The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-15

French officer oof the revolution of 1776.
She was nearly 100 years old.
The Moore & Marsh building, at the cor
ner of Edgewood avenue and Pryor streets,
at Atlanta, was sold at auction Wednes-
day for $780, 1S5, that amount being 1905 per
front foot on Pryor street. The purchaser
was Charles A. Conklin, president of the
Charles A. Conklin Manufacturing Com
pany, manufacturers of tinware.
The Bank Of Southwestern Georgia, one
of the solid INSTITUTIONS of Americas, cell
ebrated its tenth anniversary Wednesday.
During a prosperous career of a decade,
this bank has. received from depositors
more than $4,000 600, and has paid in div
idends, free of all taxes. $50 per share on
each share of stock of the value of 500.
At a meeting of the city council of Ma
con Wednesday night, City Attorney VIM
berry rendered as his opinion that the
mayor and council cannot legally appro-
pirate 5000 to maintain the military COM
panies of Macms1 Alderman Proudft
said the amount could be legally appro-
priated to the police department and then
applied to military purposes. The council
took no action on the matter.
Jesup is to have a mattress factory.
Joseph Mankewitz and several Savannah
parties have associated themselves under
the firm name of Joseph Mankiewitz & Co.
The concern will give employment to fifty
men and the management Is now adver-
Using for 5000 pounds of moss, 25000
pounds. of cotton and a like amount of
shucks, also 5000 pounds of straw. 1t is
also proposed to run a tannery in connec-
ton with the mattress factory
The case Of J. T. Addison against the
Exposition cotton mills and DR.. ]. d. Tur-
ner and Charles p. Hubert, suit to re-
cover $4,000 damages for publishing a
libel, was on trial in the first division of
the city court at Atlanta Wednesday. Adj
olson sues to recover the damages on the
ground, he alleges, that the defendants
maliciously published the contents of a
forged obscene letter that purported to
have been written by his daughter with
out giving her an opportunity to deny the
charges contained in the letter He
charges that the contents were published
in the. presence of Mike Leary. Henry
Dobson and Columbus Stewart.
Willie Price, the 5-year-old daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. Price of Marshall
Vile, had terrible encounter with a
large Plymouth Rock rooster Wednesday.
She and her younger sister were out in the
yard playing with a buggy whip, when
suddenly, and without cause or warning,
the cock sprang in her face, sinking his
bill half an inch deep in the flesh between
the left eye and nose severing the lacty-
NAL gland, and squirting two bad holes in
her hand and arm. The mother, hearing
the screams of the children. ran out, only
to find the child bathed in blood, but still
brave.y fighting the maddened rooster with
the whip. No serious injury is expected
to the eye.
The store on Whitehall street, at At
lsnta, occupied by julius r. Watts and
owned by DR.. McRae, was sold 70 Hugh T.
Inman. Wednesday, for $4,000, which is at
the rate OF $50 per square foot, and 1,S12 sc
per front foot. Recently Mr.. Inman pur-
chased the Ryan property. which is oc-
cupied by the two-story brick building
leased by Douglas, Thomas e. Dawson
The property sold yesterday by DIR. Nc.
Rae fronted 16 feet on Whitehall street
running back depth Of 50 feet. Since
buying the Ryan property. Mr. Inman has
seem the necessity Of buying DR. McRae's
building. so that he could secure a more
desirable front Tor his building. Tn,
present building will be torn away and ar
elegant front made. so that the store oil
the dry goods Arm will have o front Of
more than forty feet, DR.. MeRae bought
this property last February when II was
sold by the Collier estate. He paid $500