The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-07-04
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
THE NEWS or THE TWO STATES
TOLD IN RAGRAGh.

n ANAAAnE array In q naFruuGn nj 4 a.
IumbuS-A Child ScaIded by starch.
The DellSs Proving Troublesome
Prisoners Jacob Marks Acqait-
ted Of Charge of Embr1sIemrnt-
GEORGIA.
Work has been begun on the new de-
pot for the Seaboard Air Line a. Atlanta.
GeOrgia's newly issued per cent bonds
were delivered % the purchasers WeInes-
day.
Fifteen thousand dollars VIII he spent
in Improvements at Wesleyan Female
College AZ Macon this summer
The master plumbers Of Atlanta have
made the journeymen a proposition. the
3ourneymen have rejected it. and the
strike is stlu on. The offer Was $50 per
day for ten hours work
The contract for the new court house
Of MecEieuDurg county. North Carolina.
has been awarded TO ". W McAfee OF
Atlanta. Ca, he being the lowest bidder.
His figure was Si0S65. The highest BID
was $1,000.
Richard Jordan Of Macon viii not Zee
ceive the appointment OF assistant United
States district attorney because there
IS not sufficient appropriation 10 warrant
this be would have been appointed
August Flesh Of the Southern Botuins
Company OF Atlanta has filed "a bin O.
Injunction against the Atlanta Consoii-
dated Bottling Company before judge
Lumpkin. The charges are that the Al
lanta Consolidated Bottling Company has
been using the bottles and cases OF the
Southern Bottling Company in It's bust
ness
Charles Skinner. wen-known citizen
OF Richmond county, who runs a planta-
zion. fell from his wagon at Augusta
Thursday. and hurt himself badly. lie
attempted 10 step out Of the wagon, trip
ped over the reins and fell on the side
walk. striking his face first His mouth
and nose were badly cut and some Of his
teeth were lOosened.
Alma Clark. the l-year-old daughter Of
Walter a. Clark. the assistant postmas-
ter at Augusta. was severely scalded by
hot starch Thursday. The little girl was
carrying pail Of the hot stun from one
room 10 another, when she stumbled
slightly. The starch I'm pasty condition
splashed over her cheeks, neck and arms,
scalding them severely.
Rome's new city bonds have been re-
ceived and are being signed by Mayor
King and Clerk Halstead Smith. They
aggregate $4,000 and are in denominations
OF $1,000 and 500, and mature thirty years
from date, with interest at Az per centum,
payable semi-annually. The entire issue
was bought by the New York Life In
surance Company. They are payable I'm
gold.
The peach crop in Pierce. Wayne and
Charlton counties is not so large this year
as last years crop. but still the growers
VIII get handsome return for all the
fruit they put on the market Only a
~ Wi mo ah q
from these counties. The fruit being re-
qulred IN the home markets. The quality
OF the fruit compared with that OF last
year is superior, and the size is larger.
At Cordele Thursday Andy Mckenzie.
negro iaborer. was found by the police
beside the Georgia Southern and Florida
railroad in an unconscious condition. Ia
has developed that as he was on his way
home about o'clock he was held up by
two negroes, who demanded his money,
knowing that he had been paid on the
evening before. Upon his refusal 10 give
II up, he was knocked down. robbed and
left for dead. He is in critical condi-
tion.
The new knitting mill at Union Point
opened Wednesday and the moving wag-
ons were busy all day, conveying the fur
niture of the( new families which this
enterprise brings to Union Point. Tho
mills were moved from Athens by Tom
Burke upon the guarantee OF 5000 stock
taken by business men of Union Point.
He brought his superin 9ndent and TWEEN
ty-hve or thirty hands with him. An
other enterprise creating interest is the
new brick yard. owned by Sam II. Sib-
ley ana John Henry Carlton. superior
quality OF brick is manufactured and their
machines turn out D,0O0 per day.
If G. F. Baker is guilty OF the offenses
of which he is suspected. then he is the
Jack the Ripper of Macon He is a white
man aged p years, and at the age OF q
years shot and killed Bob Dougherty. Ba-
ker has been arrested and put in jail 10y
Deputy Sheriffs Anderson and Ramley
charged with stabbing Conductor Joe
Steed Of the Southwestern railroad, las;
Saturday night a week ago. He Is also
suspected of having cut a negro woman
named Mamie Savage last Saturday night
in her house of III fame, and suspected OF
having cut negro porter Of the Damien
berg company without any provocation
several weeks ago.
Lon Wood, a youth. II years old, of At
lanta, attempted suicide Thursday. Wood
swallowed four ounces of laudanum. but
his life was saved by the persistent work
of two physicians. Wood is considered
of weak intellect by those who know him
best, and for some time he has been
gloomy and morose. Some time age
Wood was employed as a Waterman by
the Seaboard Air Line. His duty was ia
been annoying the telegraph operator al
Howells station. one night Wood in the
discharge of his duty, shot and danger
ously wounded a negro tramp. This seems
TO have preyed upon his mind and is
thought by his friends 10 be the cause
of his attempted suicide.
Jacob Marks was found not guilty be.
fore Judge Gambler at Atlanta Thursday
He was tried upon the charge of larceny
after trust. Marks is the ex-Decatul
street merchant, through whose failure
the Russian Jew colony OF that street
lost their savings. The colonists claimed
that they had made Marks their banker
and that when be removed from Atlantis
10 Bessemer Ala, without having lidui
dated, they had him arrested and taker
back to Atlanta. Marks claimed that Tho
money, about 1865, was loaned to him
and that, therefore, his offense was oni,
one of debt. The jury took this view O.
1t and he was accordingly acquitted H,
Will return TO Bessemer, where he wal
In business when arrested.
Atlantis Constitution: The Delks ar,
becoming the most troublesome prisoner,
Jailer Eubanks is Notwithstanding in hi,
hostelery. The old man especially 4
growing very nervous over his confine
ment, and is raising kick because he 4
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