The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-25

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On April 20 the Jacksonville Times
| Union correspondent witnessed a strange
| phenomena three miles north Of Houston
on the farm Of ". A Gardner. II was an
air suction during the neat Of the day.
The atmosphere was perfectly clear and
calm II was funnei-shaped, with diam
eteF az the base Of not more than twenty
feet which spread in its ascension until
IL reached al altitude Of about zjG feet.
when the debris which had been carried
up dropped 70 the ground just outside
u nne, reminding one OF an immense
fountain Il was not what is known as
a whirlwlnd.
Policeman Greek and his little daughter
were both accidentally shot at Jackson
vile Thursday afternoon. but fortunate
ly, the wounds Of neither are considered
serious. The officer had his pistol in his
nip pocket with the muzzle pointing up
ward. The child. in playing around her
father caught hold of the pistol and
pulled II part or the way from his pock-
ct The father, in attempting to replace
the pistol, caught the hammer in his pOck-
ct and IL was discharged. The bullet
struck the officer In the neshy part of
the right arm and struck the little girl
in the hand. DR.. Neal Mitchell was call
ed in and soon had the wound dressed.
Later in the evening the Little girl got
uolu oA a botLle OF dEnlcd ana swallowed
some OF the liniment She was given
prompt attention and Will soon be all
right. The officer Will be laid up for
several days with his wounded arm.
W. r. Collins Of West Palm Beach.
taxidermist. guide and general hunter af-
ter birds. insects. reptiles, animals etc,
had a close call for his life Thursday. He
had an order for two large alligators to
be delivered alive. He succeeded in finding
a hole in the edge of the Everglades, be-
Dafna ooh 4 Lent rnr ursa
soon had one huge fellow out safely tied,
but just as he had gotten number two out
and was proceeding to tie him up. the
gator gave him a fetching blow across
the hips with his tail, throwing Mr.. Col
Inns square into his wide-Open jaws, the
left shoulder and arm being caught. The
gator took one bite. his teeth entering
Mr.. Collins arm in several places and
tearing all the flesh from the back of his
hand, then turned over with quick jerk,
loOsening his hold and not making any
further show of resistance. Although the
pain was terrible and weak from the loss
OF blood, Mr.. Collins secured both his ga
tors and made his way home.
In connection with expeditions to Cuba,
many persons appear TO be under the i'm
preston that the little steamer Ogeethee,
sold by John Einig to a Pensacola gentle
man, has gone into the blockade-running
business on the coast of Cuba. The rea-
son for this Is that the vessel left Jack
sonVtlle nearly three weeks go presuma-
bly, for Pensacola, and nothing whatever
has been heard of her since her depart
ure The vessel had on board the owner,
Capt. James Cannte, the coast pilot and
an engineer carried to Jacksonville from
Pensacola. The Ogeechee is one of the
fastest vessels of her size in southern wa
ters. She has been used as a pleasure
yacht on the St. John river. The STORY
now advanced is that the Ogeechee is be-
ing used as a dispatch boat by the Cubans
between the coast of cuba and the Florida
Keys. IL Is SAID by certain parties, who
are in position to know, that the boat
was purchased about the time that Gen.
Gomez was wounded. for the express pur-
pose of bringing the sick or wounded gen.
eral to this country for treatment.
Several months ago the directors of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad appro-
priated the sum of $15O,OOO to improve
their dock facilities at Pensacola in con-
nection with their lines of steamers to
Liverpool and the West Indian ports. The
work las not been begun owing to delay
in obtaining creosoted piling, but for
several days past carloads OF piling have
been coming in. Fifty men were on Tues
day set to work with an immense pile
driver, and this force will be increased
as the work progresses. The two wharves
of the company are to be extended sew
eral hundred feet into deeper water, so
that the largest steamers can come along
side and receive or discharge cargo. An
immense warehouse. 81? feet long and SO
hanging roof that will serve as a shed
over the tracks on each side; also
grain elevator and every other improve
ment necessary for a large export and
import business. Work on the new deep
water channel across the bar Is steadily
progressing, and by the time the dock
improvements shall be finished Pensacola
Will be the greatest deep water port on
the Gulf, If not in the country.
Thursday morning at S:15 the neighbor-
hood at the corner of Polk and Pierce
street at Tampa was electrified by a pistol
shot, which was fired in a
disreputable house. Policeman Brown
entered the house and found Hazel James
in dying condition. The officer spoke to
her, but received no reply, and in a few
minutes the girl was dead. The shot en-
tered about three inches above the nipple
on the left side, and ranged back and
downward, coming out on the left side.
The flesh was blackened where the ball
entered, indicating that the weapon was
quite close when the shot was fired A
negro woman heard screams, and running
out of her house she looked up to the
window where Hazel James stood clutch
ing the blinds, calling out: ooh, God,
Laura; Gene has shot me! Call some
help" She was then heard to fall heav-
lily to the floor. Early in the morning Dep
uty Sheriff Mooney arrested Eugene Blain,
a prominent young man of the city. When
he was brought in for the woman to iden-
tify, she stated that she thought he was
the man she saw running from the house
after hearing the shot. Later another wit
ness identified him as the man who left
the house. Notwithstanding the fact OF
| Mr.. Blain's presence in that neighborhood
it is the general opinion that the unfor-
| tunate woman committed suicide and the
| testimony of a number of witnesses goes
/ to prove that fact. The inquest has beer
| continued until Monday, owing to the alb.
sence of some Witnesses. Judge Harrison
| placed Blain under 5000 bond until the
coroner's verdict shall be rendered The
! bond was furnished