The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-06

Negro Faints on Being Sentenced TO
the Penitentiary for Life-FOrmer
Georgia Woman Takes an Expe-
ditiOn of 100 Women to the INIOn-
diI<e-MiIIiOns of Dollars Worth of
Property Involved in Suit at At
Innta-POstaI Telegraph Company
ResIsts Payment of a License Tax
at Rome.
GEORGIA.
II. II. Dean will be a candidate for may
or of Gainesville.
A movement is on foot to establish a
cooperative store or a number of them
in Macon. d.
Judge j. II. Lumpkin will hear the APP
plicatbon for permanent receiver for l..
Steinau at Atlanta this morning
At the adjournment of court at Dawson
Friday a hat was presented to Judge
Sheffield by the jurors and baliffs of the
court.
The clothing merchants of Macon are
said to have inaugurated war on each
other and the advertised cuts In prices
are genuine.
Mayor w. B. Cheatham of Dawson an
nounces himself as a candidate for re-
election next Wednesday. Up to this time
he has no opposition.
Nearly all the farmers in Washington
county have made more cotton than they
expected and are smiling in spite of the
low prices which prevail.
At Marshallville Friday night l. f. Muir
phys barn, containing 800 or 800 pounds
of fodder, was consumed by fire, which is
thought originated from pipe.
A fight is to be made in the city council
of Augusta TO defeat Frank j. Roulette
in his candidacy for reelection as chief
of the Augusta fire department.
The GAINESVILLE Savings Bank, of which
w, S. Witham of Atlanta is president is
building a marble front brick building 10
be occupied exclusively by the bank,
The following ticket has been nomina-
ted at Eastman: For mayor, Col. j. f.
Delacy; for aldermen, Sig Harris, JOS H.
Williams, j. d. Page and j. w. Francis.
LOIS boasts as a resident a woman who
was born some time during the civil war,
weighs So pounds, is only three feet nine
inches high, ana wears No. II child s
shoe.
Hon. Dupont Query of Macon received
a telegram Saturday announcing the crit
ical Illness of his father, Col William
prominent lawyer OF that place.
The c. C. Ansley Company, sncorpora-
ted at Smithville, has purchased the mer-
camille interests of Mrs. f. j. Ansley at
Americas, and will carry on an extensive
business at the same old stand
Saloons will soon be thing of the past
i'm Terrell county. one more reading and
the dispensarv bill viii become law. The
people are ready for the change, for but
little opposition has been developed
against dispensary.
Mrs. Elizabeth Rucker wife of James
Rucker, who resides near Veazey in a
took a deadly poison ana died. Mrs.
Rucker had been i'm declining health for
several months and mad grown very de-
spondent.
The men arrested at Fitzgerald Friday
night by Chief Jones. supposed to be
Reese and Lucky, who were wanted in
South Carolina for the murder of Reese's
wife were released Saturday, as Mr.. Jones
was satisfied they were not the men he
thought them.
Col. r. T. Nesbitt the present commits
sioner of agriculture, will be a candidate
for reelection Col Nesbitt did not de-
termne to make the race until his adj
mnistration of his Office was attacked.
He now purposes to make the issue square
ly and energetically.
The work of preparing for the big Ep-
worth League conference In Macon next
March has begun and on next Friday
night the Macon leaguers will meet i'm q
grand rally at Mulberry Street Methodist
church annex to put the necessary ma
chinery in operation.
The books of Building Inspector Frank
A. Pittman of Atlanta show that permits
have been granted by him this year for
the investment of about 81, 7S6 900 In build
ings in Atlanta. The permits, which Will
be issued this month, will probably run
the total up to about $l,809000
At Dawson Friday when Giles Kim
brough, negro convicted of ravishing his
little stepdaughter, was sentenced for life
to the penitentiary he fell to the floor on
his face in dead faint, and on being re-
moved to the jail, lay In a stupor all
day refusing to speak or to eat.
The following new postmasters have
been appointed for Georgia: T. j. Young,
Broxton, Coffee; C. w Parkes. Cedar
Jackson; G. w. Lewis, Denver. Heard; j.
M. Hendrix, Dock Bulloch; VIII McCar-
del Eelbuck, ,Chattahoochee; W. w Har-
rington, Hix, Madison; e. e. Daniell
Moon, Cobb.
The case of d. j. Baer VS.. T.. +. Han
cock and Mrs. Mary Hancock has just
been decided In favor of the defendant in
Bib superior court. 1t is the closing
chapter in the forgery story of John
who starved himself to death in that city
a few years ago after the discovery OF
his downfall.
Mrs. Hannah Goode. who supplied what
little money was used by Col. Machen in