The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-24
GEORGIA.
Wadley wants a dentist.


LAGRANGE Reporter: The public enc.
my will soon be upon US. They NEE,
next Wednesday.
Nashville is 10 have a paper. ". Henry
Griffin Will be its editor, AMI it will be
known as the Berrien County News.
Judge Hansell will call an extra session
of the Coquitt superior court to try the
Harrises for the murder of Nesmith
Ben Hardin, a young white man, was
bound over Thursday at Augusta for stab
bling his father-in-law, J. F. Windham, OF
Girard.
w. A. McMichael, a prominent citizen
of Marion county, died Thursday night.
He was 60 years of age, and is survived
by a wife and five children.
The engagement is announced of Miss
Lena Hardeman, daughter Of Col. Isaac
Hardeman, to Clarence Chappen of Ma
con. The wedding is TO occur on Nov. Il.
In the municipal election Tor mayor and
aldermen, in Adel, William Clements won
over his opponent, A A. Parrish, by Is
majority. The election was one of the
hottest and hardest fought in years here.
The aldermen elected are j. j. stephen, \.
Green, J. A. Clark. W. j. Henderson and
i. G. Futch.
The wedding of Miss Willie Belle Jeter
of Vineville to John William Pinkston of
Americas will take place at the First Bap-
fist church of Macon on the afternoon Of
Nov g. at O'Clock. 1t will be an event
of much social interest as the contract
ing parties belong to prominent and influ-
entail families
Thursday night, in the city of Macon,
an important deal was made between w.
s. William and J. H. Kelly Of this place
Mr. Kelly purchasing Mr.. Williams con-
trolling interest in the Bank of Monucel-
To- Mr.. Witham resigned the presidency,
having made a good sale. Mr. Kelly win
be elected president and hereafter the
bank Will be controlled by local stockhold-
ers The bank has been very successful
under Mr.. Williams administration.
Macon Correspondence Atlanta Journal:
In an interview with Col. N. E. Harris this
morning. the colonel acknowledges that he
Is a candidate for the gubernatorial chair,
He says that he is not ready to make an
official announcement yet. but that he is
in the race. 1t has been surmised for
some time that Col Harris had lightning
rod out, and, now that he has said enough
to start the ball rolling, the question is,
how far it will go and how much it will
accumulate as it rolls.
J. A Crosby of Camilla seems to have
got into serious trouble at Albany He
went before the grand jury last week and
endeavored to have Officer Raley indicted
on a charge Of trying TO intimidate a wit
ness. He swore to some facts that Officer
Raley declares are false. The grand jury
secured enough evidence against Crosby to
justify the finding of a true bill against
him for perjury, and Crosby was arrested
in Camilla Sunday, and taken back to
Albany and placed in jail.
Mrs Mary H. Query came out victori-
GUS in her suit against the Atlanta and
West Point Railroad Company, the jury
awarding her s4,7OS3 80 damages. The suit
was instituted on account Of the killing
of Mr.. Query a. East Point in February
of last year by one of the defendant COM
pany's trains. He was walking from Me
Pherson TO East Point. and was inside
the city limits of the latter town, when
he was struck from behind by a passen-
ger train and instantly killed.
Mrs. Myrick. Americas Times Recorder,
pays this glowing compliment to the
southern gentlemen: Nowhere on the
globe are women treated with the chiv-
airy, the courtesy and the respect that is
accorded them in the south. If they have
TO work for a living, as many Of them do,
they receive the same chivalric courtesy
from the true gentlemen of the south.
Women suffragists of the north say that
women of the south are forty years be-
hind the times. If those sutfragists repre-
sent progress. then we are glad the south
ern women are behind the times; We hope
they will stay So"
On last Monday night Joe Walker, night
Waterman at Camilla, was severely cut
by a negro girl. Mr.. Walker, in attempt
ing to arrest the girl for lettering behind
some stores and acting i'm a rather suspi-
cious manner, was attacked by her with
razor, cutting him across the right wrist
The wound might have been fatal but fol
the timely aid of physicians, who succeed
ed, after some difficulty in taking up the
severed artery. Mr.. Walker is slowly i'm
proving, though weak from the loss oil
blood. The girl succeeded in escaping
from Mr.. Walker, but was Immediately
captured by Marshal Degraffenreid witt
the assistance of several young men, who
after much difficulty. landed her safely il
the city guard house.
Dublin Dispatch: Wednesday night
about dark, Pate Hartley of this county
narrowly escaped being killed by a bal
from a pistol in the hands of some un
known person. AS it was, one ball from
S2-caliber pistol went through his righr
hand and another struck the horse tina
he was riding, wounding it 10 such az
extent that 1t died yesterday. Mr. Hart
ley was riding horseback along a publ,
read about four miles from Lovett. anC
came to point where the trees ant
bushes along the road were quite thick
Suddenly pistol was fred and the bal
struck Mr.. Hartley i'm the right hand
going through the palm. Another sho
was fired and the horse was hit Mr.
Hartley looked in the direction whenc,
the shots came, but even in the light mad,
by the flash of the weapon could not tel
whether II was a white man or a negr,
that did the shooting Whoever it wa
had concealed himself close to the road
ana evidently intended TO kill Mr.. Har,
ley. The horse did not at first seem to b.