The morning news., 1894-11-25


have employed no attorney, but will de-
fend themselves.
FLORIDA.
over sll,OO0 was brought into Lakeland
last season from the strawberry shipments
alone, and it will double that amount this
season.
The Tampa Bay hotel grounds are to
have a beautiful Japanese boat-house on
the banks Of the Hilsborough river. The
building is up and ready for the cover.
Thomas Sweat of Plant City was adj
judged insane Friday morning and Judge
Phillips issued an order to commit him 10
the state asylum. He has been there twice
before.
A gentleman now at Brunswick pro-
poses to go to Tampa for the purpose of
establishing an oyster and vegetable can
ming factory. The plan is to issue $4,000
In stock in shares of 500 each. of this
stock the protector VIII take a large block.
The capacity is expected TO be 5000 cans
per day. He Will be in this city shortly TO
prospect
Z. ~ Carpenters grove near Lake
Helen still holds its own. Fifteen hun
dred boxes have been shipped from the
budded part which contains one-thrd
of the number of trees on the five acres.
The fruit was fine and perfectly ripe
Mr. Carpenter shows returns for this
fruit of S1.50 on the tree. He has force Of
men removing the seeding trees and will
reset with the finest budded stock.
At Palatka Thursday evening about
6 O'Clock the cries of d woman calling
for help were heard in the vicinity Of
Hart's packing house. The attention of
employees at Nertree's grain house was
attracted, and they ran to the place to
find a woman named Josie Ortagus wife
OF cigarmaker, under the dock in a half
drowned condition, clinging to the hawser
Of a boat near by The would-be suicide
was limp and completely exhausted, and
had it not been for the timely assistance Of
Gus Frapes, Joe Keys, and Bill Peterson,
COlOred, the three men who responded
to her cries for aid, Mrs. Ortasus would
have drowned. Upon investigating the
matter il was learned that she had writ
ten a note to her husband, stating her
terrible intention, and saying that she
was tired of the life she had been leading,
and that her sickness being d cousump-
| tiVe) had driven her to desperation. She
/ is said to be also demented. She was taken
/ home in a semi-conscious state, and med
| ical assistance procured. She is out of
! danger. Mr. Ortagus saw the note, and
/ paid no attention TO II, as he did not think
/ his wife was in earnest He had shown
! the note to others before she went 10 the
river.
/ Jacksonville Times Union: Supt. b. f.
LiAlpAl VI the W toNtla Z num- WIZ Is cam p
/ ed way down south on Gomez creek cut
in on the line Friday night with his little
/ portable telegraph instrument to announce
| to the boys at the office that he had killed
! a deer The boys fired back this brief
| reply: Bring home the horns" The gem
eral superintendent is inspecting the line
/ connecting with the Nassau cable He is
| accompanied by Mr.. Harveycutter, super
| intendent of construction of the southern
division, John ORourke, chief foreman
| and Lee Dulon. Mr.. Harveycutter and
/ Mr.. O'RouFke supplemented Mr. Dillon S
/ message with another. 1t was to the
1 effect that just before the party had
/ camped Mr.. Dillon and Lee took their
guns, and went out for venisou They
returned with deer in a heated discus
sion as to VINO killed it. Each maintained
that he had fired first the shot that did
the business. The deer was examined,
and FIVE separate bullet wounds were
found, so that honors are easy. The sole
! question TO get at the facts is: who is
the best shot2'
West Palm Beach correspondence of the
/ Jacksonville Citizen: Down on Lake Os-
borne, eight miles from here and two miles
from Lantana, lives a hermit He Is not
of the long-hairCd and bearded kind that
are read Of in chndrens books, and who
1 viii permit no one TO come near them
but a man who keeps his hair trimmed
. / and who knows how to entertain a per-
son when he is visited. The name of this
singular man is Michael MerSel and he
was born in Alsace, France, I'm 1889 He
went TO Chicago when a young man with
his mother and brother. His mother was
an invalid, and he spent six years Of his
life in the same house with her without
/ going outside the dOor5i thus he became
Injured TO a solitary life. When his mother
died he came south and settled in Titus.
vile. From there he came to Lantana
. with Can't Bradley, now sunerintcndeui