The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-05-05
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
The citizens Of Palatka are working "a
| secure a direct freight line to New York.
! One hundred and fifty packages Of cucum-
/ bers were shipped by express from Games
/ vile Wednesday.
NJ. s. Cheves. Of Waldo, has purchased the
/ old Tucker place, in East Gainesville, and
/ Will remove there.
! q. A. Mosely's dwelling and storehouse at
| Eagle Lake, were burned on Saturday even
| ing. Very few of the household goods were
| saved The cause of the fire is unknown. In
surance $1,000
| p. Morgan, farmer residing a few
| miles sOut beast Of Gainesville, met with q
| painful accident Wednesday. He was riding
! his horse at a gallon. and the animal fell and
| rolled upon him. His left shoulder Joint was
/ dlslocated.
| Albion. a phosphate town about eighteen
| miles west of Gainesville. is experiencing n
! boom. Three new phosphate plants are to be
| erected in the course OF few weeks, one for
| +. b. Batly and two for the Portland Phos-
| plate Company.
new postoflice has heen established at
| West Palm Beach, Dade county, three-quar-
| ters OF a mile east Of Palm Beach, with John
9. showers. postmaster. The postonice at St.
| Teresa, Franklin county. has been discon-
! tinued. Mail goes to st. Marks,
When J. w Campbell, OF Argyle turned
out his COWS Monday morning he noticed that
one OF them was acting strangely, hooking al
the others and showing signs of madness.
She was. with considerable difficulty, driven
back into the pen. and became so furious by
! mid day that she had to be killed. There
were strong symptoms Of hydrophObia.
The farmers Of Tacoma at their meeting
recently. offered considerable announcement
to the Gainesville, Rocky Point and Mican-
opy Railroad Company. The encouragement
| received assures the building Of the road
around Ala hua lake, so as to take in that
valuable farming section. The road win cross
the lake, however, at the western part known
as Orange bend.
A motion for a new trial was overruled at
Jacksonville Thursday in the case OF the
Chatham National Bank versus the Jackson
vile, Tampa and Key West railroad A
paper was filed by the plaintiff RENTING
| $1,000 from the verdict OF Ss62Sl II that had
been rendered in It's favor this amount beng
an error in ascertaining the amount OF dam
ages due by the defendant.
Il. L. Kimbrough. ofPanaso1kee shot win
Epkins, colored, thursday night, the ball
taking effect In the head Kimbrough was on
one OF his periodic al sprees and has been
shooting around generally, and almost with
out prOVocation he shot the negro the ball
taking effect near the left ear. Drs Meadins
and Newsome are doing all they can for the
wounded man, but he is not expected to live
Ktmbrough is under arrest.
The cadets Of the East Florida seminary, at
Gainesville, presented a petition to the
faculty Wednesday. asking that the time Of
drill be changed from every afternoon to
three times a week, owing to the warm
weather. The final examination OF the
RfaQuhllng class OF In1I institution VIII be
held next week, and the week following the
lower classes will be examined The school
will close with elaborate commencement ex-
| erciSes May %.
The democratic executive committee OF
| Nassau met at Callahan Thursday to hear the
| report OF the committee appointed at the
meeting OF March 26, to draft plans for hold
| ing and conducting primary elections. The
| committee presented their report, which was
| not accepted, but vote was taken for a re-
! consideration of the same, and resulted in
! the adoption of the convention plan The
| primary MEETINGS were ordered to be held on
| July II, and the convention to be held on
! Aug. 8.
| DR.. Barkan, a German capitalist OF New
| York, was at Gainesville Wednesday with the
object in view OF investigating the opportu-
mites afforded by Gaines vile In the way of
| stimulating settlement and investment by
! immigrants from Germany Col. l.. A.
| Barnes interested himself in the matter, and
! an informal meeting OF representative citi-
| zens was held at the banking house Of Messrs.
| II. r. Dutton q Co. DR.. Barllan explained
| the object OF his visit and highly compli-
mented Gainesville, which he said had made
! a most favorable impression upon his mind.
| The United States grand Jury came into
| court at Jacksonville Thursday morning with
another large batch or indictments. Two OF
these were against Nat Poyntz and Ollie
| PoyntZ, and were Of the same general char
| acter as the others, making specific charges
| OF errors in the books for the alleged purpose
| of defraudlng the bank. Twenty indictments
] nave DHtl DIOuSEt IN against the MeSSrS.
| Poyntz so far. Nat Poyntz was formerly
arraigned In court under the indictments
! Thursday morning ana entered a plea OF not
| guilty to all OF them. tie was represented
| by his attorney Col w. r. Ammo, of Orlando.
| A horrible accident occurred at Pensacola
| Thursday on the British steamship Governor
! in the bay. gang OF stevedores were on
| board slowing cargo Of sawn timber. The
| large sticks OF heavy pine were lifted from
| the water by a derrick and lowered into the
| hold. An unusually large piece had been
| lifted. and Just as It began TO descend through
| the hatch the dogs slipped or tore out and
| the timber went crashing down into the hold,
where several steyedores we're at work. The
! men on deck cried out as they saw that the
! beam was falling, and those below started &c
| run. One of them, Lewis Solen, a member OF
! Stevedores' Benevolent Association, No. /
| ran directly In the way of the falling stick
which struck him on the back, mutilatine
! him in horrible manner and killing him in
| stantly. The man was a Swede, about 81
| years Of age.
Pensacola News: Some time Tuesday night
thief or perhaps more than one, entered the
| ONCE OF Ross, Howe & Morrow shipping
agents, IN the opera house building, on the
| Jefferson street front. Entrance was made
! by raising a window in the rear They opened
one of the safes IN the Office and forci0ly
tore out and carried away the steel money
| drawer, containing between $50 and $40 II
| cash and a number of valuable papers the
latter especially being great loss
| TO the nrm. There is no evidence
that the safe was tempered with and the
| thief either found it unlocked or knew thJ
| combination. A typewriter and some other
| things in the office were Ia en-, but when the
thief reached the back gate he dropped then
and made on with the money drawer. The
| ium Der ONCE OF Hagerman * Ounwody in the
frame building adjoining, was also entered
| probably by the same thief. Private drawer,
| were broken and papers scattered about pro
| miscuously, but the only things missed from
| the office this morning were a lot of pens auC
! a towel. The safe in this office was locked
and shows no evidence Of an attempt having
| been made to open it.
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