The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-28

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Building and Loan Association to
Lose Heavily.
GEORGIA.
In the past eighteen years 1900 prison
ers have been placed in the Bibb county
jail.
The Methodist ministers are preparing
plans for a great missionary conference
to be held at an early date in Atlanta
The base ball teams of Mercer Univer-
sity and Auburn, Ala, have agreed to
play a match game of ball at Columbus.
BY instructions from the postohice de
partment Postmaster Hertz has abolished
the stamp agencies in Macon. There were
three of them.
DR.. w. c. Jones, one OF the most promi-
nent citizens Of Macon, died Friday at his
home on Monroe street. The immediate
cause was pneumonia.
The criminal docket will be called in
Bibb Superior Court to-day. The most
important case to be tried is that of James
Loekett, for murder. He is a one-legged
negro.
At Thomaston Friday w. G. H. Fergu-
sons horse broke loose from a post and
ran away, completely demolishing the
buggy and breaking his neck by running
into a fence
Fire broke out Friday in fine grove Of
many acres near Thomaston, and destroy
ed the home of George North, tenant of
W. c. Hightower. North had just made
note of $50 and had the money in his
house.
A. II. Nets, aged Go years, died of eramp
collie at his home at Hawkinsviile Friday.
Mr. Nets was an ex-Confederate soldier
and lost leg as the result of a wound re-
ceived in battle. He drew an annual pen
sion of Sl00 from the state.
Virgil Adams, a 1S-year-old boy. was
arrested at Atlanta Saturday on a charge
of immoral conduct Mrs Mary Adams
swore out a warrant for the boy charging
him with an attempted criminal assault
upon Mabelle Adams her 4-year-old child.
Friday morning about o'clock the dis
tillery of Bagby & speer at Covington was
discovered on fire. The distillery together
with seventy-two gallons of whisky was
destroyed. These men have been very I'M
fortunate lately Their saloon in Coving-
ton was closed Jan. l and sold at sheriff
sale, A few weeks later their stockade
building and eleven head of mules were
burned and Friday their distillery plant
went up in smoke. making total loss of
several thousand dollars
Hon. Charles H. Brand of Lawrenceville.
solicitor general of his circuit, and grand
master of the Independent Order of Odd
Fellows has n CnlnraAo for h
health During his absence Deputy Grand
Master j. l.. Guzzard of Columbus, will
act in his stead in Georgia. Circulars an
nouncing the illness and departure from
the state of the grand master have been
received in Macon. The annual meeting
of the grand lodge occurs i'm Savannah
In May, and 1t is hoped by the members
of the order that the grand master will
recover his health in time to be present
Hon. W. J. Neel of Rome, who has been
In Macon several days on business in the
United States Court has returned home.
While at Macon he obtained from Judge
Speer an order allowing the receiver of
the Covenant Building and Loan Assotia-
ton of Knoxville Tenn, to pay out and
distribute to the investment stockholders
of the company 10 per cent. on their stock.
The order also allows the receiver com
twelve months. The receiver is of the
opinion that of the $4,000 investments in
the state of Georgia, about $50, 600 or $4,000
will be realized. But the showing else
where will probably not be so good
Martin Dome was born just over the hills
beyond Hayesville. N. c. When he was
years Old DR. Hardin moved to his neigh
borhood and carried with him his little
baby girl, Ellen Hardin. Dome and the girl
We're sweethearts, but the girl married a
man from Knoxville. The day before the
wedding Dome gave him a beating. Har-
din ordered Dome never to enter his house
again Two years ago Old man Hardin
and his two sons were beaten almost to
death by whitecappers. There was no
clew to the guilty parties except the hate
of Dome, who had drifted into bad courses
and was leader in the moonshne district
in the mountains far beyond Hayesville
One of Hardins sons was killed by a
friend Of Domes in a dispute over the
whitecapping. A few days ago Dome was
arrested for moons Inning and conspiracy
against Hardin. The warrant was sworn
out by the rival who had won Hardin's
daughter from Dome. The trio appeared
IN court at Atlanta Friday. The woman
refused 10 allow her husband to prosecute
her girihood sweetheart and he was set
free. Her old love for him seemed to
have been revived. She left her husband
and told him she was going to live with
her father. The husband said nothing
The hate of years was unsatisfed and he
had lost his wife. But he laughed as he
went down the steps. on the street he
hesitated a moment and then turned into
the saloon on the corner.