The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-12-02

Orlando STANDS a Cnance or having an
electrict light plant established there by
the General Electric Light Company OF
New York
Twelve thousand dollars were paid out
10 jurors and witnesses in Pensacola last
week at the adjournment Of the United
States court.
Rev J. r. Farrow Of Inverness sold his
orange crop 20 J. r. Mccullough. Mr.
Farrow has cleared 81. 100 net profit on his
crop for this year.
In a record Of 100 pages legal cap paper
typewriter by Miss +. Y. AskeW, sent up
10 the supreme court from Tampa. it is
said there has not been an erasure or
omission made in the transcribing.
In the circuit court at Cedar Key the
case OF J. W. Mooney VS.. the Florida Cen
trail and Peninsular railroad. for damages
for the loss Of a leg, a verdict was given
in favor Of plaintiff in the sum Of 5000
The case viii no doubt be appealed
The following ticket has been elected at
Punta Gorda. Mayor. W. b. Hardee;
councilmen. b. Hinckley. J. o. Swisher.
J. Cushing. r. B. McHargue; clerk and
assessor 7. r. Hector; Collector, II.
L. Curry; treasurer. J. r. Elliott; mar
shall. T. j. Johnson.
William H Smcox died at Bostwick on
Wednesday evening from blow struck
by Harry Brooks, cOlOred. SilcoN had
been drinking for several days, in com
pany with Brooks a quarrel arose. and
Brooks struck Silcox with a jug, crushing
his skull. from the effects Of which Silcox
died Wednesday evening.
At Lake City a day or two ago William
g Adams. who has already been thrice
tried and thrice found guilty Of murder
in the first degree. but the judgments
against whom have been, In each instance,
reversed By the state supreme court on
writs of error, was. upon motion of Col
B. b. Blackwell of his counsel, granted a
change Of venue to Hamilton county,
where the case will again come up for trial
at the January term.
A broken rail three miles south Of Bron-
son, caused a serious wreck Of the passen-
ger train Thursday afternoon. Two pas
senger coaches and three express cars
were ditched. A large number of passen-
gers were on board, but no one was in
jured except Mail Agent w. r. White,
who sustained painful but not serious,
injuries to his lower limbs. The train was
delayed three hours and finally came in
with the engine and baggage car only.
T. A. Snider, the well-known ketchup
manufacturer of Cincinnati, o., was eat
ing oysters Tuesday evening at Titusville.
on board the palatial house boat Buckeye,
which was anchored in front of the In
dian River hotel out in the river, at the
time, when large and sharp piece Of
oyster shell lodged in his throat giving
him excruciating pain. He Immediately
started for DR.. b. r. Wilson's office, where
the shell was successfully dislodged by the
doctor and coughed up by the sufferer.
The shell was nearly an inch long and
about three-quarters of an inch wide.
Samuel johnson, the negro arrested for
rape Tuesday at Port Tampa, has been
committed to Jail in default Of $1,000 bond.
He was given a preliminary hearing Fri
day morning before Judge Harrison. His
victim was Annie Walker. a little s-year
old negro girl living at Port Tampa, was
placed on the stand, and her story settled
the question of JohnsoG's guilt in the
minds of all present. II. A. Peoples. who
appeared as Johnson's attorney, was also
so well satisfied of the prisoners guilt
that he has declined to defend him
before the circuit court which meets next
month johnson was placed in Jail.
John Mccullough, a middle-aged colored
man, who lives near Adams dairy, about
three miles from Jacksonville, was
brought into town In a wagon Friday and
taken to Justice Jackson's office TO make
complaint against man for shooting and
beating him. Mccullough was covered
with blood, and was so weak that he could
hardly talk. He had gun shot wound in
his head, over his left eye. and was badly
bruised from a severe clubbing he had re-
ceived From his statement, which was
disconnected and told with great difficulty,
il appears that another man, whose name
he could not give so that it could be I'M
derstood, had been paying attentions to
his wife. Mccullough had ordered him to
stay away from his place. but the man
persisted in returning. Friday. very early,
Mccullough went out on his little farm,
and on returning to the house saw the
man standing inside with a rife in his
hand. AS Mccullough advanced towards
the house the man raised the rifle and
fired. The ball struck Mccullough in the
head and he fell to the ground. The man
ran toward him with a heavy stick in his
hand, and began beating him unmerci-
fully. He was dubbed over the head, back
and arms until unconscious. When he
came to himself the man had disappeared
Tampa Times: Early THANKSGIVING
morning two young men working on tbs
new railroad bridge discovered a body
/ floating against the piling. They put il
into a boat and rowed down to l. S. Gid
dens & Co.'S wharf, where it was taker
ashore and identified as the body of Bar
ney Cole. a workman who has been EN-
ployed recently by the water works com
pany and by the Tampa Lumber Company
| in their logging camp. The body had evil
/ IDENTIFY been in the water sometime, prob
ably forty-eight hours, and the mouth
| was either cut or eaten by something il
the right corner. There was a wound o.
some kind in the neck, just under tn,
1 right jaw, the nature of which was no
! known. 1t might have been made, som;
1 thought, by a knife, a bullet or a sharI
/ stick on which the body fell. No othe
wounds were noticeable and the officers
! did not seem to think these sufficient I,
order an inquest. Barney Cole was dis
sipated man and when last SEEN so ia
as can be learned, he was intoxicated anl
in company with a negro Tuesday even
ing. He was of dissipated habits and sew
| eral people remember seeing him drunk OF
/ Tuesday. He had some difficulty with
/ workman at the water works Sunday 70
which he declared he would have satisfac
ton. He was in the habit of going on tn
/ railroad bridge to talk to the keeper, an,
he may have attempted to do so Tuesda,
evening, when he fell into the river O
| was knocked into it by a passing engine
10000 GOLD FISH A YEAR.