The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-08-03

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Work on the bonded warehouse at Tam
pa will soon begin.
It is said that the Tampa Bay hotel will
soon employ fifty carpenters in alterations
and extensions.
Capt Sigsbee has resigned as COM
mander of the Gainesville Guards, but an
effort is being made to induce him to re
consider
Deputy Sheriff Mooney took possession
of the dental office of G. w. Boston in the
Campbell block at Tampa Monday on a
distress warrant taken out by Mrs Camp
bell for rent amounting TO 500. DIR. Bos-
ton is at Palmetto.
The Gainesville Guards have been of
fered a carload of beer if they decide to
go on the encampment. The offer was
made by the New York Brewing Compa-
ny. In the face of this, it is safe to say
that Gainesville will be represented at
the encampment.
f. A. Polly, proprietor of the Yankee
Novelty Works, will shortly begin the
erection of q 2-story dwelling on the va
cant lot Immediately east of Gen. Bull
locks residence, on South Lime street at
Ocala. G. +. Converse, who recently
moved to Ocala from Belleview, and who
owned the axe handle factory at that
place, will build on the adjoining lot.
Mr.. Converse is associated with the Polly
Bros. as bookkeeper.
During thunder storm Monday night
lightning struck the house of Capt. Jo-
seph Johnson in West Tampa. A portion
OF one partition was torn down and one
door wrenched from its hinges. The
whole family were stupefied by the
shock and did not know what had hap
pened until later in the night, when Mrs.
Johnson awoke and found herself COW
cred by part of the destroyed partition.
Fortunately, none of the inmates of the
house were seriously injured.
Ocala New Capitol: About seven
months ago cancer developed on Mrs.
Annie e. Turner's left jaw. It's growth
was rapid and on July she began to be
treated by DIR. E. F. Brown, of Ocala.
Last night a Capitolist, in company with
DR. Brown. visited Mrs. Turner and found
the lady cheerful, Notwithstanding the
greater part of her left jaw was eaten
away. The cancer had dropped out
few hours before, leaving a place about
two and u half inches in circumference
perfectly raw. The cancer ate a small
hole through the jaw. The cancer was
about one and half inches in circumfer-
ence
Ocala New Capitol Sunday, Mr.. j. d.
Hobkirk, one of Marion coUnty's best
! farmers and fruit-growers, who lives at
Citra, went from home to be absent until
10 or IL o'clock Sunday night Be
fore leaving he instructed his 1l-year-old
son to watch the grove, and see that
prowling negroes did not carry off the
fruit. That he obeyed instructions to the
letter is shown by the denouement.
About O'Clock the little boy, who was in
hammock on the piazza, discov-
cred man in the yard, and
ran in the room to tell his mother.
The recent outrage near that place has
caused the people to be very suspicious
of providers, and the little boy gave his
mother the information, and at the same
time took down gun loaded with buck
shot. AS he turned to the window he
saw, dimly, the form of a man passing,
| and, quick as flash, he fired. The grief
of the family can be better imagined than
described when they found moment af-
ter, that Mr.. HoblIirk had been danger
Ously and probably fatally wounded One
buckshot entered near the heart, but the
main part of the load struck his arm,
decorating it in a frightful manner. The
shot which entered near the heart is, of
course, the most dangerous, but it is
hoped that it glanced.