The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-12-30


Mr.. ". P. Edmondson's barn was burn
ed Tuesday night at La Grange. Besides
the loss of the barn, which was very
large one, there was an IL about 200 bushels
of corn and about 1000 pounds of hay.
No insurance.
Miss Mary Russell daughter Of Mr. ].
c. Russell of CarrolIton, left for Ken
nings. La. Tuesday. where she goes to
be married to Mr.. a. E. Damon Of that
town. whom she has never seen. The
courtship was carried on through CORE
spondence.
The amount of money Houston county
schools will receive next year will be NS,-
2e0A Last year the schools OF the county
received about $4,000 and the county
school commissioner figures that Houston
should receive next year something over
S14 900. The reduction is accounted for
by the reduction of 100000 in the direct
state appropriation.
Mr.. J. c. Burnam, the merchant who
was shot at through his front window
Saturday night az Cordele, has caught the
party VINO did the shooting. II proved to
be John Neal, a negro. who keeps a
small stand and negro barber shop just
across the street from Mr. Burnam's store.
He swore out a warrant before Judge
Campbell who gave the negro preiimi-
nary trial and bound him over to higher
court
The cotton produced in Wilkes county in
its raw state brings from $6O0,0)0 to $500 900.
The county has water power going to
waste that could and should be utilized
In manufacturing every pound OF cotton
grown within It's borders. If made up into
cloth the cotton would put 100000 or 81
100000 into the pockets OF the people, Jn-
stead Of only 100000 or $500 900 as 1t does
now
AT the coroner's inquest over the body
of Henry Perry, who was shot IN Ques-
tionable resort on Madison avenue in At
lanta Monday afternoon. John Milan who
was held for the murder, stated on the
stand, in reply 10 a question from juror,
4 am the man who killed Perry" The
confession Of the man was unlocked for,
especially so, since at the police barracks
the evening before, Milan had stoutly
maintained his innocence OF the charge OF
shooting Perry.
Americas Times Recorder: The home OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Marion S. Sims, on Church
street. was the scene of a happy and ro-
mantle marriage on the evening of Dec.
., when their sister, Miss Stella NJ. Per-
sons, was welded to Mir. John H.. Nc
Clurkin Of Springtown. Tex The bride
and groom met for the first time few
hours before their marriage was sol
emnized, though an engagement has ex-
listed for some time as the result of a
lengthy correspondence.
The Atlanta Consolidated Street Rail-
way Company has filed in Clerk Tanners
office mortgage on its property in Full
ton county in favor of the Mercantile
Trust and Deposit Company of Balu-
more to the amount of $500, OOO This
mortgage. which Is one Of the largest
ever placed on record in Atlanta, was
made to secure new bond issue which
is to be made by the Consolidated for the
purpose of retiring all of those now out
standing. The war tax on the legal docu-
ment was no small sum. 1t amounted to
Sl,2l9.50.
There was a narrow escape from death
IN Gibson few nights since. There was
one negro prisoner in the county jail, at
Gibson. which was a strong building and
a credit to the little city. About o'clock
In the morning there was an alarm of
fire and the town was thrown into state
of excitement. Ii was discovered that the
jail was on fire. There was every evidence
that the fire was the work of the solitary
prisoner but he had overdone the thing,
and instead of making his escape, was
fast suffocating to death. II was with
considerable difficulty that he was rescued
just in time to save his life.
Recently in Heard county Deputy Col
Iector of Internal Revenue John r. Ware
destroyed a seventy-gallon copper still and
about one thousand gallons of beer and
mash This distillery belonged to Messrs.
VIII Mills and Ed Hammond. He also
captured another seventy-gallOn copper
still and about fifteen hundred gallons of
beer ana mash, belonging TO a negro,
Pink Rowe. At the same time, about
couple of miles from Pink Rowe's still, he
captured an eiehty-gallon copper stlll
and about two thousand gallons of beer
and mash, which belonged TO another
negro, Frank Hubbard. Monday, in the
lower part of Troup county, Capt. Ware
captured another seventy-gallon still and
about twelve hundred gallons of beer and
mash This one belonged to Mr.. Z. +.
Sturtevant Capt. Ware had no deputy
marshal along, so none Of the parties were
arrested. but win be in the near future.