The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-07-08


Thomas Bowling is making rapid prog
ress building his swimming pool at Live
oak
A baptstry is being annexed to the
Baptist church az Apalachcola A spire
viii also he placed upon the building.
a severe electrical storm visited Gaines
vile Monday. Lightning struck a tree in
the center of the city and Jared houses
for blocks away The tree caught fire af-
ter the shock.
ST. Petersburg win soon be lighted with
electricity, and the plant for that purpose
is now being put in. The machinery Is
that which for some time, has been at
Tarpon Springs.
Fannie Harris, the colored ehambermaid
on the steamer Naiad while attending
to her work in the cabin of the steamer
last week while on the up trip 10 Balm
bridge, suddenly fen dead.
The Loss acres of land that was involv-
ed In the case Of Clarkson Us. the Herman
do Phosphate Company was bid in by the
plaintiff al Brooksville Monday for 5000.
The amount Of the claim was $1,000.
\ gentleman from Baltimore who was
at Tampa Tuesday said that in all prob
ability his company would establish a
bank at Tampa in the near future and
that the capital stock would be over
10000,
Marvinia postofice has been discontin-
ued and all mail for that Office viii be
sent 10 Bioomingdale, unless otherwise
ordered. The shutting down of the phos-
phate works deprived the place OF all its
importance, and there was no longer any
necessity for maintaining the office.
George Myers was in Live Oak Monday
searching for his daughter. Emma, who
he said, had run away from home She
left Live Oak last Saturday for Cheraw,
3. c. Mr.. Meyers had Sheriff John Pearce
Of Tallahassee telegraph the chief of po-
lice of Savannah TO look out for her.
Benjamin Rush. prominent in republi-
can circles at Gainesville, has been ar
rested on a warrant charging him with
embezzlement The widow of Boston
Sturks, colored, who died some time ago,
swore out the warrant in which she al
legged that during the life OF her husband
he gave Mr. Rush $50 TO hold in trust
awaiting the transfer by deed of a piece
Of property; that Mr.. Rush accepted the
money, receipted the same, and failed to
appropriate 1t as per the agreement and
fraudulently used il for his own purpo-
ses.
AT Tarpon Springs Sunday c. A. Cause
attempted to kill himself while the family
were at dinner at the residence of his
nephew Charles Lee After drawing a
casket on a piece of paper and writing a
warning TO his brother against intemper-
ance he called the family to the door
and deliberately fired a pistol ball into
his left breast, just above the nipple The
bullet struck a rib and glanced around
and was extracted at the point of the
shoulder blade just beneath the skin. The
attending physicians are not hopeful Of
As recovery.
At Tampa Monday noon Marlel Luperio
shot Elipio Carbonen on Ninth avenue,
between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets.
The wound Is not considered dangerous.
although the bullet entered the mans
breast near the heart. As soon as the
shooting was done Mariel gave himself
up to Deputy Sheriff stephens. There
are two reports about the affair, one be-
ing that the men We're shooting Fourth
of July guns, and this one happened to
be loaded, while the other is to the effect
that the men became involved in a quar-
rel over grocery bill and brought about
the shooting