The morning news., 1888-07-22

/ session Of, by force Of arm that part on of
/ turkey creek grove the possession Of which
is being contested by Mr. Valentine AMI the
/ Culpepper-Cr Creech syndicate in the court
named
/ Last Sabbath evening" during a heavy
! rain, hghtnlug struck the house OF Mr..
/ Vaughn, who lives a few miles south of
/ ApOpka City. aud did considerable DANA Le
! to the dive ling and severely shocked Sow
! eral members Of the family. 1t entered at
/ the top and exrloied two guns and much
ammunition. The beds took fire and the
| house was only saved ON the flames by a
| great Elf rt. The floors were splintered and
several pillars of the structure knocked out
OF place. The family have been suffering
from severe headaches since.
The first shipment Of the new crop Of
Florida lemo IS was made on Friday by D
1. k. Milan Of Mia n'5 dock TIE Do tors
grove is on the north shore Of Lake Harr $
The shipment, consisting of twenty-five
boxes OF freshly picked Florida lemons, was
| brought from the north side Of the lake by
the steamer Lane, and forwarded bv toe
Florida Southern railway 10 Radfad &
son, of Philadelphia This is lite early
for this crop to begin to come in. Reports
from lemon sections are to the effect that
the crop is beginning to ripen earlier tnan
usual, and the yield p~omis IS to be larger
association vas held Thursday A perma-
nent organization was formed w,th the fol-
lowing Otiic rs: Col g. A. Crockor, con-
modore; q. w. Gibbs, vice commodore;
George VI. Palmer, secretary and treasurer:
william NJ. Wright, measurer; Robert S
German. chaplain. 1t was de 'idad t. offer
the foilowin, prizes First 500 second
80, and third 500 All yachts to enter in
one class Yachts from other pOrtl ms Of
the state are invited TO participate in the
regatta of July 26. A challenga pennant is
TO be purchased, which becomes the prop
erty Of the wiDning boat, after having
been held for two races.
Monday morning Mrs. Hudson, lcolored0,
left her Cords" bed and board at Ocala.
because of cruel treatment, and departed
with handsomer man This handsome
man was Steve Williams, and took position
at Agnew's station awaiting for the S S
o. & g. train. About this time Dick Hudson
came up looking for his truant wife with a
double barrel shotgun on his shoulder See
ing the couple together, he opened fire ON
his wife shooting her III the leg; then her
protector, Williams, returned the compl-
ment with his Winchester, and although
not hitting Hudson, made him beat a hasty
retreat. DR. +. Van Hood attended the
wounded woman, taking out a fattened
bullet, while warrants are out for the ar
rest of the shooters.
At st. Augustine, Wednesday morning.
about o'clock, man, supposed to be Jesse
Griffin (coloredl, entered through the
window the house of colored woman who
cooks for c. F. Price, and who lives in a
house belonging to Mr.. Hubbard, near
SlOggetts mill, and drove an ax into her
head. He said to her In the presence of H.
Whitehead, Edmond Simpo and other
parties that if she did not marry him that
he would kill her, and that she should do
no other man any good He also told her
if he caught any other man there he would
kill her Tuesday night Whitehead and
SimpO, all colOred. went over to see her
When they returned to their home Griffin
lived with Whitehead) Griffin told Wnit,-
head he heard everything said and saw
everything and tnat he had a notion to
break the door in with an axe and kill
Simpo. Whitehead and Simpo left Griffin
lying across the foot of his bed Wednes-
day morning when the alarm of murder was
raised a search for Griffin was made, but he
had fled, taking Whitehead's 81 Smith &
Wesson revolver with him. Griffin is about
5 feet 10 inches high, 80 years of age, one
arm paralyzed and.cross-eyed. He owns a
farm, and has relatives near Waldo.