People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-03-05
HERE IN OLD GEORGIA.
The Latest News of Interest From Gu
Brightest Exchanges.

The Latest News of Interest From Our
Brightest Exchanges.
The State Agricultural Society will
meet in Augusta on March Is.
Mike Wood, a ten year old Augusta
boy, while playing on the canal bank
last Friday, tumbled in and was drown
ed.
A large colony of Western farmers
are to colonize lands in Sumter ard
Lee counties.
{. McLendon, while coupling cars at
Rome, got his foot caught in frog and
was horribly mangled bv the car while
passing over him.
A company has been organized in
Macon to put line of light draft
steamers on the Ocmulgee river to ply
between that city and Brunswick.
The Southern Building and Loan
| Association, of Atlanta, has been
wrecked and its president w. c. Hale
it is claimed, has skipped the country.
Liza biiities about one million dollars.
Living within stones throw of each
other are five generations of one family.
They are Mrs. John Caldwell aged Sc
years, her daughter, Mrs. Augustus
Culberson, her grandson Mr.. o. l. Gull
berson, her great grand daughter, Mrs.
G. R. Scboclzly and her great, great
grandson, G. r. Shockley, Jr. All of
Atlanta.
S. f. Davis, hailing from Phoenix
City and claiming to be a Baptist
preacher, came to Atlanta looking for
his 10 year old wife. He found her in
house of i'll fame but she refused to
go back with him. Since Davis con-
fesses to have married the child within
three weeks of the. death OF his first
wife, one is inclined to suspect that
: the child is more deserving of sympa
thy than her husband.
Georgia's reputation for marksman-
ship is being rapidly destroyed by over
nervous citizens. Only two weeks ago
two citizens of Griffin emptied their
six shooters at each other at distance
of ten feet without drawing blood, and
now Mr.. R. W. Bloodworth, of Bald
win County fires two shots at Mr. Dan
Brewer only two feet away and just
grazes the skin. Bloodworth charges
Brewer with using improper language
to his daughter which the latter denies.
1t took the DeKalk county court a
whole week to determine whether
Flanagan, the slayer of Mrs. Allen and
Miss Ruth Slack should be put on trial
for the double murder and after all
this cost of time and money the case
has been appealed to the Supreme
Court and the whole trial will likely be
gone over again. After the Flanagan
case was disposed of the case of Terrell
Hudson, negro boy was called up and
he was tried, convicted and sentence d
to hang inside of one day.
DR.. Broughton and other ministers
have been making it particularly hot
for Atlanta card parties. The other
day gentleman who is a strict church
member learned that his sisters had
accepted one or two invitations to play
progressive euchre for prizes, whereUp-
on he notified them that if they attended
the parties he would go before the
grand jury and swear out warrants
against them fer gambling. 1t is
needless to say that the ladies begged
to be excused from the game
Otis Smith, an Atlenta society
young man who robbed his EMPLOYERS
of several thousand dollars. has had his
shortage paid up by his friends and has
been released from Jail. Smith receiv-
ed salary OF $3.50 per month yet for
years he has been stealing systemati-
cally and persistently. The men who
have turned him loose without prosecu-
ton have committed a crime against
society second only to that committed
by the thief. Is it less a crime for
young men who draw good salaries and
dance the german to steal for the pur-
/ pose of riotous living, than for idle and
destitute to steal to escape hunger and
nakedness? The ease with which well
born criminals escape punishment
makes it look that way.
M. q. Hunt wealthy merchant of
Bolton, jackson County, was assassi-
mated by Grady Reynolds and the body
thrown into the Oconee River. Rev
nolds bargained for Hunts store,
claiming he had the money to pay for
it. He then enticed Hunt to 90 with
him in his buggy to d point near the
river and Shot him and sunk the BODY.
He then took possession of the store
and began to turn the goods into cash
as fast as possible. He accounted for
Hunts absence by saying he had gone
to Carson to see the Corbett Mitchell
fight. His actions excited suspicion
and after being arrested he confessed
the murder and showed where to find
Hunts body.
AS wagon containing the wife,
eight children and baby grandson of
w. j. Woodford was crossing the track
of the Southern railroad near Chatta-
nooga it was struck broad side by an
engine and all except one three year
old son were killed. A curve in the