The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-10
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND sol tn
CAROLINA PARAGR APHEp.


Proves FataI-CoIIector From Au-
susta Arrested at Auanta-B-ide
Commits Suicide at Pearson
Month After Her Marriage.
GEORGIA.
Edward Green of Atlanta, who a5e' LENT
ally shot himself while hununs some days
ago, died Saturday.
Rev. r. o. Flyn of the krkwood
Presbyterian Church has accepted a can
from the church of Cordele.
The firm of Robertson & simmons, gem
eral merchandise, which was one OF me
largest in Pickens county. has dissolved
by mutual consent.
A new bank was organize at Monticello
Saturday, with D. b. Benton of Ialo Ai'o
as president, and Lucian Benton OF Monu-
cello as vice president.
The First Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral has accepted the building of capt
James White, on Clayton street. for use
as a postofiee at Athens
The following postmastcrs were APP
pointed for Georgia Friday John K.
Freeman, Ada Dooley county; 4. e.
Cochran, Lilly Pond, Gordon county.
Edwin Broyles the S-year-oId son of
Arnold Broyles. deputy county clerk Of
Fulton county, was so badly burned at the
family residence Friday that his death IS
expected
Hon. Beverly D. Evans, Jr., Of Sanders
vile win be a candidate before the next
legislature for the judgeship of the mid
die circuit, now presided over by Judge
Roger Gamble of Louisville
A peculiarly sad tragedy occurred at
Pearson Thursday morning. Mrs. Morgan,
a bride, who was married only a month
ago, locked herself in a room at her nome
and shot herself with "a pistol in the
mouth. She died Immediately No cause
is assigned for the act.
Col c. H. Brand, grand master of the
Independent Order of odd Fellows OF
Georgia, is at a sanitarium at Atlanta,
under treatment for kidney trouble He
has successfully undergone an operation,
and is now convalescing He Will remain
about week longer al the sanitarium.
William Hall, who has been operating
one of DIR. L. G. Hardman's extensive
plantations in jackson county, is in the
station house at Harmony Grove charged
with embezzlement DR.. Hardman re-
mitted Hall $500 for farm expenses, and
S115 of the amount has failed to show up.
The proprietor swore out a warrant for
Hall, and the embezzler is in jail.
The January term of Floyd Superior
Court will begin Jan. II. Some months
ago Mrs. A. W. Walton fell while getting
on the elevator at the Armstrong Hotel
at Rome, and sus tanned serious injuries.
For some weeks she was confined TO her
bed, and gets about now only by the aid
of crutches. Mrs. Walton has fled suit
against the hotel for $5,001 damages. The
hotel Is protected from loss by an insur-
ance concern.
A. T. Shaw of Augusta was arrested at
Atlanta Saturday while en- route West
with his family. Shaw, it is claimed co.
lected rents from property placed in his
charge and failed TO make proper returns
He says he has been under bond for two
years, and he'd been making an effort tC
sell his property and leave the state fol-
some time. He says he notified his bonds
man that he was going to leave and Sc
cured his consent.
A business deal involving upward oil
$4,000 was consummated at Harmony
Grove Saturday. G. w. D. HARDER pres
ident of the Harmony Grove cottor
mills, and his brother, w. T. HARDER
sold out their entire stock in this cottor
mill, and will proceed at once to cree
another mill, in which they will hold
majority of the stock themselves. Stocl
I'm the new mill has already been sub.
scribed, and work will begin soon.
The new science hall on the university
campus at Athens is now almost complet
ed. The first two floors, to be occupied
by the chancellor's Office and the depart
ment of chemistry viii be equipped dur
ing this month. and will be ready for us,
by February. The third floor to be occu
pied by the biological department will
not be equipped until next summer A.
soon as the chemical apparatus is moved
into the new quarters, the laboratory o
electrical engineering will be equipped a
a cost of $500.
Rome Tribune; An old Masonic apron
in the show window of w. NJ. Cannon &
Sons store has attracted a great deal O
attention. 1t has a very interesting his
tory, and is now the property of DR.. e. B
Freeman Of this city. 1t was Originally
presented to Col. Robert Free
man, an uncle of DR.. Freeman. by Gen
Lafayette in Raleigh. N. c., in 1926 anC
was worn by Col. Freeman there TIL,
apron is of white silk, deliberately printe,
with all the Masonic signs and symbols
II is still in good state of preservation
but the white silk is beginning 70 turi
a yellowish tinge from age DR.. Freeman
naturally prizes this apron very highly
He has been offered $3.50 for it. but n,
money consideration would induce him t,
part with il.
State School Commissioner Glenn is bus,
with the blanks for the school census
work on which is TO begin as soon Al
the stationery can be printed and dis
tributed to the County School Commits
sioner. The matter is in the hands of tn
state printer and blanks will be ready Z,
few days, and the commissioner nro
poses to push the work so that the en1m
GRAFTON in all the counties will be com
plete and tabulated by May /. Bv TN
enumeration of 1893 the school populattol
of Georgia was 604000 Under the law
new census has to be taken every Nv
years, and one is due this spring. Their
is much interest in the school censuse
because they are the only counts betyeel
decades to show the growth of population
The number of children of school age bear
an almost uniform relation to the tota
population, and closely indicates the In
crease in the number of inhabitants Com
missioner Glenn expects a big increa Sc
appfoximating 100000 and in his he i
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