The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-04
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS


Keeping Cash at Home-Polk
County Uses Her own First Bale.
A Drunken Negro Killed Mt Hamil-
ton-Tenchers and Pupils in Es-
Gambia County Must BE Vacci-
mated PensRcOIa's Business
League Wants IA Change of Quar-
antine Laws.
GEORGIA.;
Columbus warehouses received 5000
bales OF last years cotton crop.
The consolidated receipts Of the several
warehouses show that Americus has re-
ceived 1859 bales Of cotton of the new
crop to date.
Five thousand dollars has been subscrlb-
ed to the fund OF remodeling st. Luke's
church. in Columbus. 1t IS proposed to
use $1,000 in the work.
Mil No. ? Of the Bib Manufacturing
Company has shutdown for at least two
weeks. Cotton tuil No. l OF the same COM
pany is in full operation.
Dawson News: Polk countys first bale
of new cotton was sold to tie home mill
and made up right there, into fine no.
Elery. Inat county, II il Sdlb " Buy
on the high road to prosperity.
The doctors of Dawson will, after the
first Of January next, give no more ply
sic. except in cases Of charity. to par
ties who have awaited themselves OF their
medical skill and made no effort to pay
them.
There are about fifteen pairs OF men
and womens shoes at the police station
in Atlanta awaiting identification. They
were stolen about a month ago by two
negroes, who were arrested by the city
detectives.
Three white men made break for
liberty from the Atlanta city stockades
yesterday and succeeded in making their
ESCAPE before the guards could catch
them The men were Albert Rutfln, HUI
bert Maddox and Jack Wilson, all OF
whom are old offenders.
c. Z. Taylor and George Oglesby of FL
rerton have invented a pea planter. which
they have had patented, and claim that
it will 1evolutionize the planting of peas
1t is arranged with a bag for the peas
and a spring handle, attached to bar
about three feet long and is worked by
means OF the hand.
Griffin Can Sept. 2: Judge r. T. Daniel
left yesterday for Minneapolis, where he
will attend the national council Of the
Independent order Of Red Men. There is
but one higher Office in the order than
the one Judge Daniel now holds, and
the council will elect him to that dur
ing the present session and make him
the Great Incohonee.
on Saturday night some one entered
the residence OF Charlie Ledden, near
Oakheld. and took from It a trunk con-
tanning about $40. About fifty yards from
the house the trunk was opened and the
money taken out, together with some
other things Mr.. Ledden suspects a ne
gro boy Of the crime. The boy has been
missing ever since the burglary.
Intelligence has reached Columbus of a
killing which occurred at Hamilton Satur-
Gay night A negro named Isaiah Robin
son entered the store OF W. NJ. Jones, at
that place, intoxicated, and, 1t Is under
stood. intcrfered with the customers Be-
coming abusive, he was shot and killed
BY Mr. Zones. Robinson was cotton
sampler and worked at Columbus ware
house at times.
Wrightsvine Headlight: The little black
school teacher, J. H. Mays, who attended
the teachers institute here last year
and distinguished himself by refusing two
ladies the sidewalk in Wrightsville on a
certain afternoon, Is again in the tolls
on account Of his desire to do mean and
wrong generally. 1t seems now that he
has got into trouble with School Commits
sioner Rogers OF Washington county, in
attempting to swindle the government out
of more tuition than he was entitled to
by giving in a larger average than he
really made. Commissioner Rogers was
on to Mays little racket and promptly
had him arrested and put up for future
delivery" The way of the transgressor
is hard. and Mays will find this out SOON
er or later.
Valdosta correspondence Morning News:
News has been received here OF the kill
ing OF a negro at the convict camps at
Alexanderville, by julie Renfroe, young
white man who went from this city TO
become a guard at the camps. The guard
with another guard, and a squad OF con-
victs were out about fifteen miles on the
tram road, when Renfroe was attacked
by a negro, with whom he had quarreled
before. Renfroe was standing on a fiat
car guarding the prisoners in another
car, when the negro came up and grabbed
him by the pantaloons and tried to pull
him from his position on the car. The ne
gro had a coupling pin in his hand and
was bent on hurting the guard. Renfroe
dropped his gun and fred lot of buck
shot into the negro, killing him almost
instantly. Renfroe's father lives here, but
he went TO the scene Of the killing, and
says that the authorities justified his son
in killing the negro.