The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-02

Twsnty-three Bales OF Cotton Burned
at LawrsnceviIle-A Failure at Bruns-
wiok-The Lot Of aacon's nortorm u
Eade Easier During the Cold spell.
GEORGIA
There was a slight fan Of snow ia Ma
con Monday.
The farmers Of Ware county lost
heavily On potatoes during tie cod
snap.
Thursday night tho store OF Cohen &
LerisOn at Athens caught fire. Tie stock
Ok goods is badly damaged, but D. fully
covered by Insurance.
Vinevils. Macon beautiful suburb. is
aggitaunF the question Of constructne
system OF sanitary sewers. The already
larse and rapidly Increasing population
sity. '
Rev. J. L. Gross. who was recently
elected TO the pastoTGte Of the Baptist
church az AMericus, has not fully deter
mined whether he will accept the call
A letter to that eject was received sat
urdsy
Within the next two or three months
AHeucus viii have direct telephone cOu-
necuon with Atlanta, and. in fact. an
ale from the capital 10 nearly AL the
larger towns near rs.
After Guiding the officers for five years
Warren Barnett. alias Mitchell Earaet- a
negro man, was captured Saturday by Of
ncers Kelly. hin and Sage OF the Athens
police force. Barnett is wanted Ia Made
son county for an attempt to Kill Bob
Hardeman i've years ago.
Young Leslie Briggs. who ls visitinr
relatives az Douglas. while taking Il
promenade TO the creek with his cousin.
Mlss Nauoe Briggs. saturday. was fired
upon Twice, one hall passing aanEerously
near his head lie heard q noise Ia the
bushes near. but could see no one.
Saturday little Norma H0sey the c.
yeaT-oid daughter OF W. B. Hosey OF Attn
ems, was standing too near the fire ana
her dress became envelcped in a sheet
OF names. The child ran screaming from
the room, but was caught by her brother.
who extinsulshed he flames before they
had done much damage.
At Macon throughout the cold spell OF
rlday, saturday ana sunday Manager
Winters Of the Consolidated Electric Ire
put on extra mOtormen so that the men
could stop on every few hours and get
warm. Mrs. Winters also kept a pot OF
boiling hot coffee for the mOtormen day
and night, 50 that the lot of the motor
men was not so hard as appeared to the
public.
Monday Sheriff Berrie closed up the
wholesale and retail VIII. sky business Of
a. Haas, al the corner OF Monk and Oe-
lethorpe streets, at Erun6w ok. The bus
mess was closed on mortgages of 81. 600 in
favor OF A. Kaiser d Bro, and $50 TN favor
OF the Brunswick Grocery Company Il
is believed that MIR. Haas viii be able TO
pull through his difficulties and resume
business.
At Brewton Saturday night between 8
and 10 o clock some boys who had been of
on a seTenade returned TO town and
thought they weuld have some fun out
Of the night Waterman, when he turned
on them and shot G. L. Orr in the thigh
The wound Is not dangerous. Some one
mad just shot dynamite cartridge. and
caused some excitement or the watebman
would not have shot Mr.. Orr.
Fred smith, the young man whose
body was 50 horribly mangled under a
Columbus and Western freight train at
Columbus sunday night. died Monday
morning rom his injuries. Smith died at
the residence Of his father, Baxter Smith
on Thirteenth street and death must have
been a welcome visitor in his case. as
both legs were Severed FROM his body. be-
sides being wounded otherwise.
A. J. Roper OF Worth county. who oper-
atcs a farm about three miles south Of
Sylvesters, has cured enough meat this
fall and winter to keep his family sup
piled for a year. He has sold 500 worth
of hogs. two animals alone netting him
S3L59 Mr.. Ropers hogs have been fat
tened on chufas and ground peas, and
next year he expects to raise even a
greater number OF fine porkers.
A good deal Of excitement was caused
at Atlanta Saturday by the report OF a
disastrous wreck on the Western and At
lantic railroad near the Chattahoochee
river bridge. II was reported that the
early morning passenger train from Chat
taRooga bad been wrecked and a number
OF persons killed. Ambulances and
wrecking train were sent out but the
wreck proved TO be only slight one A
broken rail had thrown the tram off the
track, but nobody was hurt and the am
balances returned empty.
Twenty-three bales Of cotton belonging
TO various planters were destroyed by FIRE
Sunday morning at the Georgia Carolina
and Northern depot al LawrencevilIe. The
fire was discovered about 2 O'clock and
had IL not been for a freight train with
a crew passing. over 300 bales would have
been stroyed besides the new depot and
all the adjoining warehouses. The OriEtn
OF the FIRE Is unknown, though some sus-
have been taking cotton by the bale and
set the whole lot on fire 10 hide their
tracks. The road is careless in leaving
several hundred bales OF cotton lying ali
round the deDot most Of he time This
is about the third fire at that depot.
In the upper edge Of Clarke county Sat
urday a foul murder was committed. A
T Hale was walking across a field near
Bogart. when he discovered a clot Of blood
in the path. This excited his curlosi y and
he followed the Investigation until he
came to a deserted howell near by He
went in and found IN he hallway an cd
negro woman barely alive. She was iv-
feet mass Of blood. DIT. Benson was
called 70 attend her ami al once pro
nounced her injuries fatal Once the old
neRress regained consciousness long
enough to answer a question. Who hit
you aunty2 was asked. Niger" she
family replied. That was the only word
she spoke Her name was found to be
Caroline Culbreath. She was murdered
for a small sum Of money which she had
There is no clue 10 the murderer.
Four small houses belonging to A. w
White were burned ar Columbus Saturday
night Mr.. White seems to be having
continued bad luck, Tor this IS the secon
loss he has sustained during the last few
weeks. The former fire, which was on
the same block was believed TO have
been the work Of incend aries. as was evil
IDENTIFY the case in this instance also. De
cidsdly the strangest thing in this line