The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-02
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

The Manufacture of MOOnshine
whisky i'm the state on the In
crease-Tbe BOgGs-Hunnicut Con-
troversy at Athens May Remain
Unsettled Until June-ROme Has a
Case of Smallpox.
GEORGIA
The Citizens Bank of Rome will open in
few days.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will
visit the State University at Athens to-
day
Frank ~ Malone a well-known citizen
OF Atlanta, died very suddenly Monday
He was connected with the Maddox
Rucker Banking Company.
Helen Cruselle, the S-year-old daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. w. F. Cruselle of Allan
"a. was dangerously burned Tuesday. Her
clothing ignited at an open fire place.
Mrs. James M. Smith committed suicide
at Hartwell Sunday at noon by using a
we'll rope with which to accomplish the ia
tai act. III health had unbalanced her
mind.
Formal application will be made to Gov
Atkinson this morning to spare the life of
Tom Cyrus, the man who killed Annie
Johnson, the former chambermaid at the
executive mansion.
Or. j. D. Hammond president of Yves
leyan Female College, succeeded in raising
600 for the college while at the North
Georgia conference of the Methodist Epis-
copal church, south, at Athens.
a negro suffering from smallpox was
removed to the pesthouse from Rome Mon
day. The sanitary condition of the city
Is better than it has been for years, and
The physicians of Rome say there need
he no fear of an epidemic
Norman Winter, son of one of Hart
county's most prominent citizens, died
Monday, the result of a serious accident
Young Winter was clearing out his faith
Crs well and by accident the loaded buck
q fell. Winter was paralyzed by the
shock.
Carrie Alexander, a negro woman from
Lyons. was placed in Jail at Reidsville
saturday night charged with an assault
with intent to murder John D. Hughes,
bailiff, went to her house to levy on a
machine, and she knocked him out, and
several other men also, before she was
lodged in Jail.
The Mutual Life Insurance Company of
New York sent some pleasant news to
Americus Saturday. They notified their
agent that they would pay the annuity
policy of 5000, held by the late Bloom
Brown, which payment, for good reasons
Of their own, they had refused to pay Mrs.
Brown after her husbands death.
The contemplated crusade of the Theoso-
phists through the state of Georgia, com
mencing in Atlanta, has been abruptly
broken off, or al least postponed for time
Mrs Katherine Tingiey, the head of the
ociety, decided that the services of Mrs.
Mayer and Rev. w. Williams We're requir-
ed in New York at once and has called
them to meet with her there on Thursday
next.
The manufacture of moonshine whisky
IN Georgia seems to be on the increase.
The present revenue force is not able
TO cope with all the tigers found in the
mountains, and Henry Rucker, the inter-
hai revenue collector, is going to make
an effort to secure an increased force
There are at present only ten divisions
deputies and six raiding deputies to cover
the entire state.
In Detroit Mich, are some owners of
the Atlantic Telephone Company's bonds
who want 10 collect the semi-annual inter-
est, which they claim was due Oct. 10 last,
md which the company has refused to
pay. President Simon Baer says that
me company is not responsible for the
syment of the coupons, basing the claim
N the ground that the agent who sold
Tie bonds never paid the company for
t-em.
J. 5. Arnold. a shoemaker of Atlanta,
as engaged in taking his cash from the
Monday. with his back to the door,
~-en he was felied TO the floor by a blow
IN his head. The weapon used by the
1d%r was n bar of iron, two feet long.
lding over the PROSTATE form of his
--tm the robber hastily went through
RS pockets, taking a small amount in
s-ange and Arnoid's watch. Then he took
t1e money from the cash drawer and fed.
arnold may die
The suit of Dr. Q. L. Brantley against
the Southern railway in the United States
court at Atlanta before Judge Newman
has been compromised for $500. The doctor
asked for $4,000. Several months ago
DR.. Brantley took the Belle train at the
depot at Atlanta for some station up the
road but became involved in difficulty
with the conductor before the train was
fairly out of the city and was put off.
No sooner had he struck the ground than
n
Cordng to his side of the case, he was
aid up for some time.
1t is probable that the affair between
Chancellor William Boggs and DIR. j. B.
Hunnicut of the state university at Athens
viii not be settled until the annual meet
ing of the trustees next June. 1t all de-
bends upon the explanation DR.. Boggs is
70 make to the professor of agriculture
Should this in a sense be satisfactory the
professor will wait until June before go
Ing before the trustees, otherwise he will
demand an immediate investigation. Sew
era weeks ago Dr. Boggs made the an
nouncement that he was going TO call for
i the resignation of DR.. Hunnicutt upon the
ground that he had been disloyal 10 the
University, in that he had given testimony
derogatory to the college before the Bla-
lock committee and in various other ways
shown disregard for the university.