The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-10
GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

81 Near VtdaIia-Fire Near Sparta.
miraculous Escape From Death on
the RaiIs-TeIegraDh Company
Gains an Award Against the Mari
o+ta and North Georgia Railroad.
GEORGIA.
ponds Academy, a public school, was
burned Saturday. near Madison Springs,
nv an incendiary.
Willie d'Antignac died at Atlanta Tues
aov night from the effects of his fall at
,bs Exposition Park Sunday afternoon
Jacob Zapf of Muncie, Ind, has bought
sixty acres of land in Dublin and IN Few
weeks will begin the erection of $4,000
furniture factory.
william j. Westbrook an aged and
t;gb1v respected citizen living two miles
rom Fairburn, was found dead in bed
Monday morning.
Peel of Pine Bloom denies that he
has offered a reward for the capture OF
the negro who outraged an italian woman
in Coffee county few days ago.
The gin house and barn of John M. Jones,
oear Sparta. were burned TO the ground
carly Monday morning. Six bales of cot
tan several hundred bushels of corn and
an the gin machinery were destroyed. The
IRE is thought to be the work of incendia-
RES There Yves no insurance.
The committee appointed by the MONDAY
Rantist Association to select the most de-
eirahle point within the territory of the
association for the location of a nigh
school. met at Kennesaw, Ga, Friday,
reb 4 and decided to recommend Kenne-
saw as having the most advantages.
Col. c. D. Loud, at the head of a large
delegation from Minnesota, arrived at vi
aa1ia Monday night for the purpose of
making arrangements to locate a colony
near there. A syndicate has purchased
about 10000 acres of land around Nidalia,
and this is the first decisive move to-
wards selling IL.
Unless the International Trading Stamp
Company resorts to the courts for protec-
ton it has only a few more days of life IN
Atlanta The City Council has passed the
ordinance from the tax committee, entire
" prohibiting the use or sale OF trading
stamps in the city, and prescribing as
penaItv for violation 800 fine or thirty
DAVIS in the stockade, either or both, in the
discretion of the Recorder, for every stamp
used or sold.
The coal hole in the sidewalk in front
of the Brown & King Supply Company
store at Atlanta is again figuring in the
courts in a suit for $4,000 brought by
Miss Annie L. Clarke against the city
/ and the Brown & King Supply Company
4 jointly and severally. Miss Clarke alleges
in her suit that she fell through the open
hole and sustained severe injuries Which
| have rendered her a cripple and caused
/ the permanent loss of a remunerative po-
/ sitfon. The coal hole has already cost
$1,000. Miss Annie Sterkey fell through
the hole fifteen months ago and was Sc
4 rlously injured. She sued the firm for
$500 and received a Judgment for the
entire amount. Miss Clarke was assis-
4 tant principal of one of the city schools
4 when the accident happened last May.
Special Master Ben H. Hill rendered his
report to Judge Newman at Atlanta Mon
day in the case of the North Georgia Tel
4 egraph Company, intervenOr, in the case
1 of the Central Trust Company of New
/ York versus the Marietta and North Geor-
4 gia Railroad. BY the decision of the spe-
cial master the telegraph company will
4 get $3.50. The telegraph company was su-
ing the Marietta and North Georgia for
1 $1,000 for the use of lines of the telegraph
4 company from Marietta to Knoxville and
4 from Blue Ridge Ga, to Murphy, N. c.
1 The plaintiff claimed that j. b. Glover,
i receiver of the Marietta and North Geor-
gia, had used the lines for four years. The
n leeSfapn company Wanfeu S1uUU per an
1 num- but the receiver estimated the worth
of the lines at only $720 per annum. The
special master accepted the latter estimate
L and so reported.
John Boyle, young man who works for
| the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine
| Company, was riding bicycle at Atlanta
| tuesday night and when he reached the
| North avenue railroad crossing he saw
| mat switch engine was in the way and
| ne got off his wheel to wait for the en-
| Sine to pass on. He was holding the BIZ
| cycle with one hand and was talking to
| railroad man whom he knew. In a few
| moments an outgoing train on the South
/ eth road came dashing toward the cross
1 ing Boyle was standing on the main line
4 me engine of the passenger struck him
4 and he was hurled from the track and
4 leil between the train and the switch en-
/ she, where he lay half frightened to
Il neath until the train had Numbered past
ne young man was more fortunate than
ms wheel, for it was caught by the loco
hotlve and twisted and broken until it
9oKed as If it had been attacked by a
II "eStern cyclone. Boyle got up unhurt,
pul his clothes were torn and soiled, and
HS derby was smashed until it was a fit
VWhpanIon for the wrecked bicycle Boyle
was told by some railroad men that the
company would give him a new wheel
aud hat.