The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-10

Tampa; third vice president J. II. Pitt
man Of Tampa; secretary, W. VI. Stewart
or Palatkas treasurer, Francis LaWtOn
Of Jacksonville; local secretary, II. X.
Thomas OF Jacksonville.
The Escambia County Fruit Growers
Association met at Pensacola, Tuesday.
and discussed a plan for providing an
agent 10 go to the northern markets and
look after the handling and sale of the
present crop of fruit. A resolution was
unanimously adopted inviting the fruit
growers OF West Florida to Join the asso-
citation in this plan. Several interesting
reports were received concerning the
blight, which has made its appearance in
many parts Of West Florida. From these
reports 10 appears that those growers who
nave adopted the plan of pruning their
blight appeared. will save their trees and
stop It's spread: but in orchards where
no such precaution has been taken 1t is
spreading with great rapidly. The re-
ports from the peach. plum, grape and
Derry crops are most encouraging. The
peaches are very fine, and the crop will be
the largest ever gathered.
Avon Park Idea: 1t is now four months
ana over since our first great freeze and
nearly three months since the second and
most disastrous one. All the younger
orange trees, excepting a very few in ex-
ira well protected places were killed 10
the ground. A large proportion of these
arc now growing vigorously from the col
lar or Just underneath the surface of the
HioAllA. MANY OF lnetl nave a mass oil
shoots from twelve to twenty inches in
night and give promise of soon becoming
good stocks, which may be budded again
70 the orange or grape fruit as soon as
they are strong enough and buds of de-
sired varieties can be obtained The lem
on being more tender than the orange,
seems to have impaired to the stock
upon which IL was budded it's own lack
OF hardness, SO that the roots of the lem
ON trees, even those five or six years old.
have been so injured by tho freeze that
many OF them are not starting at all yet,
and others are growing out feebly.
Further investigation into the case of
George TrOmbley ELECTED the following:
1t seems he had been on a. spree recently,
and about s clock Tuesday morning he
was seen TO leave his house and go out
toward the woods. in the direction Of Pal
metto Beach As the car from this place
came in about o'clock he was sitting by
the track, and boarding the car came into
Ybor City. The conductor noticed his
strange behavior, but thought the man
was drunk. and when they arrived at
Hbor City he went for "A policeman. When
they returned to the store which Tromb-
ley had entered, they found him in con-
vulsions, and he died in a short time. In
his room was found three pill boxes, all
labeled morphine His wife left him some
time ago on account of his dssOlute hab-
its, and is living in another part of town
with their children. Justice Donovan
was summoned, and held an inquest. At
ter hearing the evidence, the jury agreed
that TrOmbley came to his death from an
overdose of morphine, administered by
himself AS Trombley was lying on the
floor in commissions, a man rushed into
the store, and excitedly declared that
Troblmey had his watch, and insisted on
taking the watch from the dying man.
Afterward he said that the watch was
not his but that he took it for money that
Trombley owed him. When told that he
could not collect 1t in that way, he quiet
Nv gave up the watch.