The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-31


Lands in FIorida-A Philadelphia
out of Work. But Temperate, Dies
of Starvation at Macon-A Negroes
Fatally Burned AT Augusta.
GEORGIA.
The Southern Dental Association will
meet in Atlanta Tuesday, Nov o.
Mrs. Wilkes Booth Of Wilkinson county
Is in Macon searching for her husband,
whom she accuses of taking their cnll-
dren and deserving her.
A lamp beside the bed of Anna Richard
son, negress Of Augusta. exploded al
an early hour yesterday morning, and
the woman was fatally burned before Ai re-
men rescued her.
Alto j. Hooker Of Fulton county has
been sentenced by Judge Newman 10
eighteen months i'm the Columbus, O,
penitentiary. lie tempered with mail
matter that did not bear his address.
Policeman Hudson of Atlanta, who has
been in jail since the indictment for muir
der was made against him by the grand
jury. has been granted the right TO give
bond. The amount of the bond was fixed
at 5000.
Miss Maud L. Tomsett, a young lady Of
Macon, and Frederick +. Morgan, young
man of Stark, Fla, who is very little
past q years of age, gave the old folks
the slip at Macon Tuesday and We're mar
Tied by a magistrate.
A young man supposed to be r. r.
Bagwell Of Atlanta attempted or pre-
tended to attempt to commit suicide at
Forsyth day or two ago. He is in jail
as a suspicious character. His attempt at
suicide was by hanging, but he was not
much hurt.
The superior court of LumpIin county
has adjourned. Three days We're consum-
ed In the trial of David Greene, for the
murder Of Jasper Gilbert, and the jury
was out on the case twenty-five hours,
making mistTial. Eleven were for vol
untary manslaughter ana one for acquit-
tai.
A few DAYS ago a warrant was issued
against J. +. Gardner, a Monroe county
government distiller, charging him with
failure to report all the whisky made at
his place. Upon hearing of the warrant
and the charges. Mr.. Gardner went TO
Macon, and asked to have the matter
investigated.
II. r. Green died very suddenly Of heart
trouble at Lafayette Tuesday. He was
sitting at a CRATE at the residence Of DR..
J. H. Hammond The doctor had been
out only few minutes. and when he came
IN Mr. Green was lying with his face on
the basket Of the CRATE. When raised up
he gasped twice and expired.
Sherwood Hodo, a white brakeman on
the Georgia road, was knocked off
freight train Monday by an overhead
bridge near Greensboro, and was taken
TO Augusta unconscious. He died there
TUESDAY. consciousness was never re-
gained. Death was caused by the skull
having been splintered by the blow.
Bob Cook a negro fiddler, was run over
MONDAY
about one mile south of Marshallville,
and died that afternoon. He was on the
track apparently asleep at the foot Of
long grade, and although the engineer
reversed his engine and blew the whistle,
it was impossible to stop the train or
arouse the old man.
Judge Newman of Atlanta has granted
an appeal in the case of Fred +. Starr
VS.. the Feast Tennessee, Nirginian and
Georgia railway. Starr some time ago
sued the road and was awarded $4,000
damages by the special master who heard
the evidence. The road, through its
present owners, Spencer ct. al, consid-
cred the amount out OF reason and ap-
pealed.
A stranger about 60 years of age, Civ
ing the name of Joseph Mitchell, and his
home as Philadelphia, Pa, was found
on the streets at Macon Tuesday in
helpless condition, suffering, he said, for
want of nourishment He was taken to
the city hospital and died the same day
of starvation. Before he died he stated
that he had given all his money TO those
who needed IL worse than he did. He was
a temperate man, and leaves a wife and
children in Philadelphia.
The correspondent of the Morning
News at Lothian writes as follows under
date of oct. 30: Another murder oc-
Cured Tuesday near Zaides. Willis Nc
Intire and John Flanders (colored had
been on bad terms for some time and
o Dd1 H Until 5TR Gesday. Both e met
in the public road and renewed the
tire drew a pistol and fired five times at
his antagonist three shots taking effect,
Flanders dying Immediately. 1t is said
that Flanders was attacking McIntire,
and to save his own life McIntire had
to kill Flanders. The murderer, after the
killing, walked to Mount Vernon to give
himself up.
A white man was found on top of the
Vesubule between two coaches of a train
which reached Cartersville at 5:l2 o'clock
Tuesday morning with his skull and right
shoulder fractured. He lived only an hour
after his removal. He is supposed to
have been beating his way to the expo
Sition. He was Robert l.. Smith of Buff
talo, n. ", and seems to have been a
switchman A switch key, room key,
pocket knife, gold watch, sixty dollars in
bills and twenty-nine in small change
were found in his pockets. He belonged
10 two orders, the American Railway
Union and Brotherhood of Railway Train
men and had constitution and bylaws OF
the orders in his pocket. His note book
showed that he left Brooklyn the 2tst OF
this month. He is supposed TO have been
struck by something in an effort to change
his position while upon the car.
Macon Telegraph: Late Monday after
noon country negro named Lum Thomp-
son was going back to his home across
the river when he met with what seemed
to be a very serious accident. 1t seems
that Lum had come to town early Mon
day morning and was returning home witt
the proceeds of two bales of cotton. Part
OF the proceeds We're in goods stored
away in the wagon, part in money and a
InlIQ pOfuOn OF II IN SKIN IQl OF bug
juice. Just as Lum neared the bridge he
reeled and fell off the wagon seat. Great
ly TO the horror of those who saw the fall
the front wheel of the wagon passed
over his leg, breaking it off short just
below the knee. The crack of the break
ing could be distinctly heard by those on
the sidewalk near about, and some men
not frozen to the spot by the sight ran
to the assistance of the unfortunate man.
No doctor was called in the excitement
but a man more practical than the Others
set about repairing the damaged leg He
got two pieces of wood, a hammer, some
nails, and in a few minutes Lum's lee
was as stout as ever, though not sc
symmetrical. Lum was a wooden-legged
man.
About two months ago an accidental
shooting occurred in West End at Smiths
saloon which is just beyond the Harris
burg bridge at Augusta. While John
Bolster and VIII Lovett were tusslina
in the bar over the possession of a eli
gaTette, a 38-calibre pistol in the coat
pocket of Bolster fell to the floor and
exploded The bullet struck another
young man named Boise Renew, who was
sitting near by on a box, in the mouth
1t knocked out several of the front teeth
and ranged upward through the roof OF
the mouth toward the brain. Although
the young man spat out the teeth and