The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-27
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

,-.cou BOY Works a Shrewd Finah-
rtoI scheme-BOlian Enters sec
md damage Suit Against the At
,,,t. Medical Coilege-Georgian
Inst Back From Chile Talks Inter-
.st,nmly of the Annexation of Ha-
wall.
GEORGIA.
Movement is on foot and probably will
:. started at Macon to establish a south
ern school Of embalming.
THE prohibition law has gone into eiteee
IN Hancock county, the licenses Oh the
dealers having recently expired.
Robert sharpton, an aged fish vender OF
Atlanta was attacked by footpads Mon
aa,. and badly beaten. They also robbed
MIN of SIG and a gold watch
Tho contract has been let for Confed-
.rota monument. to be erected to the Ell
1ort county dead The Ethridge Granite
Conpapv of Elberton will do the work.
and The cost viii be between $l,2oo ana ST.
90.
Tim Miller. colored, was killed by Henry
Dovis colored. at Bay View. The killing
vas The result of a pistol shot wound.
Tavis WAS arrested and admits that he did
The shooting, but claims that 1t was ac-
cjdental
As the easctbound accommodation train
on the Atlantic & West Point Railroad was
leaving the depot at Newman Monday
7nornina. il ran over Tom Morgan, an old
negro and severed both his legs at tHe
knee. He lived only a few minutes after
the accident.
John T. Smith is suing the Southern Rail-
road for S25 600 in the United States Court
at Atlanta for injuries received on the
railroad. He was a fiagman on the South
srn and was in the discharge of his duties
when the accident occurred. One leg was
crushed off.
Jacob Barge, a prominent citizen of
Campbell county, died suddenly at his
home Monday night Mr.. Barge was the
father of the two Drs. Barge of Newman
and j. J. Barge of California, recently
of the firm of Parker & Barge of Atlanta,
and Judge Barge, who is at present stu
dent of the University Of Georgia.
A board of trade has been organized at
Tallapoosa, the first work of which was to
take steps for securing cotton factory,
and the following committee was appoint
ed to take that matter in hand: George
f BIauIey, a. i.
Walter Morrow, r. A. Hills, M. A. Green
and John T. Tuggle, with e. A Hills sec
rotary and Charles Hensel treasurer.
Camilla Clarion: z. ]. Arthur is some
thing of an intensive farmer. From one
acre last year he gathered a crop of pop
corn that was easily worth So and from
the same ground he has sold $25 worth of
turnips besides what he gave away and
used and now has at least $50 worth on
the acre, making $50 worth of truck gath
cred from one acre. This is the kind of
farming that pays.
J. M. Dobbs, ex-consul to Valparaiso,
Chile is at his home al Marietta again.
He left Valparaiso about three months
ago and came by way of Hawaii. He
thinks the islands should be annexed to
The United States because they are really
an American colony and if owned by any
country should be by the United States
BY annexation, he says, we would add
about 100000 tonnage to our merchant ma
rlne and one of the finest pearl harbors
i'll the world; that we would have an al
most indispensable ooaling station near
'ur Pacific coast. and that the Islands
will be self-sustainng. Mr. Dobbs was
appointed consul under President Cleve-
lands administration and has been in
. Valparaiso nearly five years.
George G. Bolian, whose sensational
suit against the Atlanta Dental College
and Dean w. T. Crenshaw was noted last
week has filed a second suit against the
college The first proceeding was $l0,-
wv suit for libel in that the dean was al
legged to have written a highly damaging
letter to Bolian's mother in New Orleans.
Inc second suit, which was filed Tues
day. is for $4,000 damages, and is based
on Bolan's dismissal from the college.
Bollan claims he had spent $4,000 in at
tehdlng the college and would have been
graduated next March but for the action
OF the faculty last December in expelling
nm. Owing to his expulsion from the
Atlanta Dental College, he alleges, he can
not be received in any other first-class
School OF dentistry and his loss, therefore,
VIII be very great. He also claims the
charge that he married a woman of bad
character and is living with her in an inn
moral house is false He alleges that The
nature of the charge has done him great
INJURY, as henceforth no man can be proud
10 claim his friendship. and no good wo-
man be willing TO recognize him.
Macon Telegraph: A Macon lad takes
the cake for linanciering, and if his future
ueais are as shrewd as the one out OF
winch he made quarter as slick as n
tuition yesterday, he will get as rich as
Cfoesus. even though this Whole country
"Ouiu become social democracy colony
pefore ne gets grown. The lad wanted
70 run away from home. He went down
TO the Southern Railway ticket office and
asked Tor ticket. He had only rs cents
una found that his ticket would cost 81,
20 ne couldn't buy 1t. He walked out of
Ie ONCE sadly disappointed. but after
thlnking awhile he figured out a scheme
Euieh marked him as one of the great
BUSINESS men of the age. He went up TO
1t paWhshop and asked If he could leave
ms 20 cents and get an advance of so
ms on 1t. "Of course" replied the
ndWnproker, as he threw the 50 cents down
ana drew in the rs cents. The pawnbroker
SeIeh save the lad pawn ticket for the
~ cents. With the ticket and the 50
nus In cash the boy went down the
sieet TO a merchant and asked If he could
0 de the pawn ticket to him for 80 cents.
III course" replied the merchant. as he
rev down 80 cents and ralxed I'm the
t@"h ticket Now the boy had secured