The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-16

house of refuge. When about half way
Mr. Featherley became tired, and decided
to return TO the boat. When near the cut
he discovered "a large loggerhead in the
act Of discharging a cargo Of eggs, ten
Of which were already upon the ground.
Mr. Featherley caught the balance OF the
eggs i'm his hand. one by one. the whole
numbering JIG. After the turtle had laid
its eggs IL was turned upon its back.
Two parties alleged to have beaten a
Philadelphia commission house, and also
20 have beaten certain Tampa people, have
been located as residents of Stockton. Ga,
a town between Dupont and Naldostl, on
the Alabama Midland railroad. Sheriff
Spencer says one Of them is a slick duck.
On the night they left Tampa, when he
found the officials were onto the racket,
he turned prosecutor and was very anx-
ious TO catch his partner. He got away
from the officers, found his partner ami
both left the city
Mrs. Elizabeth Hart died near Pough-
keepsie y. y. on Sunday May 9, at the
home Of her son. William II Hart of La
Grange N. Y. She died without pain and
from no special disease in her S4th year.
She was the widow of the late Benjamin
II. Hart Of Poughkeepsie ~ Y, and Fed
eral Point, Fla, and was the mother of
Edmund II. Hart and Mrs. T.. S. Hubbard
Of Federal Point and of A. b. Hart of
Lake City, Fla. With a very few excep-
tons, she spent her last thirty winters in
Florida, returning every spring to her
home, Hearts Ease" in New York.
A meeting of the various Cuban patri-
otto clubs of Tampa was recently held for
the purpose of fixing day to be celebrated
as their day Of Independence It was de-
cided to make May 10, the day on which
Gen. Jose Marti was assassinated. the Gu
ban 4th of July, and they are making elab-
crate preparations for the event 1t is
proposed to meet in Ybor City early in the
morning of the 18th and march in a body
to st. Andrews church, Tampa, where
they will be addressed by Rev. w II. De
Hart and others after which they will
spend the holiday in an appropriate man
ner.
Much indignation was expressed at Live
Oak last week over the arrest and con-
Veyance to Jacksonville of James How
ard, colored, on a charge of selling whis-
ky without a license. On his arrival he
was confronted by renegade negro from
Suwannee and two negroes whom he had
never seen. who all swore that he had
sold them whisky al Houston on a certain
day in January. Howard gave bond and
returned to his crop, and as he can prove
that he was In Jasper getting his rice beat
en- out on the day they swore he was IN
Houston, he does not anticipate convic.
ton.
Tampa correspondent Jacksonville
mes-Union: 1t was stated at Tampa
Wednesday that the government bank at
Havana had collapsed and closed its
doors, which was accepted as evidence
that the Spaniards were at their row s
end. Passengers arriving by Thursday
RN fnrla too awH.~
true state of affairs The government has
issued a large amount of paper money
as a medium In the home market, making
IL redeemable in gold or silver but the
common people had little confidence in its
redemption, and the result was deprecia7.
ton. Then the spectators took up the
cue and bought the currency at a reduced
figure and presented it at the bank for
redemption. The amount presented kept
increasing until it threatened the safety
or the bank, and the officials issued an
order that only $500 a day would be so re-
deemed for a period of fifteen days At
the end of that time the redemption poll
Icy rs promised to resume as it is believed
by the friends of the government that an
other loan will be fioated by the home
government in that time.
The case of the Bradley Fertilizer com
pany VS.. w, Nj. Brown, assignee of Pace
" Doyle, which has been dragging along
IN the United States court for over two
years, has been finally decided A decis-
ion was rendered in favor of Mr. Brown
by Judge Locke in the United States court
of the Northern district of Florida a few
months ago. The case was then appealed
to the United States court of appeals by
the Bradley Fertilizer company. Judge
Pardee, of the United States court of APP
peals, has rendered his decision affirming
the judgment of Judge Locke This is a
victory for w. NJ. Brown, the assignee of
Pace q Doyle. Pace & Doyle were heavy
dealers in fertilizers, grain, box material
etc, with warehouses at Sanford and tt
tusVille. Just before the freezes of 1894
and 1895 they speculated heavily in oranges
buying the crops of a large number of
groves I'm the vicinity of Sanford on the
trees. The freeze came and the many
thousand dollars worth of oranges which
they had purchased but not yet gathered
were destroyed. They were compelled to go
to the wall and made an assignment TO w.
M Brown, who was at that time cashier
of the Indian River State Bank of Titus
Vile The Bradley Fertilizer company was
heavy creditor of Pace & DOYLE. and
brought suit to have the assignment set
aside for Irregularities and alleged fraud
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