The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-30
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE STATES TOLD IN
PARAGRAPHS.

sDartn Reported Cnptured-COnfcd-
crate soldiers who Died of small
pox DisIntcrred at Atlanta
GEORGIA
Mrs. Angie Green, former resident Of
Atlanta, committed suicide in house OF
tl-fame at Nashville Tuesday.
The corner stone of the Methodist
church, to be erected at Senoia, was laid
Tuesday with Masonic ceremonies.
The city council of Rome has empowered
the electric light committee to investigate
the probable cost to the city TO establish
ats own electric light plant
Augusta is shipping cotton goods to
England and issuing bills Of lading from
Augusta direct to Liverpool. The cotton
goes via steamer from Charleston.
Secretary Wilson of the department of
agriculture has been invited to visit Geor-
gia, and he will probably attend the Au-
gust convention of the state agricultural
society.
Frank Bernard lies at his home at At
lanta in a critical condition, and his death
may ensue at any moment. He was run
down by a bicycle rider Monday night on
Pryor street
At Atlanta Tuesday Judge Gambler re-
fused to postpone the case Of the state
against Edward c. Flanger, the murderer
of Miss Ruth Slack and Mrs. Allen, and
set the case for hearing on May "a.
Mrs. Charlotte Roberts has sued the
Atlanta Railway Company for $4,000 dam
ages for personal injuries. She claims that
on April II she was about to get off the car
on Forsyth street and her arm caught.
She was dragged, she says, distance of
$50 feet.
Two tramps were walking along the
tracks of the Southern railway near Pad
en-, two miles south of Chattahoochee riv-
er Thursday, when one Of them was struck
by an outgoing passenger train and in
stantly killed. The other heard the train
coming and stepped off the track.
Executive clemency for Henry White,
the convicted murderer, sentenced to hang
at Columbus in June, is to be asked for
and the case will hardly be carried TO the
United States supreme court as was intt-
mated at one time. Relatives of White are
circulating petitions asking the governor
TO commute his sentence.
Gov. Atkinson will get Judge Beck to set
a date for the trial Of old man Taylor
Delk in a short while and Tom Delks re-
spite will be fixed so it will expire a few
days after the trial. 1t is understood that
the judge will not postpone the case IN
der any circumstances and that Tom Delk
will hang Immediately after the trial.
The ten mile road race to be run in Amer
icus on May IS will be one of the largest
ever run in that section. The race is to
be run over one of the finest courses in
Georgia. 1t is entirely of clay, level, and
almost perfectly straight. The first time
prize is valued at S50 the first place prize
is also valued at $50, and there viii be
other prizes for the second and third time
and place.
In wyatts district, Jasper county, Tues
day, John Flemister a white man, became
angry at a negro and shot him. The ball
entered the chin and ranged downward,
lodging IN the back of the neck. The cir
cumstances are kept quiet, although the
negro, in a dying condition, is begging for
a warrant, but so far none has been is
sued. Flemister lives in the neighborhood
where Jim Smith, the revenue spy. was
killed last year.
Tuesday afternoon W. NJ. Merritt and
John Drinkwater were going down Kin
chafoone creek in a bateau when an I'M
expected fatality occurred. BatsOn Shoals,
about two miles above Albany, are con-
sidered the most dangerous on the creek.
Mr.. Merritt was in the back of the bateau.
acting as paddler. In coming over the
shoals he lost his head and the boat wheel
ed around and was instantly filed with
water and sank. Mr.. Drinkwater, being
an excellent swimmer, reached the bank
without any trouble, but Mr.. Merritt, be-
ing unable to swim, was drowned.
Miss Emma Jones, a pupil of Andrew
Female college, at Cuthbert, died Sunday
afternoon after an illness of only a few
days. A week ago last Monday she was
perfectly well, attending her college du-
ties. Monday night she retired with the
window up near her bed During the night
the weather turned cool, enough so as TO
produce congestion. This extended to the
young lady's brain, and she died Sunday.
Miss Jones was from Laurens. S. c., and
was the youngest sister of Prof. Thomas
r. Jones, secretary of the faculty Miss
Jones was the first boarding pupil to die
In the college since its foundation, In 1857.
1t is repoterd at Macon that Isom Butts.
the slayer Of David Silver at Sparta, was
captured Wednesday night In Jasper
county. David Silver, the murdered man,
was a prominent merchant Of Sparta. and
had i'm some way incurred the dislike Of
the Butts family. About ten days before
Silver was assassinated viii Butts, a
brother TO Isom, shot at Silver and at
tempted to Kill him. He was arrested and
put in Jail, and later was sent to the PEN
itenuary. Old man Butts, who was ar
rested at the same time, was released.
One night while Silver was going from his
store TO his residence he was shot and
killed, the evidence going to prove Butts
the guilty one. He left the country and
his whereabouts were learned OF only a
few days ago.
William Vernoy and several other labor
ers in the employ of the city of Atlanta
were making excavations on the outskirts
Of the city Monday. when they came
across three bodies wrapped IN gray blan-
kets. The men saw that they were con-
federate soldiers, and as Il was Memorial
day thought 1t would be a good idea 10
have them removed 10 the cemetery and
reinterred while the exercises incidental
90 Decoration day We're going on Ac-
cordingly the bodies were placed In neat
boxes and reinterred in the cemetery, aft
er which Il was discovered that the men
who had been removed were three con-
federato soldiers who had died n the pest
house during the war and were buried on