The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-01
|, GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
.cvs OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA.

GEORGIA.
p,viev Banner: Appling county will
,u,isb more syrup to a sugar refinery in
.,,r,7 than any other county in the
Nv boIt if fair price be offered.
o,o of the largest land deals ever made
miller county was made Saturday be
s, Hon. Isaac Bush and J. P. Will
W. The former sod 10 the latter 5000
1 ,-1s of land for $4,000. The people there
49, ,rttcipating a large saw mill.
Mrs T. L. Mapp, wife of DIR. j. L. Mapp,
loading physician of Jackson, died Sat
A., morning. Her demise was expect
eba has been in i'll health several
,r,bs mast. Mrs. Mapp was a leader in
.nrob ana charity work, and her death
s,s cast a gloom over that city. The in
,.rr,4nt took place from the Methodist
rburch Sunday afternoon.
The charter of the new cotton mill TO be
5rr, In Athens is now being prepared by
,,torrevs Strickland and Green. The cor
n,rotors named are Myer Stern, Billups
rbDizv. John R. White, James NJ. Smith,
r. Griffith, James White, A. H. Hodg-
an j. Y. Carithers. T. P. Vincent, w D.
Griffith and ]. ]. Strickland With these
r5rTIpm6n at IIle HGdu VI VIC new mn
pavement it will be a great success.
frst-class iron river steamboat has
4st been built in Macon and is now be-
.r sbipped to Dunnellon, Fla, for the
11raUon Phosphate Company. The boat
ms built by Schofield's Sons, and is per-
nrs the first of its kind. 1t is built of
~s.fourth inch steel plate. and although
is twenty feet across the beam and
fg5ty-fye feet long, the steel work
ny weighs 1900 pounds.
The Methodist congregation of Albany
HID meeting Sunday morning and de-
ied to build a new church. A commit
-.e was appointed to make a canvass for
s,fscriptions, and it is hoped that the
AMOUNT desired for the erection of the
church will be raised before next spring,
when the work on the church viii begin.
The Methodist people propose TO build
4 $1,000 church. and to that amount
something over $1,000 has already been
subscribed.
For the last week there has been a
p9d deal of quarantining against Ocilla
tr paper. but very little in fact. There
las been more or less travel between
DELLA and Fitzgerald all the time, but
DIST fIlNAS I llLSttdlh SGtlI NOth t4iei1 uii
sud attend the circus. There has been
skin disease prevalent throughout that
,Yntv since the 1st of April, which has
een variously named by physicians from
maN-pox to itch, but not single death
has occurred. Dr.. Stalker of Fitzgerald
md DR.. Goethe of Oci.la say emphatca.-
that il has but little resemblance to
mall-pox, but just what it is they are
.nable to say
The penitentiary officials of the state
TIE on the lookout for three desperate
sharacters. who made their escape from
he prison farm at Milledgevile last week.
The men are Charles Flournoy, a convict
rom Bibb county; Hollis Mcdonald of
B.bo county and William Perry of Chat
ham county. A reward of $50 has been Of
fered by the state for the capture and
delivery of the three men to the authori-
ties of the prison farm at Milledgeville.
Fournoy was serving seven years SEN
tence for burglary and was regarded by
the officers as the most desperate CHAR
acter at the camp Perry was under
life sentence for murder in Chatham
county. and has already served seven
years Of his sentence. All three men made
their escape on the night of Oct. p, and
the officers have been unable to find any
trace of the men up to date.
Albany Herald: 1t has been reported
about town that Chaser, the man who was
convicted at the October term of Dough-
erty Superior Court for the murder of his
wife, and who is now confined in jail
awaiting the day of his execution, was be-
ing haunted by the ghost of his murdered
wife. The report had it that Chaser would
yoll out all during the night and would
call upon Jaier Mann TO put a light in his
cell so that the ghost would be driven
away. As the superstitious, ghost-believ-
ing folks put it, CHASER was being ridden
by his Wife's ghost every night. A reporter
Of the Herald having hear these reports,
called at the Jail to see Chaser, thinking
that if such reports were true the haunted
man might confess the crime, of which
he has been convicted but always protest
cd his innocence. The reporter learned
that there was absolutely no foundation
Tor these reports. CHASER says that he
sleeps soundly every night, and Jaller
Mann says he never hears from him after
o7d time at night. Chaser said that such
reports were absurd, and that he did not
0eheVe in ghosts. In speaking OF the
crime CHASER still denied that he was
guilty. He saws that he has no recol-
Ieolon of anything that happened on the
'snt when his wife died. His only hope
now, ne said, was that Judge Spence
would grant him a new trial.