The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-04
ATLANTA is READY
TO ESTEND ITS HOSPITALITY To
CHAIRMAN MERCER.
WANTS THE NEW BUILDING
AND WILL BE CORDIAL To THE
COMMITTEES HEAD.

Carpenter of Atlanta Became In
sleep and Took Laudanum for the
Long Observation-Disclosures Gambler
is Having Trouble With His COM
piIatiOns-SOme Records Missing.
state EntOmOIOgist Discusses IA
Peach Tree Disease.
Atlanta, Feb. 3.-Mayor Howell to-
day received a telegram from Chair
man Mercer of the Public Buildings
Committee of Congress, accepting the
invitation of the city to stop here Sat-
urday with view to looking oven the
postoffice situation. The committee
will be en- route from Washington to
New Orleans. A reception committee,
composed of members of Council and
prominent citizens, has been appoint
ed to entertain the committeeman dur
ing their stay in Atlanta.
Because He Couldn't Sleep.
Angered beyond measure that he
could not successfully WOO the goddess
of slumber, Frank Wicker, a carpen>
ter, 80 years old, took % cents worth
of laudanum about o'clock this
morning and two hours later was
found in bed at his home on Tye
street, in an apparently dying condi-
ton. He was hurried to the hospital
where the physicians worked for hours
in an effort to save his life. While
in a semi conscious condition, Wicker
stated that he became mad because
he could not sleep this morning, got
i
laudanum. 1t is believed desponden-
cy led him to take the drug. though,
according to his statement, he was ir-
ritated at not being able to sleep.
Trouble With Records.
The work of compiling the colonial
and revolutionary history of Georgia is
progressing rapidly under the guidance
of former Gov. Gambler, but a severe
check is experienced by the discovery
that several important documents are
lost. The most important work that
is missing is the minutes of the Colony
of Georgia, Volume l, which contains
the history of the colony from 1882 to
1875. Several journals of the Georgia
Legislature during the Revolutionary
War are either lost or destroyed.
Dasher Wants n Pardon.
A. T. Dasher of Valdosta, accom-
panied by his attorney, appeared be-
fore the Prison Commission to-day, and
asked that his sentence be committed to
a fine, instead of three years inpris-
onment. Two years ago Dasher was
convicted of stealing a COW and SEN
fenced to three years. He applied for
a new trial, and while awaiting the
decision of the court, was released ON
bond. The trial was refused. He lid
not appear and his bond was forfeited.
To-day he offered to give himself up,
and the commission directed Dasher to
return to Valdosta and give himself
up to the sheriff of Lowndes county,
and then his pardon will be considered.
He has lived continuously in Valdos-
ia, and no effort was made to appre-
bend him.
Srg fsA Leaf Curl Treatment =s,g
State Entomologist Scott has Just
prepared a paper on the treatment of
the leaf curl disease, which has affect
ed peaches in Georgia to a great 'ex-
tenn Prof Scott says the disease in
Georgia is confined almost entirely to
the northern half of the state, very
rarely occurring to an injurious extent
in the southern and middle portions.
AS to the treatment, he says, an appli-
cation of nitrate of soda, worked into
the soil, will greatly assist the trees
in producing new leaves, while it has
been successfully demonstrated that
even the worst infected orchards may,
by proper attention at the right sea-
son, be practically freed from the pest
Paying Out Pensions.
Commissioner Of Pensions Lindsay
to-day issued 600 pension warrants
aggregatin $40S05. These warrants
will reach the state treasurer for pay
ment tomorrow. The counties COM
pleted to-day were Spalding, Coweta
and Merriwether. State Treasurer
Park to-day paid out pensions aggre-
eating $4,000.