The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-16
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

the Crimes Explanation of the
Death of Young HartIy at Mandn-
rim - Edward Hobby shoots the
Father of His Sweetheart at f=OIi-
no Bryant Lee Falls Dead at
Francis-MinOr Happenings.
GEORGIA.
Madison is to have a cotton factory.
Macon had So births and As deaths in
September.
Senator Steve Clay will speak at the
Waycross fair.
The Presbyterian synod of Georgia con-
venes at Rome Nov. 10.
Atlanta lodges are arranging a grand
Masonic festival for the 22nd.
Gov. Northen advises Irwin county to
give Fitzgerald the court house.
The Gazette is issuing sixteen pages ev-
cry week, advertising GAINESVILLE and
Pike county.
Editor Tison, late of the Douglas Leader
a populist paper, has bought the Wayne
County News.
Joseph Camp, formerly of Swainsboro
who for some time has been engaged on
the Telfair Yeoman, has bought an inter
est in that paper.
Sandersville Herald; Another point
about Sapelo Island may not be known.
The first sugar ever made in Georgia was
made on Sapelo Island by Mr.. Thomas
Spalding who in 1915 sent a specimen to
the Georgia legislature to prove that su-
gar could be made in Georgia.
Culloden now has bank. Monday Hon.
ALLEN d. Gambler, secretary of state, is
sued the charter to the Bank of Culloden
with a SIS, 600 capital stock, and Messrs
William Powell, George d. Allen, w. c.
Jones, B. II. Clements, z. f. Wynn and
r. H. Holmes as incorporators.
A meeting of the directors of the &C.
dartown Company was held last week in
Philadelphia and a telegram sent Cedar
town Saturday morning gave the welcome
news that the company had definitely de-
cided to build the new factory at once,
lust double the size of the present fac
tory. In other words, the present plant OF
the Cedartown Cotton Manufacturing
Company is to be trebled throughout.
The Rome Tribune has discovered that
s'the most interesting and accurate re-
ports published about affairs at the state
capital and in Atlanta, are those written
the Savannah News. He has a wide ac-
ouaintance over the state, is a newspaper
man of mature judgment, quick to discern
and analyze motives and often scoops
the press of the state. His correspondence
is never tinged with favoriusm for poll
cy's sake"
Roy McLendon, a lad about Is years of
age, was arrested by officers Galloway and
Bryant Wednesday afternoon at Atlanta
just as he was getting aboard the train.
Young McLendon is charged with robbing
theetill of Holt & Barield for whom he
collected, and it was for this that he was
wanted. He is a handsome, manly looking
boy and does not have the appearance of
a criminal He is son of the late w. A.
McLendon, who was well known and re-
spected citizen of Macon.
Mr. Eugene c. Parker and Miss Matte
Booth were married at the Methodist
church in the town of Saussey on the
evening of the 18th inst, by Rev. Mr.. Hix-
on of Waycross. Miss Booth Is the charm
ing daughter of Jessie r. Booth, a pros
porous farmer. MIR. Parker is an efficient
agent of the Plant system at Saussey, hav-
ing come there several years ago from
Troy, Ala. The attendants were Mr. jeff
ID Mattox of bonneville, with Miss Liz
Zie Sanchez of Judson, Fla, Mr.. w. E.
Mathis of Saussey, with Miss Eta Nc
Visville, with Miss Mamie Parker Ga sister
of the groom; MI. viii J. Wallace of
Saussey with Miss Alice Booth SISTER of
the BRIDE; Mr.. NJ. NJ. Parker of Troy Ala,
with Miss Mamie Mathis of Saussey. The
church was handsomely decorated.
The Whitfield county grand jury has
found thirteen indictments at Dalton
against Walter Bohannon and his gang
of car robbers, ten indictments against
half dozen merchants for receiving stol-
en- goods, and it is still taking evidence.
Bohannon, the notorious leader Of the
worst band of robbers since John A. Muir
Tilrs days, has weakened and his COM
panions in crime are thoroughly democrat
lied. The members of the gang now in
Jail are: Walter Bohannon, Ben Pearce,
Sam Painter Tom zimmerman, Ed Nor
ris, coored; Bill Long, Ralph Ellison. Out
on bond are: Anthony Cook and Charley
Hill two negro draymen; Luke White and
Jim Harris. The merchants who were ar
rested for receiving stolen goods and who
gave bond are: John Bender, member of
council; Drew NJ. Peoples, member of coun-
Gil; 7. N. Peoples, Jr., G. NJ. Cannon and
Anderson Giddings. AS to the guilt of the
actual members of the robber gang there
is not the shadow of doubt. They realize
this and it would not surprise any one of
every outlaw in the band pleads guilty
and takes his sentence without a murmur.
Some of the indicted merchants declare
that they are innocent of crime and say
they Will fight prosecution to the finish.
The five merchants under bond are among
the most prominent business men i'm Dali
ton. An indictment was found against Tom
Peoples, agent of the Western and Attain
tic railroad here and his son, Drew N
Peoples. They are charged with stealing
nine barrels of New Orleans syrup from
the Western and Atlantic freight depot i'm
August 1896 Drew Peoples and
Tom Peoples, Jr., who were
also implicated, have skipped out of
Dalton since the trial has been in progress.
Ralph Ellison was convicted Tuesday. He
was the clearing house for the enterprising
syndicate and always had a large general
stock on hand. Jesse Langston of Muir
ray county was fined $3.50 and sentenced
to serve twelve months on the chain-gang.
Langston plead guilty to receiving stolen
goods. The jail sentence, however. was
conditionallly suspended Councilman
Bender was convicted Wednesday. After
the Peoples trial, those Of Anderson Gid
dngs Tennell Hill merchant, and Mack