The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-10

as plentiful as ever.
the body OF a man. supposed to be that OF
| Mr.. ChFust or Chruist. of Quincy, with three
! bullet holes in his head, was found BY Robert
/ Barker, coiored. at 100 o'clock Thursday at
| ternoon in swamp at the intersection OF
| Sixth and Alkaline streets. Springfield
/ suburb Of Jacksonville. He was an employe
| OF the Owl Cigar COMPANY, OF quincy. be is
! supposed 10 have committed suicide on &C
| count OF I'll health He leaves wife and
| child.
| Tourist travel this winter is not up to the
| usual average, and unless the business
| picks up greatly this season OF 1893 Will be
! very poor one. and good many OF the hotel
! proprietors will come out losers. The
/ hotels in Jacksonville are considerably be-
! hind in the average number Of arrivals as
I compared with last year though from re-
/ ports received throughout the state they are
/ doing great deal better business than those
/ In the interior
Mrs J. NJ. Berry swore out a warrant late
/ Monday evening against Geo. W. tawls, the
| former 1ailer. charging him with adding
/ prisoner to escape. Sheriff Spencer got the
warrant late, and thinking next morning
! went 10 serve II Tuesday Rawls was missing
/ and Sheriff Spencer finally traced him to the
! Florida Central and Peninsular depot, where
| he found Rawls had gone away on train
! the night before.
| Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Lund were arrested at
| Brooksvtlle Thursday as principal and acces-
/ sorry in the 5000 diamond steal at the Hotel
! Detroit, st. Petersburg. sometime ago. Mrs.
| Lund is highly connected here and offered
bond in any sum demanded for her appear
aHce, but the detective, fearing habeas corpus
1 complications. hurried them on overland to
! Tampa Brooksville is all agog over the
matter, and old social scores, In which the
parties figured, are resurrected.
Napoleon Pinder, young negro Of Key
West, is six feet seven inches high, is q years
of age and weighs 228 pounds. all OF which is
| solid muscle. He is quite pleasant looking
| and gentlemanly darkey, is very erect and
| rather graceful in his movements. His IA
/ IaTupg r pfndPr ig CiV feet tn iuebps
| high, weighs 213 pounds and is 4S years Of
| age, while brother is six feet two inches
/ high and weighs 20S pounds. The mother is
| i've feet four and weighs but $50 pounds.
! A negro named Rockenbecker was arrested
| at Jacksonville Thursday for wife beating.
He was taken TO the jail and locked up in
! cell. Rockenbecker had little yellow dog
| that followed him to the jail and entered the
corridor Jailer Canova tried to drive the
dog out, but the dog. instead OF being driven
| out, turned on the jailer compelling the latter
| to seek refuge in one OF the cells. one Of the
other officers then attempted TO drive the dog
| out but the dog turned on him in like manner
as before. The olfiCer picked up poker and
| hit the dog on the head, killing it instantly.
| A. Rinaldi, a grocerymau, OF Orlando, dis
! appeared from his home Wednesday morning.
| When last seen he was going north on Orange
| avenue, past tho Catholic church, without any
| coat His family did not become uneasy
! about h N till nearly night. as they supposed
! he was busy about his business The officers
and friends OF the family searched the coun-
I lFN north oil Town thoroughly NlbhOuL lnulnk
| any trace Of him. Thursday morning 7. A.
| PinKston, who lives seven miles east Of Or
! lando, reported that Rinaldi took breakfast
| at his house. He had slept in the woods
| Rinaldi told Pinkston that some one in Or
| lando was trying to kill him Pinkston tried
| to take him to a neighborS house, but he
would not go, ana went on through the woods
| Pinkston asked his netghbor, Walter Newton
| to keep in sight OF MIN, but Newton failed
| Several officers and friends Of the family went
! after him. After searching thoroughly they
I IL I'M I'm nh ftun f1ag
| from Oviedo
Henry #. Huau, OF Jacksonville son Of
| Joseph A. Huau, a tooaeconist. was killed in
| jumping from buggy behind u runaway
| horse Thursday afternoon at $50 o'clock
| Mr.. Huau tried to check the animal but was
unable to do so. Evidently becoming con
fused at his inability to stop the horse, he
| jumped out OF the buggy Immediately in
| front OF the st. James annex AS he jumped
he still held on to the reins, which pulled
| him around sideways, and the side Of his head
| came violently in contact with telegraph
pole standing just at the edge OF the road.
| The reins were firmly wound around his
hands and he was dragged some forty feet be-
fore they were loosened. Several people soon
He was lying doubled up on the
| ground and his face was so begrimed with
blood and dust that it was several minutes be-
| fore be was recognized, although several OF his
intimate acquaintances were standing in the
crowd. The top OF his head was crushed in
and he died IN half hour.
! rom klokards, OF Candler, says mat MI
w. N Smith, of Saginaw, Mich, has secured
a 100000 contract from the
Wilson Cypress Lumber Company,
formerly OF Saginaw Mich, but
| now of Palatka, where they have established
mill to get out 200 100, 0O0feet of cypress logs
for which he is to receive $500 per thousand
feet. Smith has constructed steam lighters,
each OF which has 1000 feet wire cable
which drags the fallen monarchs OF the cy-
| press forests within a radius of that distance.
| He has also sublet contracts to a number OF
| parties who win operate with smaller ma
chimes. This is the largest individual
lumber contract ever made in the state OF
| Florida and the lumber to be cut is all
in Marion county. T. M Richards, Of
nav, Mich have been in the Ocklawaha
swamps for the past sixty days. Mel avish is
a lumber expert who has Travelled the world
over in the inspection OF forests for lumber
purposes. The lowest estimates placed upon
the forests inspected along the Ocklawaha,
in Marion county, is 250,0O0 900 feet. The
largest trees seen were along Silver Springs
| run, estimated to cut 1000, Oh feet to the forty
acres, or % 900 feet to the acre. Some of the
forests will run as high 20 200 600 feet to the
forty acres, or so 900 feet to the acre. II has
been computed that nine-tenths OF the 81 OOO,-
90 contract will be paid out for labor in
Marion county. The work has been carried
on so quietly that only those employed and
Interested in the immense transaction knew
aught OF it,
Orlando Correspondence Jacksonville Citi-
zen; The lightning rod men have been play
ing II me IN some parts OF TINS section OF
late. and number of Ieople have been vic
timized. Their plan OF work is simple and
yet II is effective. No. goes out through the
country, selects his victims and arranges to
put up lightning rod, He is philanthropic
individual, In this particular case he does
not care TO make any money. lie is intro
ducing his business, and he wants to adver-
tlse by putting up neat rod where all can
see 1t. He makes rough estimate OF the
number Of feet OF rod that will be required on
the house OF his victim, and then generously
offers 20 throw in twothlrds or three fourths
OF the number of feet that he thinks will
be required A contract is finally entered
into between the parties, the agent agreeing
to throw in say nifty feet, for which no charge
Will lie made the victim agreeing to pay an
enormous price per foot for all that may be
required in excess of the fifty feet, leach
point and brace used to count as twenty feet
OF rod" The lightning rod man po;k-
cts the contract and goes on, saying that the
company Will he along in a few days and put
up the rod. The victim is happy, feeling that
he has made sharp trade and has teen
favored above his neighbors. Finally comes
the worSmen who put up the rod including
the points and braces, and when the work is
finished the bill amounts to perhaps SlO0 or
more after deducting the fifty feet thrown in.
The result in most cases is a row. which
finally is compromised by the victim paving
all the money he has in the house and giving
lie W7Nfa FrNaN ha1n