Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-03-02
Condensed Neq Items Gathered From all Parts of the State

DAwsoN.-Death Tuesday night claimed
Miner Hawkins. He was % years OF age.
He is survived bx his fakher. j. u Hawkins;
OF Lexington. N. ca and several brothers and
sisters t'. - 81 -..
wRIGHTsvIILE.-s School Commits
sioner Jere NJ. Pound VIII deliver an address
to the citizens of Wrightsville at the court
house March goth at 10 o'clock.
CoI.UMBUs.-Next week will be carnival
week in this community. There will be two
carnfvals in progress at, the same time. one
will be In PheniX City. Just across the river
for the benefit Of the public schools, and the
other win be in Columbus under the auspices
Of the Eagles order.
DUBLIN.-The following delegates of the
Dublin lodge No. 81, knights Of Pythias, have
been appointed to attend the convention which
meets at .Cordele in April; Messrs. FRANK
Lawson, Peter S. Twitty, II, NJ. Moore, b. A;
Garrard. ~ d. Prince. 6. A, Weddinston ana
II. NJ. STANLEY, .s...
,WRIGHTSvILd1E.- -Goyernor-elect Joseph M
Brown addressed an audiences of about rive
hundred people. at the college auditorium on
Thursday morning. He was introduced py
Judge Daley. Mr. Brown arrived "Wednesday
afternoon and left soon after the speaking
for Atlanta. '"'+ sEr-
NfACoNs-A hearing 10 to, be held on March
Sd in the superior court of Macon which VIII
decide whether the city has the right 10 revoke
a near-beerf license. The plaintiff In the case
Is Ed Cassidy whose license revoked two
weeks ago because he had been found guilty In
police court of violating the blind tiger ordinance
of the city,
kENNEsAW. Ca, Feb. 27.-The s-year-oid son
Of Mr.. c. p. Walker living near here, was
accidentally killed yesterday by the f-year-oiu
The Brown child snapped in play a parlor
rifle at him thinking the gun not loaded An
older brother had been out hunting and ieit
the gun loaded.
SAVANNAH THE divorce docket OF the su-
perior court has grown to tltty-three cases
and of this number only eight are contested
The contests cases Will come up Tor trlal 10
day and the remainder will be disposed OF
during the first DAYS of next week Ten cases
a day are to be disposed of and the court
will have its hands full.
SAVANNAH.-with his right arm and right
leg Amputated and suffering from severe In
turies about the head Mr.. j. r, Wilson, struck
by freight cars while on duty as an Atlantic
Coast Line patrolman, is lingering on the verge
of death at the Savannah hospital The accident
happened in the Coast Line wharf yards. VIII
sons and leg were amputated.
sAvANNAH.-A large and apnreciative audi
ence consisting Of delegates and visitors from
various sections of the state, was present
Wednesday morning at the Georgia State and
Industrial college colored. when the eleventh
annual farmers conference convened. After
the devotional exercises. President r. r.
Wright welcomed the delegates and visitors
and briefly outlined the work OF the con-
ference. . -E
MILLTOWN. Washington a negro con-
lyict who was sent up several wears ago from
Chatham county, and who has been doing time
with the Midtown Lumber company, located
at this place has made his escape from the
camp. He slipped pair Of pipe shears into
the camp with him and during the night cut
out a bar from the window and escaped. This
Is the sixteenth time thatghe has successfully
escaped prison wallis ,4sf
WAYCRoss .-Waycross Elks are practically
certain of securing the prize offered at the
state convention in Atlanta for the tattest
Elk one OF their members. Mr.. w. T. Brin-
son. being nearly six hundred pounds m
weight Mr.. Crimson attained considerable
fame last summer when Governor-elect Brown
visited Wavcross and the two were photo
graphed sitting in the same buggy. The pic
ture was widely reproduced in Golfers ana
other we'll known periodicals and attracted
considerable attention.
MoULTRIE.- Mouitrie IS certain of one
: more new road during this year. The right
of-way for the valdosta and Moultrie railroad
has been secured and a contract let for the
grading 10 begin March LIST. and be completed
so that trains VIII be running from MouIt Il'.
and Frank Roberts the promoters OF the road
are here. and held a conference with COM
mittee previously .dppOlnbeu .bp Tue city Au-
thorities in regard TO street privileges and
terminal facilities "1G
MoULTRIE, Ga, Feb 27.--Rich Moore, the
slayer of X. F. Webb last December, was
captured last night in lower part OF Worth
county, and is now here in JAIN.
Moore, II is charged, last December went to
the farm house of Webb I'm the lower portion
of this county and without warning shot and
killed him. There had been some little differ
ence over some hogs, but Mr.. Webb thought
nothing serious of the matter, and was not ex-
pecting trouble at the time OF the killing.
Mr.. Moore has succeeded In evading the ON
GERS until last night.
sAvANNAH-A warning was received by
Mayor Tiedeman yesterday TO indulge in prayer
and he was instructed to send nine copies OF
a submitted prayer to his friends with orders
that they communicate with nine others. Mr..
TiedeInan has great faith In prayer, but OBJ
jeots to ANONYMOUS solicitations. The request
which reached his excellency is unique in the
fact that It asks for no money. That appears
to be far from the desires Of the sender but
the illustrious head Of the eitv's affairs VIII
pay a small STIPEND for the name of the
originator Of the prayer
MACON. Ga. March LA mandate received
from the Y. 3. court of appeals today sustains
Judge Emory Speer of this city in an inter-
esting decision handed down by him some
time ago in which he sustained Referee in
Bankruptcy Alexander Proudfit.
Judge Speers decision upheld Proudfit when
the latter allowed ]. A. Huddleston, bank
rupt a cash exemption instead of a homestead
right Creditors of Huddleston took the case
before Judge Speer who concurred with the
referee The court OF appeals has just took
a similar view and upheld Judge Speer.
All the costs in case to be paid by the
Dunlap Hardware Co. of Macon, ct al, as
they took the
NORCROsS, Ga, Feb. 27.-Mr. Frank Johnston,
one of the SOuthernts conductors, is lying at his
home here badly hurt.
He was running a southbOund local freight
and in coupling some cars was caught and
badly mashed about the chest and arms. He
act the coupling which cah- and coupled all
rig.. and he thinking the car was still went in
to connect the air wines rebound Of the
cars caught and crushed him. His breast bone
was crushed in, his watch that was In bis
oVreals pocket was crushed into a mass and
falling the wheel Of a car fastened his arm
and had 10 be pulled out by his crew.
DR.. Rowe, the road surgeon. attended the
injured man and accompanied him to his home
here where he is visiting as well as could be
expected -... s.r .s~ ..F-
GIJYTON. Ga. Feb. ga large crowd as
sembled at Springfield to witness the laying
OF the cornerstone Of the. new courthouse. The
county commissioners. by resolution. requested
the Masons to conduct the ceremonies. This
invitation was accepted by the grand lodge If
Georgia. Hon. Thomas Jeffries. grand master,
Of Atlanta. could not be present, and Hon.
Pleasant A. Stovall. of savannah acted as
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