The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-19
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! the property was Illegal. and in accordance
with that decision Judge Galloway ruled
] that the order 10 sell was not good and that
I the property riEhtfully belonged 10 the
( heir Of Alrs. Harriss, her daughter, Mrs.
Bryan Harrlss Hughes. The case OF
Hughes vs.. Fleming was over a small farm
on the DeLaigle property and valued at
| about 500. However, the same ruling viii
hold good in the case of all the property,
which IS estimated to be worth $4,000. The
matter has been taken. to the supreme
| court.
Atlanta Journal: Wednesday morning
/ w. B. Thomas, through his attorneys.
] Messrs. Fielder & Davis, filed a petition
against the ChattahoOchee Land Company
1 asking that receiver for the property be
appointed and that an injunction be grant
cd against the Exchange Banking Com
pany 10 keep it from encumbeUng or dis
/ posing OF certain property that did belong
10 the land company. Mr.. Thomas claims
! that the land company Is indebted to him
inthe sum of 5000 principal and sec inter-
est He sets forth that the Chattahoochee
Land Company was organized in 1891, gives
/ further points in It's history and then
| charges tnat some Of the leading share
/ holders have used the money coming in to
them FOR their own priv ate gain. He claims
that J. u. Collins. the president Of the
company has in his possession &O,O0 that
belongs 10 the company. lie then says that
[ by artful means and fraudulent practices
/ J. D. Collins J. II. Moore, II. S. Chamber
lain, ]. T. Wilder. =. H Harraison and FL
well Eastman inaugurated a ten million
dollar company without dollar IN the
/ NollA DIluS put up anu luAL now al Ter
three years they nave stripped the COM
pany of every dollar OF the money paid
in by the stockholders. amounting TO thou
sands Of dollars so that they now either
own or control every foot Of the land. He
SAYS that the company IS wholly insOlvent
and further alleges that the officers of the
land company are officers in the Exchange
Bank The Original owners of the land
purchased by the company held mOrtga ges;
/ on H. on which they were forced to sue-
| They secured judgment, IL Is alleged,
and had the Il fas transferred without be-
ing levied, to the bank. The bank held
them for some time and then had them
levied on the land and II was sold Mr..
Thomas makes very long petition to the
court and ends IL by asking that a re-
ceiver for the land company be appointed
and that the bank be enjOined from dis
posing Of the land II has I'm its pOssessions
Judge Llmpkin being out Of the city, Judge
Clark heard the petition and set II for a
hearing before Judge Lumpkin on Sept. Z.
..as p FLORIDA.
The paper hangers of Jacksonville have
formed q union
Forty-nine ca ses were up for trial Mon
day IN. the mayors court at Pensacola
and S126 in fines were imposed.
Efforts 10 organize an Episcopal church
| at West Palm Beach are soon to be made
| by Rev. F. c. Bayless Of Orlando.
Manatees are quite plentiful in the Hills
bore river Quite recently one struck a
boat that was coming through from New
river.
Il
total valuation Of a little over $3.50 OO5
The tax this year will be l4i2 mills, as
against 1874 last year
The general reports that come in from
the farming sections Of Orange county
as to the food supplies Indicate that the
farmers have not for years been SO we'll
t0-do.
A boy was shot In the shoulder in Ybor
! City Tuesday by man who was careless
ly handling a pistol. DR.. Gowman ex-
tracted the ball The boy is seriously in
jured.
Sheriff Tinis has attached the stock in
trade Of Tom Little, a liquor dealer of
Gainesville. The attachment is in favor of
Joseph A. Mangus & Co, Of Cincinnati for
S604S.
Modesto Valdez, a prominent caterer in
Ybor City, died very suddenly Tuesday in
his room where he was resting during the
heat of the day. Heart failure was as
signed as the cause.
Sheriff Hagan Of Putnam county, in
charge of gang of county prisoners, has
gone 10 Buffalo Bluff, to dig shell from
mound, donated to the county by Judge
Vetrees. for paving the sidewalks around
the court house block at Palatka.
1t IS said that the farmers in the Mi
| canopy, EVinston, BOaTdman and Orange
Lake vicintieS will plant big crop of
cabbage the coming year, on the lands
where once stood their orange groves.
The land has been heavily fortified and
| it is thought will produce big crop.
]. A. Harrison, deputy collector of in
| ternal revenue for the Western division of
! Florida died at his home in Milton, Santa
| Rosa county Wednesday He was stricken
with paralysis about ten days ago while
| apparently enjoying the best Of health.
| Oscar a. Sloane Of Monticello has been
appointed deputy collector to I'LL the va
| cancy caused by the death of Deputy Col
| lectOr Harrison.
At a business meeting of the Tampa Ri
/ hes Wednesday night, Capt Charles c.
! Whitaker and Second Lieut.. Krause ten
| dered their designations to the company.
| They were accepted. An election was i'm
mediately called to fill the vacancies. First
/ Lieut.. Fred krause was elected captain
| and Sergt. Amos Norris was elected first
| lieutenant, both of whom will make eX-
| cellent officers The second lieutenantship
will remain vacant until their next meet
| ing
Sheriff Tilis attached the oars and sails
| of the dory boat on Lake Camelia, in North
! Gainesville, Wednesday, The attachment
| was issued in favor of Mai. l. E. Webster,
! who dubbed in with Rev. 1. S. Walker and
others TO build the boat Floyd Walker
| was shipping the oars and sails to Jack
| sonville. where he intended disposing of
| them while on his way to New York. Maj.
Webster, hearing of this, instituted pro-
ceedings for their recovery. The attach
ment was served at the depot as Walker
was boarding the train.
United States Commissioner Dennis Ea-
gan, one of the sureties on the bond of AL
Fired =. Osgood, eX-postmaster at Madi-
son, Fla, filed in the office of the clerk Of
! the. United States court, at Jacksonville
| "Wednesday an answer to the declaration
! previously filed. This is a suit brought by
the United States against the sureties on
the bond to recover the amount which F.
! Starr Gregory, deceased, was convicted of
| embezzlng while assistant postmaster
| Gregory was sentenced to ten months i'm
| prisonment in the adison county jail and
died there while serving out the sentence
| J. c. Greeley, the other bondsman, filed
his answer to the declaration some time
| ago.
I Mrs. j. Irene Adams and her star board
er, Nv. II. Baldwin, are back at Jackson
! vile from Atlanta and are once more DOM
! iciled under the same roof, at the Adams
/ house, on West Adams street. Baldwin is
| the man who left town with a diamond
| ring and some money belonging to his
! landlady She followed him to Atlanta and
| birmingham and has at last got him back
| to Jacksonville. Although Mrs. Adams
| swore out a warrant against Baldwin she
| Will not prosecute the case as the entire
! matter has been compromised and Bald
| win. resumes his old position as star
/ boarder. 1t is not known what agreement
was come to, but as everything is har-
monious for the present the public has
probably heard the last of the matter
Two or three days ago as the north
| bound train on the Florida Central and
Peninsular railroad passed through Apop-
ka, an adopted son Of Mrs. Owens of Pa