The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-06
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
PARAGRAPHS.

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DR.. B. S. Carswell of Jacksonville died
of consumption Monday.
The young men ~ Tennule are talking
of organizing a military company.
Jasper Thompson of Jackson county has
sold 263 bales Of cotton az good price 70
the Augusta Compress Company.
DIT. r. O. Gerkc. one of the best known
physicians in Augusta. died at his home
on Fifth street Tuesday afternoon of con-
gestiOn OF the Kidneys
Rev. j. X. Smith. pastor Of the Second
Presbyterian church at Augusta, notified
his congregation Sunday that he had ac-
cepted a call TO Richmond. Ky.
Two deaths occurred al Griffin Tuesday.
dence early Tuesday morning. Mrs. ". II.
Horne died at the home OF her son, ". Il.
Horne.
Charley Allen. son OF Thomas V. Allen.
an old confederate veteran uNlns az Al
lanta, was struck by brick IN the hanas
of a negro and badly injured An effort
was made 10 arrest the negro, but he cs-
capped
Tuesday morning Archie Mcfarland. an
aged citizen Of Griffin. while taking COW
out 10 Craze had his neck broken By the
cow getting the rope wrapped about his
neck Mr.. Mcfarland was about 90 years
OF axe.
Henry Haney white. while engaged in a
game Of cards with some negroes in tho
upper part of Walton county sunday, got
into an alteration with them and was shot
by negro bystandeT. il is not known
whether the wound viii prove fatal.
The steamer Cracker Boy was sold by
Sheriff Bcrrie al public cutlery at Bruins
vic Tuesday. on an execution from SUI
perior court in favor Of the Brunswick
Foundry. Machine and Manufacturing
Company. The steamer was bought ny
siSl 5 c Atkinson for the company for
A party OF wOod-cutters from Fort Val
ley are procuring timber from Chickasaw-
hatchee swamp, near Dawson. TO be used
in the manufacture Of boxes for the ship
ment of fruit few days ago a poplar
tree was cut down that melted 2,3O feet
OF lumber and must have been over
century old.
Henrietta Wimbish. widow OF Henry
Nimbish. brakeman on the g.. 5. and F.
railroad who had his leg broken sometime
ago and died from the injury, sued the
road for $4,000 fol damage The case was
tried in the superior court at Macon Mon
day ana the jury gave the plaintim YER
dict for $500.
The attorneys for Charles Allen Of Daw-
son. announced last week that they would
make application for a new trial as they
We're unwilling to accept the verdict OF
murder AFTER consultation they have con
court Allen was taken to the Americus
jail. The penitentiary officials have been
notified, and Allen will be taken TO the
penitentiary to begin his life sentence.
1t was rumored at Atlanta Monday ar
ternoOn that Jackson, the negro who is
supposed to have murdered the negro Ed
ward Wilson, on Sunday night had been
caught out near Mcpherson barracks The
woman in the case, Emma Vaughn, has
been caught and Is now in Jail. 1t devol-
oped at the coroners inquest Monday az
ternoon that Wilson was killed with raz-
or instead Of an AK, as was at first sup
posed.
The agitation of matter of considerable
importance and interest to Columbus is
the establishment of an Independent line
of steamers from Columbus TO Apalachi-
cola, connecting at that point with a line
of steamers from New Orleans. The effect
OF The establishment of this line would
give Columbus much cheaper rate on sew
eral standard articles OF merchandise the
most important of which are cotton and
sugar
A big land deal, engineered by H. NJ At
kinson, the Weil-knoWn banker OF Atlanta
has gone through successfully within the
past three days. The property involved is
that lying along Elliott street between
Nelson and Hunter, some of it fronting
on West Mitchell street, some on Mark
ham and some on Nelson. The property
Is, or was, owned by John Young Cicero
Bridwell, Mrs. S. d. Stocks, Mrs. Brown
and DR.. II. Motley, and is about an acre
and half or two acres in all. The
amount paid for the land is estimated at
from $4,000 to $4,000, and there are vari-
gus and numerous rumors as to why the
land was bought
Charles Brantley, a reporter of the Val
dosta Times, put his hand in the collar Of
Or. G. j. Seely Monday afternoon and at
the purpose of chastising him. Very little
is known as to the origin of the difficulty
though 1t seems that DIR. Seely had written
Brantley note which was construed by
the newspaper man Is an insult DIR. Seely
is an Ohioan and located at Naldosta sew
eral months ago. Brantley went there from
Milledgeville two years ago Brantley
claims that Dr. Seely has offended him on
more than one occasion. The doctor swore
out a warrant against Brantley for assault
and battery and later Brantley was served
with peace warrant.
Saturday a colored woman. much the
worse for dust and hunger, arrived at
brunswick, leading a small red COW. On
Investigation it was found that the woman
had walked from Hawkinsville, a distance
of about seventy-five miles, leading the
COW the entire distance. She said word
had reached her that her husband was i'll
and not having the amount for railroad
fare, she set out to walk, carrying the
COW along TO pawn to some farmer, which
she could not do, Many offered to pur-
chase the COW, but the owner refused
TO sell. The woman found her husband
all right, and is none the worse for the
long tramp.
The large wholesale dry goods house
Of Sol WaXelbaum & Son, of Macon, is to
re-enter business at once as the Waxel-
baum Company. An application for char
ter has been filed in the superior court,
bearing the following good names. H j.
Lamar, j. f. Hanson, George b. Turpin
y; W. Cabaniss, e. a. Waxelbaum. David
WAaxelbaaum; stephen, Pepper; r; II.
JOsephson, Sam Mayer, Charles Wachtel
of Macon, and Isaac Rosenwald, A. Cohn
Henry Stern, Walter Schiller of New
York. The business of the old house
amounted to over 81 coo 900 annually and
their trade extended over nearly every
section Of Georgia, Alabama and Florida
together with a good portion of South
Carolina. The company asks to be char
tered with capital of $4,000, Of which
$4,000 has been paid in.
The latest whitecap organization is that
reported from Union county. This new
one is of the regulation anti-informer va
riety. Two men alleged to be members of
the society are now in Lumpkin Jail await
ing hearing before the United States
com missioner and warrants are out for ten
others. The men in Jail are named Caven-
der and Douglas. The charge gainst them
is entering into a conspiracy TO intirnidate
witnesses in the United States courts the
specific charge being that they. with about
a dozen others, took from his home man
named Phillips, living near Blairsville and
beat him so numerically that they left
him for dead. The revenue officers say that
after they had beaten Phillips until he
dropped, apparently dead, they gathered
around his body and each sWore eternal
secrecy. Phillips recovered consciousness
and was able to tell some of his assailants
1t is said he will probably die, however
The cause of the attack was the belief thar
Phillips had Informed on blockade distill-
erS.