The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-16

the Smith boys.
Thomas Gray was arrested al Ocala Fri
day and placed IN jail on the charge Of
murder and arson, committed in Coberg
ontario. more than three years ago.
Warrants were also issued for his wife as
accessory She was not arrested, owing
10 the fact OF having six little childreR
whom the authorities had no means Of
caring for Gray has been farming near
Ocala for about three years. lie asserts his
innocence, but says that NJ knew he was
suspected Of the crime. but supposed that
" was all settled before his departure from
Canada
During the month Of May. 1895. it is
estimated that there were Sls,3S.Sl worth
OF revenue stamps for cigars sold at
Tampa. May of 1895 according TO the
same estimates, has "A record Of 50, 81 -
stamps sold During the month Of May
there We're 1921 bales Of tobacco imported.
yot Withdrawn from the warehouse for
use IA the factories. and there were lfl3
cases Of cigars shipped 10 various points
By the different factories The OUTPUT
OF cigars by the four largest factories
here during The month of May was about
as follows: Seideuherg q Co.. 10000;
1bor * Manrara, l,l5s0o0; Julius Elhnger
y Co, S1!.1ao, and O'HalloTan a. Co. u.s.
W., or total or 4,929, 5tD cigars Tor the
month out Of only four of the lou la
ID. r. Canry. a former popular conduc-
tor on the Louisville ana Nashville rail
roau. has for "a year past been running a.
conductor on one of the railways in Mexi-
co; He Is past chancellor of Pensacola
lodge, No. s, Knights OF Pythias. and still
retains his membership. In a letter TO the
Keeper Of records and seal Of his lodge
mcioslnS y Tor dues, which was received
FRIDAY, he states that ne likes Mexico
but wages are no higher than IN Florida,
ana they are paid entirely IN Mexican
SILVER currency, which makes il very hard
for laboring man on account of the de-
preciated value Of silver. AS an illustra-
zion of this, he wrote that he was COMPEL
cd TO pay $3.50 In silver for the S. green
" Pensacola
lodge dues.
Chief Baker and the detail OF men from
The IRE department al Pensacola that
went to Milligan Thursday returned on
special train Friday. The entire plant Of
the Milligan Lumber Company, including
saw mills planning mill, ana 100000 feet
Of lumber. was totally destroyed. The
owners estimate their loss to be at least
$4,000 upon which they had no insurance.
They have ANNOUNCED their intention OF
rebuilding al once The fire originated Ia
"A pile of shaVings in the engine room of
the planning mill during the dinner hour.
The depot and railroad tracks and other
property were saved only by the heroic
oXertions of the firemen. The heat of the
fire was intense, and Foreman r. III.
Whitehead Of Gormania Hose Company
had one of his ears badly burned.
The efforts OF Mayor Thomas Of Gaines
vile to secure the ordinance relating to
the empOunding of cattle running al large
on the streets, is still the all-absorbing
topic. and is causing more or less trouble.
Inc letllnE existing between lnOSe OPP
posed TO the law and those who favor II
Is very bitter. and 1t is feared that serious
trouble viii result before the matter ~
settled. Friday a warrant was sworn out
by Robert Rams against Guy Fordham.
the night Waterman al the pound, charg-
ing him with carrying concealed weapons,
and he was placed under arrest. Later
city warrants were taken out against
Robert Rains, Charles Pinkuson and Jesse
Goss, charging them with violating the
city ordinance by trying to break opeA
he HNaarr rfs5U 10 tvRaI
The aldermen Of St. Augustine are be-
ginning TO make up their slate of city
officers to be elected next Wednesday
evening Peter $. Arnau will succeed lam
self as city clerk. The other officers who
viii most likely be reappointed are L. A.
Colee, treasurer; Eugene Masters, as
SCISSOR and r. NJ. Lopez, collector There
VIII probably be a fight for city marshal
The incumbent, Louis. Hite, is getting
good support again, but Yulee Quigley
Will give him a close run, and may pos
sibly win Some little stir has been crea-
ted from the fact that A. J. Corbett, who
has just stepped out as president of the
city council, and who has one year longer
to sci - IS alderman. will be a candidate
for municipal Judge, with almost guaran-
teed success. In the event of his election,
his seat in the council chamber would
have to be elected There are three
names mentioned as his possible success
or. They are r. J. Oliver, Heth Garfield,
and George Alba.
Five men went out to cut two bee trees.
about four miles from Windermere, that
one of the party had found the day before.
After cutting one tree, and taking twenty
seven pounds of honey, a gum was placed
in position, and the queen bee caught and
placed in the gum. The party left for the
other tree, a distance of a half mile. On
returning to get the bees, a little dog that
was with them began to bark. On going
to see what II meant, a huge gopher
snake, feet 10 inches long and 20@ inches
in circumference was found and in his
mouth rattlesnake about four feet long
with six rattles and q button. The large
snake had the rattler about half swal-
lowed when found. large number of
bee trees have been found in that vicini-
been cut since the LIST of March, and about
four hundred and fifty pounds of honey
has been secured. Two trees cut last week
netted more than sixty pounds of honey.
The correspondent of the Morning News
at River junction writes as follows Corn,
chief articles of produce in this section.
At present the Indications point to Il
goodly yield and if planters have good
luck they will reap rich harvest Al
ready the principal truck farmers, F. NJ.
Colson, A. NJ. Shepard and Il. IL. Pyle,
have derived satisfactory results from
their early shipments. II. Beach planted
sixty acres of sugar cane this year ar1
He is an old cane planter and says that
farmers are very unWise who plant scent
cotton on land that will raise sugar cane.
when syrup was never known to sell for
less than is cents per gallon 80 cents be
ing the usual market price. There Will
be no corn raised here for export as al;
tho large growers are taking quite an ac-
tive interest in stock and they will need
all they make for home consumptio:,.
There will probably be about 70 carloads
of watermeions shipped from this point.
The Newspaper.