The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-15

a revolver commanded the doctor 10 hOId
up his hands. The robber Immediately be-
| san to search his victim. He procured IL
! cents and was in the act OF rining DR..
/ Madden's trousers pockets when some one
/ came out from a nearby house and fright
! ened the highwayman so that he beat a
| hasty retreat DR.. Madden had $40 or $50 IN
! bills secreted in purse on his person that
the robber would certainly have gotten.
Jack ]. Spaldng. attorney for w. V.
! Laurine, receiver for the Blue Ridge and
| Atlantic Railroad Company, filed a petit
| ton in the United States court at Atlanta
| Tuesday morning against II. NJ. Pitts and
| w. A. Weatherly, asking that they be pun
| ished for contempt OF court. II. NJ. Pitts
is a constable of Rabun county, and he
| levied execution on judgment OBJ
| tanned in a justice court in favor Of w. A.
| Weatherly on a car load of oak lumber
| The petitioner says that, although the con-
stable had the property pointed out TO
him as the property OF the receiver, and
besides being known also to the plaintiff,
| Weatherly, he persisted in making the le-
Wy. He wants them both punished for con-
tempt for failure to comply with the re-
celver's instructions. Judge Newman sign
ed the petition, but no day is set yet for
the hearing.
Screven correspondence Of the Morning
News. Some OF the populists Of Wayne
county express themselves as much dis
gusted with the turn affairs have taken.
They say they will not vote again, or If
they do they expect TO vote the repubH-
can ticket. over in Pierce, the adjoining
county to Wayne the democrats so conf
pletely whipped the populists out that they
became discouraged, and in one section
the leading populists are signing a pledge
that they will now vote the republican
ticket. They say the populist party is dead
and IL the populists ever accomplish any
thing it will have to be through the re-
publican party.-The sea island cotton crop
is about picked out in this section. The
farmers are now picking over for the lasr
time. There is practically no top crop
and all the farmers who are able to 90
so say they will not sell at present low
prices.
A serious alteration occurred on last
Saturday night near Bostwlcl1, in Morgan
county, between r. r. Jones and Henry
Crawford, two prominent citizens of that
county, which came near resulting in the
death of both During the dispute Craw-
ford called Jones a liar, which the latter
resented with blow. Both
men clinched. Crawford got out
his knife and while Jones was opening his,
gave him a severe cut on the face, the
cash extending from just below the right
eye diagonally across the face to the left
side Of the chin. Parties interfered, but
before they could be separated Jones sue
ceeded in opening his knife and cutting
Crawford twice in the neck, both cuts be-
ing very bad. Jones received one or two
other cuts on the body and leg, but they
are not considered dangerous. 1t was at
first thought that Crawford's wounds
were fatal but it was found that none of
the larger arteries were cut, and it is now
thought that he will recover. There has
been bad blood between the parties for
some time.
w. A. Stewart swore out warrants in
Judge Gerdines court at Macon Monday
against Rod Evers and Henry Causey for
assault with intent to murder. The war
rants are the sequel of an exciting eXpe-
rience of Mr.. Scott and his wife on Sun
day afternoon late. Mr.. Scott resides out
beyond East Macon. He is one of the fore
most citizens of that section of the coun-
ty Last Sunday Afternoon Mr.. Scott and
his wife went down to the swamp to look
for the cows that had wandered off. They
had gone but a short distance when they
saw a fire sitting around which were four
men. The men, on seeing Mr.. Scott and
his wife, arose and shouted: Hello,
girls" Mr.. Scott asked who they were.
The men, without warning, pulled their
pistols and began to shoot at Mr.. and Mrs
Scott who ran behind a small tree. The
men continued to shoot, and Mr.. Scott
says the balls whistled all around and
about them. One ball passed between Mr..
Scott and his wife while they were not
foot apart. Mrs Scott says that ono ball
whistled by her head within an inch of
her face. Both regard 1t as miracle that
they escaped death. They ran out OF the
swamp as rapidly as possible and reported
the matter to their friends. Mr.. Scott
thought he knew two OF the young men
who did the shooting, and Monday morn
ing he had warrants sworn out for Evers
and Causey on the charge of shooting at
another. Under the advice Of his counsel
Mr.. Scott took up the first warrants and
swore out new ones on the charge of as
sault with intent to murder. So far as
known no arrests have been made.