The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-18
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA

Many new buildings will be erected in
Washington this year. Among those con-
templated is a modern hotel.
Gov. Atkinson has pardoned Lee Mon
Grief of Coweta county convicted of bur
glary and sentenced for two years.
During the past week there was shipped
from the port of Darien. coastwise and
foreign. SOC $50 feet of timber and lumber.
valued at $500.
Charles Woodruff was shot by Roe
Glenn near Almon, in Newton county, Fri
day. Both parties are colored. Jealousy
led to the crime Woodruff will die
w. P. Rawling, chief of police of San
dersville, who was bitten by mad dog
Wednesday, left Thursday night for New
York to receive the Pasteur treatment.
Rev. B. L. Glenn of Newman has been
elected moderator of the Knox presby-
terry, composed of colored Presbyterians
of Georgia, now in session at Columbus.
A horse drawing H. T. Eubank's bread
wagon ran away at sandersville Friday
and threw Cleveland Eubanks, his 12-year-
old son, against the pavement, infiicting
serious injuries. His head was cut and
very badly bruised.
Col H. P. Farrow of Porter Springs has
been endorsed for position in the audit
ors office of the treasury in the navy de-
partment The Endorsement was sent to
the President by Col A. E. Buck, who is
now in Washington.
The Lawrenceville News will shortly is
sue magazine of several thousand COP
les of about 126 pages each. The special IL
lustrated edition will be in the interest of
Gwinnett county, and will be one of the
most beautiful works of the kind ever
sent out from Georgia.
The 4-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. Zimmerman of Americus was very
painfully, If not fatally, burned Thursday
while playing with a box of matches. The
flames leaped about the child before the
parents could render assistance. badly
blistering her face and body.
The home of DR.. w. P. and Col. D. +
Gafferey was destroyed by fire at La
Grange Friday morning. The house was
insured for $1,000, but neither family had
any insurance on the furniture which
was almost total loss. This house was
one of LaGrange's old landmarks.
Prof. e. G. Jones, principal of the AL
bany Academy, is charged by Ed Kitch-
ems, father of 14-year-old Ed Kitchens
with assault and battery for severely
whipping the boy at school on Wednes-
day The trustees will act in the matter
and the affair will be investigated by the
grand jury.
Jim Brooks and Will Smith, two ne
groes, while returning from work at
Rome Friday afternoon, disputed about
so cents Brooks owed Smith Smith de-
manded the money and Brooks turned TO
walk away. Smith pulled his pistol and
shot twice, one ball entering a. leg and the
other the abdomen. Brooks will die. Smith
escaped, and bloodhounds are now on his
track.
Gov. Atkinson has issued an order par
doning Tom Farmer, who was convicted
at the February term, 1898, of the Jackson
superior court of voluntary manslaughter
and sentenced to twenty years in the peni-
tertiary. The joint committee of the Sen
ate and House recommended his pardon
and the proof showed that he has lost a
leg since he has been confined in the peni-
tertiary.
Application for a receiver for the Chero-
kee Coal and Lumber Company was fled
in the sperior court at Atlanta THURSDAY.
The petition was brought by Attorneys
Charles J. Haden and j. L. Travis, who
represent ]. ]. L. Phillips of Irwin coun-
ty, creditor of the company. judge
Lumpkin read the petition and set the
case for hearing before him in cham
bers on April "a.
The will of John Marks. deceased of Ma
con, will be contested by his son, who is
his only child and is left only
one-fourth of the $4,000 estate.
The will is contested on two grounds. The
first is that John Marks was mentally in
capable of making a will. The second is
that he was unduly influenced in making
the will by his nephew, a legatee and the
executor of the estate.
The suit for $225,OOO which Hon. Hoke
Smith filed against the Southern railway
at Cleveland, Tenn, a few days ago for
the death of nine members of the Wood
ward family, has been compromised with
the compliments for $4,000 OF the $1,000
which is paid in cash by the compromise
Mr.. Woodward receives $4,000 his son-in-
law 5000, while 5000 goes to the estate
of the other members of the family.
Senator Charlton E. Battle and the
bondholders of the Columbus Southern
railway nave DtCIl uudDAG TO agree upon
the value of his services as counsel for
the roads receiver. Senator Battle has
put in a claim for $4,000, which he con-
siders only reasonable compensation for
the work he did in connection with the
winding up of the companys affairs. The
matter was argued at Atlanta yesterday.
The Capital City Guards Of Atlanta has
held an election of officers to fill the va
cancies occasioned by the resignation Of
Capt. w. ]. Parks. who was forced 10
leave the company on account of moving
away from the city. The newly elected
officers of the company are w. w. Bar
ker, captain. to succeed Capt. Parks, re-
signed; Z. +. Summers, first lieutenant.
to succeed Mr.. Barker, promoted; e. T.
Booth, second lieutenant, TO succeed Mr..
Summers, promoted.
State School Commissioner Glenn has
appointed eleven young Georgians 10
scholarships at the Peabody Normal Col
lege OF Nashville. These students are al
ready at that institution paying their way,
and win fill vacancies that have been
made by the expiration Of former scholar
ships. These are the appointees: Robert
e. Dlnsmore. birmingham; Cecie Gray.
Graysville; Alice G. Hodnett, Haralson: