The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-17
ITEMS IN THE THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA BRIEFLY PARA
GRAPHED.

Hands Legs-A Negro shot Dead In
LowndeS County-NeEotiatiOns in
Progress for a Settlement of the
Bones Case.
GEORGIA
J. E. CarsweI. a citizen Of Blythe. aged
about q years, died Saturday Of typhoid
pneumonia
John HARRISON of Blairsville is spoken
Of as a candidate for the legislature from
Union county.
EIberton has eleven lawyers. eleven doc
tors and four dentists. and all Of them are
said 10 be making money
Catoosa county has a miserable excuse
for jail. Judge Miner urged the grand
jury to build a new one and to do it at
once.
Corner lots in Fitzgerald have been SELL
ing at from 500 TO $1,000. but the number
Of Georgia investors have caused an in
crease Of prices.
Gov. Atkinson will make an official visit
10 Rome some time next month, where
he goes to inspect the Deaf and Dumb
Asylum at Cave Spring.
The working men Of Atlanta will hold a
mass meeting at the courthouse tonight
10 protest against the establishment of
a Pinkerton detective agency in Atlanta.
At Americas Friday the jury in the Pal
mer case, after remaining out nearly thirty
hours. returned a verdict of not guilty,
and the slayer of John Mullen goes free.
Hon. Norris Hale, n member Of the
state democratic executive committee
from the Fifth district, is opposed to the
plan of consolidating the two conventions.
Farming operations in Sumter are going
forward with a rush, despite the recent
heavy rains. Farmers are hauling guano
and getting ready to put in big cotton
crop.
The Thalian Dramatic Club of the Uni
versity at Athens is thinking of making
a tour of the principal cities of the state,
with a view to raising money for the Uni
versity Athletic Association.
Wilson Knight, a colored train hand of
Augusta, who had his ankles crushed by
falling under the wheels on Feb. Z, neces-
stating amputations on Friday last, died
a few hours after the operation.
A mass meeting of the peoples party of
Hart county will be held in the court
house on the first Tuesday in March next.
for the purpose of electing a committee
and chairman for the next two years.
There is a pine tree on the farm Of w.
II. Peed, near Butler, which, II sawed
into lumber, would furnish enough to
build a handsome four-room house in But
Ter. The tree is said to be thirty-two feet
is circumference.
A three-year-old son of w. G. Ivey, a
farmer of Sumter county. was found dead
in a tub of water Friday. The boy was
playing about the tub when ne ACCIDENTAL
iy fell in head first and drowned before
assistance could reach him.
The enterprising citizens of GAINESVILLE
have issued complete guide for home
seekers and manufacturers who contem-
plate locating in the SOUTH setting forth
the Advantages of that town. 1t is hand
some pamphlet, beautifully illustrated
A meeting Of the directors of the Mer-
chants Bank, Valdosta, reports the bank
in good condition, with a capital and
surplus of $4,000 All of Naldosta's bank
ing institutions have paid per cent. divi-
dends this year on an aggregate capital
Of $4,000.
Sixty-siX deeds to property Of the Ma
con Construction Company were signed
by Receiver Sparks, President Proudft
and Commissioners Davis, Barnes and
Dessau at Macon Saturday. This prop
erty was recently bought by various par
ties at public sale.
A romantic marriage occurred at Amer
icus Friday afternoon. The groom,
William Morrison of Chicago has been
totally blind for several years. While at
Americas a year ago he met and loved
Mrs. Jennie Morgan, a most estimable
lady, and Friday they were married.
Near Ayersville, a small station about
eight miles north of COrnelia, Friday, w.
II. Collins, a well known farmer, was shot
in the jaw by some unknown party or par
ties, from ambush Collins was blowing
when the deed was committed. Mr.. Col
Inns is not seriously hurt and will soon
recover.
When the train on the Brunswick and
Western railroad reached Willachoochee,
Monday morning, some one at the station
cursed at the conductor, who drew his
pistol and fired. William Moore, about 16
years old, a son of Aarn Moore, was Sc
riously wounded in one leg and fears are
that 1t will have to be ampu-
tated.
James NJ. Lamb, who has been a citizen
of Cochran for many years, was convicted
of forgery in Pulaski superior court Sat
urday and was sentenced by Judge Gober
TO eight years in the penitentiary. 1t is
alleged that he forged a win of Mr. Lee
fevere, who died years ago. The case
has been in court ever since. He disap-
peared Saturday and has not been seen
since. He has large family.
Negotiations are in progress at Augusta
between the friends of John Bones ana
i
Co. for a settlement of the claims held
by them against John Bones, cotton fac
tor 1t is not known on what basis the
claims will be settled, but it seems from
what can be learned that mat
tiers will be fixed up and Bones win not
he required to stand preliminary trial
set to be held before Judge Eve to-day
A sensational case, in which Ada Moore,
the 13-year-old adopted daughter of Mr.,
and Mrs. Sol Mack, makes a serious
charge against r. II. Thompson, a we'll
known merchant, doing business corner
Third and Oak streets, has been on trial
before Recorder Freeman at Macon for
three days. Thompson, who is a married
man, apparently about SIS years of age, ad-
mits being guilty of an indscretion, but
denies that he is guilty of anything more
serious.
David Hughes, a 17-year-old boy, was
sentenced to a term of six days in the city
stockade by Judge Andy Calhoun in the
police court at Atlanta Saturday Hughes
was convicted of entering a poolroom,
being a minor" The city ordinance pro-
hibits minors from entering poolrooms.
The conviction was the first of the kind
made in some time The boy was sent to
the stockade and will work out his SEN
tence because he stepped inside a room
10 look at game of pool
1t appears that no one wants the North