The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-10
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
INTERESTING ITEMS OF INTEREST
FROM TWO STATES.


ObstreperOus Negro Shot Dead
= From Train-A Fatal Old En-
gIne-Escape of 1900 Terrnpins.
Political Gathering in Florida
Bonds sold at JacLSOnville-Ken-
nedy Supposed to Have Gone to
Cuba.
GEORGIA.
The state and county tax for Talbot
county will be a7.76 on $1,000.
Polk county's first bale of new cotton
was sold to a local mill and made up at
once into fine hosiery.
There was shipped from Darien during
August coastwise and foreign, 4,7S1,524 feet
of hewn and sawn timber and lumber.
The Atlanta book dealers are kicking
because only one of them got a list Of the
public school books before the schools
opened
An Atlanta judge gave a negro six
months for stealing five pounds of ice
wtan the thermometer was near the 100
degree mark.
The rumor that other mills around Au-
gusta would follow in the steps of the
sibley Manufacturing Company, in clos
ing down, has been proven groundless.
The merchants Of Augusta will act con-
Jointly TO prevent any losses or encroach-
ments on account of the Seaboard rate
war. They have consulted an attorney
The Augusta Compress Company ex-
presses a willingness to adopt the new
wire cotton tie, which is now being sold by
the farmers alliance exchange OF South
Carolina, and will probably do so.
Part of Mr.. David Davis terrapin crawl
at Dixville was washed away Sunday
night and 1900 of the amphiblans made
a crawl for liberty. He has not yet sue
ceeded in getting them all together.
DR.. Ryder, who is in Jail charged with
the murder of Miss Sallie Emma owen,
will be tried next Monday at Talbotton for
his life. DIR. Ryder has been in Bibb coun-
ty Jail ever since the murder as it was
deemed unsafe to keep him in the Talbot
ton jail.
Americas Tines Recorder: Policeman
Barron, who killed Bush Williams. ne
gro, in Albany last Tuesday night. has
been placed under 5000 bond to answer
a charge of murder. His commitment
Wednesday.
The negroes Of the Cave Springs Col
ored Baptist church had a row with their
pastor Sunday night, at a revival meet
ing one OF them attempted to strike him
with a bottle. because he called them
down for drinking and gambling. The
interference Of outsiders was all that pre-
vented bloodshed.
Macon Telegraph: W. X. Crow, a Uni
ted States deputy marshal stationed at
Columbus, was yesterday arrested and to-
day carried to Cobb county on the charge
of highway robbery. The charge is made
by Mr.. L. W. Rice, who claims that Crow
robbed him of $3.50 recently. Crow has
been very efficient officer, and his arrest
caused much establishment.
waycross Evening Herald: It has been
reported around town thar Judge II. p.
Brewer, the stock claim agent of this d.
vision Of the Pant system, had been pro-
NOTED. He said that he had not been Off
cially notified of any promotion. How
ever. there seems to be little doubt but
that Judge Brewer will be given a higher
position on the Plant system.
Crawfordville Democrat: Engine No. %,
now running on the Washington branch
of the Georgia railroad, has killed and
wounded more people than any other en-
CINE on the Georgia road. 1t was the en-
CINE that killed both Mr. Burke and Mr.
johnson in this county, besides having
been in use when several train hands were
mashed and injured on the branch. The
same engine turned over some years ago
on the Macon branch and killed the engi-
neer. 1t is a fatal old machine.
Milledgeville Union Recorder: Last Wed
nesday night the store of Mr.. William
Harper, at Midway. was broken open,
and a spring rifle he had there got in its
work. Next morning he found the door
broken open, the gun discharged and a
pool of blood on the floor. The victim,
however, was gone. In the meantime DIR.
IL. ID. Allen was sent for TO attend ne
gro by the name of Reuben Carswell at
Harrisburg. and found him suffering from
gunshot wound in the side. Carswell
said he had been shot by unknown parties
while going along the railroad. The
wound proved fatal, and the negro died
Thursday night.
Albany Herald: On Saturday afternoon
Bart Jones, a negro who works at Minis
saw mill, in Lee county, boarded the
train at this place to return home. He
was under the influence of liquor. which
made him wild and abusive. He -four
ished a pistol about his head and gave
other symptoms of a belligerent nature
which annoyed the passengers and
alarmed them. Conductor Hines stopped
the train just this side of McDonald's
crossing and put him off, This exasper-
ated him so that he began shooting at
Mr.. Hines. Some Of the passengers on
the train returned the fire, one of their
shots taking effect in the negro's abdo-
men, from the effects of which he died
about O'Clock Sunday afternoon. The
coroner held an inquest, and after as full
an investigation as could be had, decided
that the negro came TO his death at the
hands of parties unknown.
FLORIDA.