The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-31
IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS.
GEORGIA.

years, and it will be connected with the
long distance lines.
The strike at the Warrenville mill in
Augusta still remains unsettled, and the
mill stands idle. The operatives demand
the discharge of the superintendent or the
reinstatement of the weave room boss,
and the mill officials refuse to accede.
Houston Home Journal: An egg curios-
ity from the fowl yard of A. C. Barker was
given the editor Monday by w. b. Watson.
The egg is almost the shape of an ordina-
Try tobacco piper with the stem about the
same size as the bowl, altogether less than
one-third the size of an ordinary hen egg,
Charles Evans, a negro who has been
confined in Dougherty county Jail since
December last on a charge of horse steal
ing, nearly succeeded in digging his way
through the walls of his prison to free
dom Tuesday night. He was discovered
by the jailer just in time to prevent the
escape of himself and several other pris-
cners.
Hon. F. B. Simmons, chairman of the
Democratic Executive Committee of
Clinch county, has called his committee
together to meet at the Court House in
bonneville on Tuesday, April TO- for the
purpose of fixing a date for primary
for county officers, senator and repre-
sentative, also 10 arrange LOT tLe HOluIlS
of the state primary in May.
After a heated legal battle between So
licitor Charles Brand for the state, and
Messrs. w r. Little and A. G.. McCurry,
appointed by the judge for the defend
ant at Gainesville. Ed Knox, colored was
found guilty of numbering julie Thomp-
son, colored, and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment by Judge Russell. The killing
was the result of a dispute about 20 cents.
Not a single piece of real estate has
been advertised in Muscogee county this
year to secure the payment of state and
county taxes. 1t is probably the first
time in the history of Muscogee county it
was not found necessary to advertise
few pieces of property to secure state
and county taxes. Every real estate tax
payer in the county came up on time
this year.
The Jail at Forsyth was broken Wednes
day night and three prisoners escaped.
The prisoners released themselves by I'M
loosing some iron bolts which were used
in repairing the Jail when Tom Wilson, a
murderer, was released several years ago
from the outside by digging through the
walls of the Jail. All of those confined
in the Jail escaped, but none of them
were charged with serious crimes.
The standard of wages is being raised
among working men in Columbus which
city is now perhaps the best Organized
one in the South, so far as the banding
of working men into unions is concerned.
The advance in wages is due to the gem
eral prosperity which is visiting Column
bus and also to the fact that the de
mands of organized labor receive more
attention than the demands of individ-
ua!s.
Mr.. ODE Tharpe, who was killed at
Eta, Geneva county, Alabama, Sunday
night was buried Tuesday at Fort Hill
Cemetery in East Macon. Mr.. Tharpe
w shot in thirteen places and died al
most instantly. The shooting was done
by negroes and was unprovoked, MIR.
Tharpe having simply demonstrated with
them for sambling in the camp occupied
by his hands Sunday afternoon, and to
that extent demoralizing his laborers.
The work of putting up poles for the
electric lights on the public square and
on Clarkesyille and College streets in
Dahlonega is progressing rapidly. These
lights will be an extension from the Con
soidated Gold Mining Company's illum-
mating and power plant, from which the
stcrehouses and offices of the company
in town also will be illuminated. The
work of putting in wires and other. fix
lures for ncaudescent lamps in these
buildings has been partially completed
AS a result of the wreck which occurr-
ed on the Atlanta and West Point Rail
way last Monday morning. one of the
victims of the disaster has filed suit for
$500 damages against the railroad COM
pany. The plaintiff in the suit is Nellie
Brown, the negro woman who was pas
senger on the Inflated train. She alleges
she received painful and permanent in
juries from broken glass and states that
she has been dsfiguTed for life For all
of which alleged injuries she asks for
damages to the amount of 5000.
Wayne county under a decision deliv-
cred by Secretary of State Phil Cook
Tuesday afternoon, was awarded the %
600 acres which has been in dispute be-
tween Waynes and Charlton counties for
some time. An appeal may be made
from the dec sion of the secretary on the
ground that the act of the last Legisla-
ture which made him an arbiter in SINH
lar land disputes conferred upon him
judicial powe S. while the state constitu-
ion expressly states that the judicial
executive and legislative departments of
the state government must be kept sep
arate.
The grand jury of Echols county has
f~gatUihmended the creation of a county
lourt and Gov. Gambler has been asked
10 appoint judge and solicitor when
here is not a lawyer in the whole of
,Echols county. and according to tradition
lever has been one. Following the recon-
Yendation OF the Echols county grand
cry, Gov Gambler has received an ap-
6lication from one of the most prominent
Aowndes county attorneys requesting that
he be appointed solicitor of the Echols
tcunty Court. The grand jury has re-
ajuested the Governor to appoint citi-
Yen as judge of the court. who is not and
Never has been q lawyer Such an APP
, Ointment, however, is legal in every way,