The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-07
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
>r1s OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

y.cei,er Asked For the Ex-COnfed-
crate NcSscDger-Turpcnti still
rr,nerty at CIaxton SOId-FOrmer
ttort,iian Goes to Take Charge of
IkIondike Paper-GOverfment
ALLEGED to Have Secured "A Hotel at
,rmomd to BE Used as a Barracks.
GEORGIA.
THOMAS w. Latham of Atlanta died
Tuesday.
p,ul Lancaster, a small boy of Atlanta,
/ t.u from a railroad train day or two
4 ,,, and had one of his legs badly crushed.
4 can't Terrell of Atlanta is at Washing
4 10, urging the war department to investi-
cate the merits of a new torpedo of when
h. is she inventor, and which he says is
4 much more effective than any now used.
AZ The request of Gov. Atkinson, Sena-
4 tors Clay and Bacon have made the re-
4 ousst of the war department that he ex-
/ ch2nge old arms in the Georgia militia
4 for new ones, and 10 furnish guns to The
artillery in preparation for a condition of
/ war
w A. Brown, arrested ten days ago for
appropriating 500 from the treasury of
4 The Atlanta Terra Gotta works, is still
4 confined in Jail. Mr.. Browns friends are
making an effort 10 get up the money,
and reimburse the works for its loss. In
the event that this is done Brown will
4 not be prosecuted.
Cord Wordsworth, julius Wordsworth,
viii Wordsworth. oliver Smith, Irene
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sent to Fulton county jail Tuesday. The
4 negroes are charged with the murder Of
William H. Briley and his wife. The pris-
oners were ordered held by Coroner
. Stamps, pending further investigation.
C. D. Hill of Atlanta, an ex-Iieutenant
of the navy, is seeking reinstatement in
case of war He is a graduate of the Naval
H Academy served in the navy and resign
II ed his commission some years ago. During
the war in Brazil he was recommended by
the President to the Brazilian government
as an able officer and was engaged by that
government, taking part in all its naval
battles
A petition was filed in the clerks Office
at Atlanta Tuesday asking for a receiver
for the Ex-Confederate Messenger, a
weekly paper recently established in the
Il interests of the Confederate veterans. The
bill was filed at the instance of Louis
Haas, who claims that j. Cotton Lynes,
4 his associate in the publication of the pa
per has failed to fulfill his obligations
as to the payment of purchase money.
With Tuesdays issue of the Athens
Banner, Hon. II. H. Carlton retired from
the editorial management of the paper.
For purely business reasons he has dis
4 posed of his interest in the same to T. w.
Reed and Hugh Rowe, these gentlemen
having been associated with him in its
lease in the capacity of city editor and
4 business manager respectively I. W.
Reed will assume editorial control.
The case against James T. Green, the
publisher, charged with using the United
States mails for circulating obscene liter
ature, was called in the United States
Court at Atlanta Tuesday. Green failed
10 put in an appearance, and as no salts
factory excuse was given for mis- not doing
so, his bond of $500 was forfeited The
National Surety Company of New York
are the signers of the bond He is said to
be In New York.
The lurDentine still property formerly
owned and operated by Eli Bullock, stu
ated in the center Of Claxton, has been
sold. D. C. Newton of Pooler, who re-
Gently located there in the lumber bust
ness, purchased about six and half
acres and James M. Sanders of Claxton
purchased about three and a half acres.
lie is now tearing down the old still sta
bles and preparing to erect a fine residence
on the grounds Mr.. Newton will have
few residences built and other valuable
improvements made
The Lacrosse district in Schley county
was visited by a terrific rain and wind
storm al midnight Monday. On c. A
LISTERS place every building is damaged
or blown down. One of his tenant houses
occupied by John Greene, wife and four
children, was blown away, leaving the
occupants unhurt. A tree crushed Testers
dining and stove rooms and their contents.
lom Driver had his barn blown down,
Killing one of his two horses and running
me other. Four of his cows were also
Killed. A new school house and out
houses on John Stewards place were
blown down.