The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-05-23
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA. FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PARAGRAPHED.


CAROLINA PARAGRAPHED.
A jealous Negro Kills His sweat
heart at EufnE-War Proving q
Hardship TO Guano FactorieS-De-
structive HaiI storm M EIberton.
J. G. spencer Accidentally KILLED
at GaTrey. =. C.-Crop Prospect in
OranEeburg County Poor.
GEORGIA
Mrs. A K. Stamps. aged IS years, died at
Thomaston Thursday.
The Abbevlle Chronicle has made an
Other change. J. Il. Monroe is now editor
and publisher.
The Georgia Bankers Association Will
hold its seventh annual convention at the
Hotel Tybee on June Is and &c. There Will
be rs or more bankers in attendance.
Rev. W. A. Gambler recently elected
bishop by the Baltimore conference, was
reared In Carroll county. He IS q brother
OF ". 3. aud S. C. Gambler Of Villa RIca.
The death Of Mrs. Nancy Cole occurred
Thursday at her home, ten miles above
Waycross. Her husband Wesley Cole,
died ten days ago, in his 95th year. She
was air. Coles second wife, and was %
years old.
Dr. Leon Henri Charbonnier, Of the
University OF Georgia, viii move to Au-
eusta He mas resigned his position as
professor Of physics IN the University Of
Georgia and dean of Franklin College.
His resignation is TO take effect at COM
mencement
Saturday afternoon, between 5 and
O'Clock, negro cabin on the Hilton plan
tauon. owned by Mai Alexander, about
six miles from Augusta. burned to the
ground. Two children perjshed in the
flames. Patsy Abraham occupied the
cabin, and Saturday shut the two small
children in the house while she went TO
the field to work
The war with Spain is proving a hard
ship In the guano factories. superntond-
ent W bowman Of Cordele's plant
says that sulphur and nitrate Of soda aIc
contra bands Of war, being used I'm maxi
ing explosives, therefore they are hard TO
get. He says some Of the factories viii be
compelled to close down unless they can
procure these necessary essentials for
their work
A destructive hail storm visited Elber-
ton about 6 o'clock Wednesday evening.
1t came from the southwest, but kept
changing until IL came from all points Of
the compass, lasting nearly an
hour. The hailstones were Of Im-
mense size many of them being as large
as hens eggs Skylights and flower pots
were shattered all over the city, and glass
windows broken OUT everywhere. Gardens
and crops are literally beat in the ground
and totally ruined All fruit in its path
was destroyed.
Thomas Jersey, of Buckley, Ware coun-
ty, is the Oldest white person in the sec
ton. He is now in his niuety-ninth year.
and is declining rapidly. The old man has
suffered from rheumatism for many years
and uses crutches. He has farmed all his
life. In the church revivals in his neigh
borhood he has always been q conspic-
uous figure for his emotional hilarity He
shouts al every service and wants TO hug
everybody in the church. The old man
lost his last tooth twenty-odd years ago
and is badly wrinIied from old age When
he gets happy az church he throws his
orutches away and hops around as lively
as young man, but soon becomes pros
trated and has to be carried home.
A negro woman named Lula Smith, llv-
ing at Ewing, in the lower part of Cllnch
county, was killed by a negro boy named
Henry Rush, on Sunday morning. Both
negroes We're in the employ of Mr. j. A.
Ewing. The woman bore d good reputa-
ton, and was very much admired by 9TH
ers n Mr. Ewing's employ. Rush was
Jealous of her End had tried to persuade
her not to accept attention from any one
but himself. Last Sunday morning the
negro entered her house while she was
dressing for church. Without warning he
went to the bureau, before which she was
standing, and, placing a pistol against her
temple, pulled the trigger The weapon
discharged and the woman dropped dead in
her trackS 8ir Ewing and some Of his
employees caught Rush after a desperate
encounter and tied him until he could be
gotten 70 bonneville jail.