The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-19
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Stockholders In Loan Association
at Columbus Kicking - Georgia
Mining and Manufacturing Com
pany's Property Fails to seII-Bar-
rel Manufacturers of the State
Kicking on a New Railroad Rule.
GEORGIA
George L. Stone of Monroe died Wednes-
day.
DR.. R. J. Goodman of Sparks died
Wednesday.
The annual meeting OF The colored Ma
sonic lodges of the state takes place in
Rome next Wednesday.
The election held on the 14th TO vote
whether Lakeland property should be
bonded to the amount of 5000 to build a
schoolhouse, resulted in favor of bonds
to l.
The Savannah district conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church will convene
at Millen on Wednesday, June %, at 3
o'clock p. m Bishop Key will be present
during the session.
The drug store of F. A. Johnson & Co.
at Rome was closed Thursday upon a
chattel mortgage held by Thomas War
tiers for $500. The liabilities aggregate
$1,000; the assets, $1,000.
At Atlanta Thursday noon the property
of the Georgia Mining, Manufacturing and
Investment Company was offered for sale.
There were no bidders The upset price
fixed by the court was M25,OOO.
Mrs. Mary A. McCord, the mother of
Joseph A. NicCord of Atlanta, was strick-
en- by paralysis Wednesday night. She
survived the shock only little more than
two hours. Mrs. McCord was in her S0th
year.
A house belonging to George Gould, four
miles from Gainesville, was burned
Wednesday morning. No one was living
in the building. The home of a Mrs.
Hood, a widow 20 years old. and deaf,
was also burned, consuming the old lady.
w. V. Lauraine, receiver for the Blue
Ridge and Atlanta railroad, has filed his
answer to those who petitioned the Unit
ed States court to have him removed from
the receivership of the railroad. He makes
a sweeping denial of every one of their
allegations.
The alleged intemperance of the elevator
man in the chamber of commerce building
at Atlanta is the ground for a 5000 dam
age suit against the chamber of commerce
and the city of Atlanta A boy who was
injured claims it was because the elevator
man was drunk.
At a meeting of the stockholders living
at Rome of the Interstate Building and
Loan Association of Columbus, a strong
protest was made against the company
increasing the number of monthly pay
ments from 81 to 10S. A call has been
issued for all the stockholders to meet in
Columbus on July 6.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w Hood of Harmony
Grove, bride and groom, the former 2
years old. the latter p, are on their honey
moon trip. MIR. Hood is one of the best
known citizens of his section, and is re-
puted to be worth S2j0000. The bride was
formerly Miss Alice Owens. one of the
most popular bellies of Harmony Grove.
The soldier who stuck his bayonet into
the left leg of young Cicero Hopkins at
Mcpherson Barracks, near Atlanta, last
Saturday night, will not be prosecuted
by the boy or his mother. The boy is fast
recovering, his wound is healing and the
officers at the barracks have shown the
widowed mother of the boy every consid-
GRAFTON since the night he was wounded.
The Georgia Female Seminary and Con-
servatory of Music a Gainesville offers a
scholarship, board lights. tuition and in
cidentals to the young lady who sends
to the college the largest number of books
in a given time. No books ordinarily
termed trashy or sensational will be re-
ceived. Books badly worn or mutilated
are not desired. Books of history, science,
biography, philosophy religion and works
of fiction by reputable authors are es-
pecialy desired.
There is trouble among the barrel manu-
facturers Of the state over the ruling of
the railroad commission, putting the min
imum carload weight on barrels at 10000
pounds, instead Of 1900. Messrs. Moore
of the Atlanta Cooperage Company and
Taylor of the Macon barrel factory have
made complaint to the state railroad COM
mission. and the case has been set for
hearing on June 90 The barrel industry
in Georgia amounts to about $4,000 per
year. and it is said that a large factory
Is stopped because of the increase in rates |
The freight rate is so many dollars a
car, and a reduction of the weight allow
ed in a car amounts to an increase in tire
rate per barrel. It Is said that the in
crease is 50 per cent.
FLORIDA.