The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-20
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEW OF TIE TWO STATES TOLD IN
PARAGRAPHS.

A Child Fatally ScaIled-Proprietrcs
of n Hotel BADLY Injured-QuarrcI
About a Woman Costs N Man His
Life-NcErO Ravishcr Captured
Near Arabi-Leading Merchant of
Gainesville bound over For LARGE
ny After Trust.
GEORGIA.
Hon. Hal T. Lewis writes that he is
not a candidate for governor.
Arrangements are being made for the
establishment Of a bicycle factory in AL
bany.
From Sunday, July %, to Aug l. will
be the week Of the chautauqua at Gaines
vile.
The erection of a twenty-ton cotton seed
oil nils will be commenced at Lavonia at
once.
Two days ago, Dora. the twenty-months'
old daughter Of w. NJ. Cason of Atlanta,
turned over pan of hot water upon her
self, and Is seriously and probably fatally
burned.
At a late hour Friday night Alex a.
Wilson shot and killed Harris Horton,
five miles from Sparta. The difficulty oc-
CURED about a woman.
Andrew jackson Spence of Nelson, Pick
ems county, has been appointed deputy col
Sector of internal revenue to fill the va
cancy al Jasper, and has been allowed to
move the headquarters from Jasper TO
Nelson.
Mrs. Malinda Whitaker, the landlady
at the Gordon hotel at Gordon fell from
the veranda of the hotel TO the ground
Friday, breaking her left arm at the ell
bow and receiving other injuries and
bruises.
Miss Rossie Humphrey, the 20-year-old
daughter of the late Col Perry Humphrey,
has filed suit for damages in the sum of
$4,000 against John Bradley of West At
lanta, because she broke a limb falling
on a sidewalk owned by the defendant.
Al Arab Friday night Mrs. John Gam.
bic awoke and saw a negro standing at
her window with huge stick in his hand.
Her husband and others pursued him and
shot him, when il was discovered that he
was Paul Hamilton, a negro who had been
working for Mr.. Gamble. The wound is
not fatal, and he Is in jail at Vienna.
At McDonough Saturday Jurge Marcus
". Beck drew a grand jury to meet in
special session July % TO investigate the
case of Oscar Williams, charged with as
saulting the little daughter of Farmer
Campbell near LovejoY. If a true bill is
returned the judge will call a special term
of Henry superior court to convene about
the middle Of August to try the case.
The fines which have recently been or
dered collected by Judge Turner. Of the
of convicts for escapes have not as yet
been paid Under the law the lessees
have the right to show, il possible, the
escapes were not a result of carelessness
on their part. If they succeed the fines
win be erased; If not, the money will be
collected. The hearing comes up before
the governor, but the date has not as yet
been set.
IF. G. Byrd. a well known merchant of
Gainesville, was bound over to the supe-
rior court by Judge Bloodworth of Allan
ia Saturday on the charge of larceny af-
ter trust, and was sent 20 jail in default
of bond. Byrd rented a soda fountain
from the Standard Carbonating and Sup
ply Company some time ago, and set II up
in his confectionery establishment al
Gainesville. The consideration was that
the title to the fountain should remain
with the local concern and that they
snOuiu charge. all tne lOuntS uSeO IN tne
store. Several days ago II was found that
Byrd had sold the fountain for something
like $50 without apprising the firm, or
without turning the money over to them.
A committee of three, representing a
church at Button Clay county, spent
Friday at Dawson investigating the birth
of a child which was born to a young wo-
man from that locality in Dawson three
weeks ago. 1t appears, from what could
be learned from the committee, that the
young woman stood high at her home and
that the man who is responsible for her
downfall is her uncle, who had reared her
from infancy, she being an orphan. He is
a man who is prominent in church, social
and political circles. No one in the neigh
borhood was in the least suspicious until
rumors reached there, when they at once
began an investigation. The committee
returned home fortified with evidence. and
Developments of a sensational character
may be looked for.