The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-12
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


row Escape From Death-The STATE
Base Ball Tournament Abandoned
at Tampa-A Man Narrowly Es'
capes Being Shot by Relative
who MistOOk Him for "A Burglar.
GEORGIA
County School Commissioner R. B. Rog-
ers of Gainesville died Wednesday MORN
ing.
1t requires on an average of more than
a hundred thousand dollars a day to pay
for the cotton brought into Augusta
The Macon Telegraph does not admit
that the day of the state fair has passed.
Macon proposes TO have one next year.
Fire broke out at Gainesville at 9 o'clock
Tuesday morning in the interior Of f.
H. Byrd's store and restaurant and de-
stroyed and damaged his entire stock. He
had $500 insurance.
The house and barn of J. J. Sheath at
Sparks, was burned Wednesday morning
between II and u O'Clock. The fire started
from a stove fire. r. L. Hodges, who was
occupying the house. had most Of his furn-
iture and household goods burned. There
was no insurance on either.
Hugh Park while at work in the field in
Walton county, heard the cries of a young
rabbit that seemed to be in distress. Mr..
Park FASTENED to the scene and found
huge coachwhip that had charmed the
rabbit. He killed the snake, which meas
ured six feet and seven inches.
The Floyd County Baptist Association de
cided during its meeting last week to be-
gin the publication of the Floyd County
tod to
the Baptist church, Sunday school and
missionary work. Rev. Dr. r. b. Head
den will be in charge of the paper.
Rev. W. B. Burke and his family, for
merly of Macon, will sail for China in a
few days. They left Macon the latter
part of August and went to Mississippi
to spend a few days with relatives They
will sail from Vancouver on Sept. A. and
will arrive in Shanghai about Oct. 3.
Ben Conner, highly respected colored
man. lives about eight miles from Reds
vile and owns a farm, and runs a saw
mill. While his fireman was firing up af-
ter dinner Wednesday the boiler exploded,
killing his son instantly and injuring him
and several others. 1t is thought he will
not recover.
The crops around Rockmart are short,
greater per cent. of the farmers only
count on half crop of cotton. The corn
crop is not so good as last year That
part of Georgia has had but little rain
since early spring, hence everything is
dry. In some places the creeks have gone
dry.
Marshall Furgerson, who lived in Gwn-
nett county. near Stone Mountain. and
who died two weeks ago, was a remarka-
Bile mar. He had reached the age of SO,
and ne and his wife had lived together for
over sixty years. He made forky-two
crops with two horses having plowed one
for twenty and the other for twenty-five
years.
The livery and feed stable Of B. P.
Coachman at Coachman was burned We'd
nesday night about II O'Clock. The fire
was discovered too late to save anything.
Fourteen horses, twelve vehicles, corn,
fodder, etc, were burned. The building
belonged to w. l.. Bennett and H. p. Bull
Ter. Their less is estimated at $1,000 while
Coachman's less was Sl,050. Neither was
injured. Incendiarism is the supposed
cause.
T.. L. Farmer was placed on trial in the
city court at Atlanta Thursday before
Judge Perry on charge of cheating and
swindling. Mr.. Farmer is a well-known
merchant of Fort Gaines, in Clay county,
and the trial is attracting more than the
ordinary amount of attention, as he Is
quite prominent man in his home town.
The prosecutor In the case is the Coleman,
Burden Worthen Company, wholesale
shoe dealers of Atlanta.
Miss Irene odum. daughter of p. L.
Odum of Newton county, was stricken
with hemorrhagic fever on Monday morn
ing, and her condition has been critical
since Monday evening. Her death was al
most hourly expected during Tuesday and
Tuesday night, and there appears to be
but little hope for her recovery. Miss
Odum was engaged to be married to John
Wood of Mitchell county, and Tuesday ar
ternoon at O'Clock was the time APP
pointed for the marriage.
Had the private car of Vice President
f. st. John been on time at Atlanta Tues
day morning. it would have run into an
open switch at Five Forks and been de-
rallied, and no doubt would have caused
the death of Mr.. st. John, President Hoff-
man and others who were on board. The
fast freight which was to have followed
Vice President st. Johns car, was or
dered 10 go ahead and meet the special
at another point, and the result was that
the freight ran into the open switch in
stead of the special. Five cars were de-
rallied, the engineer and fireman and sew
eral other members of the crew were bad
ly hurt and five horse killed. From the
appearance of the track it was the work
of wrecker. and Mr.. st. John has Of
fered a reward Of $3.50 for his apprehen-
sion. Evidently 1t was done for the pur-
pose OF taking the life of the vice presl-
dent. 1t was known that Mr.. St. John
would be the train and that xyns
scheduled to pass Five Forks first. The
wounded men were taken to Atlanta and
given over to the care of DR.. p. NJ But
Ter, the Seaboard's chief surgeon. They
are all doing as well as can be expected
under the circumstances.
FLORIDA.