The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-03

nv Martin Damer for a number of
,..ars tbe rector of St Barnaba's Episco-
church at Macon, has accepted the
rre.torsh.p of church at Fort Scott, Kan.
Pev Damer win be succeeded by Rev A.
Craishin.
nation is TO have another Touring mill
IN The near future, three prominent men
Of that place having purchased plat of
Ind with the intention of building mill
at once The new mill will demand 1900
bushels of wheat per day.
Rev. E. z. F. Golden preached his fare
r-eu sermon at the Cuthbert Baptist
c5urcb Sunday morning. He has not de-
termined where he will locate. For the
Dresent he will remain Afn Cuthbert and
edIt his religious paper, the Baptist Mir
Tor.
Judge Lumpkin of Atlanta has appointed
a receiver for the Purify ice works, one
Of the largest ice manufacturing concerns
In Atlanta W. l. Hayward was appoint
81 temporary receiver, and the hearing of
the case was set for Nov 5. Small demand
for ice is said 10 be the cause of the trou-
bic The bill for receiver was filed by
Hamilton Douglas.
Wife-beaters find more mercy in the law
than they do in the heart of Judge At
water of Thomaston, who forcibly ex-
messed his regard for the crime in SEN
fencing Miles Speer Monday. Speers was
plainly guilty, and in sentencing him the
iudge SAID: IF l were the judge of the
Sunerior Court 1 would send you to the
penitentiary for two years. AS it is,
will fine you $25 and COSTS"
Two violators of the registration law
were fined by Judge Baxter at Augusta
Monday Stephen Hunnicut plead guilty
to registering twice, but said that Sam
Hammond another negro, was the cause
of it, Huunicut was told by Hammond 10
register under the name of Bob Jones,
which he did, but later he appeared before
the REGISTRARS and asked that the name
be stricken off. The registrars started an
investigation and discovered the fraud.
Judge Baxter fined Huunicut $50 for false
registering and Hammond 500 for infiu-
encing Hunnicut to break the law.
The Young Mems Christian Association
of Atlanta is behind movement to keep
minors out of saloons. Officers of the as
sociation called upon Police Commissioner
Jones Sunday night and told him that they
had been informed that minors visited
great number of saloons of the city and
that they believed it was a common occur
drink intoXcants. The commissioner, IN
giving immediate attention to the matter
put the case before Chief of Police Man
", whose investigation convinced him
that there was a solid foundation for the
report. The chief Immediately issued an
order TO his men calling for a strict en-
torcement of the ordinances providing for
such an exigency, which provides for the
punishment of the youth himself, as there
Is no law against saloonkeeper for per-
milling minors to enter his place. Most
OF the saloon men are glad that the or
onance is to be enforced, as they have
some trouble with minors who enter their
places and ask for drinks, and in some
cases it is a difficult matter to tell when
minor is a minor
Dr. Hugh Wilson, one of the principals
in the sensational Worth county insurance
case was shot and probably fatally
wounded at Cook Ferry Monday after
noon. Since the previous Tuesday DR..
Wilson has evaded officers, but a posse,
composed of his bondsmen, had followed
closely on his trail. AS the posse APP
preached a cotton house on a plantation
In Dolly county, they heard what they
thought was a gun being cooked They
later discovered the doctor in the house,
and they claim they called upon him to
surrender, but instead of doing so he
SP4 aug through a WlnQOW ana Hdue OH
In the direction of a sugar patch, with his
gun pointed back toward the posse. A
balliff shot the doctor just as he was en-
terng the cane patch. 1t is said that -four
ouckshot entered the doctors thigh, and
ne surrendered, and was taken to his
nome in Worth county and placed under
the watch of a bailif, he being too weak
70 go to jail, because of the loss of blood
The bailiff claims to have repeatedly or
dered him TO halt before he fired. DR.
Wilson'S chances for recovery are very
Slim He was appointed postmaster al
warwick about five months ago as Re
publican. although he lived at Att, fifteer
miles from there.
Atlanta Jaurnal: G. W. English, an old
veteran, who lives near the Exposition cot
ION mills, brought a very peculiar bird
10 the journal office this morning. 1t ap-
pears to be a cross between a hawk ano
an owl, and was shot and slightly wound
go by English near Iceville last Tuesday
ms treakish bird has been shown TO q
sieat many people, but no one has eveI
ssen anything like it before. The hawk
owl has beautiful soft buff and gold feath-
eIs all over the body, and the head is dot
ted with black spots. 1t has a perfect i'm
aye Of a heart formed around the face
ny SIT feathers, and has long legs ant
very sharp claws. The eyes are jet black
'NllSiS oi tne bdch oiS DiO"i
'edF me body, then blue, and have Whit
Ups. II has very long wings and ions
LAX lke a hawk, and stands almost erect
ne plfd mas a ravenous appetite and p:
Ied on small birds, rats, etc. When frs
captured the bird was a great fighter, bu
now somewhat tanned. Mr.. English
VINO captured the bird, is an old hunter
SHd says ne never saw anything like thi.
Ha"k-owl. Mcmillan, the bird fancier
says he thinks it is a cross between
naWk and an owl, but is not certain
~ ne never saw anything like it before
me bird is decidedly freak, and has al
Uacted much attention.
FLORIDA.