The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-19

PrOpOsed-An Albany Boy Wound
ed While Duck ShoOtins-Three
Negroes in Jail on Charge OF
Numbering Julian King in CAL
hOun County.
GEORGIA.
There is talk of organizing a lodge of
knights of Pythias at Lexington.
The builders expect to have the electric
light plant at Gainesville ready for bust
ness Dec. l.
The city council of Perry has fixed the
tax rate on property at So mills for 1897,
or $3.50 on each 81, coo worth Of property.
A new judicial circuit to be composed
of Ebert. Madison. Hart, Franklin and
Habersham counties, is being agitated al
Hart superior court this week.
Lester Echos, who was acquitted of the
killing of Marshal Tidweu of Seney last
July was intoxicated at Rome Tuesday
and jailed for brandishing a pistol on the
streets.
A store at Jacksonville, owned by
Mrs. Nottingham and occupied by E. S.
Griffin as a grocery store, was destroyed
by fire Monday night between and 10
clock with the entire contents.
The Perry Manufacturing Company
dozen combs. Two hundred and sixty-five
dozen have been shipped and 9i5 dozen
are to be shipped between now and Jan. !.
1t is rumored that o. T. Chapman, who
went to the wall at JeffersOnville a few
days ago, with so much liabilities and so
little assets has satisfied his creditors TO
some extent and will open business again
In the next few days.
The finance committee of the lower
house of the state legislature has killed
the resolution by Mr. Hill of Troup to APP
propriate So or so much thereof as might
be necessary to- purchase Bible for the
and Mr. Hill said that there should be a
holy book In the thousand of other books
that adorn the walls of the library.
Last Saturday morning, while duck
hunting near Albany, young Clay
ton Jones, 16-year-old son of
Judge w T. Jones, was remov-
ing his gun from the boat. when in some
way 1t was discharged. the entire load
entering the upper part of his right leg,
lacerating the flesh from the knee to the
ment of the physicians.
Ed Terrell, colored, of Athens, was kill
ed Monday afternoon near Cartons tres
tie on the Macon and Northern railroad
a short distance from Athens. The body
was lying over an old stump and near by
was pistol. No signs of powder burns
left eye and death was instantaneous. A
negro woman heard the shot and saw two
negroes running away, but did not recog-
nize either.
The civil case of ]. T. Roberts, receiver
for the Mineola Lumber Company, VS.. j.
NJ. Smith of Oglethorpe county, was heard
at Valdosta a day or two ago The hear
ing was upon a question of jurisdiction of
the court and no decision has been rem
dered The suit against Smith is for about
Is alleged TO have contracted to pay for
the mill property and the price at which
the mill had to be sold when he forfeited
the contract.
Dawson News: The question of paying
taxes this year is going TO be a serious
problem with some, judging by the man
ner in which payments are now being
made. Collector Thornton says that but
few taxpayers have yet discharged their
obligations and while many call at his Of
flee to learn the amount of their dues only
an occasional one asks for a receipt in full
or the $4,000 taxes that is to be paid by
the people of Terrell county this year
5000
Rome Trlbune-The Rome Iron Compa-
ny will burn their own wood coal in the
future. Work has already begun on
twenty new coal ovens, and as soon as
they are completed they will buy no more
charcoal. The furnace of this company in
New Rome, near Mobley Springs, is turn
ing out an average of 90 tons of fine pig
iron every day, and recently have had
some difficulty in securing the four car
loads of charcoal necessary for use every
day. These ovens viii each hold tifty-five
cords of wood, and the material-green
pine preferably-will be shipped here. Ii
will take 100000 bricks to build the twenty
ovens. The work will be done with day
labor and not by contract.
Dawson News: John Bailey, Jesse Han
dy and General Fisher three negroes
charged with assassinating Mr.. Julian
King in Calhoun county, are In the Tel
rell county jail. They were brought here
by Sheriff Davis of that county to eVade
a mob that had formed to lynch them.
Sheriff Davis was just in time to elude
the mob, for on the night that the pris-
oneFs were turned over to Sheriff Chris
tie in Dawson about a hundred and fifty
determined men rode into Morgan and
halted a. the jail After finding that the
men had been spirited away they rode out
of town in western direction mad and
disappointed MIR King was shot by con-
cealed parties while he was in his barn
feeding his stock
FLORIDA.
Willis M. Ethridge of Ocala, died Tues
day night.
NJ. B. Macfarlan has been sworn in as
collector of customs at Tampa.
The BapHsts of Gainesville are soliciting
subscriptions to aid them in building a