The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-05
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


\ Gold Mine to He Operated With
in the Corporate Limits of Macon.
Ages of Ge0rRsin's Youngest United
states senators.
GEORGIA
Mrs. S. J. Anthony's millinery store al
Shelman was burned, with its contents.
Tuesday night
Hugh Chambers Of sandersville has sue
ceeded Col T. W. Hardwick, resigned, as
solicitor of the county court.
Shelby Miller, the saloon keeper who
shot aud killed George Venable on the Eth
Gay Of last month, in Sykes barroom, az
Columbus, has just been released on 5000
bond.
This morning at . o'clock is the time
set for hearing at Talbotton the motion
for a new trial in the case of DR.. W. L.
Ryder, now under sentence Of death for
murder.
The election held in DeKalb county
Wednesday on the question of changing
the county site from Decatur to Stone
Mountain, decided the matter in favor of
Decatur.
Jake Burney, colored, who was sem
fenced at the May term of court at Val
dosta for the killing Of another negro
about year ago, has just been resentenc-
ed to hang on Jan. p. The case had been
appealed to the supreme court which sus-
tanned the verdict of the lower court
At Atlanta Thursday Madden & Terrell,
attorneys for j. J. & j. E. Maddox and j.
d. Maddox & Bro, withdrew their suit
against the Merchants Bank to accept
the settlement offered by the receivers
The suit of the Bank of the Republic of
North America, represented by Payne &
Tye, was also withdrawn.
Negroes discovered the mutilated body of
a white man on the railroad at Cochran
early Wednesday morning. His
brains, skull and limbs We're
scattered for twenty-five yards
It is thought that he was stealing a ride
and fell from the night passenger. A card
in his pocket read: ITO A. M. Gowan, good
for three months. A. Archer, B. l. u"
John West Skipper a prominent young
planter and merchant in Rutland district
Bib county, was on trial in the superior
court at Macon Wednesday, for attempt
ing assault on Mrs. Ford, the handsome
young wife of one of the chain-gang
guards. The trial was conducted behind
closed doors, the public being excluded
from the court room.
A fine residence on Sumter street at
Oglethorpe, occupied by Prof w. E. Jen-
kins, the principal of the high school,
caught on fire Wednesday night about
O'Clock and was totally consumed. The
cause of the fire was defective chimney
the flames having first been discovered In
the ceiling The house was the property
of the Interstate Building and Loan Asso-
citation of Columbus, and was valued at
$1,000. Prof. Jenkins, the occupant, lost
about $3.50 in furniture and had no insur-
ance on it.
The published report that United States
Senator Steve Clay is the youngest senator
ever sent to Washington from Georgia is
a mistake. Mr.. Clay is AZ years old. An
examination of the records shows that
Georgia has had nine representatives in
the United States Senate younger than
Senator Clay The first senator from
Georgia, William Few, was elected in 1889,
at the age of Al. James Jackson, 179S at
the age of So. w. B. Bulloch. 1913, at the
age of g. William Wyatt Bib, 1873 at
the age of %. George NJ Troup 1876 at
the age Of Sc. John Forsyth, 1918, at the
age of So. Alfred Cuthbert, 1887, at the
age of 81. Thomas w. Cobb. 1924, at the
age of %. II. V. johnson, 1slS, at the age
of SO.
As already briefly mentioned in the
Morning News. Charley Brooks accident
ally shot and killed John McLendon, five
miles north of Reynolds, Wednesday, on
the Ruffln plantation. Both parties are
negroes. There was an old shotgun in
Brooks house which had not been loaded
in months. McLendon went to see Brooks
and the latter was absent. While walt
ing for his host McLen don, who had some
powder and shot in his pocket, put a
charge in the weapon. Brooks came
home and was not told of the fact. He
greeted the visitor, and began a romp with
his 10-year-old son. During the frolic he
grabbed the weapon, and it exploded, the
entire charge entering McLendon's head
and killing him instantly. Brooks was
grief stricken over the accident, and at
once surrendered to the authorities.
Macon Evening News: Macon is soon to
have gold mine in full operation within
the corporate limits of the city. A North
Carolina expert has made thorough tests
and Inspections of the soil and deposits,
and is willing to back his judgment to the
amount of $4,000. The gold mine that is
to be opened up is on the property of the
Ocmulgee Land Improvement Company,
which is incorporated in the city. For the
past two years Ale mining expert, who is
expected to arrive daily. has been paying
visits to the property, and after making
the most careful study that can be made,
has notified the company that he is ready
TO begin contract to invest $4,000 in the
venture. In his opinion, the richest vein
of gold now to be found in the United
States is to be found buried in the hills OF
Ocmulgee park, and he thinks he will not
have to go down more than geo feet to get
at 1t in the greatest abundance. Long
years ago considerable gold was obtained
in the branches and bitches on the same
lands that are now owned by the Ocmul-
gee Land Improvement Company, and an
old gentleman by the name of Campbell
accumulated a comfortable fortune by
simply washing the gold from the sand
in the branch that now flows through the
property.
FLORIDA.
The llibustering tug Dauntless win have
a new commander In the person of Cant.