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IN GEORGIA AND FLORIDA. NEWS OF THE TWO STATES TOLD IN PARAGRAPHS. GEORGIA. he first annual session of the Cordele Chautauqua assembly will open May 9 and continue until May 16. Mrs. M. Harper, mother of T. J. Harper, city electrician of Atlanta, died Monday. She was over 90 years old. Saturday night Berry Dempsey of Daisy was shot and killed by a negro, Zel Bacon, who escaped and is still at large. J. C. Porter, an old citizen of Columbus, died Monday. Mr. Porter experienced a stroke of paralysis in Atlanta several months ago. Frank Bernard, who was run over by a bicyclist at Atlanta last Monday week, is dangerously ill. He is supposed to be injured internally. Jack Whitaker,quite a noted character in that section, died at Harlem, Sunday, aged 89 years. Mr. Whitaker was married twice; had nineteen children, seventeen of whom are living. The Daughters of the Confederacy and other white women have signed and forwarded a petition to the president, begging him not to apoint a negro postmaster at Augusta. Rev. W. W. Walker, for more than four years rector of Cavalry Episcopal church at Americus, has tendered his resignation and early in June will go to Franklin, Va., to take charge of a church there. Last Friday an order was promulgated discharging every moulder in the employ of the Georgia stove works at Atlanta. The men claim the company wants to start the works on a non-union basis. Gertrude Twardus, infant of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Twardus of Covington was found dead in bed Monday morning. The child was in good health when put to bed Sunday night, and no cause for her death is known. A number of enthusiastic wheelmen of Americus are preparing for an interstate contest to take place there at an early date. A ten-mile "brush" will be one of the principal events, and several other interesting contests will be arranged. The contest over the receivership for the Merchants' and Miners' Bank of Tallapoosa was decided Saturday before Judge Jaynes, at Cedartown, in favor of W. J. McCurdy and C. A. Williams, the present receivers, who are now made permanent. The plant of the Eastman Sash, Door and Lumber Company was destroyed by fire Monday morning at 5 o'clock; loss, $2,000; no insurance. The fire was first discovered in the boiler room, and was of incendiary origin. The plant had been in operation but a few days. While on his way home Saturday night, W. P. Dearing, business manager of the Keely institute, at Atlanta, was assaulted and robbed by two negro highwaymen, 4 who, after knocking him to the pavement, relieved him of a fine watch and a small amount of money. C. F. Dodson & Co. of Atlanta have been awarded the contract for the erec. tion of the Royalton hotel in the city of New York. The hotel will be a sixteen story fire-proof structure, and will be Jocated on Forty-third street. It will be, when finished, one of the finest buildings in New York, and will cost $300,000.