The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-09-24
GEORGIA.

Prof WILDER tolv.n, Of Lthona ga,
has o. en- elsc.cd 10 M the Greek chair in
the ca csc al Dah.lncga
Al Fas, man Wednesday night the north
bound ras erger t,ain kro lt1 ON tie
track negro by tie name Of Jonas Mus-
grove crushing his sku... u h. Thought no
was drunk ard went 70 s.eep On the track
A large gold-b airing vein has teen dis
covered near Wye Tyrers IN the Eto-
Wah river. Il Is sa!d 10 be fine prospect
and that the mirc VIII be properly vel
op Il. The mine is located jus, ACROSS tie
j towah river, ~ the Inc g Lumpkin aud
Dawson counties.
Mrs Marian Hargrove died at the home
OF her son, r. L. Earsrove, near Craw-
ford. Thursday night she was the oldest
woman % the county at the time Of nor
death, having celebrated her &tn bntn-
day Only a few days ago. She was the
mother Of G. 5. Hargrove, who was post
master az Crawford under both admins
tTatons for nineteen years.
There are four conyicts In Atlanta who
were taken there to b. hired 10 Fulton
county. They are al hom Cherokee coun-
", and two Of them are Tom Adkins ana
his pretty wife who were convicted OF Big
amy Fulton county does not want the
oonvicts. and will not hire them. The Of
ficials OF Cherokee are thus left in
qUandary as that county has no chain
sang.
Jim Hall a negro man Of q years OF
age viii be hanged in B.akely Sept. Is
for raping a negro girl only . years of
age He was convicted at the last special
torn OF court. lie now admits the story to
Sheriff Black. He says he had no III VIII
against The parents of the child, but was
Possessed by a spirit Of evil. and the devil
was in him This Is his explanation Of his
vicious conduct The negro girl has not
Yet recovered. and may not
Jack Dupart, desperate negro, was
surrounded and captured IN a negro house
at Lake Park Thursday night There were
four deputies after him and they forced
q surrender at the point of a Winchester
DupaFt Is wanted by the sheriff of Pu-
lsski county Tor numbering Andrew Nc
kenzie with knife at "A church IN that
county ia lsss. The sheriff has teiegrdphed
deputies 70 hold Dupart, that he is coming
for him. There is reward for Dupart
II is quite probable that the large fertiI-
izer plant Of the Virginia-Carolina Com
pany. in Americus. viii be put in operation
at an early dale. Under the old ownership
the plant which IS one OF tne largest in
The state. would have been running ere
THIS but no one seems TO know what the
company now owning IL viii do. Quite
recently a large quantity OF new machin-
cry has been pat IN The mill, which fact
induces the belief that It viii be started
up e. an early date.
Tifton's two new railroads are nearing
completion 10 Noullrie. The Triton,
Townsville and Gulf has had its grading
done fer some time, and only awaits the
competitor o. some bridge work TO lay the
track into Noultrie. The Moultrle Termi-
nal COmDany's graders nave been camped
wis Mn a mile of Triton for two weeks, and
Will sOou have the grading finished. AS
soon as the bridge across Little river Is
completed, they will ley track into Triton,
when TWO of the best towns in Georgia
can shake hands along their bonds of
steel
Dah,onega Signal: At the Hand and va
hoc}a mines ore is being taken from five
or six different veins. The average value
of these ores is 81 per ton and il is esti-
mated by practical miners aud engineers
that 20,000 tons are already on the dump.
This means, Of course $l2O0 600 IN gold for
the big mill 10 open operations on. II is
estimated that 100000 tons are In sight
Al s. per ton it win thus be seen that
these two mines are now go0d for yield
of $36, 900 in gold This may sound a
little exaggeratiVe 10 many of our read
tiSs DuL according TO eS inmates by miners
OF good judgment and accurate assays it
Is fact
Coroner Brown Of Covingaon held the
inquest Friday over the body of Prof
Frantz, who committed suicide at Coving-
ton, and reported that he came to his
death by the use of pocket knife in his
own hands. Suspicion was at first brought
10 bear that 1t was ASA sination and that
the assassin had used the professors knife
TO mutilate his body after having killed
him and left IL on the bed beside him as
disguise to the affair. but when a note
vas found in the professors handwriting
directed to his wife, stating his intentions
and the reasons therefor, all this doubt
was cleared away and the verdict given
as above. He stated in the note that the
consciousness of his inability TO hold up TO
the work that was before him on account
OF his extreme bad health and not wishing
20 longer be a burden to himself and fam
lily, he decided on this course of Riding
himself. He stated that they could live
well and he hoped happily on his life in
surance, etc. The note seemed TO have
been written by perfectly sane man and
without any fear or excitement The fatal
work was done with a small duh knife
There was fifty-three wounds on his body
1t Is supposed that he first cut his throat
and there were eighteen or twenty gashes
around his neck, but letting the air into
his windpipe, which reached his heart. He
Gid not bleed fast, so he began cutting his
wrists. Twelve or fifteen gashes were
found on each arm and five in his breast
just over his heart.