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

was tried and convicted. his member
snip not having been transferred from
the Baptist church which he served as
pastor several years ago.
Hayne Dodd Of Kingston had thrill
ing experience Monday while crossing the
EtoWah river at Woodleys ferry. He
nad two mules hitched to wheat drill.
They had been driven on to the ferry
boat and were just a few feet from land
when the Rome train came putting by.
The mules became frightened and un-
manageable and backed themselves and
the drill into the river, breaking one of
e.le gunwales of the boat entirely off
and throwing Capt Woolley and several
other. gentlemen into the water. Capt.
Woolley could not swim, and came near
drowning. The driver and ferryman
managed some way to cut the mules
loose from the drill, which enabled them
to swim out.
The case Of the state VS.. Mrs. ]. Mont.
gomery, charged with assisting Harvey
Wilson. her son in stabbing Tom Mont
gomery, her husband, to death, was
called at Rome Monday. The attorneys
for Mrs Montgomery moved for a con-
tinuance and to be allowed to give bail
for their client, upon the grounds that
Mrs. Montgomery was IN a delicate con-
dition. Judge Turnbull after hearing the
argument allowed the defendant to give
bond in the sum Of $1,000, and set the case
for the January term OF court. Mrs.
Montgomery father went on the bond
and the prisoner was allowed to return
to her home in Chattooga county. Har-
vey Wilson is still at large, but dill
his whereabouts.
An important matter which will come
before the legislature when it meets is
that in regard to the act passed by the
last legislature appropriatng $4,000 10
pay pension of $50 a year TO each con-
federate veteran who could show that he
was disabled from age, poverty or sick
ness from making a living. The amount
appropriated was sufficient 10 pay PEN
sions to 500 old soldiers, but there have
been about 1900 applications approved
.lr inns.
were approved Tuesday, and one day last
week as many as twelve We're approved.
The officials cannot decide which of the
men shall be paid ana Wnlch snail De de-
MED, so none of them have been paid,
and the case will be sent back to the
legislature for adjudication. If the vet
Grams are to be paid il will necessitate
the appropriation of $4,000 instead of
$4,000
Macon Telegraph: Mr.. J. 1. Watts. the
yo9RRg o s Mas Srr SS1 a9q PlS Ssy
ing been brought here from Butler on Sat
urday and placed under bond OF $l0O-
on warrant charging him with cheating
and swindling, has quite number OF
friends who are gradually coming TO. the
front as his prosecutors Two mortgages
already have been toreclosed, one state
warrant issued and three other men claim
to have similar cases against him. Ac-
cording to his accusers, Watts was horse
trader In each case he would buy horse
on credit securing the debt with a mort
gage TO the purchaser; then he would sell
the animal. After having made number
of such trades. he announced to his friends
that he was going somewhere in South
Georgia to take charge OF plantation
Mr. John w. Gum obtained a warrant
charging Watts with cheating and swind-
ling, and then employed Mr.. ]. A. Perry
to ind Watts.
Augusta Chronicle: For the past few
days an aged maiden lady. Miss Siebles
by name. has been visiting the various at
torneys in Augusta, relative to the secur-
ing of an immense estate in England,
which she believes she is heir to. The
lady in question has friends here and she
has been also endeavoring TO get them
to assist her in the hunt for the $4,O0000O
fortune. She is from out in Alabama
where she has for the past many years
been running small farm, which she
owned. Some four years ago she wrote
TO friends here, telling them that she
would come this way on her trip to Eng
land. Nothing was thought of the matter
by those here, and the circumstances had
been forgotten until last Friday the ladv
turned up in Augusta. She is past so
years of age, and so infirm that she is
getting about. She has sold her farm and
stock in Alabama, and with the proceeds
a few thousand dollars, is making her way
to England. In an oil skin bag which she
carries over her shoulder she. has the pa
pers, by means of which she hopes to
sufficiently prove her identity in the courts
of England, and 10 have the immense es-
tate turned over to her. What will be the
outcome of the matter is not known If
Miss Siebles does not succeed here in get
ting some one to help her. she says She
is going to Columbia, $. c., where she has
relatives, and try to get them to helm
her. If there she finds no announcement.
she viii go across the ocean all by her
self
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