2862. Bank of Demorest (Demorest, GA)

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IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA. THE NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS. The Jinrichsha to Be Imported From Japan and Used at West Palm Beach-Port Tampa a City Selected as the Site for the University and Tabernacle of the People's Church. Suit Involving the Title to 2,000 Acres of Land in North Georgia. GEORGIA. A Macon firm will ship two carloads of doors made from Georgia pine lumber to Europe some time in February. An order was issued from the executive department at Atlanta Wednesday requiring all insurance companies doing business in the state to make their annual returns. Depositors of the Bank' of Demorest, which failed some weeks ago, have been notified to meet Temporary Receiver R. T. Kenimer on Jan. 6, 1898, and receive their deposits in full. Capt. Thompson Hiles has announced publicly his candidacy for mayor of Rome. The election will be next March. Judge Joel Branham and Capt. J. J. Seay are spoken of as probable candidates. A young man named Smith was taken to Newnan Tuesday and placed in jail, charged with murder. Smith became involved in a difficulty with Bob Gables, which resulted in Gables being shot to death. Capt. W. M. Stott, one of the oldest merchants of Cornelia, died Wednesday of pnuemonia. He was about 70 years old. He was a captain in the confederate army and after the war was sheriff of Gilmer county. As will be shown by the forthcoming report of Building Inspector Pittman, nearly $2,000,000 have been invested in buildings and building improvements during the past twelve months in the city of Atlanta. Charley Malcom, colored, is in jail at Monroe for killing Jim Bossett, colored. Hon. J. H. Felker has bought the entire assets of the Monroe Mercantile Company for $9,000 and will add buggies, wagons and furniture. Work on the new telephone system which is to be built at Atlanta will begin at once. President Baer says that within ninety days 1,000 telephones will be ready for use and in a short time after that there will be many more. Levander Cowart,a son of a very wealthy farmer living about four miles from Colquitt, shot and probably mortally wounded Arthur Buckhalter Tuesday. The dfficulty arose over a dispute about a hog. No arrest has been made. Fire*broke out in the barroom of W. C. Hamilton at Seville Tuesday and spread until it burned down seven houses-three owned by Hamilton and another barroom owned and occupied by W. H. Forest, two storehouses owned by N. M. Mullis and one vacant house. The residence of Samuel Tannahill at Augusta was entered during Tuesday night by a burglar and ransacked. The booty secured was worth probably $350. A sum of money amounting to $150 or $175 was taken. Much of the stolen things belonged to Dr. Welch of Florida, who is on a visit to Mr. Tannahill. In June last the Grand View hotel at Tallulah Falls, was destroyed by fire. It was partially injured and the owner, Mrs. V. A. Young, claims from the Home Insurance Company the sum of $2,333.34, the same from the Continental and a similar amount from the Etna. The total loss was $16,000. Suit has just been entered to recover the insurance. At a meeting of the city council of Atlanta next Monday an ordinance calling for an election to decide the question of issuing bonds amounting to $200,000 will be introduced. These 'bonds are to be issued, if the people approve of them, to improve the present system of pipes of the water department. The work for which this money is needed is most imperative. Fire broke out in the blacksmith shop of E. W. Sattishall, at Unadilla Tuesday, and in a few minutes the entire building was in flames, which soon spread to the adjoining building, occupied by S. F. J. Fordham, general merchandise. Heroic efforts were made by the citizens to save the building and stock, but it was a complete loss, and only a few of the contents were saved. The beautiful residence of M. J. Neeson, which stands in the neighborhood of the fire, was badly damaged, and was saved only by the hard work of the citizens. Total loss about $20,000, only about one-fourth being covered by insurance. Henry Frederick Stone of Irvington, N. J., has brought suit through his attorneys, King & Spalding, to recover nearly 2,000 acres of land that lie in Walker county, near Crawfish Springs and Chickamauga. Gordon Lee, a well known resident of Walker county, at present occupies the lands, and claims to have the original titles to the property and refuses to hand it over to Mr. Stone. Mr. Stone says, that he has the titles and now calls upon the courts to oust Lee and to place him in possession of the property The land is represented as being favorable for farming and to abound in minerals and timber. Mr. Stone claims that he has been damaged to the extent of $7,000, and sues for that amount. Gov. Atkinson has refused to grant a requisition for L. H. Hall, Jr., on a warrant charging him with larceny after trust. The warrant was sworn out by Charles J. Walker, a livery stable man of Atlanta. Young Hall is the son of L. II. Hall, a coffin manufacturer. and the offense named in the warrant is alleged to have been committed while he was acting as receiver for C. H. Swift & Co., an undertaking firm, nearly two years ago. It is charged that Mr. Swift collected money for the hire of carriages furnished at