The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-01

soon arrived, and the crazy woman was
taken away. This girl was discharged
from the state asylum as being cured a
short time ago.
! Wednesday a car load of sugar, manu-
iactured at the St. Cloud sugar mill. II
was IN sacks and there were about 30 900
pouhds. IL was shipped to Philadelphia.
The session Of 1S9l-95 Of the East Flor
ida seminary at Gainesville was declared
closed Wednesday night by Col r. +.
! Carter, superintendent of the school, af-
ter the execution of a delightful pro-
gramme.
Arrangements have been perfected for a
big midsummer carnival al Tampa on July
| 3 I, and 5, when there will be horse
bicycle, and boat races, aquatic sports and
other attractions, and a fireworks display
on the water the night of July 4.
The $4,000 of new county bonds for build
ing the annex to the court house at PEN
sacola have been delivered to ~ w. Har-
ris & co. of Chicago, and the purchase
money, 3l,O50, has been received by the
trustees appointed by the county COM
missioners.
The DeFuniak Breeze reports that
Clark Holbrook Wesley Smith. and John
mile north of town. large enough to bury
a house in, in the vain search for sup
posed buried money that they have To-
Gated by means Of divining rod
Chief OF Police Paul G. Phillips was
summarily dismissed from office by the
new board Of police commissioners at
Jacksonville Thursday The police de-
partment is now in charge of First Lieut.
keefe, and Will remain so until after the
city election unless Chief Phillips applies
TO the courts for reinstatement, which Is
possible.
Last week an alligator eleven and one
half feet long was captured alive by
Messrs. John Youngblood and Busby, I'M
der the bridge on the street that leads 10
Rev. T. Raiders house. at Tarpon Springs
This bridge is over little marsh This
gator had been making his bed under the
bridge, where he was found. He was las
soed and brought out and tied for two
days. Throngs of people crowded to see
the saurian. After the crowds quit COM
ing the gator was shot by the mayor.
The news that Col. Thompson had sue
ceeded In putting through the Senate a
bill TO reduce the quarantine fees at Fer
nandina by one-half, meets with the APP
prevail of the entire city. and especially
Of the ship masters and ship brokers Fer
nandina has heretofore been handicapped
on account of the heavy quarantine fees
that are levied on her shipping. Bruins
wick being so close to Fernandina without
quarantine charges on account of it be-
ing in charge of the federal quarantine
system. worked hardship on that place
to such an extent that the lumber business
of the port has fallen off considerably.
Adrian Dunwody. a former resident of
Pensacola, who for several years past has
been the representative in Paris of the
large timber firm of II. Baars & co. of Pen
sacola, has been winning fresh athletic
laurels in the French capital Mr. Dun
woody Is a splendid specimen of Young man
hood. and before his departure from PEN
sacola was the recognized champion ath-
lete and wheelman of Florida, having on
several occasions captured medals at New
Orleans, Mobile and other cities. A cable
dispatch of May % TO the New York Her
aid says; In the Neldorome de la Seine
to-day, Dunwody. the Florida wheelman
was second in the amateur race of 2O0l
meters, Paul Marchand being first
Plant city Courier: The new little town
of Mulberry that has sprung into proni
no Dnv,o al
ley phosphate works, is composed prin-
cipally of business men from Plant CITY.
cry stable over there; c. S. Lowry has a
stock OF drugs; &. c. Carleton has a
grocery and dry goods establishment;
ing house, and G.. r. Chambers a baTher
shop. The town is situated on the Win
ston and Bone Valley road and the sur
vey for the Barlow and Plant civ road
runs through the center of the place a
sawmill is in full operation and there are
three or four phosphate plants close by.
The examination of witnesses in tho c.so
of Leroy Tillman, charged with the muir
der of Lot Daniels. both colored was
completed at Gainesville Wednesday AZ
ter brief charge by the Judge the case
was given to the jury, who. after an an
senCe OF a few moments, returned with a
verdict OF not guilty, and Tillman is now
free man. The crime for which TilIman
was tried was committed sometime last
summer, and will now perhaps go nm
avenged Lot Daniels, a negro farmer
for several days his whereabouts were nm
known. His dead body was finally disco,.
cred on the edge of a lake nearby. and
bore every evidence that he had been brIi-
tally murdered. Investigations were in
stituted and suspicion rested upon Till
man.
Ocala Morning News: The United States
circuit court OF appeals at New Orleans
mas Just handed down its decision in the
case of George G. Stevens appeIlanf US
John C. McKibben. appellee, which was an
appeal from final decree rendered bv
mted states District Judge Swayne at
Jacksonville in February in 1894 The de-
cislon reVerses the final decree and dis
misses Mckihhan,s hill for r,a rtr,nr-t,ir T.. =