The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-02
AFFAIRS IN AUGUSTA.
Wright Bids For the A. p. A. Vote.
Horrible Accident and "A Murder.

Augusta, Ga, Sept. Hon. Seab
Wright spoke tonight at the court house
to a large audience A majority OF them
were democrats, who were curious to
hear the young man whose reputation as
a speaker had preceded him. His speech
was practically the same delivered in Sa-
vannah and other places. 1t eiicitetd ex-
carnations of satisfaction from prohibit
tionsts, and occasionally from exuberant
populists but there was not the enthu-
siasm that Tom Watson arouses when he
speaks.
His reference to the farmers who were
back Of him as Americans was palpable
bid for the A p. A. vote, which will lose
him votes in this county.
This afternoon a fatal accident occurred
a the upper Sibley foot bridge, resulting
in the death of Marian Carter, an old ne
gress employed by Mrs. Ivey of the check
mill.
Every day it was the duty of this old
servant to carry dinner to a member of
Mrs Ivey's family employed in this mill
To-day she had performed her duties as
usual and was returning home. The route
she took daily is by the foot bridge. In
order to do this she climbed up the en-
bankment and crossed the Port Royal and
Western Carolina railroad. To-day as she
crossed the track, switch engine was
coming from the north at a high rate of
speed. Those who saw the occurrence
say the bell was not sounded,
nor was any other warning
given to the old woman of her
danger. Just as she stepped off the track,
the engine swept by and caught her dress,
jerking her back under its heavy wheel,
splitting open her head, laying bare her
brains and horribly mangling her arms.
The police wagon was on the scene TWEEN
ty minutes later. and the body carried to
the home of Sarah Carter on Broad street,
in charge of a colored society where an
inquest was held.
The coroner's verdict simply declared
the cause of death without fixing blame
upon the engineer or without generating
him.
On Sunday. Aug g. two boys, Johnnie
and Eddie Sutherland, disappeared and no
trace could be found of them. They were
employees of the Sbley Mill and the mill
authorities employed every means at their
command to locate them, but all in vain
and it was feared that the boys were
drowned.
Friends of the family have been con-
sbantly at WORK dragging the upper part
of the lake and searching for clues, and
this morning they found evidence which
points to the death of the boys and to foul
play. Going further up than usual, the
searching party found a pair of drawers
which was positively identified by the
mother as belonging to the Oldest one of
the missing boys, and near the place
where the drawers were found, blood was
discovered on the rocks near the water.
1t develops that on Wednesday before
the disappearance of the boys, Eddie. the
younger brother. had a difficulty with
John KHAN, a negro. The negro was ar
rested and under the sentence of the re-
corder, put in jail. He was released on
Saturday. When he was arrested, he was
heard to threaten that he would drive an
iron bar through Eddie Sutherland
heart. He bears the reputation of being
desperate character. 1t is surmised that
he watched the brothers on Sunday, saw
them go to the lake, followed them, and
while they were in the water, defenseless,
attacked them, and so injured them that
they were drowned.
Redoubled efforts are being made to get
at the bottom of the mystery.