The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-04

Broad and Campbell streets. and filled MS
pockets with knives. 1t seems that in
closing up the front door was shut. but
not fastened, and the wind blew II par
! TALLY open. Stoy was walking UP Broad
street some the worse for drink, and, see
ing the door open, walked in and helped
himself to what was handtest.
The suit Of Bertha NJ Brown for dam
ages against The John z. King Manufac-
turing Company. which was to have been
argued at the January term Of the city
court, has been stricken from the docket,
a satisfactory compromise having been
reached. The suit was the outcome of the
plaintiff having sustained the loss OF "A
finger while at work in the spinning de-
paTtmcnt Of the King mill in 1892. The
plaintiff at that time was only IL years
Of age According TO law. she could at
any time until she was % years of age
bring suit for damages. The plaintlH'
about ten months ago, married Fayette
Brown. She and her husband decided
short time ago to have the case settled,
and instituted suit for damages. 1t is SAID
that the amount of the compromise is $500.
The Ellijay Courier has the particulars
of death which has shocked the whole
community. Martha Newberry and little
brother went down to the lumber mills
to get bucket of water, and found some
whisky hid in a trough. They drank all
they could of it, and went back to the
house very drunk. The family were out
and~When they returned found both drunk.
The little boy soon recovered, but the girl
grew constantly worse, and as they did
not get a physician until the next after
noon she could not be saved Coroner Hun
nicutt held an inquest. but the jury impil-
Gated no one as being the cause of her
death. She was II years odd. and her IA
1ffrio RI haN m N v
Sunday school cards for her prompt at
tendance when she lived in Knoxville. Her
death is the second one of the kind In the
county, the first being the death of a lit
tie Carrot boy Gu Tickanetley.
At Rome Friday afternoon Jack King
ex-president Of the Merchants National
Bank. who is under Indictment for misap-
propriating funds, and Capt. j. l.. Bass,
the present president, engaged in street
fight. King struck Bass several times over
the head with heavy leather cane, and
Bass cinched with King, wrenched the
cane from his hand and struck him several
heavy blows in return King ran to the
edge of the sidewalk and picked up a rock.
Bass followed him and fell AS he fell,
King hurled the fragment of stone at his
head, knocking his nose out of place and
badly disfguring him Other parties inter-
fered and stopped the fight Both men
and faces. The fight grew out of the prose-
cution Of King, he being accused of
shortage of $4,000 with the bank and sew
eral thousand with the Rome Electric
Light Company, of which he was mana
ger. King claims that he has been perse~
cuted.
Augusta Chronicle: w. p. Strang, Jr.,
& Co.. through it's attorneys, ]. S. & w.
T. Davidson sues the Greenwood, Ander-
son and Western railway and the South
Carolina Midland company, Mike Brown,
president, claiming that the two compa-
MES owe them a sum exceeding $4,000,
an indebtedness growing out of contracts,
and especially that the sum of $4,000 is
owed under a contract dated May, 1896.
In this contract $4,000 Of Georgia Az per
cent. registered bonds were pledged, be-
sides 175 shares of the Greenwood Ander-
son and Western railway stock At first
the corporation owed $4,000, and the $lO,-
600 outside of the $4,000 in bonds was to
have been gotten out of the IT'S shares of
stock The briefs in the case show that
W. b. Strang, Jr., & Co. allege that Pres
ident Mike Brown claimed that the Geor-
gia Railroad Bank held the stock in Sc
curity of loan of 5000 which he was to
pay and then turn over the stock to w.
b. Strang Jr., & Co. 1t is said that in
stead of loan of 5000 President Brown
had secured $1350O and then taken the
stock from the Georgia Railroad Bank
without notifying w. b. Strang Jr., a.
Co., and placed it in the National Bank of
Augusta where he raised $14, 500. Strang
& Co. for some time could not find where
the stock was, but finally located it.
They then made an offer to the bank for
it. but the offer was refused. w. b.
Strang Jr., 81 Co. then sought
receiver, and on yesterday
Judge f. II. Galloway appointed
President l.. c. Hayne At the same
time the court ordered that the stock be
sold within FIVE days; that the bank be
paid S13,250, and the balance held sub
ject to the order of the court.