The Savannah morning news., 1901-12-11

The prisoner will be given q. prelimi'
nary examination by Recorder Myricl
in Police Court this morning.
J. A. Thomason, a white man, was
arrested yesterday by Detective Wal
on charge OF vagrancy. The officers
have been INSTRUCTED to pick up al
beggars, and Superintendent Reilly
| hopes to keep the streets clear of them
| during the holidays.
| In the Superior Court yesterday ar
order was granted by Judge Seabroob
incorporating the East Savannah So
c-,9l Club for term of twenty years
The Sub is a colored Organization that
is located in the suburb OF the city
the name of which it bears.
Walter Gibson. indicted for burglary
entered a plea of guilty to be pun
ished as for a misdemeanor in the
Superior Court yesterday and was SEN
fenced by Judge Seabrook to pay a
fine of $50 and costs or serve twelve
months on the Chaingang of the counA
U.
.Alphonso Sims, alias Sumter Davis,
colored, w.2a committed to Jail yester-
day on a vibrant from Justic Nathan's S
Court charging vagrancy. The war
rant was issued at the request of a
negro spotter who is probably under
the impression that the prisoner is
wanted
The funeral of the late John Ehlers
took place at 4 o'clock yesterday aft
ernoon from No 391 .Broughton street,
east Rev. w. c. ScHaeffer. pastor Of
the Lutheran Church of the Ascen-
sion, conducted the fu1leral services,
and the burial was in Laurel Grove
Cemetery. Mr.. Ehlers was employed
by the Georgia Brewing Company and
died of malarial fever.
D. r. Harrison, a young white man,
was arrested yesterday on complaint
of George NJ. Oliver The prosecutor
alleges that Harrison cursed him in
the South SfGe Baptist Church last
Sunday and al the same time dis
turbed public worship. The defendant
denies the charge and was not re-
quired 10 furnish bail for his appear
ance- in Police Court this morning.
The aged white woman who was run
over on Stewart and Wilson streets at
an early hour yesterday morning is
Mrs. Mary Eirennen, but nothing more
is known Of her. A further examina-
ton by the physicians at the Savan-
nah woman Hospital showed that the
woman is suffering more from ex-
posure than anything else. She was
not injured by the train and her con-
dition is not regarded as serious.
A trick bicycle rider and his partner,
a "speiler" of unusual attainments
attracted large crowds on Bryan, Bull.
and State streets yesterday: the rider
by his really clever work, and the talk
er by the originality of his methods.
They clainGed to be making tour of
the United States and to be now on
their way to Florida. They made sew
eral collections by passing the hat and
in each case secur ed sums that ought
to help them well on their way
The residents of the southwest part
of the city have been greatly annoyed
for some time by thieves, or mali
cious persons, who tear up the stakes
by which the householders enclose
the grass plats in front of their houses
with the view of protecting the plants
that have been set ort. Some of the
stakes are merely pulled out of the
ground, while others have been taken
away entirely. One gentleman who
lives near Barnard and Thirty-sixth
street has had three sets of stakes
either pulled up and left or entirely
removed within the past week.