The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-03
ITEMS IN THE THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND sotr5l
CAROLINA PARAGRAPHED.

dignant Over the DctenSfon oi
Their Pilot Boat-Past Year pros
porous One at Starke-Eddfe Rail
TO Race the Champion of German,
On the Track at seIIcafr.
GEORGIA.
The smallpox scare cost Newman au1a.
500.
G. V. Gress will start a 2OO-acre peach
orchard near Kramer
A case of smallpox has developed a,
Crawford. The patient has been isolatod.
William Smith, negro. will hare u
Burke county next Friday for kulrs "a
negro friend.
Rev, J. ]. Bennett, pastor of the ALI
bany Baptist church, has been called r9
the church al Social Circle and MoHra..
The Baptist church at Monroe is one of
the weaithiest in the state
A corporation has been formed at E.ar..u-
ton Hopkins county, Kentucky, to develop
gold fields in Lumpkin county. Georgia.
Inc company was incorporated a Nsa.-
sonFilie by some of the leading officer u.
the st. Bernard Coal Company The caI-
tai stock is placed at $4,000
Ia Dalton, is feeling the way towards -e-
curing the location in Dalton OF Boston
manufacturing establishment. They waul
to secure $4,000 stock and will put in tha.r
100000 plant and capitalize the company at
100000. 1t is not known yet what may
come of it,
6. G. Bond of Clarke county, has been
appointed by Gov. Atkinson to fill the va
canCv Of cp.y7n,iSsforer e. a. ..t... nor
mai school caused by the resignation of
W. II. Baker Mr.. Bond fills the remain
Ger OF term which expires Nov 49, 1899
south r. Evans was reappointed on the
commission for d term of six years.
John Harris (eolored) has been arrested
In Cobb county on a charge of murder
ing w. K. Glover, farmer, in that couu-
" In 1873. Harris has been arrested twice
before on the same charge, but the grand
jury held that the evidence was not sufti-
cient TO warrant indictment. New evil
oehee IS said to have been discovered.
At Gainesville Friday Judge A. w. Fife
overruled the motion for a new trial in
the case of the state VS.. T. j. Peoples,
convicted in October in Whitfield superior
court of receiving stolen goods Waller
Bohannan, the leader of the Dalton gang,
was brought from Dade coal mines. and
his affidavit was read. The affidavit was
a complete denial of all that he was al
legged to have said to Copeland and the
failure of to show that Bohannon had
been made promises to testify weakened
the Cause of the defendant.
Cooper's Pharmacy. at Rock Ford, in
Screven county, has been forced to the
wall The concern has made bill Of sale
of the stock of goods to Willis & Rountree
of Augusta, subject to a mortgage he'd
by S. Guckenheirner & Son of Savannah.
There are several other creditors who Will
not, unless a compromise is effected, be
able to get anything. An effort will be
made by the unsecured creditors to have
the entire business put in the hands of a
receiver and attack the bill OF sale as be-
ing fraudulent The Indebtedness of
Cooper is about $1,000.
Taylor correspondence Jacksonville |
Fla.) Times-Union: A row that almost re- |
suited in a race war took place recently
near Fort Moniac, Ga. Several white men
and some negroes were standing around a
fire in front of Bob Clyatts store, across
the line In Florida. Some of them had
been drinking, when L. Reynolds, with q
sugar cane in his hand, stepped up to Bob
Richardson, negro, and tried to sell il
to him, but Richardson said he did not
want it, when Reynolds told him he had it
10 guy, ana Ndu 10 pay MN SZ,00 Tor II.
FINALLY Reynolds beat him down with the
butt of his pistol. and then discharged his
pistol in the air. Some one ran into The
store and told Richardson's wife. who was
in the store, that her husband was killed
She went at once to Clyatts turpentine
still There she found q crowd of negroes |
standing by a fire. She told them that her
husband had been killed Austin Britt. a
negro. and stiller for Clyatt. and friend of
the negro, told the negroes to get their
guns and kill every white man they could
find. He rushed into Clyatts commissary
and got Clyatts Winchester rife and came
back by the fire where J. =. Raulerson
tried TO stop him. He said it was no time to
stop, and went on to Clyatt's store. where
the white men were standing Brit pointed
his gun at o. b. Sweat. Sweat aud Berry
Crews told him that he was going to shoot
an innocent man. Brit then turned his gun
on Jack Raulerson, and fired, the BAH talk
ing effect in the left breast, killing him in
stantly. He fired the second shot at Raul
erson, and missed him, the ball going
through the front part of his coat. Lewis
Reynolds fed from the scene. Brit fired the
third shot at Zary Davis. hitting him in
the hip, from which he fell Bril- then
threw another cartridge into his gun. and
walked off. When few feet away. he saw
a negro short distance Off and fired on
him, but missed. A little further on he met
j. p. Raulerson, who had followed on from
Clyatts still, and told him that it was n
good thing he had had nothing to do with
the beating of Richardson. He walked ON
to Clyatts still, and mas not been seen
since. The white men spread the news, and
there was soon an armed crowd who went
10 Clyatts still, and ran off every negro
they could find on the place. They found
two negroes, who did not leave as fast as
they wanted them to, and they snot them
They were M. j. Watson and Tricky BIZ
Neither was badly hurt. Sheriff Driggers
and Deputy L. S. Williams went to the
scene Sunday evening and Quoted the ex-
citemerst, and sent kilograms to ell points
TO capture Brit, who is a ginger-cake ne
gro weighing about 125 pounds and feet
II inches in hight. w. T. Clyatt has offered
a reward of 5000 and Jack Raulerson's
brothers $50 for the arrest Of Austin Brit.
FLORIDA.
An Ormond orange grower received 5000
per crate for several hundred Gates of
tangerines recently sent 10 New York.
Starke is soon to have a new two-story
building, 25x1O0 feet. constructed of the
finest Philadelphia pressed brick.