The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-29
GEORGIA.


go, C,nd{er has appointed the Laurens
ponRing company of Dublin state depos-
the appointment to hold for four
l ,'ars from the date of the order.
rsa annual association of county school
..,rissioners and members of the county
,r5s Of education meet in Atlanta in the
va, ,r the House of Representatives, May
d II and is.
=. &c stated if the Triton, Thomasville
C,1f railroad is built to Townsville
,bo Thomasville, Tallahassee and
I l%t u-iu Immediately commence the ex-
uu,l Of It's road from Tallahassee TO
Thomasvi.le
. p Fambrough a noted character In
wa,ton county, was shot and seriously
,..,ioa sunday night near Monroe by
VIM Mopi Sorrells. a young white man, for
~ I7ambrough is said to have formed
W. or1hish intending to assassinate him.
r.aison county was visited by terrific
| holstorm Monday night. In the vicinity
/ - ,fason's mill. few miles beyond Dan
/ iolsyille the hail was heaviest. Several
us there measured the hall after the
Storm had passed and in a number OF
niaees il was six inches deep.
Mrs MoIlie Parker, wife of Judge L. A.
Parker. of Baxley, died Wednesday, after
a illness of several weeks. She leaves
sire children and a host of friends and
rslatives in Appling county. The family
,s prominent one and the death of Mrs
\ parker has cast gloom over the com
munity.
linn Roberts, the young man who was
arrested in Atlanta last week by Detec-
tves Wooten and Harris as an accom-
Mice 10 the murder of Patro.man Ponder,
after preliminary hearing, has been dis
missed. He was arrested on statement
made by the champion confessor, John
Pendley.
The Hurst Bros, who formerly did
business in Fitzgerald, but got into trou-
bic and ran away, were captured and
placed in Jail at Galveston, Tex, a few
DAVIS ago. The trouble grew out of a sale
of $500 worth of cotton belonging to Will
lam Fletcher, which Hurst Bros. sold and
failed to account for.
Telfair county is to have a hanging
on May 49, This victim for the gallows
is Will Williams. a negro convicted at
Il the recent term of Telfair Superior Court
of the murder of Mr.. L. Peacock, near
Lumber City, last October. The crime
was most heinous one, and the evidence
so conclusive that the jury was out only
about fifteen minutes.
swainsboro Pine Forest; Col. ]. Alex
Smith has gone off on one of his sexten-
NAL outings. For six years he has been
closely confined to his professional duties.
His continuous labors have made 1t neces-
sary that he should take some rest. He
will likely take in Cobbtown, Collins and
extend his trip as far as Savannah and
Thunderbolt. We hope to see the colonel
much improved on his return.
AT Dublin MondayflasI a jury was en-
panelled for the purpose of inquiring into
the sanity of Rev. Jerry Kinchen, of the
lower part of Laurens county. Mr.. Kinch-
en- has been in bad health and recently
had some financial losses which caused
him 10 lose his mind. He was adjudged
fl inmate for the state sanitarlum, He has
been minister of the gospel for about
twenty-five years, and has many friends
in the county who win be panied to hear
Of MS insanity.
W. L. Edwards, a farmer living near
Ringgold, was drowned the other day in
water six inches deep in a branch be-
tween G. w. Brotherton's and Burning
Bush Baptist Church. Mr.. Edwards was
% years old and was out driving when he
iel from his buggy into the branch and
was drowned, being too much stunned by
lne IAN TO get out. About an hour after
ward mis- son, John Edwards, whom ne
nau Just few minutes before visited.
anu VINO was very sick, died,
The steamer City of Macon was sold by
shefiH Berrie at the court house door in
A brunswick Thursday, and was bid in by
Oap' Dock r. Stallngs, representing the
brunswick and HawkinsviIle Transporta-
,on company for $1,000. A few minutes
/ V Vglore the SAFE began Attorney Dasher of
. s .11eou' representing the owners of the ves-
~ arrived in Brunswick, and offered bond
iePeVy the property, but ii was not ac-
MI ',o CO., II Is thought that the Macon peo-
iN Will AXE further steps in the matter
9"a'hsboro Pine Forest: One of the local
''' offending a young man for retailing
'l,0'' tod the jury that 1t was the boys
ld'her that sold the LIQUOR and therefore
Co o 10Y ought not to be held responsible
\ ,c us lather's sins. The young man was
4 boie out Ii so happened in about
nm an hour the grand Jury found a true
vo Isalnst The father and the old man
NM ,1IIesied- But before the sheriff could
lsp-.5.'i'" under bond, he made dive at the
hs "no had so successfully defended
ms son. he collared the attorney. say
100 lou Q--n rascal II "A hadn't been
W, you' ] would not have been an this
zap ! heap ruther they'd hung the
can 10y than put me in jail The boy
uoha thout better'n me-"
FLORIDA.
Dam. ''-8sonville, Tampa and Key West
ANYWAY shops at Palatka have been clos.
eno.o..' 'le windows nailed up ana the