The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-30
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

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Lunacy-The slayer of seneN's
Marshal suII at Larse-inofher
suit over Note OF the Eagle and
Phenix MIL Company.
GEORGIA.
A buggy in which John Ellis was riding
at Augusta Sunday night was struck 10y
an electric car and overturned. Mr.. Ellis
had two ribs broken.
Tew & EHson's beef market and gro
Gerry store in East Rome was destroyed by
fire at Il O'Clock Sunday night. The OH
gin OF the fire is unknown. The loss IS
$30o0 insurance 5000.
Hamp Jordan, an inonensiyo negro, was
shot Friday by Ed Murray, a young farm
er living near Americas. Two bullets
struck the old man in the head, produc-
ing very serious wounds. There was no
provocation for the shooting. SO far as can
be ascertained, but the case Will be IN
vestigated
Despite the short cotton crop in that
section, as elsewhere, Americas ware
housemen are getting their share Of the
staple Receipts to date exceed 1900
bales. Owing to the low price, farmers.
as a rule are not selling, many Of them
being in a position to hold their cotton
for months yet. The crop has about been
gathered. The crop will be the smallest
in many years, and by the last OF DC
tober the season will have ended
The Manhattan Savings Bank and
Trust Company, Of Memphis. Tenn, has
filed in the office of the clerk of the
United States court at Atlanta a suit for
$4,000 against the Eagle and Phenix Man
ufacturing Company. The suit was caus-
ed by the non-payment of a note past
due, made by the company in 1895 under
the board of directors preceding the pres
ent one, and indorsed by several parties
among whom were several Of the old di-
rectors themselves, upon whose shout
ders the personal responsibility for a part
of this $4,000 debt may fall.
AT Douglasville Saturday night about
o'clock, while one of the largest and most
enthusiastic rallies held there during the
present campaign was in full blast, three
desperate and dangerous criminals were
liberated from the county jail by unlock
ing their cells with key which they had
previously procured They were VIII
Seats, white, and Ed Clark, colored, both
convicted of burglary, and Jesse Hum
phries, white, an ex-cOnvict, charged with
assault with intent TO murder. Lloyd
James, who is indicted for killing his
brother-in-law last January, refused to
escape with the other prisoners, although
his cell door was ajar
Lester Echols, who shot and killed J.
R. Tidwell. marshal of seney, Friday
night, is still at large and the officers have
been unable to secure any trace of him
since the murder was committed 1t has
developed that Echols had at one time
previously threatened to kill Tidwen
should the latter ever lay his hands on
him to Arrest him. Echols bore a bad
character and was VIGOROUSLY one of the
toughest Of the gang that has caused so
much trouble around Seney. Tidweu
never spoke but once after he was shot.
AS he fell he exclaimed: Boys. why
did you let him kin me?" A posse has
been searching The country far and wide.
but it is thought that he has made good
his escape and is headed for the west.
where he has two brothers living.
E. L. Michael, through his attorney,
Robert Zahner, filed an application in the
superior court at Atlanta Monday to have
a certain insurance policy in the hands of
L. j. Michael cancelled so far as he is
concerned, for the purpose of having it
paid to other heirs of Isaac Michael. The
petitioner alleges that Isaac Michael, of
Athens, took out a politely in the endow-
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5000; that it was made payable to his
wife. There were six children in the fam
ily-the plaintiff in this case, the defend
ant and four others. 1t is alleged that
Mrs. Michael died and then, as is the rule
IN such cases, the money at the death Of
the policy holder should go 10 tho chill
dren. Mr. Michael claims that when his
father, Isaac Michael, was very old and
feeble, just before his death, that L. ].
Michael. mis- brother, went to him and Sc
cured from him. either by fraud or by
coercion, the policy, and that 1t was made
payable to him. l.. ]. Michael, at that
time. The petitioner now asks that the
court set aside the policy as 1t is now
made payable 50 that he may get his part
of the 5000, a one-sixth interest, $500.
Atlanta Journal: With her hands bound
behind her back with strong cords and her
fingers entangled In her long, unkempt
hair Carrie Ricketts,, a young country
woman, was carried from the union depot
Monday morning to the station house in
a patrol wagon a raving maniac. 1t took
the combined efforts or four men to put
the woman in the wagon, and on the way
to the police station three men had to
hold her Sheriff w. T. Maderis and a
cousin of the young woman brought her
to Atlanta from her home in Union
county, where she was adjudged insane.
They are on the way to the asylum at
Milledgeville with her She is niece of
Sheriff Maderis, who is carrying her to
the asylum. The young woman lives at
Blue Ridge and has been in a demented
condition for twelve months. She has a
horror of negroes, and when she was go
ing through the corridor Of the station
house TO the woman's department Mon
day morning she had to be carried, so
thoroughly frightened was she by the
darkies confined in the prison. She does
not eat anything and her condition is
pitiful. When the sheriff left Union
county with Miss Ricketts, he found that
she was so desperate that she would have
TO be bound with a rope.
FLORIDA