The Schley County News Friday, May 14, 1909 No. 19 It is estimated that more than 1,000 Georgia farmers now own automobiles Mr. Roosevelt is making a record as a lion killer in Africa. He has already bagged six. The street railways of Greater New York killed 444 persons and injured 5648 during the year 1908. Patten is back in the wheat market again and has forced the price of wheat up higher than ever. Over one hundred applications for pardons are now being considered by the prison commission. Florida will vote on prohibition next year and there is hardly any doubt but what the state will go dry. Senator Bacon is said to be in favor of inserting a temperance plank in the next national platform of the democratic party. The people of Nashville, Berrien county, have instituted proceedings for the abolishment of their free school system. There are only eight counties in Georgia that have no railroads----White, Towns, Lumpkin, Heard, Forsythe, Millen, Eawson (Dawson?) and Union. The National Ginners' Association estimates that the area devoted to cotton this year will be reduced six percent from that of last year. It has not yet been definitely decided when the new governor will be inagurated, but it is said that the legislature will fix the date and that it will probably be June 26. If Patten will get in the cotton market next fall and put up the price of the fleecy staple and keep it up until the farmers sell out, he will be forgiven for forcing up the price of wheat. A big glass manufacturing plant at Huntington, W.Va., has shut down and several others in Pittsburg are running on short time. This is said to be due to prohibition, which has caused a less demand for bottles. The "sitting-down" habit is a thing that will grow on a man, this we are all more or less sure of, but never would we have supposed that a fellow would follow the practice to such an extreme as to deliberately sit down in a mill pond. This is what Tom Tondee did. LOCAL AND PERSONAL Mr. J.N. Tison, of Doerun, is on a visit to relatives in this county. Mr. and Mrs. W.D. Murray spent several days with relatives at Oglethorpe this week. Miss Hattiebel Lightner is the guest this week of Mrs. J.S. Lightner. Mrs. W.D. Sears and Mrs. C.M. Rainey will leave Monday for Faceville, where they go to be the guests of Rev. and Mrs. Chandler. Mr. and Mrs. J.T. Royal and daughter, Miss Bobbie, Mrs. G.C. Dyus and Miss Ethel Edge are spending the day in Columbus. A good number of our people attending the Wirz exercises at Andersonville Wednesday. It was a pleasant day for all, and the crowd of something like 3000 representing almost every section of Georgia. A barbecue added much to the many other pleasures of the day. MISS WALL ENTERTAINED Miss Eva Wall entertained the members of the Thursday Afternoon Club on Saturday afternoon at her home on Oglethorpe Street. In the game of "42," Mrs. E.L. Bridges and Miss Martha Davis made highest score. Delightful cream and cakes were served. NEGRO, PISTOL AND A COW A great big, long-legged, black negro, hailing from Buena Vista arrived at Ellaville on Tuesday morning. Unfortunately, he had hold of the end of a rope which a $50.00 milk cow had in some mysterious way become attached. Suspicion somehow seem(ed) to tell that old cow had been decoyed away from her home--she displayed this in her very conntenance--and so soon as a phone investigation could be had, it was found that it was another negro's cow that had followed the aforesaid described individual off. Consequently, the black tourist was marched off to jail by Sheriff Lumpkin who found upon a more careful examination, a cheap gun in his pants leg. HICKS TO HANG JUNE 1ST The negro, Ike Hicks, who shot and killed a white man by the name of Laufly in Macon county some few weeks ago, was captured at Ideal on last Sunday. He was immediately placed in the Oglethorpe jail where he was held to stand his trial which occured on the following Tuesday in the Superior court of that county. Hicks was found guilty of murder and was sentenced to be hanged on the 1st day of June. WIGGINS' ASSAILANT IN JAIL, HIS WIFE UNDER BOND Smith the would be murderer of Charlie Wiggins, at Butler on last Saturday night, was captured at Columbus, his home, on last Monday. After being placed under arrest, Smith confessed to the crime and was at once carried back to Butler where he is now held in jail to await his trial upon the charge of assault with intent to murder. All, perhaps, have heard how Wiggins was brutally assaulted in his own home on last Saturday night after he had returned from(on the?) night train from Columbus where he had gone to meet his wife and children who had been spending some time in Columbus. They didn't come on that train however, but instead the man Smith did come to Butler and at once proceeded to the Wiggins home and concealed himself for the purpose of murdering Wiggins, it being by the merest providence that he failed to accomplish his purpose, Wiggins escaping only (by) the "skin of his teeth," after having been shot and beaten into a near state of insensibility. It has since developed that Wiggins' own wife was at the bottom of this, the most dastardly crimes that has ever occured in this section of the state. Wiggins had $3000 life insurance, payable to his wife, who had fastened her affections upon the man Smith. His wife and Smith had planned that he (Smith) go to Butler and murder Wiggins, and and shortly after his funeral and $3000 was collected, a wedding would take place---the Gods interfered. The woman is now at Columbus, out under bond. CORN FOR SALE 150 bushels of good shelled corn for sale at $1.05 per bushel---cash. See J.C. Rainey. end # 19