The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-16
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND
SOUTH CAROLINA.
NEWS OF THE THREE STATES PUT
TYPE.
GEORGIA.


Ala meeting of the Executive Commit
tee of the Fourth congressional district,
held Thursday at LAGRANGE, Ga, a con-
venuon 10 nominate member OF the FIJI
ty-seventh Congress from the Fourth
district was called TO meet at
Warm Springs, Ga, on Aug. 10.
Reports from all sections of the state,
North. Middle and South Georgia are to
the effect that the cold weather of Thurs
day and Friday morning, when there was
frost in many places did no damage 90
the fruit crop The peaches are all rigAt,
say the growers, and the crop will be
a big one.
Eighty delegates from Columbus labor
unions to the State Convention in Angus
ia, who had agreed to travel over the
Southern Railway, changed their arrange
ments, due 10 the strike Of the telegraph
ers on the Southern. and will boycott the
Southern, deciding to go over the Central
of Georgia.
The machinery purchased for the Moul-
trie Cotton Mill, will enable it to turn
out quite a variety of products. It's prin-
cipal OUTPUT will be brown sheeting. This
will be made in different sizes, ranging
from the narrOwest up to 40 inches 1t
has also purchased looms adapted to turn
expenditure can also make duck.
The appraisers of the estate of the late
T. C. Dempsey of Macon have completed
their work and the estimated value of all
the property is placed at $4,000. Most of
Mr. Dempsey's property was in Macon,
but he also had interests in other places,
which made the work of the appraisers
difficult. Mrs. Dempsey the widow Of the
deceased, gets the bulk of the property.
Harry Burke, one of the highwaymen
who nearly year ago attempted to kill
Hon. H H. Singetary of Lacrosse, after
having held up his clerk and robbed the
store, is TO serve twenty years in the pen
itentiary for his crime, the same for which
his partner was shot to death. Such was
the sentence imposed by Judge Littleiohn
after Burke's trial in Schley Superior
Court.
Moultrie Observer: Three young negro
men from Thomas county, who came to
Moultrie Saturday in a wagon, were at
tackled on their way back home, and two
of their number. Henry Kemp and Clar-
ence Stewart We're killed outright while
the third, John Mitchell, barely escaped,
receiving a flesh wound and broken arm.
The killing is a mystery that hasn't been
solved.
The Girard cotton mills were formally
organized Friday. The stockholders held
a meeting at the plant in Girard, Ala,
just across the river from the Eagle and
Phenix mills, in Columbus and elected O.
S. Jordan president, and p. N. Hin secre-
tary and treasurer. Mr.. Jordan is a prac-
teal manufacturer, for many years con
nected with the Eagle and Phenix mills
and is a brother of Mr.. Gunby Jordan,
himself president of the Eagle and Phe-
nix mills
Mr.. G.. Gunby Jordan, president of the
Eagle and Phenix Mills is one Southern
manufa cturer who is inclined to smile at
the recently published story that the
Northern cotton machinery mills are GO
ing to shut off on Southern orders for
machinery, giving New England manu-
lecturers the preference, and practically
stopping the erection of cotton mills in
the South by their position. "Such a con-
dition would be impossible" he said
Southern mill people have no trouble
whatever in getting machinery when they
offer to pay cash, or when their credit
is good. We have no trouble whatever
in buying any machinery we want for
the Eagle and Phenix Mills. If il is pub
hshed that we are to buy some new
machinery we get dozen or so tele-
grams the next day, from the various
manufacturers asking for the business
It's matter of business with them. They
are in the market to sell machinery"