The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-14

The Accidental Discharge of a Gun
Expected 30 Cost "a Citizen of FiOy a
County a Les
GEORGIA.
Scott Thornton of Atlanta is going TO
re-enter the realm or acting. and will
open a season whose length win be. reg
ulated by his success
The Ladies' Memorial Association Of
Eatonton have invited judge Emory
Speer to deliver the memorial address
al that place on April =.
Another party OF prospectors are on
their way south from the northwest They
viii 20 TO Frulthurst, where they viii in
vestigate the value Of fruit lands as an
investment.
E X Raglan has in his yard at Haw-
kinsville an almond tree that came up
from an almond planted by M. Raglan
eight years ago. II is now in full bloom,
and he expects 10 get crop OF nuts
from il this year If the cold doesn't IN
jure q. He also has a pecan tree ten
years Old, from which he gathered nuts
last year.
Mrs. s. Z. Capers Of Gainesville, Fla,
has been secured as matron Of the dor
mitories which are being added to the
Georgia School OF Technology, and as
soon as the work is completed she Will
assume the duties Of her new position.
All that remains to be done before the
dormitories are complete is some interior
work, which is yet unfinished.
shortly after noon Wednesday a seri-
Gus and well-nigh fatal accident occurred
at the Americas guano works; As two
COlOred employees were descending from
an upper floor by the elevator the rope
snapped and the car, with its human
freight, went to earth with a crash, On
the elevator were two or three wheel
barrows loaded with gIanO, one Of which
struck one of the men In falling and
inflicted painful injuries, though not OF
q serious nature
John Tuck, living at Lindale, Floyd
county, was dangerously wounded by the
accidental firing of a shotgun Thursday.
The gun was standing In a corner OF
the room when il was knocked down in
some way and the full charge of shot
struck Mr.. Tuck in the leg, just below
the knee crushing both the large and
small bones of the limb. Drs. Cheney and
Hardin were called and dressed the wound,
but it is Of such nature that amputa-
ton will probably be necessary 10 save
the patients life.
There are hundreds of theories advanced
as to original owners of the $4,000 in coin
found by Green Hartley on his farm, near
Fort Valley. one is that in 1873 the old
Planters Bank in that city was robbed
and about $4,000 taken therefrom. An
other is that in 1878 an old gentleman
named Head who lived on the place, was
robbed of $4,000. The money was never
recovered, and the theory is that the
robbers buried Il and could not hnd II.
Capt. Houser, who owns the place where
the money was found will try TO gain
possession of it. Many people believe the
Under should have It, The matter will
be fought in the courts.
Dublin correspondence Morning News:
Miss Maud Brantley. the 10 year old
daughter of Mr.. c. w Brantley. was Sc
fxr Frr "a
was riding by the residence OF friend on
a bicycle, when the dog ran out of the
yard and pulled her off the wheel, biting
her in three places, her right hand being
fearfully lacerated by the brute'S teeth.
Physicians are giving her the best OF treat
ment, and she is slowly improving.-Joe
Smith, a colored laborer at work on the
new court house, fell seven feet to the
ground, from a scaffoiding used by the
plasterers, sustaining frightful injuries.
The doctors say he is internally injured
and cannot recover.
An unusual petition for injunction, that
of Willie G. Young against his mother
Mrs. NJ. j. Young which was filed with
Judge Iandrum last week at Atlanta, Is
booked for a hearing to-day. The story is
the sequel of litigation against the West
ern and Atlantic railroad by Willie Young,
through his mother, for an accident in
which he lost one of his arms. While he
was a mere child the boy was run over by
q train of the Western and Atlantic rail-
road His arm was so badly crushed that
it was necessary to amputate it at the
shoulder. He sued the road and after l1ti-
cation recovered damages in the sum of
5000. 1t is over this money that the pres
ent trouble originated. Through his at
torneys the boy has filed a petition
against his mother asking that she be en-
Joined and Judge Lumpkin has set the
case for to-day. Willie, in his petition TO
the court sets forth that he recovered the
sum of s., 600 from the railroad and that 1t
was invested by his mother in real estate.
She purchased lots paying LOO for them
and upon them erected three 4-room dwell
ings at a cost of $3.50, taking a deed to
the property in her own name He alleges
further. that she began to rent the places
at once, getting for them the sum of $3l. 80
months she has been collecting the rents,
as he was not yet of age, being only 49,
He says she has collected the total sum of
s., 6S3 which is legally his property, but 1t
has been wrongfully withheld from him.
FLORIDA.
The bicycle>craze is on at full tilt at
Jacksonville.
Capt Spicer L. Houston of Fort George
has a freak in the shape of a colt with
six hoofs.
The eighth annual convention of the
Young Peoples Society of Christian En-
deavor of Florida is in session at De
Land.
]. Pierrepont Morgan, the New York
banker, who has been at West Palm Beach
with a party of friends for the past day
or two, will return to St. Augustine to-
day.
b. Arentz & Co are said to have ne
gotiated for, or purchased, the York phos-
phate mines near Ocala, and will begin
mining without delay. The mines are con-
nected by tranway with the Florida Cen
trail and Peninsular railway.
At Chipley Thursday young man by
the name of Miller, from Jackson county.
had an alteration with c. Tharp, a mer-
chant of that place Miller offered TO set
tie the matter with knives or guns, where
upon Mr.. Tharp swore out a warrant
against him, charging him with chal-
longing him TO fight duel
The Bell River Packing Company will
close it's factory at Chester in a few
days They have canned and shipped large
quantities of oysters this winter and given
employment to a large number of people
The company has recently turned it's at
tention TO the getting out of crossties and
other timbers, and will push work alons
that line during the coming season, ship
ping the product through Fernandina.
Another woodenware factory is being
b1febed n AHuobfto oo,rr,trv nFoeere