The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-29
GEORGIA.


The devils rule the roosts of Georgia
sanctums this week, during the absence Of
the editors on their Western pleasure trip.
b H. Tanner. Jr, an influential citizen
OF Coffee county, who was offered the
Popu,ist nomination for the legislature
met with a great affiiction'in the death of
his children. They have been sick with
fever about ten days, and both died sun
day. one about o'clock and the other
about O'Clock.
The Union Banking Company was or
ganized at Douglas Saturday, with a capt.
tai of S9OO00 j. ]. Lewis was elected
president, and Benajah Peterson vice pres
ident The contract for the erection of
suitable brick building was let to T. e.
Darling Of Waycross, al S6,2I5, TO be com
pleted by the LIST of January. The capital
has all been subscribed, and 20 per cent.
paid in.
The senior class of the University of
Georgia has elected the following officers:
A. Pratt Adams president; j. y. Sullivan,
vice president; d. V. Hops secretary;
w L. Blum, treasurer; Lee Morris, his
torian; A. j. Mcbride, captain base ball
team Dan Heidi. manager base bali team;
T. M. Hicks captain foot ball team; o. A.
Partridge, president gun club; l.. A. Goth
ran poet; P. Il. Doyle orator, and j. II.
Mcintosh, captain of the relay team.
The City Council OF Triton gives notice
that it VIII apply 10 the next general as
semby for an act authorizing a public
school system for the city OF Triton. This
movement has been contemplated for some
time, but affairs have just now got in
shape to make IL practicable 1t means
practical free school for the children of
laa SC ,-faF,f uf.a
Council to take. Triton has owned it's own
school building, a very handsome one, for
some time, which makes the free school
easier 10 materialize.
The advisory committee of the Athletic
Association of the University of Georgia
has nominated the following officers:
President, A. p. Adams of Savannah; vice
president, r. McWhorter of Lexington;
treasurer Milton Hirsch of Atlanta; ed
itor-in-chief of Red and Black, l.. A. Goth
ran of Rome; business manager, A. ]. Nc
Bride of Atlanta; assistant business man
ager, r. b. Ridley of Atlanta; local editor,
Salisbury Huff of Columbus; athletic ed
itor, T.. G. Pomeroy of Marietta; manager
track team, Fair Dodd of Cartersvllle;
manager tennis, d. G. Heidi of Guyton.
A normal and industrial school is the
latest announced enterprise for the unique
town of Commonwealth, in Muscogee
county. After starting q magazine and
making plans to get out a weekly news
paper, the colonists, with true enterprise,
are now going to enter the educational
field. The prospectus is out for normal
and Industrial school, which they propose
to establish about Oct. l. Although the
details of the idea have not been made
public, yet it Is announced that the insti-
tuition Is to be established. For a colony
institution the course will be elaborate;
indeed, the proposed curriculum would be
an up-to-date one for any educational in
stituton. Latin will be the only dead
language taught.
A few days since two white men went to
the home of Wiley H. Lester, near Athens,
and tried TO get him to become their
agent for a book they were selling.
They finally persuaded him to accept the
agency, telling him that he could make
money out of il and that it would not cost
him a cent to become an agent They
presented him a paper to sign so that he
could get the books at agents prices. He
could moi read nor write and got his wife
10 sign the paper. Later IN the day he
learned that he had signed a note for $95
and that the two men had tried to trade 1t
at several places, but had been unsuccess-
full. Mr. Lester says the men gave their
names as Green and Henderson. He is now
trying to locate them, and IL he succeeds
will have them arrested.
Mrs. John ]. Mcneil. through her attor-
neys, Hitch & Humphreys of Quitman,
filed suit against II. II. Tiff of Triton for
$4,000 for the killing of her husband, John
j. Mcneil, Jan. 10, of the present year.
Mr. Mcneil was working on a pair Of
trucks in the mill yard, in which he had
been employed for seventeen years. and
was killed by the engine, to which the
trucks were attached backing them over
him. Mrs. Mcneil entered suit last March
for $4,000 against the Triton and North
eastern Railroad Company for the killing.
and now also enters suit against Mr.. Tiff
for the same amount. The tracks through
the mill yard, and on which Mr.. Mcneil
was killed, are used by the Triton and
Northeastern road but are the property
of Mr.. Tiff. At the time he was killed
Mr.. Mcneil was working for MIR. Tiff on
one of the trucks of his log train. The
fling OF the new suit probably means the
abandonment of the first one.