The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-08
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA., FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA BRIEFLY PARA
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Birds Take wing.
GEORGIA.
The Evening Ledger of Columbus an
nounces that it is contemplating the idea
of printing morning edition.
Mrs. NJ. A. Collins of Adairsvile fell
dead Friday night. She is supposed to
have had heart disease. She was &C years
old.
T. L. Kennedy. negro editor of the Ell
berton Gazette was convicted of assault
with intent to murder at Danielsville Fri
day.
Charlton Thigpen was killed at Adrian
Friday afternoon by being thrown from
his buggy. His death was almost instan-
taneous.
There are three active candidates in the
field for the postmastership of Columbus
j. S, Garrett, E. N. Clemence and Sim
Moses, colOred.
The Standard scale works one of sthe
most important enterprises operated in
Rome, will resume the manufacture Of
scales in few days.
Five jailbirds, Dr. Pope. Howard Hill.
jackson West, Jim Scott and Bertha
Haynes, made their escape from the Put
nam county Jail Friday morning. They
are all colored
The American Mercantile and Business
Association, the negro concern that was
closed by the sheriff at Rome Thursday,
has succeeded in arranging its financial
troubles and reopened for business.
While hunting near Gainesville Friday
afternoon, d. b. Langford accidentally
shot Ed Thompson. The whole load of
birdshot entered the right shoulder and
inflicted an ugly wound. which will not
prove fatal
The temporary receivers appointed for
the Finger & Shelly Shoe Manufacturing
Company of Gainesville have sold the bus
mess to c. J. Finger. w. T. Sell and f. A.
Watkins Mr.. Sell will be manager for the
new concern.
Mrs. M. P. Berry of Dalton died Fri
day night at the age of So years. Mrs.
Berry was the mother of Representative
Sam e. Berry Her husband, M. p.
Berry, is the school commissioner of
Whitfield county.
News has reached McRae OF a bloody
tragedy near Milan. John Morton en-
gagged in a row with the family of his
wife, and, drawing a revolver, killed
Charles Crumady and his wife and badly
wounded two others. All the parties are
negroes, the murdered man and woman be-
ing his wifes parents.
1t is said that Gen. James NJ Long
street of Gainesville has been slated for
good position under the Mckinley ad-
ministration. He is now in Washington,
and 1t is said that his friends will soon
present his case to the President for
consideration. Just what place will be
given him is not known, but the report
is current that it is by no means i'm
probable that he will be sent to France
or Mexico.
The Rev. Walker Lewis d. D., has been
appointed by Bishop Wilson of Baltimore,
to take the pastorate of the First Metho-
dist church at Atlanta recently made va
cant by the resignation of DR.. 1. S. Hop
kins. Dr. Lewis is now the presiding eld-
er of the Oxford district. His present po-
sitIon will be filed by the Rev. II. S.
Adams, now pastor of the Methodist
church at Conyers, who will in turn be
succeeded by the Rev. Toombs DuBose as
pastor of the Conyers church.
The trial of Chief Sanitary Inspector
Veal, which will be taken up by the board
of health of Atlanta tomorrow, Mayor
Collier presiding over the investigation,
promises to be one of the most sensational
inquisitions of the kind the city has had
in some time Up to date a couple Of hum
bred witnesses have been summoned,
most of them, however, by Chief Veal, 10
establish his good character and thus sus-
tain his denial of the charges of immoral
.aaI fF..a
preferred against him by Charley Joiner,
an eX-inspector.
The Western Union and Postal Tele-
graph companies gave notice Saturday of
the withdrawal of their petitions to the
Georgia railroad commission, in which
they asked to be allowed to withdraw
their service from the city of
Milledgeville. 1t seems that the
the turn the affair had taken
and reduced the license fee back to $50.
They had raised it TO $780, but when the
two companies petitioned to be allowed
to withdraw they became frightened and
put it back to the old figure.
George Collier of Indian Spring paid a
bet at Macon Thursday night which he
made with Frank L. Wentworth, manager
of the Macon Beef Company, during the
last presidential campaign. Wentworth
bet that Mckinley would be elected Presi-
dent and Collier bet on Bryan. The terms
OF the bet were that the man who lost
should, on the night of the 4th of March,
walk from the Brown house, on Fourth
street, to the Hotel Lanier, on Mulberry
street, bearing torch and banner In his
hand, and the winner should ride in a car
rage Immediately behind The loser and at
the losers expense.
The old story of loving not wisely, but
too well, with new actors in it. was re-
hearsed In the court of Justice of the
Peace Orr al Atlanta Saturday. The par
ties were Eugene oxford, carpenter. and
Miss Rosa Virgins, pretty girl of IS.
Oxford was brought into court upon a
warrant Issued at the instance Of the
girls family, charging him with her ruin.
They had been lovers for year or more.
until the girl charged that her lover be-
trayed her confidence. He refused TO
make reparation. Young oxford refuses
10 deny or admit the charge, and he was
bound over to await trial by the higher
court.
Col. Nesbitt has a case of fancy goods
stored away IN the agriculture depart
ment at Atlanta, for which he is anx-
ious TO find an owner. They were ex.