The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-16
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

dicted-A Woman Held for Murder
at MacOn-A BrickIayer of Macon
CholSes to Death While Eating
Supper-MncOn Declines TO Accept
Any of the Bids for Her New Issue
of Bonds.
GEORGIA.
John o. McRae, a prominent citizen Of
Mt. Vernon, died Tuesday.
Capt Henry C. Long, of sandersville.
died Tuesday night aged IS.
James W. Robertson, democratic state
elector. will speak in Macon on the night
of Oct. &C.
DR.. c. L. Brown sequard a son Of DR..
Brown Sequard Of elixir fame. died at
Atlanta Wednesday morning.
A burglar visited the residence of Ed
HORNE at Atlanta Tuesday night, and
when he left carried away with him Mr..
Horine's trousers a gold watch $50 in
cash and some valuable papers.
Col. ]. ]. Bull, elector for the Fourth
congregational district, accompanied by
Hon. A. P. Persons, left Talbotton Tues
day to stump the district in behalf of
Bryan and Sewall and free silver.
Capt William S. Brantley, an aged
citizen of Macon, who was for years. and
until recently, treasurer of the South
western railroad, is lying critically Ill
at the residence of his son-in-law, Ar
thur Findlay, on Orange street
At the regular monthly meeting of the
Bibb county board Of pupuc school edu-
cation Supt. Abbott read a report in which
he stated that this years term opened
rrrg4A .,fs lie in,
crease of nearly 500 over the opening
week last year.
In jumping from a fast moving Atlanta
and West Point railroad train Tuesday
night shortly after II o'clock, Amral An
nettie, a member Of Company +, United
States Infantry located at Fort McPher-
son, met with injuries which resulted
in his death a few minutes later.
Tuesday night the finance committee of
the city council of Macon opened the
sealed proposals for $4,000 of AZ city of
Macon paving bonds, and recommended
to the mayor and council that all bids be
rejected. The recommendation was adopt
ed Sale of bonds viii be readvertised.
The gin house and saw-miI belonging
to John N..McClure of Warsaw was de-
stroyed by fire Wednesday morning about
seed cotton and about 1900 bushels of
cotton seed in the gin house, and all We're
burned up. The fire caught from the
engine house. The loss is about 81, 200 with
no insurance
This week two important receiverships
will be wound up in the Clarke superior
court One of them is that of the Athens
Gas Light Company, Of which Walter A.
Mallory is receiver and the other is that
Of the Farmers Alliance and Commission
Company. of which Capt. II. Rucker
is receiver Both receiverships are of
several years standing.
A verdict for 5000 damages was rem
dered in the first division of the city court
at Atlanta Wednesday morning against
the Brown & King Supply Company in
favor of Mrs. A. l.. Sterchi. Mrs. Ster-
Chi sued for injuries received by a fall,
alleged to be due to the negligence of the
defendant company for falling to keep a
grating on Hunter street in safe condi-
ton.
A report was current in Tai
bottom Wednesday that Dr. w.
L. Ryder had died in the
Columbus Jail. DR.. Ryder is still alive
in the Muscogee jail, where he was placed
when taken to Columbus His condition
has improved somewhat since he arrived
there. He eats more heartily than he did
when he first arrived and his general con-
dition appears to be better
Postmaster Fox OF Atlanta has just sent
to Washington a quarterly report which
shows more business than the third quar-
ter Of any year except 1885, and it ex-
ceeds the third quarter Of that year in
the amount of second class matter han
died by an increase of 81, HIP in postage.
al ar,ar a.,
matter this year is due to both the growth
or business and the heavy propaganda
OF the political headquarters.
Col. ]. NJ. Bishop, who was the demo-
cratic nominee for senator Of the Thirty
second senatorial district, will contest the
election of his opponent, Hon. j. +. Cas-
tleberry. The returns show a plurality
OF l53 votes for Castleberry. Col Rishop
has served notice upon him, however, that
he will contest, alleging that at least 200
votes cast for Castleberry were Illegal In
this race there was third man. independ-
ent J. 3. Thomas, who received more than
200 votes, which would have gone, it is be-
heved, TO Col Bishop.
James Mcdonald. bricklayer of Ma
con- choked to death Tuesday night while
eating supper at his home. 66S Third
avenue. Mrs. Mcdonald, Just before her
house on an errand. The husband took
a mouthful OF corn beef, which slipped
into his windpipe. He was just able to
cry to his younger son, Call Jimmie.
quick He ran to the aid of his father
ana began to pound him on the back. but
II was too late. Mcdonald choked to
death in a few seconds.
Sanford A. Freeman. living near Gaines
vile, his wife and three other female wit,
nesses, are in Atlanta to go before the
United States grand jury for the purpose
OF finding true bill against Jud Webnut.
samuel S. Anderson, Lincoln Lin
eolntelt and Nelson Carroll for
"whitecapping One night last
summer Freeman and his wife
Were taken out of their house and beaten.
Before they were whipped they We're told
that they had testified against four men
for distilling. They denied it, but they
were whipped any way. Freeman saws
that during the whipping the masks be-
came disarranged and he recognized the
-FOUR men who are charged with the crime.
Adlas Booker and his wife. Marian