The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-23
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGR Apis.

row Escape From a Fatal shoOt
ing Scrape at DubIin-Populists O
TattnnII File Notice of Contests
Thomas {. Crenshnvy, Jr., Dead
Murder at a Negro Entertainment
in Floyd County.
GEORGIA.
Thomas C. Crenshaw, IT, died at tn
residence of his father, Col. T. c. Cren
shaw, at Griffin Tuesday.
NJ G. Buffers residence near Douglas
Vile was burned Tuesday with its con
tents The loss is $1,000, with no insur
ance.
The populists have served notice Of con
test in Tattnall county for the offices Of
sheriff ordinary. tax collector, tax re-
ceiver and surveyor.
Negroes have held up and robbed sew
oral persons on the outskirts of Rome
during the past few nights. The money
they secured was in amounts of from ;.
to $40.
The mayor and council of Lawrenceville
have passed an ordinance levying a town
tax. 1t is placed this year at 20 cents on
the hundred dollars. This is cents less
than what it was last year.
From oct. l to Oct. 81, the Tonnage of YES
sells which have arrived in the port of
Brunswick is 27,SS2. During the whole
month of September, the total tonnage
of arrivals was only 25,720. This shows
an increase of 2 112 tons, with over week
to hear from.
Judge Robert L. Rodgers was tried be-
fore Judge Bloodworth at At
lanta Wednesday for assault
and battery, and was dis
charged. Mrs. G. Smith and her son
went to Judge Rodgers office last Fri
day, and a difficulty occurred between the
young man and Judge Roberts, in which
Judge Rodgers slapped his face. Judge
Bloodworth held that the slapping was
jus tifiable.
The Hephzibah Baptist Associa ton met
at Davisboro with a large attendance. DR..
Lansing Burrows Of Augusta officiated as
moderator of the association and called
the roll of the fifty-four churches of the
association. The object of the association
is to meet at stated intervals to discuss
matters pertaining to the welfare of the
Baptist churches of Georgia, and espec-
tally the churches of their immediate as
sociation.
The supreme court of Georgia has re-
versed the decision of Clarke superior
court in the case of the state VS.. w. A.
McEIhannon. McElhannon. who is now
out on a bond of $3.50 will be given a new
trial under the decision. The charge
against McElhannon was that Of fraudu-
lently removing and destroying the ac-
count books of the Farmers Alliance
Warehouse and Commission Company Of
which he was the bookkeeper.
Unless Gov. Atkinson should commute
the death sentence to life Imprisonment
Sam Grant, convicted of the murder of
George Davis and thrice sentenced to the
scaffold will yet expiate his crime at the
ropes end at Americas. The supreme
court having refused for the second time
a new trial, there is nothing left but an
appeal for executive clemency and this
Col. e. A. Nisbet, of counsel for the con-
demned negro, says will be done Should
this plea fan Grant will probably swing
within the next sixty days.
The case against Brady at Dublin has
engendered considerable strife among
some parties, especially his friends.
Frank Scarboro, an important witness
against Brady, understood that II. r.
KreutZ, a merchant, had made some dis
paraging remarks about his testimony.
. Meeting KreutZ near his place of bust
ness, Scarboro asked him regarding the
matter. Before further parley, Kreutz,
thinking Scarbaro had pistol, went into
the store and returned with a Winches-
ter Friends interfered and the episode
was settled amicaby.
At Bass ferry, above Rome on the Eto-
wah river, there was a colored gathering
Of some sort Wednesday night and dur
ing the evening Jim Atkins and Reece NAL
lory became engaged in a quarrel. Atkins
withdrew and the trouble was taken up
by some of his friends. Suddenly Atkins
returned with double-barreled shot gun
and stepping from behind a large oak tree
in the yard he raised the gun and fired.
The full charge of buckshot struck NAL
lory in the temple and blew the whole top
of his head Off The murdered man fell
to the ground without a groan and his
slayer walked of, coolly defying those
present.
DIR. Thomas C. Gibson, of near Gordon,
arrived at Macon Wednesday night with
his newly married bride. The couple reg
istered at the Brown house, where they
will stop awhile. They were married
Wednesday near Haddocks's, and are now
on their honeymoon. DR.. Gibson Is q
and his wife is but II. Notwithstanding
this wide disparity in their ages, it was
a case of marriage for love. The doctor
is a prominent citizen of Twiggs county
where he has a large farm and a large
practice. He is comfortably we'll off II
this worlds goods, and up to Wednesday
he had everything he wanted except
wife, and that want is now filed. DR.
Gibson decided some time ago that h,
would marry. The girl of his choice was
Miss Minnie Andrews of Haddock's.
Grant Smith, a negro employed as I
waiter in the Kennesaw restaurant, a
Atlanta, was slashed in the face Wednes
day afternoon by II. p. Blount, a well
known Albanian, who used a pocket
knife, and severed the facial artery oil
the left side of the walters face. Mr.
Blount claims that he cut the negro Il
self-defense. Mr.. Blount entered the res
taurant and took a seat at a table to ca
lunch. The negro waited on him. In al
Interview at the police station. Mr.. Bloun
stated that the negro had uttered insult
ing words, and that the waiter grabbe
chair sitting by the side of the tabl
and threatened TO kill him. He then drey
his knife from his pocket, and, openin
1t, made slash at the negro's throat
The knife entered the Jaw and the facia