The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-04-17

have been the work of an organized gang,
as the train does not stop long enough at
or ois four men to break the seals and take
away anything from such a number OF
cars.
Butler correspondent Morning News:
John Bateman, an 1S-year-old white boy,
had an arm cut of by a saw Wednesday
at McCaret saw mill. eight miles north
west of Butler. John Dixon, white, con-
vlcted Of the murder of Col. Barfeld in
Taylor superior court on the 10th inst,
is In Jail waiting the coming of the guard
to take him to Dade county coal mines
TO begin his life sentence. Rev. DIT. John
Searcy, a Baptist minister for fifty-hve
years, died at his home near Prattsburg
Monday. He was so years old.
Mary Rich who has been employed in
the laundry at the Atlanta university, has
brought suit through her attorney W.
A. Fuller, Jr., against Thomas NJ. Chase.
the dean of the university. The petition
claims that she was on her way from the
building to her home on the afternoon of
March 26, and that she carried on her
arm small basket in which was her
lunch and a light waist which she had
been accustomed to wear in the laundry
on account of the Intense heat of the
room. She says she was almost out of
the grounds of the college when she was
approached by Chase, who demanded the
contents of the basket. She says he
caught her by the arm and accused her of
having placed articles in the basket which
was not hers, The petition alleges that
the public charge Of being a thief and the
indignation and humiliation of being
searched in public has damaged her char
acter in the sum of $1,000. for which she
now seeks remuneration in the courts.
FLORIDA.
The colored teachers of the state of
Florida are holding their seventh annual
convention at st. Augustine.
The strawberry crop in the neighbour
hood of Hastings is large this year. The
people of that settlement are shipping
about 500 quarts four times week to Bos-
ton and other markets.
In the United States court at Jackson
vile Wednesday the case against NJ. H.
Baum and j. B. Pomeroy, charged with
cutting timber off government land, re-
suited in a verdict of not guilty, and the
defendants were discharged
Tax Collector Cato of Alachua county
is issuing many tax receipts. Up to date
he has issued secs for real and personal
property and 1858 poll-taX receipts. The
books will be closed on May 10 and the
delinquent tax lists will be offered for sale
the first Monday In July.
Mrs. Timothy Murphy. aged 40 years
wife of the police commissioner, died at
her home at Jacksonville Wednesday of
| congest ton of the brain. Mrs. Murphy was
I
home until 1875 when she moved 10 Jack
| sOnville. where she has since resided.
Frank Walker. a negro, was shot and
killed by Jennie Walker, his sister-in-law,
at Mayport, Wednesday. The evidence of
| the witnesses was to the effect that Wal
| ker and the woman had a quarrel of some
kind and she went to the house, got a
| pistol and came out and deliberately shot
him without saying word.
Burglars broke into the grocery store
Of Edward Jones, not far from the Flor
! ida Central and Peninsular railroad shops.
| at Fernandina Tuesday night and after
| ored to set the building on fire by the
| use of kerosene, presumably for the pur-
| pose of hiding the crime. VIII Crawford,
| colored, was arrested on suspicion.
The differences between the shipping
! merchants and stevedores at Pensacola
which have caused almost a stoppage of
| work at that port for the past ten DAYS
| have been practically settled by arbitra-
| ton. The timber showers began work
| Wednesday, and the lumber showers will
| be put TO work at once. The fleet of YES
! sells in the harbor awaiting cargoes is
| large.
Postmaster D. B. Usina of St. Angus
tine has gone to Washington TO make per-
sonal appeal to the postoffice authorities
| 70 continue the present clerical force in
! the postofice in that city during the sum
| 20 reduce the force May l. but as the
| business Of the Office has increased dur
ing the past year, and as the postmaster
cannot give good service with less helm
than ne has at present. Mr. Usina homes
70 make this clear 70 the proper officials.
Capt. MoFadden, owner OF the schooner
queen, plying between Jensen. on the