The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-27

Beach. He has not yet returned. He
had a check for trunk at the depot. This
trunk was claimed and carried away by
an unknown party.
II. A. Banker or Agnew, in reaching for
his gun the other day to shoot hawks,
by some means discharged ii. The con-
tents so shattered his left hand that DR..
Hood was compelled to amputate IL.
The barn and several outbuildings be-
longing to John Croft. an old citizen of
Lake Butler. were destroyed by fire Mon
day. A horse also persisted in the flames
There is no theory as TO the origin of the
fire, except rats and matches.
BY the completion of the Florida East
Coast canal from New River to Biscayne
Bay, some 1000 acres of land viii be re-
claimed. This land is controlled by the
Florida East Coast railway, the Florida
East Coast Canal Company. and what is
known as the Boston Company.
A bill has passed the United States SEN
ate appropriating S1O00O0 for surveys and
plans of improvements to be made along
the Biscayne Bay coast. AS no specifca-
means work on one of the inlets, probably
ported on.
A bright little boy who filled the position
of cashier for Austin, Nichols q Co. at
st. Augustine, until recently, is reported
by DIR. Webb TO have become violently
insane. II is said the boy has been men
tally taxed beyond his strength. His
name is Camille, the son of r. Gauzen
OF Moccasin Branch
Andrew Hernandez, a Cuban, y-es> shot
Tuesday night by a Spaniard IN Tbor
City. A party Of Cubans were eas-stroll-
ing. A spaniard cried out viva Els
panap' The Cubans echoed the cry for
Cuba, whereupon the Spaniard shot into
the crowd. The ball struck Hernandez in
the abdomen, causing a slight injury.
General rejoicing prevails at Miami over
the good news that the Arnold brothers,
Ed and Daughton. have been found. The
NnFnm vnA MI an 10 -
the raft upon which they were last seen
some six weeks ago, was carried out
TO sea. through Bears Cut, and they were
picked up by vessel bound for Cuba,
where they are reported alive and we'll
During he past few days an interesting
civil war has been waging between Capt.
II. p Brown of the western portion of
Alachua county and the Florence Phos-
phate Company. The latter have been
making an effort to lay a switch or spur
through Capt. Brogn's property. and the
is done he must receive fair price for
his land. He has felled trees across the
intended right Of way. besides otherwise
obstructing the company, which has caus-
ed his arrest.
Harry ]. eastman, member of the
firm Of NJ. eastman & Son, dry goods
merchants of Pensacola, through his at
torneys, Blount & Blount, has brought
suit against the Bradstreet commercial
agency for $4,000, for damages to his bus
mess and reputation from reports made
by the agency. The reports Ii is under
stood, represent that Mr.. eastman had
been guilty of the crimes of arson, grand
has never been charged with such crimes
he thinks that he has a good case against
| the agency.
The East Coast canal has been finished.
| and is now open. The work was begun
/ in 1888 by the Florida East Coast Canal
! Company, to be completed in five years.
/ During the 1893 session of the legislature
i the representative from Dade county,
/ Fred y. Morse, introduced bill extending
/ the time of the company until january.
\ 1886. Their work is now about DONE A
! little deepening and widening is yet TO
mile island waterway of the east coast
/ Of Florida VIII be open the regular traffic
! The canal enters the north end of Bis
cayne Bay through Snake Creek. BY the
! LIST of January regular steamer service
| is to be put on between the bay and Lake
Worth, for the benefit of vegetable grow
| ers, and maintained until the completion
| of the railroad TO Miami, which will be in
| February. The steamers Della and
| sweeney, owned by Mr.. F1agler, are re-
| run.
The Christmas day tragedy at Punta
Gorda, mentioned in a dispatch in the
Morning News of yesterday, was a highly
sensational one. A special to the Jack
This morning Lena Thomas shot and
| instantly killed Ella Scott. The girls were
infatuated t with Henry Cassidy. and i
which resulted in the murder of Ella
| Scott. For some time Cassidy has been
! paying attention to both women, and each
! of them thought that she possessed the
| mans affections. About ten DAYS ago ii
| is said, Cassidy and the Thomas woman
! Quarreled, and since then he has been de.
| voting himself 10 Ella Scott. This mad.
dened the Thomas girl, and it is said that
/ she has frequently threatened to kill her
| rival. This morning Lena Thomas was
| told that Ella Scott was at Cassidy's place
| OF business, near the freight depot The
woman Immediately secured a revolver
and started in quest OF the couple She
/ found them together in rear room Ac.
/ counts differ as to what occurred in
| there, but at any rate the women began
( Quarreling and then clinched in a deadly
struggle Ella Scott had knife and Lena
| Thomas a pistol. During the struggle the
Thomas woman whipped out the revolver
and. placing II against the head OF her
hater rival fired. the bullet crashing
| through the brain. Although a handful OF
| the victims brains were scattered on the
| floor, she lived for over an hour but new
| er spoke. The murderesa was also wound
| ed, but not seriously. She has been ar
rested and sent 10 JAN al Arcadia"
/ bankrupt went into the Delarin the
! other night. and after eating a hearty din
I ner summoned the waiter what h your
/ "A IfaN.