The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-11
FLORIDA.

I Trinity church, st. Augustine, took charge
! Of the parish Sunday.
/ Pensions have been granted to Francis NJ.
| Gill Of 1angerine. and Sarah AIr. widow
of Jeremiah F. Revels, Of Goodwin.
A patent has been granted 10 Joseph f.
! Butts of Hawthorne for body ventiiator.
aud one 20 Stephen ID. Smith Of Orlando for
a centrifugal ore separator.
the public road from Waldo to Melrose.
and It's two branches leading 10 Orange
| Heights and Starke, are said t. be in an
almost impossible condition.
The silver gold-lined cup which is 10 be
! awarded to the winning boat at the race TO
take place on Alachua lake on Thursday,
July Z, has arrived at Gainesville.
William NJ. RoweIl, who lives few miles
south of Barlow, has sold his patent fruit
1 builder, which has already been described
in the MORNING NEWS, for S25, 900.
The saw and planning mill in Interlachen
| conducted by lie Wis Hall, sold Monday
under foreclosure of mortgage for 500,
being about the amount of debts and costs.
As A. f. Throne of Lake Como was
| riding to the store, as is his custom on Mon
| days, the horse attached t. the wagon ne
| came frightened and ran away, and Mr..
Throne was thrown out and killed.
Jacksonville's new paper. the florida
| Standard, has made its appearance Col.
|
| the paper will be newsy and bright. 1t is
printed every morning and is democratic.
Mrs. Frank WILDER Chase NEE Miss Annie
Mabelle Porter. a bride of a week, died
Monday at South Lake Weir very suddenly
| of congestion Of the brain. She was a
beautiful woman of IS, educated, refined
and Of noble disposition.
Gainesville Sun: Isaac Johns, residing
| on Lake Alto, two miles south of Waldo,
left at this office yesterday a bunch of SIX
| oranges grown on a two vear-old bud. He
says the tree will have on it about four
boxes. They are Of the Satsuma variety.
The young man Boiler, who liz now in jail
| in Gainesville awaiting his trial at the next
| term of the circuit court on the charge Of
| burglarizing the drug store of Johnson 81
Co. of MicanOpy is from Chester, S. c.,
| where his people reside and who are highly
| respectable
Bay Lodge No. 25O5 and Gulf City Lodge
No. 1896, Knights Of Honor, of Pensacola,
met in joint assembly Monday night, at
| which time the banner ordered by the grand
| lodge Of the state of Florida to be presented
Muscogee Lodge No. 3459 as the banner
| lodge OF the state was exhibited.
John Douglass, hunter, originally from
Palatka, was assassinated four miles from
Bronson Tuesday night while sitting at a
camp fire. The corOners jury failed to get
any facts which would lead to an arrest.
Douglass is not known to have had any
enemies. The affair is shrouded in mys-
terry.
Mr.. and Mrs. II. w. Tubbs of Sanford
celebrated their twentieth marriage ami
versary at their residence on the evening
OF July 8. A very pleasant company gath
cred, carrying presents suitable for the oc-
| casion, aud were served to a splendid sup
per. The evening passed off most pleas
antly.
st. Augustine NeUs: Henry Briggs of
Moultrie has brought to this office a sample
of tea which he raised on his place He
states that it makes a better cup of tea than
he can make from store tea, and that it ouIy
needs trial to convince any one that
Florida can raise her own crop if she will
As to the cost Of raising it, he is not pre-
pared to state: says he thinks it would be
quite expensive, but does not know posi-
lively.
AT Eustis, Wednesday, during a storm,
lightning struck the house of Prof. w. K.
Pendleton, first striking the fue or chimney
or earthenware or terra Gotta. it passed
down to chamber on the upper floor, TAX
ing large chip out of the bedstead as
neatly as if done by an ak, broke a large
mirror six feet long into fragments, and set
| fire to the bedding. II. II. King was in the
| room at the time and was considerably
shaken, but not seriously hurt.
Pensacola NetCs.: 1t appears that the
police were placed on the wrong scent Sat
urday night when warrant was issued for
w. M. Hollifield as the man who shot Cas-
person. 1t is admitted now that Hollifeld
was not in town at the time, and besides no
circumstances have been brought to light
to connect him with the shooting. In view
Of these facts G. w. Duke, the clerk of
tod a
whose bed the pistol, from whose chambers
the three shots are thought to have been
fired, was held for trial.
At the store and residence of J. C. Kew
ser, corner of Gadsden and Florida Blanca
streets, at Pensacola Monday, lightning
struck tree in front of the store and en-
tered the building, shaking up the shelf
goods and slightly stunning Mrs. Keyser
who was in the store at the time The cur
rent passed from the tree and killed a horse
belong to George E. Smith. which was loose
in the back yard. On East Romano street,
| near Luke's alley, the house occupied by
Mary Williams (colored) was struck. The
current entered the room in which the
woman was standing at the time and tore
up the furniture badly, but the woman es-
capped unhurt.
Eustis Lake Region: Robert Heath, an
| employe of this branch of the Florida South
ern railway, died Monday night Of lung
trouble after long illness Dennis Heath.
| his father, 1t will be remembered, was killed
| by the cars some time ago. Just before his
death Robert asked and urged to be taken
down town as he had some business to attend
| to that was imperative. In his dying con-
| dition this was out of the question, but so
! great was his distress at their failure to do
| 80 that 1t is surmised that he had some
| money or valuables hidden some place in
| fact, other words which he let drop made
| this conjecture almost a certainty. But lust
| where is the place he never told, and tho
secret, il it was a secret, died with him.
Gainesville SIN: The many friends ami
acquaintance of Rev. o. A. Myers and
family will be panied to hear of the tragic
death of Miss Katie Myers, known to ne arlv
every person in this community. She left
this city about one year ago, and has since
resided in Philadelphia, most of the time,
we believe, with her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Willis Myers. On July she committed
suicide by taking strychnine. The causes
leading TO the sorrowful ending of her life
are unknown. All the information thus
far received is contained IN a letter dated
on July from Willis Myers.
brother Of the deceased, to Prof. Sheats'
in which he says: by the time this
reaches YOU you will probably have he ar |
of poor katie's death. She died on TUESDAY
night from the effects of strychnine. We
cannot tell why. She left letter giving a
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