The morning news., 1894-01-02

Mrs. T.. H. Keggs of Charleston, ). G., ob5u
at Jacksonville Saturday.
DR.. J. ]. Harris will resume the manage
ment OF the Sanford Journal in few days
Whiddon g. Welch. OF Chipley, have DIS
solved partnership. Mr.. Whiddon Will con-
tinue the business.
Bishop Haygood will preside over the Pa
latka conference OF the NJ. r. church souIh'
which meets tomorrow.
An orange packing house IS being erected
near the freight warehouse OF the savannah
Florida anu Western railway al Orlando
f. NJ Thayer, proprietor of the Chicago
hair and millinery store at Pensacola as
signed Saturday TO L. M. Davis; Ihe ia ia
bilities are about & 900; assets, about S3.1OD.
The first strawberry Of the season was
brought to Tampa on Dec. y by Mr.. Stock
ton. who has a fine place on the bay below
Tampa. He says his vines are full OF berries
that will be ripe soon.
At Key West. Saturday. United States Dis
trict Judge Locke sustained the decision OF
the commissioner in ordering the twenty-tnree
Chinese laborers, recently captured Dy Coi-
lector Brown, to be deported to China.
The survey on Anastasia Island now being
conducted by the war department is progress
ing. An appropriation has been asked OF con-
gress for the building OF a military posi- on
the government reservation on the island
An unusually large number Cf tourists from
Kentucky, Tennessee and the west are at ST.
Augustine. and a prominent hotel keeper says
they all tell him they are running from the
grip which is epidemic all through the north
and west.
The sheriff of Chiffon county, Alabama. re-
turned to Pensacola from Tallahassee
Thursday night with the requisitlon papers
for Alex SHELTON, the negro murderer. Skel-
ton had about recovered from his wounds and
the Alabama sheriff left with him for Chiffon
county.
Kissimmee Leader: Sneak thieves broke
one of the back windows Of outlaws grocery
store Monday night and went in and helped
galV n tobacco and candies.
they wanted. The residences OF Capt. w. IL.
Weatherly, D. c. Lee. and +. p. Tebeau we're
also entered, but we learn that nothing was
missed except at Capt. Weatherly $, where
the thieves got a $40 dress and a pocket-b book
with @ dollar or so in 1t.
S. p. Taylor white man Ga years Of age,
who kept a small store three miles northeast
Of Pensacola committed suicide Friday night
by taking laudanum. Taylor belonged to
formerly wealthy family near Montgomery,
Ala. III Q moved TO Florida thirteen years ago.
His wife died about eight years ago, and since
then he has been living lie OF SecIuSion.
Dependency is supposed to have been the
cause that prompted him to commit the act
At Pensacola Saturday morning several
boys entered wrecking car near the union
depot, and found some four ounce dynamite
bombs such as are used on railroads. They
gave one TO the S-year old daughter of Chief
Clerk G. j. Humphreys OF the city postouice
at his home on Aleoniz street and told her TO-
shoot it, She procured hammer and struck
the bomb. The explosion tore the claws of
the hammer. and also the entire upper part of
the little girls left hand. The hand may have
to be amputated.
Fernandina Mirror: The following phos-
phate vessels cleared from this port Satur-
day: Steamship Transit, 800 tons for Kas-
trup, Denmark; steamship Sledmere, 2,300
tons for Hamburg; steamship Dracona, 1900
tons Geestemunde, Germany. This makes
total OF 10 757 tons for the month Of Decem-
Der, and a grand total OF l26,694 tons for the
year. The following will show the relative
increase In the business during the last four
years: Shipments 1890 9,74S tons; shipments
1891, "a 271 tons; shipments 1892, 1873 062 tons;
shipments 1898, 1884, 694 tons. Total for the four
years, Sl3,775 tons.
1t is proposed to run an hourly service over
the Florida Central and Peninsular railroad
track between Orlando and Winter Park, a
distance OF four miles This line was origl-
nally built between these points as a subur-
ban line. Later on the track was extended
from Winter Park 10 Ovtedo and became a
part of the Florida Central and Peninsular
system. The little dummy engines and open
canopy cars are still In existence, and could
be put into the proposed service. The close
connection between the two points would be
acceptable to citizens Of both places as well
as the guests Of the hotels in both.
The Titusville Star says: "When the noon
train on the East Coast route had arrived
here from the south Thursday it was found
that a white man was on board who had been
| shot by negro at the railroad camp near
| Sewells Point on Tuesday night last. 1he
man was found in the baggage car by Star
| reporter. His name is Crabtree. He had had
| a quarrel that day with negro, the latter
| leaving him but returning later, that night,
| with two negro men and negro woman-one
| armed with a pistol, the other with a rifle
| or shotgun, while the woman was armed
| with butcher knife. One of the negroes
| called Crabtree out OF the tent, when the
| one whom he had quarrreled with earlier in
| the day made for him. Crabtree drew his
| revolver to shoot when his assaiant grabbed
| his arm; then one of the other negroes
were having desperate struggle, and plac
| ing his revolver to Crabtree s back, fired, the
| ball entering near the spinal column about
two inches below the right shoulder blade
| Crabtree was resting quite easy, except wheI
he moved about on his cot, when he ex
| perienced considerable pain. He was on his
| way TO Columbus, Ca, and has good prospect.
for recovery II he is not tolted about toe
badly before he gets there. Jack Davis, for
merly OF this place, accompanies him, and /!
caring for the wounded man in the best man
| ner possible. The negroes implicated in thu
! affair all got away, but theil
names are known. One of then
is named Henry Hodgson." The Colum-
| bus EnQuirer-Sun, or saturday says
Prank Crabtree, formerly of Columbus
arrived from 1ftusville Fla, Friday with
bullet in his left side received from the pis
tol of negro at Titusville Tuesday night
| Mr.. Crabtree, on his arrival, was placed in
hack and carried to the home Of DIR. jackson
in Phenix City. where the bullet was removed
by Drs, jackson and Jameson. The bulle
entered from the rear under the right shOul
der and ranged around to the front Of tn,
left side. The wound is very serious, but no
necessarily fatal"
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