The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-23
GEnRGTA.

announces the election of Hon. Patrick
Walsh as Mayor of Augusta.
The marriage Of Miss Annie Waldo OF
Orange Lake, Fla, and Carl Van Deman
Of Jacksonville, Fla, will be solemnized
Oct. 26.
The registrars of Baldwin county are at
work on the revision of the registry lists
There are .475 whites and 80 negroes reg
istered i'm this county. Every indication
points 10 a Democratic majority of not
less than 500 ana possibly as high as 800.
letter from Chairman J. W. Oversueet
of the Democratic executive committee Of
Serevon county says the registration in
that county is the largest ever known,
some thing like 5000, and the Democratic
party is in good shape for the forthcom-
ing election.
Atlanta Journal: Miss Annie Conner of
Savannah Will be one of Miss Martha
Johnstons maids of honor during the APP
preaching carnival. Miss Conner and Miss
johnson are Georgia bellies and unusually
beautiful women. Miss Johnston has been
selected queen Of Macon's carnival fit
ting selection.
Tuesday Judge E. ". Hammond ap-
pointed Joseph D. Boyd as solicitor for
the City Court of Griffin. which Office has
been held by J. NJ. Kimbrough, Jr., for
several years Mr. Kimbrough is now
first lieutenant of company B, Third Geor-
gia Regiment, and. as his company Will
leave soon for Jacksonville, Fla, Judge
Hammond appointed his successor.
Mrs. Elizabeth AIcCallister Leyden, wild
ow of Dr. W. H. Leyden, is dangerously
i'll at the Leyden House in Atlanta, with
brain fever and the physicians attending
say that there are small chances for her
recovery Mrs. Leyden has been Ill for
less than a week. yet the maiady mas IN
that time made serious inroads on her
strength. Mrs. Leyden was for long
time and until two months ago secretary
of the Woman's Club, and was an earnest
worker for the advancement OF the
Daughters of the Revolution. Her devo-
ton 20 Nthese organizations resulted IN
overwork aud caused brain fever. Mrs.
Leyden is q daughter of j. NJ. McCaliis-
ter, clearing house agent for the Pullman
Car Company.
There is almost an epidemic Of typhoid
fever at Lawrenoeyiue, occasioned, 1t is
thought, by the wet weather and the
amount of dirt turned up In building the
new railroad to Logansvile. Aston webb
has been very i'll with the fever, and his
son is now down with 1t, and is delrious.
John Shacklefords daughter is very low
with fever. Judge Hutchinson is extreme
ly i'll. Though no one has yet died, and
several who have been down with the fe-
yer are recovering, there is serious alarm
among the people In Buford they have
quite a scare over diphtheria. Three have
already died and several others are Ill
with IL, one of whom Is Mr.. Hoyt Sud
derth, one of the most promising young
men in Buford.
There was a bold attempt to wreck
Southern train about a mile from Au-
gusta Tuesday afternoon. As the train
was coming around a curve just beyond
a place known as the dead fall the en-
gineer saw that tree had been felled
across the track. The train was not go
ing fast. and was stopped about fifteen
feet from the obstacle. The train was
backed and the engine detached With the
aid of chain the tree was pulled off the
track by the engine, and the train came
into the city thirty minutes late. At the
place referred to there is a high en-
bankment, and some MALICIOUS person had
cut down Tree and il fell down upon the
track, 1t was a large tree, and would
have caused a serious wreck had the train
run into it, At first it was thought that
the tree had blown across the track, but
investigation proved that it had been cut
down. This is the third attempt that has
been made lately TO wreck passenger trains
near Augusta. The railroad authorities
have become aroused, and viii make every
effort possible to locate the guilty person
or persons, and see that they receive Sc
we're punishment at the hands Of the law.
Atlanta Constitution: David Leonard, a
young white man, was arrested yesterday
at Acworth, Ga and was brought to At
lanta last night on the charge of stealing
a bicycle, and If the charge is true ne
made one of the most remarkable bicycle
Tgort,N Iae VanF
ard walked into the union depot with a
bicycle and when no one was looking he
climbed to the top of a coach, and with
a string drew the wheel up after him.
With the bicycle by his side he rode on
the Western and Atlantic train as far as
Acworth. There is no telling how much
further he would have gone on the strange
ride if he had not been stopped by tele-
gram to Marshal Sorrells of Acworth.
When the train stopped the marshal told
the conductor he wanted one of his pas
sengers, but a search through the coaches
was fruitless. Some one at the depot
spied Leonard on the top of the car, and
he and the wheel were taken down. The
young man who lost the bicycle which was
in Leonard's possession found boy Mon
day night, who saw and talked to Leon
ard, ii is said, before the latter left. To
the boy Leonard, so the boy states, told
how he slipped the wheel away from
where it had been left ana said he intend
ed TO go TO Chattanooga and sell H. This
led to the telegram being sent to Acworth
Al the city prison last night Leonard ad-
mitted that he crawled to the top of the
coach with the bicycle for the purpose of
taking ride to Chattanooga, but he stat
ed that the wheel had been given to him
by negro, a part of the story which the
officers refuse to believe. A warrant has
been sworn out charging Leonard with
larceny. He is about IS years Of age, aud
has been working for the Atlanta Machine
Works. At one time he was acting as a
railroad brakeman.
FLORIDA.
The Republicans Of Polk county held a
convention in the court house at Barlow
Tuesday. After the usual resolutions the