The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-26
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA BRIEFLY PARA
GRAPHED.

Printer ATTACKS via" WIN
Penknifc and Inhicts severe
Wounds.
GEORGIA.
Judge r. F. Watts Of Lumpkin died Fri
day Of pneumonia. He was member
of the legislature in 1852 and 1888 and
afterwards in 1856 and 1887.
The Tattnall Journal Of Reidsville has
been purchased from Editor McGillis by
T. J. Sheppard and G. 6. Folsom OF
Brunswick The latter have already taken
possession.
II. f. Hutchins. night yard master Of
the Central railroad yards at Atlanta
was tightly wedged between two freight
cars Friday, receiving injuries that VIII
probably prove fatal.
Harry Stillweu Edwards, author and
journalist, whom the $4,000 prize recent
ly offered by a Chicago paper for story.
will soon build a home in the colonial
style on the outskirts of Macon.
Judge Sampson w Harris has been
urged by the democrats, the populists and
the republicans Of Carroll county to enter
the race for one of the justices of the
supreme court. He has agreed to do so.
DIT. Sails Randall, a prominent physi-
clan of Gainesville. expired Friday at
Gainesville. His death was unexpected,
he having been sick only since last Tues
day. DR.. Randall was originally from
Aiken, IS. C. He reached the age Of a.
The city tax returns at Atlanta for this
year exceeds the returns of last year by
s14.S147S The figures have just been conr~
piled In the assessors Office and handed
Ts.F1 rms For
1895 were SS12.15317. The returns for 1895
are SS26 96795, showing an increase as
stated
Ex-Secretary of the Interior Hoke Smith
has returned to Atlanta from Washing
ton. He says that ne found public opin-
ION about equally divided as 10 the sue
cess Of Bryan or Mckinley. and many o.
the best posted men frankly admitted an
entire inability to form an intelligent opin-
ion as to the result
The mayor and finance committee of
the city council Of Macon are considering
the question of imposing a tax on each BIZ
cycle in the city and will in all proba bill
ity levy the tax for the rest of the year.
If the levy is made the tax viii probably
be 50 for each wheel. 1t is estimated that
there are LOO wheels in Macon.
The railroads Of Georgia will give free
transportation to the enlisted troops of
the state going to attend the governors
inaugural exercises. Il is expected mat
an immense military pageant Will be the
result. The Southern railway, the Central
and the Seaboard have given formal nofi-
fication of their intention to do this, ana
It is understood that all the roads will do
likewise.
Milton Jessie, a negro, was killed by o.
l. Woodward. fifteen miles from Reynolds,
Friday Jessie lived on the plantation
and young Woodward went to his house
and asked for a settlement, as he under
stood the negro had been running cotton
OF. This enraged the negro and difn-
Guilty occurred. Woodward emptied the
contents Of a shotgun into Jessie, killing
him instantly.
No decision has as yet been reached
with regard to the vacancy caused by the
resignation Of Dr. D. C. John, the former
president of Clark University at Atlanta.
DR.. Wilbur p. Thrilled, who holds the
position of president in ne Cannon School
of Theology, has been appointed acting
president of the college until an appoint
ment can be made by the Freedmen's Aid
Society Of Cincinnati.
While drunk at Rome Friday George
McAfee, a tramp printer. attacked Fletch-
er Smith with a penknife and before Nc
Afee was overpowered Smith received four
ugly wounds. one in the left breast just
above the heart, another almost sever
ing the left wrist. a third nearly sever
ing the middle finger of the right hand
and the fourth a cash five inches long,
through the muscles of the left thigh.
The students of Emory College at OK
ford have made Arrangements for the
of n
lowing is the stan: George d. Lowe,
Lumpkin, editor-in-chief; Lovick Benton,
Monticello, business manager; Charles
Gwyn. Zebulon, assistant business mana
ger; Gordon Boyd, Baxley, Ca, athletic
editor; o. Perry Bloodworth, FORSYTH.
Thomas c. Hoyle, Dawson, Lon Fakes,
oxford, r. J. Travis. Covington, o. W.
Holland, Forsyth, literary committee,
The new library soon TO be erected on
the campus Of Emory College at oxford
win be the handsomest school bulldine
in the state. This additional building is
made necessary by the continued pros
perity Of the institution. 1t Is to be built
Of cream white brick or Georgia marble
most likely the latter, IL the cost can be
brought within the limit Of the appropri
alton, and this Mr.. Patton believes can
be done. II Will have a capacity of 10000
volumes, and will besides the stack room
fee, laboratories and other conveniences.
Darien Gazette: The dredge boat Sa-
tia arrived in Darien on Wednesday after
noon last and the work Of cleaning and
dredging out the river between Darien and
Doboy was commenced. The contractors
say that there Is no doubt about their Sc
curing depth Of twelve feet at low water
all along the route, which at high water
viii give depth Of seventeen and a half
Feet from Darien 10 the sea. There are
several shoals between Darien and Doboy
which will be dredged out or blown up by
dynamite, and there does not seem 10 be
much doubt about the desired depth being
secured. The last congress appropriated
10000 for the work and 1t will be ex-
pended on the river between Darien and
Doboy bar.
Atlanta Journal: Gov Atkinson has
received long letter from Judge c. c.
Kibbee Of Macon in regard TO the bonds
Of the state which have never been paid.
known as the Scott and Hayes bonds.
ana ne will refer 70 the letter IN his mes
sage TO the legislature, and viii append II