The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-16
n GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
.rws OF THE Two STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

pureiars Busy at wiiieamson-The
,ours the Cuyers of the Georgia
- Vow Being shipped West.
49,, suits Against the southern-A
uoconite to Walk From Atlanta
A. NOW york for $500.
GEORGIA.
horse swapper's convention will be
la ar Jasper two weeks hence.
rno home of ]. H. McLane at Senoia
destroved by fire Sunday. Mr.. Nc
w. Loses $500, with $1,000 insurance.
r,o store of Beauchamp & Son, at Will
.nson was burglarized Sunday night
=, aoods TO the amount of 500 stolen. An
SmT band seems to be on the road
for robbery.
uor w. A, Dodson, for the Senate, and
r n Burkhalter, w. T. Lane, T. B.
c,oyer DIR. MCGEE, George Israel, E. G.
onoer for the lower house, are among the
ohohle candidates in Sumter county,
t,bongh II is expected that others will an
nounce
lanes Reynolds, an actor, member of
"a Night off, one of Hoyt's companies,
&c ar the Grady Hospital at Atlanta at
The point of death. At late hour. Sun
day night he took "a night off" and visit
Cd the tenderloin district, when he got
into difficulty with some of the visitors
IN that section and was cut in the stom-
ach
The sale of the property of the Augusta
Mining and Investment Company has just
been confirmed by Judge William T. New
man of the United States Court at At
Ianta Special Commissioner c. w. Has
kins reported that the property had been
sold as directed by the court the pur-
chaser being j. w. Reinhart and the
amount of his bid being $65,500.s
The Armours are now buying Southern
and Georgia cattle very extensively. 1t is
reported that their agents have just
closed trade for several hundred head
with the Winkenses of Waynesboro. This
stock is fattened on cotton seed hulls for
market Extensive sales of cattle to
Western packers and slaughter houses
are reported from different sections of
Georgia.
Alfred r. Silvers, a Whitehall street
jeweler and engraver, and his wife, have
filed separate suits in the City Court at
Atlanta for damages against the South
ern Railway Company, by their attorney,
c. T. Ladson, the husband claiming $1,000
and the wife $1,000. The carriage in which
Nr. and Mrs. Silvers were riding was
struck by a freight train at HowelPs mill
road last month.
George S. Kiser of Macon will start
from Atlanta Tuesday morning on a walk
to the city of New York. He goes to try
and win prize of $50 offered by the COL
ored Athletic Club of Atlanta. Kiser ex-
poets to win the money, and If he does so,
he will have about SIS when he returns to
Atlanta, because his railroad fare back to
that city will consume the greater por-
ton of his prize. The conditions of the
walk make it necessary for Kiser to leave
without money and not to beg his way.
The body of an infant. well developed
and apparently healthy at birth, was
found by Sergeant Abbott and Patrolman
Wright Monday night in water pipe in
the rear of the Atlanta Elevator Works,
at &c South Forsyth street The body of
the infant had evidently been thrown into
waste pipe from the floor above Above
the store of the Atlanta Elevator Com
pany are rooms occupied by women. This
Is at 66la South Forsyth street and is
reached by an entirely separate entrance.
II was from this place that the police
tnlnk that the body of the child was
thrown into the waste pipe.