The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-16

GEORGIA.
The residence of T. NJ. Woodward, near
Hawkinsvile, was destroyed by fire We'd
nesday. Nearly everything in the house
vas burned.
John T. Moye Of Muscogee county.
Confederate veteran aged 60 years died
at his home Thursday, after long i'll
ness of paralysis.
Maj. Wallace Neff underwent an oper-
ation for appendicitis at Fort Mcpherson
Thursday. His condition is serious, bur
1t is thought he will recover.
An attempt was made to burn the gin
merry Of e. ]. Prather at Richland Wed
nesday night. Hay and kerosene We're
used. but the town marshal frustrated
the plot before the torch was applied
Congressman Brantley will have another
week of active campaigning. beginning at
bonneville, Thursday at Dexter. in Lau-
rens: Friday, with Senator Bacon, at
Dublin. and Saturday at Kite, in john
son county.
Mr.. A. S. Begg, formerly train master
between Atlanta and Brunswick for the
Southern Railroad, has been promoted in
the service of the Grand Trunk Railway
system. r.
Macon while he was with the Southern.
Elder N. G. Jacks, pastor of the Craw-
ford Avenue Christian Church at Augusta,
was taken seriously i'll Wednesday nght-
His condition has been serious. the consul
tation of physicians did not determine the
nature of his illness, but the symptoms
indicated appendicitis.
Capt c. F. Moss, a well known citizen
of Gainesville, and the first conductor on
the Gainesville, Jefferson and Southern
Railroad died at Gainesville on thursday
He had been i'll from fever for I'VE weeks
and his death was not unexpected. lie
was 40 years of age and native OF greene
county.
Railroads running into Atlanta are not
doing anything toward new union pas
eenget depot nor are they making any
efforts to improve the Old shed The COM
plant of the City Council was not nled
with the Railroad Commission, and OF
course, it could not consider the question
at its meeting last week.
A huge postal card was received in At
lanta Thursday inviting C. L. Hartman to
the annual convention of the general pas
senger agents at Detroit Mich. lt was
on the commonest kind of brown board
and TWO Ieet Woe by tiINS iC't iVAef
the little stamp looking as though 1t were
lost IN in the corner of the big board. 4
The negro Stephens, who killed young
James Kershaw and seriously wounded
John Carr. at Randalrs bar, in Macon,
some time ago. has been granted new
trial by the Supreme Court stephens
was found guilty of murder, with rec
concentration to mercy. It appeared
taS nd
of a surprise.
The relatives of Alfred H. Holsenback
of Byron, Ga, fear he has met with foul
play at Macon. on Oct. he went TO
Macon taking three bales of cotton whicn
he sold and sent his son home win the
team and S25 in money. He intended pro
ceeding to Forsyth at once, but nothing
has since been heard of him. Macon au-
thorites and detectives are at work on
the case 1t is feared he has been muir
dered and robbed.
The waycross Journal will issue
handsome twenty-five page industrial edi-
ton next Saturday in celebration of its
third anniversary. 1t will be printed on
book paper and beautifully illustrated
with half-tone engravings. The covers
will be very handsome. Many interesting
special articles from the pens of Editor
-
bard viii appear in the paper.
Douglasville New South: g. G. Hudson
brought us two stalks of corn yesterday
which measured over fifteen feet in hight,
end each stalk contained two ears of corn
which grew ten feet from the ground The
corn is known as the Mexican June var
iety. and Mr. Hudson planted 1t in June
on the ground from which he had gathered
oats Ii natures very quickly and is by
far the best variety of corn we have seen.
On last Friday night Ben Williams, who
lives on the Ocmuigee river in Telfair
county, shot a chicken thief, as he was
leaving his chicken house. The load was
of buckshot and was a fatal wound, the
man expiring instantly. The dead man
proved to DE an old white man named
clark. who was about rs years of age. He
came to Georgia about eight years ago
from New Jersey. All his children had
married and left him, and he and his aged
wife were living alone
Representative Joseph Hall of Bib
county win introduce in the next House
bill to amend the charter of the city of
Macon. The purpose of the proposed bin
is to abolish the public works commission,
TO regulate the employment of city officers
and to fix their compensation, to change
the number of wards, provide for registra-
ton In each ward, and TO limit the power
of the Mayor and Council The bin is said
TO be doomed to much opposition, when 1t
Is introduced as ii Is thought the present
administration in Macon will not approve
the measure.
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