The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-15
ITEMS IN THE THREE STATES.
GEORG IA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CARO- Una PUT IN PARAGRAPHS.

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Pabst Br ewing Company After Stei-
mans p lace at AtlantR-lIacOnitC
in Jail Tor Forgery, PnrdOned 70
Go to GEL many 10 Get His Half OF
His Moths rs Estate-Sidney Las
ceIIes' wiIIe Cut OF by Her Father
in His Will.
GEORGIA.
A large alum n ducton plant is likely Il
be built in Rome soon.
During the week there was shipped from
the port Of DarieE coastwise and foreign
$4,000 feet of tim Der and lum Der, valued
at s7,s4S.
Albany's quarantine has teen raised
and persons who now go into the city
will not be requir Vi to show health GER
tihcates.
Sixteen thousand i've hundred and thir-
teen bales Of cotton lad been sh. pped from
the Waynesboro dep Ut this sea son up to
Thursday night
DR.. Amos Fox will retire fro m the po-
eition of postmaster OF Atlant tonight
at the close of the da vs. bust ness. He
will have been in the office j asst three
years, eleven months an fifteeIl days.
An enthusiastic meetin of students was
held in the college chaptl at A thens Sat
urday. Resolutions m emoris lizing the
legislature for funds TO eql Zip a gymnasium
were unanimously adopted. Speeches were
made by Kent Mitchell, Dodd and We'd
dington The resolutions will be submit
ted to the legislature.
George c. thinner, a sorg-in-law of Ed
Angler, the United States district attor-
ney, had an exciting fight Wi tn two negro
burglars in the Angler Ter ace" at At
lanta, Friday night. Mr.. Yin mer emptied
his pistol at the intruders, bu cannot say
whether any of the shots &c ok effect or
not, for the negroes both escaped.
The suit of the Ocmulgee Land and I'm
provement Company against the Macon
Gas Light and Water Company, by which
the plaintiff seeks to have the defendant
ousted from the site of the present pump
ing station which supplies the entire city
with water, was brought up in the United
States court before Judge Speer at Macon.
Bishop Gaines has just returned to At
lanta from the Indian Territory, where he
has been holding his fall conference. He
reports that Rev G. A. l.. Dykes, the gen.
eral agent of the mission school of the
African Methodist Episcopal church al
Muscogee, has been expelled from that
church for eTnbezzlement and for forging
Bishop Gaines name to his permits over
the various railroads constituting the
Western Passenger Association.
Arlington is fast recovering from the
effects of the disastrous fire which swept
that town some weeks since. The Courier
of last week says: "Cruger 81 Pace of
Albany began work on the two story brick
building of w. D. Cowdrey and w. E.
Saunders, on Depot street, Monday, and
on Ben Harper's single story building on
Railroad street, adjoining G. l.. Collins
Gtore, in process of erection. Tuesday.
This will make nine new brick stores and
an opera house in the burned district, and
there are Others"
The Pabst Brewing Company of Mil
waukee, Wis, filed and application in the
superior court at Atlanta Saturday, for
leave to take charge of the Pabst place at
30 Marietta street. The Milwaukee com
pany states that on July 10, upon the rep
resentation of /. Steinau that the bust
ness would be profitable 1t advanced him
$4,000 TO fix up a dirst-class bar and that
he executed bond to secure the repayment
of the money. Steinau is also alleged to
have failed 10 pay for S. 500 worth of beer
he obtained from the company.
William Smith has been found guilty of
the murder of Brewer Winchester, near
Lagrange, on Oct. II last. The crime was
committed in the public road in the pres
ence of several witnesses. Winchester
wanted to take a little boy, Smiths
nephew and Winchesters stepson, from
Smith and carry him home. Smith OBJ
jected, and when Winchester endeavored
to take hold of the boy Smith struck him
with a piece of plank, crushing in the
front of his head and knocking him to the
ground. While lying there Smith struck
him back of the head and broke in his
skull.
Sigmond Friedman, who has been con-
fined in Bib county jail for the last six
months, was pardoned by the governor
Saturday, at the request of Judge FELTON,.
Friedman is a young man, and says he
has been a member of Gilmores band.
He went to Macon when Barnums circus
was in the city and made orders for feed
He also had a check cashed by a jeweler.
He was arrested, tried and sentenced to
six months in jail. Since sentence his
mother in Germany has died, and Fried
man and a brother, who is a German
banker, became heirs to $4,000 The
brother offered Friedman 5000 to relin-
quish his claim, but, acting under advice
of Col. j. w. Preston, his attorney. he
refused. He is going to Germany to claim
his fortune
Mayor Charles A. Collier is an advocate
of the white ward primary election system
to take the place of the existing customs
of Atlanta, which makes it possible for the
voters Of the whole city to elect repre-
sentative of any one of the wards who is
not supported by a majority of the voters
OF his own ward. Mr. Collier says the
time has come for the recognition of the
system of home rule in this connection, and
ne faVors the adoption of a rule permit
ting the holding of white ward primary
elections hereafter. Mr.. Collier takes the
position that the people Of the several
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