The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-15

cdEeVilIC-De1th OlNimS Inv VIZ
of the vice Chancellor of the StHte
University at Athens-TaN Collect
or After the Owner of stolen Mon
cv for Failure to Return 1t for
Taxation.
GEORGIA.
DR.. J. H. Connolly died at his home at
GAINESVILLE Saturday
DR.. James Stacy of Newman has in his
possession a copy Of the Bible that was
printed in 1893.
Darien Will ship during the present year.
close on to 100000, 600 feet of pitch pine
timber and lumber.
During last week there was shipped
from the port of Darien, coastwise and
foreign. 1889 feet of timber and lum-
Der, valued at $u,675
The stock of the American Upholstery
COMPANY of Atlanta has been sold to d.
]. We'll Of Montgomery for $1,000 sub
1ect to the 900 OF bonds.
The Atlanta Journal says Capt A }.
west of that city may be appointed TO
one of the five places on the board of d.
rectors of the Union Pacific railroad
Perry Holmes, who cut his fellow work
iugman in Liebermans trunk factory at
Atlanta last year, has been caught in Gin
cinnati and brought back to Atlanta
Mrs. ]. NJ. Stevens died Friday after
noon. at the home of her son-in-law. Dr.
w d. Hoyt of Rome. Mrs. Stevens was
81 wears of age. She was born in Athens,
Ga.
Zach Clay was run over and killed on
the Macon and Birmingham railroad, near
LAGRANGE. Friday. The engineer blew the
whistle of the locomotive, but Gay seem
ed not to heed the warning. He leaves
a large family Of children.
Mrs. L. H. Charbonnier. wife of the vice
chancellor of the University of Georgia
died at Augusta Saturday from bronchial
pneumonia She had been i'll eight days.
Mrs. Charbonnier was on visit to her
daughter, Mrs. James +. MCGOWAN.
A negro woman was killed by the south
bound passenger train on the Southern
railway at Hopkins crossing, about mile
below Atlanta, Friday night. The woman
was struck by the engine and knocked
distance of sixty feet. Her death was in
Simultaneous.
Coroner A. B. Schilling of Houston coun-
ty was called to Powersville Friday to
hold an inquest over the remains of a
mulatto infant, apparently 3 or days old.
The evidence the jury thought sufficient
to suspect a negro woman of the muir
der. and she is now in jail awaiting in
vestigation.
The heaviest hailstorm seen at Eaton
ton in years passed over the town Friday
afternoon about o'clock and was fol-
lowed by a vivid electrical storm, lasting
fully an hour The hail was the size of
a guinea's egg, and covered the ground to
such an extent that the children ran out
and gathered it in dishes to eat.
George w. Collier, owner of the Aragon
hotel at Atlanta, has filed a petition ask
ing that Frank v Bell and J. e. Hickey
be removed as receivers of the Hotel Ara
gon Company, and that the property of
the company be sold. He alleges that the
Hotel Aragon Company is New Jersey
corporation, and that Frank V. Bell is the
real company and that 1t Is hopelessly
insolvent
A very heavy rain did considerable dam
age at MiEedgeville Friday. Nearly every
store cellar was flooded several feet deep
ed away. The track of the dummy rail-
road al lanyard branch was washed up
for 500 feet and floated some distance off.
The Oconee is very high and still rising.
Merchants used the fire department en-
gines to pump water from their cellars.
The criminal docket will be taken up
in Dodge superior court at Eastman this
morning. There are several murder cases
10 be tried-Elisha Evans and Elisha Liv-
ingston, for the murder of William 2. Rog-
ers on the 18th of August, 1892; Elisha Liv-
ingston and John Evans for the murder
of w. T. Womble in the fall of 1895, and
Bud Bowyer, who, 1t is Charged, assassi-
mated and robbed A E. Schneider, a Ger
man colonist, at Missler, about two weeks
ago.
Lyons correspondence Morning News:
White Mosely has bought out MIR. Butler
Wilkes, a former merchant of this place
and is changing his store into a dwell
ing; and is also building a new store
&C. J. Rogers & Co. have lately moved
into their large new store, and are doing
fine business.-T. T.. Morris is building
a nice residence.-The windows and doors
have come for the Methodist church. and
1t will be completed now in a short time
Charges of bribery have been made
dedihSl SA-NOulty 1Ollcefnen bradley and
Harrington to be investigated by the
Fulton county grand jury at
its meeting In Atlanta this
week. These charges are the outcome of
the fight in the county police department,
which finally resulted in the abolition of
the department by the courts. Chief Yer
ner. who lost his job by the abolition of
the department, which was brought about
by the fight made upon 1t by Bradley and
Harrington, is understood TO be behind the
charges.
An old man in Warren county had s., 800
hidden in trunk, which was recently
stolen from him. Three-fourths of this
amount was recovered by the sheriff
from the parties who had stolen It, says
the Middle Georgia Progress, and placed
in the bank at Warrenton. The tax col
lector Immediately issued tax H. fas. for
several years past against the total sum
amounting, with interest, to about $500,
and attached the money in the bank for
the taxes due the state and county. The
money had not been given in for taxation
for five or six years.
Much interest is felt at Eatonton in the
establishment of quarries on the newly
discovered granite beds Of Putnam. w.