The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-01
ITEMS IN THE THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PARAGRAPHED.

Ground Broken for NacOn's New Hos
pitaI-DubIin shipping sheep to
l<entucl1y-Negro swallows Glass
with Suicidal Intent-Murder at
AtIanta-Port Tampa COlOred Girl
Fatally wounds ii Negro.
GEORGIA.
A Reynolds grower claims to have made
a clear profit Of $4,000 on ten car loads Of
peaches.
Hon. c. A Norris died at his home, two
miles from Thomaston, Friday. His death
was caused by pneumonia.
Nolan Jones' a young man of prominence
On Columbus was drowned while bathing
In a fish pond near Cusseta Friday. The
body was recovered.
George DeSaussure, the vice president
and cashier of the Exchange Bank, and
enc of Atlanta's most capable financiers,
las been honored with the appointment of
bank examiner.
Ground was broken at Macon Friday for
the new hospital building which viii be
memorial by Thomas B. Gresham and his
sister to their father the late Judge J.
J. Gresham, who was an honored citizen Of
Macon. The contract calls for the conf
pletion Of the building January, 1899.
Seven hundred and eighty sheep, shipped
from Dublin to Louisville Ky, passed
TenniIle Saturday via the WrightsviIe and
Tennille Railroad. They We're shipped by
Mclean & Pritchett of Dublin. These gem
tlemen have already shipped 1,750 TO Louis
vile and will send 300 more sheep there
this week.
John w. Stroud, one of Crawford coun-
tvs most prosperous farmers and a high
ly esteemed citizen of Knoxville, was kill
ed Friday by Charles Mcfarland Of Up
son county, who works for j. f. Jordan.
Mcfarland is in jail and claims self-de-
Tense. Deceased leaves a wife and five
children.
Earl Hester, colored, charged with forg-
cry and confined in Jail at Monroe, at
tempted suicide Friday by swallowing
beaten glass. He stated that he obtained
the glass from a tumbler in which some
Jelly had been sent him by a negro friend,
and that he would rather die than work
for nothing" His mind is not bright. His
recovery is doubtful.
At Atlanta Friday Robert Lewis, tile
setter and brick mason, became Infatuated
because he had been discharged by Charles
haynes, ana SNOL ana killeu tEG latter
without word Of warning. Lewis had
been employed as tile setter on the new
Grant building He did not perform his
duties as required of him, and Hugh Bell,
foreman of the construction on the build
ing ordered his discharge.
Morgan Hutchinson and his two
sons, Milt Hutchinson and d.
Hutchinson, all three of whom came
three months ago to fill the places of
moulders a the Georgia Stove Works, who
had struck for higher wages, are in trou-
bic. The three families are charged with
having purchased several hundred dollars
worth of groceries, furniture. trunks and
other household goods from merchants
throughout the city and attempting TO es-
cape.
The Elberta peach crop around Cordele
this year is far larger than the demand.
Thousands of as fine fruit as ever grew in
Georgia are rotting in the orchards. Two
horse wagon loads are hauled oat and fed
to hogs. The very choicest fruit can be
bought for 20 cents per bushel At the
farm of Charles Green, about three miles
from Cordele, he has a twenty-acre field
with not single missing tree, loaded with
peaches. which arc now too ripe to bear
shipping. Wagon loads are brought to
Cordele and carried back and fed to hogs,
there being no sale for them. On account
of being unable to secure crates, MIR.
Green could not ship his peaches to
county had such large peach crop.