The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-21
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.


day.
Thursday night the residence Of Bob
Smith. at Carronton was ralded and SlS2O7
taken from his trousers pockets.
At Eastman Thursday Bud Bowler was
sentenced TO hang on April % for the muir
der of A. r. Schneider. one Of the colo
nists OF Missler Feb. p, 1881.
More western corn has been shipped to
Americus this spring than for several
years past The crop in Sumter was a bit
short last year. but the farmers are
planting for an abundant crop this sea-
son.
Mrs Mary Ware was knocked down and
seiously injured by a Western and Allan
tic train at Kingston Thursday night She
was crossing the track. intending 60 board
the train for Chattanooga, and beng very
deaf did not hear the approaching train.
Her injuries are not considered aftaL
The Oeonee river is on a big boom ana
has reached a higher stage at Dublin than
has been known iu many years. Farmers
are reporting the loss Of cattle and rear
is entertained that the foundations of the
pubic bridge may be undermined or m
jured by floating logs.
One of the largest damage suits ever
filed in Taylor county was handed to the
clerk of the superior court at Butler
Thursday 1t is the suit Of Or. f. G.
johnson against the Central railroad for
$4,000 DANA ges. The suit grows out OF a
wreck which occurred last September and
which made Dr. Johnson a cripple for life.
The case Of A. L. Drought of Florida,
who was convicted in the criminal court of
Atlanta on a charge of cheating and
swfndling, has been appealed to the su-
preme court and viii be heard on April
6. Drought was prosecuted for selling re-
ceivers certificates for a Florida railroad,
on representations which were alleged 10
have been fraudulent
Ashburn Advance: Mr.. D. II. Davis has
made a handsome fortune in land in this
community, but he has taken a curious
turn Of mind and is offering for sale his
entire estate, valued at about $4,000 His
acres of land number about 10000, and 1t
is all for sale. His intention is to move
TO South Florida, purchase about forty
square miles of land and raise stock
Parties in Americas from the river dis
trict report the Flint very high and still
rising rapidly. Already the OVERFLOW
covers considerable area, and at the
railroad crossing the high entertainments
nave DeeU Qdfnd3tQ SDflltWlldt- ONtl wv
sand bags were placed on the DoEly side
Thursday to stem ti,s ctrr~r,. Wednes-
day the river rose seven feet in six hours,
though the high water mark has about
been reached, and no further danger is
feared.
Nessrs. Maddox & Terrell, attorneys for
C. saloshn, filed suit al Atlanta Saturday,
against the Southern Railway Company
for $4,000 damages for malicious prose-
cution The petition alleges that Salosh-
in, the Plaintiff, was arrested at the in
stance of an agent of the company on
warrant charging him with receiving and
concealing stolen property, knowing 1t to
be stolen At the trial he was discharged.
He says that the warrant was sworn out
maliciously and without probable cause
and that the prosecution was malicious.
Wright Smith, a one-legged confederate
veteran living eight miles from Harlem,
went to Thomson Thursday morning, drew
his pensinon and went home. He paid
some debts i'm the neighborhood and then
asked his three children to go with his
to feed some hogs. For some reason his
Oldest a girl of about s. refused to so. He
carried the two youngest both boys, aged
2 and years. to cotton house, where he
crushed their brains out with his wooden
crutch and then sent a pistol ball through
his own brains. He lived for several
hours. but never spoke. An empty lauda-
mum bottle was found near and the sup
position is that he took the contents before
shooting himself. No cause has been as
signed. He was not a drinking man. He
was about so years old.
L. r. Revel Of Cordele received a serious
and painful wound Thursday at the hands
of w. H. Tidsdell. an aged and disabled
pensioner living at Shellman. 1t seems
that the latter had had some trouble with
his newt door neighbor a few days prior to
the difficulty above mentioned Revel
was guest of the neighbor, together with
some friends who were related to the fam
fly. They brought a coop of chickens with
them and when taking them out of the
wagon one got loose and escaped into lids
delps yard. Revel went to the gate and
hailed to get permission to catch his chick
en- when TidsdeI fired a Winchester ride
the ball taking effect and breaking Revels
right arm. The wound IS serious as am
putation of the arm may be necessary.
Tidsdell remarked when he raised to fire.
D him, I'll kill him." He was sent
TO jail.
Prof. w. +. Dykes, who several years
ago figured in a trouble growing out of
his thrashing OF the students of the Boys
High School at Atlanta, where he is one
of the teachers. will come up before the
bodIu OF tuutdllOn again at It's next meet
ing, under similar circumstances. Sew
eral days ago the professor got into a scrap
with Harvey James, a 14-year-old boy
He took the lad off to corner to thrash
him after school, and claims that young
James attempted to stab him with a dirk
After the ARRAY Prof. Dykes exhibited a
slit in his trousers 10 the father of James
but the knife has never been found, and
the boy declares that he had no such weap-
on, though the professor claims he took IL
away from him after the whipping 1t
got lost somehow Mr.. James. the father
OF the boy, who was pretty badly thrash
ed, has brought the matter to the atten-
tion of the board, and the professor will
DC called upon to explain.
The case of the state VS.. c. c. sorrels
and Mrs. Belle McEver, charged with lar
ceny from the house, came up for trial
at Marietta Friday. The correspondent
of the Atlanta Journal says: ~ S. Col
Inns, prominent merchant OF Ackworth,
married Mr.. Sorrels daughter number
OF years ago They lived happily To-
gether until about two years ago, when
they separated, Mr. Collins claiming that
his fafNpF-iV-lqV a 1fta Of