The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-29
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARTICIPANTS.


A Company of Thirty-sevcn West
1rRerS Reach Florida En- nOute 10
Fight for Cuba-St. Augustine
Likely 80 Have New Guns in Fort
sarfom-GOv. Atkinson and Other
Gentlemen Given n Complimentary
Dinner.
Dade county has an old lady who does
quilting at 95 and who has never used
spectacles.
Mrs, W. Fl. Holman of Augusta was
stricken with paralysis Saturday. Her
case is critical.
The governor mas offered reward Of
$3.50 for the arrest of the slayer Of Col.
A. r. Zachary of Morgan county.
The fact of an owl hooting on his house
top for three consecutive nights caused a
Liberty county negro to vacate the dwell
ing he had rented for year.
At Columbus, Saturday. Judge Butt re-
fused to grant DR.. w. L. Ryder a new
trial. This was the third time set for the
hearing of the motion for a new trial.
The wholesale liquor house of Seisel &
Wolf Company at Macon, has been closed
by the sheriff under two mortgage fore
closures in favor of the Exchange Bank for
$4,000 each.
Saturday night ]. d. Tweedy one of the
most prominent cotton factors at Madison,
and the proprietor of the cotton compress
there, had stroke of paralysis, and is
now seriously i'll at his home in that city.
A practical joker pretended he had found
several gold coins imbedded in the earth
n,
Whereupon the negro and his neighborS
commenced digging and did not discover
the imposition until they had spent week
at the work.
Joe Miller negro school teacher, was
arrested at Valdosta Saturday at the in
stance of J. NJ. Baskin of Anthony, Fla.
the negro was charged with incendiarism
and Baskin was his bondsman. Both of
the parties went to Valdosta to spend
Christmas and met by accident
There is an old gentleman in Harralson
county, who is so years Of age and
has never ridden on a railroad train or
taken a meal at any kind OF public house
His son died in an adjoining town last
week and he refused to attend his funeral
because he would have had to ride on the
cars.
Hon. Alexander White gave dinner to
a number of his friends Saturday night at
his country home near Rome. The dinner
D. >.
of Atlanta, Gov. w. Y. Atkinson, Messrs
IL. Z. Berkely of the Seaboard Air Line
Charles r. Harmon of the Western and
Atlantic and J. S. 3. Thompson of the
Southern railway
There are five families living in Lump
kin, almost in calling distance of each
other that have five boys and one girl
EACH making twenty-five boys and only
i've girls, namely, E. p. Pearson, II. b.
s. S. Everett, Mr.. w. II. Griftis, in same
neighborhood has five boys and no girl
The tax rate of Muscogee county is
7l-l00 mills, the lowest of any county in
two small counties. About $4,000 is col
iected for county taxes every year.
Several life insurance companies that is
sued policies on the life of Thomas J
Delbridge of Atlanta have given notice
TO the relatives Of the drowned man that
they will contest the payment of the
amounts of the policies. Both sides have
already employed attorneys, and legal pro-
ceedings will be instituted in the near flu
ture Only four of the companies have
paid UP and cancelled the policies Those
companies and the amounts paid by each
are as follows: New York Life $4,000:
Royal Arcanum, So. 600; National Union
Benefit Order 5000; Golden Chain, $1,000
Total, SCI. 900. One other company, the
Home Forum, has notified Mrs. Delbridge
that it will pay its policy in few days,
amounting TO s., 600. The New York
Mutual Life insurance Company, has noti-
tied Mrs. Delbridge that the policy of $10,-
OOO issued by that company will not be
paid. The Connecticut Mutual Life Com
pany and the Aetna Life Company and
others have given similar notice The
companies Will be obliged 20 allege fraud
and suicide. and they will attempt to prove
that Delbridge conspired to defraud them
eto the extent OF the amounts of the poll