The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-23
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Atlanta Floats 4 Per Cent bonds at
Para Happy Reunion at Atlanta
Atlanta Apt TO BE Sued for DAM
ages rs the Result of Reckless
Shooting by "a PoIiceman-Steps
Taken to Secure a Monster New
Cotton Factory for Rome.
GEORGIA.
There is a movement on foot by a num-
Der of Dalton young ladies to revive the
custom of keeping open house the coming
new year.
The residence of W. T. Knox Of Social
Circle was consumed by fire Wednesday
morning. The loss is heavy with only
81 $50 insurance.
Mineral Bluff. Fannin county. had its
first snow of the season Wednesday. The
snowfall was not heavy but showed very
plainly on the roofs of the houses.
Gordon Steele. the young man who is
charged with having inveigled pretty
Lena Nann into mock marriage at
Atlanta and then betraylng her settled
matters Thursday by marrying the girl.
II. Speieel and d. Ross have entered suit
against the Atlanta and West Point road
FOR 5000 damages each. They claim that
the validating agent at Atlanta failed to
accept their return tickets from Dallas,
and that i'm consequence the conductor
put them off the train.
Thursday morning the three-story build
ing on South Boulevard at Atlanta, used
as printing office by the Review and
Herald Publishing Company and as
place of worship for the Seventh Day
Adventists. was badly damaged by fire.
The damage done viii amount to 5000.
The insurance viii nearly cover the loss.
Julius Adler, composer of "The Patri-
OTIS. narrowly escaped serious and
possibly fatal injury on the stage at
the Columbia theater at Atlanta Wednes-
day night. A heavy piece of scenery fell
and was about to strike him when it
was warded off by Harry Lee. manager
of the company who sustained painful
injuries on the arm.
GOV. Atkinson has granted a commute
ton to Mitchell johnson, in the peni-
Tertiary for manslaughter. johnson was
sent up for twenty years in 1880 from
Randolph county, but as the solicitor
of the circuit, the grand jurors and the
jurors that tried him asked for a com
mutation it was granted, the governor
allowing him to go for the time he has
served.
f. L. Snyder, once resident of Griffin,
but now of Atlanta, was arrested Thurs
day morning on a charge of lunacy Mem
bers of his family testified that Mr.. Sny-
der has been losing his mind for some sew
en- months, and that he became violent
Thursday morning, striking his daughter
with a shot gun. Mr.. Snyder was adjudged
insane and will be sent to the asylum at
MiDedgeVille.
Sunday morning an unknown man was
found near Abel in a dying condition. II
was taken to town, where he received all
the medical attention necessary, but was
too far gone and died Thursday. Not being
able to talk and having no papers by which
he could be identified he was buried IS an
unknown. He was intelligent and refined
and looked to be about forty years old. He
weighed about 20 pounds, had dark eyes,
wore a small mustache and beard
quite a serious difficulty occurred about
five miles west of Lafayette Wednesday
afternoon between Poke, Styles and
George Shaw. The trouble arose over
the survey of some land. Judge Lumpkin
had just completed running the line, and
Styles was not satisfied and refused to
pay his part for running it, He and Shaw
engaged in a quarrel Shaw struck
Styles with a club, crushing his cheek
bone and part of his temple. The blow
may prove fatal.
The. best sale of Atlanta bonds in the
history of that city was made Thursday
morning by the finance committee of the
general council. Fifty thousand dollars
worth of + per cent. bonds were sold at
par, the Atlanta National Bank being the
purchaser. The deal was cOnsummated by
Hugh r. Inman. chairman of the finance
committee, in whose hands the finance
committees of council left the matter. The
sale was authorized by council at its last
meeting.
A large number of the citizens of Rome
met Wednesday afternoon to discuss
proposition made to them by Messrs.
to the erection of a $6000O0 cotton mill in
that city. 1t is proposed to locate the mill
setts cotton mill. This concern will give
employment to LOCO hands and bring to
Rome at least $500 people. They will run
at first 800 looms and 1900 spindes The
promoters of this enterprise desire the
citizens of Rome to subscribe for $50, 900
of the stock before they viii locate.
At Atlanta Wednesday afternoon VIII
Fletcher, a young negro who proved him
self to be rare criminal, was found
guilty of arson and sentenced to a life
Imprisonment in the penitentiary Fletch-
err did not deny the burning of little
blacksmith shop out on West Mitchell
street belonging to white man named
Hayes, but said he burned it because
one of the workmen in the shop had
the same negro who set fire to three box
cars standing on the railroad track,
and when asked why he nred the cars
he said he did it just to see the fire en-
gineS run.
The indications are that Atlanta will be
called upon to pay heavy damages for the
reckless shooting by Patrolman Hudson,
from whose pistol one ball killed negro
and shot a white man. Beal, the white
man who was so desperately wounded and
who was taken to the Grady hospital, is
now recovering rapidly. He has petitiOned
the mayor and general council for dam
ages caused by the bullet and the paper
is now in the hands of committee, by
which the matter will be given thorough
investigation Friends of the petition who
are in position to know assert that suit
viii be filed against the city in event the
petition is not granted
At Atlanta Thursday the House con-
CURED in the Senate amendment to the
House bill to allow the jury, in all cases
except the great capital crimes, TO re-
duce the Offense to a misdemeanOr and,
if the judge concurs in this recommended
ton to punish as in the case of mis-
demeanor. This measure is the Senate's
substitute for a bill of a similar char
acter which passed the House at the
last session. The bill embodies the prin-
ciples of a like measure introduced by
Mr.. Jenkins of Putnam, and received the
hearty endorsement of the code commits
sioners before it was taken up in the
Senate. The bill was debated at consid-
cradle length and finally passed.
Jake Mobre, assistant keeper of the
penitentiarN has returned to Atlanta from