderly conduct should
be made out, 10 Is AGAINST the "spOOk that
frightened four Griffin ladies ON Friday night.
They had just retired when they we're
awakened by "A noise as if some one was under
the house rapping on the floor They investi-
gated the matter and found that the sounds
came from the tOotboard of the bed. with
fear and trembling they looked under the
bed, expecting to lind bold, bad burglar,
with murder in his eye but the b. b. b. failed
to materialiZe, and the next thing to be done
was to examine between the mattresses and
every wire 10 the springs OF the bed but moth
ing could be found, though the rapping con
tinued.
AS the muchly- 81 excursion
over the Georgia railroad to Atlanta
pulled out OF Athens loaded with
colored people talking with joyful accents Of
tai city there were two. passengers
fated 10 have ill-luck befall them, and TO be
compelled to nurse Uadly-sprained nesk
and a skinned face instead of carrying out
the anticipated pleasure of doing Atlanta"
Jep Pierce, one Of the eXcursionists looked
out instead OF looking in as the train was
running by the bridge cut just out OF the city
limits, and as there were several posts very
close TO the car his head came in contact
with one Of them, the result being that he was
knocked off the train and narrowly escaped
-hetng killed. ----.---.- -.
Lumkin Independent: Omaha had guard
house delivery on saturday night last. A
white man by the name OF Butler was i'm
prlsoned for misdemeanOr and made his es-
cape, by cutting a hole through the ceiling
with his pocket knife or other instrument.
After making q hole through the ceiling large
enough TO crawl through he knocked off the
weather boarding by dint Of his kuuokles
leaving blood stains. Whereabouts Butler is
we'll Unknown in Lumpkln, where he once re
sided and was penned for not knowing W.
Il. numbers side of meat from his own.
Since he left L4umplSin he has figured In Rus
sell county, Ala, and has been Of some ex-
penSe to that county also, as he spent mos
OF last year in Jail at Scale Butler is doubt
less bad egg.