The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-02


| of the deceased. The corOner's jury charge
| the accused with murder. and he was
| promptly committed TO Vienna jail. The
/ parties are negroes.
FLORIDA.
| Osceola county's assessment is larger
| this year than last.
! A Franklin county farmer sells melons
at cents each and makes $40 net per
| acre.
G. Q. Borland and w. NJ Lanier came
| to quincy Monday on bicycles from Gene
| va, Ala which place they started from
| last Saturday.
The Santiago. Cubs. papers. late
! ~ received at Tampa, report eight
| and ten deaths daily from yellow fever
| IN the army hospitals at that place, and
private letter from a physician says the
! Spaniards have 5000 cases of yellow fever
| IN the hospitals on the island.
Tampa had tweuty-seven cases in her
| municipal court Monday. The fines i'm
| posed amounted to $l65, and on the same
day at Pensacola thirty-seven cases, with
/ $3.50 fines.
Incendiaries attempted to burn the
house and contents of J. J. Granger in
/ Arcadia Friday. The fumes of kerosene
and the starting of the fire were evidences
| OF incendiarism.
Mrs. Cox. the old lady thrown from a
! buggy at DeLand a few days ago, died
| from the effects of her injuries. Mrs. Cox
| was over 80 years old, and never recover
! ed consciousness.
A very fine mineral spring has been dis
| covered on the Gulf beach, about a humid
red feet from dry land near Tarpon
| Springs. The spring is about three feet in
| diameter and sends up great volumes of
| delightfully."- cool sparkling water.
A convict in Capt. Morris turpentine
camp at Morriston attempted suicide by
! nearly severing his left hand from the
| arm at the wrist and by cutting a deep
gash IN ms mead which penetrated his
| BRAIN He is in a critical condition.
| " clerks office at Jacksonville Wednes-
day from j. g. Greeley to w. NJ Angus
conveying large number of pieces of land
| situated IN Duval county. containing
about forty acres. The consideration was
S5OOG
The fire department of Jacksonville re-
| sponded to six alarms of fire inside the
! IRE limits during the month. The to-
tai loss on buildings was $29S, and on con-
| tents $l,5OO The insurance on the build
| ings was $500, and on the contents $1,000
No fires occurred outside of the fire limits
| during the month.
Lieut.. Samuel A. Smoke, commandant
| of the cadets of the Florida State College
at Lake City, has been appointed Vice
Smoke will stin hold his office as com,
mandant OF the cadets and instructor
| in military science and tactics and as
vice president will teach civil engineering,
etc.
| While digging on the premises of George
| X. Pons on East Government street, at
! the remains of an old wooden box, which
| contained l3l case knives of curious de-
sign, a spoon, paddock, and a tin box
| containing 50 pieces of old Spanish
| money. It is probable that these articles
| were buried during the war, as the money
| is so much corroded that its value has
| not yet been ascertained.
Al Tampa Tuesday, between 6 and Z
| O'Clock, as Miss Abernethy, the daughter
of DR.. b. G. Abernethy, was walking at
the corner of Tyler and Marion streets
with her pocket-book in her hand, a ne
! gro passed her on a run, snatching her
| pocket-book as he went, The pocket
| book contained s. or so and other valua-
bles Mr.. Abernethy brother of the young
lady, pursued the negro down the street
as Tar as the cemetery but to no avail
He escaped with the Doodle.
The legal papers are being prepared
that will transfer the Ocala house at
Ocala to the John +. Dunn estate and the
Bufum Loan and Trust Company. The
Ocaia company, which bought the hotel
some eight years ago, gave notes to Sc
/ cure the purchase money in the amount
! given to d. c. w. Smith, the capitalist
and the other for a similar amount TO l..
| w. Agnew. In turn Mr.. Smith sold his
note to John +. Dunn, deceased. Mr.. Ag-
new disposed of his note TO the Buffum
| Loan and Trust Company When Judge
Kicker went TO DeLand last week to take
legal steps, TO foreclose the mortgage the
Buffum folks asked permission to tOin in
the suit, which was granted.
For several months past plans for the
near Fernandina have been quietly matur-
ing. A stock company is being formed
and Is meeting with much encouragement.
Articles of Incorporation have been drawn
up and several thousand dollars sub
scrbed by out-of-town parties to make
Amelia Beach the most attractive sum
mer resort on the South Atlantic coast
The plans mapped out are for remodeling
the StrathmOre hotel with an addition of
fifty rooms, the building of fifty bath
rooms and a number of cottages at Ocean
! City somewhat similar to those already
erected. A park is to be laid out and a
| bowling alley established. Other amuse-
/ ments, such as attract the throngs to the
| eastern beaches will be provided, but on
a smaller scale. The underbrush is all
to be cut away and the space beneath the
| trees planted in grass. The railroad track
ii is also TO be extended considerably down
the beach.
During the thunderstorm at Jacksonville
at noon Wednesday lightning struck a
colored lodging house two miles west OF
the city and killed Ella Jenkins colored
woman, who was standing at the door
of her room. The Womap's clothing was
cut to shreds, and her body scorched until
it was almost as black a cinder. Sew
eral yards of Notwithstanding were
, knocked from the side of the house and
; a hole smashed through the roof near
the chimney, where the bolt entered. There
We're number Of other persons in the
house at the time of the crash, but they
fortunately escaped any damage beyond
"A severe shock. DR.. Sohl was in The
neig hbOrhoOd at the time of the acciden;
and he was called in, but the woman was
/ beyond human aid, having been killed
, in his opinion, almost instantly. The ode
feature OF the killing of the woman is that
when she was struck by the bolt of light
ming she was holding her infant in hei
arms and standing close by the side oil
her sister. Although the woman was in.
stant4y killed, neither the child nor the
other woman was at all seriously injured
by the lightning Both, however, were
stunned by the shock.
A Boston paper which has gone daft