The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-04
GEORGIA.

Death.
GEORGIA.
James S. Wright purchased the insur-
ance business Of Capt j. 5. Thomas at
Brunswick.
G. =. Frasuer Of Gordon has an excel
sior factory in operation, and finds a
market for all he can manufacture.
DR.. ". II. Peck died at Locust Grove
Tuesday nisht suddenly from heart trou ...
county in the legislature.
A negro, named Nose Mullen. was
struck by a SeabOard train at HOWelIs
station Wednesday his skull was
crushed and he viii probably die.
The Harwood seminary building at
Marietta was sold al receivers sale last
Tuesday 10 John r. Winters for $4,000
This VIII pay the stockholders over 50
per cent.
Joe Battles who lives near Dexter cut
Jordan Smith 80 death Wednesday morn
Ing. Smith died in about five minutes
after the cutting. The trouble was about
land rent. Both are colOred.
An Americas man. who a week or two
ago saw good thing in cotton ana
was not afraid of his shadow, sold out
yesterday and deposited $500 to his
credit in one Of the local banks.
Capt. W. /. Burnett has been elected
to the House Of Representatives to till the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Will
lam Harrison of Quitman county. He had
no opposition, consequently, the election
was a quiet one.
Mrs. Wallace McCaw, nee Miss Mary
Plant, died at Macon Tuesday. She was
the eldest daughter of r. II. Plant, and
was born June q, 1872, in Macon, anu
lived there all her life. on April 10, 1888,
she was married to Wallace McCaw.
The O'Neill Manufacturing Company Of
the Massachusetts Mill Company for the
building of a number Of pretty cottages
and some smaller houses. The total
number will reach $50, and viii finish up
this work for the mills.
r. d. Gay, one Of Terrelrs largest and
most successful planters. has not yet sold
bale of his this years cotton crop,
farmers of Terrell county are in good
fix, and but comparatively few of them
are rushing their cotton to market.
After their present terms of office ex-
pires, the county officials of Fulton coun-
ty viii work for a salary instead of for
fees, if the efforts Of Hon. Charles l.
Branan, member of the state legislature
from that county, are successful. Mr..
Branan will introduce a bill at the next
session of the legislature with that end in
view
The Macon Medical Society met Tues
day night, and physicians agreed to ro-
tate in vaccinating poor children. The
cost of vaccination has heretofore been
urged as the main objection to compul-
sorry vaccination of public school pupils,
but IL is thought this liberal action of
physicians will do away with this OBJ
lection.
The city OF Macon mas received a prop
osition from a wealthy corporation OF
New York car builders for sites for the
location of o 100000 car works in that
city. Mayor Horne is now in communi- /
cation with the syndicate and the scheme |
looks promising. The head OF the syndi- |
cate is coming to the Atlanta exposition |
this month, and Will view the sites in
Macon. He says he Is determined to To-
cate the plant somewhere in Georgia.
A report has reached Lawrenceville of
a serious personal difficulty between two
brothers-in-law near the line OF Gwinnett
and Walton counties. The parties are G.
NJ. Booth, who is the county surveyor of
Walton, and G. A. Davis, who married
Booths sister. There has been trouble
brevrina between the two for some time
Tuesday Davis cut Booth from the right
shoulder across the breast to the left |
the breast TO the right side, inhicting two
severe wounds.
News has reached Moultrie of a shooting
ARRAY which occurred in the lower part
of the county Saturday night in which !
Curtis Smith, colored was instantly kill |
ed. William Northup and Lee Simons are
ascertain who was the real murderer. 1t
seems that William Northup had a 3S-cal-
iber Smith * Wesson pistol and Lee ST.
mons had a 32-caliber. The testimony
seems to be very conflicting as to who
really did the killing, and for that reason
the body was disinterred and a post NOR
tenn examination held for the purpose of
extracting the ball, but the physicians
failed to find the ball hence the matter
is shrouded in mystery.
Mrs. T. S. Chancellor, who resides at 53
Formwalt street, Atlanta, had a thrilling
and exciting experience with a young and
desperate negro burglar Wednesday. She
discovered, while the negro was stll in
the house, that four rings We're missing
and, thinking that he had them, directed
her cook TO catch him and hold him until
she could summon help. Sanitary inspect
or J. ). Goodwin was passing at the time
and went in to arrest the burglar. Then
followed a desperate struggle, in which
the negro fought five or six men and al
most made his escape, only giving up af-
ter having been overpowered and beaten
into insensibility. The missing diamonds
were found in tub of water.
A Mexican mescal wine bottle has been
received at the custom house at Atlanta
and win be carried to the exposition ana
placed on exhibition in the museum de-
partment. The bottle is made of the skin
OF a goat and has capacity of six paI
Ions. The curio was sent to the exposi
ton by w. II. BROKER, a LAWYER of San
Antonio, and with the bottle he sent an
interesting story of the curio. The bottle
was captured by United States deputy
collector as ii was being brought across
the Mexican line. There is duty of 81
per gallon on all wines imported from
Mexico, and this the Mexican who owned
the wine refused to pay. When the duty
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