The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-05

Today the people of Bulloch county will
NEE. and decide whether they viii build
q cotton factory at statesbcro or not.
The Board Of Pardons has decided TO
turn down an application FOR the pardon
Of Lem and Julius Bone. two noted young
Atlanta criminals Of all arts who are serV-
ing ten-years sentence each in the pen
itentiary for the robbery of a man by the
name Of kiassiter The Bones have been
in the penitentary for three years.
Through his attorneys. Messrs. Erwin &
Galloway. Mr.. Albert NJ. Ayers of Cum
tersville, Ala, has filed a bin in the Unit
ed States Court at Macon asking thai a
receiver be appOInte.. for the Ocmui3e~
Land Improvement Company JudBe
Speer has granted the petition. and Mr.
Olin ]. Wimberly of the law firm of Han
& Wimberly, has been made temporary
receiver
The rural delivery in Macon will com
mence on March Is. Messrs. Kemp and
Birdson have been appointed carriers.
Both the men are white The routes
mapped out will enable q majority Of tho
people throughout the county to get their
mail every day without coming into the
city. For a long time ii was thought the
routes would not be established, owing 20
the places as carriers.
new bank was organized at Tennille
Thursday afternoon, with w Cabanlss
of Macon president j. W Smith. vice
president, ana d. r. McMaster. n. NJ.
Bashinski, J. T. Walker and c. II. Wood,
directors Mr.. j. Bashinski, Jr, viii ne
cashier. Within thirty days the directors
hope 10 have everything in readiness -
begin business in The building now occu-
pied by Pritchard Bros. This hrm VIII
move into one of their stores under the
new hotel, now nearing completion.
oglethorpe Echo The Echo hears indi-
rectly that Col James NJ Smith has
about determined to build a cotton mil,
at Smithsonia. We have long wondered
why he did not. His own crop will fur
nish ample supply of raw materi-
al for good size factory. The
good effects of a mill al Col Smiths
VIII be felt over a large portion of the
county, and the Echo hopes 1t has not been
misinformed as to the Co'oneIs intentions
to build one
The revenue officers made a raid on IL
licit distillers about five miles south of
Bowdon, near Carrollton. recently. They
report that about the 18th of last month
they found an eightygalon still and iden-
titled it as one that Bill Buchanan of
that community, had run as a registered
still, and with ii found and destroyed
about 5000 gallons of beer. Buchanan
claimed that it had been stolen from him
and was not operated by his consent, and
had offered a reward for it.
Mr. J. r. Holtzclaw, station agent for
the Georgia Southern and Florida Raii-
road at Lake PARK, died Thursday night
with hemorrhage OF the lungs Mr. Holtz-
claw he'd a homorrhage about 4 O'clock
IN the afternoon, hack drove up 10
the depot to carry him to the hotel and
go until his train came at sos o'clock
After meeting the train he locked the door
got in the hack and was driven to the
hotei, where he died in a short time
Sarah Mathews, a colored woman about
50 years of age was struck with paraly-
SIS at her mothers home, near Fort Val
ley, thursday under extraordinary cir
cumstances and is now lying in a most
critical condition. She lives with an in
urn mother, who is now more than 50
years old and who has been totally blind
lot twenty years. The younger woman
mas been repea tedly accused of nistreat-
ing her aged mother and on more than
one or these occasions of abuse the MA
woman has warned her daughter that some
judgment would oveuake her in retrihn-
1Ion Tor her lack of flial love and respecr
W hile the Mathews woman was beatino
hef mother Thursday she was suddanrv
stricken with paralysis and LOST connle4a
control OF her limbs She is stil holm
less and is not likely to recover from ~,
stroke. i'0ni th4