The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-05-06


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! by Offering "a handsome and valuable gold
| watch and chain for "a handicap race open TO
the state to be held under the auspices OF the
/ cycling department of the athletic club. This
| promises to he the beginning Of the best sea
/ son this state ever had in cycling events.
/ distressing accident occurred near Mill
! gan on the Pensacola and Atlantic railroad
| day or two ago in which Miss Mary Sorreu'
/ "A daughter of NJ. NJ. Sorreu. a Well-llnOwn
/ clifton of that community, lost her me.
| Miss SOrrcl was driving with young man IN
/ a road cart drawn by mule. Some distance
| out from Milligan they approached stream
! ana the young man got out OF the cart TO cE-
! anime the bridge. While he was absent the
| mule took fright and ran away. throwing MISS
! SOrrcl out of the cart and killing her IN
! stantly.
! Punta Gorda Herald horrible tale comes
| from the islands below 1t is one of delibcr-
/ ate suicide. firing Of life, Mr.. Clark OF
! Buck Key proceeded in deliberate fashion 10
ascend in a chariot of fire. He hauled the
/ many hives of bees surrounding his house
| and piling them against it, put shavings ana
| combustblcs between them TO insure their
! destruction. Fuel was piled on the house
! also Everything prepared he took his way
! to the house of an absent neighbor and set
! fire 10 1t. Having left an lnsdlting letter IN
| sinuating that his intention had been to com
| init murder instead of arson he returned TO
! his intended funeral pYre. Setting nre TO the
/ lIndllng of the CombustlblcS he had pied IN
/ his house ne climaxed the tragedy by pour
| ing load of buckshot into himself The
/ lUndling failed to start the blaze and his
! corpse was found untouched by fire. In all
! its CHASTITY horror the scene remained rs he
/ had left it-only his life and the kindling de-
| parted.
Col. T. A. Salomonson. Tampa S mayor re
/ Gently received the following threatening
/ letter, but did not attach any especial signi-
/ HcanCc to it. thinking IL only a bluff: Mr..
SalOmans: Sir-Lct me give you a bit Of
| advice If you have any care for yourself. You
! are eNasperating people by augmentlnR inc
! fines on drunkenness. The money That Will
pay fine will buy pistol, and II you are not
careful you may drop of your char In the
court room or of your scat in the car, or may
be al your ohiCe desk, or in the street or any
where-bullets go i'm lots of ways and in all
directions and you are no better than any
other cur on these strectS-lOOl out. You
| think YOU are making your money sure
when other poor devils get only 90 per cent.
on scrip suppose there Will he enough to
| pay for decent funeral for you if do not stop
your outrages. Yours earnestly one of
them On Monday night as Col. Solomon
son was going home from the Columbian re-
ception at the Control Espanol and while on
Hyde Park avenue, he heard two pistol snots
in quick succession. and u bullet Whistled
| past his head. He was unarmed and in no
| condition to meet the would-bc assassin, so
| proceeded to his home. The shots appeared
To come from the unclearcd scrub next to the
residence of Capt. II. s Warner on the south
side Of Hyde Park avenue.
South Jacksonville was Wednesday the
scene Of marriage the attending CirCum-
stances OF winch flNdl any ever IOlu IN story.
The contracting parties were Robert n. sid
lev young Englishman, who, for year or
more, has been living at Oakland, this state,
and Miss Madeline Witherington, also of Eng
| land. Tuesday night Mr. Sidley arrived at
Jacksonville and engaged the best apart
mentS that the Carleton hotel could furnish,
saying that his wife would arrive the next
day. sure enough there arrived on the fast
mail pretty young English woman. appa-
rently under 20 years Of age. with the roses of
merry England still on her cheeks. She was
met by her prospective husband, who took
her also to the Carleton, where he met with q
great perpleXtty. The question that troubled
him was how should he register her she was
not yet Mrs. Sidley but in few hours would
he, so that if he wrote her maiden name he
would compel the books to contain deccp-
tion, but finally he nerved himself and wrote
boldly Mrs. Robert y, Sidley. The next thing
! was 10 ma minister OF the Church OF Eng
land. 1t seems that Mr.. Shields and Mr..
| Grub were absent when called on, so accom-
panied by three friends the young couple
crossed the river on the ferry and went to
"All Saints church, where the pastor, Rev.
Mr.. Walton, made them man and wife at 6
o'clock p. m.
Pensacola News: One OF the foulest crimes
that has yet been committed in this state oc-
CURED last Saturday night near the little
town of Portland, situated on Choctawhatchie
bay, IN Walton county. The particulars of
| this horrible deed We're related to a repreSen-
! tdtiYc of the News yesterday by gentleman
who saw the prisoners brought to the county
| jail at DeFuniak early Monday morning and
A
| IN the bay around Portland and lives near that
| place, and whose name our informant did not
! learn. was sitting with his family at home
Saturday night, between the hours of and 8
o'olack The man 5 wife was sitting by the
fireplace holding an infant in her arms. and IA
Mr.. Senterdt and one or two other male
| friends were present. They were all engaged
in social conversation, when suddenly the
sharp crack of q Winchester rifle was heard
and a ball sped through an open window and
crashed through the skull Of the
wife. She fell dead the blood
and brains from the horrible wound
SCATTERING the face of the infant in her arms
The other occupants of the house were da2ed
by the terrible shock but quickly recovered
and Mr.. Sentcrt recognized in the fee
ing assassins three men who belonged
TO what is known in that sec
tiOn as the Brown gang. and who have made
themselves terror TO the community by
their laWless acts. Mr.. Senterht and his
companions Immediately gave pursuit and
on Sunday succeeded in capturing the three
men. Great excitement prevailed in the
community around Portland when the deed
and capture OF the murderers became known
For awhile it looked as though Mr.. Senterht
and his companions would never reach the
county jail with the three despCudoes. Only
"a year ago one OF the gang Allen Brown had
received the light sentence of seven years i'm
the pcnitentiary at the hands of "A Jury for
numbering man without provOcatiOu and
the remembrance Of this served to
| arouse the people to inhict summary
punishment upon the other mem hers of
the gang. The men had surrendered to Mr.
Scntcrllt and he felt that he was bound hy
| honor TO protect them until they had been
delivered TO the officers by the exercise Of
caution he succeeded IN bringing them safely
TO iieFuulak, where they arrived about 3
ciocg Monday morning. The assaSsins were
committed To Jail and our informant saws that
II was reported Monday night that two of
them desired to be permitted to turn states
evidence. The cause for this dastardly assas-
sinauon is not definitely known. but ii is
learned that the murdered woman WAS an i'm.
| p0rtant witness against member Of the gang
Tor some violation Of law and the suppOsitiOn
l9 that she was asaassinatcd to prevent her
testimony.
The population OF Massachusetts, is rapidly
| becoming conglomerate. Boston is one of
| the great Irish cities Of the world There are
/ already several hundred thousand French
canadians and large number Of other
,ananlanr ln the state. The Greek colony In
Boston has become SO large that Greek pa.
/ PER haa h'en started in that city and riot
/ Iht pli'i DAY 800 Worcester between Ameri-
[ Cams ana Nohammedaa- calls attention t0 me
| pIttnct of Ahiaiic races in the state Ihe
nld bunker 1901 monument Dr. Witnessing BIZ.
I UfNThdNIN chances la the character az ft.