The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-03
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The log market at Apalachicola is dull
There is some talk of forming gun club
in Fort Myers.
II no mishap overtnkes it, the corn crop
Of Gadsden county will be immense
An immense number Of potato vines were
set out in Gadsden county during the past
week.
The county democratic executive com
mittee of Gadsden county will meet in
Quincy on Thursday of this week.
At Apalachicola last week the Golden
Age sold her sponge, 697 punches, for
1858 40 The crew received $S1 81 each.
The Oviedo base ball club would like to
hear from any club in Orange county, with
a view of getting up match game of ball.
The date palm in James E. Hendry's yard
at Fort Myers, planted over thirty years ago
10y the late Gen w. S. Hancock, is bearing
fruit for the first time this year.
A few nights ago lot of melon thieves
got in among some of the melon patches
near Bagdad, and ruined them, breaking
them up and breaking down the fences.
Some Of the citizens OF Fort Myers who
were indicted by the grand jury for selling
bitters (proprietory remedieS) will make
fight on it. One bitters firm will send their
lawyer there to look out for their rights.
above Milton broke and turned adrift
several thousand logs, most of which be-
longed to Messrs. Z, Campodonico & Co.
Simpson e. Co. had few hundred pieces
| among them.
A few day ago, young white man, Free
man by name, presumed TO be a logger, en-
tered the room of O. T. Rice at the South
ern hotel, at Apalachicola, and succeeded
in extracting a $40 bill, and, it is presumed,
81 ha Torlyat Of NJ.
Rice. He was arrested and compelled to
disgorge.
There are as yet no tidings concerning
the missing Pensacola fishing smacks Four
Friends, Bloomer, j. w Wherein and
| Agnes but, thus far, little uneasiness is felt
as TO their safety, or that of their crews.
The smack Challenge, disabled in the late
gale, has gone to Baglad to be docked for
repairs The Estelll and Caro- Piper are
now on the Bagdad docks.
Simmons and Evans have shipped from
Fort Myers during the past week ninety
two crates, barrel size, of pineapples from the
farm Of j. w. Bushnell, chief engineer of the
Florida railway and navigation company
This shipment makes, in round numbers, c, 400
pineapples from a little patch of ground
that three years ago was wild patch of
woodland and palmetto underground in
the edge Of town.
The Mobile city government and fire de-
partment are at loggerhcadS. Each wants
the other to do that which is respectively
repugnant, and both are on big bluff, each
with theintent of forcing to ms satisfactory
toitsef Friday telegram from Mayor Rich
o. Mobile, was received by Chief Wilkins of
Pensacola, asking if there was an engine
there the city Of Mobile might purchase, or
an engine and truck they could hire for
thirty days. Friday night Germania hose
company held meeting, and at the close,
the company wi ed Mayor Rich that they
had one-horse jumper and 500 feet of hose
they would SELL
Charles Stines a fisherman, died Friday
night at the Marine hospital at Pensacola
Shines was paralytic, and the treatment
prescribed by the physician in charge was
electricity. The battery was applied regu-
larly every day and the man improved
rapidly, until a few days ago, when. an in
formant Of the Pensacola Commercial
alleges, the steward got drunk, the shocks
were discontinued, and, as related, he died
having had no treatment for two days, le
steward having been drunk for three DAYS.
In the same connection the Commercials
informant alleges that other patients have
been ably neglected
At Key West Wednesday, when the
Mascotte arrived at the wharf of the Key
West wharf company, an unusually large
crowd had gathered, which made it almost
impossible to hoist and place the gang plank
in position. The captain requested them TO
get out Of the way, but a number OF Cuban
men and women appeared not to have heard
him, when he again made the same request,
and threatened to turn the hose on them if
they refused to comply. This seemed 20
amuse them, and they began to shout:
Aqua! aqua" Finding that threats
availed nothing the hose was turned on,
and several of both sexes were soon made
as wet as drowned rats This had the
desired effect, and the crowd disbanded.
swearing eternal vengeance on the captain
as they went. An Indignation meeting was
held later i'll the night
Fire broke out at Orlando Friday night
in John NJ. OConnelIs paint store. Tho
store was opened from the rear and a stream
of water turned on, which soon extingushed
the flames. If the flames had got under
good Roadway, in few minutes longer Or
lando would have had a first-class fire and
the Brown block gone. Considerable dam
age was caused to Mr. OConners stock bv
the water, probably more than the fire. as
his large stock Of wall papers in tho front
part OF the store is seriously damaged The
entire loss 10 stock and fixtures will not ex-
coed 81 800 and is covered BY insurance
Alter the flames were eXtiuguishcd a watch
man was placed on duty, TO remain all
night, and fortunate il was, for about 5
o'clock saturday morning an explosion Of
can of dryer or varuish caused another fire.
which was speedily extlnguished, without
further loss than three cans OF varnish
Saturday the body of n. W. Busk. the
Englishman murdered at Weiiva. was
taken TO Orlando and placed in charge of
the undertaSers, Messr, Richards a. Hand
at their establishment Drs. w. Kilmer
and w. A. Shelby conducted an autopsy.
which revealed the fact that the victim WINS
shot IN the LETT breast, five buckshot pene-
trating and tracturlng the fifth and sixth
ribs, also penetrating the middle lobe of the
left lung and passing through the right and
left ventrcle. One ball was found in the
right yontrIclc, one in the pericardium on
positc the right ventricle Of the heart aud
one just above the seventh RIB. An of the
balls that passed through the heart entered
through one opening and making their exit
through three separate holes in the right
ventricle, Dr. Kilmer gives It as his opin.
ion that death was instantaneous The Or
lando Record thinks the murderer would
have been lynched had 10 beap caught on
tha danf Of tho frftp.