The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-30
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS or THE TWO STATES TOLD
PARAGRAPHS.

ATLANTA Demands Payment 0f Taxes
on Atlanta and West Point De-
bentureS-RepubIica Hold Coun-
~ Conventions in Florida - Big
real Estate Deal Consummated at
Atlanta.
GEORGIA.
Mrs. James b. Baird. wife If one of At
lanta's most prominent physicians, died
Wednesday night. Mrs. Baird had been
III for more than a month with typhoid
fever.
On the plantation Of Dunbar Lamar on
Beech Island, near Augusta Wednesday
Lucy Session. a colored girl accidentally
fired a shotgun and killed her sister EN-
ma, aged y years.
Joseph Banuigan, the owner of the Aus
tell building and numerous properties in
Atlanta and Georgia. died at his home,
Providence, r. l., Thursday. lie had been
i'll several weeks, suffering from an opera
ton performed some time ago. MIR. Ban
nigan was worth several million dollars.
He made millions in the rubber trust, and
a great deal OF his fortune is invested in
the South.
One of the biggest real estate deals con-
summated in Atlanta in several months
was finally closed Thursday. Eiseman
Bros. paid for the property on Whitehall
street recently bought from the Capital
City Bank, giving a check Tor the pur-
chase price. The firm paid $43,SS5 cash for
two store buildings, Nos. II and 10 White
han. The property transferred fronts 80
feet and it brought about $,253 per front
foot.
The new knights of Pythias castle in
-. .-fs. ~. coll
$50, 900 I per cent bonds secured by mort
gage on the magnificent building which
cost $3.50 with the lot. The annual rem
tai from the Offices and stores in the cas-
tie is So 1905 annual interest on bonds,
81, 400. taxes end insurance, 500 Insured
for $4,000 in favor of bondholders. There
is a sinking fund sufficient to retire bonds
when they become due.
The city of Atlanta is making an effort
TO collect taxes on the debentures of the
Atlanta and West Point Railroad which
are held by citizens of Atlanta Through
the marshals Office the holders of these
securities are being notified that they
must come forward and pay the city tax
which is levied on all securities. The tax
will be about SIPS on every 500 of the
face value of the papers. This is the first
time the city has ever made an effort to
collect this tax.
The board Of medical officers of the
United States marine hospital service
convened in Washington on July g. 1898,
for the examination of candidates for APP
pointment rs assistant surgeon in the ma
rine hospital service, has just submitted
its report. Twenty-four physicians ap
peared for examination and the following
five were successful in attaining the re-
quired average ana are eligible for APP
pointment: Mark J. White OF Georgia;
Lunsford ID. Tricks of Georgia; Victor C.
Heiser of Pennsylvania; William Il. Nc
Adam of Iowa and William G. Hobby Of
Kentucky.
Tom Jet, an S-year-old white boy, was
killed by a railroad freight train running
over him at the depot, at Atlanta Thurs
day. The little fellow had doubtless crept
under the train to keep out of the rain
and the cars were moved while he was
asleep. His legs were crushed nearly off,
and after he had been taken 10 the Grady
hospital the physicians amputated his
lower limbs He died shortly after the
operation. A few days ago the boy had
been taken to the police barracks for lott
ering on the streets at night and was
turned over 20 his father. He had
mania for running away and could not be
kept at home.