The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-17

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the Dig money which he made on the race
track, In Augusta real estate He is very
brlght IN color and weighs ll6 pounds. He
mas ridden Tor Richard Croker Of New
York, and DWyer Bros, this season, and
he has won over two hundred races on
the following tracks. Sheepshead Bay.
Morris Park, Brooklyn Park, Jerome Park
and others. He looks an ideal jockey and
mas been IN the business eight years. he
was accompanied home by Harry Ray
another well known jockey, who has rid
den on the big tracks at the north for Bob
Holiday a Kentucky racer. Ray Is
slightly heavier than Sims, weighing 100
pounds in winter and riding at 10. Sims
says that he doesn't mind talking 10 re-
porIers out Of the racing season, but
while at work would not say a word TO a
race track reporter for gold or precious
stones.
Montezuma Record: The other day we
were shown by one of our merchants a
package which he had received by eX-
press and labeled valuable Upon being
opened il was found 10 contain a bundle
Of nifty 81 lottery tickets and s. ticket
marked prize ticket and a lot Of circu-
lar letters and other reading matter
one Of the circular letters marked con
hdential'' informed the recipient Of the
package that he had been appointed agent
for Montezuma of the genuine LOuisi-
ana lottery" and that the fifty tickets had
been sent to him to sell. and on all sales
he was TO receive commission of %
per cent. In addition to this the lottery
company sent him as n present the s.
prize ticket. The letter then goes on to
interest in lottery drawings in Monte
yuma of late, and that the proprietors Of
the genuine Louisiana lottery" are fully
on to the cause therefor. 1T is because"
the letter states, there have been no
large prizes drawn in your city recently"
The proprietors of the lottery then inti-
mate very broadly that the agents prize
ticket will draw some amount of money
between $1,000 and $4,000. The bait is a
tempting one for suckers, but TO the eau
uous bears the impress of a fake, which
was confirmed in the arrest of the pro
prietor" of the lottery in Chicago, the
other day, for forgery.
Quitman Free Press. ]. Il. Singletary,
Charles Harris and Hartwell O'Neill, all
white, the two former claiming to be from
Birmingham and the latter from Jesup,
are behind the bars in the Brooks county
jail Eliminating upon the folly of entering
other peoples houses and appropriating
what does not belong to them. Last Mon
day night AIDE Williams, who sleeps at
the Brice residence, shortly after going
to bed, was never more startled than
when he saw the door open and a man
enter the room. AIDE grabbed his pistol
turned out to be O'Neill, to halt. O'Neill
had the most urgent business elsewhere,
however, and wasn't in the hating busi-
ness just then. He was upstairs and ran
and fell down in double-quick, AIDE firing
and calling to him to stop. AIDE finally
made the fellow give up in the street and
soon had him in the hands of a policeman.
Then he told of his confederates, Single
tary and Harris. one was caught in a
negro house near the depot, and the other
about three miles up the railroad toward
Dixie. ONeills statement is that the
other two had already been in the house
and helped themselves. They told him
there was no one in the house, and that
he could go In and help himself. Harris
and Singletary had entered the house with
key earlier in the night, and when they
We're there there was no one in the house,
as Mr.. Williams and Mr.. Oelsner, who
sleep there, don't go in until the stores
are closed.
Quitman Free Press: Bill Travis. a null
latto negro well known in Quitman and in
the county lies in the Brooks county Jail
with his back we'll peppered with shot and
charged with the serious crime of setting
fire TO gin house. Up to the first of this
year Bill has for years been living on the
Gaulden place, and it is the gin house on
this place that he is charged with trying
10 burn. Last year Bill was charged with
stealing meat, and the proof was so
strong, that he was made to settle up. He
paid up and made bill of his work out all
charged against him except $3.50. In a
settlement made Monday of last week he
was made to settle this $3.50, and he left
swearing that he would have revenge.
The first of this year Bill moved up near
GrooyerviIle and has lived there all the
year. Last Saturday night the gin house
on the Gaulden place was twice set on
fire and the negroes on the place charged
Bill with being the guilty man. Fat splin-
tiers and chips were used for the diabolical
work, but fortunately the fire was dis
covered and put out each time before the
gin house caught. Bill was known to be
In the nelghbOrhood and party went to
a negro house, where he was supposed to
be, in search of him. He was in the house,
and when called upon to come out tried to
run. He would not stop when ordered to
do so, and was fired upon twice by Henry
Nicely and once by George Hopper. Both
had shot guns loaded with small shot, and
BilPs back was well peppered, though the
wounds were not serious. He was brought
to Qutman Sunday morning and placed
in jail to await the action of the courts
Bill tried to prove an alibi. but the negro
af hnffGa he plafrnaA IN he at
time the gin house was fired, denies en-
phatically that he was there.