The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-08
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
N PARAGRAPHS.

Hog Cholera tagging in sumter COuD-
ty-Macon aien Going Into the New
Racing AssociatiOn-A Novel In
dOrscment on a Claim sheet for -
Hale Of Cotton-Tax Digests stfn
show Decline I'm VaIues-The
Southern Railway station at Toe
Goa I'm Flames.
GEORGIA.
The records in the clerks office show
/ that during the month Of j uly sixteen d.
/ vOrce suits We're filed at Atlanta
Lawrence q Co. of New York have
| filed suit ia the city court against ).
[ Waxelbaum s, Son Of Macon for S4uo.
r. NJ. Preston. through his attorneys.
A. II. Behling and j. L. Key, has MED
pany ror 500 damages for personal in
Juries.
Rev. Father y. J. Kelly. vicar general
7 Of the diocese Of Georgia OF the Catholic
/ church, is very III at the residence Of his
/ brot1er 10 Claremont avenue, BROOK
I The Southern railway station at TOccoa
/ was burned tuesday morning at CLOCK.
I All the freight, express and records were
/ destroyed. The loss is about $500. The
/ origin OF the fire is unknown.
! A Sumter county farmer has an acre
I or corn, the yield OF which Will be placed
3
ton. II is said 10 resemble canebrake
/ ana the Yield viii be between sixty ana
1 eighty bushels.
The correspondent Of the Morning News
| at Washington writes as follows: Bishop
/ ltdygOOd preached an eloquent sermon
at the Methodist church here last sun
| day. The reJuvenated farmers alliance
helq meeting to-day al me Masonic
/ hall here. a negro named Luke Faver
| was arrested here last Saturday charged
| with rape.
/ lanta late Saturday night by Baillff X. NJ.
/ Smith on a warrant sworn out by j. w.
. Connor, was given a preliminary hear
| il Tuesday before Justice of the Peace
| Foute. After hearing the case, the war
\ rant was dismissed, and Mr. Tebbetts was
| allowed 10 have his bond Cancelled. He was
charged with forgery.
The tax digests received in the office Of
/ the state treasurer at Atlanta Monday
/ show losses over last years returns as
| follows: Jasper $500; Pickens, 81, 900 {;
| Lee, S92'5ls; Calhoun, $lO2,lSs; Putnam, $2+5,
/ 90; Dooly. Sl5I3I6; Henry, Sl9. ga; Column
/ bial $lO5,415, Glynn, SlS5,935. The decrease
/ in Jasper, Calhoun, Putnam and Columbia
was more than 10 per cent.
Application has been filed In the clerk S
| office of Bibb superior court for a charter
/ for the New Southern Racing Association
/ /. NJ. Boone of Atlanta manager. The
/ incorporates are three well known citi-
/ Fleetwood and II. r. Brown Macon men
/ have become identified with the project
! in order TO give 1t local influence.
The Macon Light Infantry held an cleo
/ ton Tuesday night for captain TO fill the
vacancy caused by the resignation of Al
/ bert Jones. Adjt. j. L. L. Stevens Of the
| Second Georgia battalion was unanimous-
/ ly elected. The Macon Hussars also held
an election Tuesday night for first leu
| tenant to fill the vacancy caused by the
resignation Of Ben White. George snow
/ den was elected.
! Sheriff d. B. Alexander of Ebert county
/ has recaptured two of his three white
prisoners that escaped from the jail-the
/ youth, Arthur Carpenter, who was in I'M
1 der an indictment for burglary, and
/ Stokes BuSsey, charged with cheating ana
/ swindling. He Is the young man VINO
/ duped so many citizens OF Elberton by
! claiming that he represented a pants com
! pany. The prisoners were recaptured IN
! Upper Ebert near Bowman
A tramp on an outgoing freight and
| passenger train shot and seriously wound
| ed a passenger named J. w Bradford, of
| Johnston 5. c., who was smoking on the
platform, about forty miles from Augusta
! Monday night. Forty miles down the road
| the train stopped and three negro tramps
| were put off. When the train started off
one tramp shot twice with a revolver and
| the trio made their escape In the woods.
! Bradfords wounds will not prove fatal.
After holding the office of great chief
! of records of the Georgia Red Men for
more than fourteen years, Jacob Emmel,
/ ton to ID. j. Bailey Jr., the great sa-
| chem of the Grand Lodge of Georgia, who
| lives at Griffin. The resignation was ten
dered some time ago, but as yet the
| great sachem has taken no action In the
| appointment of successor to Mr.. En-
mel.
H. H. Glover, who resides in the old
/ Sixteenth district of Sumter, reports that
| cholera is again playing havoc with the
hogs in his neighborhood. From large
/ drove he only has twenty porkers re-
| naming, and as the disease cannot be
stayed these may die as well. One Of
his neighbors, George Simpson, lost a
! dozen fine hogs in one day last week
| while all through the settlement they
! are dying in numbers from the disease.
c. p. Frederic of Mobile, through his at
| torneys Thomas r. r. Cobb and Erwin,
Cobb & Woolley, has entered suit for
| IS 600 damages against the Cotton States
and International Exposition Company.
| He alleges that he secured space for q res
| taurant on the grounds and began to pre-
! pare at great expense for the erection of
| the necessary building, but when he re-
| turned from Mobile he was informed that
| his space had been given by other officers
of the company to another and hence his
suit.
Lizzie Murphy, the mother of George
Murphy, the little negro who was knock
ed down by an electric car Of the Ccnsoli-
dated Company in EdseWood avenue at
Atlanta and had his feet so badly mashed
that it was necessary to amputate one
of them, has filed, through her attorneys,
| Arnold & Arnold, a suit against the com
pany for 5000. alleging that her SON s
Injuries were caused by the carelessness
! of the company. As next friend for the
boy she also filed suit for him for 5000
damages.
| About two years ago some school chill
dren out in the Warrior district of Bib
county found a badly decomposed body
of Why Gibson, negro woman, in a
hollow stump. There were evidences OF
foul play but nothing was ever made
public concerning the death except that
about ten days previously the woman had
started for her home in Milledgeville IN
company with Zack Johnson, a negro
| man with whom she had been working.
! Johnson claimed to have taken the wO-
man to Macon in his buggy and put her
out before they reached the depot. lie
had not seen her since then. Johnson
is now under arrest on charge of threaI L
ening to Kill LaVoisier Lamar.
O. II. Jones, who had a fight with an
unknown man on South Pryor street at
Atlanta last week Tuesday, had another
fight with the same man on Monday OF
this week The fight Monday was the
outcome of a publication in the Atlanta
Looking Glass last Saturday. The un-
known man was accused of being respon-
sible for the publication, and when &C
costed and asked about 1t by Mr.. Jones
the two men engaged in n lively fight. The
identity of the man with whom Mr..
| Iones has had two fights in the last