The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-25

Jacksonville wants United States mill
tary barracks
Carabelle people are working for a
dirt road between that place and Quincy,
touching at Bristol.
W. Il. Brobham a truck grower living
near here, has captured Gus Strordy, an
escaped convict, for whose capture a re-
ward of $50 was offered.
At Morriston, Friday, Peter Jackson
sentenced to fifteen years for highway
robbery, was shot and killed by a con-
Wet guard while attempting to escape.
The Quincy New Era has heard posi-
lively that a new firm will come to Gads-
den to help develop the Fulers earth
industry in the near future. The gold
dust of Gadsden county is attracting
wide-range attention.
A heavy thunderstorm, followed by a 2ls
inch rainfall. visited Orange Lake We'd
nesday afternoon. During the heaviest
part of the storm lightning struck house
occupied by a colored family. tearing up
bed upon which two children were Sleep
ing. but did not hurt them.
Quincy New Era: A panther is report
ed to have been seen in West Gadsden
near the junction of Big Talogee and
Hurricane creeks. Parties were out last
Saturday hunting the animal and as
the dogs were heard in fun cry by differ
ent parties coming to town, 1t was
thought the panther had been started.
James X. Marvin, one of the parties
implicated in the Lewis affair and under
bond for same, accidentally shot him
self through one of his thighs at West
Palm Beach FridaYnight about O'clock,
while handling a pistol. He managed to
keep II secret until late this afternoon,
and Sun refuses to see a doctor. The
wound is said to be dangerous.
Gen l. w. Avery, general foreign COM
missioner of the Cotton States and Inter
national Exposition, is in st. Augustine
Gen. Avery's visit is for the purpose of
strengthening out some land matters,
which have been unsolved since the war
The general is the son of the senior MEM
Der of the firm of Avery & Perpall, which
did business in this city forty or fifty
years ago, and the property he Is now
looking for belonged to his father.
Sheriff T. F. Chapman of Sumter coun-
ty came to Clearwater harbor Friday and
going to the tie camp of L. b. Cooper,
near Dunedin, arrested a negro charged
with manslaughter. The offense occurred
some eighteen months ago, near Sumter
vile. At the time 1t was supposed to be
the result of an accident, but an investi-
CATION leads to the belief that there was
more than an accident. The sheriff took
his prisoner on the train this morning.
Hop Lee, a prosperous Chinese mer-
chant of Pensacola, left Friday for a
visit of several months to his parents,
who live in the neighborhood of Canton,
China. Hop left China when a boy, and
he is contemplating with pleasure his
first visit to his old parents. He is a very
courteous and shrewd business man, and
has prospered here to an extent that win
enable him to do much for the old folks
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another Chinaman who has prospered here
and who went over TO China last year
and returned only a few days ago.
There is considerable excitement at Ar
cadia over the attempted murder sof
Charles Law. negro, who sometimes
passes as Charles t&tger. The negro was
paid off OF Hull phosphate works ana
came to Arcadia Tuesday. Some of the
other negroes got TO playing with him
and he lost his pocketbook. He claimed
some of them stole 1t. and had them ar
rested, but they We're tried the next day
and acquitted. Friday night some ne
grOes took Law out down by the river
and beat him into almost a Jelly and,
thinking they had killed him, got some
iron and tied II about him and threw
him into the river He managed to get
out and had about ten arrested and jailed.
Capt. John Masters OF the st. Agus
tine and South Beach Railway COMPANY
Friday afternoon captured one of the larg-
est rattlesnakes seen near St. Augustine
IN years. The capture was made as the
was seen on the railroad track a short
distance ahead OF the engine. The sight
being an uncommon one, the train was
stopped 50 that the passengers could soc
him, a piece OF wire was placed over the
reptiles head ana he was securely fast
ened In the coach. He was a little over
seven feet In length and ten inches IN
circumference. and had long string Of
rattles, some OF which were broken off
when he was caught Capt Masters hae
the snake az his home M Anastasia. IA
lana, ana is looking for a purchaser.
Wash Hines. a renter on Mai DiaFs
hiekory Hili plantation, one mile east III
hfeenfllies was murdered Friday 1uef
al noon, ~ Isaiah Larkin. who was ao-
setapaniea bg his father ana brother. The
bat one stab Was made. but fh6f Wa
tAtAc4eht 10 produce death ln eighteen