The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-04
GEORGIA.

It Is reported that COluWDUs mag 4'
another bank. II IS said that the lnsi'u-
ton. if organized. will occupy me oio
Chattahoochee National Bank 'uiiolHs'
There is live probability thaN- Griffin
win have a pants factory and Jos eph n
Drewry win be at its head. The m acnin-
erv has been ordered and the tnifd SUI,
of the Drewry building is being pu ia
shape for the industry.
Athens has new enterprise afoat. a
stock company is being organized thel e
with a capital stock of $1,000 to buy and
operate the Piedmont spool and boDbn
min The mill viii be stocked up IN less
than sixty days and will employ thirty
five hands.
Abner Taylor. the Macon wife murderer
seems to be very contented now. He gives
the iailers no trouble and reads his Bio,e
from morning till night. He thinks mat
he will get a new trial and the thought
of the scaffold on the 2Sth does not seem
to be troubling him at all
Rabbi Edward Landau, who recently
received a call 70 the pastorate Of the
Hebrew Church at Albany, has arrived In
that CITY from his home ia Michigan, ana
has begun his duties Rabbi Landau IS
vo,lpg man OF high attachments ana ths
Hebrews Of Albany are confident tnat
they have secured an able man.
Nejse Rains. colored, was killed by gas
in well at Thomaston Thursday morn
Ing The negro was about sixty feet under
ground and found he could not stand IT,
and had about reached the top Wnen ne
was overcome, turned loose and was XIII
Cd instantly. Two others have been res
cued recently after they were seemingly
dead.
A gang of negroes, composed OF WEI
Sims. Josh Geter, John Sims, Alex Per
kins. John Phillips and Howard Cop
pedqe. were arrested at Camp Norihen'
Griffin. Thursday, for rocking the senu-
nels on different Outposts. Iney were
piaced under a strong guard and taken
TO Griffin and turned over to the civil a1-
thorities, who viii see that they are SUI
ficienty punished.
A mortgage has been filed at Rome from
the Bass Foundry and Machine Company
to the Colonial Trust Company of New
York for 81 10000. The deed consists of
thtrty-nine closely printed pages, and has
$500 In revenue stamps in $50 denomina-
ton. The company owns an enormous
amount of property In Indiana, Tennessee,
Georgia and Alabama. They own about
100 mineral lots in Floyd and Polk coun-
ties.
Columbus Enquirer-Sun: Deputy Collect
or Basch Of Savannah, who is located III
Columbus for the present, has received or
ders from the government TO call on the
druggists of this and other cities ana get
a statement of the unstamped goods SOFA
by them since July l and up to the time
STAMPS were secured THE proper way
TO make out a report Is to make out a
duplicate list, giving each days sale ana
the value of goods solo, says the col
lector.
Deputy Collector Basch Of Savannah,
Deputy Marshal williams OF Ellavile
and Mr. d. NJ. Chapman of Taylor coun-
IL, arrived at Columbus Tuesday evening
from a very successful raiding tour in
Taylor county The officers have been
on 10 a stil for several days but have been
unable to capture IL, on account OF II be
ing moved repeatedly. Finally. however
the officers located the dsstilery, when
was a fine copper still. with cap ana
worm, about four miles from Butler m
stead of destroying the disullery the Oh
ficers sent il to Atlanta.
King jackson was lodged in jail at
Americas Wednesday morning for the
murder of Dick Butts, the latter dying
from blow on the head dealt by Jack
son. This is the fifth death from Nioleiice
occurring in Sumter county within two
weeks, an unprecedented record of crime.
The murder of Mrs. Mary McGarrah and
James Boone, the lynching of their slayer,
Ham Hollis; the killing Of Charles New
some by his wife and the murder OF
Butts, make up the bloody record Of a
fortnight With the exception Of Mrs. Nc
Garrah and young Boone all the others
concerned are negroes.
Lee Plant, a VIGOROUSLY bad negro
wanted in Douglas county for some crime
by Sheriff Ward, was located near villa
Rica Wednesday night, at his brother-n-
laws, Pink Sewell. Sheriff Ward tele-
graphed Marshal Driskin of Villa Rica 20
arrest him. Driskiil, in company with
Austin Pope went ont and Plant resist
ed arrest He and DTiskill fell and dur
ing the uussle Plants wife struck Driskill
over the head with an iron poker making
two ugly scalp wounds, disabling him
He is now in bed dangerously hurt. Dur
ing the melee Seweu came up and en-
gagged with Pope, striking him on the head
with a shotgun, disabling him. Lee Plant
in the meantime had secured Marsha
DriskilPs pistol and began using il al
Pope They exchanged two shots at one
another Plant made his escape.