The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-02
GEORGIA..

7r-a annual concldVe OF the GranQ Com
-.-serv Of Georgia Templars will be held
n columbus April Is.
Fender has bought the timber on
c,,+ H. H. Tits Eldorado land near
ron. and will establish a turpentine
. plant
Rriez is being placed on the ground to
,rId an annex to the Brumby Chair Com
\ ~. in Marietta. 5OxlOO feet for the pur-
I ll1ss of manufacturing furniture.
The Marietta Water Works Company
Il 4. building a standpipe on Coryelrs hill.
. Their new engine is the fine Corless that
as on exhibition at the Atlanta exposi-
-. ton.
rbomasville has at last turned against
4 .ta ramps. after having been over-run
I'm some years past. Judge Alexander re-
cantIv put six of them on the chain gang
for fifty days each.
The time for paying the business tax in
Macon has expired, and only one-tenth of
/ The merchants have. paid it. A failure to
1av subjects the offender to a 500 fine,
i ana the recorder says he will enforce the
law.
". F. Collinsworth, living near Amer
lens carried in a wagon load of fine home
raised hams, two of which tipped the
scales at sixty pounds. Mr.. Collinsworth
raises meat for his farm and has plenty
10 sell besides.
Judge Lumpkin has ordered an attach
ment issued against certain property of
S Marion, a grocer of Atlanta, in favor
Of A. Y. Moss of Cobb county, who
claims that he shipped Marion $69O.lS
worth Of wood, for which he has not
received payment.
Tattnall Journal: Deeds to right Of way
are being signed and turned over to the
Georgia and Alabama railroad along the
route of the recent survey. A force Of 175
men will begin grading at Lyons, and by
February it is said 500 or 1000 hands will
be at work. This means a through line
for Reidsville.
Isaac Woods, a negro about IS years old,
met a horrible death six miles from She'll
man Thursday afternoon. He was clean
ing out well on the premises of E. L.
Tucker The well is sixty feet deep, and
Woods had put in twenty-five feet of new
curbing when a layer of sand and earth
above the curbing fell in. burying him
over thirty feet deep beneath the mass.
Monroe Keith. lad Of II years. was ar
rested by Deputy Sheriff j. C. Heartsill
three miles east of Spring Place. Thurs
day morning, and is now lodged in jail.
He is charged with breaking into the office
and store kept by Patterson & Spruill, at
Dennis, nine miles east Of Spring Place
and taking about $50 in money, besides a
number Of small articles Fifty dollars
reward was offered for his arrest
Waycross correspondence Morning News
J. 0. Tson, young white man from Toll
edo Ca. was fined 500 or 80 days in the
city chain gang this morning by Mayor
Knight for selling liquor yesterday in this
city. Tson arrived Thursday night from
Jacksonville with large valise filled with
cheap bottled whisky. He was intoxicated.
He began retailing liquor TO the negroes
al the passenger station, Whereupon he
was arrested.
Mrs. Annie e. Boynton has filed suit
at Atlanta against James T. Garter and
William T. Evans, charging them with
fraud and an attempt to victimize her to
the amount of $500. The petition makes
several sensational allegations and claims
that the plaintiffs made false statements
to her and caused her, on the strength of
the statements, to mortgage valuable At
lanta real estate and sign notes without
her knowledge of the contents.
William A. Howard, a young railroad
conductor from Pelzer, S. c., went to
Rockmart about a month ago and mar
red Miss Carrie Stokes, highly respect
now DEVELOPS that tt Howard had a wife
living at Pelzer, S. c., and he has been
arrested and lodged in the jail of Polk
county. The young man was a stran-
ger to Miss Stokes, and the marriage
was brought about through an adver-
tsement.
Milledgevile correspondent Morning
News: While DR.. Hubert, young physi-
clan. living some miles out of the city,
was on his way home yesterday afternoon
from the city, his horse ran away with MIN
throwing him out of his buggy. He was
rendered unconscious by the fall and was
found some time afterwards by Richard
). Perry and w. ]. Hawkins, who were
passing, and DIR. Hall was called in, VINO
found his injuries to be serious, but not
necessarily dangerous.
Little Julian Bellveau, son of Mr.. and
Mrs J. d. Belliveau of Atlanta, is a much
loved lad, and two parents have just end
ca a long quarrel over the possession OF
MN, the result of which is an unique
compromise. During the year 1896 the wife
Is to have the child in 1897 the husband is
10 take possession, and the youngster viii
spend alternate years with mother and
1SI4er until he will have reached the age
VI Y, when he snail decide for himself
@l.H whom he shall give permanent ale
glance
Rome Tribune: The question of lighting
Inc city is again being agitated, and
portion of the counciImen are in favor of
we city purchasing and operating the
P4dHl as measure of economy and for
securing more satisfactory service. In
eulIleS nave been made concerning the
.oal OF operating the electric light sys-
,liS IN places where cities own and con-
tgol them, and the matter will come up
III discussion before council before the
NV NV contract with the electric light com
paAy Is signed.
Gov Atkinson has appointed the follow.
'ng banks as state repositories for the
erm of four years, beginning from the
pGpIauon of their present term: LaGrange
rrailKlng and Trust Company, Bank of the
y ltY erslty of Georgia, Griffin Bank, Bank
Il Ine State of Georgia at Savannah, Haw-
TT15Is vile Banking and Trust Company,
n b1llIQ National Bank of Columbus, and
Il bg central Georgia Bank at Macon. These
iriLAS all pay into the treasury ? per cent.
TS1ereSt on daily balances, according to
a tin contract made with the governor some
ferdinand Saloshin, a young drummer,
,sssa-hst whom Proprietor A. D. Green of
W oa central hotel, at Columbus, had sworn
ill., warrant for cheating and swind-
I'-5' alleging that he left the city owing
~ pos, was brought back from Atlanta,
n IT, ne had gone, by deputy sheriff,
rs+1iIeday night. Saloshin waived exami-
An, and was placed under 500 bond.
A b. new military company has been organ
a III az Columbus. The company will APP
n al II, Tor admission into the state troops
sivia5ee next meeting~of the state military
''isory board.
Yearly year ago Amos Palmer shot