The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-02-08
THE MORNING NEWS: MONDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1897

I this purpose an assignment Of all its prop
! erty was made 20 EASEL Thomas OF Col
/ umbia. II Is understood that the assets
are ample 20 cover all Liabilities.
There will be bicycle meet on April Z
at which three of Aiken's crack riders ana
three e Augustus crack riders Will con
test irog handsome prize in a lVO-Inile
/ race. [. is not yet decided whether this
meet will take place at Aiken, Augusta or
Wavneshoro, Ca. but If IL takes pace
al Aiken there will be two days racing.
The Excelsior knitting mill, a new in
| dustry recently built at Union, started
work on Monday morning. The mill start
ed with only few machines IN opera
ton. out will have in short time all the
machines IN operation, and when com.
pleted viii manufacture a high grade of
hosiery to the extent OF go dozen pairs
per day.
a. T. Smythe. c. c. Pinckney and Moses
Lopez of Charleston appeared before the
phosphate commission on Tuesday for the
purpose of arguing the advisa biltty Of re-
reduction TO % cents per ton, with grad
uated increase as the price per ton in
creased. The board took no action, but
may make some recommendations to the
legislature.
j. w. Keener and J. w. Price. horse
drovers from Webster, N. c., have been
arrested in Anderson and taken to Oconee
county, where. they are charged by a cor
oner's jury with the killing of a negro
who was helping them drive horses. AS
they were riding over a stream one of
them struck the negro on the neck with
a stick, breaking his neck. He fell off and
they dragged the body out of the water
and left it.
A successful plot of friends and prison.
ers confined in Jail a Orangeburg was
carried out Wednesday night. Fire was
set to grass just outside of town and an
alarm given. The jailer Joined the crowd,
rushing to the fire, and was very active
in helping to extinguish it. On his re-
turn to the prison he discovered that
during his absence five of the prisoners,
all white; had escaped. They had burned
their way out of their cells and scaled
the walls. Although everything has been
done 10 recapture the men, hone have as
yet been caught.
In the court of common pleas for Flor
ence county the case Of Mrs. Ella f. VII
loughby against the Northeastern Rail-
road Company, which was a suit for $780,
OOO damages for an assault which was al
legged to have been committed upon her in
August 1887, by officers of the Northeast
ern Railroad Company, while removing
rails from her tramroad, by lifting her
from the track so as to allow one of their
engines to pass out upon their own track
al scranton, in Williamsburg county, was
hnisced Thursday. The jury brought in
a verdict for the railroad company.
News has just reached Bamberg from
Briar Creek, a swampy. thinly settled por-
ton of Barnwell county, about ten miles
below Bamberg, of the capture of Carolina
Davis and his son, Kelly Davis, leaders of
a band of desperadoes that have infested
that community for a number of years.
Last Friday night Davis and his son en-
tered the house of Thomas Rentz, a pros
porous farmer of that section, and pihaged
the house, securing everything of value.
The next morning a searching party set
out and succeeded in tracing the robbers
to their house, where a search disclosed
lot of stolen articles, such as watches,
tewelry, razors, etc, also recovering the
articles stolen from Mr.. Rentz Kelly and
his son were arraigned before a magis-
trate on Saturday and given a preliminary
hearing and bound over TO the next ses-
sion of court.