The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-12

burg surgeon; w. M. Scott chaplain
Thomas Kirke, officer of the day; w. G.
Prater, officer of the guard.
Two damage suits against the Southern
railway were filed in the United States
court at Macon Thursday morning, both of
them being removed from the superior
court of Twiggs county. Both of the suits
grew out of the famous Stone Creek wreck
on Feb. 49, of this year. One of them is
brought by Mrs. Margaret Wippler for
$l5,0 900 for the death of her husband, #. w.
Wippler who was killed while discharg-
ing his duties as baggage master on the
passenger train when it plunged into the
creek. The other suit is brought by b.
F. Newberry, who was a passenger on the
train when 1t went into the creek. He
wants $4,000 damages.
After dress parade at Fort Mcpherson,
near Atlanta, about ten days ago a young
man, who apparently had just attained
his majority, approached one of the Of
fcers as he was leaving the parade
ground and accosted him as follows: II
want to be a soldier, sir" The officer
made inquiries, the result of which con-
WINGED him that the young man was real
ly in earnest, and referred the would-be
soldier to the recruiting officer. The
young man successfully passed the pre-
scrbed examination and enlisted in the
United States army for three years. He
gave his name as w. II. Vaughn, and
said he was a Georgian. Two days later
the recruit began to show signs of mental
alteration, and rapidly grew worse. He
is confined in the isolation ward of the
post hospital, raving maniac. He has
eaten nothing since last Friday.
Earnest Barrett, a travelling salesman of
j. J. & j e. Maddox, Wholesale grocers
of Atlanta, was held up and robbed near
Granville Wednesday night. Not only did
the drummer lose all the money he had
which is thought to have been about 81, 900,
but he narrowly escaped being murdered,
as one OF the bullets from the robbers re-
volver pierced his hat. Barrett was on one
of his regular tours through the state and
Wednesday night, about $50 o'clock was
driving into Granville. about fifty-fve
miles from Atlanta. He was alone in his
buggy with his sample cases and a large
sum of money, which he had collected from
merchants for his firm On the outskirts
of Granville two men suddenly emerged
| from the road--one from each side-and
pointing their pistols in Barretts face or
dered him to hold up his hands, which he
readily did. 1t was very dark and he could
not tell whether they were black or white.
The failure of the present board of
county commissioners of Floyd county to
render a decision in regard to the various
stock law cases is considered as a victory
| by the fence men. The new board will
| be called upon to pass on the various Pc
| titions. IL is the opinion of prominent
attorneys that the only solution OF the
matter will be to redlstrict the entire
county. Floyd is divided into seventeen
militia districts and every one OF them is
more or less involved in the question Of
| fence or no fence. The lawyers say that
the easiest plan out or the muddle is to
! do away with all the work done by the
board and TO re-estabiish the old district
/ lines. AS the farmers In the no fence
portions OF the various districts have re-
moved their fencing this will cause a
| great deal OF trouble. Under the law
! every district will be forced to hold an
election to decide whether 1t win have
fence or no fence.
| A special from Augusta to the Atlanta
Journal says; John Buzzard. who was
shot and stabbed by old man Henderson
! and his sons at Saluda on Nov. Is, and
| who was thought 10 be rapidly recovering,
| died suddenly and unexpectedly Wednes-
| day night. The case was a most remarka-
| BILE one, and was a puzzler for the physi-
/ clans who attended the wounded man He
had thirty-seven bullet holes In his body
J had received eight knife stabs, and his