The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-04
GEORGIA

ers' Association will be held at Warm
Springs, beginning June % and continuing
through four days.
The fifteenth annual convention of the
State Woman's Christian Temperance
Union meets at Sandersville April Is and
continues five days.
The Bricklayers Association has sent
the contractors of Atlanta a thirty days
notice, demanding $3.50 per day with eight
working hours to a day
Col. Joe S. James, district attorney for
the northern district Of Georgia, stepped
down and out of office Friday, as his time
has expired by limitation. No one has
been appointed TO succeed Mr.. James
Scott Thornton, the Atlanta tragedian.
who has been showered with more eggs,
oabbages and other vegetables than any
actor who has stalked the boards of the
stage in Georgia, is at a hospital at At
lanta TO undergo a surgical operation that
may cost him his life.
Ghouls have made their appearance in
the cemetery at Shady Grove. The body
of George Elder, who was hanged at Wat
kinsvile, was last Friday placed In a cof-
fin and buried al Shady Grove, a COlOrcd
church, five miles from Watkinsville. on
the very night of the burial body snatch
ers opened the grave and removed the
corpse There is no clew TO the perpetrat-
ors of the deed.
Wrightsville correspondence Morning
News Owing to the death Of William
Page. about Feb. Z. who was elected at
the last regular election as ordinary of
johnson county, another election was held
March 81, which resulted in the election
OF Ed Page of the pOpulist party. who is
son Of William Page, over NJ. r. Per-
kins the democratic candidate. by about
rs majority.
Senoia was visited by a severe electrical
storm Friday afternoon, accompanied by
a heavy rain. The lightning killed a ne
gro boy. Il seemed to have struck him on
the head and shoulders, as he was badly
burned, and all the bones in his body were
broken. Besides, his clothes were burned
completely off his body. Several others
were slightly shocked, and three mules be-
longing to c. L. Sasser were badly shock
ed
]. F. Written, a freight conductor on
the Augusta Southern railroad. was
crushed to death in the yards at Augusta
Friday while coupling cars. He was
breaking in a green train-hand, and was
showing him how to do the work when
the accident happened. One of the
bumpers was broken, Of which he was
ignorant, and when the cars came to-
gether his body was crushed into a shape
less mass. He leaves a wife and eight
children.
Miss Myrtiee Morgan, daughter of
a. p. Morgan, and Walter Fuller, a young
business man of Atlanta. in the employ
of the Rogers Tea Company, We're ro-
mantically married last Wednesday after
noon and are now at home to their friends.
There was parental objection to the
youthful wedding, il is said, and the cere-
mony was performed without the knowl-
edge Of the parents OF the contracting
couple and 1t was to have been kept Sc
cret for a month, but the secret leaked
out
There was a fat, well-worn pocketbool6
lying on the pavement on Marietta street.
near Broad. at Atlanta, Thursday. A
crowd had been cycling it for some time.
and numerous pedestrians smiled knowing
~ and kicked II contemptuously. Finally
man came along and picked it up. The
crowd yelled but the man, nothing daunt-
ed, opened the pocketbook and extracted
therefrom three one-dollar bills and some
silver change mo April fool about this!'
he said, waving the bills at the crowd. And
then every man of them suddenly felt in
his pocket to see IL he had lost anything
Gov. Atkinson has just heard the appli-
cation for pardon Of Lee Moncrlef, a white
man convicted Of burglary in Meriwether
county. He was given two years in the
penitenuary, but Judge Harris, before
whom he was convicted, wrote the gov
ernor that he would have reduced the SEN
tence TO misdemeanor IL the present law
had then been effective. Chief Justice
Al a
decision which refused Moncrief a new
trial, and other strong points were made
by Representative Mclaughlin, who pre-
scented the petition. The governor will not
act upon the case for several days.
Atlanta Constitution; There was only
the low buzzlng sound of suppressed
voices in the big dining room at the kim
pan house Friday morning at breakfast
as the guests sat around the tables chat
ting indinerently, slipping their coffee and
glanclng now and then over the morning
paper. The guests were all prim in their
morning toilets, and the splendid hall was
respondent with the blaze OF electric
lights. Il am Jesus Christ" rang out In
the thrilling voice Of a mailman. ana n
hundred heads whrled around. There In
the middle OF the long aisle stood the we'll
known figure Of William Miller. one OF tho
pest walters in the house His eyes shot
mhu Blahces over the hall and his arms
new around In confused gegticuiotion ssr
am Jesus Christ" reiterated the crszt,
waiter. Miller was removed and locked
up: Miller has been waiter al the kim
pan Tor two years. Recently he has been
taklns deep Interest Ia religion ana he
got more than his brain could stand.
Miss Myrtle Owens. girl about &c yeara
old' had thrilling experience FRIDAY.
near the corner Of Piedmont avenue and
Llhs street, IN Augusta. ATlee
~ was on her way home.
ana Just as she crossed Fula H.
gong up Piedmont a negro sprang on,
from the corner Of a building. and modo
desperate effort 10 snatch her pockef.
pVok OUT or her hand. IIo made a fond
& iense iof me prize, but IL was diner.
eht from The ordinary purse and ba1 A..
,ghs handle, which was around her wrirf
Nae negro tried % tear Il away, but could