The morning news., 1894-10-22
ITEMS In THREE STATES.
Condensed News Of Georgia, Florida
and South Carolina.

A Negro on Trial for Murder at Hamil-
ton Acquitted on the Testimony of
Negroes Now Under Arrest for Per-
jury-An Editors Marriage Kept Sc
cret Since Aug. Show Money Hidden
in a Tree Disappeared.
GEORGIA.
w A Latimer has been asked to enter
the race for mayor Of Augusta.
Prof. ]. NJ. Proctor of Rome died at
Milledgeville Friday. The remains were
taken to TalbOttOn for interment. Mr.
Proctor was one of Rome's leading cit
liens and a noted educator. There were
few men in the country as well versed in
Latin as he.
At Atlanta Saturday on the petition Of
f. L. Gwyn and other creditors With
debts amounting to $4,000, represented by
granted an order placing the Henry j.
Scales Tobacco Company in the hands OF
Floyd Johnson as receiver.
Judge Speer is expected at Macon from
his summer residence at Mount Airy
about Nov. l, and shortly after his return
will hear number Of important cases in
the United States court. On Nov. 5 he
will be asked to confirm the sale of the
Macon and Northern railroad.
The military men of Atlanta are dis
cussing the organization of a full regiment
in Atlanta. There are at present in the city
four companies and a machine gun pla-
toon and a hospital corps. 1t is believed
that four more companies could be or
ganized in the city without any difficulty.
At Bells Station, Friday, W. B. Geer,
the flagman of a Georgia and Northern
railroad freight train, was crushed and
horribly mangled by the wheels of his
train. Mr. Geers home was in Birds
town, a small town on the Athens branch
of the Georgia railroad, where his
father and mother now live.
The grading of the site for the forestry
building of the Atlanta exposition has
been completed. The grading of the site
of the manufacturers building will be
completed Monday, and the grading of the
sites for the other buildings is being
pushed. Grant Wilkins has been appointed
chief of construction of the exposition
company.
When the Weekly Press Association met
in Atlanta Aug. S,Charls Brantley and
Miss Florence Williams were delegates
During the interim in the convention they
went to Dr. Walker Lewis and were mar
ried. The marriage was kept a secret and
has just been announced to-day. Mr.
Brantley and Miss Williams are connected
with the Valdosta Telescope.
Macon Telegraph: Tom Treadweu, the
man WHO tldliAiS 10 nave pttN bdUQbdEEeQ
and robbed near Mercer University on
last night, and who was afterwards ar
rested on awarrant sworn out by Dennick
& Son, charging him with larceny, was re-
leased from custody by Justice Andrews
Friday. as no one appeared to prosecute
him when the cae was called. Treadweu
maintained throughout that he was sand
Ragged and robbed, Notwithstanding that
DR.. Sullivan after an eXamintion of his
supposed injuries, announced that he had
not been injured at all. Since his arrest
on Monday Treadwell has been in jail
but yesterday his mother paid the amount
OF his shortage to Dennick & Son and they
agreed not to prosecute. ..,
Rome Tribune: About the close of the
war Jesse p. Aver accumulated a consid-
erable number of bills amounting in all
TO about $500 Those were dangerous
times, and he wanted to put the bills
where they would be absolutely safe from
thieves, fire or anything else. So he
went into the woods and bored a hole
into big red-oak tree. He wrapped the
bills up in a piece of paper and stuck
them deep into the tree. He then made a
stout stob, and driving it into the hole,
sawed it off close. Some time afterward
when all had quieted-down he went to get
his money. The stob was in place just
as he left Et, land after considerable
trouble he removed it. Then he raked for
his money. But he didn't ind it, He
only found a portion of the paper it was
wrapped in and some remains of paper
and money. The ascetic acid in the tree
had eaten money, paper and all.
Capt. Jere Hollis of Bibb county and DR..
Sullivan, Macon's well-known physician,
are applicants for two important positions
in connection with the state penitentiary.
Capt Hollis wants TO be principal keeper
of the pententiary, and DR.. Sullivan is
after the position of principal physician.
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the other would surely get left, inasmuch
as their candidacy put Bibb county in the
attitude OF asking the earth from Gov
Atkinson. In order not to embarrass
Gov. Atkinson, and in order not to jeoB-
ardize their own interests, one of these
gentlemen is to retire from the field The
question is, which shall it be? Neither
of course, is willing to retire voluntarily,
but they have hit upon a plan which viii
work just as Wen. They will leave the
question to six arbitrators, to whom
shall be left the right to say whether
Capt. Hollis must give up the race for
principal keeper of the penitentiary, or
whether DR.. Sullivan shall retire from the
race for principal physician. The gentle
men selected to decide the matter are Col.
r. A. Nisbet G. M Davis James II.
Blount, Jr., B. NJ. Davis, Col. C. NJ WILEY
and Hon. Robert Hodges.
Americus Times Recorder: Perhaps the
WotSI gang oI sndrpetS ever caught here
were run to cover by the police yesterday
and several of the leaders arrested
Among them is the notorious GEORGE
Parker and Charles Slayton, KID
Charles and Nose Wilson. The auartette
are now in the barracks. 1t is said that
one or more of these have been operating
skin game by which country negroes
and several white men have recently been
relieved Of their money. Some of the par
aphernalia Of the game was found On
Parker when arrested. This consisted of
number of cards upon which is printed
Tho House of Baltimore" and purports