The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-25
vALDosTA NEWS NOTES.
I'The Georgia Snake" Again in the
TOiIs-Reyvards for Murderers.

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Valdosta, Ca. July 2i-"The Georgia
Snake the desperate negro who escaped
from Jail here the early part of last year.
and who was convicted week or so later
OF crimes in Sumter county, was released
Monday from the convict camps in Wilcox
county, his years sentence having ex-
pired. The sheriff OF Sumter county was on
hand and arrested the Snake" but the
Sumter official got 81 his work first and
bagged the game When the authorities
there get through with the criminal he
Will be brought here on two or three
charges. The Georgia Snake is the most
desperate of all the criminals that have
appeared in this part of the state.
Gov. Atkinson has offered 500 reward
each for two murderers who committed
crimes in this county. one of the rewards
IS Tor the capture of d. W. Hires. white
man who, while under the influence of
whisky, called a Mr.. Lotion off at Lake
Park and shot him down. The two men
went on together In apparent friendliness,
and nothing was known to the contrary
until Hires began shooting. The crime was
committed two years ago and a reward
was out for the murderer for awhile. but
was called in for some reason. The other
reward is for the arrest of a negro named
Jim Irwin, who shot a negro named Joe
Zdnaefs Few weeks ago. irwin, II Is be-
4leved, IS still in this county, though num-
erous searches by the authorities have
failed to find him.
A mad dog was killed in this city two
weeks ago and since then the police have
been keeping a Vigilant watch for stray
dogs of all sorts A loose dog on the streets
here now is in imminent danger
The chief of police ran upon fifteen ne
gro gamblers here this week, and now the
work OF raiding gambling dens will go mer-
Tily on. The grand jury gave gambling in
the city black eye last year. and the
gamblers have made themselves scarce
about their usual haunts since then The
police, however, caught on to their new
quarters and ran upon fifteen Of them in
an old butcher pen on the suburbs of the
city. The negroes had a good fire and had
gambled all night long. The police came
upon them about daylight.
News has been received here of the mar
riage Of Mr.. Silas Hardee to Miss Georgia
Smith. The ceremony occurred in Sa-
Vannah last week. The young people have
many friends here to offer CONGRATULATIONS
The populists through this section Of
the state do not like the idea of support
ing The democratic nominee, and il is
proDdle mat many of them will refuse to
do so. The leaders here have been loud
ana outspoken against the action of the
81 Louis convention, should il commit
their party 10 the democratic nominee.
Most OF the Lowndes county protest
anus against the action at Chicago are
Durylng their hatchets ana viii come IN,
line gracefully for Bryan and SewaU on
OF the leaders in the recent protest has
stated that so far as he was cNncerned ba
was willing 10 let the matter drop. thu
they felt so upset by the conventi0n's az
ton that they could not refrain from mall
ing one big kick. Having shown Wiz
tney stand, they are willing now TO dron
the Party fight and march an under one
banner to victory in November