The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-01-10
FLORIDA.


Many deer are being killed in wakulla
county.
In wakulla county are 1877 white people
and 172S colored.
Buzzards are catching and killing young
lambs in Santa Rosa county.
Indications are that Orlando will soon
have the new fire equipments which the
citizens voted for nearly year ago.
Five dollars per box for grapefruit and
50 per box for oranges on the trees are
said to be the ruling price in Lee county.
The Orlando Bicycle Club has secured a
lease on five acres OF land near the city,
and work on the track and grand stand
viii soon be begun.
Two women at Mayo last week shot and
killed an otter sand skinned it and sold
the hide for 50. 1t was their first expe-
rience in such business.
A. F. wrede of Venice has bottled all
of his syrup in pint bottles, which he is
selling at 10 cents per bottle. At this
rate, his syrup will net him nearly 800
an acre.
At a meeting Of the board of commits
sioners of Nassau county, held Wednes-
day. it was decided that it is absolutely
necessary to build new drawbridge and
new jail.
Maj. James C. Post, corps of United
States engineers, who died in New York
on Monday, had charge of the river and
harbor improvements of Florida from
1874 to 1882.
Mrs. Deborah shedd of Stamford, Conn,
and Dr. Charles Pierce Carver of St. Au-
gustine were married at Trinity Epis-
copal church at ST. Augustine, Wednes-
day morning.
Henry Marshhum of Escambia county
was badly injured last week by a horse
he was riding rearing up and falling
over backwards, pinning him between the
animal and the ground.
Bert NJ. Fuller, young man from Mich
! igan, who resided at Sop Choppy, Wa
kulla county, for a year, is now in Jail
at CrawfordVille for stealing a horse from
S. G. ReVel. He has admitted the crime
The clothing of the 2-year-old daughter
of Gus Riley. living three miles from Ar
eadia, caught fire Wednesday from the
| fireplace, while the child was playing near
! the fire. The child was burned so badly
that she died this morning in agony.
Wednesday the old Henry Lueders home
stead was sold, under a foreclosure of
mortgage, and was bid in by Mrs. L. f.
Burlington. The homestead is one of the
4 finest garden farms in Clay county, and
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on it.
| Lena Thomas, the negro woman who
killed Ella Scott at Punta Gorda, Christ
mas week, had hearing before Special
Court Commissioner O. T. Stanford at
Arcadia, and was released, as all the evil
/ dence showed she killed her rival in self
defense.
Capt. J. F. Tucker and o. c. Butter
week had difficulty at Brooksville a
few days ago growing out of a lawsuit
/ that resulted in a personal encounter in
front of the fernando hotel. Eight or ten
shots were exchanged, but fortunately
nobody was hurt. Both parties were ar
rested and fined $50 each,
Marion Crews, boy about 20 years old,
has been arrested and lodged in Jail at
Arcadia. He is suspected of being implI-
Gated in the assassination of Alex Mer-
Ger. at the Mercer school house, severn
teen miles from Arcadia. Crews was the
last man seen with the murdered man,
and his own testimony was contradictory.
| w w. Capers, the well known colored
politician of Jacksonville, who was one OF
the principal workers for the success of
the citizens ticket last spring, was SEN
! fenced to one year and two months i'm
prisonment in the Kings county peniten-
tiary at Brooklyn, n. Y, by Judge Locke
in the United States court Wednesday.
The crime of which he was convicted was
swearing that witness for the govern
ment in the case against Wash Robin
son, convicted of selling liquor illegally at
Live Oak, was in Jacksonville on the CIav
that the witness bought liquor from Wash
Robinson in Live Oak.
The property of the South Florida Fair
! Association at Orlando was sold under
foreclosure Monday to satisfy a mortgage
of $500, held by J. II. Wardwell. Mr.
Wardwell bid in the property at 81, 500
The property consisted of eighty acres
of land, near the city, race and bicycle
| tracks, grand stand and other improve
ments. 1t is estimated the property is
worth $4,000 The financial depression
last year forced the association to the
wall. Mr. Wardwell is willing that the
property should be used for all its for
mer purposes, and the association will
probably be able to hold its fairs at a
| reasonable rental
The trial of the negro James Bartlett,
charged with the murder Of Win Screw