The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-22
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


Some Queer Facts About th'
Strike of the Cigarmakers n
Tampa-An Electric Hallway TO BE
Built From DeLHnd to Dnytonn
Tampsites Resent Bad Treatment
of An Orphan Girl.
GEORGIA.
The firm of A. W, McCurry & Bro. OF
Elberton, has assigned. Home creditors
were protected by mortgages. Their LA
blities are $4,000 and their assets only
about 5000
The petition for writ Of mandamus
fled against the board of county commits
sioners Of Fulton county, by w. r, Elder
the blind eX-confederate soldier, asking
that the board be compelled to pay MIN
his annual pension Of 800, has been de-
MED by Judge Lumpkin in chambers
A negro. whose name could not be as
certained was almost instantly killed
Saturday while working about a cotton
gin on the Griffin plantation, six miles
east of Americus The negro deliberately
put his foot under the gin band to see II
II would catch. 1t did, and the next sec
ond he was stored away under the gin
with a dozen bones broken and all the
life and curiosity knocked out OF him.
A fire occurred near the Plains IN Sum
ter county Saturday night, which resulted
in the destruction of the large steam gin
merry owned by Mrs. r. 3. Evans, to-
gether with its contents-twenty-thrc
bales of cotton, a large quantity OF cotton
seed and two or three wagons, besides
other property Of value There was no
insurance on house, machinery or cotton
The origin of the fire Is thought to have
been accidental
Cornelius Fowler, a fireman formerly in
the employ Of the seaboard Air Line, has
filed suit In the city court of Atlanta
against the road for IS 900 damages. Fow-
Ter was injured, he alleges, on account OF
the engine upon which he was riding rum
ming into an open switch at HulFs station
several weeks ago. He says the switch
was left open through the negligence OF
the employees of the road, and that the
road is liable on account of the reckless
speed al which the engine was running
mast a station, which was in violation of
the rules of the company, as the engineer
did not have control of his train.
The new paving bonds of the city Of
Macon were received by Mayor Price from
the printer Saturday, and are now locked
up at the city hall. There are 100 bonds
of the denomination of $500, and nifty
bonds of the denomination of 1000. Seal
ed proposals for the purchase of the $780,
600 Of bonds will be received by City Clerk
Bridges Smith until Oct. Is at noon. The
bonds will be dated the first day of Oc-
tober, 1890, and are payable in gold coin
thirty years after date, interest at Az per
cent. per annum, payable quarterly in
coin. Purchasers will be required to pay
for the bonds awarded to them and all
interest thereon aceruing after the first
day Of October, 1896, up to the time Of the
payment for the bonds. Payments for
the bonds must be made at the Office of
the city treasurer of the city of Macon,
at Macon All bids must state what de-
nomination of bonds is desired Payments
must be made at such times as the mayor
and council shall see fit TO deliver said
bonds. The right to reject any and all
bids is reserved.
At Atlanta, Saturday, Attorney Abbott
& Cox fled petition with Judge Newman
in behalf of committee of stockholders,
asking that the receivers of the Eagle &
PheniK mill. of Columbus, be instructed
by the court to pay the past due interest
on the bonds of the corporation to pre-
vent default on Oct. l when the ninety
days grace for the payment of the inter-
est viii expire. The interest was due on
July /. The stockholders will be satisfied
with s22000, though s55,0O0 interest is now
due. G. Gunby Jordan and James w.
English, the receivers of the property, op-
posed the grant through their attorneys,
Glenn, Phillips & slaton and L. F. Gar
rard on the ground that they did not have
sufficient assets to meet the expense and
ii would be necessary to issue receivers
certificates. This they insisted would be
practically an impossibility with the
money market in its present state. Fran
els d. Peabody the city attorney of Co
lumbus, appeared in behalf Of that city
and filed a petition asking for the pay
ment Of taxes due the city of Columbus by
the Eagle and Phenix property. Mr.
Peabody presented his claim in the form
of an Intervention to the original peti,
ton. His Intervention called for S,Sl35(
and the order was granted by Judge
Newman. Lawyer Lionel c. Levy, of the
firm of Mcneil & Levy, of Columbus, ant
Messrs. Ellis & Gray, Of Atlanta, repre-
senting depositors in the Eagle and Phe
nix Savings institution and other credit
ors, opposed the grant of receivers GER
tihcates TO pay past due interest on tn,
corporations bonds. Judge Newman
after ordering the payment of the take.
due the city OF Columbus, decided to post
pone action on the other petitions unit
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