The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-19
n GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

ostine. Breach of Promise Suit
TriaI at OcaIa-Damage Suit at
orlando Comes 40 "A Sudden End.
,an,na to Have Three Large New
,r Factories-Lester EchOls
I,inod for Carrying Concealed
weapons.
GEORGIA.
Tho Alberta cafe at Atlanta was closed
.ss sheriff Thursday under a fl ia. in
e..or If Mrs. Eta Cronk against ]. w.
rra,k the proprietor, for $1,000.
Anderson Hunter has filed suit for 5000
.-.;ns, the Atlanta Consolidated Street
T,s,,,-o, company. Hunter claims that he
na.' neoIigently knocked from car last
October in DeKalb county.
T. s. Hornsby of Atlanta, was granted
total divorce from his wife Mrs. Della
1,itobcox Hornsby. Hornsby testified
ita+ he was married in 1898. and that two
Years later his wife ran away with an
other man.
T.. Walker has been appointed post
..ostar at Chastain, Thomas county;
william S. Preetoiss at Clito, Bulloch
oo,ntv. Mary A. Vandergriff, at Newport,
Fannin county; nj. G. johnson, at Thrift,
Emanuel county
The CITY Council of Rome placed upon
its first reading Wednesday night Alder
man Denny's ordinance requiring all po-
Ucemen 10 pay their honest debts OF get
ont of the service of the city. 1t is thought
that il will pass.
Minnie Lewis, a five-year-old negro girl
living with her parents at 10 Sullivan
street. Atlanta, was criminally assaulted
Thursday night and it is thought that she
will die. The identity of her assailant has
not been discovered.
On recommendation of the pardon board,
Gov Atkinson has issued an order re-
moving the disabilities of Jefferson Waters
who served six years in the penitentiary
on being convicted of robbery in the Su-
Deror Court of Chatham county.
Lester Echols, who was recently acquit-
ted of murder after a former conviction,
and whose case was one of the most SEN
sational in the history of Floyd county, was
fined $3.50 and costs in the City Court of
4 Floyd county Wednesday, upon charge
Of carrying concealed weapons
John W. Quinn charged with assaulting
Pearl Clay a 19-year-old girl, several
weeks ago, was carried before Judge F'oute
at Atlanta Thursday for a preliminary
E hearing. G. w. Clary, the prosecutor in
the case, failed to appear in court against
Quinn, and the case was dismissed.
A new chapter of Arch Masons is to be
4 established in Macon if a sufficient num-
h Der of names to the petition can be Sc
cured. There is not. however, much doubts
as to this, and in all probability the chap
ter will be organized in the near future
Macon has now only one chapter and four
lodges.
a At Ashburn Thursday as the 'shoofy'
train was approaching the station horse
attached to a dray became frightened and
a ran away. The driver was thrown violent
ly against a post and seriously injured.
Willie Flanders, the 9-year-old son of Rev.
j. c. Flanders, pastor of the Methodist
Church, was run over, the wheels passing
over his head and crushing the skill. The
doctors have but little hope of his recov-
/ cry.
Wednesday morning the section boss on
the Southern railway found the mangled
remains of a white man on the track,
about mile above Ridgeway. The head
/ mad been severed from the body and the
limbs cut off. 1t was said that there was
not bone six inches long in his entire
body which was not broken and crushed.
The head it is stated, had not yet been
found so terrible was the work of the
engines
home Tribune: 1t is understood that Hon.
seaborn Wright received a telegram yes
terday asking him to accept the nominal
ton Tor attorney general on the state Pop
ulist ticket. II is also said that Mr.. Wright
wired positive refusal to not only that
Illumination but any other they might
make, in SO far as concerned himself. 1t is
known that Mr.. Wright is averse to allow
ing me use of his name in the plans for the
suate Popul!st ticket and the above facts
are probably entirely true.