The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-14
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS or THE TWO STATES TOLD
II PARkGR Apis.

ment of Cotton seed From MHchen.
The City Marshal OF North Rome
Shot-A a-Year-OEd school Girl Of
Atlanta killed 10y an Electric Car.
GEORGIA
John r. Hilsman of Albany is critically
81 at his home in that city.
Chestnut ana chinquapin parties are q
popular fad in Nortl Georgia. In SoulA
Georgia candy pu.-nes are tine rage.
The man who has the beef sandwich
stand near the southern Railway termi-
nal ar the exposition grounds at Atlanta
is SAID TO be coming money.
Several new and handsome residences
are being built At Jnadlllai among them
the residences of Ur. J. w. Saunders. j.
a. Rraxton and DIT. r. II. Pate. at a cost
of 5000 each.
Charley Cluvis has just purchased the
store from ". b. Nichols that is occupied
10y the dry goods firm of W. TT. Wilkinson
q Co. at Jnadlla. DIR. j. W. saunders
has bought the interest OF his partner,
A b. Davis. and he viii continue the
business alone.
The firm of Way & shepard, grain and
feed dealers of Brunswick, has been dis
solved q. +. Way retires from the bus
mess ana g. W. Shepard VIII continue
the same in partnership with his son, n
J. Shepard, under the name OF G. W.
Shepard & Son.
Ella Ray Stewart, a negress. and a me-
gro man are under arrest at Macon charg-
ed with procuring "A criminal operation,
which resulted in the death of colQred
school teacher of that city The body OF
a dead infant and the body Of the dead
girl Were found i'm the woman's house
Thomas c. Spivey of Machen shipped
twenty-one loaded cars of cotton seed last
Friday TO the Georgia Cotton Oil Com
pany of Marietta. This is the largest
shipment ever made from that section
by one man. Capt. Spivey has still on
hand about thirty cars, which he could
The two young women who started out
from Chicago on a wager that they could
tramp and beat their way from that city
to Jacksonville and return and have 500
a piece i'm their pockets. are now ia the
beauty show at Atlanta. They viii re-
sumo their journey TO Jacksonville as
soon as their Atlanta engagement be-
comes Improbable.
An electric car on the Marietta street
line of the Consolidated system ran over
Bertha Lee Bodfard, pupil in the first
grade OF the Marietta street school, at
Atlanta, Monday afternoon, killing her
instantly. She was 9 years Of age, and
this was her first term in school. The
car was I'm charge of X. l.. Wofford, who
was the motorman, and J. +. Jones, the
conductor WOffOrd IS under arrest.
Len Goble, who took part in the assault
upon old man Reuben Higgins when he
was so fearfully cut last spring, was tried
in the United States court at Atlanta
Tuesday, convicted and sentenced to four
years In the Columbus. o., penitentiary
Goble, after the cutting, ran away and
went to Texas, where he was caught and
brought back. The affair occurred in
Gilmer county Three others implicated
have already been sent up
The Gridiron Club of Washington has
been compelled to abandon the idea of Civ
ing its November dinner al Atlanta on ac-
count of the approaching congress, which
necessitates the presence Of many of its
members here. About eighteen members
Of this famous organization with their
wives, however, have accepted an invita-
ton from President Collier to visit At
lanta and the exposition. They viii leave
on the goth and will remain until the 2Sd
Miss Ruby Cooper. who arrived at At
lanta some time ago and established CHR
opooist parlors on Peachtree street, died
Tuesday from the effects of burns which
she received more than a month ago. Some
time ago Miss Cooper was in her bed room
when a gas pipe over her bed fell The
gas was burning a the time. and in its
falling set fire TO the mosquito net which
hung over the bed. The woman tried to
extinguish the flames, but in doing so her
clothing caught fire, and she was fatally
The police of Atlanta have been asked to
md Con Desmond United States soldier
stationed with Battery A, at Fort McPher-
son. Desmond left his home at the fort
on payday last Tuesday leaving his wife
and 1-year-old baby and telling his wife
that he would soon return. Since that
afternoon nothing has been heard of him
and his wife has become greatly alarmed
over his prolonged absence. Desmond is
about 30 years old and weighs about $50
pounds. He has light complexion, brown
hair and blue eyes.
Augusta doctors say there is no cause
for alarm over the cases of scarlet fever
and diptheria prevailing in that city.
School Superintendent Evans idea how
ever, is that some steps should be taken
by the board of health in an official way
as by placarding the infected house, or in
some official communication whereby he
could effectually enforce the law. AS things
now stand it is almost impossible for the
superintendent and teachers to guard
against the admission of children to the
schools from families where these diseases
are found. 80
The governor has granted pardon to
Wesley Green, who went up from Stew
art county in 1882, under twenty years
sentence for rape. Green is a negro and
the charge was that he assaulted a negro
girl He has served thirteen years of his
sentence. The petition in his behalf
shows that the principal witness FOR the
state was negro woman of bad charac-
ter and the subsequent Developments
have satisfied the citizens generally, and
even the parents of the girl upon whom
the assault was alleged TO have been made,
that the charge was unfounded.
A meeting of the fruit growers of the
state was held at Atlanta Tuesday. Those
present control ninety per cent. of the
fruit shipped from the state The meet
ing was under the auspices of the Georgia
Fruit Growers Association, which was
organized last summer with John ID. Cum
bingham, OF Marietta, as president, and
James L. Sibley, secretary The object of
the meeting is to organize the fruit grow
ers for the purpose of handling and dis
tributing the Georgia fruit crop and i'm
proving the service of the railroad and re-
frigerator car companies Speeches were
made by John d. Cunningham, of Mari
eta; NJ. ]. Hatcher, of Macon; S. A. Webb
and n. II. Albaugh and Va T. Cope, of
Fort Valley
Monday night there was a shooting af-
fray in North Rome, in which the city
marshal ]. A. Gaddis, was wounded. The
town of North Rome is a separate cor
poraUon and has no other protection than
the marshal AS a, rule everything moves
along peacefully and orderly up there,
but recently the Rome and Decatur de-
pot has been infested with tramps. On
the night before the marshal arrested
seven loiterers, six white men and a negro
and locked them up on suspicion. The
night following he tackled four men, one
of whom carried a shotgun. They OBJ
jected to being arrested and the marshal
attempted to take them anyhow, when
the fellow with the gun opened fire. The
charge struck him in the right arm, when
taking his pistol in his left hand he re-
turned fire. One of the men was struck
in the arm and the marshal grabbed him
and started to the station with him. The
others closed in on him and a hand to
hand fight ensued. Finally all four of the
men disappeared in the darkness. The
marshal was not seriously wounded. He
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