The morning news., 1897-01-11
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA BRIEFLY PAR
AGRAPHED.

Compress SOld-Dye's Negro Heirs
Fighting the Heavy Fees Charged
by the Lawyers.
GEORGIA.
Bibb county has 1000 public school pu-
pills on the rolls.
There are 800 bicycle owners in Macon
who oppose a wheel license.
Timber continues to find it's way to Da-
rien, and there is now in port at the diff
ferent booms no less than 100000 feet.
Members OF Father schadewelrs church
at Columbus have presented him with a
lanta
DR.. James 4. Beasley Of West Point died
"Wednesday evening from collapse, as a
result of an exhaustive hemorrhage from
the stomach.
Floyd county farmer is raising a new
variety of coffee in Vanns valley He says
he has met with success and expects to
raise 600 or 700 bushels
The barn of Rev Il. Bassett Of Fort Val
ley, containing corn and fine horse, was
burned Friday night. The fire is supposed
to have been the work of an incendiary.
There was no insurance
At Elberton last week Bob Eaves and
Frank Isbell were arrested and bailed
upon the charge of attempting TO wreck
a train from Toccoa to Elberton by plac-
ing crossties and iron on the track. A
bicyclist saw them.
John T. Davis the mortgage holder un-
\. -. n ry
turing Companys works at Columbus
was closed few weeks ago. bought the
property at public outcTy Friday. The
price paid was $500.
Wash Brown, a Walker county negro,
who has been confined in the Durham coal
mines on a charge of cotton stealing, es-
capped few days ago by crawling through
one of the large pipes placed in the shaft
Tor Ventilating purposes.
Hubert Rogers, the 15-year-old son of J.
F. Rogers of Eastman, accidentally shot
himself Friday and died in few hours
He was hunting birds, and in climbing
over fence discharged the gun. The load
entered the right thigh shattering the
bone.
The election for town officers at Villa
Rica resulted as follows: For mayor, N
II. Humphries; for clerk, Martin Ham
rick; for eouncilmen, +. \. Prltchett, J.
S. Little, w. B. Gambler, w. II. Ham
rick and Hon. John M. Moore, the present
representative from Carroll county. 1t
is held by some that Mr.. Moore is not
eligible, being a member of the legisla-
ture.
The Dye will case is to come before the
courts at Elberton again. Hon. T. w.
Rucker has been employed by some of the
heirs and will sue the executors and law
yers for exorbitant charges. Five attor-
neys represented the estate and were paid
5000 apiece for their services, the execu-
tors being paid $4,000 for extra services.
The whole estate was valued at about
$4,000. Dye died, leaving his fortune to
some negroes. He lived and died a bach
elor.
Brunswick Advertiser: Saturday after
noon, while investigating a bad fiue on
the top of ]. e. Moore's store, George
Ralston stumbled and fell to the ground,
a distance of forty feet, and landed un-
hurt in the street below While falling he
struck the blinds on the buildings side,
and showed himself out, so as to miss the
brick sidewalk. Several by-standers saw
him fall, and, to their surprise, he got up,
mounted his biclcle and rode away, re-
marking that 1t was darn funny that 1
didn't get hurt
News has reached Rome of the serious
and probably mortal wounding of Jackson
Davis, a son of I. Y. Davis, a farmer in
Bartow county, by a young man named
wheeler. Davis and young Wheeler were
sitting In room together talking An old
rusty pistol was on the bureau and Wheel
er picked 1t up. In playful manner he
pointed 1t at Davis and pulled the trigger
The pistol snapped and Wheeler cooked it
and pulled the trigger a second time, when
there was a report and the ball struck
young Davis near the armpit and ranged
downward into his body. The physicians
rear that Davis cannot recover.
Sheriff Nelms of Fulton county has an
nounced reward of $500 for the arrest of
VIII Myers. From the action taken 1t
would seem that there is yet some chance
OF Myers arrest. Hope of his arrest was
given up some time ago and it was thought
that a reward was useless. The an
nouncement of the reward SAYS that
Myers may be found in the attire of a
woman. 1t may mean that information
has been received that Myers has been To-
Gated somewhere and the reward has been
offered to induce those acquainted with
his hiding place to reveal 1t to the author
tiles. The state has also a standing re-
ward Of $500 for his capture.
AT Elberton last Tuesday the Elberton
compress was sold at receivers sale. and
was bid in by j. f. Reynolds of Wash
ington, Ga, at $1,000. j. A. Benson bid
against Mr.. Reynolds. Mr.. Reynolds.
after bidding in the property. was unable
TO pay for it, and is a man without
means. 1t is claimed by interested par
ties that the bid of Mr. Reynolds was
trick, for the purpose of trying to make
Elberton stockholders run the plant to
$4,000, and that a man without means
was selected to make the bid of if il
fell on him the amount could not be COL
lected. The receiver has ordered another
sale. Great dissatisfaction exists over the
matter. Both sides have employed coun-
sci, and the matter will be taken to the
courts.
Washington, Ga. correspondence of the
Morning News: Il. A. Richards is in town
in the interest Of the Georgia, Tennessee
and Alabama railroad. He says II is not
yet decided which route the road will
take.-David Crosby died at his home in
this county Jan. >, In the 36th year OF his
age. The churches are trying to observe
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