The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-12
GEORGIA..

robbery was committed at Screven,
twelve miles south Of here, Saturday night
lsst. David Silverstein's store was robbed
of S25S The robbers entered through a
window by removing the cross bar and
then cutting through the glass pane.
The Masury Hotel at brownsville has
been rented to Williams & Bailey for six
years. 1t will open Oct. / and be run as
an all-the-year house. The lessees are
Warren H. Williams, formerly OF the
Southern Hotel, Waycross, Ga, and }. h.
Bailey Of Santa Rosa, Cal.
On account of the depreciation in value
of the taxable property of Dougherty
county, the board of County Commission
ers has been forced TO raise the tax rate
for the present year. The rate for last
year was $l0.65 on the $1,000 To this the
state has added 81 and the county 60 cents,
making the rate for the present year
s1225.
A. W. Wimberly, the well known Au-
gusta colored politician has gone to
Washington. 1t is understood that Jud-
son Lyons has landed him in good posi-
ton. Wimberlys wife was recently fired
out of the Augusta colored public school,
She was a teacher. Wimberly declares his
local politics was the cause of the dis
charge.
Dave McAlllster, marshal of the town
of Rhine. was shot and killed Friday
night by Dick Bowen and Henry Lancas-
ter. Bowen and Lancaster were both in
toxicated and very disorderiy, whereupon
the marshal attempted to arrest them,
with the result above named Word was
dispatched to Eastman for posse to make
the arrest of the slayers. and meager
notice of a shooting at Rhine emanated
from Eastman that night
Judge Emory Speer of the United States
Court at Macon, has been invited 10 be
present as a special guest and deliver an
Grafton at the grand national peace jubilee
in Chicago next month. Several eminent
men are on the list of speakers. The COM
nittee on investigation and speakers are
now In Washington TO invite President and
Mrs. Mckinley 10 be present William Jen-
nings Bryan is also on the list OF guests.
The committee will separate at Washing
ton and call upon the distinguished men
who have been invited to deliver addresses
at the jubilee
Thursday night. at Thomasville, Plant
System Policeman Bland captured a negro
at the depot The negro proved to be badly
wounded and there is some mystery about
the affair. The negro admits he stole a
ride into Thomasville on a freight train.
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and diring his pistol in the air TO stop
him when he ran. The negro ran little
distance and stumbled over some tools,
when he was captured. He was found to
be badly wounded with a bali through his
shoulder and lungs. He was attended to
by DR.. T. NJ. Mcintosh. There was no
bullet hole through the mans coat, and
this leads 10 the suspicion that he was
shot before reaching Townsville. Bland
states positively that he could not have
hit him.
On Tuesday night Mrs. Elem Daniel, liv-
ing a few miles from Heardmont, wander
ed from her room where she, her husband
and three children were sleeping, and
jumped into the well, from which they
use water. When her husband awoke,
some time later, and found his wife gone,
he at once suspected she had left the room
while asleep. Upon going into the yard he
made a thorough search, and as he neared
the well there came the sound of a faint
voice crying for help. Following the sound
of the voice, he was crazed with grief
when he found his wife had leaped into
the perilous well, seventy-two feet below.
He FASTENED to his nearest neighbor for
help, and soon she was brought from the
we'll bruised and bleeding, and almost
Frustrated from fright.
The Republicans of the Fifth senatorial
district met Saturday at the court house
at bonneville in mass meeting. Resolu-
tons were adopted indorsing the Populists
candidate for senator and all the county
offices. Some of the Republican speakers
told their hearers that there had been a
trade made and signed UP with the Popu-
list leaders for the Republicans to stand
by the Populist nominees in the October
election and in return that the Populists
would help them to defeat Hon. w. G.
Brantley in November. This part of the
speeches was received with great applause.
Ben MillilSen of Jesup was on hand 10
see that the trade was carried out by the
meeting. Mr. Milliken paid his respects to
the Democratic party, charging them with
high taxes and all the ills that man is
heir to. Clinch county win still be found
in the Democratic column in October by
a good majority, with all the mixture of
Republcan-POpuliSm combined