The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-03

Lawyers on Woman suEraGc-Bas-
fness League Of Orlando on Good
ROads-RaiIroad and school Tax
in FIorida-A Prominent Minister
Of south CaruIiua Dcad-Wr cobb
Makes an Impression at Orange
burg.
GEORGIA
Macon's Academy az Euaic IS 10 bc rem
ovated and enlarged.
Sheriff Pruitt Of Han. who saot Redmond
some months since, Was acquitted lass
week.
LawrencevilIe has had liberal eNper-
ence with counterfeiters- Some of the
gang have been caught
Rev Thomas Stafford Of Vallosta has
been called TO take charge OF the Christ
Episcopal church iu Augusta.
Two prisoners have escaped recently
from the insecure jail az Madison. The
rest OF the prisoners are watched every
night now.
Some Of the Georgia papers are asking
that the next legislature take steps TO
protect the doves. lest these birds be ex-
terminated
Because his wife threatened to poison
him, John ". Ward a citizen OF Fulton
county, has filed suit for divorce against
Mrs. Dora V. Ward, whom he married six
teen years ago.
Mr.. Church Lyon reached Valdosta FRI
say about noon, bringing Jim Irwin, the
murderer OF Joe Zanders along with him
in his buggy. Mr.. Lyon stated that ne
caught Irwin in about three miles of Lu-
raville, in Florida
Tattnan Journal: r. A. Costin went
down TO Savannah Thursday morning ac-
companied by DR. A. j. Gordon 10 have re-
moved from his throat "a splinter an inch
dong that has been irritating him for the
last seven or eight years.
A dispatch from Eatonton says: Judge
J. @. Adams fell suddenly at the postoffice
at o'clock Friday afternoon. He was car
ried home and died in about an hour. His
death was caused by apOpleXy, superin-
duced by the excessive hot weather.
Three bicyclists rode into Atlanta Fri
day morning from Cincinnati after seven
days on the road. The distance Is nearly
I'VE hundred miles. The wheelmen are
MessrS. James r. Mills OF Chicago and
Charles Knipper and Lewis Knipper Of
Cincinnati. All are wood carvers and are
taking their summer vacation.
Last Sunday at Ellison's Mil, four miles
above town, two negro women, Raiff Rol-
lsons wife and Joe Jones' wife We're
foolishly prankng with a double-bar-
relied shotgun. which accidentally fired
of while in the hands of the RollisOn
woman, completely decapitating the Jones
woman's head, and scattering her brains
over the room.
Mr.. Leonard A. Hin OF Macon preached
his first sermon Sunday. He is only II
years old and is the son of Mr.. L. S. Hin,
the photographer. He is the cashier Of the
Dannenberg Company. Mr. Hill has been
studying for the ministry some time, and
on Friday he received from the North
Macon District Methodist conference in
session at Tennille his license TO preach.
Corresp ondence from Gainesville con-
corning the Patterson murder trial says:
1.-THE evidence Is purely circumstantial,
as Patterson was the only one present and
there was no eye witness, save him, TO
the tragedy. on the other hand, the cir
cumstantial evidence is damaging and
opinion Is divided as to what will be the
verdict Of the jury. II Is probable that
he will be convicted"
A number of Atlanta's best informed
lawyers were interviewed by the Consti-
tuition on Saturday for the purpose of as
certaining what the Equal Suffrage Assoc
citation of Atlanta could expect TO accom-
plish by carrying their claims to the right
10 vote TO the supreme court Of the Uni
is very discouraging to the women, who
are agitating the question.
A new road has been cut out five miles
from Bellville, Tattnau county. to Thag-
ards still. crossing Cedar creek at Carriers
Ford where a bridge has been built by pri-
Vate subscription. To this construction of
this bridge G.. V. Tillman has given S1i So
d. o, Carter over $40, and others similar
amounts. The county gave nothing This
as direct line to Excelsior and the dis
lance is nearer than to Claxton.
Albany Penny Press: The handsome
glass windows for the new Episcopal
church have arrived, and will be put in
position in a few days. A number of the
beautiful and costly memorial windows
are also here and will be put in when the
Others are. When this work is completed
the church viii be ready for services.
with the exception of the pews, which will
soon be finished. And then Albany can
boast of one Of the prettiest church edi-
fees in the state.
Weekly Madisonfan: Messrs. r. c. and
A. H. Winter OF this place, with their
four children, attended the annual reunion
OF their family at the home OF their moth
er, Mrs. W. E. Winter near Greensboro
on Sunday last. 1t was the celebration
OF the lO2d anniversary of Mrs Winter
VINO is the Oldest person in this section OF
The state. There We're thirty-three r4bre.
sentatives of her family present. and the
reunion was a most happy one The
friends OF this good woman hope she NAV
yet De spared many years Of usefulness.