The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-19
ITEMS IN THE THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA Photographed.


Up n Fake Fight at Americas.
GEORGIA.
The championship season of the South
eastern Base Bali League win open at
Atlanta to-day.
The work of remodeling the Methodist
church at Eatonton will be begun at very
early date. The trustees expect to expend
$500.
IT, programme has about been complet-
ed for the fifth annual Ocmulgee Chautau-
qua, which opens at Hawkinsville. Apru
20, closing May S.
The latest story ahoat at Atlanta about
VIII Myers, the fugitive murderer is that
he is in Honolulu, and that there is no
treaty with Hawaii under which he can
be extradited.
Col. w. G. Obear has been appointed
Instructor to the police force of Atlanta,
an Office that was created, at the last
meeting of the police commissioners.
]. A. Bedsoe Of Georgia has filed an
application for the position of register of
the land office at Perry, Okla. He is well
Endorsed and seeks another Georgians
place.
1t is probable that Mr.. Camp viii intro
duce an ordinance at me city council meet
ing at Atlanta to-day, making it unlawful
for saloon keepers, or others, to serve free
lunch with drinks. The saloon keepers are
said to favor the ordinance.
The Macon Philosophical Society has
elected the following delegates to the ma
tional convention. which meets in New
York April 25: 5. A. Charpiot, Emile
Bundsmen, Walter Hanson, Z. y. Stowe,
Paul Franklin.
The city council Of Eatonton has pass
ed an ordinance levying a heavy tax on
every dog in town. City Marshal Webster
put the ordinance into effect at once by
killing ten dogs, on which the owners had
not paid the tax.
An election to determine whether the
city Of Baxley shall issue bonds to the
amount of $1,000 for the purpose of erect
ing a system Of water works was held Sat-
urday. There was practically no opposi-
ton to the issue.
The Ladies Memorial Association of
Charlottesville, has contracted with the
Marietta Marble works for a monument
to the confederate dead. The monument
view Of the Stephens monument at Liberty
hall.
DeKalb New Era: Herself V. Pendley
was bitten on the end of one of his FIN
gers by a large highland moccasin last
Thursday. He at once put a cord around
his finger and cut 1t deeper so as 10 let
the poison out, and it has never given
him any trouble since.
Mai. John L. Glen. quartermaster of the
United States army, one of the best known
and most popular army officers ever sta
toned in Atlanta, has been ordered to
Portland, Ore, where he will make his fu-
ture home. 1t was once rumored that he
would 80 to Japan with Col. Buck.
reward of $1,000 win be offered Tor
the capture Of William C. Hale, the erst-
while president of the Southern Mutual
Building and Loan Association, who IN
volved the affairs of that corporation In
such an impenetrable tangle. The re-
ward will be offered by the receivers Of
the defunct association.
The cotton factory of W. c. & Thomas
Anterior at Jasper was sold Thursday at
receivers sale. 1t brought $1,000. J. NJ.
Tate, brother to Congressman Tate, and
a leading business man of the county,
creditors, the firm will pay about 60 per
cent on their Indebtedness.
W. E. Harp has been appointed post
master at Jackson, Butts county. Harp
succeeds Miss NJ. L. McMichael, who re-
Gently succeeded her father, whose term
of office expired Saturday. This is the
test case the republicans made to have
those officials put out who succeeded
members of their own family
Between the opportunities Of office seek
ers, Col Buck found time on Friday to
call on Toru Hoshi, the japanese minis
ter at Washington, and to be sworn in at
the state department. Both were agree
able incidents, he relates, but he regret
ted that his knowledge of Japanese was
so limited that during and after the cau
he could not remember even the minis
ters name.
1t is more than probable; in fact. it is
almost positively assured that when the
governor opens the recommendations of
the court-martial that tried Capt. James
i. Kempton, he will find the foliowing
First, that James F. Kempton, as captain
of the Atlanta Artillery be cashiered; sec
ond, that Sergt. Guy Thurman be given
a dishonorable discharge from the service,
an third, that the company, with one or
two exceptions, be reprimanded.
Eatonton Messenger: Last Monday on
Mrs. Mappins place Sidney Morgan, aged
Is. stabbed his stepfather. Two wounds
in the right lung and one near the shout
der were inflicted. Sidney had been whip
ped by the old man that morning, and
later his sister, his mother and the old
man had a three-cornered fight about II,
and Sidney, not believing in triangular
lights, sailed in himself, with the result
mentioned. DR.. Jim Weaver dressed the
wounds. The injured man is getting we'll
II. II. cogburn, a prominent farmer of
Putnam county, was severely bitten on the
left hand Thursday morning while eating
breakfast by cat. He was sitting at
the table and in the act of putting a piece
of meat TO his mouth. when the cat sprang
at IL, and I'm SO doing bit three of the
fingers He Immediately had the wound
dressed, and fears no evl results, as the
cat is still living and apparently as well
as ever.
Adairsville boasts that she numbers
several geniuses among her residents.
Each have their invention either already
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