The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-01
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS or THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Who MistooI< Him For IA Burglar
The Fight over DeKaib's County
Seat-A IA. of Il. Collector in Allan
tn short in His Accommodations
steamboat Men Consider the Hyn-
cinth Question in n Conventional
Cotton Man From Charleston
Raises a Row in Tampa.
GEORGIA.
waycross Herald: Georgia needs good
roads, and her convicts should build them.
The telephone line between HawkinsviIle
and Cochran has been completed and the
first message went over the wire Tuesday.
The depositors of the Fidelity Banking
and Trust Company of Atlanta will receive
another % per cent. payment Wednesday
morning.
The South Methodist church OF Macon
will improve its parsonage. More than
half the money necessary was subscribed
on Sunday.
Americus Times Recorder: An old maid
in Macon had two boys arrested for kiss
ing her. The boys lawyer will probably
plea insanity.
The South Carolina and Georgia railroad
is going to build new steel bridge across
the Savannah river at Augusta. to replace
the ancient structure that has been in use
so long.
Athletics viii be made a more prominent
feature at Mercer this fan Already pre-
parations have been set on foot to get to-
gether one Of the strongest foot ball teams
in the country.
The city of Atlanta, under an innocent
looking legal notice of an application to
the legislature for an amendment of the
charter. has taken the first step on new
line to secure street car transfers
Thomas Lorenzer. a ship carpenter, as
sisting in the construction of the steamer
Little William, at Hawkinsville, sustained
a sunstroke Monday afternoon at 3
o'clock, from which he died at o'clock.
On the first Tuesday in September the
old Baptist church and lot in the town
of Dahlonega will be sold at auction. The
benches, pulpit and belfry will be reserved.
Possession given rs soon as the new
church can be occupied
Atlanta is going to try and initiate New
Orleans. It was stated that at the next
meeting of the city council which will be
the first week in September that resolu-
ton would be read asking chat Atlanta
hold a week of carnival festivities.
The new tax law in Atlanta has worked
like a charm, so the city hall officials say.
The taxpayers have saved the city from
having to borrow any money, and have
saved themselves a neat little percentage
,r~ss, ri In Of "a "a
lump.
Meriwether county mine has been sold
at last to northern syndicate. The deep
shaft is but 100 feet deep. although the
mine has been worked for forty-siX years.
The new owners intend sinking on the
vein for another 100 feet and then driving
levels.
Milledgeville Enterprise: The school
book trust is responsible for a great deal
of the illiteracy in this state. The friends
of right who are working for reform
along the line of a uniform system of
school books have a powerful influence
TO combat.
Mr.. J. A. Pitts of Williamson was shot
through the chest Sunday night by HIS son,
Robert, VINO mistool him for a burglar
He was deaf and could not hear his son
when he hailed him. The family has sad
history. Pitts wife committed suicide by
shooting herself a year ago.
The attention of grand juries of sever
al counties has been called to the fact that
abuses of the laws bestowing pensions
upon INDECENT and crippled confederate
veterans and widows of soldiers who died
in the service of the confederacy are pre-
valent in certain counties of the state,
and the members of the juries are giving
close attention to this complaint in some
counties.
Chief of Police Manly of Atlanta has is
sued an edict that all women of question
able character living in or near respecta-
BILE neighborhoods must move and the or
der will be enforced. This order has been
issued with view to forcing all dsrepu-
table women to live in some particular
portion of the city. There is now a section
given up entirely to the disreputabe re-
sorts and they must all go to that local-
ty.
The officials Of the Lakewood Amuse-
ment Company are worked up to fever
heat over the statement of Mayor Collier
in reference to seizing the park on account
of alleged violations of contract. The in
dications are that the decision will be
made final in the courts. The Hales say
they will hold the city to it's contract.
They have seven more years to operate
Lakewood they claim under the terms of
the contract.
Hurbert L. Dryfus, up to a few weeks
ago collector of the Capital City Lodge,
Knights of Pythias, is short in his ac-
counts. Dryfus is said to be in New York,
but for the past several days the officers
of the lodge have failed to locate him.
The exact amount of the shortage is not
known. An examination is now being
made of the books. and the accounts are
found to be in a terribly tangled condi-
ton. 1t will be weeks before they are
Strengthened out and audited.
Macon Telegraph: There are not great
many vacant houses of any kind in Macon,
and the demand for them is increasing
almost daily. Macon is growing in every
way. This can be seen on every hand.
Vinevlle has now nearly twice as many
residents as it had a few years ago. The
territory along the Bellevue street car line
IS becoming thickly settled with the best
class of people and this in spite of the
fact that the car line through that sec
tion gives about the poorest possible SER
vice, and seems to give that reluctantly.