The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-25

ting y good big price for them. Mr.. Cutler IS
also IN the chicken business and has about ,2DJ
as ine LeghOrns as can be met with IN a Gay
travel Mr.. Cutler has been very ssuccesstui IN
this lice.
Saturday evening personal misunderstood
ing occurred between J.H. Ahern and Ed Ahern
OF the Tampa Street Railway and POWER com
pauy aud A. J. Harris, superintendent OF the
IRE alarm and fire department service. As
consequence Mr.. Harris and j. IA. Ahern were
arrested and Monday morning fined = each.
An unexpected result OF this was the sudden
resignation Of Mr.. Harris from all bonnecslon
With the fire department
During the year 1899 Floridians paid 70 insur-
auce companies Sl,l5o,2l1 80 Tor hre ana NE IN
surance. Add TO this the amount
paid 10 fraterna ORGANIZATIONS -l1s
and the total would not be less than
81 10000. In return for this vast expenditure
the people Of the state have received ABOUT
benefits paid by the fraternal ORGANIZATIONS
would probably run the total up IN the neigh
borhood Of $4,000.
G. G. Wagner. brother of Martin Wagner,
who has commenced the erection OK canning
plant at Key West. arrived there on the On
vette last Friday, COmpanied by his FANNY.
They ara Quartered at the MessIna mouse Ior
the present. Mr. Wagner Will superlntei1 tns
work Of finishing the building aud VIII tueh
assume charge of the canning plant IL IS the
intention Of the owners to not only conane
themselves to canning fruit and vegetab DuS
also to put up oysters, clans and other slteA
fish for the market.
]. II. Thomas Of Michigan has been figuring
on building fine new hotel in Tampa. MI.
Thomas has Just comp eted bis arrangements
having purchased the south half OF biock 30 "a
half acre at the corner of lack and Morgan
streets within one block of the electric car
line Of Mr.. LeDuO He has formulated his
ideas Of what he desires and they have been
placed in the hands Of an architect to elaborate.
The building will b. a 3-story hotel of about
sixty rooms and 10 is intended 70 make II ready
for the business ofneNt winter. The hotel viii
be an all-the-year. frst-class American plan
hotel with rates from 81 80 to 81 per day.
st. Francis F1cis: The old river steamboat
Thomas a. Morgan, which has lately been pur-
c1ased by the Augustine Steamboat Company
OF Philadelphia, has history that any boat
might be proud of. She was built 6t Whining
ton bv Har an az Hollingsworth in 1888, and in
her trips between Philadelphia and Bristol was
considered the fastest boat on the Delaware.
The government bought her when the war
broke ont, and, stripping on her cabins made her
into a guubOat. She did service on the James
river and al Fortress Monroe, and on one coca
sion her pilus house was Tiddled with bullets
from confederate pickets and her pilot wounded.
SOW. in her old age. she is TO struggle up and
down the river, carrying summer e&curslonsts.
A negro man by the name Of Robert Gllispie
arrived at Jasper not long since accompanied
by woman whom he claimed as bis VIE.
Thursday, of last week, another negro man,
Tom Arnold came to town from Georgia and
claimed that the woman was his wife or mis-.
tress, and that she ran away from him He tried
Gillispie and refused. Friday morning before
day while GilisDie and the woman we're occu-
pying the same bed some one fired on Gllllsple
through a window with gun loaded with
bucksnot The entire load took effect in his
right side tearing hole as large as mans
fist, from which his entrails prOtruded. He
died shortly after being shot. Arnold has not
been seen since.
Gainesville Sun: While Dan Hall, who re-
sides of 0randin station, on the Georgia South
eru and Florida railroad, 10 Putnam county,
and ten miles from Melrose. was absent from
home Monday morning, the house was entered
by two negroes, who criminally assaulted his
fe. Mrs Hall had completed her household
duties and retired for her customary morning
nap. She was not aware OF any one being in
the house until they had assaulted her, and
were tying her feet and hands securely to the
bed post She attempted 70 call for help, but
pillow was placed over her face and the sound
of her voice was drowned. The bTutes then
proceeded to carry out their neinOus designs,
after which they left the place. Mrs. Hall
tainted when she first realized that she was
being assaulted, and remained unconscious IN
I'll late in the afternoon, when her husband ar
rived and found his wife nearly dead. Grandin
is a turpentine camp where over 100 negroes
are employed, and the supposition is that the
scoundrels are members of the camp. Mrs.
Hall could furnish no description of the fiends,
The Florida Land and improvement Company
has been recently organized at Tampa. r. w.
Easley of TAMPA in company with other CAPT
talists has perfected its organization, and arti-
cles of Incorporation will be filed with the
secretary Of state and a charter applied for.
The principal place of business is Tampa and
the concern is capitalized at SlOO,OOO. The
objects of the company, as stated IN its articles
OF incorporation, are TO buy and sell real estate,
negotiate bonds and mortgages, and to issue
interesting bearing bonds secured by first
mortgage real estate security, after the plan of
the corporations that have been SO successful
in the west. The president s K. W, Easley,
wee president w. w. Trice. The position Of
secretary and treasurer has not yet been filled
Mr. Easley and ". W. Trice and r. L. Trice Of
Mississippi will be on the board of directors
Nr Easley is a well-known attorney and CAPT
talist. and was recently connected with the
late Tampa Tribune. The Messrs Trice con-
duct large general store at Verona. Miss, and
a fiourishing bank at Tapelo. Miss The new
organization will at once get things into shape
and push business in their field.