The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-08-24

Women as odd FeIloWS-A Colum-
bus Man Mistakes His wife For IA
BurgIar-Nc,v CoIOnists For Musco-
gee-0caIn Telephone COmpany's
New Enterprise-A Heavy storm at
Tampa.
GEORGIA.
Mr. c. b. Allen is now sole e iitor and
proprietor of The Mouluie Observer.
Gainesville will probably have a new
hotel and Il new street railway 10y next
summer.
O. pitalists are contemplating the eN-
tension of the Columbus southern rail-
road from Albany TO Tampa Fla.
". n Dowdle a negro school teacher
well Known about Americas, was sent to
Jail recently in default Of bond the
charge being that the gay professor
Boosted more wives than the law allows.
At the horse swappers' contention at
Wlnder last week, il is related tha, one
man snapped horse for a Bride swing
box of matches to boot; and az that. The
man who parted with the J.ldle was badly
cheated.
The registration books have closed at
Sparta. and the registrars are at work
wedding out defaulters preparatory 70 the
prohibition election. which viii be held on
Sept Z. The prospects are that there will
be a heated contest
kirkland. Ga. correspondence: We have
had teavy rains for two days and Thurs
day at O'Clock the wind was hard, blow
ing down fences and timber and doing
considerable damage TO The crops. crops
are good, though, in this section and cot
ton is shedding some
Charley Godkins, one-armed young
man, who has been collectiog for sctcral
physicions in Atlanta, is m,sIug. He is
badly wanted by his EMPLOYERS As vel
as a large sum of money trdt he has coll
lected and failed TO account FIR. Jlst the
amount that Godkins skipped with is lot
known.
Rochelle New Era: This certainly is
day of organizations. More t',an 1900
horse swappers. consisting of Norm Gcor-
gia citizens. met al Wnder Ga ana Oh
gained themselves the other day. Won
der if the object of this organization is TO
educate men in cheating and sWindrSg?
If so each man is working against HIM
self la that institution.
Mrs Andrew Roberts, the wife of Mr.
Andrew Roberts, a well known railroad
man of Columbus. had quite a narrow es-
cape from being killed Friday night about
midnight She was shot by her husband
who thought she was a burglar. Luckily
she was not seriously injured, although
her wounds are quite painful The lady
had risen curing the night TO open one of
the windows in her bed room.
Columbus Ledger: After a long trip of
three months twenty-six new colonists
for Commonweal colony are expected to
to-day. Weeks ago little caravan OF
wagons left Nebraska and since then the
settlers have pushed steadily forward for
their southern home. There are twenty
six northwestern people in the party and
they viii swell Muscogee'5 colony consid-
erably.
Americus Times Recorder: The contin-
ued rains of the past week will inhict IN
told loss upon the farmers of Sumter
county The fields are white with omen
cotton, but for more than a week picking
has been impossible. For day or two no
alarm was oceasioned, but as the rains
continued through the week it was seen
that the damage TO the staple would be
very great. Scarcely bale has been pick
ca IN the entire county the past week
The corner stone of the old court house
Of Carroll county was dug out one dav
last week and there were a good many
disappointed people An Old moderir,r
Bible, an old an brOtype and three pieces
OF money were all that was found The
receptacle was not water Digit. and hence
the decay. There fas baen a tradition
there Tor years that there Wefe se-fol
bottles Of whisky in tha conner stone. but
i did not show UP wAen the stone was
dug into
On Wednesday night District Deputy
Grand Master Cheatham win institute a
Rebekah lodge Of Odd Fellows in Macon
the installation TO take place "a. pdd mol
lows hall The institution Of n r. .bsksh
lodge of odd Fellows is something new In
Georgia, al least IL is very tare q chr
renee. Women are admitted .o tho Re
Dekah lodges and there are twentv-fo,.r
candidates for admission N'adpest'av
night. The duties OF the order are q care
lot tae widows, orphans and sick of The
Oud FeHoWs. 1t is a sort OF womau's
auxiliary.
There is plan on foot 10 ,estrict en-
preparation for the disabled and the in
dlsent soldiers, ana 10 connne Il as rie.dlv
as possible 10 only those IN actual ,cal
oi AID from the state Under Inc present
system The state pays. for lnst,ncs s. for
TOE = Tor finger, $50 for an eve. n1d &c
ior wounds IN the body. The records snow
thai thefe are hundreds of "disablrd sal
whose earning capacity has b.or hnt
signify impaired by the loss 90 "a Toe. an
eye or a finger, and the pronosi,l,o nv
Is 10 cut them all Of The list OF bea.n
Charles.
j. - Anderson. white man OF Butler
county residing az Pottorsvillo. advised n
negro 70 erect stl', cncouagiag him in
the idea Of conducting sush an affair. in
oucing him 20 violate the law SO ,hat he
could report him and get me tnforpcr,s
zee Wnich he supposed would amount 10
several dollars The United States officials
are 10 The habit of paying a small sum
70 people giving them Information about
SUNS ana this Amcraon. who a. "a kind 81
detective. IL seems. knew. An interesting
feature OF the case was that. although tho
negro aet up tho suil. Anderson did rot
GO the iniormers fee. Some one else
peat him TO the tank, reporting u nrst.
FLORIDA
Tampa wants new school buildings.