The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-23
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. tsLORiDs AND soUTH
CAROLINA BRIEFLY PARA
GRAPHED.


Cotton Mil ina Floyd Counts Abe'u
Ready to Bcain BusineSs.
GEORGIA
Senator John d. Gordon reached A1l1n
Ia from Washington saturday
Carrollton VIII soon vote on the iss1r
ing of bonds to build school building
Rufus ChiIds. a white boy. Il years old.
has been arrested al Griffin ON charge
of stealing bicycle
II. X Brady of la Grange and Mrs. 81.
N. Pepper OF Rome are among the Geor-
gians Who died Friday
Chauncey ~ Depew and Cornelius Van
dert.lt paeasd through Atlanta Saturday
en- route to California on a three weeks
pleasure trip.
The Oconee Bre wing Company Of Ma
con has declared dividend of per cent.
on the capital stock on 100000 for the last
six months business.
snow fen on both Thurslay and Fri-
day in Fannin county. The branches and
creeks are all frozen over. The snow
was six inches deep and fell lh iai Ee
flakes.
Stewart Cordially Nell the eye ar-old
son Of John L. Nell of Atlanta, puh@d
boiling vessel of water over on himse
Saturday and was SO badly burned thai
death resulted.
During the year 1926 two hundred and
sixty-tvo marriage licenses We're issued
from the ordinary's office in Coweta coun-
tv OF this number. niuety-nine were for
white and one hundred aud siNtN-thfee Tor
cOlored couples.
A party of forty Macon hunters went
in a special car to Leesburg saturday
as the special guests ~ Henry j. Lamar
Jr.. to shoot doves. There are sad 10 ne
fully forty thousand doves In the field,
and great sport Is expected.
Macon parties expect soon to begin the
erection Of a packing house iu that city
at cost of $4,000. A slaughter pen and
cold storage viii be erected and the en-
terprise will he operated as "a regular
western packing house is conducted.
Judge Gambler has granted a new trial
to Cord Wordsworth. the negro convicted
of numbering Motorman Johnson at Allan
Ia, and sentenced TO The peuitentiary Tor
life. The negro has been waiting in IAN
until some decision on this case was made.
The cold snap has done no material dam
age TO the fruit crop around Fort Valley
The fruit men. who are the best authori.
ties say that while some varieties may pc
hurt others are not ana with laVoIanle
weather to the first of April all VIII De
well.
Alfred Tinsley, the oldest man in sum
ter county If not the oldest in Georgia,
died Friday morning on the plantation OF
X NJ Mcdonald. near Americas. inns
ley was known to be 10 years old, and
Mr.. Mcdonald thinks perhaps two or
three years older
Joseph c. McEwen Of Hall county has
gotten himself into trouble. BY cutting
the ten on each corner of a confederate
Sl0-biu and carefully pasfing same over
The one on a good dollar, he made one
dollar yield ten. In trying to pass the hlll'
however. it was detected, ana ~ conse-
quenee of it McEweu now languishes be-
hind the bars of Fulton county jail.
1t has just been learned that w. d.
Carhart. a former Macon boy. but now
one of the younger members of the Crif-
fin bar. has been engaged 10 attack
transfer Of property amounting 70 Sz0,UO0'
and il bids fair to be celebrated case,
IS two corporations are engaged IN y.
1t is q long story The fight now made
is that the Georgia Co-ope rative Loan
Company had transferred MORTGAGES TO
the Atlanta Bank and Trust Company.
fatal accident occurred at West
Point Friday resulting in the death of
eolored boy named Robert johnson:
George Craft son OF Mayor CraIt, or
lowed the hammer to slip through his
fingers and as johnson was entering the
room, the entire contents We're discharge
ed into his head, tearing away the upper
portion Of the skull and scattering his
brains all over the room, producing IN
slant death.
Al the next meeting OIL the AAatDH Ib.''
of the Travellers Protective Association
resolutions win be introduced asking the
congressman and senator's from Georgia
70 vote for and support house bill No. 4Ad
which creates new cabinet portfolio. The
Travellers Protective Association members
wants a new cabinet officer, to be known
as minister Of commerce. The bill has a
large number of supporters, and the Trav-
elers Protective Association all over the
country is encouraging the matter.
Sampson the mighty. Sampson the
strong, Sampson the muscular man of
vaudeville bal masque fame. gets the
snug sum of So GEO for his medals. memen-
toes or royalty and other apparatus which
on the Seaboard Air Line road, just before
the opening Of the exposition at Atlanta
This amount goes to the account Of the
strong man, and viii be divided out tC
settle a number of claims which We're put
in against him before his departure from
Atlanta. He sued the railroad company
for 5000, and his lawyers have just com
promised the claim for $3,00o
The Massachusetts mills in Floyd count,
will be in full blast by April l. The machn
cry is being tested and the mills have beet
spinning yarn for several days on trial
Next week the looms viii be put in place
and they will test their capacity for WeaV
ing. that by the end Of the month TIN
mills viii be ready to go to work regular
w. The cottages around the big mil
buildings are Very neat and attractive AM
present the appearance of a CONSIDERABLE
Lindale be Incorporated into separat
voting district and that the county pro
vide police protection, both of which ques
tons viii be decided al the next meetin
of the board of county commissioners.
The case of Dora b. Cooper VS.. Thorn
son-Houston Electric Light Company o
Augusta resulted in a verdict in favor o
the plaintiff Saturday for $500 damages
In January, 1885. Mrs Dora b. Cooper re
sided al No 1876 Broad street, which
not far distant from the power house @
the Thomson-HoustOn Company. On
morning while in her house she heard tn
screaming of her child in the back karC
and ran out to see what was the matter. I
order to get to the Child she found tina
she would have to remove a wire whic
was in her way. This wire was suspend
ed from one of the poles of the Thomson
Houston Company and lay on the groun
in the yard. She caught hold of the wiz
to throw il out Of her path and she foun
she was unable 10 let 90. The Wire wa
decidedly a live one and Mrs. Coope
besides being badly shocked by the sue
den contact, was also very badly burne