The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-25
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George Rumph, general merchant OF tt
tusvine and Melbourne, is preparing to
open store at West Palm Beach.
There are now nearly fifty buildings of
all kinds in course of construction at West
Palm Beach, and as many more will be
commenced next month.
1t is rumored that parties from abroad
IN connection with some residents, are
figuring on establishing large cigar fac
tory al West Palm Beach.
Joe Holder was placed on trial at Gaines
vile Thursday for the murder of John Par
ker IN Lacrosse several years ago. The
trial will be lengthy one.
Mr.. Nallandigham, proprietor of the
Novelty Woodworks, Titusville, is at West
Palm Beach prospecting with view OF
moving his establishment there.
A small shooting match between a cou-
pie OF colored women was the cause of
more or less excitement at West Palm
Beach thursday afternoon. Both shot
wide of the mark.
Garfield, the 13-year-old son of Postmas-
ter w H. Perry, died at Lake City Thurs
DAY morning from injuries received a week
ago while playing ball. He hurt his ankle
then and fever and blood poison resulted
F. NJ. Pope of Apalachicola arrived at
Carrabelle, having in custody VIII Will
liams, alias Henry Borem. who murdered
Deputy Sheriff Tom McClendon at Cows
arts, Henry county, Alabama, on May %,
There are no new developments in the
Gazetteer libel suit, brought by Sheriff
Dodge, at West Palm Beach, except that
charges are being prepared for the gov
ernOr's consideration, and they will be
sent to Tallahassee in the next few days.
The Weekly Gazetteer. of Palm Beach
has adopted the plan of publishing only
home and county news issuing sheet
only large enough for that purpose. Small
type has been ordered to take the place
of that on which 1t is now printed. 1t is a
new idea, and is taking immensely. Not
a line of miscellaneous or copied matter
is to be used.
Or. Lansing. druggist Of Eau Gallie, is
at West Palm Beach trying to rent a store
room in which to establish a drug store.
supervisor j. d. Mathews of the Georgia
Southern and Florida railroad died at Lake
city at o'clock Thursday morning from
injuries sustained in a collision between
his crank car and the mail train from Ma
con, at the water tank here, at O'Clock
Wednesday night.
The dredges in that portion of the East
Coast canal, between the south end of
Lake Worth and New river, a space of
ing back, widening and cleaning out The
cut will be sixty feet wide, with an aver
age depth of six feet of water. Navigation
Will begin in July.
G. w. Dean and Gordon Powell of Way-
| cross, Ga, were at Jacksonville Thursday
having returned from Barberville, Volu-
| STA county, Florida, where they closed the
| trade for 5000 acres of land paying there
| for $l.25 per acre. The land Is along the
| line of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key
| West railway and was purchased from
| vert it into turpentine farm.
Nose Sears and William Fraser have
! been living in the phosphate region in AL
/ achua county, where they have been en-
| ployed, for the past two years Recently
/ the two had a difficulty, and hard feelings
i have existed ever since. On Tuesday
! Fraser was in charge of a force of men,
! and had gone down to one of the mines
| operated by the Potter Mining Company
| after load of rock. Sears was ar en-
| ploye of this branch of the company's mine
/ and was also in charge of a force of men
| there. When Sears heard that Fraser was
| in that vicinity he went home and secured
/ his double-barreled shotgun and returned
| to where Fraser was al work loading a
car. sears opened the difficulty with the
/ remark: Il have heard that you told
| around here that you were going to kill
/ me-" Fraser answered quickly and said
| that he had made no such threat. Other
/ words ensued. The result was that Sears
| shot the other negro through the abdomen
| with buckshot. Both barrels took effect
Before Fraser fell he grabbed the side of
/ the car with one hand while with the
| other he reached in his pocket for a pistol
| he nred several shots at his assaiant
| none Of which took effect. The wounded
man was carried to his home, where he
/ fingered for nine hours in intense pain
Sears made no effort to escape. He was
promptly arrested and was present at the
| inquest
With Little Falls Incorporated" saws
| the Rochester Herald, New York state
con talns thirty-seven cities. They are as
| follows: Albany, Amsterdam. Auburn
| Binghamton. Brooklyn. Buffalo, Cohoes
] Corning, Dunkirk, Elmira Gloversville
! Hornel1sville Hudson, Ithaca, jamestown
port, Long Island City, Middletown. Mount
! Vernon, Newburg, New York NIAGARA
/ Falls Ogdensburg. Olean, Oswego Poiph-
kseepsie, ROCHESTER Rome, Schenectady.
/ syracuse, Troy, Utica, WATERFOWL and
/ Yonkers. 1t will be seen that every letter
! IN the alphabet is represented in the in