The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-12-21

Stashelin's place at Favorita. Mr.. Marshall
had beea in charge of the Seminole grove
/ during Mr.. Staehelin's absence in Europe,
and was the right hand man OF the place. ne
I haA hsap s'IEartag from Il grippe Cor sans
time and had used morphine 70 ease the pa n
BY an accident an overdose was taken, THIS
being the immediate cause Of his death Nj.
I Marshall was a citizen OF San MateO.
One OF the largest. finest and best-kept
orange groves in Florida is the Eclipse
owned by <. II. Mote, OF Leesourg. u IS Q
suburb Of Leesburg, Is Of mari hammo, land
and contains twenty-five acres OF fullbearinE
I trees and twenty tive acres OF young grove
! Inc grove Is now ioadeor WIN Tue eoiae 20
1 fruit. and from il this year viii be snippeu 20
! market between 10000 and ~ 900 boxes OF
/ oranges. The grove Is situated on the shore
! of Lake Grimm and between the lake and the
I Florida Central and Peninsular depot.
! The postonice authorities at Gainesville had
/ a great scare Friday night the result OF the
/ careleSsness of several parties handling the
mail pouch conf aiming. IL is said about
| $1,000 The pouch was taken to the depot,
/ but the train over the Florida Southern was
I late. and it was left on the platform. The
| pouch remained there for several hours. the
! conductor falling to ind it. II was carried TO
! Rochelle on the Citra train and left there
over night. Judge Bell had a man stationed
at the depot all night looking for the missing
bag
Tampa Times: Burton f. Coe aud Capt.
Kin 2, OF the Tampa Phosphate Company
works. were in the city Tuesday morning.
from the Alatia river. They reported that three
negro men. employed at the phosphate works.
were drowned YES erday in the river through
drunkenness and carelessness, and their bodies
have not been recovered. Six negroes entered
the phosL hate steamer Sadie boat to row to
the dryer. Two Of them were drunk and IN
some way upset the boat. They and one sober
man who could not swim were drowned. Inc
boat was q new metal lifeboat that would
/ have held up twenty men. The other thee
men chung TO the boat and were rescued.
Miss Susie wilkins, daughter Of Mr. and
Mrs. wilkins, proprietor Of the oxford hotel,
at Oxford died last Thursday from the ef-
fects OF burns which she received a few days
previous. 1t seems that Miss wilkins was
making her toilet. preparatory TO going TO
prayer meeting. Picking up the lamp she
left the room and was In the hall when her
sister called to her. Turning abruptly, IN
tending to 20 to her sister. the lamp began to
flicker and blaze up in manner that fright
ened her and caused her to drop it. The lamp
broke and Miss wilkins, finding her clothing
on fire. screamed at the top OF her voice and
made frantic rush for the back yard. Her
parents thinking she had screamed at the
sight of seeing the door all a-bla2e,
began putting the fire OF the
discovered that she was on fire. nearly all of
her clothing was burnt of, and her right side,
together with her arm, neck and face, burned
almost to a crisp.
Ocala New Capital Monday afternoon a
strange but rather respectfully dressed man
walked into the residence OF City Inspector
Fuller on Exposition street and made himself
quite at home IN the parlOr. he was soon
discovered by Mrs. Fullers little girl. She
went and told her mother. In the house at
the time were Mrs. w b. Fuller, Mrs j. r.
Martin and Mrs. j. II. Williamson. Naturally
the ladies became somewhat alarmed, but.
advanced to the parlOr and inquired
what was wanted. The visitor refused
something indlstinctly and at once
began to try to find his way out and was as
sisted out by colored woman who happened
TO be in the rear OF the apartment. The
tramp was Unier the influence Of whisky,
but made no attempt to do any harm. He
acted somewhat strange but soon found out
that he was in the wrong pew, when the old
coiored woman rushed him out the door and
into the street After he struck the side
walk he was soon joined by two other tramps
ana the three were soon out of view,
Juno TroDical sun: At Palm Beach two
brothers, w. X and Charles L. Auliek, got on
a drunk, visited the home and boarding
house OF w. l.. Torbert, called him out, used
most foul and insulting language to that ex-
| tent Torbett felt obliged to resort to any
means to protect his family from abuse, and
started for his revolver. Upon Torbert arm
ing himself and appearing on the scene he
found w. X. Aulick there and both began TO
fire ana each shot the other. Torbert was
shot through the right shoulder and Aulick
| through the left lung In the excitement of
the ARRAY bystander, j. w. Henley, was
| also shot through the shoulder
henry Doty, who was present, IN
| dertook to arrest Charles F. Aulick, who un-
| dertook to run away and was shot at twice,
| but not hit, by Doty. The two wounded men
! ran up TO their respective rooms and physi-
| clans were summoned. If no blood poisoning
I sets in Torbert viii likely recover, but
Aulick's wound is so severe that his chances
| for recovery are doubtful. Both the Aulicks
| and Torbert are under arrest but the
| wounded men cannot Re moved from their
| beds. After the shooting, excitement ran
| high for o time, as Torbert friends were
preparing to lynch the Aulclzs. who were
| strangers, and seemed to be entirely the ag-
| gressors. This was finally prevented and the
| case was left for the law to handle.
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