The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-11
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GEORGIA.
The grocery business of c. L. Elliot
which has been conducted for many year.
on Newcastle street, at Brunswick, wa
discontinued Monday.
w. e. d. Barr, young white man 2
years of age, living on Marietta street
Just outside the city limits of Atlanta, a
Clara postoffice, mysteriously disappear
ed Saturday, and has not been seen OIL
heard of since.
Dr. L. L. johnson died at his home al
Macon Sunday. after long illness. Dr.
johnson was 60 years of age and had lived
all his life in Bib county and the greater
portion of It in Macon as a practieing ply
stefan. The cause Of his death was cancer
of the stomach
The trial of Robert Cobb for the killing
of Ribe Wells was concluded Saturday IN
Lee superior court. Cobb was indicted for
murder, but the evidence adduced showed
that the killing was done in self-defense.
The jury, after remaining out two hours,
returned verdict Of not guilty.
w. T. Downs. a telegraph operator,
while tramping toward Macon, stole four
pieces of bread and fish from house by
the wayside. He was hungry and there
was no one in the house at the time. He
has been in jail four months and has just
been indicted by the grand jury.
A one-armed preacher got into trouble
at Elberton and left for parts unknown,
leaving a number of debts behind and a
mortgage against him in Texas. When
heard from next he was in Tennessee and
had been out hunting, when his gun was
accidentally discharged, tearing Off his
other hand.
The governor of the fly wheel at
Gwynn's grist mill, at Brunswick, gave
way Monday. The wheel revolved for q
few seconds 200 revolutions a minute,
broke loose and tore through the root
Pieces Of iron few in every direction. One
side of the engine house was blown out
and damaged to the amount of 800 in
Cured. No one injured.
w. E. Marcrum, liquor dealer of Co.
lumbus, has preferred charges against
Capt. Wylie Williams chief of police of
Columbus, to the police commission. Mr.
Marcrum charges that the chief ordered
the arrest and summoning of disreputable
negro women about his establishment in
order to hurt his business, and it was not
persecution to himself.
At the family burial ground of the Brand
family, near Logansville, last Monday was
laid away the last remains of the oldest
member of their long-lived family, Isaiah
c. Brand He was born on Oct 3, 1908, in
Oglethorpe county. His father, William
Brand, moved to Walton county, the place
where he died, in 1926 and died at the old
homestead rrrba al
died, never moving therefrom since 1926
Brown Baresield of Clarke county died
Monday as a result of pistol wound in
ficted by L. H. Dunston of Madison coun-
ty ten days ago. The alteration in which
the shot was fired arose over a trivial mat
ter, a dispute about debt of 40 cents.
After the shooting Dunston escaped, and
he has not yet been captured. officers are
now on the watch for the murderer and it
is thought that a reward will at once be
offered.
Gainesville News: Maj Foute walked
into the News office Wednesday wearing
a 500 overcoat. At least, that is the price
paid for 1t when new. The coat is a relic
of war times. Maj. Foute paid 500 for the
cloth, jeans, 800 for the lining. 500 for the
buttons and thread and 800 for its MAX
the coat on account Of old time associa-
ton and would not take for 1t what 1t cost
him.
Attorney General Terrell has made his
annual report to the governor on the
work Of his department. The most i'm
portant items referred to are the case
before the interstate commerce commits
sion on fruit rates. suits against railroads
70 wi IA Ia w tha collection Of rQ IL
road taxes, suggestions about bonds made
for state officers by fidelity companies,
and the increase in the number of capt.
tai cases before the supreme court.
1t is rumored that the employees of The
Port Royal and Augusta will very likely
sue Col. Averill for their wages. Some
of the men have not drawn a cent of pay
since last June, and have lived by means
of orders given them by the road on va
rious stores in Augusta. Some of these
men have had these orders discounted for
cash each month, and consequently kept
very well up with their wages; others
have drawn very little, just enough to
support them, and consequently very neat
sums are due many of them. It is these
men who are talking of legal proceedings.
The Columbus Bar Association will ask
the legislature to present the county with
a set of Georgia supreme court reports.
This claim is based upon the facts that
when the union army came through Geor-
gia many of the early volumes of the re-
ports in the Muscogee court house were
lost During its stay in Columbus, VIII
sons army made its headquarters at the
court house. which served as barracks
for the soldiers. When the soldiers va
Gated the building many of the books and
papers were found scattered over the
floor, and it so happened that many of the
reports were lost. In other counties.
which experienced similar losses, the
legislature. upon petition, replaced the
missing volumes.
c. A. Wooster, a private detective well
known in Atlanta and other sections Of
Georgia, was arrested at Atlanta Monday
by Patrolman Shepard of the local DO.
lice force on criminal warrant from JEFF
ferson county, charging him with perjury
Some time ago he was engaged to WORK
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