The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-12

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Judge W. T. Sheffield. judge Of Miller
county court, died in Colquitt Tuesday
evening from a lung trouble.
Albert Craven was indicted by the grand
jury at Atlanta Friday for forgery and
was removed from police headquarters TO
Fulton county Jail.
Application has been made for a charter
for the Verde Antique Marble Co." to
work the verde antique marble quarries
near Hollysprings In Cherokee county,
Judge Lumpkin has granted an order
appointing John p. Chameld permanent
receiver for the stock of G. A. Adamson
at Atlanta, in the case of Branan Brothers
against Adamson.
Harry Hill, on account of his health.
which was not considered good in the
South Georgia camp at Kramer. has been
transferred to the camp OF Col. James N.
Smith at SmithsOnia, IN OslethoIpe
county.
The firm Of Edward Logan & Co, of Eli
4aV has been dissolved. DIR. e. w. Wat
kins sold his one-fourth interest IN lhe
business a few days ago to A. J.. logan
and John p. Cobb, Jr., and ID, NJ H l,3l..
has purchased the one-lourth AtCLcSS
owned by L. G.. Edward.
A new postoffce has been established in
Thomas county, and it is called Brick"
II is located on the Albany branch of the
Savannah Florida and Western ralMay'
between the river and Ochlockonee- VIII
r. Pittman is postmaster
The railroad employees of the Georgia
Pine Railroad Company are busy arrang-
ing some preliminaries preparatory TO 60
ing regularly to work. Henry bIuIeI'
business manager of the ROAD, IS IN Ool-
o1Iitt looking for a site for the depot.
Friday night while some women were
selling out a few jugs of blockade whisky
4, tba eastern suburbs of Dahlonega, Har-
yey Anderson, colOred, and Jack IoWn-
send. white, both drunk, engaged IN a dlI-
fculty in which Anderson was pauly
stabbed in the neck with KNIFE
Secretary and Treasurer Clements Of the
Eagle and Phoenix mills, at Columbus
stated Friday that the mills will resume
oneration by May /. Work may be re-
sumed IN the wooden department in about
ten DAYS. No idea is given OF the prooa-
bility of a formal settlement of the strike,
hut II is believed that when II is announced
that the mills are ready 10 resume thal
plenty of operatives can be secured.
At Crystal Springs, seven miles from
Rome Friday evening, Robert Farrar's
wife went away from home, leaving the
two children, both quite young, by them-
selves 1t is supposed that they were play
ing in the fire and set the buildlng aoiaZe.
neighbOrs, vino rushed TO the rescue, but
were too late The building INA contents
were destroyed with the two chlldren,
whose remains were found in the runs.
Mrs. F. C. Leach of Atlanta, who was
married to J. B. Leach on Feb. Is, 1888,
has filed petition asking for a divorce.
She says that they are both on the de-
cline and that she would not ask for
separation were it not for the fact that he
is annoying her from his present residence
- s,.,Il D, 70 hnlTEn
in which she was living. Mrs. Leach al
leges that they have number of grown
children. but that for the last quarter Of
a century she has had to support herself,
the children and her husband.
A romantic marriage occurred at Rock
VILE, Conn, Thursday, the bridegroom be-
ing Bud Seymour of Fitzgerald, Ca and
the bride Mrs. c. c. Maher They had been
married once before at Granville, Mass.
in 1865. They moved to Indiana, and in
some way became separated. Mrs. Sey-
Inour searched in vain for her husband and
never finding him married again about five
years ago. Her second husband, G. G. Ma
her elOped with a waiter girl and she OBJ
tained a divorce. Recently She learned that
her husband was a merchant at FitZger-
aid. They correspOnded and the second
marriage was the result.
A sensation was created at Thomson
Thursday on finding a nude infant in the
well used for Pierce institute. One of the
school DOXS was sent 10 lnG we'll lOF Wa
ter and discovered something floating on
top which aroused his suspicion. Prof.
Gibson was Immediately summoned, and
on investigation it was found to be we'll
developed child apparently only a few
hours old. with a string around its neck.
The child is a very bright mulatto and is
supposed to have been murdered, posi-
bly, by strangulation, as the string about
its neck indicated. Two negro boys are
held under suspicion, awaiting further de-
velopments. one of them having been seen
Inc From hn n n veil
about sunrise on the morning of the dis
covery.
For some weeks back a good deal of ex-
citement has been prevalent in mining cir
Giles in White county, on account of the
discovery OF a small but very rich gold
quartz vein in the Martin mines, about
half a mile from Nichols bridge, on the
NacoOchee road. This excitement increased
in intensity when last Saturday, at the
fifty-foot level, the vein was found to wild
en- out and increase in richness. Seven
panfuls OF the loose bindings from the
side of the vein were PANIED out by John
Thurmond, the oVerseer, and the result
was pennyweight to the PAN The previ-
GUS evening Ed Black, in charge of the
shaft, PANIED eighteen sgrains from one
painful. A mortar and pestle test proved
the quartz 10 be even richer. Nothing like
1t has ever been found IN the county nor
probably in the state and the feeling of
satisfaction among miners generally is
very strong.
The colored people of NIilledgeviHe are
greatly excited over a well developed case
Of hydrophobia arising from the bite of a
'blue-gummed" negro woman. A fracas
occurred a week ago between a crowd of
disreputable negro women, in which Luz
cinda Williams, the "blue-gummed
blonde" as she is known. bit off the finger
OF Ella Horne, while the Horne woman
was being held by two or three others.
The affair quoted down and nothing was
thought of il for two or three davs. fur
ther than the victim was suffering in
tensely from the wound, but not enough
10 warrant the fear of any serious conse-
quences The pain increased the arm be-
gan to swell, and now the woman is raw
ing, according 10 the physicians, with an
aggravated case of hydrophobia She will
oie; The other negro women are in iail
ana II IS now probable that the Horne wo-
man VIII stand as a murderess
Judge Andy Calhoun, recorder. was
called upon TO decide an important case i'm
police court at Atlanta Friday. when tho
urn OF Wilcox * Mcintyre, Insurance.
ntohers were tried on chsrge OF doing
business without license. The firm aC-
1epts business FOR several fire insurance
Sonpanlea and city License Inspector
sake attempted to make them pay a sepa-