The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-02

Gated to the room and the little girl was
severely burned. The flames were soon
extinguished and but small damage was
done to the property.
Hon. John d. HarreIl, United States
marshal for the southern district of Geor-
gla, has gone to Washington to look af-
ter the provision in the appropriation bill
affecting the pay OF the marshl. Under
the present law the marshal is allowed
maximum fee of $1,000 per annum. The
legislative bill passed by the House. amen
ded the law and fixed the marshals sal
airy at $500 per annum. In the Senate,
however, Senator Bacon succeeded in haV-
ing the salary fixed at 5000 per annum,
the same as in the northern district of
Georgia. There win be no chance, says
Senator Bacon, that the conference e'ill
fail to agree on this change made in ma
Senate.
A gentleman in Rome who innerite3 ?
tract of land in HARRISON count. ohsoh
has heretofore been considered as only
valuable for it's timber, is likely to realize
something handsome out of it. He has
just received a letter stating that II Is
directly on the line of the gold bed be
tween Villa Rica and Bremen, aud that
indisputable indications of gold in pay
ing quantities have been found on the
tract. Those owning land in that To-
cality are besieged with letters from
would-be purchasers, and the excitement
produced by Engineer Farley's and has
grown intense. Land has also taken
and mining experts are busy figuring on
il.
Passengers on the Southern train which
arrived at Brunswick Monday morning re-
lated an exciting experience twenty-five
miles south Of Atlanta sunday night. ON
rounding a bend the engineer saw, to his
amazement, that the big bridge was on
fire 1t was too late to stop, as the throt-
tie was pulled wide open and the train
8Iy tb neT Surni1g bridge The periIous trip
was made in safety. Had the train been
fifteen minutes later a terrible wreck
would have been the result. AS soon al
The train could be stopped it was backed
to the bridge, and the crew became firemen
for time, and eXtnguished the flames.
The bridge was badly burned. II is be-
lieved to be the work of incendiaries.
Dave Perkins, the white man who was
recently converted in the Fulton county
iail and baptized in a bath tub, was put
on trial before Judge Gambler Monday on
charge of assault with intent to muir
der an old man named Arnold, who runs
a grocery store on Marietta street. Per-
kins was drunk at the time the assault
was made and struck Arnold in the head
with a half brick. The old man fingered
for weeks between life and death and
then recovered. Perkins claimed that he
was blown up several years ago with dy
Mantle and since then has had spells. He
said that in one of these spells he threw
! the brick. The jury found him guilty and
| the judge sentenced him to two years in
| the penltentiary.
On Nov. % last a man by the name of
| Smith employed in the United States rev.
| enue service was killed in the northwest
ern part of Jasper county, and on March
| Z 1896, at night, one, Mrs. Atkinson 3
/ house was burned. both crimes being sup
! posed to have been committed by the same
| parties. The following persons have Just
| been indicted by the grand jury for these
| crimes: Sam Henderson, Jr., Elem Hen
| derson, p. D. Henderson, Sid Wammock
| and Charles Williams. One of the pecu-
I there was three of the Henderson family
| on the jury. There is damaging evidence
| in both cases, and all of the parties have
| beeen arrested with the exception of
| Chas. Williams who is still in the county.
Mrs. .Judson. an aged lady from At
| lanta, fell from a rear piazza at Macon,
where she was visiting her sons family.
| Sunday, and sustained injuries from which
| she died at o'clock that afternoon. She
/ was p years old, and was visiting her
/ daughter-in-law, Mrs. Judson, and her
| granddaughter, Mrs. George Balch, having
| arrived from Atlanta on Thursdav Sum
| day morning Mrs. Judson and George
I Balch were leaning against the banister
| in the rear of the first floor of the dwell
| ing, on Rose Park, when the banister
/ gave way, throwing both of them to the
4 ground, distance of about eight feet
1 In the fall Mrs. Judson's collar bone was
| broken ard a blood vessel ruptured Soon
| afterWard she became unconscious and
died at o'clock Mr.. Balchs wrist was
broken TIE is = we'll known iswsiar aud