The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-01-17

I = l4l accom- a-iy -4E- lager ana parry 10
! Palm Beach.
/ AT West Palm Beach. Tuesday Robert
| Moore while playing with an alligator
I about six feet long was seriously bitten
] on the loot The gator caught the entire
I foot In ms mouth, - hitch had 10 De pried
] open.
At a congregational meeting Of the
! Presbyterian church at Gainesville sun
I Ca, and a member Of the suwannee
] Frcsbyte-y. was called 20 the pastorate
I Of The church.
All the phosphate men throughout
| Alachua county VINO employ Tree labor
met recently and agreed 90 cut the wages
I p per cent. Now they are cEperi euoing
graf difficulty iu supplying the demand
I Tor labor, many Of the men having iett
| them.
J. IT. Jones. a farmer. living about four
miles south of Glen ST. Mary. was severe
: iy injured. iast Friday. hv "a vicious hog
{ that he was about 20 shoot. The hog was
too quick for Mr.. Jones and knocked him
down. tearing bis legs and face. Help
was near and the hog was promptly dis
patched.
There arrived at Key West during the
month Of becemher 5ll aliens. ls3 males
and ~ females Two were professionals.
81 skilled laborers, 35 miscellaneous; no
occupations. s. males and ~ females.
Most OF the entire number stopped In
Key West TO locate. the balance were
for other points ia Florida.
The business part OF Center Hul was
/ ENNlfA nl LIIf. IS. j.. EtD.frUL. gene
merchandise. stock Of $1,000, Insurance
S599, total loss Smith Bros, general mer-
chaudlse, stock, 5000 They carried in
/ surancc Of 5000, and saved about $50 OF
stock. The fire caught iu HohsOu's store.
| II is supposed 10 have been set aiire by
some miscreaut.
ON Monday Jan. Z. at Greenwood the
rated elected their officers for the en-
suing year as follows Robert Il. Pen
der president, Willard J.. Boone. score
tary and treasurer. Lawrence :. PEN
der william T. Pender, and Miss Mary
scott. directors. This corporation has
the distinction Of having the only lady
director in the state.
Monday night. at Port Tampa city the
colored laborers attacked the Italians
with clubs and sticks. breaking up their
camp, numbering about twenty-five men,
and dispensing them They gave them UNI
~ dark this evening in which to leave.
The COlOred lab0rers have been receiving
$50 day. The Italians have come I'm to
work Tor 81 day: This was the direct
cause OF the trouble. The negroes, num-
herring about thirty were led By a small
party OF white lahOrers. one of the ltal-
ians was quite badly hurt. one OF the me-
gro leaders was arrested, but succeeded
IN escaping with handouts on. Four more
Of the leaders were brought in and lodged
in jail. The dock hands arc in no way
connected with the affair.
At the request of the Sela =. Harrison
jury at Tampa, the charges were rcread
10 them Tuesday morning AT o'clock
intN brought IN iHelF NeIllnt, as iNllOMN.
We the jury, find the defendant. Sela
i. Harrison. guilty of manslaughtcr. as
charged IN the Indictment so say We all"
The prisoner sat apparently unmOved. A
slight froWn passed over his face. and for
"a short time he bTeathed heavily His
wife. who was out Of the room. came in
weeping bitterly. The defendants counsel
stated That theY would make an appeal.
The judge then passed such a sentence
upon the prisoner that the attorneys are
satisfied. Harrison is sentenced 10 six
HHaH NHNfHa 10 THH
Is well received by the community.
G. c.. Warren and J. L. Hathcox Of
Gainesville had two fights Tuesday. The
first one occurred I'm the sherfs Office
of the court house when HathcoX, who
had been arrested by Deputy Sheriff War
rem. appeared and asked for something
which belonged 10 him, and which was
In the custody of the sheriff The art-
clcs i'm question were i'm the safe whore
Mr. Warren could not get at them lie
told Hathcox the circumstances, but the
latter was not satisfied. and began to
abuse Mr.. Warren, who struck him.
Friends interfered and put an end TO
tho trouble. Later II was renewed on the
square and fought to finish. HathcoN
was terribly beaten In the head and
face, while Warren sustained no injuries.
Fort CHnch. situated on the north end
OF Amelia island, guarding the entrance
TO Cumberland sound, and in charge
Of Sergt. Collect Bigalsky. T.. s. A. was
broken into some time during the latter
part Of last week evidently by some
ground rooms was stored the original
model Of the draWbridge TO the south
entrance of the fort This was demol-
lshed among other damage. Fort Clnch
is an imposing piece of masonry. and is
guns. II was built in 1916 at an expense
OF 100000, but al present II is uroccupied
BY troops. Several times before this fort
mas been broken into and robbed.
F FaP5.r5tS o; NJ s,ra Garter was in
probably be taken TO apprehend the mis-
creant.
S. J. Carlton of Arcadia has just re-
turned from the Fort Myers section,
where he bought 5000 boxes of oranges
at Sl.25 a box on the trees, to be moved
in February and March. He says the
oranges there We're not injured by the re-
cent cold, and that leaves on the trees
are as green as before the freeze The
groves of that section lay south of the
Caloosahatchee river. and are surrounded
by dense hammocks that protected them
from the blizzard. That is the only sec
non IN the state where oranges were not
badly frozen. Mr. Carlton is one of the
largest shippers in that section, and if
transportation people do not advance the
rate he Will ship ten cars weekly for the
next two months, but should they with
draw their present rates, which is half
rates payable in advance. he will be com
PEELED to cease shipping He paid to the
railroads last week for advance freights
over 5000. Eight weeks more at the pres
ent rates he will have paid them 81, 500 for
freights since the blizzard.
At Pensacola, the assgnee's sale OF the
/ property of the Export Coal Company was
! concluded Tuesday. Several gentlemen
/ from New York and other points. ana
/ President Milton H. Smith of the Louis
/ vile and Nashville railroad and the Gulf
/ Transit Company We're present The Of
/ flee building, furniture fixtures. tele-
/ graph line and quarantine building and a
! buggy and horse We're bought by Presi-
/ dent Smith for $3.50 The steel screw
! steamer Scythian. $50 tons net register.
/ was bought by President Smith for SIS
! COO The schooner barge Henry L. Gregg
/ subject to mortgage OF Sl.7U0 and interest
! and the schooner barge Rebecca God
/ dard, subject to mortgage Of $1,000 and
! interest. were knocked down to President
4 Smith for the sum of 81 each The iron
screw tug Carbonero. 1871 tons. subject ia
! mortgage of $4,000 and interest. was sold
! to W. y. Munson of New York for st. and
! the f0ur-masted iron schooner barge Ala
/ bama, subject to a mortgage of $4,000 and
4 interest. was also sold to him for 81
! The schooner barge Regulator. subject To
| mortgage of $4,000 and interest was nut
up, but no bid was made, and the sale
| was closed.
The Young Mems Business League OF
( Orlando is composed of more than sixty
| members from among the Young business
! men of the community, with few older
] ones. A large meeting was held at the
/ leagues rooms Monday night in which
I tho Unpgt ions Of road inprONornept lov.rg.