The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-17
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF TIRE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

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Figure in Savannah Sold by Reve-
nue. Officers at Atlanta.
GEORGIA.
A military company has been organized
at Cuthbert.
A mad dog ran through sandersville
Tuesday, going toward Tennille
The Macon Brewing Company is going
to export beer TO Nassau, n. p.
Mrs. J. w. Ball, wife of Rev. J. W. Ball,
died at her home at Rome Thursday
In jumping from a train at Atlanta
Thursday Albert Virgins, II years Of age.
had his collar bone broken and was badly
bruised.
Commissioner Nesbitt of the agricultu-
raj department reports the farmers of
Southwest Georgia in an unusually pros
porous condition.
The Knox presbytery, composed of the
colored Presbyterian ministers of Georgia,
convened in annual session at Columbus
Wednesday night
The hall of st. James Lodges No. 1455
Of the Grand United order of odd Eel
lows at Atlanta viii probably be sold I'M
der foreclosure of a mortgage.
The timers strike at Atlanta for nine
hours a day instead of ten, is at an end,
and the workmen seem to have triumphed
IN all cases with one exception.
An American history written by south
ern author has been recommended by. the
text book committee of the Columbus
public schools to succeed the present his
in he
acted upon the recommendation.
A home for fallen women has been 'es-
tablished at Macon and win soon be
ready for occupants. The home is now
being finished, and a matron has been en-
gagged The two-story house corner Oc-
mulgee and Fifth streets has been made
the home.
DR.. w. B. Yancey and his wife. of Cow
ington, are somewhat estranged. Mrs
Yancey says it is on account of the in
fiuence of his family because she is Cath
Ole She says she loves her husband.
Her parents are Mr.. and Mrs. r. +. Ken
nedy Of Charleston, s. c. aa
Joe Brown and Anderson Peasley two
convlcts. escaped from Bagby & speer's
division camp No. 3, near Covington
Thursday The men We're blowing when
shot at them twice and hit Peasiey.
Brown crossed the river, while Peasley
continued down the bank until recaptured.
Wilcox probably surpasses every other
county in the state for tall sheriffs. L. C.
Covington, the present incumbent, meas
ures six feet three and one-half inches
Willis Cason, Thomas NJ. Pollock and
Thomas Warren, former sheriffs, are res
pectively feet 6, feet AZ and feet 8
inches. Piled one on top of the other
these four would make a stack 81 feet and
ga inches high.
The tax committee of the city council
of Atlanta struck body blow at the low
ers of ice cream cakes at a meeting held
Wednesday afternoon. The committee
refused to approve a petition to allow the
cakes TO be sold on the streets. 1t il
claimed that members of the committee
object to the cakes because they are 100
small for cents, they being of the opin-
ion that the amount should purchase
whole plate,
III. I. Montgomery of Opelika has filed
a suit at Columbus for $s2, 1856 against the
Eagle and Phenix Manufacturing Com
pany ct al The indorsers of the promis-
sorry notes stated to have been made, ].
II. Martin, w. II. Brann, A. j. Bethune
j. s. Bigby, f. N. Graves, c. A. Collier, ].
T. Warnock and c. G. Parrot, are sued as
well as the company itself. Mr. Mont
gomery claims that six promissory notes
of $500 each were made to him
Union Point is all stirred up over a de-
bate which is to take place there on the
evening of Friday April 80. between Mrs.
Jennie Hart Sibley, the Eighth district
president of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union, and DR.. j. II. Bailey, Of
Beuna Vista. They will discuss woman
suffrage Mrs. Sibley is a sister of Hon.
John c. Hart, judge of the Ocmulgee cir
cult, and Is a member Of the board Of
Georgia Normal and Inddstriat college at
Milledgevillo. She is state lecturer OF the
w c. T. U. and also president of the
Eighth district.
number Of conventions Of different
bodies viii be held in Macon during the
next forty days. Some Of the most impor
tant are the following: April 20, Central
railway surgeons. April q, State Medical
and Select Masters; April IS, Grand Chap
ter Royal Arch Masons; May 3, Grand
Council Royal Arcanum; May s. St An
drews Brotherhood and Diocesan con-
vention. May IS, Georgia Pharmaceutical
convention. Then Immediately following
these will come the alumnae reunion of
the Wesleyan Female College and the
alumni reunion Of the Mercer University
aud the commencement exercises of these
institutions.
George Brown. colored, who was shot BY
J. S. Myers last Sunday and taken TO
Hawkinsville Monday for treatment. died
Thursday morning. The shooting occur-
rcd at Myers place. about twelve miles
from Hawkinsville. Il Is claimed by NV.
ers that Brown acted in an insulting man.
ner toward HIM and his wife. and on being
ordered 70 leave the premises refused n
90 80 and engaged ga "a hand-to-hand
struggle with Myers. Seeing he was nm.
able 70 cope with the negro Ia this man.
ner Myers went and got his shotgun an,
Ared a load OF No. 8 shot into the lovel
part OF Browns body. Before dying Ia,
negro told an altogether different, but nol
very plausible story.
Capt 7. $. Ray Of cordele. deputy ln
ternal revenue collector for the Eighth d.
VISION will succeed Aiaj. John A. Cobb al