The morning news., 1899-03-29
GEORGIA.

The stock of dry goods of H. P. Levin on
par street in Brunswick, was consumed
- 5ra Monday night. The building was
only injured on the interior. Both .hS
sock and building were insured.
r,ias Kunnes of Warrenton, Ga, has en-
,sred suit in the City Court of Macon
AGAINST ]. R. Fried & Co. for $4,000 dam
a7es He claims he was unjustly arrest
81 for debt, a debt which he says was not
even due.
nfrs Kitty oliver, wife of the late Col
NJ Oliver. of Perry, died Sunday morn
.- Mrs Oliver had been a confirmed
!r7,1id for several years with rheuma-
,isro and was a great sufferer. She leaves
t,, brothers Dr. r. L. Cater, Mr.. L. +.
C,tar and one sister, Mrs. Ida Rogers OF
Perry.
1.roas Hunter. the Griffin negro who was
vbipped for arson, seems to be innocent OF
,ba crime. though he received the punisn-
nm Several of the prominent heish-
hrs Of the section in which Hunter hVed
have protested against the accusd'ioli' anu
u is nrobable that some trouble may re-
~. - fron, the case when the grand jury
meets
The Wavne County Light Troop Com
,,,1 of the First Georgia Cavalry, has
hrol,en camp at Linder's Bluff, on the Al
tr,aho river where they had been camp
mo for \ couple of days and all members
are benefited by the trip, as everything
was done according TO military tacucs,
and the same instructions were given ana
the same duty performed as III tlie ieS Oi"r
state encampment.
uavor Prices circulating library has
orsoed IN for business and hundreds Of
the roorer people of Macon have been en-
loving an insight into things that nave
baen hidden mysteries to them and were
reading magazines and newspapers FUR
nished to them as the result OF the
tboughtful plan evolved by the Mayor 1t
is Mayor Prices plan to put a newspaper
into every home and to furnish every
home with magazines and good reading
matter
The many friends throughout the state
of DR.. j. A. Stewart will be panied to learn
that this distinguished physician is criti-
cally i'll at Conyers, and grave fears for
his recovery are entertained. The doctor
is Confederate veteran. He entered
the army from this place as captain OF a
company of brave men, and owing to val
er the war closed he returned to Conyers
and resumed the practice of mis- profession,
and has done an extensive practice ever
since
The latest plan to get rid of the ground
mole is to dig hole some three feet deep
along their run. when they will fall into
the hole and perish. The Dooly county
farmer who made this assertion said that
ba do E.xr
holes. The posts were not put in for some
time and when he returned he found moles
in almost all the holes, some dead and
Others alive He has since tried the ex-
pertinent and finds it will work to a charm
IN extermnating the moles, the great pests
of the farmer
man at Cave Spring has come into
possession of a scrap of paper which was
blown from the home of Lewis Coffey
near Edwardsvlle, Ala, by the cyclone,
which recently wrecked the Coffey home
and killed ten members of his family. The
paper is receipt given Coffey in 1881, and
II was found in the woods near Cave
Spring the day after the cyclone, a dis
lance of twenty-three miles from the Cof-
ley home. The paper is well preserved
and is clean, although it passed through
the terrible cyclone.
The county authorities of Rabun county
are still making vigorous effort to ferret
out the mystery surrounding the death of
Robert Blalock. Blalock's body was found
Win his neck broken during the early
part oil the month not far from distillery
mat mad been destroyed but a short time
neIore by Deputy Collector Cliff Vigol and
John Eiler and Dan Dover, possemen.
suspicion was at first attached to the Off
Vets' and they were arrested and carried
oeIore magistrate, but the evidence went
10 snow that they were entirely innocent,
ana their acquittal followed Tracks have
sHce been discovered that lead the author
N'es 70 think that a struggle took place
..4e man was killed and his body dragged
~ 1he direction of the distillery More
man mat can not now be told The crime
WI De gwen thorough investigation, and
sely effort made to bring the gully
party or parties to justice.
strange fight occurred in one of the
notes OF Macon Sunday night, but the
names of the participants are unknown.
as wen as the cause of the trouble. The
og'userents became involved in a dispute
lue second floor of the hotel. and one
oi the men said TO the other. "Tt is zoo
ruoNc TO fight where we are; let us go TO
~ room, lock the door and have il out -
,a rne novel challenge was accepted and the
W. men entered the room themselves.
al 'ne uoor and Immediately commenc-
gu me hsticuff. The noise of the scuA1e
@acaed the hallway, and man went out
me m ,Ie street to notify a policeman of the
frissi fi'SGal proceeding. In the meantime a
on IN, p Oh one of the belligerents knocked
/ or ,Ie closed door and Informed the fight
/ fsbtne t'at the police had been sent for. The
r5o,a erSe's ceased and the pugilists left the
/ pole 9r1n ana were ia the hallway when the
ariyel,- Ian an, arrived. and they were compar-
mere had been no fight. ''''o'-' a.
FLORIDA.
MISS Cassandra o. AVS. an old and high