The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-29
FLORIDA

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FLORIDA
! The Georgia Weekly Press Association
will visit st. Augustine early in July.
Governor Mitchell has appointed d. D.
Vennigerholz, Of Iverness, prosecuting
attorney of the newly created county
/ court of Citrus.
The United States Army recruiting of
| flee at Ocala has been closed. From there
they 90 to Jacksonville where they open
an office in the Carleton hotel block.
At Orlando three buildings lately con
demned on Church street belonging TO
Messrs. Patrick and Motley and which
| are to be removed Immediately, were sold
Tuesday at auction, the whole three
| bringing the magnificent sum of $3.50.
| The First National Bank of Gainesville
Monday secured at attachment upon the
goods of G.. B. Lloyd, located at Rochelle.
| The papers were served by Sheriff Hill
! leary at o'clock Monday morning At
$3.50 a. m. a telegram was received from
| Brunswick, Ca, announcing the death of
MIR. Lloyd at that place.
The birthday of Miss Estill Mathers,
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. J. G.. Mathers of
Micanopy will be celebrated at her pa
rents residence in that place on the after
noon of June 30Jh. The young lady is
named after the proprietor of the MORN
ING NEWS, and her father is one of the
oldest Florida correspondents of the pa
per.
Isaiah Small, q negro with VIGOROUSLY
bad reputation, was shot in the shoulder
at Madison Friday by Policeman Walter
Baker while resisting arrest. The ball
entered the back near the shoulder blade,
passed through the body, just escaping
the lungs The wound was dressed by
IRE NValyaHald and Carroll who OrO-
nounced it not serious.
The new dredge boat has been working
very steadily during the present week on
Pensacola bar and the channel is being
rapidly dredged out. The work of the
new boat is pronounced to be very salts
factory, and its capacity for removing
sand much greater than that of the Bailey,
the last boat employed on the work. No
doubt is felt by the engineers that the
present work will give a channel over the
bar of at least % feet in depth.
Tuesday night and Wednesday morn
ing were busy hours at Cocoa in the
transferring of pines from the steamers
to the cars. Wednesday mornings freight
train carried to Jacksonville 3 464 crates
of pineapples brought up the preceding
day or so by the steamers Sweeney, st.
Sebastian, Santa Lucia and Courtney.
AS $50 crates load a car, over twenty cars
were uSeQ 10 move Tile lEu1J. Inc pines
are now bringing very fair prices.
At Gainesville Monday night Sheriff A.
U. Hilleary levied distress warrant upon
the entire furniture of Mrs. B. S. Stark
at the Brown House, and nearly all of it
was removed to the sheriff's Office The
warrant had been obtained late in the af-
ternoon by J. B. Brown for rent which it
is claimed is due by her to him. Some of
Mrs. Starks friends offered their services
and the goods were quicklyreplevined and
returned at ~ O'Clock Monday night.
Leesburg Commercial: There was a
time, not long ago, when it was thought
that peaches could not be successfully
grown in this part of Florida. But the
Idea is exploded. Fine peaches are grown
here and are source of profit to the
growers On the orange grove home of
K. johnson, in this city, the orange trees
are % feet apart. In the centers of eight
Of these trees are planted two peach
trees of the Imperial variety, now loaded
with most delicious fruit.
At Ocala, Friday night. two little boys,
| Archie Lloyd and Charlie Moody, were
! sitting on pony in front of DIR. Thomp-
sons residence on Fort King avenue.
| They were sitting sideways and watching
some boys on the sidewalk. Ben Mayo
came along on his bicycle AS he passed
the horse gave a sudden lunge, throwing
| the boys violently to the ground Archie
was badly hurt about the mouth, losing a
tooth, and was otherwise bruised. Char
lie was not so badly hurt as Archie, but
he too received good shaking up.
The vexed question of the receivership
| of the Kissimmee City bank has been ami
cably adjusted at last. Maj. St. Clair
! Abrams, w. l.. Palmer and G. A Carson
went 10 DeLand, and the latter who had
been temporarily acting as receiver, made
I,
/ lowed $3.50 for his services. The court,
agreeable to the recommendation of the
committee composed of Representatives of
| all parties concerned, appointed w. A.
| White, of Orlando, and e. N Fell, Mar
coOssee, as co-receivers of the bank, plac-
ing the bond at S25, 900 each,
A fatal accident occurred near Harris
Road Friday on the new railroad. II
seems that while gang of hands was en-
gagged in unloading telegraph poles, a
a cOlored man named Allen was thrown
from fiat car and instantly killed. The
train was moving along slowly to allow
them on the fiat car to throw off the poles
at a signal given by the boss who was on
the engine. 1t appears that Allen il
moving one of the poles let it fall, causing
the other end to fall of the car which
caused the end he had been holding tt
fly up and strike him a fatal blow
throwing him beneath the moving train
At Jacksonville about 3 o'clock Satur
day morning John Flanagan (colored
went to his home in LaVilla in drunken
condition and by mistake entered the
room Of Henry Davis. He undressed anC
laid down on the bed and went to sleep
In short time he awoke, and having re
1 covered enough to be aware of his where
abOuts, dressed for the purpose of Coins
TO his own room. As he was going out o.
2 the room Davis came in and assaulted
/ him with knife, cutting him in the necl
? and left shoulder. Officer John Taylor
r who had heard the row, went up anC
' took Flanagan to police headquarters