The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-07

W. B. Singleton died at his residence
near Longwood Tuesday.
A Sumter county school teacher. think
ing Thursday, Nov. %, instead of NOV
%, Thanksgiving day, dismissed his school
and told the scholars to observe Thanks
giving.
Carroll Hale. the general agent at Bald
win for the Florida Central and Peninsu-
lar railroad, accidently shot himself in the
right arm while in the act Of taking a
loaded revolver from his hip pocket We'd
nesday.
A partnership has been formed bv
Thomas NJ. Shackleford, lately of the firm
of Shackleford & Simonton, and N. d. X.
Pettingill formerly of the firm of Mac
farlane & Pettingill for the general prac-
tice of law at Tampa.
The coronor's inquest on the body Of
Mack Mitchell, the negro brakeman who
was accidently killed at Palatka Tuesday
night, resulted in the following verdict.
I'VE the jury find that the said Mack
Mitchell came to his death by his own
carelessness.'
At Canaveral c. B. Cory put up at a
small hotel having a very large sum of
money with him. Shortly after his de-
parture his pocket book was found on the
bed. A messenger overlook him and de-
hVered 1t, whereupon Cory gave him a
SlOO-bill as reward for his honesty.
In the circuit court at Tampa Wednes-
day John King, colored, indicted for muir
der. was arraigned and his trial set for
next Monday. King was indicted by the
last grand jury, but his trial has been de-
layed until now. The murder that he is
charged with having committed was of
the most eold-blooded character.
Late Monday night as trolley car
was rounding curve in West Tampa,
near the bridge, it jumped the rails, and
knocked down one of the poles support-
ing the trolley wire. The conductor. !.
A. Williams, was thrown from the car by
the force of the shock, and two of his
ribs were broken; the moterman was un-
injured.
Frank Cunningham of Dunnellon, who
was arrested and taken to Key West
charged with embezzlement, has re-
turned. 1t was proven that Mr. Cun-
ningham had paid the amounts charged
against him to an official of the city. who
failed to credit Mr.. Cunningham. He
win soon start up his paper, the Dun
mellon Times.
Mrs. Poyntz, wife of Nat Poyntz at Or
lando, died at the family residence there
Tuesday night. She has been in i'll health
for some time, and for the past ten DAVIS
has been confined to the house. Mrs.
Poyntz leaves, beside her husband three
daughters, one grown, another Just bud
ding into womanhood and a third child
about a years of age.
The New Smyrna Breeze tells A good
story wherein a drummer, feeling sorry
for an old man who was digging up I'D
dlers for fish bait, offered him a dollar
which was indignantly refused by the dig
ger, saying he had $4,000 of them himself
and while the drummer that night mr.
chased scent cigars the old man mr.
chased 25-centers at the same hotel.
Collector King reports that since Ocala
has been made port of entry (about
3 weeks) he has collected about 100 Gus
toms on tobacco. The tobacco is brought
from Havana to Tampa by the PLANT
steamship Company, and from there shin
ped to Ocala in locked and bonded cars
TO be taken out as needed bv the mann
facturers, who pay the duty as they take
it out
The election at Pensacola Tuesday to
determine If the city government shah
authority to issue funding certificates to
the extent of 100000, to retire o-tstanding
obligations, was almost devoid of interest
The voting was confined to real estate
taxpayers, and out of nearly 500 qualified
voters, only 1856 cast their ballots The
majority in favor of issuing certificates
was twenty.
Foreman McDermaid, who has charge
OF the track work for the Jacksonville
iiiPeiiy' zen from the tank Just
south OF the new union station at lack
sonville Wednesday. Both arms were
broken just above the wrists and his
thigh is dislocated. Mr.. McDermaid had
gone upon the top of the tank. which is
about thirty feet high for the purpose of
unloosening a chain.
large general merchandise store
owned and kept by a white man by the
name of Curtis, at Yemassee, a colored
village southwest of DeLand. was burned