The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-04-12
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! The Bell Telephone Company had re-
I duced its rates 10 subscribers in Jackson
/ vile about = per cent
! T. T. Higley. proprietor Of the Eustis
/ house al Eustls, died suddenly at o clock
l Wednesday, Of angina peetoris.
Charles Corbett OF Jacksonville has
I started for Red Oak. Ia, on a bicycle
1 lie expects % make the whole trip on his
l wheel
/ Dr. J. Massey Jones and L. Graham
/ Thompson Of Dayton have formed a CO.
l partnership and purchased the drug stock
I OF T. A. Johnson.
I DR.. Rawls OF Santa Rosa county 81 pre-
/ pairing a novel exhibit for the Atlanta eX-
position. u is a house built Of over ninety
! different woods grown In that county,
which viii be shown both in their natural
I condition and polished
DIR. G. O. Myers has sold his 20-acre or
y agne grove just east Of Orlando 10 J. =.
/ Staley. who came from Indiana last fall
4 consldcIatlon, $1,000 He has purchasea
/ the BelmonicO house I'm town, and Will
I soon become "a resident Of Orlando proper.
The city council met and organized at
ialatka Tuesday night and elected all
/ of the city officials for the ensuing year.
Most of the old officers were retained,
! NJ j. Truman being reelected as chief
/ OF police. George Weller was elected
There is a petition being circulated on
the streets al Orlando asking the senator
and representatives from that district 20
use their influence against the passage OF
any special legislation under which Or
ange county might be bonded for internal
| Improvements.
The following ticket has been nominated
at Barlow. For mayor, +. G. Stuart; for
clerk and treasurer. D. W. Stanley for
marshal, &. y. Jones; for tax assessor,
q. l.. Walker; for tax collector, H. l..
Davis. for coumcilmen. ID. =. Freemen.
J. +. Glover. II. T. Dial. John Virgins.
The town election took place at Lake
City Wednesday and resulted as follows:
Mayor, DIR. J.. +. Frink marshal, ]. W.
Robinson; clerk and treasurer, W. NJ.
Ives; collector, Samuel Fackler; assessor,
j. Il Gee; aldermen, Fred II. Young. j.
%. Evans, =. a. Hlckson and j. c. Bates.
The Tropical sun Of West Palm Beach
says that while the men employed by
Capt. +. n. Dimici1 on Wednesday of this
week were eXcavatinR in the lake near
Brelsfords Point for the mari with which
ne IS paving his avenue from his house
to the beech, the lower portion Of the skull
Of human being was found.
During the morning session OF the cir
cult court at Fernand!na Wednesday
Deputy Sheriff Peoples was instructed 10
carry several prisoners to Jail. He went to
the sherif's desk to get his pistol. when
he let u fan TO the floor and II was dis
charged. Judge Thomas A. Hall, who was
standing nearby had a narrow escape,
the ball passing between his legs and lodg
ing in the wainscoting.
United States Marshal Mckay received
a telegram Wednesday from Il. +. Dick
inson. sheriff OF Madison county, stating
that +. Carr Gregory had died there We'd
nesday OF apOpleXy. Gregory was con-
victed at the last term of the United States
court at Jacksonyille OF embezzlng post
Office funds. and was sentenced to ten
months imprisonment In the Marion coun-
~ jail, where he was confined at the time
OF his death.
An attachment was served by Sheriff
spencer Tuesday evening on the stock Of
Karell & Herrera. small manufacturers
OF cigars at Port Tampa. IL was In favor
of T. kaunitz for claim of S237.ST. An
other attachment was served Wednesday
on the stock of S. A. Waldrop, which was
boxed and at the HenOf of the Savannah
Florida and Western road for shipment.
This was In favor of j. Epstein Bro.
for the sum of S270.75.
John II. Daniels. who was sentenced
TO two years Imprisonment at Tampa on
circumstantial evidence and afterward
found innocent, through the confession OF
the real culprit, has received word that
the bill awarding him $4,000 for false I'm.
prisonment and the sickness contracted
while IN the convict camp Of Gen. Bailey
at Albion, had passed one branch of the
legislature, and he viii probably leave
for Tallahassee in few days.
Alfred Putnam who at one time was the
owner of the Putnam house of De Land,
who built the house, In fact is spending
a few days at DeLand with his nephew,
$. p. Hays. For several years Mr.. Put
nam has been IN Utica, n. Y. perfecting
car step. This invention has been pat
ented. and he IS now introducing IT, He
hopes to induce the Pullman company to
take hold Of the Improvement His inven-
ton does away with the mounting stool.
as the step drops in place when the car
stops, and folds IN again when Il starts.
Wednesday morning warrants were
served before County Judge w. w. Nc
Grif by Ella Lord, keeper of a boarding
house at Tallahassee, for two young men
on the charge of abducting her l4-year-old
niece, who lives with her Soon after the
warrants were placed in Sheriff Pearce's
hands he found the trio in a piece Of
woods near the city and made the arrests.
They were given preliminary hearing
before the county judge aud each bound
over in the sum of 800 for their appear
ance at the circuit court. One of the young
men Is a bartender and the other n general
hard character of no particular calling
At PaIatka Wednesday BENJAMIN F.
Calhoun concluded the arguments for the
defense in the 5000 damage suit brought
against eX-Sherim James II. Shelley. for
wrongful imprisonment and detention by
kinsley from Morristown, Ind. The jury
brought in a verdict of not guilty. An
attorney from Indiana and Mai Fowler
Of this city appeared for the plaintiff AMI
Hon. Benjamin p. Calhoun and c. w. M.
Williams of Palatka defended the sher-
iff The case was quite an important one
TO the sheriffs of this state and 1t clearly
shows that a Florida jury viii not give
damages against an officer who makes a
mistake in the arrest of an individual on
the advance of telegram and on
suspicion in the discharge OF his duty.
Information has been received at Grove
| City of a daring robbery perpetrated about
four miles away, on the night of April
5. Two men. Anderson and Hoy by name,
occupying islands in Gasparilla bay, were
aroused from sleep about ! o'clock Fri
day night, and found two men standing
over them with guns. The robbers were
masked. The robbers forced the men, by
threatening to kill them, to deliver all
| their cash, amounting to $3.50. This
makes the fourth hold-up in that section
within the last month. and the descrip-
| ton given of the robbers by each victim
/ has been the same. Anderson and Hoy.
| the men who were robbed applied to
Judge Goff Wednesday for warrants,
| charging w H. Whidden and Marion
/ Whidden with committing the crime.
| AtInntn's WOman's Building.
Atlanta. Ga. April 11.-This morning at
| 10 o'clock ground was broken for the
| women's building of the exposition. Mrs
| Joseph Thompson, president of the wo-
~. hna-l liELal The first shn,.al f,,lI -