The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-02

known. The grand jury returned an in
dletment for murder, but all efforts to
lccate Palmer were in vain. Thursday
SHERIFF Forrest received a letter from
Sherin Patterson of Decatur county, stat
lng tnat a negro answering Palmers de-
sc1ption was in Jail there. Sheriff For
rest wired Sheriff Patterson to bring the
/ prisoner to Americas. He believes the
/ right man has been captured.
Judge Lumpkin has signed an order ap-
pointing ]. F. Martin temporary receiver
for the Royal Germatuer Company of At
/ lanta. The petition for a receiver was filed
in behalf of the Baptist Book concern of
| boulsVille, Ky. The amount of the indebt-
/ edness of the Germatuer Company to the
/ LOUISVILLE company was alleged to be $500,
| Whlle local banks join in the petition and
/ the total Indebtedness is stated at So 200
The work of putting in the new machin-
/ cry at the Columbus railroads electric
! power plant is progressing, and IL is said
that by the middle of next month the COM
| pany will be prepared to furnish power in
| any portion of the city for manufacturing,
heating, lighting and other purposes.
An important case. involving directly
$4,000, and indirectly much more is being
tried in the Muscogee superior court The
| plalntlm is j. l.. Horn, sheriff of Web
ster county, who is sueing John T. Pearce,
a prominent merchant of Columbus, and
| the Merchants Retail Commercial Agen-
! cy, which existed two or three years ago.
Mr.. Horn claims that Mr.. Pearce sent to
! the agency for collection a bill against
him which he did not owe, and that that
concern black-lsted him for not paying
| 1t. The attorneys of the agency claim
| that though notices of non-payment of
the bill We're sent out to the various agen-
| cles, yet the procedure was not a black
mailing one.
Thursday George W. PymaIe, a we'll
| TODD farmer of Marion county, mourned
the loss of SIS, of which he claims to have
been robbed at Columbus Wednesday
night The countryman related his story
| to policeman, and within an hours time
his money had been recovered, and in con-
| sequence the prosecution of A. ]. Thomas,
| a young white man of Columbus, for lar
ceny was begun Pymale spent the night
| with Thomas, and when he arose and
missed his wealth he accused Thomas of
having robbed his pockets. The money
was found in Thomas room and he was
| Immediately taken before Recorder Co
Fart, who placed him under $50 bond TO
answer the charge in the superior court.
The Georgia Mining, Manufacturing and
Investment Company of Atlanta is to be
reorganized. This plan involves the Issue
| of S175,O0O OF first mortgage bonds for the
| payment Of receivers certificates labor
| claims exnenses of the court and other
| obligations recognized in law as superior
to the bonded indebtedness, a Second issue
| of bonds for $350000 to be distributed
among the present bondholders, and an is
sue of million dollars in stock for the
| unsecured creditors. This company owns
and controls the property of the Walker
Iron and Coal Company, the Dade Coal
Company, the Castle Rock Coal Company,
the Barlow Iron and Manganese Com
pany and the Chattanooga Iron Company
all representing a cash moneyed invest
ment of "a million and a half dollars.
Some time ago Bill Harper a negro.
with both legs off, was sent to the peni-
| Tertiary from Hancock county Soon.
| however, he escaped, stole mule and bug
| gy from a citizen near Powelton, drove
| through to Emanuel county and there
| sold out. Almost Immediately he returned
| to Hancock, stole horse and buggy and
started on his return trip to Emanuel. The
| owner of the stolen property offered a
reward of $25 for his arrest, and he and
| Mr.. Pinkerton, the sheriff of Hancock
| started in pursuit On Jan. % Harper was
arrested in Barlow by ]. E. Palmer, the
town marshal and on Jan. "a Mr.. Pink
erton and the owner of the horse arrived.
Harper owned up, told where the mule and
| buggy were and readily consented to re-
turn to Hancock to be tried for his Of
lenses. The owner of the horse recovered
| his property.
Duluth under the operations Of the do
nestle wine bill passed by the last gen.
eral assembly, has placed tax of $500 on
all dealers in domestic wines. Lawrence
domestic wine bill passed by the
| last general assembly, has passed an or
dinance imposing tax of $500 on all deal
out those who have heretofore been sell
| ing the same The town has established
a dispensary and elected William E.
| Brown as manager; the revenues from the
sales of the same to be used in the dis
| charge of the interest, as 1t accumulates
and such part of the principle of the city
school bonds as they will cover No wine
is allowed to be sold or drank on the
! premises and none to be sold in quantities
less than quart. The dispensary does
not buy and sell the wine, but sells for
| others and for any one who may desire
| to deposit wines with the dspensary for
sale. The law will go into operation
| Feb, 1.
Washington Correspondence Morning
News. W. D. Smith, prominent farmer
of this county died at his home, few
miles from Washington, Wednesday
| Misunderstanding Sims one of Wilkes
| with paralysis at his home, in upper
! Wilkes last Wednesday.-Miss Willie
| ed in marriage to Mr. Leonidas E. Green
| of Danielsville, Ga, at the residence of
the brides brother-in-law, Mr. N. G..
! Ra rk stale.-The social event of the sea-
son Was the beautiful wedding ceremonies
| of Miss Ethel Galloway and. Mr.. John T.
| Lindsay, at the country home of Aristdes
! Galloway, father of the bride. The par
Tors were decorated with Persian violets
| and smilaX. The ceremony was performed
! by the Rev. g. A. Carter The attendants
| were: Mr.. Arts Lindsey with Miss Lula
| Galloway, Prof. B. P. GLEN with Miss
| Bessie Green, L. d. Tavar with Miss
Reba Irwin. James Parantha with Miss
| Miss Katherine Kemme, and William
! Wynne with Miss Eva Dyson.
A cutting affray occurred on A. c. Hud-
sons place Wednesday morning, about
five miles from LaGrange. Mr.. Hudson
has a 16-year-old white boy living with
him whose name is Joe Nixon, whose duty
| it is to wake up the negroes and get them
! 10 work early. Wednesday morning, as
usual. Mr.. Hudson called the young man
| and sent him to wake up Jesse Smith,
| negro and the boy did as directed When
| he called Jesse and told him that Mr..
| Henderson said get up the negro very
impudently told Nixon to tell Mr.. Hen
| derson to Ego to hi" The message was
| delivered and Mr. Henderson went out
with a. big stick to see the negro, but he
| denied sending the message and the mat
ter was dropped. A short while later on
the negro who is two or three years older
than Young Nixon. met him in the lot,
and without a word Of warning, began
IN cut the young man. With one slash
| he laid open the young mans arm from
| fbe inner side Of the elbow to his thumb.
he also cut him on the face and under
fhe left shoulder. Had it not been for the
courage of the boy and his quickness to
get out his own knife and defend himself