People's party paper. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1891-1898, 1897-11-19
HERE IN OLD GEORGIA.
Doings of a Week Gathered in
Brief Paragraphs.
SOLID NEWS FOR A SOLID PEOPLE.
Happenings OF General Interest From
Many COunties-Crimes and Crimi-
naIs-What the Other Fellow
Saw And Tells You About.

The celebration of the semi-centen-
NAL anniversary of the birthday of
Atlanta, as city, will be celebrated
next spring with great eclat by the
Pioneer Society.
Plans and arrangements have been
made for the erection of bicycle fac
tory and variety works in connection
with an iron foundry in Cordele. Work
will soon commence on the plant,
Sam Kemp shot and instantly killed
Huahel Lambert Saturday evening a.
Woodc1iffe, near Sylvania- The killing
seems to have been deliberate and will
full murder, as Kemp walked up to
Lambert and shot him dead, and then
Fl ID. Both are colored.
A movement is on foot to move an
immense cotton mill from Utica, N Y,
tn Kensington. The mill will employ
600 hands and will be one of the
largest in the country. Several south
ern capitalists are interested. A tract
of 200 acres have been purchased as a
site for the mill
On Thursday night the prisoners,
seven in number escaped from the
Nashville jail. They sawed through
the strong iron bars of the floor With
steel drills. They cut { IF all communi
alton by cutting down the telephone
poles and wires.
Mr. Gus Ivey a well known citizen of
Augusta was killed in most peculiar
manner in that city Thursday night
AS he was leaving his house his foot
slipped on the front porch and he fell
down the steps to the ground distar ce
# twelve feet. He fell head foremost,
breaking his neck.
DIR. Thomas e Rogers, the Waco
physician who was placed on trial in
the United States court before Judg
Newman Tuesday, has been fund
guilty on TIE charge of counterfeiting
and sentenced to the peniten'iary in
Columbus. O., for four years, and to
pay a fine of $780,
Fefton Clements the 14-year old son
of r q. Clements of Buena Vista
while out hunting Friday. found a
negro child 3 years old in the woods
The child haG been dead several days,
and it's body had been almost eaten UP
by dogs.
| Mrs Frances Hixon; a niece of thu
| Cherokee chief, John, Rdsss. died at her
home, at FIintstone, Thursday, in tn
eightieth year of her life. She had
retained her knowledge of the Chero-
kee language to the day of her death
She leaves forty five great-grandchil-
dren, all of them living in North Geor
gia.
Leonard White of Hickory Grove,
Crawford county, killed himself in
stantly on Saturday last by the acct
dentl discharge of his gun. Mr..
White had been hunting and he sat
do IN on a log to rest but on getting
| up the hammer of his gun struck a
knot on the log disch arging the gun
and the contents entered his head.
Indictments have been returned by
the grand jury against twenty of At
lauta's leading merchants for selling
cigaret' es to minors The crusade was
inaugurated several days ago by Judge
Gambler of the superior court, whose
attention was directed to the violation
by boy smoking in the court room
The witnesses before the grand jury
were all boys. about 100 of them, who
told where they bought the ''cofiu
nails" Other indictments are expect
ed.
A gold medal has been awarded the
state of Georgia for the general agrl
cultural display made at the Tennessee
centennial. The gove"no has received
notification of this fact from the expo
sition authorities, accompanied by al
order upon a Nashville jeweler TO
said gold medal, which will be deliver
ed to the state upon payment of pric'
of the same. Gold medals, such as ar
awarded by the Tennessee centennial
cost variously from $155 to S so each
The state of Georgia can get just a
fine a medal as she is willing to pa,
for. At he same time she is restricte'
to the purchase of gold medals au'
cannot practice economy by choosing
bronze medal, which costs but on
dollar.