The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-19
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
,n,vs OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.

Eined for Horsewhipping a Col
ored XVoman-NegrO Baptists Hold
convention at Macon for Educa-
tionaI Purposes.
GEORGIA.
NJ. Meyer is in Jail at Columbus, charg-
Oh with passing a forged check for $40 on
ID H Scoville of the Marion Hotel at At
lanta year ago.
Napoleon Jay, a negro, is in jail at AT
lama on suspicion of having committed
.ta robbery of $1,000 worth of diamonds
~, tbe residence of John A. Morris four
weeks ago.
Tho partridge selling industry is boom
ing in Brooks county. On one day OF last
neck. more than 1900 birds were bought
Nv the buyers of Quitman. The blrds were
alive and were shipped TO the Jehyl 10
land club near Brunswick
The Atlanta Grays, company K, OF the
Fifth Regiment in response TO an invita-
tion from Rex. king of the Mardi Gras car
nival. 10 be held in New Orleans, Will leave
Atlanta bv special train over the South
ern for that city next Sunday afternoon
The military committee, composed OF
COLA. ]. West, Col. w. w. Gordon ana
Mai w ]. Kendrick, will this week let
the contract for $4,000 worth of overcoats
for the Georgia troops. They nave plus
from all over the country, Including one
from Atlanta.
The work of taking a census of the
school children of Macon will commence
ar once It is expected that the result will
show the necessity for increased school ac-
commodations and an increased approprla-
ton for Bibb county if the present stand
ard is to be sustained.
The city council of Calhoun at a meet
ing held Tuesday night ordered an election
10 he held March 26 TO decide whether the
town should issue twenty-year bonds
amounting to ST., 500, bearing per cent. in
terest: the proceeds of said bonds to be
applied to building and eduipping sys-
TEN of water works.
Tuesday afternoon the residence OF
James R. Neal, who lives few miles west
of Cumming was burned. Everything in
the house was burned except one mat
tress This is the second time he has been
burned out in the past ten years. His loss
is $1,000. No insurance. The origin of the
fire is unknown.
A sensational divorce trial took place be-
fore Judge John S. Gambler at Decatur
Wednesday, whicS resulted in the dissolv-
ing of the bonds which bound Reuben He
witt and Miss Mary Capitold Morrison in
holy matrimony Mrs. Hewitt was granted
total divorce while her husband was al
lowed only a partial divorce, his disabil-
lilies not having been removed by the jury.
The firm of Fries Bros, New York city,
are going to enter suit against the city of
Atlanta for having used the formaldehyde
gas generator, sold by Kny, Scheerer q
Co. also of New York city. The machine
is used for the purpose of driving small
pox and yellow fever germs out of infected
houses The machine was bought from
<ny Scheerer & Co. some months ago
for 800. Fries Bros, it seems, deal in this
same line of goods.
AS an outcome of the recent dance near
Atlanta at which one man was killed and
another seriously wounded, a divorce suit
has been filed in the office of the clerk of
the Superior Court at Atlanta. The suit is
that of William j. Kelsey, against his
wife, Mrs Elizabeth Kelsey. In his petit
ton, Kelsey states that it was at his
wlfe's house that the deadly ball occurr-
ed, and he alleges that the character of
her associates is such as TO warrant him
i'll applying for legal separation from her.
Wednesday afternoon during the high
wind the woods near Buchanan were set
on fire by sparks from the engines over
almost the entire line of the Central Rail-
road through HARRISON county, also on
the Georgia Pacific Railway from Temple
TO Talapoosa. The woods are burning all
the way from Buchanan TO Bremen on the
east side of the railroad and in many places
the fire crossed over the railroad and dirt
read to the west side. The people at
to fob 70 mid Diob
IN order to keep the town from burning.
Inc Reed mountain, below Bremen, was
euVeloped In flames, and presented a beau
ulul sight. The family of John Dial
awakened to find their house on fire and
barely escaped in their night clothes be-
lore the roof fell in. There were several
ClHer houses burned and a great deal of
fencing lost. T. r. Mothershed lost sew
6al hundred cords of wood
Marion Brown and Jim Thornton, two
I3Iners of Ebert county, were given
heayy fines by Judge Gambler at Decatur
"euhesday afternoon for horsewhipping a
'esro woman. Brown being the man who
aPpHeo the lash, was fined $500, and Thorn
''l' VINO was charged with looking on and
oSns objectionable language in the pres
ice OF females, was required to pay 800.
ne victim and her employer, a white wo-
man named Miss Argo, told horrible tale
'le cruelty which was visited on the
l'fner They said Brown piled the horse
"nip SO vigorously that the woman had
10 As soaked in oil before her clothes could
taken from her and her body was left
j" fnghful state. The two men stopped
az the house of Miss Argo for a nights
t"eiler The next morning they stated that
lstol had been stolen from them They
accused the negro woman of the theft. The
Noinah denied her guilt, but Brown took
out into the ueighboring woods, and
'-at her with his buggy whip.
several hundred delegates from all of the
principal negro Baptist churches of the
safe met at the Cotton Avenue Baptist
"ufch at Macon Wednesday in an educa-
u'nal conference TO meet Gen. T. j. Nor
-"u' corresponding secretary of the Amer
can Baptist Home Mission Society. and
HeV, IA. MacVicar, LII. D.. superintendent
vi the society's educational work The i'm
inediate purpose of the convention was to
consider the proprety of organizing a per-
Itanent educational board, representing all
'ue negro Baptist churches. TO work in CO.
psracs@ae with the Home Mission Society
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