The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-01
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS,

Something About the Murder of
Lieut.. Grubcr-PensncoIa Firemcn
Guilty of LOOting Stores During
Fires--A Negro Killed by His
Brother-in-Law Near Kanapaha.
GEORGIA.
Macon is suffering from an epidemic of
burglars.
DR.. P. NJ. Tidwell, an aged physician of
Fairburn, died Tuesday.
The soda water fountains in Macon were
open last Sunday for the first time in
years.
Frank McCord, aged 20, was killed by
lightning while blowing near Covington
q day or two ago.
Eight members of the police department
of Atlanta are to be mounted on Column
bia bicycles to do patrol duty,
Mrs. Julia Whitehead was found dead
in bed at her residence, at Atlanta Tues
day Her death was unexpected and was
due to heart trouble.
Mr.. Hertz, a lineman of the Macon Tel
ephoro Company, fell from a pole Tues
a ddX. his lcIL WflSl was UIOkGu dHO ne
has sustained some severe bruises on his
side.
John Broadt of Hazleton, indicted for
murder, but later released on a habeas
corpus hearing, and whose trial was to
& have come up in court Tuesday, shot and
killed himself few yards from his home
8 Tuesday morning.
Application has been made to Judge J.
s H. Lumpkin of Fulton superior court for
a receiver for the Ormewood Park Com
q pany of Atlanta. The petitioners are stock
Il holders, who are dissatisfied with the
management of the company.
The case of John W. Walker of Allan a
against the Atlanta and West Point Rail-
/ road Company for $4,000 damages was
4 nonsuited, Tuesday, on motion of the
plaintiff's counsel. Walker sued for the
4 loss of his foot, which was cut off by an
engine.
Near FutrePs pond, eight miles east of
4 Griffin. Tuesday, as a result of difficulty
1 between several negro gamblers, Harry
Farley was shot by Taylor Barlow and
4 instantly killed, the ball entering just at
the right breast. The murderer made his
4 escape.
C. J. Dallas has been appointed receiver
\ in the case of the Cannon Theological
Seminary, at Atlanta. against Mrs. NJ. l.
4 Powers, and John D. Benedict. He was
directed to take charge of the lot at the
corner of Hunter and Martin streets, about
which the suit was filed.
Two additional deaths have resulted
from the electric storm that demolished
the convict camp at Dakota Sunday night
This makes four deaths. 1t is believed the
other conVicts who were seriously wound
ed by the shock will die. OF the ten con-
victs who escaped eight have been recap
Il tured.
While the Jail at Carrollton is being re-
paired the prisoners are kept in the town
calaboose. Late Tuesday evening by with
drawing the bolts of the door, they all es-
q capped, four in number, two white men and
two negroes. The two white men and one
negro were recaptured a short while after
wards not far from town.
An accident occurred at Cedartown
Tuesday resulting in the instant death Of
little girl five years old. She was playing
at the mill of the Cherokee Iron company
and was caught on a shaft. The revolution
Of the pulley mangled the body terribly,
cutting off both feet and one hand before
the machinery could be stopped.
Judge Lumpxin will appoint a receiver
for the Gordon Hill Nurseries, near At
lanta. The petition was filed several
weeks ago by one of the partners, w. H.
Harrison of Hapeville. Harrison charged
BALL the active manager, with improper
conduct and negligence of the property.
The value of the nursery is estimated at
A5OO.
A h. n
Hebrew Orphans Home at Macon died
Tuesday morning Mrs. Som has been crit
ically i'll for some time and her death was
not unexpected. Seven weeks ago she was
attacked with scarlet fever. from which
she had no sooner recovered than Sc
res OF complications set in that baftled
the skill Of the physicians.
The little daughter of Harry Griggs Of
Macon found an egg in the back yard at
his home that had been laid by bantam
hen. She took 1t into the kitchen, and as
XK was so small Il lay unnoticed on cor
|ner OF table, where the sun warmed
In the forenoon and afternoon. without
he aid Of hen or incubator, the egg, I'M
der the warming influence OF old SOL
drought forth a lively bantam chick.
valdosta Times: Last Saturday as J..
II. Knight was driving lot OF cattle 70
Wraldosta to ship he came near being killed
X& stampede in the river at Rocky Ford.
WThe water was about waist deep and the
Xattlo were driven into the stream ana
Harted across. He followed close behind
them 20 keep them going, but when near
the middle Of the stream they began 70
turn back. lie whipped them vigorously
to keep them IN the right direction out
they turned upon him in stampede ana
IAN over him. He was trampled down ny
tsetn, and one OF them stepped on his faee'
reducing a slight flesh wound. nv
knlght was not hurt seriously but his poe
lion for a while WAS 10 critical mat u
miracle that he was not drowned or
1dmplcd 70 death.
FLORIDA
The sumterville Baptist church Is SIN
e'hout a pastor.
Cont w. n belong has been appointed