The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-04

Only 2,9l5 as feet of lumber were shipped
/ from Fernandna last month
The postohice at Bassinger has been re-
! established with Lucy A. Morgan as post
/ mistress.
/ Mrs. Sarah Goodwin of Lakeland is rails
I ing pineapples to weigh s& pounds at her
suburban home.
The fish dealers of Pensacola are now
/ receiving good supplies of fish, for which
they report a large demand.
Fine rains fell all over West Florida on
Monday and Monday night Wednesday
morning a heavy frost was to be seen.
Witnesses in the Pierce diamond robbery
are arriving from the north in St Angus
tine, ready to testify in the trial next
week
At billiards., Nassau county. Friday
last, Lee Nixon and Berry Stokes fought
about a chew of tobacco and Stokes was
stabbed in the side.
Kirk Monroe's yacht Susan y. is on her
way to Biscayne Bay, where her owner
spends his winters Mr.. Monroe is a we'll
known canoeist and writer.
w. A. White and j. r. Irvine of Orlando
took advantage of the first open day for
quail Thursday and during the day bagged
l0i of them, as well as one dove and one
snipe.
Rev. Thomas Hind. the well known re-
publican politician of Putnam county,
whose store at Georgetown was robbed
several weeks ago, has caught the
thieves-fve negro men.
John r. Uguet of Ward six a Jackson
vile was elected Friday to fill the unex-
PRED term of Alderman Blair of Ward
eight, who resigned a few days ago on
account of pressing business.
Sunday night the home of Ben Rob
erts on Whitehead street at Key West
was entered while he and his wife were
at church and $3.50, belonging to the
Island City Lodge, was taken.
The orange crop at Palatka is not so
large as has been thought. Some grow
ers are holding for 81 a box, while others
are being induced to take less. 1t is
thought If growers can hold and escape
frost they win realize good returns for
their fruit at the latter part of the season.
Quite a building boom is in progress at
Palmetto. Capt. Bacon's oyster house
is in process of building and preparations
to build are being made by Rev. S. b.
Black and Walter Parrish. John Jack
sons real estate Office and Rev. White.
heads cottage are two very neat build
ings recently finished.
While out fishing Friday with dynamite
with party Of friends F. c. Reinhard
of High Springs. in Alachua county, met
with a very painful accident. He had
prepared a piece of dynamite to touch oft
and throw into the river. He held it
too long in his hand and it exploded com
pletely blowing his hand off. He also
lost one eye, and the other is seriously in
jured.
What came near proving a fatal acct
dent happened to little Charles, son of
M. E. Gruber, at Titusville last week. His
father was driving slaves for some pur-
pose in the yard with an AK and Charles
unseen by him, ran up to see what he
was doing and was truck with the blade
of the AK just over the eye, dentng the
skull and breaking the skin in an ugly
jagged fashion.
At Tampa fourteen Chinese were trans
ferred from the Whitney Monday to the
Mascotte, and bond was given for them
by the Plant Steamship Company. They
were from Hong Kong, going through to
Cuba One of them was said to be Gen.
Wah Sing, who has recently lost his pea
cock feather by order of the emperor.
1t is thought they were seeking refuge
for political reasons.
George Combs an old and influential
citizen of Baker county, was painfully
injured last Sunday night. Mr.. Combs.
who is about rs years old, and very fee
BILE, fell in the yard, wrenching his back
badly. He lay for some time before he
could make the ladies' in the house hear
him. After they got him to the house
he tainted, and it was thought ne would
die at once, but after getting to bed he
revived somewhat, but is still very low.
Frank Lyons is again in jail at Tampa,
charged with forgery, and 1t is not likely
that he win escape so easily as he did
the last time Lyons forged a check on
Dugan Brothers on Oct. 4, and was re-
leased upon a technicality. This time
the check was worked off on c. H.
Knowles, negro tailor, on Lafayette
street. The check was drawn for S31 50
and was very clumsily done, showing
that Lyons was no expert at the work
of forging checks.
r II. Mote Of Leesburg has sold his
stock of dry goods TO r. l.. Mccormack,
and viii devote his energies to his large
/ interests in orange grove property. Mr.
Mote has been largely instrumental in
developing Leesburg and making her one
of the most prosperous towns in the
county, He built the fine brick block and
opera house that bears his name and as
sisted in many ways in promoting valua-
BILE improvements in that community that
/ will be of lasting benefit.
/ There are indications that the strike of
/ the employees at the mails of the South
/ ern States Land and Timber Company at
! Millview is about to collapse. The COM
/ panys general manager, RiN NJ Robinson,
announced that both mills of MusCogee
! We're running, many of the old employees
/ having returned to work at the wages
offered by the company, and that affairs
at Millview would probably be adjusted
/ by tomorrow, so that both of the large
mills there could start up.
Shortly after o'clock at Pensacola Fri
day Henry Patterson, well known ne.
! gro, who was held at the police station
! for assaulting his wife with a knife made
/ his escape through the rear yard, and ran
/ out on Main street. A crowd followed
shouting at his heels and Policeman
/ White, seeing him running, and hearing
I the shouts Of the people, ordered him to
stop. Patterson refused to do So and the
policeman drew his pistol and shot him.
/ killing him almost instantly.
The new cigar factory of G.. o. joyce a.
/ Co at Tampa was dedicated last Wednes-
day night by an informal hop. The new,
factory was begun In August but when
! being rooted II was completely demol-
/ ished by the cyclone of Sept o. The re.
building began the day after the storm
/ and now the structure is complete at "a
/ cost of $4,000. C.. a. Joyce a co. moved
/ into the new factory to-day and win boz
/ gin operations at once. The company
/ will increase their force OF workmen TO