The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-18
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
News Of The Two Stats Told in Para
graphs.

partment Investigation Fever A. A
Colored Woman Claims $4,000
Damages Prom the Southern Railway.
A Boy Escapes From Talbotton's Jail
GEORGIA.
The Second regiment men viii have 5'o-
yard range for Macon
Leonnetta Poet. a woman Of the town.
committed suicide at Columbus luesday
by taking laudanum.
The Washington Institute at Linton
was burned Tuesday The loss ON The
structure is fully $1,000. There was no
insurance whatever on The building or
us contents Ii viii be rebuilt as soon
as arrangement TO that cud can Zoe per-
fected.
The city council Of Elberton has ordered
an election 90 be held on Feb. ID, TO ace. 4e
whether or not bonds shall be issued for
The purpose Of establishing electric lights
in Elbert0u. The bonds are not 70 exceed
$1,000 az the beginning, but If necessary
Will be increased.
jest before day Sunday morning w,
s. Thornton of Dover, in Terrell county,
lost his residence and an Of his household
effects by FIRE. he and his family barely
saving enough clOthlng 20 dress thein-
selves The origin OF the fire is unknown
Mr.. Thorntons loss Is near $1,000, with
no insurance
The postofice formerly known as Cres-
well. on the Savannah. Griffin and North
Ala bama railroad. six miles from Griffin,
has been changed 20 Naughn's, same as
the railroad station. People addressing
mail 10 that point will be expected by the
United States postal authorities to govern
themselves accordingly.
Macon has fallen into line with a LeXow
Investigation. II will be q very grave AZ
ialr; that Is, the proposed investigaL on
viii cover the cemetery department The
mayor threw the bomb al netting Of the
city council Tuesday night He states
that there have been Irregularities In the
90 fFr Al taHHFH rfF a fNf1lf
tee has been appointed TO Investigate.
In TIE Warrior district OF Bib county.
TUESDAY, TWO negro girls, Lula Hartman
and Ida Newman, were playing with
and the ball entered Ida Newman's head
near the temple The bullet ranged down
ward and came out near The nose. IL Is
thought that the girl will die The pistol
was in the hands OF Lula Hartman at the
time II was fired.
The only occupant Of the jail at Tai
bottom a white boy named William Il.
Jones, about n years or age held for
larceny, escaped Tuesday night by pick
ing three locks. This is the second time
Jones has been in trouble both times
for larceny. lie is a bright boy who has
been led astray by reading dime novels.
The Jail is new, costing 5000 and was
thought 10 be safe. The sheriff has Of
ferd reward for Jones capture.
At Athens Monday evening Miss Daisy
Talmadgo laid aside her lovely gold
watch in its case on the bureau AZ her
home. Shortly afterwari she returned
and did not find Il there II had mysteri-
ously disappeared. The police wero no
tined OF the occurrence, and arrested a
negro boy who was at work at Mai
Talmadge's. The boy was brought 10 the
sta ton house. but no evidence could he
found against him. when The boy was
carried back the watch was in it's place.
The thief Is not known. but whoever
i was, afraid of detection, had carried
the watch back and put IL in the case
from which 10 had been taken
Henry See. a mulatto IS years old at
tempted suicide Saturday night last al his
nome thirteen miles north Of Quitman.
lie took morphine. His mother is "A
white woman and he thinks that he is
white. Some time ago he married "A white
girl, who Is still within the school age
she started to the neighborhood school
last Monday whereupon all the patrons
stopped their children and a committee
him that If he persisted i'm send
ing his wife TO school they would get ont a
for him for living In adultery with
a white woman, as the law would put that
construction on his marriage. See sought
the advice of lawyer Saturday, and upon
belng informed that the chances were
against him, remarked that ne had rather
be dead than in his present condition.
Emily Wright colored. OF Macon has
Med suit against the Southern Railway
company for $4,000 damages for the death
Of her son, who was Andrew Wright. The
SUIT alleges that ON Sept. IA. 1894. Andrew
Wright, with several others got on
Yards in Macon, to ride TO Billiards. to
lsh- They had the money to pay their fare
u is further alleged that fishing parties
have been accustOm TO riding on freight
trains Of the Southern. and that the de-
ceased had frequently done so On the
day in question while Wright was sitting
on coal car and the train in motion
The conductor struck Wright a violent
blow on the head with a lump of coal
Wright was knocked OFF the car and fall
Ing under the wheels was terribly man
40 frn in ma tsaN
stopped, and the conductor and none of
the crew got off the train to look after
the Injured man.
The main business street of Cochran
leading up from the SOuthern's depot viii
soon present handsome appearance. That
is II fancy brick buildings will make it
so. Messrs. Ingram & Blount are build
Ing a fine two-story brick hotel of large
capacity on the vacant lot fronting n l..
Iaylors. Further down DIR. G. T. Tay-
Tor occupies the lower floor of his new
building as drug store. The upper floor
serves as an opera house for the town.
Next TO this, the Masonic temple now IN
construction will soon be compile ted The
lower floors 10 be used as business houses
Messrs. Harren & Mulis have sold out
their stock of merchandise to Harrell q
Son J. II. Mullis, Jr., will open business
for himself Holmes & Carsweu have
sold 70 WXnne Bros, and J. Il. Taylor to
w B, Carswell. Hundreds Of fine hogs
have been killed during the last cold spell.
Much uneaslness is entertained on ac-
-phEL VI Tue warm weather now prevail
ing.
A very interesting case has been set for
trial in the DeKalb county court on Feb.
!. II is the case of w. II. Carter against
Minnie Binion. a maiden lady so years of
age. Last year her father Abe BiniOn a
citizen of DeKalh died a. the
advanced age of l0i years ana left his
property, worth about $4,000. to his
daughter. She had three brothers, who
we're not remembered in the will and
she alleges that they tried 10 have suard-
Ian appointed for her and that she paid
them 81 500 to settle the case. Now Mr.
Carter comes forward and alleges that
Mss Binion is an aged. idiotc and inn
beetle person, who is not capable of man
aging her own affairs. Miss Binion. in
addition to being a maiden lady of nifty
summers, is quite a weghty person, who
pulls the scale down TO the $50 mark, and
she claims that she is capable Of manag-
Tag her own affairs, and that she has her
full share of sense. She sets forth further
that her brothers are putting Carter up
to the suit and that he has nothing 10 do
with her affairs.
FLORIDA.
The Christian church at De Land. which
has been completed within the past month.
will be dedicated on Sunday.