The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-28

Mr. Lynch Of Helena will start a barrel
factory in fun blast this week, and u
branch factory will be established at Col
ans station. The Helena factory will en-
ploy about forty hands and will turn out
spirit barrels by the wholesale.
John Lebow was killed by passenger
train on the Atlanta, Knoxville and
Northern railway Monday night. Lebow.
Il Is supposed, had been drinking during
the day and unconscious of impending
danger fell asleep on the Little river
bridge.
The Eads-Nee1 Company of Atlanta will
quit business. After three years trial
they have not found il sufficiently profit
able to continue the sale of clothing in
Atlanta, and will close out their stock,
piecemeal or as a whole, sell their iease
and retire from the clothing trade.
Application has been filed by the United
States Loan and Trust Company for a
charter. The new company, which has
just been organized, is composed OF l.. c.
Stacy and ]. Il. Stewart. The capital
stock will be 100000 and the company
will soon be ready to actively begin BUSH
ness.
A remarkable incident is reIeated by the
Columbus Call in connection with the re-
cent big fire in that city. In Pekor's jew
elry store, which was burned, hung a big
clock which never ceased to tick in the
midst of the flames, nor in the uproar and
din incident to their eXtinguishment. The
morning of the fire the clock was found to
be still marking time a If nothing unus-
ual had happened though its outer case
was badly smashed.
The promoters of the Atlanta Textile
Manufacturing Company have filed an APP
plication for charter i'm the superior court.
The names of the applicants are d. II.
LiVermore, r. ]. Griffin, James r. Stevens,
James l.. Logan, Joseph II. Johnson II.
II. Cabaniss Frank r. Logan, Herbert
Price of Fulton county, and George M.
Jococks and James W. Tappin of New
York. The capital stock of the new COM
pany is to be $4,000, but the applicants
ask for the privilege of increasing this
amount to 5000, 600 The object of the com
pany is to manufacture fabrics and similar
materials.
Cosby & Williams store and stock of
goods at Auburn were burned Tuesday
morning, also the vacant store belonging
to John S. Blal1ey, adjoining The loss is
in the neighborhOod of $1,000 The stock
of goods and store of Cosby & Williams
was insured in the Atlanta Home Insur-
ance Company for $1,000 on the stock and
sured for about $500. There was nothing
saved. The cause of the fire is unknown.
Walter Ison, who clerks at 0. H. Ison's
restaurant at Griffin, was bitten by mad
dog Tuesday. The dog first attacked Matt
Ison, who kicked him into an alleyway
In attempting to run the beast out Walter
Ison received bite on the right leg. The
dog has since been killed by a negro. The
S-year-old child of Police officer j. w.
Harrington was bitten in the face by a
cat that also showed signs of being mad.
A telegram was sent to Milledgeville for
maidstone to apply TO the wounds.
1t has been officially stated that the gov
eminent would sue the securities of r.
M. Jacks & Son, of Jacksonville, Men,
| for failure to comply with their contract
| I'm the construction of the new federal
| building al Columbus. Congress has late
! ly appropriated a sufficient amount to
! finish the interior of the building, and
the work is now going on. This extra
| expenditure will no doubt be charged up
! to the contractors, and the suit to be en-
| tered against them will include this
amount. Parties in Columbus, who fur
| nshed the contractors with material may
try to recover from the government
! through congress.
The defense in the case of Lester Ech-
OILS, charged with the murder of Marshal
! TidweH, showed its hand at Rome Tues
| day, and the development was sensation
! al to degree. An effort is being made
to prove that the killing was done by one
| r. G. West, who was summoned by the
marshal to assist in the arrest of Ech-
OILS. West swore that EchOls did the
! shooting. The defense afterwards placed
witnesses upon the stand who testified
that he was an ex-convict, having served
| five years in the penitentiary, and that
! they would not believe him on oath. The
defense is trying to show that West aid
the shooting and is himself responsible
| for the death of the marshal.
Macon Evening News: Judge FELTON, has
rendered decision which, so far as
known, is the first of it's kind, and which
may affect large interests similarly situa-
| ted. The case was that of Edward Lob,
! administrator on the estate of the late
| John d. Hudgins VS.. the Exchange Bank.
! Hudgins, when he died, owed the En-
| change Bank money, which was secured
| by life insurance policies. The bank paid
the premiums on the policies, and at the
proper time collected the money, which
/ amounted to 81, 500 more than the Hudsins
| estate was indebted to the bank, but on
| account of having paid the premiums on
! the policies the bank claimed that the fun
| amount belonged to il. Lob claimed that
of the estate to the bank should be tIrn I'd
! over to him to be distributed among the
other creditors The case was an unusual
one, and Judge FELTON, had no previous de-
cision to go by, but he decided against the
bank, holding that simply because 1t kept
up the payments of the premiums did not
enttle it to more than the amount of the
| estates Indebtedness The case will prob
ably be appealed.
Atlanta Journal: A young white man Of
prepossessing appearance, who gave the
name of Richard Dalton. was arraigned be-
fore Judge Henry Tuesday on a charge of
burglary. Dalton entered a plea of guilty
and under the circumstances, his doing so
was the act of hero. He shouldered the
guilt in order to protect some women who
had befriended him, and his reward will
be five years at hard labor in the peniten-
tiary. A short while since. Dalton fioated
into Atlanta from Mexico, penniless and
friendless He could get no employment
and when his plight was seemingly most
desperate, some white women who live out
near the barracks, found him and took him
in. They gave him shelter and food and
a temporary home. Attempting. and fail
ing to requite their kindness by honest