The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-24

upon a pile Of stones. Her skull was
crushed in at the base Of the brain aud
she died in a short while without regain
ing consciousness and without moments
suffering. Mr.. Warning sustained several
bruises. but is resting quietly. Mrs. Coles
and the little boy We're badly cut AID
| bruised about the face, but are comforta-
bic and will soon be all right.
Sheriff Rogers, of Dodge county. arriv-
ed at Macon Monday, with silas Melvin
negro who attempted to assault Miss
Lizzie Yancey, IS years old, and Mrs.
Edgecomb, 20 years old. The assault was
attempted al the home of John Yancey,
a prominent farmer of Dodge county Mrs.
Edgecomb is from Pitts, Wilcox county,
and was visiting Miss Yancey. The two
ladies were alone when Melvin asked for
something to eat. Miss Yancey told him
she would get it for him, and she and Mrs.
Edgecomb went to the rear of the house,
The negro entered the front door and fol-
lowed them into the room, drawing ra-
zor They knocked the razor out of his
hand, but Melvin seized Mrs. Edgecomb.
Miss Yancey jumped through the window
into the yard and began screaming. Her
father FASTENED to the house. Melvin re-
leased Mrs. Edgecomb and fed. The alarm
was given, and in two hours Melvin was
captured.
Charles P. Humphreys, a travelling sales
man for an Atlanta house. is confined to
his room at a hotel at Madison, suffering
from wound which he says he received
Monday night in an encounter with ne
gro highwayman. Humphreys house sells
goods to farmers, and Monday he hired a
buggy and went into the country. He
was returning soon after dark and when
aIa r,,fT pof
caught in one of the wheels He got out
TO remove the brush and was approach
ed by a negro, who snapped a pistol at him
twice and demanded his money. A scuf-
fie ensued in which Humphreys razor fell
from his pocket. The negro got the razor
and cut Humphreys across the face and
also cut his chest in several places. Hum
phreys says he begged for his life, and
promised the negro money If he would not
kill him. lie gave the negro $40 and was
allowed to come on to town.
A damage suit was taken up in the first
division of the city court at Atlanta Mon
day 1T is the suit of Arthur NJ. Carnage,
Willie p. Gamage. Levy l.. Suttles, Thomas
c. Carnage and John T. Carnage for S25,-
900 damages against the Atlanta and West
Point Railway Company for the killing
of their father Thomas NJ. Carnage. Mr.
Carnage was over GO years old, and was
driving home in his buggy one afternoon
along the route that lies parallel with the
Atlanta and West Point and the Central
tracks When he was just beyond West
End his horse became frightened and ran
away. The animal, instead of keeping the
road, took down the track, just ahead OF
the swiftly moving cannon ball train
For half mile down the track the horse
ran, the train laundering along just be-
hind. Then the horse leaped away from
the track Just as she cleared the iror
rails the engine caught the buggy, smash
ing it into splinters and crushing the life
out Of the old man. who lodged on the pi
lot and was carried some distance before
the train could be stopped.
Atlanta Constitution: Gov. Atkinson
upon his return to his office, found two
applications from sureties on the bonds
of tax collectors to be relieved from far
Their responsibility. one was A. B. Cren
shaw, and other sureties on the bond O.
Tax Collector J. w Walker, of LumpkiI
county. They allege that Walker has beer
drinking and that he is not capacitated Il
discharge the duties of his office. Mr.
Walker does not deny that he has beer
drinking, but says that is not the real OBJ
lection to him. He says the surety who Il
doing the most kicking has the books o
the office in charge and refuses to let hin
have them, and says further that tn
real trouble is that another one of tn
sureties is running against him for tn
Office Gov Atkinson, as the tax collecto
desires a hearing, will arrange on dat
when both sides can be heard and will
then decide the matter. The other petition
came from A. V. Deadwyler and X. d
Morris, sureties on the bond of w. F. Heat
tax collector for the county of jackson
1t is alleged that when they went on tn
bond Morris was to have general over
sight of the books which he had during tn
year 1885, but he refuses to allow tn
/ same this year 1t is charged that Head /
! entirely incompetent and that he is liza
| BILE to employ incompetent men to trans
act his business and on this account the
ask relief. Gov. Atkinson passed an orde
| for Mr.. Head to show cause by Oct. l, VIII
they should not be relieved