The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-04-06
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
$50 IN PARAGRAPHS.

nan Raising Troops to Fight spain.
soIdier Found Dead in a Chair in a
restaurant at Atlanta.
GEORGIA.
u NJ Loyless, a prominent warehouse
man and leading citizen of Cochran, died
saturday night, aged 66 years.
Another dividend of per cent. has been
aoolared in favor of the depositors of the
defunct Chattahoochee National Bank OF
Columbus
poroe's cotton receipts up to this week
ora "a 266 being 10000 bales in excess of
la, YEAR The city will probably receive
saysraI hundred bales more before the sea-
son ends.
cant william A. Patton of the Rome
TIGHT Guards and Capt. H. J. Stewart OF
tba Hill City Cadets have received orders
n increase their enlistments to at least
ffty men each. They have had no trouble
in ding this. Four times that many voI
urteers could be secured with little troiJ
bic.
Crawfordvile will have bank soon. A
r,eeting of those who subscribed to he
canital stock was held Monday. John F.
Holden was elected president, j. A. K en-
dricx vice president; NJ. f. Griffith, CT lsh-
isr and Roger T. Brooke. assistant c ash
ier The capital stock will be $4,000 ana
oil Of the shares have been taken by Gill
zens Of Telfair county.
It is estimated that the trial an i'm
nrisonment of Mrs Mobiles and Gus Fam
HES cost Twiggs county about $1,10 D. The
cases of Shaw and Criswell, convi sted of
Urocking two trains on the SoutheI n Rail-
way the last day in February of L 9S, cost
tbe county about $3.50. There is there
fore. no ground for the story tn at these
trials have bankrupted the cour ty.
Arthur Evans was killed in Il lie north
ern portion of Monroe county S nnday by
Joe Wooten 1t is reported tina t the two
men became involved in quar- el about a
friend of Wooten, when Evans assaulted
him with a knife, whereupon w ooten drew
his knife and cut his antagonis to death.
Both men are we'll known and fhe tragedy
has caused a sensation. Immec hately after
the killing Wooten surrendere d to Sheriff
Newton.
One train left Arlington Fri6 lay with 1900
cattle and another left yester day with the
same amount, and so on htil one man
has shipped over 1900 he Rd, which he
intends getting out by May 1 for Indian
Territory Arlington has for the past
three years fed more cattlf for the mar
ket jhan any other town in the state. The
Arlington Oil and Fertlize a Company and
J. W. Calhoun feed gree 1t quantities of
cattle for the market.
Judge J. H. Lumpkin h ias directed Bur-
ton Smith, attorney for Receiver j. NJ.
slaton of the United States Bond and
Mortgage Company of Atlanta to sue the
subscribers TO $4,000 Of the capital stock
which was never paid in. The subscrb-
ers will defend the salts on the ground
that they had transf erred their stock to
Harry Cassin, who W as one of the organ
izers. The capital $ took was 100000 and
only $4,000 was paid in.
A. c. Banks a colo red leader of Newman,
and who for the pa st two weeks has been
serving on the fec eral jury in Atlanta
spoke for an hour i n the court house Sat
urday, picttlring 20 a colored audience the
horrors of the thou sands starving in Cuba
and enthused them with American patriot
ism He says thlt ffty-rwo men were
enlisted and that on next Saturday an
other meeting will be held, when he
poets the enlistment to run up to 200 men,
Their services will then be rendered 10
the authorities
William DeMarques, United States
soldier, was found dead in a chair in
negro restaurant at Atlanta Sunday morn
ing. On the night previous he had en-
tered the restaurant to sleep off the ef-
ieets of whisky and was left there when
the restaurant closed Saturday night. Sun
cay morning an employee in the restaurant
attempted to ar ouse the sleeping soldier
and found him dead. The coroner held
an inquest over the body and the verdict
OF The jury was that the deceased came
Ia his death from the effect of alcohol,
which produced heart failure.
An ordinary pine coffin containing the
body of a negro was found in a small
cemetery on the riVe1 line, about six miles
from Atlanta Saturday. No was
ABOUT the coffin when the keeper of the
.. me grounds found it, and il was not I'M
III -ate in the day that che keeper had as
Ceflalned that a negro had brought the
oody there for burial at a late hour the
previous evening. and finding no grave or
any one to take charge of the coffin and
iS contents just left both on the ground,
uustns that the proper parties would find
,Ie coffin and contents. there in the morn
Macon Telegraph: So far the fruit crop
Is safe in the opinion of fruit growers and
OF those in position to know, and if the
next few weeks are passed in safety the
crop will be fine. The frost predicted by
Hle weather people for last week came
saturday night, but was very light and al
uIouSh The cool weather somewhat re- |
"'"'u the growth of fruit, 1t did no per- |
manent injury The fruit growers now
my fear the full moon in this month
mlHch will be about the 10th, ana say |
'hat II they pass that period everything |
SAFE. Some of the growers say that /
aSHsht frost cannot now seriously damage |
ie peach and pear crops, as the trees |
1Ttle taken on unusually heavy foliage. |
i ms collage in a large measure protects |
~, young fruit from the frost. 1t has |
@geh years since the prospect of such
-Ne lruot crop was had in Georgia. and |
'eIybody is hoping FOR favorable weather.
Hawkinsville's river front presents
Ney appearance since the navigation of
1ue Ocmulgee river has begun. There
were tied up at the docks Saturday four
s.se5amooats the government snag boat Sa-
,Aia the City of Macon, the City of Haw-
HInsViile and the Little William. The
ttaIrlage capacity of the three last nar9ed
ooals is respectively 49, 1928 and 155 TIPS.
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