The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-27

fered. This Is a dangerous experiment
but the attorneys are determined on a
desperate fight
A judgment against the Mabie Paige
Opera Company was taken in the second
division of the city court at Atlanta
Thursday, in favor of Mr. and Mrs. Ed
ward curtis Cole in the sum of 81. 067 So
Mr.. and Mrs. Cole are known on the
stage as Edward Curtis and Gussie Belk-
nap, and they charge that the Mable
Paige company engaged them for a con-
tract covering forty-four weeks, for which
they were to receive $25 per week. 1t is
charged in the petition that the Mable
Paige company discharged them without
sufficient cause, and that on account of
this action they were thrown out OF en-
ployment.
Thomasville correspondence Morning
News: A match was shot at fifty live
birds each Thursday at the Country Club
between Dolan and Grocer on one side and
Jones and Chaplin on the other with the
following result: Dolan, As; Grocer 40;
Jones, 40; Chaplin, 80, Dolan and Grocer
winning by Sc to 7S.-A small cyclone in
the southern part of the county did con-
siderable damage last Monday, blowing
down timber and negro cabins, but killing
nobody.-The washouts on the railroads
from here 10 Albany and Montgomery
have cut off connection with those cities
since Monday night The damage was
the worst done in a number of years
The streams about Allensville have an
awful record for drowning casualties In
the last day or so no less than seven have
lost their lives in this way. The first to
be heard from was one that cost three
lives While riding in a skiff, on nearby
pond. Tuesday night, Marshall Russell
Maggie Shorts and Maria Snoden were
drowned. The three were in a leaky boat
that they had been warned to keep out
of. The bodies of all have been recov-
cred. From Middlesboro comes the report
that William Johnson and Green Hanker,
prominent log buyers were drowned while
crossing the Powell river in skiff. John
Swergart and his 1O-year-old son found
watery graves in the same stream Mon
day.
Atlanta Journal: Joseph Edward .Blan-
Their, an Austrian count, formerly resi-
dent of Atlanta, committed suicide in the
Meridian, Miss, prison on the evening of
March % by taking poison. Blanther's
wife is in Atlanta. He deserted her just
after the cotton exposition, leaving in COM
pany with q woman with whom he had
become infatuated. The first that was
heard of Blanther after he left Atlanta
was from San Francisco, Cal. 1t was in
that city that he was wanted for murder
and il was through a circular that had
been issued for him by the authorities
with his pictures and pictures of all the
medals given him by the European kings
that his whereabouts was made known to
the deserted wife who is still here. The
circular stated that Blanther was wanted
for the murder of Mrs. Philipina Lang
feldt, of San Francisco, and the wife rec
ognized the picture as that of her husband.
He left San Francisco and went to Kop-
perl, Tex, where he taught school under
an assumed name. Before Blan-
Their left San Francisco, how
ever he was suspected and
there was strong chain of circumstantial
evidence which would have undoubtedly
caused his conviction. He was arrested
where he was teaching school, but trans
ferred to Meridian and there committed
suicide.