The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-23
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Electric Light Plant at Augusta.
GEORGIA.
There is a movement on foot to build
another electric light and power plant in
Augusta.
Miss Elizabeth Wheatley of Americas.
was thrown from a bicycle Saturday and
broke one of her arms.
DR.. ]. f. Alexander. one of the most
widely known physicians in Atlanta, and
for years president of the board of health,
was stricken with paralysis Saturday.
A. c. Conn, having fulfilled all require
ments has been discharged as receiver
of the Blount Stave and Machine Com
pany of Atlanta. The affairs of the de-
funct company have been entirely wound
up.
Gov Atkinson has offered a reward of
500 for the arrest of the party or parties
who set fire to the store house of Evans
& Donovan, ana the store house used by
w. c. & J. G. Houser, in Jefferson coun-
ty, on March H.
The hearing on the petition for the APP
pointment of a receiver for the Southern
Mutual Building and Loan Association, of
Knoxville, for this state has been post
poned in Judge Newmans court at Allan
ia until next Saturday.
The state railroad commission has re-
ceived the reports from the various rail-
roads in the state The reports show the
net earnings of the roads for the month
of February The law requires that they
be filed with the commission before March
20
Tom Gray, colored was killed at Au-
gusta Saturday night by Nathan Hankin-
son. also colored. The killing of Gray
was unintentonal, as the bullet was in
tended for another negro named Henry
StoVall The murder was the result of a
row.
Gov. Atkinson has offered a reward of
500 for the capture of John Spratling,
who escaped from Oconee county jail dur
ing the month Of January. He was charg-
ed with having made a criminal assault
on Mrs Leila Mavey in Oconee county,
last September.
The Kidder Press Manufacturing Com
pany was given verdict OF 81, 500, with in
terest and costs, in Judge Reds division
of the city court at Atlanta Saturday
against the Fulton bag and cotton mills.
The suit was for the contract price of
newly patented bag printing and cutting
machine.
There are about sixty state and over
ninety United States prisoners in the Full
ton county jail. The "moonshiners' are
piling in every day in droves and it is
said that an effort will be made soon to
make the United States government take
care of its own prisoners in place of cram
ming them into the county jail.
The police department of Columbus has
summoned the Central of Georgia and the
Georgia and Alabama railroad companies
to appear before Recorder CoZart on
charge of doing business without license.
This was done on account of the Grab"
trains, which each road has been run
ming on their respective roads and fur
nishing provisions to their employees.
Charles E. Ship of Dallas, has been In
dicted by the grand jury of the United
States court at Atlanta, and will be tried
for an alleged crime against the currency,
which will go on record as one of the
most peculiar the officers of the govern
ment in Georgia have ever had to deal
with. Ship is accused of splitting a five
dollar bill in two and passing each of the
two sides as a bona fide bill, thus MAX
tng 100 per cent. on the operation
The serene confidence displayed by the
editor of the Hartwell Sun is worthy of
all praise. The special providence that
looks over mankind in general moves him
TO say that the Lord will take care of the
editor 'IIe win get the paper out some
how and stand up for the town and whoop
1t up for you when you run for office,
and lie about your pigeon-toed daugh-
ter's tacky wedding, and blow about your
big-footed son when he gets a 81 week
Job, and weep over your shriveled soul
L.
and smile at your wife's second marriage.
Don't worry about the editor. He'll get
along. The Lord only knows how-but
somehow"
Pat Payne, formerly of Macon, has been
murdered at Monroe, Louisiana, according
to a telegram received from the Monroe
Lodge Knights of Pythias Saturday, by
John Hartz, keeper OF records and seals,
Central City lodge of Macon, of which
lodge Payne was a member. The tele-
gram stated that Mrs. Payne could not
hear from her relatives and wanted to
know If Central City lodge would take
charge of the remains. Payne was for
mcrly station master at the union passen-
ger depot, at Macon. Later, he was a rail-
way telegrapher at Bolingbroke, and last
year was telegrapher on the Southern at
Billiards. His Macon friends did not know
he was in Louisiana.
Another account of the Columbus de-
cision, already mentioned in the Morning
News, says Judge w A. Wmbish,
special master in the Eagle and Phenix
case has decided that the six months
creditors of the mills were not entitled 10
a prior lien on the property. He declared
in his decision that the claims of the six
months creditors were not superior to the
Others, taking the position that the six
months rule applies only to railroads, and
not TO private corporations. The decision
sets an important precedent, as the debts
affected by this decision amount TO some
sl35,00O. The decision means that the
bondholders and savings banks depositors
Will get the first chance at the property,
and that the unsecured creditors will
probably be left out, in consequence"
Atlanta Constitution: Some very inter-
esting letters have been received by friends
IN the city from Mrs. Paul Fitzsimmons,
wife Of DR.. Paul Fitzsimmons, of the
United States navy, ana now residing in
Japan. Mrs. Fitzsimmons was a Miss
Russell Of Augusta, and is the sister of
Mrs. Glascock Mays, of this city. She
has been among the guests at numbers OF
entertainments given az the palace OF the
mikado, and her description of a recent
garden party there gives one an idea OF