The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-10

The Coroner of Clay County to De
Arrested in Connection With the
Hyatt Murder-Appraiseme OF the
Estate of Mrs. WiIkinson-AsSesse
Value of the Railroad Property in
Florida.
GEORGIA.
12-year-old negro girl OF Lexington IS
mother
Some OF Elberton's business men are to
organize fire insurance company.
Capt T. J. Butt, one Of the most prom
inent citizens OF Blairsville, died We'd
nesday morning.
A new mail route in all probability.
viii be re-opened from MOntezuma to
Vienna, IN few days
D. T. Thorne Of Martins district In
GWinnett county. committed suicide last
Sunday morning by taking poison.
There is strong talk OF a cotton factory
in McDonOuEh. J. ". Alexander and T. D.
Stewart are behind the movement.
The improvements in the Byne build
ing at COrdele have about been COM
pleted. converting IL into neat hotel
A stock company has been formed for
the purpose of putting in a warehouse
and compress at Dublin, TO be ready for
next seasons crop
Ringgold has a new industry Ii Is the
Ringgold Novelty and Manufacturing
company +. NJ. Powell is president.
and w. Trox Bankston. secretary and
treasurer.
The stockholders Of the Farmers and
Merchants bank held their annual meet
ing at Thomaston Thursday. They We're
paid a dividend OF ten per cent and nearly
as much more was earned FOR the reserve
The bids for the boring Of two artesian
wells on Northern Heights at Montezu-
ma was awarded to A. II. WOoteu, Of
Wadley. Mr. Wooten viii commence
work on the new wells about April l. His
bid was $500, water guaranteed.
VIII Stanford, young white man liv-
ing near Benevolence In Randolph coun-
~, and a negro by the name of T. Lyle,
had a difficulty near the home OF Mr.
Stanford last Monday morning in which
the negro received three shots from a
pistol in the hands of Stanford. The
negro's wounds are not serious.
Last Monday morning. while C. W. Daw-
son. who lives near Mt. Hebron church
in the southern part Of Randolph county
was in the field burning brush, his little
1-year-Old son, Cliuord, who was with
him, was very badly burned by his cloth
ing catching fire from the burning brush.
His back and limbs were burned to blis-
ter
Last Friday night some unknown per-
sons went TO the house OF j. II. Holt
man at Irwinton and shot his son, owen.
About O'Clock Mr.. HOLMAN heard some
one around his house, and his two boys,
Hugh ana owen, went out to see who
IL was. AS they reached the yard they
were fired upon by several unknown per-
sons. owen being struck i'm the side, but
it is thought that he viii recover.
The governor has notified the relatives
of Hyatt that he will have the coroner Of
Clay county arrested for refusing 10 ar
rest Sheriff McAllister Macon drum>
mers have issued an appeal TO all GeOr-
prosecute the case. Dupont Query has
been retained by the Dauncnburg com
pany to prosecute McAllister and other
prominent lawyers will be retained by
the drummers.
Lake Park narrowly escaped connagra-
ton Wednesday afternoon. Prof W. A.
Barry closed his store and went down to
the depot; he had been out but few min
utes when the fire was discovered on the
inside. The alarm was given and buckets
were secured and the door broken open
and by good work the house and most Of
the goods were saved. The damage can
not be estimated as the goods We're dam
aged both by fire and water.
A DeKalb county jury has handed down
a verdict in favor Of Earnest F. Clarke,
against the Georgia railroad, which is of
the 26th of last October, a conductor on
the Georgia railroad put the plaintiff off
a train because he had boarded the train
at Lithonia, when his ticket read from
CovingtOn to Atlanta. The ticket on which
he was put off the train was one of those
which the company sells at reduced rate
10 people along its line employed in At
lanta. When the ticket was presented to
the conductor he refused to accept it and
put Clarke of the train. He entered suit
in DeKalb county for $1,000. Wednesday
morning the case was called at Decatur,
and the attention of the court was occu-
pied all the morning in hearing 1t. Thurs
day morning the jury returned a verdict
for 81, 900
The appraiaement OF the estate of the
late Mrs. Eleanor Wilkinson of Macon
who died recently, has been made by
George B. Turpin and Richard Needham
and is valued at Sl0l, 600. 1t is of solid
values, and consists of $4,000 worth Of
state of Georgia bonds, 81 900 worth of
United States bonds, $500 worth of city of
Macon bonds, 5000 of Northeastern rail
road bonds. six shares stock in Central
Georgia bank, five shares stock in Ex-
change bank, ninety-flVe shares South
western railroad stock, $1,000 of deben-
lures of Atlanta and West Point railroad
shares Central railroad stock
twenty shares old Macon street railroad
company, ten shares Macon and Augusta
Company. Also some valuable
real estate. diamonds and silver. The
above values represent the individual es-
tate of Mrs. Wilkinson--the accumulated
savings from the entailed estate she in
herited from her father. and which en-
tailed estate by law goes to her brother, r.
Z. Dempsey. The entail ed estate is supposed
TO be worth several hundred thousand dol
lars. The executors have asked leave to
sell the above mentioned property. The
proceeds will be distributed according to
Mrs. Wilkinsons Will.