The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-15
ITEMS IN THREE STATES.
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND SOUTH
CAROLINA PHOTOGRAPHED.

Columbus Young Man Learns of the
Murder of His Father by His Wife.
An Old POIiceman's WhistIe-sixty-
Pound Watermelon at WRrrentOn.
shot Guns for ROme's Police Force.
Gen. Robert \. smyth's stnf of En-
suing Year AppOinted-Death i'm
Canada of an Old CharIestonian
known in savannah.
GEORGIA.
James Hall has resigned his position
with the Atlanta Journal and returned TO
the Calhoun Times.
A reunion of the Forty-third Georgia
Volunteers will be held at jefferson, Ca
on Monday. 18th day of August, 1888.
An agricultural fair win be given at
Dublin next month by the colored people
of Laurens, johnson and Wilkinson coun-
ties
L. H. Wicker of Warrenton has raised
this season a watermelon Weighing sixty
pounds. So far it is the finest specimen
reported in that section.
Among the announcements among Jack
son county Democrats are those of J. N.
Holder and J. r. Hosch for representa-
tive, w. T. Stevens for sheriff and II. H.
Hancock for tax collector
Rome's City Council has ordered that
repeating shot guns be procured for her
police force. A recent disturbance there
demonstrated that shot guns were the
proper weapons for policemen.
W. P. Lewis has resigned his position
as commercial agent Of the Georgia and
Alabama Road at columbus, to accept a
place in the freight department OF the
Central of Georgia at Savannah.
On account of the continued rains at
Lovett not more than third of the fod-
der crop viii be saved. The cotton fields
are now putting on a snowy color and
farmers will have plenty of cotton to pick
this week. The recent rains have also
damaged the cotton crop to some extent
Mrs Ellen Dodge Of Coffee county is 70
years old, has eight living children and
twelve dead, thirty-eight grandchildren,
ana ten greatgrandchildren. Mrs. Griffin
of Waycross, who died some months ago
was about 80 years old; was the mother
of twenty-five children, and a great pos
terity down to the third and fourth gener-
alton.
Thursday night the City Council of Arl-
ton 10 determine the question of Issuing
bonds for establishment of water works
and an electric light plant in Arlington
and decided to devote the time until their
next meeting in securing the necessary in
formation TO enable them 20 act inteln-
gently in the matter.
Jaier Miller at Atlanta says that r. c.
Flanagan, the noted murderer, reads the
daily papers with avidity. When he learns
that reporter has been to the jailer the
prisoner is particularly anxious to get the
news the next morning. He often asks
for paper, and when he gets hold of il
he reads every line in It. even the adver-
tisements. Flanagan talks a great deal
at times, but when he does not care to be
bored with conversation he knows how to
be as dumb as a clam.
Paholman c. NJ. Burks of Atlanta has
whistle which was used by his father
while hunting over eighty years ago. w.
p. Burks, the father, lived near LAGRANGE.
When he died he left the whistle to his
friend, Col. w. S. Cato, also a noted fox
hunter, Col. Cato desired the family to
have the whistle but they insisted upon
his keeping ii. A short while ago the col
onel died. and he left word for the whistle
TO be sent to Patrolman Burks in Atlanta.
IT is carved out of wood and is as good
as when it was years ago used to cali the
dogs to the chase.
A few days ago John McGuirt was killed
in Webster county by his wife, who is
now In jail viii McGuirt Of Columbus,
motorman with the Columbus Railroad
Company, has just discovered that the
man killed was his father, who left here
over a year ago. When he read in the
papers of the killing, he had no idea that
it was his father but afterwards, incl
dentally learning that it might be him. he
investigated, with the result that he learn
ed the news Friday. He said that he was
going to Preston and prosecute the wo-
man, who is his stepmother His father
was married twice, the last time, two
years ago. McGuirt and his wife had
quarreled and she struck him with a
heavy instrument, producing death. She
is now In the JAIL which al one time con-
tained the only woman ever hung in Geor-
gia.