The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-08
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humanity.
The governor has not appointed a county
Judge for Washington county TO iii the
place made vacant sometime since by the
death Of Judge W. b. Jones. Several pc
titions have been circulated for parties
seeking the position, but as the Tampa
resolution" comes in between the people
and the governor he is doubtless await
ing the action of the county democratic
executive committee, which has not met
for the purpose Of making a selection.
At Pensacola Wednesday night the
board of city commissioners met and can
vassed the votes cast at the election on
Tuesday, on the question Of issuing GER
tihcates Of indebtedness to retire the city's
outstanding obligations. The certificates
Of the inspectors showed that the pro-
position to issue certificates had been car
ried by a majority of twenty, but on count
ing the ballots it was found that the in
spectors in the Twelfth precinct had
made an error, and that the vote in the
city was a tie, thus defeating the pro-
position.
Chesley Gay OF Judson, Alachua county,
died Sunday from the effects of wounds
received four days before his death. Mr..
Gay was employed in the sawmill at Jud-
son, and at the time, was engaged in
by the use of a large stick. The stick
came in contact with the saw and was
broken in several pieces. one of the pieces
struck Mr.. Gay in the cheek tearing away
the bone and part of the skull. In that
condition he lived four days, with his
brains oozing from the wound. He leaves
a wife and three children.
AS the south bound freight train on the
Jacksonville Tampa and Key West was
hafpcr 1T A oil
atka Tuesday, a negro brakeman named
Mack Mitchell, while attempting to make
a coupling. stumbled and fell across the
track, twelve cars passing over his body
converting it into a shapeless mass. The
body was picked up in fragments and pre-
pared for burial by the railroad company
and a coroners jury empaneled, which
rendered the following verdict: I'VE. the
jury, find that the deceased, Mack
Mitchell, came to his death by reason of
his own carelessness, Dec. 4, 1894"
The Tampa Times says the county poor
house, six miles from that city, is a two
story building of twelve rooms, in which
inmates are allowed 81 per month for
maintenance. There is no furniture be-
yond a cooking stove one small heating
stove, half a dozen canvas cots. one or
two hand lamps, perhaps a dozen chairs
and a very few dishes that have been
furnished by county funds. There are
six inmates at present, two children of
widowed mothers in the house. one of
these is a young girl. almost grown. who
wants to make her living, and is a book
binder by trade, who came from ITALIA
hassee to see her mother.
A practical joker startled Fernandina
Thursday morning by putting a 1O-pound
can of giant powder under one of Robin
son & Booths lumber piles. After ar
ranging the can so as to make il look as
If some fiend had placed it in position with
the intention of blowing up Robinson &
Booth, he went off and returned with
some of his friends, and showed them
the wicked looking bomb. 1t was not
long after that the entire town had heard
of the dastardly attempt to blow up one
of the big lumber firms in the city The
can of powder was secured from McNair
Bros lumber mill. where it had been
stored for number of years, and was a
part of a lot of powder that had been used
to blow up rotten piling along the docks
1t was too old and too damp to explode if
thrown into hot fire.