Statewide County GaArchives News.....NEWS FROM AROUNF THE STATE November 15, 1897 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Clyde Watson clyde.nell@gmail.com November 18, 2008, 7:42 pm Savannah Morning News November 15, 1897 NEWS FROM AROUND THE STATE 15 NOVEMBER 1897 Mr. and Mrs. James J. Faulkner's 8-months old child was burned to death at DIP last Thursday evening. Mrs. Faulkner had gone to milk and left the child asleep some ten feet from the fire and when she returned it had rolled into the fire, its feet burned to a crisp and its clothes burned off. It lived about two hours. The following postmasters were appointed for Georgia Tuesday: J. L. Moore, Base,Butts: L. F. Roberts, Chandler, Hall: C. J. Anera, Economy, Upson: John B. Alexander, Fairview, Chattooga: B. A. Smith, Fishdam, Oglethorpe: W. J. Hammond, Flatwood Academy, Elbert: Charlie B. Roger, Hitch, Wayne: James M. Hendrix, Shady Grove, Carroll: Fort McPherson is soon to have a new surgeon. The present encumbent , Surgeon H. Swift, has been ordered to Camp Alger, the new post on the battlefield of Chickamauga, and will leave in a few days for his new home. It is not thought that he will remain at Camp Alger long,however, for his regular station is Governors Island, New York. Charles E. Hamilton, one of the largest and wealthiest planters in Dooly county died Monday afternoon, at his country residence four miles east of Cordele. He leaves a wife and two children. His widow had formerly lost two husbands, Hamilton by name, who were brother and cousin to her last husband. All three of her husbands died with the same malady, hemorrhagic fever. There was a very romantic wedding in the union passenger station at Macon Monday night. The names of the contracting parties cannot be ascertained, as the license was issued in another county , and the preacher's name is unknown. The bride came down on the Macon and Northern railroad and the groom met her in the passenger station. The couple went into the ladies waiting room immediately upon the arrival of the bride and were married there. The bride was supposed to be on her way to Milledgeville to resume her studies as a pupik of the Girls' Normal and Industrial College. MACON CORRESPONDENT ATLANTA JOURNAL: The Southern Express Company is quietly trying to unravel one of the neatest and the latest swindling schemes that has been sprung on the public. Some weeks ago Peyton Smith, one of the best known and most highly respected business men of Macon, died. A few days ago after his death his widow received a C. O. D. package calling for $4.00 and a letter stating that the amount was the small balance due by Mr. Smith upon some shares bought by him in a company, whose name for obvious reasons, the express company prefers to keep secret for he present. Mrs. Smith was not suspicious, nut her husband's friend, Dr. Barron was notified after the C. O. D. package had been paid, and in making a search among the papers of the lately deceased gentleman he could find no record of such a purchase. Then in one way and another their suspicions were aroused and it became plain that there was no such company and that the whole thing was a fake and a swindle. Then an investigation disclosed the fact that lately nearly every widow in the city has, shortly after her husband's death, received a similar package and has paid out small sums for a balance due on something about which nothing at all was known. The last case was place in the hands of detectives, who are investigating, and it is probable that some arrests will be made. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/statewide/newspapers/newsfrom2644gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb