The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-16

time go of the arraignment of Chief Hood
by George Murphey and the trial before
the board of police commissioners, at
which time the chief was thoroughly ex
onerated. Chief Hood now seeks to re.
cover damages in the sum Of $3.50 for al
legged SANDER and defamation of charac-
ter.
The Galloway Coal Yard Company, J.
w. Galloway, proprietor, of Macon, has
assigned 10 Fritz Jones. The assignment
covers the business and personal prop
erty OF Galloway, also his libel suit of &c.
600 against the Empire Coal Company,
composed of Alex and Nick Block Gala.
way was for years in the coal business
with A. L. Butts Then with the Butts
Galloway Coal Company, then with the
Empire Coal Company. When he with
drew from the latter ne formed the Gala
way Coal Yard Co. on account of a no
tice published by the Blocks on Galloway
retiring from the Empire company, he has
brought libel suit against them for $4,000.
A committee consisting of Mrs. w. B.
Hill, Mrs. r. W. Macdonald and Mrs. J.
=. Cobb have been appointed by the Ma
con alumnae of Wesleyan Female College
to inaugurate the movement to raise
among the alumnae of the institution S25-
600 to endow a Bass memorial chair, in
honor of the late DR.. w. c. Bass, pres-
dent of Wesleyan. The committee has
sent out letters to the graduates all over
the country in the endeavor to have Wes-
leyan clubs formed in the different cities
and towns to raise the said endowment.
All clubs formed in the various places are
invited to appoint delegates TO attend the
meeting of the Alumnae Association to be
held at the approaching commencement,
May 81 to &c.
An order will be taken dismssing the
application filed some time ago for re-
ceiver for the Georgia Security and Bank
ing Co. of Atlanta. The affairs of the COM
pany viii be put into the hands of a COM
mittee for the purpose. All the real es-
tate belonging to the company will be sold
for the stock, and the stockholders will
be paid their pro rata as rapidly as the
sales take place. The liquidation COM
mittee is j. e. Murphy, J. w. English, Jr.
E. p. Black. P. L. Foreman and c. A. Sis
son. The application for receiver was
brought by Lawrence r. Brooks, repre-
senting three stockholders of the COM
pany. The allegations were that Otis
Smith, who was an emplOye of the com
pany, had embezzled funds belonging to
the company, and that 1t was insolvent.
Another allegation was that the assets
of the company consisted exclusively of
land on the outskirts of the city of At
lanta, and that this land has been
bought at a reasonable price. but had beer
sold TO the company at very unreasona-
BILE price, and no accounting was made
for the difference. 1t was also alleged
that the land bought was divided up into
city lots and many were sold off, and
there was no record of what had been
done with the proceeds. All this was de-
MED
Atlanta Journal: The first division of the
supreme court heard argument at Allan
Ia Wednesday for and against the win of
the late Young L. G. Harris who left
the most of his large fortune of about
Sl20, 900 to religious and educational inst-
tutions. The will was sustained by the SUI
perior court of the western circuit and was
brought to the supreme court by the ca
veators, who included several branches of
the Harris family living at Columbus,
Stone mountain and in other parts of the
state. They claim that large requests to
tract societies, Young Harris institute and
Emory college were secured from Judge
Harris when he was in a feeble state, by
the exercise of undue influence. 1t is also
claimed that large requests made to the
family of Judge Harris wife were secured
in the same way The caveators claim that
Judge Harris almost ignored his own kin,
leaving an only sister 5000, and that the
large requests to tract societies and edu-
cational Institutions to the neglect of his
near relatives was the result of a mono
mania on the subject of benevolent insti-
buttons. Judge Harris was one of the most
prominent men In Athens and was presi-
dent of the Southern Mutual one of the
most successful insurance companies in
the south lie was the founder of Young
Harris Institute, which he gave about $685.
600 in his will. Emory college received a be-
quest of about the same amount. Various
tract societies, both Methodist and nom
4 4.
ing to $4,000 Thus about $4,000 goes to
benevolent institutions when sister well
advanced in years, and without other
property received $1,000. The rest of the
fortune. which was valued at $l20, 900 three
years ago. and is now estimated at $50 600