The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-24

sumo OperntfOns-The West Point
state Bank CIOsed-SheriR Closes "a
store at CoIumbus-Pitched Battle
Fought at Jasper-An Indian Trap
per to Hang.
GEORGIA.
Georgia's cotton mills give employment
to $4,000 people and 5000, 900 spindles are
kept in constant operation.
W. A. Jester, a prominent business man
OF Athens. fell from the loft Of his stable
Monday and had his shoulder blade and
collar bone broken.
. A. J. Riddle for about twenty-five years
q photographer of Columbus, died at the
Inn, OF which his wife is the proprie-
tress, Sunday night.
d. H. Smith, boss of the picker room of
the Dixie cotton mills. at LAGRANGE, was
killed by a train Sunday night. He was
under the influence of liquor at the time.
Fred D. johnson, negro boy, attempted
an assault upon the 4-year-old daughter
of w ]. Eaverson, three miles from Roy
ston, Sunday night, about dark. He Is
under arrest.
H. f. Everetts stove store at Column
bus was closed by the sheriff Monday, al
the instance of W. II. Brannon, executor
of the estate of I. G. struppa. Liabilities,
principal, S5967.60. and interest, $500. IS.
The Piedmont Marble Company, at its
works near Jasper, will resume opera
tions in a few days. This is one of the
largest companies doing business in the
south, but has been closed down for more
than a year, owing to litigation.
The name of Dr. l. s. Hopkins of At
lanta has been presented to President Nc
Kinley as an applicant for appointment
as minister to Greece. Senator Clay hand
ed in the application Saturday He did it,
1t is said, at the request of DR.. Hopkins.
London papers publish denial by Clyde
Shropshire of Georgia, United States
army, former vice consul to the consul
general a Paris. in which he declares as
absurd the recent reports of heavy en-
bezzlements and general crookedness on
his part
The Grady hospital physicians attend
ing j. p. Weaver, who was shot Saturday
morning by Charles Owens at Atlanta,
who took him for a burglar, say that
Weaver is much improved, and that there
IS Strong possibility VI MS icCONellu5.
Weaver was suffering with the tremens
when shot.
The supreme court has decided that
NJ. Lowry an Indian trapper on the AL
tamaha river, must hang. Lowry and a
white man named Patrick Burns lived in
q little shanty on the Altamaha river and
kept their rations there. 1t appears that
the Indian was in the habit of eating the
white mans provisions, and that the lat
ter was consequently annoyed by this Tree
and easy way of approprtating his prop
erty. The matter eliminated in the In
dian shooting Burns
The West Point State Bank of West
Point closed its doors Monday. 1t was
supposed to be a branch of the State Saw
ings Bank and since the failure Of that
institution il has been weakened for a
lack of patronage by the business men of
the place. The fact that W. c. Hale, who
was connected with the State Savings
Bank of Atlanta, was the vice president
of the West Point State Bank caused a
heavy run upon the bank soon after the
failure of the State Savings Bank, and it
has been in a shaky condition since. The
West Point bank had a capital of $4,000,
and the nominal assets amount to about
the same Mr. Bailey, the cashier, states
that all depostors will be paid in full.
At Jasper Friday Charlie McHan, A.
McHan's, son, and Eugene Rhyme had a
quarrel, in which A. McHan took part.
Monday Cecil Rhyme and Charlie McHan
had an encounter, which resulted In Cecil
Rhyme getting knocked down. He went
home and returned with his older broth
ers, Hardy and Eugene. Hardy Rhyme
demanded or started to demand an
explanation of A. McHan, when McHan
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lowed, and the three Rhyme brothers and
A. McHan and his son being participants.
Rocks and clubs were used freely. All
were very bloody and considerably bruls-
ed. Charlie McHan, Cecil and Eugene
Rhyme were most seriously wounded.
Friends interfered and prevented further
trouble.
A suit was brought against the JAG
obs Pharmacy Company of Atlanta for
$3.50 by Jonathan Norcross. The prop
erty for the loss of which the suit is
brought is alleged to be a lot of shelving
valued at $1,000; one lot of fine counters
valued at $1,000; one lot of electrical APP
pliances, consisting of fans, motors, wires
and other appurtenances, valued at $500;
and one lot of gas fixtures, consisting Of
pipes, burners, shades and chimneys, val
ued at $3.50, making total of %650. These
goods are alleged to have been in the
building on which the Jacobs Pharmacy
Company had a lease, and which was oc-
cupied as a drug store. The petition al
leges that the fixtures was the property
of Mr. Norcross and that the Jacobs
Pharmacy Company refuses to give them
up The store in which these goods are
alleged to have been kept was the store
that collapsed in 1894, for which a suit was
brought by the Jacobs Pharmacy Com
pany for $4,000 against Mr.. Norcross,
the amount alleged to have been lost by
the collapse. That was tried not over
two months ago, and resulted in a verdict
for the plaintiff for 5000.
FLORIDA.
Richard Alfred died at his home at Una
tilla Saturday morning.