The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-28

by Firecrackcrs.
GEORGIA
A night school for girls is to be estab-
lished at Atlanta by the board Of edu-
cation
Harry Stillwell Edwards Of Macon, win
ner of a $4,000 prize, is writing another
mystery story.
A team of mules owned by Sheriff Hurst
of Burke county ran away at Waynesboro
Friday and were killed by train on the
Central railroad.
Ralph Snipes, lad who lives at At
lanta, was blown up by cannon cracker
Friday. lie may lose one of his eyes as
result of the injuries.
The Marietta Paper Manufacturing Com
pany will issue $4,000 of bonds and make
extensive improvements in the water
works system, which is also owned by this
company.
Policeman Henry Smaliwood of Macon
celebrated Christmas by getting drunk
When officer Mosely attempted to arrest
him he resisted and had TO be dubbed into
submission
While drunk at Augusta Christmas j.
r. Farbus wandered out into the canal
and stood with the cold water up to his
neck. firing of this he cried for help
OAiN Re'H ~ HSHNN "'Ai'tNs
For Christmas dinner at the state in
sane asylum at Miledgevile, the follow
ing were served: S75 turkeys 500 pounds
candy, 500 pounds of nuts, 500 pounds of
dates, q boxes oranges, 30 barrels apples,
IS punches bananas, 800 cocoanuts, light
bread, Jelly etc.
Little Dannie Ray, a 4-year-oid boy,
had miraculous escape from terrible
death at Atlanta Friday lie fell down
the elevator shaft in the Grand build
ing. three and one half floors a distance
of some forty feet or more. and, strange
10 say was not seriously injured.
While playing with fireworks at her
home at Atlanta Christmas Mittie Hol-
comb, a young girl, 10 years of age, was
seriously burned. The fire flashed into her
eyes, almost destroying her eYesight. She
was also badly burned about the body and
limbs. She is probably disfgured for life.
A. r. Tanner. a white man, convicted
of counterfeiting two months ago and
sentenced for two years in the United
States penltentiary has just been par
doned by President Cleveland. He had
never been sent to the penitentiary and
was released from Futon county jail. Tan
ner is from Rome
An 11-year-old son of Mrs. Taylor Delk,
wife Of the condemned outlaw, had a
leg and an arm broken in machinery
Thursday. 1t has been a sad Christmas
for Mrs. Delk, with a son to be hang
ed, husband under death sentence, an
other son in the penitenuary, and an ac-
cident to her little boy.
Bill Walker. Jim Murphy and Lum
Munich were all drunk and disorderly at
Woodbury. Thursday night and Constables
William Rucker and William Brewer at
tempted to arrest Them when one of the
party shot Constable Rucker through the
head, killing him instantly. All three men
were captured and jailed.
Alfred Cain, a middle-aged white man,
who is the proprietor of a grocery store
at Atlanta was shot and perhaps MORALLY
wound Christmas by Mtt Smith, a young
White man. Cain was wounded in the left
side. the ball ranging through his intes-
tines to his thigh. Too much whisky was
the cause of the shooting.
Henry county is to have a magnificent
new court house. The plans made by Col
ucke & Stewart, architects, of Atlanta,
have been accepted and bids asked for
The building is to be of red brick and
stone and surmounted with a handsome
clock tower. The money is already pro-
yided, every dollar having been secured in
Henry county, through the Bank of Henry
county at McDonough.
]. H. Miller, the field worker for the
Georgia State Sunday School Association.
is spending the holidays with his family
III MdtitlAd. he mas just returned from
trip to Southwest Georgia, where he
held meetings in seventeen counties He
reports increased interest in the work and
says plans are being made to have the
newman convention next spring the best
In the history of the association.
George Craven was shot and accidentally
killed in drunken Christmas froIic at
Ropeville in Carroll county. by John
Duke. Both men were farmers and close
lf'.NH- ere armed with shotguns
and were firing them to celebrate the oc-
casion, when Duke accidentally emptied
the contents of his gun into CraVens back.
A coroner's jury returned verdict of
accidental killing, and Duke was allow
ed to so free.
The premature explosion of a toy can
non painfully injured two young ladies
at Fort Valley Christmas. Misses Ro-
chelle Chever and Hattie Holton We're
amusing themselves with the cannon and
had touched off the fuse. 1t failed to fire
and both were bending over il, preparing
10 rehght the fuse, when the cannon eX-
ploded A quantity of loose powder lying
near, became ignited and flashed up into
their faces. Both were painfully burned.
Washington Correspondence Morning
News: A reward of 500 has been offered
by Gov. Atkinson for the discovery of the
incendiaries who fired Robert Bradley S
barn, and detective has been working on
the case for some time. Tuesday he brought
IN Two negroes VINO, he thought, were the
guilty parties and placed them in iafl.-On
Christmas eve negro boy shot a
colored woman by the name of Anna HAYES
IN the arm, and shattered the bone.-T. b.
Sale, while shooting fire works, had his
hand torn almost to pieces. 1t is not known
yet whether amputation will be necessary.
At Talbotton Thursday night, about l:
o'clock, WIN Leonard. coIored. bru.
tally murdered his mother-in-law
and his wife. Nora. with q
club ak. splitting open their skulls anS
mutilating their faces. Leonard and his
wife separated last week and he was
heard TO say at the time that he INTENDED
10 Kill her Thursday night he went Il
the house and broke the door open will
an ak, and as the old woman rose from
bed he cut her down, and in the mean.
time his wife escaped. He pursued hei
and caught her about twenty yards from
the house and killed her and then made
his escape.
i. b. Watkins, a white farmer residing
several miles above Columbus. was shot
and seriously wounded by a negro named
John Harris, Thursday night Just bevond
Bellwood. Watkins and several friends
were returning home in wagons and vvber
opposite Harris house We're tallxinp iona
~. harris came out with his ehot cur
ana protested, when Watkins smoke h.
nun pleasantly and asked him To false y
hflnk with him, at the Same time o1t.rt-.s.-