The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-03
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Allen Murphy of cambridge Dies
From the Bite of n RattIesnalSe
Moonshiners on Trial at Atlanta
Monroe Mercantile Company As
signs-Damnge Suit Against the
Western md Atlantic at Atlanta
Waycross to Have New Ice Fac
tory-Postmaster Eagan Takes
Charge of the jacksonville Office
Reputation Papers For Lula Gal
IOway.
GEORGIA.
Brunswick has !, $50 registered voters.
Anna Goodwin, colored, of Augusta, has
composed a catchy march called Cuban
Liberty March,"
Fred Thomas and Miss Elmira Burley
were married Sunday afternoon at the
parsonage of the Second Baptist church
ct Augusta. The Rev. Thomas Walker,
the pastor. performed the ceremony.
Mrs. Mary Francis Banks, mother of
Prof. ]. J. Banks of the Academy of the
Blind, died at her home on Linnville ave-
nue., Vineville, Macon at o'clock Sunday
NllEnl, dSGQ % years. NA - 4'oAlhS nav
only lived in Macon three months, hav-
ing gone there from Alabama,
A gentleman who has Travelled all over
the world and visited all the first-class
hospitals and sanitariums was at Way
cross Monday and inspected the general
hospital of the Plant system. He said 1t
was the more elegant and complete In its
appointments and equipment than any
eli, spctit1rtinr1 In GO1tb
]. w. Johnson & Co. have arranged to
erect an ice factory at Waycross this win
ter. They have ordered the machinery
and equipment for a seven-ton daily ca
pacity plant and when the shipment Is
received from the factory work will be
commenced Immediately on the erection
of the building The plant will be located
on the site of Johnson's old planning mill,
near the Waycross Air Line station.
]. B. Battles case against the Western
and Atlantic Railroad Company for $4,000
damages, was on trial in the Atlanta city
court before Judge Reid Monday. Battle
claims to have been seriously injured
while in the employ of the railroad COM
pany as a fireman on Feb. 10, 1895. He
charges that the engine on which he was
working was negligently allowed to bump
I'D against some box cars, and that he
was knocked down and badly hurt by the
Gar.
Charles and Henry Driscoll were tried
before Judge Broyles at Atlanta Monday
morning, charged with trying to recapture
a copper still from the revenue officers
last November. The two brothers were
bound over in bonds of $500 each. The
Driscolls are two of a gang Of four who
ruraonad down five dppl1tW pnarGhalS
under P. H. Moore at Villa Rica last fall
and made two unsuccessful attempts to
regain a large copper still that the Off
GERS had captured. The men got away
and had been at liberty ever since until
captured by Deputy Patterson last Sat
urday.
The Monroe Mercantile Company, one of
the largest concerns OF its kind in Mon
roe, has failed. Its doors were closed Sat
urday night under a mortgage foreclos-
ure and the stock has been advertised for
sale on Nov. 10. The preferred claims
aggregate $1,000 besides interest and cost.
The stockholders of the firm are said to
be ]. H. Felker T. w. Felker, w. A.
Clements, B. f. Talmer, Mrs Ella White,
the Misses Black of Monroe and Mr..
Felker and T. w. Felker are the two
stockholders representing the preferred
claims. The company has been in BUSH
ness at Monroe for the past two years.
Atlanta Constitution: The first complete
steamboat that has ever been made in
Georgia is nearly completed. The work
has been done in Atlanta and w. c..
Shearer is the designer and builder. The
boat Is small. but its owner says 1t Is
thoroughly seaworthy and will stand any
kind of water. 1t IS 80 feet over all and 7
feet beam. Its depth is about feet. All the
material used in its construction was
brought into the shop as raw material
and made into the parts needed in its
construction, except the steam gauge and
a water gauge. Mr.. Shearer will take 1t
to Savannah. where it will be launched
about Dec. /. and he expects to make a
voyage down the coast to Florida.
Mary Taylor, a white domestic, Is under
arrest at Atanta's police headquarters
charged with larceny from the house. The
woman was employed in the house of
Robert L. Cooney until a few days ago.
Mr.. Cooney, accompanied by Mrs. Cooney,
went TO the Tennessee centennial at Nash
Vile two weeks ago, and Mary Taylor was
left in charge of their home. During their
absence the Cooney home was fired and
the woman disappeared. The residence
was saved from destruction, but when
Mrs. Cooney returned she found that $30C
worth of her wearing apparel had been
stolen. Detective Captain Slaughter put
men to work on the case and Sunday af-
ternoon Mary Taylor was arrested and the
goods recovered.
The appointment of judge of the city
court at cambridge, which will be made
some time during the first part of this
month, keeps several of our prominent
lawyers on the anxious" trying to divine
which way the bolt of lightning will fall
Among the candidates are Hon. d. A
Russell, the present incumbent; Hon. viii
liam Fl. Harrell, the noted criminal law,
yer, and Col. Francis S. Harren How
ever, the friends of all the aspirants are
about conceding that Hon. William M
Harrell will secure the appointment. II,
is strong politician, a fine lawyer anC
young man of sober. moral character
with unbounded energy. Mr.. Harrell /.
strong friend of the present executive