The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-05

on the floor and smashed into a thousand
pieces and he then proceeded to break and
SMASH articles of furniture his wife plead
devil seemed to be in him as big as a
goat and he continued to torture her
yesterday the poor woman gave birth 70
a chlid, which is now in it's grave, and
the mother is not expected to live, her
condition being very precarious."
j. r. Halle, a white man, was arrested
py fopceman AVera at the union depot
az Macon, Thursday afternoon. as he
stepped from a Georgia Southern train.
Policeman Avera had been notified that
Halle, who had been suspected of blow
ing open a safe at Elko Wednesday night
was on the train riding the blind bag
gage, and when the train arrived he ar
rested him. Halle denies having COM
mitted any crime. The authorities at
Elko have been notified.
Valdosta Times: A young man in town
went home one evening this week and
found his clothing spread out on a chair
where his mother had put them to dry
He thought II was burglar, and stepping
back two or three steps, he picked up a
brick and threw it with all his power
at the supposed intruder. The chair was
torn to splinters and clothing was scat
tered all over the porch. The family
rushed out in great alright and car
penter was summoned the next morning
to patch up the door, The young man ex-
planned that he thought the chair was a
burglar.
News has been received at Macon which
exposes as a fake the reported killing
of the negro Tom Brownlee. The published
reports were to the effect that brownies
who was known as an informer on moon
sinners, has been tortured and killed by
whitecapS in Butts county, not far from
Forsyth. An investigation of the matter
shows that a crowd of boys who battle
I'm Rocky creek, in order to brighten off
negro boys, took some old clothes a"l
pinned them down in the creek with
stakes and caused the report to be circu-
lated that negro had been killed. This
Is said to be the truth of the whole aft
An important meeting of the Young
Mems Business League was held at Ma
con Thursday night at which officers were
nominated TO be elected at the general
meeting next Monday night The officers
nominated We're: J. w. Cabaniss, presi-
Allen Alex. Black, o. p. Willingham. w.
NJ Johnston; directors, Joe Neel, Glenn.
Phillips, Ned Willingham, Sam Altmager,
Tom Loyless, Basil Wise, Ed Burke
Lewis Harriss. Gray Goodwin, B. w.
Sperry, c. 7. Garden, +; A. MaNelhaum,
Duncan. and Ed. Burke, secretary and
treasurer.
Miss Lillian Crenshaw, of Griffin. while
returning home from New York on the
Atlanta train Monday morning, dropped
her pocket book from the car window.
Conductor Harris reported the loss to
Agent Burckmeyer, and he mounted his
I bicycle and rode as far as the l6-mile post
\ and failed to find it. He then got Nathan
MCGEE a trusty colored man, to search
for it, and he found it just below the IS
mile post. In falling the pocket book
had come open, and quarter had fallen
on the rail and been run over and mashed
almost beyond recognition. The book
contained little of value, only small
change, a check and bunch of keys. 1t
was forwarded TO her Monday night.
In the January election for county Off
GERS for Wilkinson county the democrats
elected the tax collector and coroner. The
remaining officers elected were populists
elected by small majorities, ranging from
to q. The coroner resigned, after max
ing bond. The surveyor and treasurer
failed TO make their bonds. so the county
commissioners ordered an election for
Thursday to fill these vacant offices The
democrats thought there was more money
in attending to their crops just at this
season than voting, so they put no Candi-
dates in the field, and as result there
was one election in the Tenth congress
sional district in which there will be no
charge of fraud made. Out of a populist
vote of 1000 there were cast in Thursdays
election only us ballots.
A murder vas committed on the Hat
cher plantation, near Winchester, in Ma
con county. Wednesday night, in which a
mother buried her newly born babe alive.
Alice Feagan, a colored woman living
alone in cabin on the plantation. had
given birth to a child, and as the where
abouts of the infant could not be found
an Investigations was made and the body