The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-27
M GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
,,rUs OF TIAE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

1,s Harvest In GeOrgta-Grent
Il rouuciI of the Improved order of
nod Men to Meet at AtIanta-Meet-
inr of Masonic Bodies at Macon To-
II aov md Tomorrow The First
Woman Hung In Georgia.
GEORGIA.
. visscher of Fort Valley died Sat-
3 urdsy.
- addition is beng built to the Barnes
yir,e wagon factory.
7,,o handsome residence of Mrs. NJ. F.
r INNINGS at Manassas is anoutcompleted.
Mrs ]. L. watkins of Alpharetta is the
ourer of quilt which has in it 1880
pieces.
A number of bids have been received by
.ho Macon Navigation Company for the
rev, boats 10 be built to ply the Ocmulgee.
The preachers of the Dublin district of
the South Georgia conference met last
u,aek at Reidsville. Rev. o. A. Thrower
OF Macon presided.
The first white woman hung by legal
sentence in Georgia. was Mary, or Polly
BARCLAY. She was executed in Wilkes
county May 80, 1906.
Cant. Thomas Wilcox, an aged citizen
Of Lumber City, dropped dead Saturday.
He was s. years old, and in feeble health.
Heart failure was the cause of death.
The Coleman residence on Lee street,
Arercus, the property of o. A. Coleman,
now of Macon, has been purchased by
Mrs. Alathea Ledley of Macon for $500.
The county school teachers of Sumter,
about sixty in number, were paid their sal
aries Saturday for the first quarter ending
March 81. About 5000 were thus distrib-
uted amorg the pedagogues
Thomas Hamill, one of the best known
and most popular citizens Of Augusta,
died at midnight Saturday, at the city
hospital, where he had been for the past
ten daI suffering from complication of
stomach troubles,
A charter has been granted to the Ma
tionn Protective Association at a cham
bers' session of the superior court of Mus
CO... zee county. at Columbus, Saturday. The
as ISOLATION is formed for the mutual ben
eft Of its members.
W. A. Hunt of Young Harris. was at
4 Blalrsville Saturday, in company with
Messrs. Smith and Watson of Princeton,
Ind, representing the Princeton Mining
Company, and closed deal for valuable
mine In Towns county.
Mayor ]. e. Huguley Of GAINESVILLE has
perfected arrangements to build gin
merry aud oil mill. 1t will be completed in
time for the fall business, will be equipped
with automatic sprinklers and otherwise
protected from fire, and will be model in
every way.
Saturday afternoon the passenger train
from Augusta, on the Georgia railroad,
killed Cal Fouche and seriously injured
Paul Carey, about one mile below Craw-
fordville, at a public crossing. Carey may
possibly recover. They were crossing the
railroad in a buggy. The horse was killed,
too.
Officers of the Quincy Granite Company
ana of the Southern railway went to Hoi-
on' eight miles from Macon, Saturday to
oeate sidetracks for the new quarry to be
established at that place for the purpose
Of furnishing stone for the government
q etty works at Brunswick. The company
q viii furnish 10000 cars of this stone from
Il re Holton quarry.
A. H. Ireland, Charles Ireland and @. A.
Baker, three practical and experienced
4 mn ming men of Colorado, have just opened
valuable lead of gold-bearing
quartz within a half mile of the court
house In Blairsville. The ore assays $1S5
70 the ton, and there is plenty of it. In
short time there will be a mill in full
Oiast' grinding out the gold.
The great council of Georgia, Improved
order of Red Men, will assemble in At
anita May H. and hold pow-wows in the
city council chamber. The business of the
e1uhcli VIII be rushed and the Red Men
WIZ leave Atlanta on the night of the 18th
ana go to Nashville TO see the big exposi-
tlon and to participate in the celebration
Of 81. Taminas day by the Red Men of
Tennessee.
reeves store at Williamson was burg
'drlzed Saturday night. A. d. Reeves, who
was sleeping on the second floor, was
aroused by noise. Through a window
ne saw man on the ground, and inquired
VINO II was. The man ran, and Reeves
shot out failed to stop the thief Burg.
iass Tools and an old pair of shoes were
EFT Several articles were missing from
the store. --