The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-04-09
GEORGIA, FLORIDA AND
SOUTH CAROLINA.
NEWS OF THE THREE STATES PUT
TYPE.
GEOnGIA.

A telegram was received at Fitzgerald
Friday night from Grand Chancellor
Goodrum. stating that the Grand Lodge
meeting of the X. of p. had been changed
from May Is TO Nay II,
The VaIdosta Guano Company is ar
ranging 10 make large additions 10 its
plant II is preparing to build an annex
OF sixty feet to its main building, besides
a seed building OF 40 by 100 feet THESE
improvements viii largely. increase the ca
pacity Of the factory.
Ailledge Nix, negro brakeman, was
struck by an engine near Johnston Sta
ton Friday night and killed The front
trucks and one driving wheel passed oyer
his lower extremities. MASKING both legs
and one arm completely of. The negro
was placed on train No. AZ and taken 70
Wadley dying five minutes after reach
ing there.
William B. Loves last will and tesla
ment was proven in common form in the
ordinary's office in Atlanta Friday after
noon, and Saturday morning Mrs Re
becca D Lowe Mrs Rebecca d. English
and Mr.. w. b. Lowe, Jr., qualified as
executors. No inventory of the estate
has yet been made. and its value cannot
be accurately determined The value is
variously estimated from 100000 10 $780,
600.
Swainsboro Pine Forest: Mr. Math
Monkey of Stillmore began Tuesday morn
ing with force of hands the grading of
the extension of the Seaboard and Gulf
Railroad, which is chartered from a point
in South Carolina to Carrabele, Fla. 1t
is purposed, We understand. TO complete
the road to Wadley at once, and after
wards. by the purchase of a few short
lfr1l- Of
and Gulf can easily be pushed through,
Through the fundamentally of Mr.. II
H. Raymond, general Southern agent of
the Mallory Line, Brunswick, is about to
secure some Improvements in the way of
harbor lights and guides that have been
long needed. The request has been made
through Mr.. Raymond for a change in
the lights on Jekyl from red to white and
a change in the lights on CooneFs Island
from white to red. A request has also
been made for a red light on Jekyl jettios
and a whistling buoy on the bar. The
object of the change in lights is to enable
incoming shipmasters and pilots TO distin-
guish the difference between the range
lights and lights that are on vessels which
may be lying in the sound.
Fitzgerald Enterprise: Last Tuesday was
an important day at the home of Mr.. L.
" llSuei MT ana Mrs. IlSQel gave an
anniversary dinner 10 which quite a num-
Der of their friends We're Invited among
whom were the ministers engaged in the
series OF meetings now being held at Cen
trial Methodist Church. Twenty-Five years
ago last Tuesday Mr. Tisdel attended the
silver wedding of an ancestor of his who
lives in the distant state of Michigan.
Tuesday the golden wedding of these same
ancestors was celebrated. And besides
these events which the anniversary COM
Mr.. and Mrs. Tisdel and was the ami
versary of their home in the southland,
in the genial sunshine and among the
fragrant flowers.
Some days before their death. the two
Goolsby boys, Lewis and King. who were
hanged al Baxley Friday for the horrible
murder of Danial Minis, signed a deed
conveying their bodies to a prominent
, physician of Bailey after the execution.
Inc consideration was a sufficient sum Of
money TO provide them with delicacies not
on Sheriff Crosby's bill of fare and which
they had never before enjoyed in their life
The watermelon season not having arriv-
ed they hit on cheese as the article
most desired as the piece de resistance OF
their ante-mortem banquets and they pur-
chased a quantity of ii every day The
boys had about as much conception of
their condition as a fattening hog has of
the fate in store for him. When asked
what was TO become of them the younger
replied: Mr. Crosby is going to pop us,s
necks next week" in a matter-of-fact tone
that showed that he regarded the matter
as rather a joke on the sheriff.