The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-29
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Guard Killed by the Accidental
Discharge of His Gun-A Negro
Badly Burned rs the Result OF the
Explosion OF a BARREL OF Tar.
GEORGIA.
The city council Of Washington has been
petitiOned by the tax payers OF the town
TO provide for fire department.
The new mortgage for 100000 on the
Georgia Southern and Florida road, is be-
the road runs.
The Chattahoochee is getting very low
and much trouble is threatened to naVi-
cation The river traffic at this season of
the year, however, is seldom very large.
Mrs. Mary Morris Ridley. the aged
mother, OF Drs. r. b. Ridley Of Atlanta,
and c. b. and Frank NJ. Ridley OF La
Grange died at LaGrange Friday at the
age Of 50 years.
Broad street, the principal business
street of Columbus. is being macadamized,
crushed rock being furnished for the pur-
pose from a quarry ten miles north OF the
city, leased by the city. and where the
city has rock crusher in operation.
The explosion OF a barrel of tar at the
exposition grounds at Atlanta Thursday
set hre 70 the clothing of a negro named
FRANK Nixon, laborer on the grounds.
His clothing was burned from his body
and his hands, arms, head and body was
left a mass of singing sores. from which
the skin could easily be peeled.
The Young Mems Business League of
augusta Is about to secure the location in
Augusta Of one of the most widely known
and valuable military colleges Of the south.
The school is In successful operation in
one Of the smaller towns of the south, but
has been convinced that Augusta offers
large held. Negotiations have been going
on for some time.
This weeks election, for the purpose Of
nlling the vacancy in the Office Of the or
binary of Hart county. caused by the
death OF the late incumbent, f. c. Ste
nFaaH d.. = IL.
Johnson, populist over A. J. Cleveland,
democrat, by majority of % votes. The
failure OF large number OF democrats
10 register under the new law is evidently
the main cause of the result A number
OF illegal votes are charged to the popu-
lists and contest Will in all probability
be instituted.
At Rome Thursday the jury in the case
OF Sarah Tumlin against w. A Wright
and others, administrators on the estate
Of Judge A. r. Wright. brought in a YER
DICT Tor the defendants. The suit was on
some notes held against the estate which
the plaintiffs, through their attorneys.
Fouche & Fouche, claimed had not been
paid. Henry q Wright and c. y. Feath-
erstone for defendants, set up the plea
that the notes, involving several thousand
dollars. had been settled.
The board of health is determined that
Macon shall be kept clean and healthy
curing the summer, and in order TO know
that the inspectors are doing their duty
have inaugurated system by which they
Every place Of residence and business
house In the city will be tagged by the in
spectors. This tag will be kept in a place
known to the board Of health as well as
the inspectors, and each time the prem
Uses are inspected the inspector puts a
stamp on the tag. This stamp will denote
whether the premises come up to the re-
Qulrements or not.
The Atlanta exposition authorities feel
sure OF at least one visitor on opening
Gay. They have been notified that he viii
De there, and that he will want a position
Mrs. Joseph Thompson received the noti-
feauon. 1t is from James Tobin of Pitts
burg, Pa, or Rochester n. Y. He adj
Vises that he is a long distance walker
and that he started June II from Roches-
ter for Atlanta. He says he will only hit
me nigh places and Will reach Atlanta on
the day the exposition opens. He says
that he wants to get a position in the
Momans department where he can be ex-
hlDlted as freak. His communication
Is in possession of President Collier
An accident of a horrible nature occur
red at r; r. Jones convict camp at Bost-
Wick a day or two ago. NJ. Willis Ram
sey, ABOUT % years old, who was employ
ed by Mr.. Jones as a guard was standing
in the field where the convicts and free
laborers were at work. He held a double
parreled, breech loading shot gun in his
triggers cooked. Mr.. Ramseys foot was
resting on stump and the gun was rest
ing on his knee. Suddenly his foot Slip
ped, the gun dropped and the hammers
We're hred into his stomach, the shot
ranging upward and lodging in his body. !
lie fingered about thirty minutes, and
was conscious for while after the acct
dent. He told several of his friends that
the gun was accidentally discharged.
j. w. HUMPHREYS, a chicken peddler of
HARRISON county. is the latest victim of
the money changing scheme of the conf
dence negro infesting Atlanta. Mr.. Hum
phrles arrived in town with load of fine
chickens and was peddling them from
mouse to house when he was approached
by negro who offered his assistance Mr.
dumphries was alone and needed help
and soon made an agreement with the
negro, the latter being engaged to go into
each house with choice lot of the chick
ems, if possible, to sell them. The negro
performed his duty faithfully for several
blocks, selling, and handing the money
for several chickens to his employer. The
wagon reached the corner of Pryor and
Fair streets and stopped, the negro being
sent into the yard of citizen residing
there, with four fowls. The negro went
around the house and seeing no one he
placed the chickens in an empty coop in
the yard and returned to the farmer on
the outside, telling the latter that he had
sold the chickens but that the lady had
nothing less than a five dollar bill and
waned A-70 in change, the fowls being sold
handed the negro S4.70 relying on him to
return with the s. bill. but in that
reliance he met with sore disappointment,
the negro evading his most vigorous
search and also that of the police, who
were notified of the transaction soon af-
forwards. The negro returned to the yard
and hid in the cellar of the house, where
he remained until the farmer went to call
for the police, when he escaped.