The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-04
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS or THE TWO STATES
BRIEFLY PAR ACRAPHED.


Drowned Near Newman.
GEORGIA.
Judge Beck has refused 90 grant Tom
Delk a new trial
Capitalists VIII build a Dlow and steel
shovel factory in Atlanta.
Pitcher Cross and Fielder Wagner have
been released from the Atlanta base ball
team By Manager Knowles.
VIII Flags shot and fatally wounded
Tom Ames az Macon Tuesday FLAGS es-
capped. Cards are said TO have been the
trouble
Two small children of negro family
living on DR. w. II. Tatum's plantation
FL Stewart county were playing near
Wei. the younger fell ia and was drown
mother was at work, and told her that
the baby was in the well asleep.
A negro man and boy. 70 years Of age.
were drowned late Monday while trying
10 cross a swollen branch near Newman.
They were I'm wagon, but the stream,
swift The wagon was CNerturned ard
the occupants drowned. Inc morse es-
capped.
Sol Maddox and G. c. owens, two Unit
ed States prisoners, escaped from Fulton
county jail Tuesday night Soon after
dark the two men ripped up plank from
the flooring punched O hole i'm the cell
ing of the Old wooden jail, gained the
roof and from there quietly dropped over
the fence and escaped Maddox had only
thirteen days TO serve. owens had not
been tried.
The death Of the oldest woman IN Full
ton county if not in Georgia, was record
ed a the office of the board of health at
Atlanta Tuesday. The woman was Caro-
line BOWden, cOlored, who lived at 30 hol-
lis street. Her age as recorded was ll0
years she having been born in 1881, at
which time Washington was president
The cause of the woman's death, as given
by the physicians, was "old age
W. H. Cook, the young man who was
arrested at Atlanta Sunday night on the
charge Of having assaulted Mrs. w. +.
Davidson, at her home on Hendrix street
last Wednesday night was tried before
Judge Calhoun Tuesday, and was releas-
ed. Mrs. Davidson, who had Cook arrest
ed, was not present az the trial, but was
represented by counsel, who Withdrew the
charges and had the young man acquitted.
About o'clock Monday afternoon a
terrific thunder storm passed over the
northern part OF Floyd county, doing
much damage. During the storm Nght-
ming struck the residence of Newt jack
son, and when the shock was over ii was
found that the bolt had struck his Oldest
son, a young man about 10 years old, kill
ing him instantly. Strange to say, none
OF the other members OF the FAMILY We're
hurt or even sustained serious injuries.
VIII McCurdy, a well-known young man
of Atlanta, was married Saturday after
noon to Ruby Ford, a notorious woman.
The young man Is only II years old IL
seems that McCurdy has been infatuated
with the woman for nearly a year. He
has paid frequent visits to her house on
lower Decatur street. There is a law in
Atlanta which prevents minors being adj
mitted into doubtful houses. This woman
was arrested several weeks ago on the
charge of admitting McCurdy, and was
sentenced to ten days in the stockade.
The couple We're arrested on the same
grounds on Saturday afternoon, but were
released after they had proved by two
witnesses that they had been married
about two hours before. This was only
clever ruse to defeat the law. The girl
is known by an assumed name, but her
father Is reported TO be a prominent mer-
chant of Gainesville VIII McCurdy is a
son OF Policeman McCurdy.
The board of trustees of Mercer Uni
versity al their meeting at Macon Tues
day accepted the resignation of DR.. ].
b. Gamhreu as president The announce
ment created sensation in the city as
not even the close personal friends Of DR..
GamDrell knew that he contemplated
leaving the university. No announcement
has been made as to what the retiring
president viii do. He Is one OF the most
prominent Baptist ministers and educat-
ors in the south. Dr. Gambrell came to
Georgia some years ago from Mississippi,
where he was distinguished as an edu-
Gator and divine. Since his connection
with Mercer he has held the most pleasant
relationship with the members of his
faculty, trustees and students and 1t is
not yet known why the resignation was
made at the time. While he was president
of Mercer the endowment fund has been
Increased by a gift from John d. Rookie
feller of New York, and by legacies from
the Gray estate in Jones county and
the Cheney estate at East Point. DR..
Gambrel has always been notable figure
sRnnffEf nnnUanff0n
ready and witty speaker 1t is now
thought that Prof. L. B. Pollock will be
elected to succeed Or. Gambreu as presi-
dent OF the institution. He refused re-
Gently an appointment as state school
commissioner, and it is stated that he
had an understanding that al the proper
dency of Mercer. b. L. Willingham, who
has been member of the board of trus-
tees for twenty years, also resigned Tues
day, and Rev r. j. Holmes of Washing
ton, Ca, was elected to succeed him.
The following special from Rome to the
Atlanta Constitution gives a fuller ac-
count OF an ugly affair than that contained
in dispatch to the Morning News: zone
Of the most horrible crimes ever com
mitted In Floyd county was revealed to-
day, when the body Of Mrs Ann Tudor
q white woman, was found IN an old
well at Everett Springs, fifteen miles
above here. She was a widow, about 30
years old and since the death of Charles
Ihompson's wife, about two years ago,
she mas kept mouse Tor him.
Thompson is about So years Of age and
lives al the foot of Johns Mountain. Sat
urday afternoon Thompson reported to
his neighbors that Mrs Tudor was miss
ing, and searching parties were at once
organized and began to scour the woods
and premises. Late yesterday afternoon
they found the body in the wen and no
titled Coroner DrennOn. The coroner or
ganized jury and went out to the place
to-day, and when the body was drawn
up there were marks around the neck,
which showed that the woman had been
strangled. A fish line had been tied
around her dress, in which two large
rocks were confined, so as to prevent the
body from rising. The jury decided ia
arrest Thompson's son and another young
man. but when Thompson heard what
their intentions were he asked to be
allowed to make a statement. "Thest
boys" said he, know nothing about it,
] am the only one that knows anything
about it. I will tell you the whole story
Mrs. Tudor had lived with me like wife
for some time and lately she found that
she was about to become a mother Their
she said that she wanted to die. and il
I could help her she would get out of the
world rather than be disgraced. So We
agreed upon a plan. We went to the wei
and I tied the rocks in her dress and She
fastened a rope around her own neck. ant
the other end around her legs. She sal