The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-27
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA


II is said that Lawrenceville will have
guano factory and an oil mill before next
season.
Maj. John D. Butt of Augusta died FRI
day morning of heart trouble brought on
by acute indigestion.
Atlanta is agitauns the subject of
concert association to furnish high-ciass
music at minimum cost.
During the week there was shipped from
the port of Darien, coastwlse and foreign.
2541 ,115 feet of timber and lumber valued
at $2S.Oi3.
Sandy Bareheld of villa Rica sold bale
of cotton Thursday for $50 that he has held
for thirteen years. 1t was worth when
ginned $i6. and that amount at 10 per
cent. compounded would have amounted
to $l2o.27.
Villa Rica Is on a building boom. w.
II. & Martin Hamrick have begun work
on the foundation for two brick stores.
G. B. Malone has the timber on the ground
for a handsome residence of six rooms, to
cost $1,000. B. +. Floyd has broken dirt
for a brick store on the old Dozier Hotel
lot.
Thursday the residence and outhouses
of Hon. NJ. l.. Bunch of Eastman were
consumed by fire. There was no insur-
ance, and very few articles of furniture
were saved The smokehouse. well stor-
ed with meats, syrup. lard and other val
uables, was total loss The damage 10
not less than $1,000.
Friday morning the boiler attached to
the tram engine used at Hancocks mill,
just across the river In Montgomery
county, exploded killing the engineer and
scalding, perhaps fatally, the fireman. The
explosion was terrific, blowing the tender,
engine and boiler forty-two feet from the
track. The name of the engineer was j.
NJ. Arlington. The name of the fireman
Is unknown.
Cash Camp the 6-year-old son of Mr..
and Mrs. w. II. Camp was burned 20
death at Rome Thursday. The little fell
low was left In a sitting room by an older
| sister, who had TO leave the house to go
upon an errand. The boy locked the door
in order TO play a joke upon his sister,
and while playing near the fireplace his
clothing caught and his body was almost
cremated.
In the City Court at Lawrencevilie last
week John Rogers ct al was awarded a
verdict for s3.700 against Bates, Kings
berry & Co., Inman, Smith e. Co., John
| Silvey & Co. and other Atlanta wholesale
merchants. The Rogers boys alleged that
the stock OF goods belonging to them was
seized by defendants and sold as the prop
erty of c. c. Rogers, their father, unlaw-
fully and Illegally, and filed suit for $io-
COO, alleging 5000 for the goods and 5000
as damages, The case will be appealed
! TO the Supreme Court. ~ 4s,
A most remarkable case Of Indifference
to pain came to light in Rome Thursday
morning and is causing some speculation
among local physicians. A negro named
Gus Jackson made his appearance In East
Rome from no one knows where, and loaf
ed around for some time. In his right
side was a CHASTITY knife wound extend
ing from near the stomach AROUND, to-
ward the back, then up toward the neck
| for eight inches or more. In one place
he knife had penetrated to the hollow, bur
the negro did not seem TO mind 1t in the
| least. He said he was cut in game of
craps at Cohutta Tuesday night and that
he was cut in a fight. The wound had
never been dressed and the negro said that
he did not know who his assailant was. He
went from Rome to Atlanta #ithS the
wound still undressed.