The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-03-12
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
PARAGRAPHS.

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Man Attempts suicide.
GEORGIA
Judge Solomon Marcus. at the age OF %
years. died al his home in Macon Monday
after a brief Illness
V.C. Estrada Of 81. Augustine. Fla, has
arrived in Augusta and viii in a Few days
open cigar factory
As a result of a fan from his bicycle
on the Columbus road. near Macon sun
dav afternoon. Edgar l.. Wilder may lose
one or more fingers on his right manu.
DR.. William Campbell, q well-known
druggist Of Powder Springs. dropped dead
Tuesday He had gone out in the garden,
where he was doins some lGht "oIA' MHe"
he fen.
A number of heavy damage suits nave
been fled for this term Of Cobb superior
court against the Southern Railway Com
pany and the Western ana Atahuc ran
road Company.
Judge Lumpkin has appointed a. c.
Conn temporary receiver for the Blount
Stave Machine Company OF Atlanta on pc
titiOn of numerous creditors represented
by Hines & Hale, attorneys.
The Cherokee Baptist, a weekly relig-
ious paper organized at Atlanta few
weeks ago by Rev. w. NJ. Bridges, but
which has recently suspended, viii again
be published by Rev. Mr. durham.
The new furniture factory in North
Rome has commenced operations. The
factory is owned by the McDonald-Sparks
Stewart Company, with j. G. Lewis man
ager. A large number OF hands nave
been employed.
Henry Stein, an aged German umbrella
repairer. who has been in Atlanta for the
past six months, swallowed an overdose
OF morphine in a little hut which he oc-
cupied at the corner or Harris ana fort
streets Tuesday morning, and died in the
afternoon.
A petition for the appointment of a re-
ceiyer for the property of the Delbridge
Paper Company of Atlanta has been filed
with Judge Lumpkin by Walter X. Brown
as attorney for W. II. Parsons q Co.,
and other creditors who hold unsecured
claims against the company.
Some time ago Ernest Clarke was put
off a train on the Georgia railroad be-
cause a coupon from a ticket was pre-
scented from an intermediate station. Mr..
Clarke brought suit and a verdict in his
favor was returned in the superior court
OF DeKalb county Saturday afternoon.
washington correspondence Morning
News: a barn belonging TO Mr.. r. II. Woo
ten was burned to the ground here Monday
night. There is no insurance. Mr.. Thomas
Cooper ana MISS NGlne GnsuDiAn were
united IN marriage at the residence OF the
brides parents near Danburg, this county,
last Sunday.
A fatal accident happened at Troy, S.
C. on the P R. & W. c. railway, Tues
day. to William better known as Dock
Gossett a well known medicine Vender OF
Augusta. Dock" was asleep on the track
and in coming around a curve the ehgln-
eer Of the train did not have time 10 stop
his engine. Gossett died Wednesday.
A number of damage suits. aggregat-
ing over 100000 in amount, were trans
ferred from the state courts to the fed
eral courts at Atlanta Tuesday: This
change of jurisdiction is due to the fact
that in each case the defendants are Tor
eign corporations majority OF the suits
are brought against the Southern railway.
AT Jonesboro Monday night, thirty min
utes after retiring, in the case of Ivy
Brooks, charged with murder, the jury
announced a verdict and by that verdict
and the sentence of Judge Gambler, this
negro, who was charged with Staying a
companion and afterward severing the
head from the body of his victim, will
go to the penitentiary for life.
Five youths, all of good families, are
held at police headquarters at Atlanta,
charged with the crime of burglary. Fol-
lowing are the names of the youths: Fred.
johnson, aged IS; VIII Hymn, aged Is;
aged IT, and Hubert Maddox, aged IS.
They were arrested on suspicion that they
had burglarized a storehouse at Grant
park.
Butler correspondence Morning News:
The celebrated Gin-Pond case of Peterman
& Gaullney VS.. Hugh Muster, in which a
mistrial was made last week will be tried
again Thursday, 18th inst, a great deal of
interest is manisfested in the result.
Col. Edgar Stewart and Miss Eva Jones,
two well known and popular young people
were married Tuesday, Elder II. Bussey
officiating.
young man by the name of Procktor,
who lives two and a half miles from Daw-
sonville, shot himself with a shotgun Tues
day while his mother was out of the
room. He pulled off his shoe and with his
toe fired the gun. The young man has
been confined to his room for several
months, and is thought to be insane DR..
Burt dressed his wound, and 1t is thought
that he will recover.
Waycross correspondence Morning
News: A negro was arrested yesterday
and tried before Mayor Knight on the
charge of molesting the United States
mail pouches at the union passenger sta
ton transfer office. He told Mayor Knight
that he saw no harm in his handling of
the United States mails, as he was an
angel from paradise The negro said he
hailed from Savannah, or Atlanta, or
Paradise, and Mayor knight ordered him
TO leave the city.-Warren and Joel Lott
will soon begin the erection of a hand
some brick business block next to the
Reed block, on Plant avenue
Henry Hestelly, aged eight years, en-
ployed at the exposition cotton mills al
Atlanta, had his left hand and forearm
frightfully lacerated Tuesday The boy was
engaged at one of the carding machines
when his left hand became caught in the
flying apparatus and before the machine
could be stopped, the lads hand was
ground to a jelly. He was attended by Drs
w. b. Parks and J. McF. Castor, who
found 1t necessary TO amputate the injur
ed member above the elbow. A few week.
ago young Hestelly had his hand caugh
in a piece of moving machinery at tn,
mills and had to submit to an amputatioI
of one of his fingers.
Tweed correspondence Morning News
Sunday morning. while the family o.
Frank Barfield. with the exception of hi
wife, were attending church services,
blaze was discovered on top of the house
Mrs. Barfield worked heroically to checl
the flames. throwing buckets of water OF
the burning building, but to no effect, a
the fire had made too much Roadway. Be
fore help arrived, the house was con
sumed, with all the household effects, ex
cept one bed. The sparks famed by tn
wind, ignited fine dwelling, recently bull
by Mr.. Barfield, which was also destroyed