The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-29

Are Caught-NegrO Girl Under Ar
rest at sparta on "a Charge of MUIR
der.
GEORGIA.
large acreage is being planted in wa
termelons in Sumter county.
military company has been organ
ted at Decatur with 60 members.
Miss sanie Davis had one of her eyes
DESTROYED by shuttle at Griffin mills
saturday afternoon.
sulphuret veins have been struck in
DIGGING wells in and about Roswell with
in the last ten days.
over $1,000 has been subscribed to the
fund 70 pay the mortgage of $500 on the
city hospital at Macon.
The new owners of the Plattsburgh
mine in White county are operating ten
stamps and are reported to be dong well.
Mr.. Gallon of Colorado has bought the
Handy mountain mine in White county
from John Martin, and is on the property.
The purchase price is said to be $4,000.
The Boston company, which put in
new process at the Gregory mine in White
county last fall recently settled up all
Their bills and leased the property to a
White county man.
Monticello has subscribed for church
building purposes between 5000 and SO-
CO.., 10 be expended in the erection of two
churches. One is now being built, and
the other will be built during the spring.
Two fires occurred at Cedartown Friday.
The East and West round house and oil
mills were totally destroyed; loss, $,0O0.
The old convict stockade was the second
fire. containing 500 bales of cotton and
other wares loss, $1,000. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
Secretary of the Interior Bliss has or
dered the disbarment of w. L. Hunter, of
Mineral Bluff who has been convicted and
sentenced to thirteen months imprison-
ment for Withholding 81, 800 pension money
belonging to Mrs. Elizabeth Huges, widow
OF James I. Huges.
R. L. Surtees, Southern Express agent,
and telegraph operator at Cox, was found
Thursday morning in his Office under the
influence of morphine. His friends took
charge of him, and after most heroic eff
forts, lasting all day and throughout the
entire night, managed to bring him round.
Frank Brooks, a white brakeman on the
Chattanooga, Rome and Southern Rail
road, had his leg cut off just at the knee
at Carrouton Friday night He was I'M
coupling some cars when his foot caught
in the frog of the switch and being unable
TO eXtricate II, the train ran over his leg.
Ella Little, negro girl about IA years
ofl Co, Io,r
for numbering negro baby several miles
north of Sparta. Ella killed another in
FAINT in like manner by beating it to
death last year. 1t Is thought she is in
sane and she will be tried for lunacy
instead Of murder.
An Americas cotton firm, which buys
largely for export trade, received a cable
gram Saturday from its foreign CORE
spondents to ship Immediately all cotton
bought on their account These instruc-
tons, coming a such time, indicated q
fear of war and desire to get the cotton
out of this country as quickly as possible.
1t is claimed that the negro Fields, who
was shot by his father at Columbus day
or two ago, had a white wife and that this
was the original cause of the disagree
ment. The old man was anxious for his
son to leave the woman thinking that she
would get the whole family in trouble with
the white people. He claims that his son
tried to kill him with an ak.
J. NJ. Lawrence, of Cedar Bluff, Ala, ac-
cused of cheating and ewindling by max
ing false represent ations to Tedcastle &
Co., of Rome, was acquitted Friday night
Lawrence received credit for $146 upon rep
resentation of his financial standing made
to a wholesale dry goods firm at Rome
Lawrence has sued Tedcastle & Co, for
$4,000 in United States court Of Alabama,
for damages to character.
When the new shops of the Georgia
and Alabama Railway were built at Amer
icus the company put in a plant for the
construction of freight cars, and while
large number of cars have been repaired
none have so far been built outright. But
now the company proposes to build its
cars in Americas, and as an experiment
has given orders for the immediate con-
sruction of thirty large box cars.
Lige Lowe, colored, died a Macon Sat-
urday from a pistol shot wound accident
ally inflicted Friday night by another ne
gro. named Sam Allen. Lowe and Allen
each had a pistol. They unloaded them
and then commenced swapping the wea-
Ions at each other in an imaginary duel
One Of the chambers in Aliens pistol had
not been unloaded, and the cartridge fred
nflcJing a fatal wound on Lowe. AS the
footing was accidental no arrest was
made
April II has been decided upon by the
'Selectmen of Midway Church and So
ciety' in Liberty county for the annual
reunion az the old church. Rev. B. L. Ba-
her of Monticello. Fla, one of the many
Hoo.r preachers sent out by this time
Hoaored church, will preach the sermon
Alter the conclusion of the sermon, the
Lord supper will be administered. Revs
g. G. Carson, of Remington Church, ana
L. T. Way. of Dorchester have been IN
Nited TO assist.
Four burglars attempted a wholesale
robbery in the building occupied by Ger
saon Bros. & Rosenheld. on Pryor street.
al Atlanta. Saturday night and but Tor
glass skyight they might have sue
'eeded. Three of the negroes In order TO
's0ape. fell headlong through the skyhght
hn uIa THat