The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-03

o'Neal started to cross the railroad track
IN a buggy, when an engine switching
in the yard backed against some cars
Just as the horse baked on the track.
negro, seeing Mrs. O'Neals danger,
attempted to lead the horse off the track
but failed. The cars came back with suf-
hcient force to demolish the buggy and
seriously crippled Mrs. O'Neal. The me-
gro rescued the lady from instant death
by pulling her from under the cars, but
her injuries may yet prove fatal.
Capt. c. N. Featherston has been ap-
pointed auditor in the settlement of the
differences between the Rome Electric
Light Company and the Rome Gas COM
pany. The affairs of the two concerns
are very much in a tangle, and Hon.
Arnold Broyles of Atlanta has, for some
time. been acting as receiver for the gas
company while Capt. N. A. Bass recent
ly purchased the Electric Light Com
pany's plant at sheriffs sale for taxes.
Holders of %2,500 in third mortgage
bonds claim that $4,000 in first and Sec
ond mortgage bonds, still outstanding,
are equally liable with the third mort
gage bonds and Capt. Featherstone has
been assigned to the task OF Strengthen
ing out the matter.
A dastardly attack was made on two
women at Macon Tuesday night about
o'clock by five negro men. The women
were Misses Ruby Arlington and Carrie
Drawhorn. They were returning from
Mrs Thrape, a dressmaker, and while
crossing the old Tindall field, beyond the
armory, they were accosted by the ne
groes, The women were greatly alarmed
and commenced to run, the negroes COM
handing them to stop, but this only caus-
ed them to quicken their pace. When the
negroes beheld this they fired with their
pistols three times at the fleeing women.
The women finally took refuge IN Mrs.
Adwell's store 1t is said the negroes APP
preached so near the store that they
could be distinctly heard talking. 1t Is
not known who they were.
Fire broke out out in the retail shoe
store of j. Lee Harris, llSO Broad street
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fire was extinguished before any other
store had caught. The stores of J. Lee
Harris and j. X. Harris are in the same
building, but are separated by IRE wall,
and this prevented spread of the flames
in that direction. The lower floor OF the
store was burned very little, but the dam
age from smoke and water is heavy. The
stock was valued at between $4,000 and
$4,000 The loss, ii is thought, may reach
IS per cent of this amount, fully covered
by insurance. The fire started on the
second floor, near the front of the build
ing, from unknown causes. The build
ing is the property of the Georgia Home
Insurance Company, and was slightly
damaged.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun; Columbus was
the hating place for a few hours Tuesday
of considerable body of primitive tray
elers. They had come straight through
from the northwestern states and We're on
their way to the Old Soldiers colony in
Wilcox county, Georgia. There were six
wagons in the train, all of the prairie
schooner" type, containing just so many
families, making in all twenty-eight peo-
pie. One wagon had started on Sept. IL
from Wilcox county, Kansas; another
from Gospel county, Nebraska, on Oct.
13, and the remaining four from Redwood
county, Minnesota, at the same time. Each
wagon was fitted up to serve as a Sleep
ing apartment, and contained such sup
plies as are necessary for life on the road.
The only stage of the journey not trav-
ersed by wagon was from st. Louis to
Memphis, having made this distance by
floating down the Mississippi on RATS.
The wagon train crossed into Alabama at
Columbus, Miss, and coming through
Montgomery, reached Georgia Tuesday,
and encamped on upper Broad street.