The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-02
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
N PARAGR Apis.


-Four Companies in the State Have
Disbanded-Carters to Have "a
100000 Cotton Factory-A Biz
Purchase OF Timber Land-The
Force at 81. Augustine's PostOhice
Reduced.
GEORGIA.
The annual meeting 0f the Georgia
Pharmaceutical Association Will be held
IN Atlanta Nay and 6.
J. C. Renfroe of Cochran was severely
kicked by a horse Thursday morning. Mt.
Renfroe is i'm critical condition. and his
life Is despaired Of.
The regular annual convention of the
National Association OF Chiefs of Police
of the United states and Canada viii
convene at Atlanta May p
Lizzie Bryant. the young negro woman
arrested at Atlanta last Tuesday on the
charge Of having thrown heF Daby -into
a we'll has been released for want OF
sufficient evidence 20 convict.
Col. Preston, attorney for Tom Allen.
the murderer. now I'm jail at Macon. has
asked 10 be allowed TO argue a petition
for Communication of sentence before the
governor on May Is. The petitions are
in circulation I'm Bibb. Jones and several
counties, and have been numerously sign
ed.
1t is now almost an assured fact that
Cartersville will have a cotton factory
which viii DE built at a cost Of 100000.
W. S. Witham viii take stock TO the
amount OF $1,000 over his original prop0-
siUOn. The citizens of Gainesville are
enthusiastic over this liberal proposition,
and the remaining stock viii oe taken
with very ltue trouble.
Adjutant General Ken has issued an
order disbanding four companies in the
state. The Eastman Volunteers are dis
banded al their own request; the south
ern Rifles az Talbotton, having fallen be-
low its enlistment and having failed to
elect officers. are disbandedi the Dalton
Guards and the Baldwin Blues were also
dropped for not complying with the reg
via tiOns.
Attorney Lewis Brown of Fort Valley
and W. IA. Norwood and George -. Wells
Of Perry were IN Macon Wednesday to
see Judge FELTON, and have him grant an
injunction restraining the town of Perry
from issuing $1,000 OF bonds Which the
people Of that place recently voted Tor py
large majority, for the construction OF
a system OF water works. The petitioners
claim the election was Illegal
The Fulton Bag and Cotton Mills Com
pany through the president. Jacob Elsas,
has just sold S3000OO worth of bonds al par
to Atlanta parties. The proceeds OF the
bond sale viii be used in increasing the fa-
cihtes of the mills and their capacity VIII
be trippled. The output of these mills has
always found ready sale and the mills
really have been unable to supply the de-
mands made upon them.
There is joy at Atlanta among the Rus
sian Jews over the arrest Wednesday in
Bessemer, Ala, Of Jake Marks, who, it
IS alleged recently left Atlanta, carrying
with him quite large sum of money be-
longing to his fellow cOuntrymen. Ihey
allege that Marks took with him nearly
$1,000 belonging to Russian jews, who
had given the money into his charge for
safe keeping. The man has friends, how
ever, who claim that he is a victim of
circums tances, and has done nothing of
criminal nature.
Peter Martin, for his wife, Mrs. Marga-
ret Martin, has filed in the United States
court at Macon suit for $4,000 damages
against the Southern railway for injuries
received by MS wire ~ an accident at
Scotland. on the Southern. on the morn
ing of March s. 1885 This is the same ac-
cident i'm which Roland Reed and some of
the members of his troupe were hurt and
now have a suit in the United States court
at Macon against the Southern Tor $4,000
damages or other large sums. Mrs. Mar
tin was asleep in her berth in a sleeping
car about O'Clock in the morning when
the train ran into an open switch at Scot
land. The sleeper was overturned, and
she was thrown out of the berth and in
jured.
Rachel Harris has filed suit in Fulton
superior court to recover two tracts of
land in Atlanta now in the possession of
Isaac Williams, which, IL is claimed,
he is not holding legally. The petitioner
says that she is an ignorant negro woman
and came TO Atlanta from Augusta with
her daughter, Emma Duke, who was af-
terward married to Williams. The Harris
woman says that the TWO pieces of prop
erty were purchased by her and the deeds
made to her and her daughter. she sup
posing that, IN the event one snouI2 ule,
the other would own the property. Emma
Duke Williams died, but since her death
the husband has been in charge of the
property. A temporary restraining order
was granted against Williams.
Americas Recorder: one of the largest
purchases of timber lands ever made in
this section has just been effected by At
lanta parties, and involves the sale of
standing timber on more than twenty
thousand acres of land along Flint river
in Sumter, Dooly and Macon counties. A
representative of the Atlanta company was
in Americas Wednesday for the purpose
of closing contracts with various owners
of timbered lands in this vicinity. IL is
understood that two or three big saw mills
will be located at convenient railway
points on the river, to which the timber
Will be RATED from points above. 1t is eX-
pected that one mill Will be located near
Montezuma and another in sumter, near
where the Georgia and Alabama railroad
crosses Flint river. The immense areas
purchased are covered with a magnificent
growth of virgin timber-pine, oak. ash,
cypress and hard woods, worth a Verita-
BILE fortune If utilized. 1t is understood
that immediate steps will be taken TO de-
velop these timbered lands, the finest in
Georgia or the south.
FLORIDA.
A bottling works is TO be added to the
Miami industries.