The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-02
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO sTaTEs TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

cd mt Amerfcus--A Shooting AfrnS
at Haynie.
GEORGIA.
Miss Annie Pace of CoYington, daughter
of Capt.. ]. II. Pace. ana J. z. Wooten.
mayor Of Eastman. were married Nednes-
day afternoon.
The engagement is announced az Miss
Cussie Crazy. daughter Of ;ne late Henry
W Grady. and Euscuc BLACK. son Of T.
p. Black CT Atlanta.
Mrs. Sarah Dickinson Of Atlanta has
brought suit for $4,000 against tic At
lanta and West Poiu; railroad for the
death Of her sor. who was killed on the
morning of Dec. is.
Charles Williams OF Augusta had his
chin and jaw bone fractured Wednesday
by a coupling pin in the hands Of Thomas
S. Rice. while disputing over some buIi
dogs, the property o. Rice
The residence occupied by J. E. Peter
son, recent republican candidate for con
gress. was destroyed by fire Wednesday
night at Fort Gaines. The cause OF me
fire was due to a defective stove hde.
The cotton receipts at Athens have al
ready passed beyond 5000 bales, the total
of last years receipts. and when the sea-
son is over will have reached at least 500
bales. About SEQ bales are on hand at
the different warehouses.
The city council Of Americus has deter
mined not to increase the special license
tax on barrooms next year, and Will allow
the tax TO remain as it now is. $20J per
annum. Notwithstanding this action, sew
eral of the saloons VIII close.
Gen. Clement A. Evans, major general
commander Of the Georgia division Of the
United Confederate Veterans, has issued
call to his comrades TO prepare on Lee
birthday, Jan 70, to send delegates 20 the
great annual convention and reunion Whicn
takes place in Nashville May s. and z.
Upon application of George II. johnson.
a temporary receiver has been appointed
for the business Of Jeter & johnson, ash
and oyster dealers at Atlanta, and re-
etraining order has been granted by Judge
Luupkin restraining Mr.. Jeter from IN
any way interfering with the assets OF
the business.
There is an interesting race on in the
Georgia factory district in Clarke coun-
ty. Two brothers, ". II. Towns and
A s. Towns. are candidates for bailin in
that district. Both are democrats and
both want the Office The race Is not
one, but everything is OF a friendly nature
between them.
W. c. Bradley Mrs. s. II. Bradley A.
S. Dozier and James NJ Moore have ap-
piled for a charter Incorporating a COM
pany to operate general mercantile bust
ness at Columbus, manufacture fertiiiz-
ers, wagons, buggies. farm implements,
operate cotton compress and export cot
ton. The cash capital is 10000, all paid in
1t has just been learned that Matt Nc
Cook, formerly of Columbus, has been
killed in Cuba. The information was re-
ceived in a telegram to his son, William
N. McCook. from Thomas Owen, at Ma
con The dead man left Columbus about
ten years ago. and IL was not known that
he had Joined the Insurgents until the
news of his death came.
News has reached Rome Of a shooting
ARRAY at the village OF Haynie, in the
southern part Of Floyd county James
Smith and Joe Rutherford, two farmers,
ouarreled about a settlement. Smith at
tackled Rutherford, when the latter drew
his pistol and shot Smith, shattering the
bone Of his arm and inhicting very Sc
rious, IL not fatal wound.
Z. A. Roberts Of Atlanta has filed a suit
against the Atlanta Accident Insurance
Company, alleging that the company owes
him $500 on a policy held by him. He
alleges that he was injured in a wreck,
from the effects of which injury he vas
disabled for more than fifty-two weeks.
During the time, he says, under the terms
of his policy, he was entitled to receive
weekly indemnity, but they refused to
pay it.
The wheelmen Of Macon are up in arms
against the license tax on bicycles. They
are going to test the legality of the tax
In the courts and will be backed in the
fight by the National League OF American
Wheelmen, who will employ counsel 10
fight the case and carry it to the supreme
court, If need be. Wheelmen say that their
wheels are taxed as personal property,
and that they are no more a proper subject
for a license tax than a carriage or dog
cart
Conductor Pyron of the Western and
Atlantic railroad has been indefinitely sus-
pended on account of the wreck which
occurred at Acworlh last Tuesday, result
ing in the injury Of Engineer Jones of At
Ianta and brakeman, whose hon is in
Gainesville. The railroad officials hold
the conductor responsible, saying that he
disobeyed an order. tie IS said TO have
misread an order. it seems, and ordered
his engineer to pull cut from Big Shanty.
believing that he had a clear track to Ac-
worth. The collision resulted and the
suspension of one OF the oldest and most
reliable conductors in the service of the
road is the outcome.
News has reached Rome Of tragic &C.
currence near Lindale. Mrs. Owen, wild
ow living on the property of the Massa-
chusetts Mill Company, was alone in her
little home attending to her household du-
ties when her dress caught fire from the
fireplace. She ran out Of doors screaming
for help, but there was no one near enough
20 afford her any assistance ana by the
time the neighbors who were attracted by
her screams reached her all the clothing
had been burned from her body, which
was a mass of burned flesh. and she was
lying on the ground writhing In agony. A
physician was summoned and tender
hands conveyed her 10 the nearest house,
where everything possible was done, but
she never regained consciousness and died
in a few hours.
Washington correspondence Morning
News: A very romantic marriage oc-
CURED Wednesday al the Arnold house.