The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-03

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Oakiield Saturday evening. Dr. r 1ss' co..
lar bone was broken, and Bates, while sus-
tanning no serious injury, was pretty seri-
ouslF bruised, one wheel Of Tue VeAlcl >
passing over one of his legs
The city council of ST. Augustine held a
meeting Monday night for the purpose of
considering the offer Of MIR. Flagler as to
the new civ hall, market, etc, TO be erected
by him. All the counci linen were present.
| with one exception, and it was unanimously
agreed that the offer be accented, with the
exception that the words thirty years" be
! stricken out and the words twenty years"
substituted
Another of Mr.. Fiagler's enterprises at
st. Augustine will be a large grain and
feed store, with a side-track for cars, feed
shed, gas, W ter, etc, to be built during the
present month, ISL east Of the improve
ment company's office, and facing the Union
depot. W her completed it will be occupied
as a wholesale feed and grain warehouse by
! Col w. c. Middleton and a gentleman
named Martin from Illinois, who has
had many years experience in tue grain
| business.
Thursday Dave Mitchell and Jim Gillian,
| both colored, had row IN Mitchell's store,
near the African Methodist Episcopal
church at Apalachicola, over some money.
| Gillian struck Mitchell with a stick, when
/ nAlbCHCtl REdDNeu II plSCOl lying on bue Shell.
| Gillian then caught hold of Mitchell from
behind, holding his wrists In the scuffle
the pistol was discharged, the ball tearing
hole through Mitchel's pantaloons, but
not touching the skin. Other parties inter
| fered and stopped the fuss
Pensacola NewS:: 1t now appears that the
| recent rains were not so general as they
were at first supposed 10 have been. While
there Is timber coming down the river, it is
doubtful that single Sick has been fi0ated
| above Brewton, there being no advices to
hand indicating that the rise extended be-
yond that point. If such be the case, and
| there Is no reason t. believe otherwise the
| homecoming timber will afford only
partial relief, and then only in the case of
such merchants as have been fortunate
enough to have secured the stuff.
Apalachicola Times: Capt. Donoroma
| came IN from down south Wednesday. He
reports that on Sunday off South Cape a
| gale of wind struck him. and he Lad to rut
III at st. Marks. At st Marks the tide,
Capt. Donoroma says, rose nine feet and he
had to shift anchorage. Monday the gale
was terrific and his light sails we're carried
away. While crossiog the cape Tuesday,
home ward bound, he sighted the dead body
of negro floating in the water,
dressed in a suit of navy blue The weather
was SO rough that he could not pick up the
bObI. ~ - biiouSub 10 nave D6en U1e IIrG
man on the steamer Walkatomica.
At Lakeland, Tuesday, in the case of the
sudden death of Miss Turner, the coroner's
jury returned a verdict of death by poison
with suicidal intent. No sufficient reason is
assigned for the rash act. On the margin
OF al old composition was found this: "Pa,
have eaten poison to kill myself.n Tie
testimony at the inquest did not prove
entirely satisfactory. There is a mysterious
cloud Of doubt hanging over the death of
this young girl, and q strange feel
Ing OF suspicion and inquiry in the public
mind. She was the daughter of Elias Tur-
ner, minister of the Mlssio ary Baptist
church, and pastor of the church at
Melville
tampa journal: Mayor Jackson received
a letter from the famous Canadian oars.
man Albert Hamm, this week. informing
MIN that he and several other noted aquatic
sportsmen are arranging for a series of
regattas IN the south this fall and wiuter.
ana oHerlng to have one of them take place
IN Tampa bay If the citizens will raise
purse Of $1,000, to be divided in prizes
among the participants. Among the spor s.
men mentioned in the letter are Edward
hanlan, j. q. Gaudaur, James A. Ten
Eyck and Albert II. Hamm. The Journal
believes this would he paying investment.
IL Wall be remembered that Messrs Mckay.
hanlan and Hamm rowed at Puuta Gorda
two wi tiers ago, and people were attracted
from all over the south. Doubtless the
railroads which would be benefited bv the
attraction of an immense crowd of people
to this section would contribute Hberallv
toward securing the necessary s, 900.
KIssimmee Leader: Henry Rusk left
kisslmmee on Monday night last for Or
lando. In some way suspicious were
groused that something was wrong. so on
Tuesday his wife and her mother went to
Orlando aud there aScertained that Henry
had bought q ticket FIR himself and one
| Tor MISS Susie Donegau for Jacksonville
We learn from reliable authority that the
| girl has written back home that "sha has
| done no wrong except to 90 off with a
married man; but that he will soon get a d.
Vorce from his wife and marry her" Amin
( Vestlgation of affairs shows that Henry sold
piece OF land belonging to his wife. col
| iecting SE2Q on tho same and pocketing it,
! besides selling bis horse and wagon. etc
| Tne girl had borne such a character that
our people could not believe the first re-
| ports, but in the face of her letter all donhfs
vanished. Rusk leaves wife and child
who, most fortunately, are not dependent on
nm for support or protection.
Key West Equator: List Saturday
| morning the wife of Arthur Riley went tn
her husband who had been, it seems. spend
| ing ia AlApAOt On OtIl6T women and fold
him that she was hungry and wanted money
to purchase something to eat. To this She
| was informed that he had no mo1ev for
! her, whereupon she went to the hom, cf nor
husband and herself and took ont her
things" and removed TO a small house near
| the cemetery, and at bedtime she went to
bed. But she had not gone to sleep when
she heard noise at her window.
and in few moments she saw the
form of her husband (Arthur Rilevl
crawling in at the window, and i'm a
few seconds he had seized her by the throat
and half naked, she was dragged ont into
the rain and beat with fence paline- aud
stamped upon until she was so weak sha
could not stand, when the brute left her aud
went Off to enjoy social glass of whisky,
Tuesday his wife gave premature birth to y
child, The skull of which had been crushed
In and one of its little legs broken from the
| blows received by the mother the NIGHT
before. Riley has been arrested and is now in
Jail awaiting trial for murder Indeed il is
probable that he will have two charges If
murder to answer to, ilasmuch as it is be-
leved that his wife will also die from the
blows she received from the paling in the
hands of her husband.
Pensacola Nel0S: 1t is not generally
known that, despite charges preferred
agal st him, George s. Wells was within
an hour of appointment to the local col
lectorship of customs a lit lie more than two
| weeks ago, Action was stonDad bV, n Xtr-,,..