The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-14
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATE TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA.


Jasper watkins, white man over "a
wears of age, was shot and killed Monday
morning near his home in Madison county,
bv a boy named Pitt Barber. A former
dimculty and a threat by Watkins to kill
Barber, caused the killing.
Jim Mayfeld, the young man who shot
and killed a woman and her little girl
near Adairsville one day last week, went
into Calhoun Monday night and bought a
ticket to Chattanooga, leaving on the II
o'clock northbound train.
Mr.. Albert NJ. Gribble, sheriff of Haber-
sham county, died at his residence at Toe
Goa Tuesday morning after a long illness.
Mir. Gribbe has made a splendid officer
and the large majorities he has received
IN the last two elections show his popu-
larity He was 4S years old.
marriage which occurred in Atlanta
during the time of the State Fair, and
which has been kept secret by the con-
H ,racting parties. has been made public.
The groom was Mr.. Albert B. Jones' dep
uty clerk of the Superior Court of Car
roll county, and the bride was Miss Eva
Brown, daughter of d. ], G. W. Brown
Of Carrollton.
Mr. T. ]. Gray, an aged and highly re-
spected citizen of Monroe county, died last
Thursday night at the home of his SON
in-aw. DT. T. B. Hollis, of Forsyth. Mr..
Gray had been suffering for quite while
with Bright's disease. Mr.. Gray was born
IN Wilkes county Georgia, seventy-eight
years ago. He was for sixty years mem
Der of the Methodist Church. More than
a score of years ago he was elected tax
receiver of Monroe county.
The Ross pardon case was heard last
Thursday before the Prison Commission.
Judge ]. B. Williamson representing
Ross and Judge ]. p. Carson the protest
ants Ross is the young man who muir
dered his father-in-law at Cabanlss, Ca,
in the northeastern section of Monroe
Il county on Aug. A. 1894 at a primary cleo
II ton held that day. He was tried the fol-
lowing February and convicted, receiving
a life sentence in the penitentiary.
Receiver A. S. Parker of the Exchange
N Bank of Athens, is busily engaged in col
Letting in the assets of the bank prepara-
tory 10 liquidation under the order of the
court Nearly half the deposits of the
bank have already been paid out, and the
remaining depositors have agreed to hold
their claims back until the assets of the
bank are collected Every depositor and
creditor of the bank will be paid in full,
holders.
The case of Mrs. w. L. Walker, of Floyd
county, against the Southern Railway was
concluded in the United States Court. in
NJ Atlanta, Tuesday. The jury, after being
IA out for some time, brought in a verdict
for the, defendant. The plaintiff sued the
n Southern Railway for 5000 damages be-
II cause of personal injuries sustained some
n time agO. She was on the point of taking
seat in a passenger coach near Rome
4 when the train gave a sudden lurch aud
4 she was thrown violently upon the seat.
Brigham H. Roberts, the Mormon con-
1 gresham of Utah, who is having trouble
1 10 secure his seat in Congress, was at
/ one time a Mormon elder preaching in
Il Tennessee and North Georgia. Fifteen
years ago Roberts came to Tennessee from
4 salt Lake City. He labored first in Lewis
county, Tennessee, and then in James,
and then Marion county and Catoosa coun-
ty Georgia, and after he left James coun-
II ty his successors, two elders, were mob
n bed there and he was sent back to get
their bodies and was run out of the coun-
n Friday morning VIII Bradley. we'll
4 known young man of Claxton, was shot
and fatally wounded in Warwoman dis
Il triot, some seven miles east of Clayton.
4 bradley is still living and says he was
slOt by John Godfrey, a United States
4 deputy marshal, residing in this county.
The wounded man says he was fleeing
from Godfrey and Boone Crawford when
| they began shooting at him and that God
| frey hit him the fifth shot. II is presum-
ed Bradley was discovered near an Illicit
| dlsulery. The revenue officers left in the
direction of Atlanta. No arrests have been
made. A physician was called and he is
| trying to save the life of his patient. The
pan entered the back, just above the right
kidney.
There is a great deal of excitement in
jackson county over the brutal assassina-
ION of Mr.. F. NJ. Holiday last Saturday
an account of which has been published in
tne Morning News. The ,coroners jury
L ned session all day Monday, but came
l 10 no conclusion, although it is known that
| suspicion points to certain white man
III Jackson county. Officer Rose went over
saturday with his dog, and, although the
scent was cold, the dog succeeded in track
/ ing the ASSASSIN from the house 10 the
o'S road, and along the path they followed
was found the empty pocketbook of the
| 'tad man. 1t Is not known whether or not
| ga man Holiday had any money in his
pochetDook prior to the murder. The gen.
eId opinion is that the murderer was a
1 whlIe man, aud that his motive was rob-
berry.