The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-02
CITY BREvITIES.

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10 secure supply.
The sisters Of St JOseph's Infrmary re-
quest the Morning News TO correct the
statement that no more charity patients
would be received here for the present,
because there was no room for them. The
tients.
John Holland received a severe cut in
the breast from a knife in the hands of
Rosa Ford, colOred, last night. Holland is
the Watchman on dredge No. g The wo-
man was arrested by Policeman Sheehan
HOlands wound is not considered dan
gerous.
Tuesday the Forest City Dramatic AS
ISOLATION viii give its annual picnic at
Warsaw Island. The young people com
posing the association gave the public last
winter two very interesting dramas. and
now that the summer is at its hight they
nave selected something that is fitted to
the occasion.
Guests IN the Pulaski Office were at
tracted INTO the reading room about
O'Clock yesterday afternoon by a loud re-
port, seemingly a pistol shot. A badly
frightened operator and messenger boy
ran out from the corner partitiOned on
Tor the use of the Postal Telegraph Com
pany. -Four fuses had been burned out by
tlshtnlng striking some distant connec-
ton.
Peter Vandivere, who was arrested bv
the police yesterday for his attack on
Capt. W. 7. Thompson, was held after
the recorders court adjourned on a war
rant charging him with assault and bat
terry before Justice Waring Russell. Jr
he gave bond in the sum of $3.50 1t is
said that the matter will probably be set
tied before it is carried into the higher
court.
Judge H. L. Ferrin has secured a place
in the Haven Home for Bessie Powell, the
9-year-old negro girl who was so badly
beaten by the negro Cap Harps The girl
IS a daughter of Hattie Powell. who has
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rilPs family. Harps is now under bond
on the charge of assault and battery and
VIII be tried In the city court. Harps had
threatened to beat the child, 1t is stated
whenever 1t pleased him to do so.
The Good Government Club. the new COL
ored political organization, has decided to
give steamboat excursion at an early
date for the purpose of raising money to
be used In paying the back taxes of the
members OF the club. The club has taken
the position that in order to be independent
It's members must pay their own taxes or
that they must be paid from the funds OF
the eluo. RESOLUTIONS were adopted at the
meeting OF the club Friday night that no
money be accepted for this purpose from
the white political organizations.
Dr. L. e. WEIGH regrets very much the
| light in which has been viewed his refus-
al to attend the case Of sunstroke at the
| police barracks the other day. He has been
known to attend many of these cases when
| other physicians have refused, and his re-
| fusal in this case was based on his idea
of the rules, he states, that it was out
of his district and DR.. Corbin had not
been called on He thought he was call
| ed first and that the matter had not been
referred at all to the physician in whose
| district the case was Under the rules
| he says, he thought he was acting prom
| erly in the matter and deprecates very
| much the view that appears to have been
| taken of the matter. The matter comes
up before the sanitary board tomorrow at
u o'clock.
Mack Mckinney was arrested yester-
day on peace warrant Issued by Justice
| Wickham- Mckinney appeared to the
| Justice to be very peaceable man, and on
his representing that he could easily Sc
/ cure bond, he was turned over to another
negro who was in the Office to be taken
/ care of until he could find his bondsman
! Mack, 1t seems, was an employee of the
| Georgia and Alabama road. The pair in
search of the bondsman, stopped by the
| roads track to let a freight train pass
| But the train passed only one and that
was Mack's guard. He himself had rec
| ognzed friend in the engineer and avail
| ing himself of the opportunity and his
| railroad experience in jumping trains, he
| sprang aboard the rapidly moving engine
| His escort watched him waving his adieus
! Several days ago Justice Patterson issued
/ warrant for Mr.. S. K. Platshek on a
charge of larceny after trust. The warrant
| was not served, however, the case
having having been settled. In 1888 MT
/
of city bonds to sell, Mr.. Platshek agree
! ing to take them to New York and dispose
| of them there to a better advantage than
| could be done in Savannah. Shortly after
| Mr. Train met Mr.. Platshek at Saratoga
| and was informed by him that he had lost
| the money from the sale of the bonds, but
| that he would make 1t all right when he
| returned to Savannah. This he failed to do
| Mr.. Platshek has since paid Mr.. Train
| about 500, but this is all and Mr.. Train
states that he has been unable to get any
! further satisfaction. Mr.. Platshek
was out of the city last
| week, and the warrant was not served. A
| conference of his friends was held yester-
| day and the warrant was turned over to
his attorney, Mr.. j. R. Saussy. Mr.. Plat
| shek is expected to return to-day.
| A big lot of people are going to have
| big time at Wilmington Island, Wednes-
! day. The Savannah club has arranged
| to give a grand barbecue at the island
that day and the indications are that it is
| going to be the most complete affair of
| the kind given in Savannah in a good
! knows its business. Justice Samuel Rey-
| nolds is chairman, and the other members
| are w. F. Chaplin, Bernard GCode, K. c.
| Gleason, John j. Dillon, Thomas Cooley
| z. ]. O'Connor and E. A. Leonard. What
/ ever knowledge may be lacking on the
| part of the committee will be supplied by
| Mr. J. J. Davis of Augusta, famous as a
| manager of Georgia barbecueS who will
| have entire charge of the commiss;nia lat
| The bill of fare will include turtle soup
| barbecued shoat, barbecued lamb, barbe-
| cued chicken, tomato sauce, chicken and
| potato salad and cold peaches for desert
| An amply supply of liquid refreshments
| will be in charge of the committee. This
! is TO he strictly a male party. The ladies
| are to be barred out. The steamer John
| Rourke will leave the wharf al the foot
of Lincoln street, at $50 a. m, touching
| at ThunderbOlt. and will call at Thunder
bolt again at p. m.