The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-22
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAI HS.

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GEORGIA.
Frank Harper, aged 70 years. was found
dead at his home a FairbCrn Wednesday
morning.
There are probably one thousand bales
of cotton yet in the hands of producers in
Gwinnctt county.
\ movement is on foot among tho Meth
odist women of Macon to form a society,
having for it's object the rescue of the
fallen women of the city.
The north-bound freight train on the
A.. X and n. was wrecked three miles
from Canton. Almost every car Of the
train was overturned. No one was in
jured.
Capt o. H. McWiHiams has been re-
Gently elected for the thirteenth term in
succession as mayor of the municipality
of East Rome, a delightful suburb of
Rome.
r. +. Hastings, formerly first lieutenant
of the Eibernian Rifles of Atlanta, has
been elected to the captaincy, made va
cant by the resignation OF Capt. w. d.
Ellis, Jr.
senator-elect A. S. Clay has been app
pointed upon the committee Of reception.
of which Gen Nelson A. Miles is chair
man, at the inaugural. ceremonies for
March 4, 1897.
The cotton seed business has been on a
boom in Crawfordvile this season. There
we're five firms shipping. and one of the
Az ofak NIL
of the Ave firms shipped eighty cars of
seed.
The question of priority claims OF the
bondholders of the Eagle and Phoenix
mills of Columbus will be settled at an
early date. The special master has been
instructed to advertise at once for bond
holders to present their claims for imme-
date consideration.
f. NJ Ezzel died Tuesday night at the
Grady hospital at Atlanta from the ef-
fects of an overdose of carbolic acid,
which was taken with suicidal latent Sat
urday night. OF late business reverses
weighed upon him, and TO this fact his
suicide is attributed.
William Il. Flowers has filed suit at At
lanta against the Georgia railroad for
$4,000 damages for the loss of a hand.
He alleges that he was coupling cars on
Dec. 16 in the yard, when the cars were
backed against him without warning, and
mashed off his hand,
John Prescott white cooper by trade,
was brought to Augusta from Granite
Vile, S. c., Tuesday where he was in
jured in an accident on a freight train.
He is badly mashed and may die. He
was drunk and attempted to steal a ride
on the train when the accident occurred.
General Hays, the negro who whipped
his stepchild to death at Dawson few
months ago, was convicted of murder in
the first degree Wednesday afternoon,
with recommendation to the mercy Of
the court. and he viii go to the peniten-
tiary for life. Hays is boy, about II
years of age.
Judge Littlejohn of the southwestern
circuit, before whom the motion for bail
for Dr. A. F. Ford of Worth county, was
argued at Albany on Thursday last has,
after several days delberation, decided to
admit the defendant to ball. fixing the
bond required to be given at $4,000. DR..
A. f. Ford is charged with murder, hav-
ing shot his cousin, w. j. Ford, in Octo-
Der, 1895.
An Intervention has been filed by George
w. Powers, bondholder in the American
Upholstery Company of Atlanta, asking
that the Capital City Bank be removed as
trustee for the company, charging collu-
sion between the bank and the company,
which resulted in the company being plac-
ed in the hands of a receiver. Mr.. Powers
claims that the company Is insolvent, and
that as temporary receiver Isaac Haas is
operating the plant to its serious deterior-
alton.
Mrs. Rosa Perkins of Atlanta has filed
a suit for 5000 damages against her ply
stefan, DR.. william c. Warren, charging
that she sustained serious and permanent
injuries because of his negligence. While
under the influence of strong opiates and
undergoing surgical operation, Mrs.
Perkins says that DR.. Warren applied hot
bricks and smoothing irons to her limbs
and feet, which burned through the flesh,
leaving ugly wounds and permanent scars,
from which she will suffer continuously.
She also accuses him of being neglectfui
in his treatment.
Two novel suits for damages of $4,000
superior court. A year ago Wednesday.
when a funeral was in progress on First
avenue, at Columbus, the horses attached
TO a carriage containing four pall-bear-
ers ran away, dangerously inturing some
of the occupants. The horses were own
ed by the Fletcher Stable Company,
against whom Capt. William Redd, Jr.,
and c. A. Lovelace, two of the pall-bear-
ers, now bring suit for the amount named.
They claim that the runaway was due
to the negligence of the company i'm Civ
ing them vicious horses and an tneXpe-
rienced driver. One of Mr.. Lovelace' s
ribs was broken, and Capt. Redd's left
leg was broken. Capt. Redd is the post
master of Columbus.
Two petitions were filed at Atlanta
wednesday from companies desiring cor
porate privileges. Harry L. English. Jr..
T.. Is. Venable and J. w. English, Jr.. ask
that they be incorporated under the name
and style of "rhe Atlanta Soda Com
pany." with a capital stock of 5000. for the
term of twenty years. They will do "a
general soda water. ice cream, hot drinks
and fancy drinks business, and will also
manufacture soda found appliances, and
so on, i'm Atlanta. J. l.. Bass. B. T.. Joel
l.. b. Joel and Joseph Menko have applied
for a charter under the name and style
of "The Bass Dry Goods Company" with
a capital stock Of $50 900. and the privilege