The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-01
GEORGIA.

Cook Bros. or Oglethorpe VIII remove
their extensive iron works and machine
shops TO Americas shortly. The plant will
he located at the head of Cotton avenue
and on the Central Railroad front
The Presbyterian Church at Valdosta
has decided TO call Rev. C. C. Carson OF
Remington to fill the pulpit of that
cnurch 1t is thought that he will &C
cept the call. The church at Valdosta
has never had regular pastor, the for
rner pastor, Rev. ]. P. Ford, serving both
the Valdosta church and the one at Quit
man.
Mr. James Lassiter and Miss Irby Shell
ton Of Valdosta were married Sunday
morning at the home of the bride Rev.
/ E. Wray of the Methodist Church Off
eating Mr.. John Lassiter of Cordeie,
brother of the groom, and Miss Edna Bak-
er of Valdosta were the attendants, and
only intimate friends of the parties were
present at the ceremony. 1t was some
thing of a surprise wedding to Valdosta.
Mrs. George Vaughn has filed suit in the
Catoosa Superior Court against the West
ern and Atlantic Railroad for $4,000 dam
ages for the death of her husband, Thomas
n Vaughn, who was killed at Graysviile
in a wreck some weeks ago. The COM
plant states that Mr.. Vaughn was fire
he was upon the tender of the engine
ready to take on water at the tank at
Graysvile, as The train was slowing up to
stop, the train having previously parted
r. broken loose, the rear detached portion
the train crashed into the cars next to
he engine and knocked Vaughn to the
ground, threw him on his head and killed
him.
Mr.. A. j. Moncrief, Mercer Colleges
fro1y
test at Atlanta Saturday night, won the
orators medal in a close and spirited con-
test His address on THE South's Con-
tribution to the American Republic" was
a mastery one. The contest was presld-
ed over by the president of the association,
Mr. John Roach Straton, who is well
known in Savannah. Mr.. Robin Adair,
representative of the University of Geor-
gia, was second In the contest his average
being S61k, while Mr.. Moncriefs was
Sc %. The average of Mr.. Smith who
represented the North Georgia Agricultu-
raj College, was "a, and that of Mr.. rain
err Emory's representative, was S212.
Vadosta Correspondence Morning News,
Oct. 30: Last evenings train from Sa-
vannah brought to this city man who
was in a critical condition and for some
time il was thought that he had either
been hurt on the train or someone had as
saulted him. He could not talk or walk
when he arrived here and was put off of
the train at the depot. The conductor
stated that two men put him on the train
at Dupont and had ticket for him to VAL
dosta The man gave his name as Got,
and said that he was on his way to rela
tives in Tampa. He claimed to be brick
mason and says he remembers nothing
nothing since last Sunday when he left
Waycross The city officials here found
a boarding house for him and summoned
a physician to attend to him. He had
high fever but was better this morning
and able to talk. The opinion is that he
was taken i'll somewhere along the road
and some parties who were tired of at
tending to him bought him ticket to this
city to get rid of him. The physicians
. believe that he was suffering from paraly-
sis when he reached here.
The Admission Hot Blast has this story
of the luck of a former Georgian and of
a family now living at Rome: Miss Bes-
sic Jones, who went to Duncan, Indian ter
Titory some two months since to claim her
share of the Choctaw Indian lands and
money under the Dawes act, has returned
to Admission and will spend the winter
here with her many Admission friends.
Miss Jones is known by her friends as
THE Indian princess" Many many years
ago when the Choctaws were the principal
people of North Georgia. the heart OF
Tusconola, the daughter of a Choctaw
chief, was won by Sam Jones, noble
pale face, of whom the Indians thought
great DEAL and they were married with
all of the tribal pomp and ceremony. Miss
Jones is a great granddaughter of this
couple and cousin of Sam Jones, the
present chief of the tribe. Miss Jones went
10 Indian territory two months ago she
was accompanied by her father, mother,
brother and sister of Sugar Valley, Ga,
and her brother-in-law, Mr.. Victor Hen
son. and family of Rome. They are still
there. The work of enrolling the Indians
and getting everything in shape for appor-
toning the lands and money is difficult
and lengthy, and it will be some time next
spring before the commission finally set
ties with the Choctaws. Miss Jones sis
ter, Mrs Henson, and her three children
will get 1900 acres of land. Mr.. Henson
formerly lived here, and has still many
friends in Admission. Miss Jones will get
$40 acres of land, besides a share of the
Sl, 200, 600 or $12OO0,0O0 now in the treasury
at Washington, which will amount to
some 5000 or $1,000 She has already Sc
Iected her land and will get formal pos
session of it next spring. on the day she
registered she had three proposals of mara
rlage One of them came from an old
friend, but the other two were from
strangers. This, however, is an incident
of which Mss Jones does not talk.
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