The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-21

Mrs O. Z. Mcdaniel t5roush heI att'r-
news. fled sult in ,ae city Court 90 N'-
con Saturday morning against the Aem
brewing Company for Sl5.IA damages 10Y
tho death OF her husband A,pAn e-S "a'
killed al the brewery several months ago
by being caught ia ihc srsfurs and AaN-
Ing his brains beat out on the val
superior Court was convened o.
Hawkinsvilie Monday morning. Judge
C. c. Smith presiding. Quit. a
number q civil cases have
been disposed OF. the largest being that
OF Willie Sommer against the Southern
Railway Company. a damage su.t for So
GOO The case consumed more than one
day. The jury gave the PiainIa a YER
diet fer S5o.
Col. Obear of Atlanta, the INSPECTOR of
the state militia. is IN Rome for The pur-
pose of inspecting the two military COM
pauies Col Obear drilled the Hal City
Cadets Thursday night and took tour
through their armory. The coonel was
very much pleased with the condition Of
tie Cadets and compHmented Capt. George
upon the excellent showing.
Emory winship has returned TO Macon
from Greenbrier White Sulphur Springs
Va. and Washington While in Wash
fngtOn he passed successfully the eXamin-
alton for first lieutenant in the United
States navy and his commission will be
forwarded TO him within the next few
days He VIII remain in Macon until
some time in October. when his leave OF
absence will expire.
Thursday Mr. w J. Wrenn Of the firm
of Wrenn & Phillips. at Wrenn's found, on
opening his store a note addressed to him.
The note contained threat to take the
life of Mr. W. J. Wrenn. also young
Wrenn and one of the clerks at Wrenn &
Phillips. and was signed by Willis and
Francis Magahee, negro farmers in the vi
entity A party went to the home of the
Mags hees and arrested two of them. An
other jumped through a window and four
shots were fired at him. but when last
seen he was running through a corn fed.
Dawson people are considerably inter
ested in the building of the Georgia Pine
Railway, which is headed toward that city.
The building of this road means a good
deal not only TO Dawson. but to Column
bus. as well, as il would shorten the dis
tance to Southern Georgia. and would
open up a territory that is now almost
inaccessible to the latter city. a Daw-
son committee mad a conference with
President Williams of the Georgia Pine
Company, and as a result it is stated that
IL Is almost certain that the road will so
TO Dawson
The many friends Of Lieut. George +.
Cooper, L. S. N, viii be interested IN
learning of his recent assignment to duty
at Manila. For some time past Lieut.
Cooper, who has only recently donned the
shoulders straps. has been stationed at the
Annapolis navy yard, but letter received
at Americas announces that he is now
on the way to the Philippines, where he
has been asst gned 70 duty aboard the Bal
umore. Lieut.. Cooper was reared in
Americas. and hundreds of friends there
will be pleased to learn of his where
abouts Mrs. Cooper will join him at Nd
Mia shorty.
Referring to a newspaper story from
Boston, containing story tod by negro
named Robert McGraw. who claimed to
be from Cedartown The Standard of the
latter place says: There arrived In Ce-
dartown last February a family by The
name OF Small. which claimed to hail from
Maine. and was accompanied by a negro
named Robert MCGraw. The family was
of a low order of intelligence and seemed
TO be completely under the domination of
the negro. McGraw claimed to have some
medical knowledge, and when old Mrs.
Small took sick a few weeks ago he was
her only physician. The old woman died
About two weeks ago McGraw was ar
rested on a charge of cheating and swind-
ling preferred by Mr.. II. j. Dempsey, ana
al the same time Tax Collector Schliestett
got after him from practicing medicine
without a license. McGraw settled Mr..
Dempsey's claim and paid his license. and
then picked up his white folks and left for
parts unknown. 1t is certainly news to the
people of Ced6rtown that any attempt was
ever made 10 lynch McGraw here, or that
there was even any talk of it-howeVer
much he may have deserved it. Reports
are current however as to his relations
with members of the family that he had in
charge which would indicate that he
should have been detained here until after
the grand jury convened. AS McGraw was
right here in Cedartown a the time of
the Hose tragedy, he must have had lit
tie physical difficulty in being an eye-wit-
ness TO that occurrence some sixty miles
away. IL shows. however the intensely
reliable nature of the information on
which Northern fanatics of the Jewett
type feed and fatten"