The morning news., 1897-03-10
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Certified Checks to he Demanded of
DepOsitOrs iu Augusta Hereafter.
Two White Men in Jail at Rome
Charged with Attempted Murder.
Negro BIecds to Death From "a
Wound inflicted by the Explosion
of a Box of Caps.
GEORGIA.
Eight persons, all negroes, recently died
of the grip on the farm of w. T. Crosby,
four miles from Howard.
James Powell, a lad living at Augusta,
fell from a swing at his home Sunday af-
ternoon and broke his leg.
Fannie Hester, the magnetic wonder and
living dynamo, is lying dangerously i'll at
the Spencer house, at Social Circle.
Fire destroyed the residence of Mrs.
Nancy Thomas at Waynesboro Monday
morning. Loss 5000, partly insured.
Richard Raney, aged A. was drowned in
the Chattahoochee river at West Point
Sunday, while gathering driftwood.
No heir to the Babcock estate in Han
cock county has been found yet 1t
amounts to $4,000 to s2OO0O and will prob
ably revert to the state.
Mrs. Eliza Gibbs, wife of DR.. D. A.
Gibbs, one of Walton county's most emf
nent physicians, died at her home at So
cial Circle Friday morning.
Claud Harper. son of Superintendent A.
b. Harper of the Athens check factory,
was thrown from his horse at Athens
Monday and his arm was broken and Sc
verely bruised.
Alex Duval and Oscar Parker, two we'll
known white men living at Rome, were ar
them with completely in the attempt to
take the life of Sam Doss on Thursday
night
At a meeting of ths presidents and cash
iers of the various banks of Augusta Mon
day, it was decided to accept only the GER
tilted checks of depositors in payment OF
obligations. This is done to stop the prac-
tice of "kiting," which has been much
abused of late.
A posse killed Lige Morton. near McRae,
Sunday night, at 10 o'clock. He resisted
arrest and tried to kill some of the posse,
but they were too quick for him. Morton
tried to extermiuate the Crumady family
inflicted by the negro.
AT West Point Monday, as Freddie. the
10-year-old son of Julius Trimback who
is boss dyer at the Lanett bleachery, was
playing in the yard of Robert Boyd with
two large bulldogs, one of them turned
on him and grabbed him by the calf of
his left leg. Blood-poisoning is feared.
A bin for receiver was filed in the su-
perior court at Atlanta Monday by tho
Eagle Coal Company against the ]. C.
Wilson Coal and Lumber Company al
leging that the latter company is insol-
vent and asking for a receiver and re.
straining order. The case will be heard
March 20.
The superior court convened at Elberton
Monday. A large civil and criminal docket
is waiting. Among the important crimi-
nal cases TO be tried are the parties charg-
ed with shooting ]. G.. Swift and ]. A.
Sanders at the polls at Elberton at the
October election, and B. II. Edwards, for
the murder of J. w. Croft
A charter was granted in the superior
court at Atlanta Monday morning by
Judge Lumpkin, Incorporating the Hiber-
MIA Savings, Building and Loan Associa-
ton. The incorporators are NJ. Mahoney,
Jacob Haas, John Gatins, James Walsh,
r. NJ. Clayton. j. G. St. Almond, ]. b.
Daniel, p. +. Clark, r. d. Spalding ]. d.
Brady, I. II. Haas and j. ]. Spalding
James Sorrel. negro laborer in the Lii
thonia quarries, met death in a peculiar
manner recently. He stepped up to a fire
20 warm his hands when a spark from
the fire fell into a box of dynamite caps
lying near, which exploded. blowing the
small fragments of the shells into one of
his legs. One piece pierced an artery, and
the negro bled TO death before medical
aid could reach him.
A majority of the farmers of Sumter
county have just finished planting corn.
and are now preparing land for cotton.
The acreage In corn this season is larger
than in several years, as the crop last
year was cut short by drought. Farmers
say there will be no increase in the cot
ton acreage this year. though more fer
tiiizer will be used, and the crop cuiti-
vafed more carefully than in the past.