The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-12-17
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Ushed at BnxIey-New Scheme of
the POpulists of the State-sensa-
lion Brewing Over a Dcfunct
Banking COmpany's Affairs.
GEORGIA.
There is talk of a new gas company at
Augusta.
The Rome Tribune, Valdosta Times and
Rockmart State urge the hanging of Mrs
Mobiles.
In the election for mayor at Gainesville
Wednesday Judge ]. B. CASTOR was elected
over Col H. H. Dean by a majority of 50
votes.
Most of the receivers certificates of the
Macon Gas Light and Water Company
have been sold at par. They bear per
cent. interest
Augusta will probably float her 100000
new bonds at 81 per cent. interest. A
broker has bid par for them, less a COM
mission of one-quarter of one per cent.
In the city election at Gainesville Tues
day Robert Mcmillan, a young lawyer,
was elected mayor over w. ]. Fuller, the
present mayor, by a majority of 81 votes.
The military men of Macon are circulat-
ing petitions to be presented to the city
council asking for an appropriation of
5000 annually for the support of the city
military.
Ethel Roark. the 5-year-old daughter of
R. c. Roark of the firm of Shelly & Roark
of Atlanta, was badly burned Wednes-
day, her clothing having caught from an
open fire place.
Joseph Garter had his left arm broken
in trying to manage a runaway team near
Brentwood Tuesday morning. r. L. Lun>
day of near Isabella. who was with him,
suffered serious injury to his shoulder a.
the same time.
In the superior court at Dawson We'd
nesday morning Judge Sheffield passed
an order for the sale of the plant and all
other property of the Dawson Variety
Manufacturing Company The time fixed
for the sale is the first Tuesday in Febru-
airy.
The following postmasters were ap-
pointed Tuesday for Georgia: Martin,
Franklin county. Hugh O. Werner; Ste
phensvile, Wilkinson county, j. b w
Norris; Sycamore, Irwin county, E. R.
smith; Upshaw, Cobb county, w. j. Da-
Wis
Andrew Griffin, who was convicted of
murder in the supreme court in session at
Fayetteville last week and sentenced to
the penttentary for life, attempted sui
eide Wednesday night by drinking water
in which he had soaked match heads His
attending physician says that he will re-
cover.
Judge Seaborn Reese has appointed Dr.
W. H. Pitcher, of Norwood, temporary re-
ceiver of the stock of goods etc, of J.
v Hall of Norwood which were assigned
by him on Dec. l to ]. II. Hail. assignee
The petition and restraining order appoint
ing temporary receiver was filed by Law
yers Foster of Madison, West of Thorn
son and Davis of Warrenton.
A petition for the Incorporation of the
Dyer. Investment Company was filed in
the office of the clerk if the superior
court at Augusta Tuesday The capital
It eek will be $150,0OO, divided into shares of
jlOO each and with privilege to increase
capital stock to 100000 The formation
of this company is for the purpose prin-
cipally, of purchasing the Dyer building,
which is now owned by the Jarvis-Conk-
lin Company.
There is a sensation brewing in the af-
fairs of the defunct Fidelity Banking and
Trust Company of Atlanta. A civil suit
will be instituted in a few days by the de-
positors against the stockholders who
signed a written agreement to pay in
sufficient sum of their holdings to pay off
the depositors. Further than that the
grand jury will be asked to make an in
vestigation of the affairs of the bank, and
some startling revelations may be the Sc
quel.
In the $4,000 suit of Mrs. Mamie Cornell
against the Southern in the United States
ro,,rt OF Atlanta T1,1oo Nyon,
man directed the jury to hand in a verdict
for the railway The suit was lost to Mrs
Connell on the ground, that although the
accident resulted in the death of her nus
band was caused by a Southern engine, but
nevertheless it happened on the tracks of
the Georgia railroad, and hence the court
decided that she could not recover tie
damages.
A new feature at Baxley is the establish
ment of a dispensary for the town and
county. Appling was among the first, if
not the first, dry counties in Georgia. |
More than twenty years ago she put Ii |
cense at $10,0O0 and has maintained it |
ever since. They expect to have the dis |
pensary in operation before the holidays. |
The profits of the business are to be di-
vided between the town and county, and |
the town will establish a system of public |
schools with its money.
President Crane of the Georgia Buggy
Company of Atlanta says he
Is contemplating instituting pro-
ceeding against Attorney Jeffer-
son r. Lawrence for barretry. Mr.. Crane |
alleges that the young lawyer has over |
stepped the bounds of professional ethics |
by writing false and alarming statements |
to the creditors of his company. AS a re- |
suit of the letters "a number of the Geor- |
gia Buggy Company's creditors have sent |
representatives to the city, but all of them |
nave reported that the company is in |
good condition and that the charges |
against it were groundless.
At Dawson, three weeks ago, when Giles |
Kimbrough was convicted of outraging his |
little step-daughter and recommended TO |
the mercy of the court, he was, under the |
provisions of a law that had been in force
in Georgia for many years, sentenced by |
Judge Sheffield to a life term in the Oeni- |
tertiary After returning TO his home al
Arlington it occurred to Judge Sheffield |
that a comparatively new law had chang |