The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-11-03

/ property. It was mostly culls, and ONLY
about 1000 feet of it was suitable for build
ing purposes.
A final decree Of divorce was granted b.
| Judge Call of the circuit court at Jack
| sonville Friday in the case of Henry Mors,
vs.. Hattie Morse. The allegation In tho
bill is cruel treatment. The Omplainau1
alleges that his wife began TO abuse him
within five days after marriage, calling
him vulgar and blasphemous names, and
that when her angry passions became
aroused she would break dishes, chairs
and everything that she could lay her
hands upon, and that she would then beat
him with a broom or anything that came
within her reach.
The police are still on the trail Of the
band Of negro thieves who attempted 70
/ assassinate Samuel Brown at his resi-
dence in the suburbs of Pensacola Tues
day night. The officers found the trunk
1 that was taken from the house secreted
! in the woods near the residence. 1t
/ had been broken open and the contents
/ taken. Later the police found a garment
| at the residence of d negro named Ed
! Dorsey who was but lately released
! from prison for stealing. The garment
was identified by Mrs. Brown as one that
/ had been in the stolen Arunk. Ed DOrsey
/ and four other negroes are now under ar
| rest for the crime. and the officers eX-
! pect to capture two or three more ne
I SEOGS VINO are suspected.
| T. NJ. Tyler and c. H. Deweu, who are
| ethnologists as well as hotel keepers.
! have discovered a mound eight miles
! south of Fort Pierce. They started out
| Thursday morning on a voyage of dis
! coVery. Arriving at the mound, they first
| took it's dimensions It was found to be
| forty or fifty feet high and sixty feet
! through They dug down few feet and
| found IL to consist of shell. Not FAR
! from the top they struck several human
bones. They were in a, good state OF
| preservation. The jaws of one skull
were examined and the upper and lower
teetch indicated extreme old age. They
are sure that the mound contains ancient
relies in the shape Of human bones and
! such trinkets and articles as were usually
inferred WITH the dead in prehistoric
times, when the wild Indian tribes were
monarchs of all that they surveyed over
North America
L. A. williams of the soledad estate
of Cienfuegos, Cuba, is al the Carleton
hotel at Jacksonville. Mr.. Williams stated
that the sugar crop for the present sea-
son, though probably as large as, if not
| larger than, any preceding season, will
command lower prices. The Soledad
estate was acquired after the instruction
in the '70s by the firm of z. Atkins d
Co. of Boston. The plantation is pro-
vided with all the latest improvements
apparatus, evaporating triple effect vac
uum pans. and burning the refuse Of the
cane with as small a qauntity Of outside
fuel as possible. The plantation en-
ploys 500 men; Spaniards, a few Cinnamon
| and negroes are employed. When Messrs.
Atkins & Co. purchased the estate the
production was about 1000 hOgsheads
per year. but now it is capable of produc-
ing 1900 hogshead annually
u,T
ter Smith of Lake Worth arrived at Jack
sonville Friday laden with sails, rigging,
anchors and other strippings of the
wrecked brig Georgia. The latter vessel
went ashore off Htllsboro Inlet on the
morning of Wednesday, Oct. 25, at 4
! o'clock. 1t was during the last gale that
| visited that coast. 1t blew the vessel al
most high and dry on the sandy beach.
| AT ebb tide and low water the hull was
| entirely dry. AS there was no prospect
| of getting her off, her master, Capt. Lee
/ Blaum of Windsor, n. s., chartered the
| schooner Francis, and stripping the
| Georgia, brought the material to Jackson
! vile. TWO of the seamen of the Georgia
came up on the Francis. The hull was
sold at auction as she lay for $40. There
was some questions at the custom house
at first over the free entry of this wreck
age. Capt. Eells, Lloyd's agent came to
| the rescue of the British captain, and they
/ il}ldlly IOuuN the Jaw llltL dAlIOl lIGu SltLl
| action on the part of the collector.
| Jacksonville Citizen: Il guess am in
a bad fix" exclaimed Or. J. w. Deaver
| of Verona to DR.. Gunner Tuesday after
noon. The doctor had just come from
| examining a woman whom DIR. DeaYer
! had knocked down and beaten. Dr.
! Deaver asked DR.. Gunner how she was,
and on being informed that she was in "a
| serious condition uttered the above words
I
| neighbor a widow named HolgerSon. She
/ lives on the old Chase place at Verona
| a small station on the Jacksonville, May
! port and Pablo railroad and keeps house
| for Zeph Harrison, a civil engineer of
this city. She wanted some hay re
! Gently, and DR. Deaver agreed to supply
! it, He delivered one load, but as it was
not satisfactory Mrs. Holgerson refused
| to take any more. DIR. Beaver appeared
on the ground Tuesday morning, so MIR.
! Harrison states, with another load. Mrs.
Holgerson appeared and refused TO let
| him unload it, The doctor persisted and
| they quarreled The doctor said after
ward that Mrs. Holgerson threw sand in
his face, called him names and finally
/ struck him with fishing pole. The doc
| tor admitted that this made him angry,
and forgetting himself, he knocked the
woman down. and, II Is said, kicked
her and otherwise maltreated her. The
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sent for, and he reported that the wo-
mans injuries were quite serious. AS
/ the doctor was going home after seeing
! his patient Tuesday afternoon he met
DR.. Beaver, who was riding a horse. He
asked how the woman was, and on being
| told that she was seriously injured, stud
led over the matter a moment with a
| serious face, and then remarking IS
| guess I'm in a bad scrape," rode away.
| DR.. Gunner reported the case to William
! Cooke, justice of the peace at that place.
A warrant was at once sworn out for
| beavers arrest, but he could not be
found. He was traced to this city. and it
is said that he took the morning train
/ Wednesday for Chicago. DR. Beaver is
well connected, and has a pretty place at
Verona His family consists of a wife
| and two sons. lie has always stood high
in the estimation OF his noighbors there,
and this story has created sympathy for
his family. Mrs. Holgerson is "A worthy
1 widow.