The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-03-22
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GEORGIA.

Tho store of Abe Shurman in Atlanta,
mas blown up by dynamite Sunday night.
Il is supposed to have been the work of
his enemies
rd Malone, a prisoner in the Atlanta
nclce station. tRied without success to
hang himself on Sunday with his suspen-
ders He had been drinking.
Atlanta is having a crusade against mer-
chants who have been keeping their places
If business open on Sunday. About twenty
FIVE arrests for this offense were made
last Sunday.
The Bibb county camp of Confederate
veterans is preparing to attend the an
nual meeting of the United Veterans As
ISOLATION at Charleston, and it is highly
nrobabIe that the camp will attend in a
body,
An alleged cripple named Walker has
been doing some professional begging in
Albany The suspicious of the police be-
ing aroused. he was given an examination,
found thoroughly sound and then ordered
10 leave town at once.
The grand jury of Dolly county has
heen looking after the Illegal voters dur
ing the present session of that body, as
over 100 indictments were found for that
illegal practice, and all such indictments
were returned to the county court for
prosecution.
At Brunswick Monday Mr., Charles J.
White. deputy marshal for the Eastern di-
vision of the Southern district of Geor-
gia attached the British bark Margaret
Mitchell, which has been libeled for sal
through their attorneys, Garrard, Meldrim
& Newman, under a claim for $500.
The burglar who broke into e. w. DAN
iels' drug store at Boston last Saturday
night was captured about twenty miles
south of that place and is now safe in jail
at Thomasville He only escaped from
the chain-gaug the same day he robbed
the store Mr.. Daniels succeeded in find
ing quite a lot of the stolen property.
Eatonton has been in darkness since
Monday night, owing to the burning out
of the generator at the electric plant by
lightning The little city had begun to feel
quite cosmopolitan, with her many advan-
tages of recent years, and the revival of
oil lamps brings to mind the early settler
and his torch so great is the difference in
lights.
Green S. Nelson, ex-sheriff of Worth
county, mas been bound over by Judge
Wilkes of the County Court, to answer
charges of cheating and swindling, pre-
ferred by G. A. Harlan Of that county.
II is alleged that Nelson borrowed $1,000
of Harkan. giving a mortgage on realty in
Worth county on which the Bank of Alba
ny had mortgage.
Mr.. Horne, q Macon young man, was set
upon and badly beaten Sunday night while
going home from Centenary Church. The
parties who did the deed are unknown,
though it is supposed that it was brought
about by Mr.. Horne going with certain
young ladies, thereby causing jealousy
among other parties. He is suffering
good deal from his bruises.
F. C. Ivey of Boston lost his crib and
contents Sunday morning about daylight
by fire 1t is thought that 1t was robbed
and then fired, as the door was found
lying on the ground some distance from
the crib. The fire was discovered by W.
j. Clements, who lives near He ran there
and turned out the mules. If he had not
done so both of them would have burned.
Joe Stachey, the youngest moonshiner
yet found by the revenue officers, was
caught in Carroll county by Deputy Col
ector Martin and Deputy Marshal Scott,
who went on raid there. The lad said he
was but Is years of age and his looks did
not belle his words. He was a mere strip
ling, but as bright as a steel trap The
officers state the boy was industriously at
work when they came upon him at his
distillery, which he claimed he owned and
operated himself He said he drank most
OF the liquor he made.
The severe wind and rain storm that
passed over Cordele and that section Sat
urday night between and o'clock, blew
down some telegraph poles across the
Georgia Southern and Florida track, and
the wires tore off the headlight, smoke
stack and dynamo on the engine of the
train which arrived there at about the
time that the storm was at its greatest
force. The negro Methodist church was
blown down and is totally wrecked; also
great many fences, signs and awnings
were promiscuously scattered around by
the wind
A wholesale Jail delivery came near oc-
curing at Eatonton Wednesday morning
Sheriff r. ]. Terrell went to the jail to
iced the prisoners, and through the call
window of the inner iron door to the cor
ndot luckily observed the cage door had
peen tempered with. An alarm for help
was given by the sheriff and an examina-
uon resulted In finding two prisoners wait
ing outside in the corridor to make their
break for liberty; while the cage full of
prisoners, had the lower portion of its
poor torn completely from the hinges Ii
,ds not been learned how the work was