The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-28

whisky and Dies in a Half Hour.
IonEshorcmen strike at Jackson
vIIe-Residence Burns at Plant
City-Denth of Capt. A. II. Starkc.
Tampa 10 Have a Fine Catholic
Church EdiHce-Hyacinths in the
81. Johns River.
GEORGIA.
Mrs. Ellen Dortch-Longstreet has re-
turned TO Atlanta. but has not as yet TAX
en- her post Of duty in the library at the
capitol.
He iii he old decanter. His carpetbag
he takes; Marze Tom gone ter Atlanta
ter make de laws 1 breaks!-Atlanta Con-
stituuon.
Telephone connection between Thomas
VILE and Albany was completed Monday
night. and the first message received was
by the Times Enterprise office.
The boiler at The saw mill Of s. F.
Dasher. Just outside Of Fort Valley, ex-
ploded Tuesday morning. The damage
was considerable. but no one was injured.
Mrs. J. /. Hightower died at her resi-
denoe, $50 whitehall street at Atlanta.
shortly after noon Tuesday. Mrs. High
tower vas the daughter Of Judge J. =.
Henderson.
In a fight at Redwood Sunday Mr.. r.
D. Smith. a well known farmer, was shot
by one Of the convict guards Of the PARROT
Lumber Company. The difficulty occur
red at a church where Mr.. Smith was
conducting a Sunday school.
AT the meeting of the Waycross Rifles
Monday night the company decided to ac-
cept the invitation of the Thomasville
Guards to attend the fair next Friday.
The Rifles will carry about twenty men,
and will leave on a special train early
Friday morning.
The main building of the county pau
per farm at Elberton, together with the
storeroom and several outhouses, were
totally destroyed by fire Monday afternoon
about O'Clock. The origin of the fire is
unknown. The county had no insurance
on the buildings.
A negro named David Carter was ar
rested by Mr.. Fripp at the satilla Manu-
featuring Company's works at Waycross
Monday night and put in jail for forgery.
Carter forged orders on the office signing
the names of the employees. The proof
against Carter is positive.
DR.. c. A. Ryder of Gainesville has
written a letter in which he says he
knows the names OF all the men that
lynched his brother in Talbot county a
few months ago He says that the grand
Jurors in Talbot did not try to get
verdict against the lynchers.
There was an extensive case of horse
stealing in Sparta Saturday night. There
was good crowd Of people in town, and
many horses and mules were hitched TO
the racks on the public square. Early in
the night il was discovered that a party
OF thieves had gone among the horses and
mules and stolen five. The thieves took
The road toward Sandersville. They rode
Of in q body in that direction.
William Jones, a negro of Macon, drank
quart Of whisky Sunday afternoon and
died shortly afterwards. Jones was in
Nftchelrs alley, on Third street Sunday
afternoon with two or three other negroes.
The crowd had quart Of whisky and
one Of those present made wager with
Jones that he could not drink the whole
quart Jones soon swallowed the contents
OF the bottle and in thirty minutes he
was dead.
In few days Prof. W. 8. Yeates, the
state geologist, will issue the bulletins on
the water power Of Georgia. the gold de-
posts Of Georgia and the phosphates and
marls. These are all gotten up in neat
shape and attractive form and will be
illustrated by half tone cuts showing the
topogra phic and economic features. They
show the geologic sections and will be of
great benefit to those people seeking TO
find all about the interests Of the state.
Monday morning, at Atlanta, Allen Tai
IMAGES horse ran away and carried the
buggy along with him. He went tearing
down College avenue towards the campus
and nobody could head him off. Tom
Burke's delivery wagon was standing at
tine fountain in front of the campus. and
the horse was drinking. The runaway
horse dashed straight ahead, and when he
came to MIR. Burke's horse, took a leap
and carried himself and the buggy over
him. That stopped the frightened animal
and, strange TO say, no damage of
any consequence had resulted.
An immense crowd had gathered at
Lumber City Monday to pay the last trl-
butte Of respect to the late DR.. j. c. Ryals,
en- eminent and beloved physician, who
breathed his last at his home in Lumber
City on Sunday morning. Soon after the
funeral procession started to the cemetery
the horse Of Dr. Joe Reynolds became
frightened and ran away, turned over the
buggy, threw the doctor and Miss Emma
McRae, who was riding with him, heavi-
iy to the ground. The Doctors right arm
was severely broken near the elbow and
he WAS considerably shaken up by the
fall also cut and bruised on different parts
of the body. Miss Emma McRae received
a number of severe cuts and bruises. Both
of them, In fact, were badly hurt. I,r.
Reynolds was a partner of DIR. Ryals in
the practice of their profession for many
years.
Atlanta dispatch, Oct 26; w. W. Lau-
raine, receiver Of the Blue Ridge and
Atlantic, filed a petition in the United
States court yesterday, praying for an
injunction against Mr.. and Mrs. w. p.
Young. the proprietors OF the Grand View
hotel at Tallulah, to keep them from pre-
venting the section hands of his railroad
from repairing the track in front Of the
hotel The Youngs claim that the prop
erty over which the railroad rams is theirs
and that the company has no right to it.
They are backing up their claims with
shotguns, and keeping the traction hands
off the road in front of their hotel by
force Of arms Receiver Lauraine Is very
anxious to sell the property to satisfy the
creditors, and he wants the matter of
ownership definitely settled, and asks