People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-11-05

A mad dog on the streets caused
great excitement in Hawkinsville Sun
day, he bit two little boys, but was
finally killed about a mile from town.
There was an extensive case of horse
stealing in Sparta, recently. There
was good crowd of people in town,
and manv horses and mules were hitch
ed to the racks on the public square
Early in the night it was discovered
that a party of thieves had gone
among the horses and mules and stolen
five. The thieves took the road toward
Sandersville. They rode off IN a body
in that direction.
A young son of Mr.. Daniel Bonie
who lives in Bulloch county went into
his fathers barn one night last week
for some fodder, while gathering up
the fodder he received a blow in the
face and at the same time heard the
singing of a snakes rattles, he left the
barn, procured light and returned to
find monster rsttlesnake, which was
at once killed. Had it not been for a
large rat which the snake had about
half swallowed, young Bonie would no
doubt have been bitten and killed.
In the game which was played in
Atlanta Saturday between the football
teams Of the Universities of Georgia &
Virginia, Richard Won Cannon one of
the best players in the Georgia team
was so severely injured that he died q
few hours later, never having regained
consciousness Won Cannon was the
second son of Hon. and Mrs. J. A.
Cannon of Rome, was universally
popular and the leading spirit in ath-
letic sports. He entered the Universe
ty last year and was member of the
sophomore class.
Joseph Busby of the lunatic asylum
died on Oct 26. Every one who has
ever visited that institution was ac-
quainted with Joe, and his fame ex
tends throughout the whole United
States. Busby, as he was Familiarity
known, was harmless idiot, and had
been an inmate of the asylum since
1858. He WAS SIS years old when he
died and consequently had been there
since IA years of age He was one OF
four children, all idiots, and all dwarfs.
The other three died some time ago.
S. B. Sluter, a guard at the Chatta
hoochee river convict camp, has been
sent to Jail by United States Commits
sioner Broyles in default of So. OOC
bond for circulating counterfeit money,
The bad coin, which was cent
piece, was made at the camp by Little
Charley" Chisholm, who is serving a
ten years sentence for burglary.
Chisholm has served a sentence for
counterfeiting which was his hobby
and he set up a plant in the Chatta
hoochee camp, with Sluter as his out
side agent.
Lewis Redwine has been pardoned
out OF the Ohio pepitentiary by Presi
dent Mckinley. The pardon was gran
ted at the urgent request of Senator
Bacon, the persistent effort of Red
lines counsel, Colonel N. J. Hzs.2's1csls
and after several of the most promi.
nent judicials of the south had attach
ed their Endorsement to the petition
Among those who signed the paper is
Judge Pardee, who presided over the
famous trial which resulted in the
conviction of Redwine. Lewis Red
wine was arrested in Atlanta fou1
years ago charged with wrecking the
Gate City bank, of which he was the
assistant cashier
Thomas J. McClain, the white mar
who was indicted for shooting his little
son in Atlanta, charged with assault
to murder, has been tried and acquitted
When McClain was first arrested hi
wife said he wanted to kill the child tt
get rid of it, but accidental shooting
was all that was proven to the jury
The child furnished peculiar cast
for the doctors at the Grady hospital
because of the fact that the wound il
the head took away the power o
speech, which is being gradually res
tored, however, by the removal of par
of the skull.
Early Sunday morning the mills o.
the Georgia Cotton Oil Mill Company
located at Edgewood, were completely
destroyed by fire causing loss to the
Company of about $1lS 900. The origin
of the fire is unknown, when discover
ed by the night Waterman it hat
gained such Roadway that it was com
pletely beyond control An immens
tank of oil, holding thousand barrel
and about one-half filed with tn
fluid, caught soon after the building
were in flames. The heat had twiste,
the sides and the oil on the inside wa
almost at the boiling point when al
explosion occurred. The oil wa
thrown for over quarter of q mile,
perfect shower of it fell for some tim