The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-13
FLORIDA.


William G. Lee died at Mount Pleasant
| Wednesday very suddenly of heart fail
ure. Mr.. Lee was 70 years Of age.
The fight is already on for the Inver-
ness postofice. One petition has been cir
eulated and signed by several of the lead
| ing republicans.
| The handsome residence for Capt. John
savarese. now being erected on West La
! fayette street, at Tampa, is well advanced
toward completion. o
| Another of the stolen ballot boxes of
Baker county was found at Macclenny
Wednesday. 1t contained the returns from
the Sanderson precinct.
The Manatee County Tobacco Company.
] which was recently formed at Braiden-
town with capital of $4,000, will plant
| twenty acres as a starter.
The Land Pebble Phosphate Company's
works at Barlow, which have been shut
down for some weeks. are resuming opera
| lions and will run on full time.
Mrs. S. A. Adams, who died at Sanford
4 on Saturday, was buried in Lake View
| cemetery at Sanford MIS-. Adams was the
mother of Hugh E. Adams, jeweler of
Sanford and was the widow of DR.. Adams.
Mr. Bisbee said at jacksonville Wednes-
| day, that he had received an application
for the Dauntless TO go to Savannah to
| do towing there, and that the boat might
be sent to that port from Brunswick,
| where it now is.
Mrs. Miriam Corley Pratt, wife of Jo-
seph n. c. Pratt, editor of the Leesburg
Commercial, died at their home wednesday
after a lingering illness. Mrs. Pratt was
the fourth daughter of the late Hon. Hugh
A. Corey and was 81 years of age.
4 DANES M Wright, negro preacher of
Jacksonville, was stricken with apoplexy
| Wednesday, while passing in front of the
/ Subtropical building, in Springfield. Life
was extinct before those who saw the
man stagger and fall could reach his side.
The greatest grapefruit grove in the
world is being planted near Palmetto. It
will cover 100 acres. In the meantime.
most of the land will be planted with veg
etables. About 1900 trees will be plant
| ed. They are expected to yield 10000 to
/ 10000 crates.
Letters patent to the Chadwick Swain
Co.. were filed for record in the office of
the county clerk at Jacksonville Thurs
/
! of $4,000. The incorporators are E. l.
Baird, president; w. w. Swain, vice pres
ident and general manager; H. B. Chad
1 wick, secretary.
H. F. Dutton & Co. are still stacking
| up cotton at their gins at Gainesville.
| They have made hardly a shipment from
their gins this season, and have over $780,
900 worth of cotton ready for the eastern
market, During the past few weeks the
i gins have been running at full blast with
/ a full force Of men at work.
The Southern Loan and Jewelry Com
pany has been organized at Tampa, with
capital stock Of $4,000, $4,000 of which
| Is paid up and worcestershire. The in
! corporators are w. j. Dombrowsky, J.
B. Anderson, w. B. Henderson, G. c.
Warren and Theodore Rust of Tampa,
and V. W. Horton of Charleston.
Not single empty house can be found
| In Braidentown, nor is there one in the
neighborhood. AS many as fifty families
i are living in tents, while they are walt
ing for houses to be constructed for them
During the past two years there has been
a great influx of people into that county
and there never was a time when that sec
ton had better prospects.
Mrs. S. L. Reed and Mrs. M. M. Orig
gers, wife Of the man condemned to be
hung on Nov. 49, left Jacksonville for Tai
lahassee Thursday to appear before the
state board of pardons and intercede for
the life of Driggers. All they ask is
Communication of sentence. They will be
Joined at Baldwin by Elisha Driggers, a
brother of the condemned man.
Tampa Times; A good many Tampa
4 people will remember Denver Ed Smith
the pugilist, who hung out here a few
weeks about two years ago. He was con-
nected with Prof" Daily. who win also
be recalled by several trusting people
1t will be pleasure to the acquaintances
of both to know that Denver" Ed was
knocked out in four rounds day or two
ago by Joe Goddard at Johannesburg
4 Africa. Ed had an idea that he was born
a winner and did not need to train.
i Simon Thompson, who was a foreman
on a section of the Winston and Bone Val
ley railroad, a branch of the Plant system.
has disappeared in a very mysterious
manner. The last seen of him was last
Thursday when he went out on the sec
ton with his men to work The negroes
say that he complained of feeling badly.
and went of In the woods, saying that he
was going TO lie down awhile They never
saw him again Large parties of search
ers have been looking for him since last
Friday but no trace of the man has been
found. Blood is reported to have been
found on the car used by the man, and
there was also blood on the crossties near
by.
Samuel Thomas, a colored boy. was shot
"Wednesday afternoon by Stephen Pacetti.
white boy, near Bucks mill.
near Jacksonville. Pacetti and
another boy were put hunting when
they were met by crowd. OF colored bows.
OF whom Thomas appeared, to be the lead
, err The colored boys followed the white
boys and made fun OF them .Pacettf ana
his COMPANIONS stood the taunts OF the
colored boys as long as they could when
suddenly Pacetu turned and fired his shot
gun. The entire load OF bird shot struck
Thomas in the right side and leg scatter
ing from his hip TO ankle. Officer Moore
arrested Pacetu He sent for the patrol
wagon and Thomas was placed on the
stretcher and carried to his home. The
wounds are not considered dangerous
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Four Prisoners Escnne