The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-07

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Palatka Herald: IL is reported here that
Jim Austin. the murderer Of William L0r-
/ ing, whose death sentence was commuted
| to penitentiary for life, was shot and killed
the other day in the turpsntine camps by q
| guard. A gentleman Just from there said
that Austin refused TO work, and was daily
treated 10 twenty-five lashes on the back,
and several times attempted to escape, the
last attempt ending in his being shot and
| killed
Fort White Boomer: ]. s. E. Barnes was
in attendance at justice court here last Sat
ur law. In tie evening he left on the freight
| train for High Springs, and shortly after
arriving there he was accoste1 by citizen
who, without any preliminary remark.
knocked him down, and then jumped on
! him and beat his head no terribly. Barnes
got enough OF it in a few minutes-and so
expressed himself-when the other party
let him up. As soon as liberated, Barnes
made tracks out of town.
Last Friday night a cyclone made Tom
Simmons place, near Perry, its head
quar- ers for little while and completely
demolished everything that it struck.
There was hardly a panel of fence left
around his plantation or a tree standing
when the visitor disappeared. Thirteen
trees were blown across alb nut fifteen panels
of fence. which shows the fury Of the wind.
No other place in the neighborhood was
damaged, and another fence within two
hundred yards of his was not minus of even
top rail.
The following changes have been made in
the star route service in Florida: Route
1910, Welborn to White Springs. leave
Welborn daily except Sundays at 10:45 a.
m, arrive at White Springs by l o. m.
leave White Springs daily except Sundays
at a. M, arrive at Welborn by 9:15 a. m.
Route 1852, Starke to Wilderness, leave
Starke Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays
at 4 p. m, arrive at Ionia by p. m. leave
MIA Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays
at a. m, arrive at Wilderness, via Kings
lev and Lake View, by 1Q:45 a. m. leave
Wilderness Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat-
urdays at ii a. M, arrive at Starke, via
Lake View, Kingsley and Ionia, by p. m.
Assistant Traffic Manager j. w. Strobhar,
of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West
system in Ocala, made splendid sale of his
orange grove at Palmetto, in Manatee
county, while in New York He got party
so interested in that city that the individual
who desired to buy the grove said: "If
knew 1t was all you represented l would
take it." Mr.. Strobhar remarked that il it
was not all as represented he would refund
the expenses of his trip to examine the
property The party visited the grove.
critically inspected the same, returned to
New York and bought it for $12 265. Mr..
Strobhar paid $1,000 for it last spring, be-
sides getting the present crop of oranges
800 boxes.
Gainesville Advocate: On Oct. 90 a
negro by the name Of Dan Irwin, living at
Grove Park, killed another negro by the
name of Mann. After the killing Irwin Sc
ere ed himself, and no trace was found of
him until Saturday last, when it was ascer-
tanned that he was with his wife in the
house of his brother. The house was at
once surrounded bv a strong party and
messenger sent to Rochelle to telegraph to
this place for officers to come and arrest
him. On receipt of the telegram, B. f.
Dawkins, city marshal, and Gordon
Wienges, deputy sheriff, started at once for
the scene of action. When they got there,
they found that Irwin, finding escape inn
possible, hal deliberately murdered his wife
and then killed himself. A coroner's jury
was at once summoned, who, after hearing
the facts, rendered verdict to the effect
that the woman came to her death at the
hands of Dan Irwin. her husband, and that
Irwin came to his death by his own hand.
From what we can learn the killing of
Mann by Irwin was a horrible affair. 1t
seems that the two mon got into trouble
about something, what, we are unable to
learn, and Irwin shot Mann twice. Friends
interfered aud Mann was taken to his
home. and his wounds were being dressed,
when Irwin (who had gone home, got his
Winchester rife, filed the magazine, and
returned pushed the door of the room that
Mann was in open. and in the presencs of the
horrit1ed spectators, proceeded to empty
the contents of his Winchester into the
body of the defenseless Mann.
Cocoa Spirit A telegram to Senator G.
5. Hardee from George Il. Miles, general
manager of the Coast Line Canal and
Transportation Company, states that the
contract for dredging that company's great
canal from ST. Augustine to Biscayne bay
has been let to Messrs Rittenhouse, Moore
a. Co. of Mobile, Ala, and active work will
be begun as soon as the machinery can be
placed in position. This canal scheme is
one of the monster enterprises of the age.
IL required the brain and instinct of genius
to evolve it, and the pluck, energy, vim and
capital Of the genuine yankee to execute
it. 1t is, in round numbers, 300 miles
from st. Augustine to Miami, Biscayne
bay, two-thirds of that distance be ng a
natural waterway, consisting of lagoons and
bays lying parallel with the coast line
Much Of this natural waterway will have
| to be dredged to make it possible for steam
boats to pass with certainty and speed. The
balance Of the 800 miles will have to be cut
through the virgin earth, and in some in
| stances the virgin rock, TO make the canal
continuous between the points named
After many failures this mammoth under
taking is now again under way, with the
| positive assurance of success behind it, The
management has the money and every other
| facility for the successful completion of the
work, and is, moreover. bound to the state
| by contract to flush it up in five years.
| Among the big things taken in hand by
! Florida, this Is the biggest, and when com
pleted its advantages and benefits will be
| countless.
At Manifold. Monday, a sensation was
| created by the arrest of John Barnes of
| Lecanto, four miles from Manifold, and
his brothers, David and Thomas. charged
with robbery and burning of buildings.
| During the past summer at Lecanto the
residences of John P. Morrison and James
King we're destroyed by fire, the home of
the former at about the break of day and
that of the latter toward evening. A
member of the King family, also a
relative of Mr. Morrison-all highly re-
spected people and among Citrus
| county's best citizens-appeared before the
county commissioners some time ago, aud
| asked them to meet with him in executive
session, las he desired to unfold his suspicious
as to wnom the guilty ones might be. The
commissioners in secret ses ion, agreed to
pay n. B. Rhodes of Brooksville of the
South Florida detective agency, a certain
sum upon the arrest, with evidence to con-
| uiRt Of tho no G,-o