The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-08
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Seized In Georgia ia Deccmhcr-t
Second Colony OF Indianinns 10 BE
Located In GeOtgin to Raise Fruit.
Rate Cutting on the Chattahoo-
chez River to stop.
GEORGIA.
James e. Bivins has been appointed
postmaster at COBB. Sumter county.
DR.. ]. H. Latimer, Jr., of Haze,hursL
Willie out hunting Wednesday, was acsi-
dentally shot in the eye.
The board of health at Barnesyillr has
modified its quarantine with regard TO
smallpox, and persons from Griffin or At
lanta may come in with health certificates
Mrs. Michael ]. O'Brien, wife of Lieut.
OBrien. left Fort Mcpherson "Wednesday
for New York, where she will join her
husband, who has preceded her several
weeks.
The city council of Columbus has passed
an ordinance authorizing the issue of $5o-
600 of AZ per cent. bonds to take up and
succeed the city bonds falling due iu the
next three years.
DR.. w. f. Fenner, a druggist, who has
been located at Lincoln, in Floyd county,
for the past few months, took twelve
grains of morphine Wednesday and only
desperate work saved him.
In the election held Wednesday for ordi-
nary of Camden county, to fill the vacan-
cy caused by the death of Hon. J. J.
Vocelle, Robert Lang of Wavery received
a majority Of all the votes cast
Georgia postmasters named Thursday
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Chulio. Floyd county. William b. Judkins;
Euno, White county, A. o. Laplade; Lois,
Berrien county, Joseph S. Morris.
At a meeting of the citizens Of McRae
night or two ago the following were
nominated as mayor and aldermen for the
ensuing year: T. p. Windsor, mayor; @.
B. Parker, T. J. Curry, II. J. Smith, W.
b. Folsom, j. F. Cook and W. H. Boothe,
aldermen.
The Hawley Down-Draft Furnace Com
pany. which is the largest furnace manu-
featuring company in the world has Sc
lected Atlanta as its southeastern head
quarters, and in a short time work will be
gin upon the new factory which the COM
pany will build at a cost of 100000.
The advocates of dispensary laws for
Terrell and Early counties won a signal
victory at Dawson Thursday before Judge
Sheffield, who sustained the acts as con
stitutional refusing the injunction asked
by the saloonists. The dispensary system
now becomes operative at Dawson and
at Biakely.
ID. B. Searcy was elected county commits
sioner of Talbot county Wednesday. A
Democratic primary was held for town Of
ficers of Talbotton, and the following were
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4. H. Pearson, A. j. Perryman, L. NJ, Wcs-
ton, e. L. Bardwell and w. T. Allen; mar
shall, t. II. Murphey.
There has been filed in the office of the
United States district attorney at Atlanta
a draft of resolutions of a long list Of
moonshiners in the Fulton county Jail
in which the erstwhile vioaters Of Uncle
Sans laws express the solemn determine
tion to sin against the government no
more and also 10 keep their neighbors
from doing so.
The town council of Crawfordville has
quarantined against Atlanta, Madison.
Crawford and other places where small
pox exists. The marshals of the town are
meeting all trains. Two drummers We're
arrested Tuesday night. One was from
Atlanta and the other was from Craw-
ford They were fined $3.50 each and re-
CURED TO leave Wednesday
Rate cutting will be thing of the past
on the Chattahoochee river after Jan.
for a while at least. At Columbus Thurs
day there was conference of representa-
tives of the pool steamers and of the in
dependent line, at which it was agreed to
maintain rates and stop cutting them
A few rates were slightly raised, the most
important being that of flour per barrel
from 10 to Is cents.
A large sale of property was reported in
the United States court at Atlanta We'd
nesday by Special Commissioner S. c.
Dunlap. Mr.. Dunlap was commissioner to
sell the property of Legare II. Wilkes in
Morgan county, which was mortgaged 10
the Equitable Mortgage Company. Seven
teen hundred acres of land were sold I'M
der the decree of the court. Mr.. Dunlap
reports that he sold the land to T. W
Butler for the sum of $l0,1Sl0S
McRae was thrown into state of great
excitement Monday evening about
O'Clock when il was announced that a ne
gro had assaulted the marshal j. D. Woo
ten, choking him insensble and then rob
bling him of $67 and several notes Blood
hounds were procured from the jailer but
they were unable to trace the negro OUT
of town or in any direction. 1t is supposed
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fort is being made to capture him.
John Wanamaker, of Philadelphia. is
said TO be the most heavily insured man
In. the United States. The amount of his
policies is $l,150000. This amount. with
the acumulations since the policies were
taken out, is about $2,0O0O00. The following
isia list of Georgians carrying 100000 and
over: Wales J. Watson, Savannah. 100000
j. ]. McDonough, Savannah $4,000: Rob
ert H. Plant. Macon. $500 900; Bnlups Phin-
Ivy, Athens, $4,000; John NJ Green. Allan
ia, $l25,000; DR.. Willis Westmorelaud. Al
lanta, 100000; Gov. r. b. Bullock, Atlanta.
$l45.000.
Internal Revenue Officer w. w. Col
quit has made out his monthly report in
which the fact is shown that 12s Illicit dis
tilleries were captured in Georgia during
the month of December last Mr.. Colouitf
says that this is the greatest number can
tured in one month that he knows Of and
that IL gives TO Georgia the palm of hsv-
ing within its borders one-third Of all The
Illicit distilleries operated in the whole
United States. Mr.. Colquitt saws the
number of these stills seems 20 be increas-