The morning news., 1897-05-13

tigated by the Grand Jury at Col
umbus Macon MiIitinmeh In
ROw-A Negress, IL Years old, Ac'
cused of Setting Fire 10 House
The Marks VIII Case at Macon Set.
tied.
GEORGIA.
A hotel is to be built at Taliulah Falls
and it will be conducted by Frank Bell
formerly manager OF the Aragon. at At
lanta.
Capt Edmund Rice Of the Fifth Infan-
try, now at Fort Mcpherson. has been ten
dered the post of military attache to the
Japanese legation.
Miss Claude P. Middlebroo1s Of Atlanta
has been selected as sponsor for the Geor-
gia division Of the United Confederate
Veterans Association, which meets in an
nual convention in Nashville, June p.
A negro girl 10 years old. named Willie
Brooks, is under arrest at Atlanta on sus-
picion Of having fired the home of A.
Graves, a colored real estate dealer, at 16l
Howard street, last Friday, while she
was there taking care Of his baby
The Dahlonega district conference of the
ed on Tuesday last. Rev. Ellison r. Cook,
presiding elder. The meeting will be con-
tinued through the week, preaching by
Rev. w. T. Hunnicutt morning and even
ing.
The following order has been issued by
the war department at Washington:
"Private Patrick Delaney, Company H.,
Fifth Infantry, now at Fort Mcpherson,
Ia
the service of the United States, under par
agraph 1869 of the regulations, on receipt
of this order by the commanding officer
of his station.
Mrs John Lingo, OF Wilkinson county,
who is visiting her niece, Mrs. L. M.
Jones the wife of the chief of the fire de-
partment at Macon, was suddenly stricken
with paralysis Sunday evening while sit
ting at the supper table. She is now in
precarious condition and owing to her age,
SO, her recovery is doubtful. She is the
widow of Hon. John Lingo, a prominent
politician who died some years ago.
Marietta Journal: Mrs. T. C. Clay cell
ebrated her nth birthday last Sunday,
May Q Her husband T. c. Clay is 81
years Of age. They have been married
fifty-nine years. All their children and
grandchildren that are living, except one
child, were present. There were eleven
children in the family. Five boys and
one girl were present, and there were
thirty mine grandchildren present and 9TH
er relatives and friends, about seventy-fve
in all.
Mitch Harris, Isaac Parker, Ben Robin
son, viii Mitchell, John Sullivan and
Monroe Hale, prisoners in the Barlow
county Jail, escaped Sunday afternoon at
s O'Clock. The escape was effected by re-
moving a rotten sill and removing bricks
from the wall. There were eleven prison.
ers in the Jail but the five remaining were
frightened by the alarm given as they
were ready to escape. a posse began the
pursuit a few minutes after the escapes
were made.
Bailiff Barnes of Judge Bloodworth's
court at Atlanta is i'm trouble for closing
a 1000 carpet cleaning establishment on a
aaborer's lien for $275 He should not
have levied upon more property than was
sufhcient to satisfy the lien and costs. 1t
is claimed that Barnes attempted to stir
up discord among the other employees and
endeavored to get them to swear out labor
er's liens also. NJ. Taylor, D. f. Green and
A. c. Betterton, the bondsmen of the
bailiff, are made defndants to the suit
brought by the carpet cleaning firm for
damages.
Capt. Tom Drew. of the Floyd Rifles,
and c. c. Lavender were before the re-
corder at Macon Tuesday. At the Floyd
Rifles picnic to Beach Haven a few DAYS
ago. Lavender and his brother were ac-
companied by two women of bad reputa-
tion. The company resented this and the
same evening the Lavenders were only
saved from severe trouble by the inter
Terence of the train officials Monday
night, the captain met c. c. Lavender and
forbade him to speak to him in the fu-
ture. A fight followed in which Lavender
would have been badly beaten but for by
ISLANDERS.
The brick works of c. ]. Mcdonald &
Bro. of Johnston Station were
destroyed by fire Sunday about
noon. The entire plant, with
about 10000 brick, just placed in the dry
houses, and 260 cords of wood. were burn
ed. When first discovered, the fire was
only burning small space near the smoke
stack. Before the employees could get
water, which was scarce the whole build
ing was in flames and communicated to the
sheds which hold the brick to dry before
being put In the furnace Mr. Mcdonald
estimates the loss at 5000, with no insur-
ance. He proposes to order new machin-
cry and rebuild at once.
The Bibb county board of education.
which controls both city and county
schools, held the most important meeting
OF its history Tuesday night. In CARRYING
out the policy Of Superintendent Don o.
ABBOTT the committee on teachers declar-
ed unanimously in favor of establishing
q normal school for preparing teachers
Tor the public schools. This is the pioneer
In that particular in Georgia. Applicants
must be graduates of the Gresham High
school, or must stand examination before
entering the normal school, which will be
conducted all during the school year. Ac-
tlon on the free book plan was postponed
unul called meeting, May 2ith.
IT is not likely that the teachers OF Cher
okee county will hold their annual insti-
tute at Canton this year. They met az
Canton Tuesday to make ARRANGEMENTS
Tor the holding Of the institute, but the
officers in control of the court house lock-
cd the door and refused the teachers the
use OF the building. The officers said that
the teachers would litter the court
house and much indignation has been ex-
pressed on account of the remark. There
y no other building in Canton which can
be utilized by the teachers and many Of
them are in fnyrr NJ NOM t,.f4t....