The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-11
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

a Novel Slot Machine Invented by m
Atlanta Mantle Temperance
People OF the state Organizing
A Meeting of Southern Textile
lanta-A White Nan Attempts a
FelOniOus Assault on Woman
GEORGIA
Wednesday afternoon at o'clock Mrs
Leeds Greenleaf was attacked on West
Peaehtree street. at Atlanta, by a negro
and robbed OF her purse
Reynolds correspondence Morning
News: The democratic mass meeting
postponed the election Of delegates to the
congressional convention TO later date.
J. I. Adams was reelected chairman OF
the democratic executive committee. The
meeting passed resolutions indorsing
Price Gilbert for solicitor general OF the
ChattahOOchee circuit
The temperance people Of Bibb county
and Of the state Of Georgia are organic
ing in behalf Of the passage Of the anti
barroOm bill at the approaching session
OF the legislature. The advocates Of the
measure have under taken to raise ST.
90 by the first Of June for the printing
of literature and the circulation Of the
same throughout the state.
Oferman correspondence Morning
News: Conductor bowling on the local
freight train, confirms the report that a
white boy named Steanger was found dead
at Patterson last night. The youth was
seen near Blackshear last night by the
train crew, and they suppose he was
stealing a ride. when he fell beneath the
wheels, which amputated the head from
the body. and otherwise mutlated him.
The coroner has taken charge of the re-
mains.
An ingenious Atlanta man named Hunt
has invented and patented novel slot
machine. which he win soon place upon
the streets. The machine has four apart
ments. In one a nickel VIII secure a wei
nerwust; in another a bag OF peanuts
Will be forthcoming; in third nam
sandwich will follow the coin, while in
the fourth and last the nickel will secure
a hot tomato. The inventor believes that
he has a valuable machine, and will II
is said, begin to manufacture them TOT
the market at once.
In the superior court at Butler Thurs
day D. Hin obtained a verdict against the
Central railroad for $3.50 for the killing of
his wife in 1895. Hill was a Waterman on
the southwestern division OF the central,
and was walking with his wife on me tres
tie at the Flint river bridge, near heyn-
Odds, and barely escaped, While MS VIE
was run over by belated train. former
jury gave him a verdict for 5000. new
trial was granted, with the above result
Charles Healey and Miss Ethel Foy were
married a Atlanta Wednesday.
At Rome, wednesday afternoon, about
O'Clock, a white man, J. w. Galloway,
was passing along the road near the
Atlanta junction of the southern railroad,
going to his home in Lindale. suddenly
he was confronted by three robbers, who
knocked him down and beat MIN pretty
badly. They then went through MS pock-
cts, securing a little over $40, and leaving
him lying in the road. kilograms were
sent TO the authorities at Piedmont, An
niston and other points, and later IN the
day a dispatch was received from AM
niston stating that three men had been
arrested there answering the description
of the highWaymen. Sixteen gold Walches
and quantity Of cash was found on their
persons.
Great excitement has been caused at
Paramount, in Gordon county, by an at
tempted criminal assault by John Timms,
a white man, on Miss Smith. She and
another girl, named stone, were return
ing home from Paramount and mad stop
ped to rest by the roadside when attack
a. ed BY Timms. Timms was seen about
four miles north of Adairsvile, at the
Gardner place where his sister llVes. he
was in his shirt-sleeves, wearing small
hat, carrying a double-barreled shotgun,
and ran from the officers. A large armed
posse is securing the country for Iimms
and there are threats of lynching If
caught. He served five years in the chain
gang for a similar otfense. lie weighs
about $50 pounds; is about I'VE feet three
inches high; has light hair and long
light mustache.
A circular letter has been mailed to all
southern manufacturers calling upon them
to convene in Atlanta on May IS for the
purpose of forming a Southern Textile
Manufacturers Association. The call for
the convention is signed by the best known
manufacturers of the south, and prom
Uses to be the beginning of a great move-
ment among the southern mill men. The
object of the convention is 10 form a
strong organization, which will be OF
mutual advantage TO all, manufacturers
of the south. The purpose of the asso-
citation so proposed is to regulate prices
and nroductton II Is the hone Of the
manufacturers that the present demor-
alization of prices can be checked and
the market greatly stimulated by limiting
the production for awhile. To effect this
concentrated action will be necessary. II
is also the idea of the manufacturers to
establish bureau of statistics and infor-
nation By this means reports of stock on
hand and other Information supplied
monthly would be tabulated and issued to
the members, thus preventing the accum-
uiation of certain grades of stock. Valu-
able statistics regarding foreign mar
kets could also be gathered by the bureau.
IL would also be the object of the conven-
ton, or rather the association, to fur
Their the commercial relations with the
Spanish-American republics, and to pro-
mote the interests of manufacturers along
this line. In various other ways the as
ISOLATION would be of great benefit to
manufacturers.
special from Marietta to the Atlanta
Journal says: Mrs. Amanda Moon, who
was mysteriously stabbed at her home
near Powder Springs at an early hour
Tuesday morning, is dying. The trag-
edy has aroused tremendous excitement
in the western part of Cobb county and
hundreds of people have flocked to the
scene in a curious desire to see the vic
tim of the fatal blade and the woman
who is charged with the crime. There
is cloud of mystery overhanging the
tragedy, and there are a number of yer.
sions as to who is the guilty party There
are traces of love, Jealousy, family dir,
ferences and family inidelity running
through the circumstances leading to the
brutal sequel, and as TO how or who
committed the crime has not yet beer
made clear. Evidence has developed tina
Mrs. Sanford was passing by the Moor
residence at a late hour Monday after
noon during a heavy rain, and was re
quested by Mr.. and Mrs. Moon, who wer,
sitting on the porch, to stop in. She die
so, and as the weather failed to clear III
until the time for retiring, Mrs. SANFORD
consented to spend the night. Mrs Moor
and Mrs. Sanford slept in the same room
but in different beds; Mr.. Moon occu
pied a bed in an adjoining room At
o'clock in the morning Mr.. Moon wa