The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-24
FLORIDA.

There are l $50 school children in Tampa.
The Tarpon Springs Truth wants Vene.
tian gondola launched on the local lakes.
Joe Scraggs has been held in Ocala in
s., 900 bail TO answer the charge Of killing
Alonzo Clark.
The Orlando foundry and machine works
emploYe thirty men at salary OF about
s., 900 per month.
William Rhodes, alias Bill Brown,
wanted for murder in Suwannee county, Is
under arrest at Green Cove Spring.
The trustees of Rollins College at Winter
Park are preparing to build young ladies'
hall to accommodate seventy students, at
cost of SIG, 600
At Dunedin, a day or ago, James Barnes
and Billy Marston succeeded in landing a
fish called the Nurse. which was estimated
to weigh over 300 pounds.
A very large turtle laid IT'S eggs just at
the foot of Hotel Coquina's front steps on
Ormond beach Monday. A crowd of thirty
or forty people were standing near at the
time.
St. Andrews Episcopal church has been
beautified by the addition of the first me-
mortal window placed in Tampa. 1t is in
memory Of RaneY Sage Post, and is gift
Of Mrs. L. McGregor.
Though twenty-five men are constantly
employed in the Wekiva swamp by the
South Florida Manufacturing Company
they are unable to furnish the great blocks
Of cypress fast enough to keep the shingle
mill at Apopka going, so vast is its capacity.
A colored church at Fernandina, day or
two ago. paid bill of SS3 in change. OF
this there were only six fifty-cent pieces,
the rest being in quarters, dimes, nickels
and cents. There was s. In cents and over
500 in nickels. 1t was the result of jug
breaking.
Dick Wilson, the colored man who was
shot by Sheriff Perry of st. Augustine thr-
teen days ago. died Sunday night from his
injuries. Wilson made statement before
his death in which he said that he did not
know that it was the sheriff and that he
started TO run when he got off his mule. The
matter will be Investigated.
Orlando Record: At the close of the
services at the Presbyterian church Sunday
morning a meeting of the members was
to the church's Indebtedness ratified. At
the time of the building Of the present
| house of worship, about two years ago,
| after the burning down OF the former one
on Central avenue, mortgage was given
| to Charles W. Hardness as trustee for the
Hardness estate upon the property for
| $4,000. This debt has been hanging over
| tLO Nh0i Sh SNSA StuNct Out ~ udiS UDW D66U
| Cancelled by the acceptance on the part OF
| MIR. Hardness of the lot on Central avenue
| and lot given by Prof. Gould on Gould
streetin payment. This leaves the church
| practically free from debt.
| D. g. Ambler writes to the Jacksonville
| Standard as follows: II have noticed sew
eral items of late in the city press stating
that the Florida Central and Peninsulal
Railroad Company had absorbed the rail
1 ,,.A A -.
tending some sixteen miles southerly TOWARD
| Dunnellon. As this is calculated to misleac
the public having or desiring to have bust
ness with the road, would state that so fal
only an amicable arrangement has beer
made with that company, whereby thev
furnish the rails for the extension and ar
also to furnish the transportation for tn
business of the road. 1t is highly probabl
| that in time q sale of this road to the Flor
ida Central and Peninsular Company will
be concluded, but that so far no transfer haC
been made"
Orlando Record: A shooting ARRAY oc
CURED at the colored settlement IN Eas
| Orlando about ~ o'clock Saturday night
resulting In the shooting Of q colored man
Jones, by another youth named Ben Bates
1t was claimed by Bates that the shootin,
was accidental, while Jones. on the othe
| hand, says that it was not, but was pur
posely done. From all accounts it seem
that Bates and Jones had been participating
in one of the regular Saturday night iollif.
cations held by the colored people, and jus
previous to the shooting had eaten ic
| cream together. A quarrel afterward en-
sued over the possession of pistol and il
some manner 1t was discharged while in thu
hands of Bates. The bullet struck Jones al
the right edge of the sternum between the
sixth and seventh ribs. its course ranging
outward and downward and passing through
the right lung. DR.. W. e. Person wa.
called in attendance upon the wounded man
He states that the wound is very serious
one, and will perhaps result fatally. Jone;
is very strong physically, however, anc
may be able to pull through. Bates wa
arrested. Jones Is about 10 years Of age
while Rates is only II.