The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-10-03
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

A Woman Dies From JOY on Learn
ing of the Return Home of Her
Long Lost son-1IacOn LAWYERS
Decline TO Take Up an Unusual
Case-Lnrgc Tracts of Timber
Land Bought Up Between DcLnnd
and DnytOna.
GEORGIA
Charlie Mozark a young lite boy
was struck by an incoming passenger
train at Atlanta on the Georgia railroad
Thursday and quite painfully, DGt not Ia
tally. injured.
J. H. Bass, an old and wen-known rail
road engineer. died at his homo al Allan
Ia Thursday. The cause Of Mr. Bass
death was injuries that he received in a
wreck on the Western and Atlanta ral!-
road several years ago and from Whleh
he never fully recovered.
At Rome Thursday Judge W. NJ. Henry
overruled the petition of the Rome Loan
and Discount Company asking for per
manent injunction against the city. Some
weeks ago the loan company was re-
ported by City Recorder Spullock for do
ing business without license. The com
pany carried the case before the city
council, who sustained the recorder. At
this juncture Mr.. Eubanks, attorney for
the Rome Loan and Discount Company,
went before Judge Henry and asked that
the city be enjoined from collecting tax
of $50 the same being the amount stipu-
lated in the ordinances that money lenders
must pay.
A tragic affair occurred at Rock Run,
in Floyd county Thursday. There was
a middle-aged woman living near the fur
mace whose son, Charles Vincent, had gone
out west several years ago, and from
whom no tidings had reached his family
in such a long time that he had been Civ
en- up for dead. Thursday he reached
home, having planned a pleasant surprise
for his mother, who had so long mourned
him as dead. She was absent from home,
calling on a neightbor, at the time of his
arrival, and a messenger was hurriedly
dispatched to carry the welcome news to
her. When the message was delivered the
shock was too much for her and with
cry of Joy she arose to her feet stag
gered forward and fell heavily to the
ground and died instantly. The young
man is almost wild with grief over the
sad and tragic result Of his Homecoming.
Macon Telegraph: Several Of the lead
ing attorneys of the city have been APP
preached in the last few days by a strange
sent her in a suit for damages. The case
is "A large one, being a suit for $1,000 and
the parties concerned stand so high that
1t would reflect great credit on an attor
ney to be identified with the case Ordi-
narily every lawyer in the city would be
jumping at the case, but, strange to say,
the negro woman has been able to employ
no one to represent her so far. The old
woman says that she was the organizer
and leading member of an organization
called the Society Of Jacob Esau Melchiz-
edic Nebuchudnazzer Israel and the Sew
en- Stars. The King of Glory was the pres
ident of the society. She said the King of
Glory was Jesus Christ, who came down
and stayed with her during his connec-
ton with the society. He remained with
her several weeks and paid no board, The
woman said Jesus was a very large man.
with snow-white hair. She claims that
Jesus and the other members of the soci-
ETY. promised her a home for the rest of
her life on earth, and a chair next to the
throne Of glory after her death. The So
ciety had burst, and Jesus had gone back
without fulfilling his promise. For this
she wants to enter suit against Jesus and
the society for $4,000 for breach of prom