The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-22

Samuel A. Donald of Jacksonville has |
been declared insane.
number of Cubans have arrived at
Manatee this week to assist in cutting and
curing tobacco.
Another large tobacco barn, 80 by 30
feet, has just been completed at Manatee
and another is to be built at once in the
Gates hammock.
Petitions and affdavits are being sent
to the state pardoning board for the COM
mutation of the sentence of ex-Policeman
Kelly of Jacksonville for the killing of j.
b. Talent.
The residence of ]. Sykes, at Conway
four miles southeast of Orlando, was
burned, with its contents Wednesday, The
fire had made such progress when first
discovered that no time was left for the
removal of the furniture. 1t was not in
sured.
Wesley NJ Featherly has sold his inter-
est in the East Coast Publishing Com.
pany, publishers of the Miami Metropolis,
to the firm of Robbins, Graham G. Co,
which company will continue to publish
that paper, with Walter S. Graham as
editor.
Four steamships are kept busy making
daily trips moving the vegetable crop
from the Manatee river country. Nine
thousand crates are said to have been car
ried out last Saturday by the two steam>
ers Manatee and Margaret. Everybody is
busy now.
Win Holton, train hand on the Gaines
Vile and Gulf railroad, was seriously in
jured recently at Tacoma while unloading
guano He carried sack of guano on his
shoulder, and fell with it between the
car and platform, receiving serious inter-
nal injuries.
c. B. Easterlin, a prominent merchant
of Gainesville, has proposed a plan for a
cotton exchange, to be located somewhere
in Central Florida, and to be composed
of cotton planters and a sufficient number
of merchants and moneyed men to give
the enterprise financial backing.
Capt. r. E. Davidson of the Ocala Rifles,
while in Jacksonville, Tuesday morning.
en- route to the state encampment, had
the misfortune to lose his pocketbook
containing $500 and the company's rail-
road ticket. Much of the cash belonged
to different members of the company,
something like $50 Of it belonging to Tom
Harris
Mrs. Hately has in her yard at Jasper
a genuine tea plant which has been grow
ing there for fifteen years. The plant is
eight or ten feet high, has many branches,
and blooms and seeds every year fhe
cold weather does not seem to affect 1t.
Some of the tender leaves have been cured
in pan on the fire and the tea pronounced
of fine Favor by those who drank it.
About thirty colored laborers arrived 81
Miami Thursday in the sloop Storm Bird,
from Key West, where they have been
employed on the new government fort
there. The men, realizing that the con-
tractors were compelled TO complete the
fort in a certain length of time, decided
to strike for more pay. They were get
ting 81 per day, but now get nothing.
Ada Edwards and Maggie Coleman. both
colored, engaged In a novel duel at the
house Of the latter at Jacksonville Thurs
day night, and the result of the fight is
that both women are suffering from pain
full burns. The women were drinking to
a considerable extent and became involved
in a row. Fists were not sufficient to set
tie their differences and they resorted to
burning lamps. When the fight was at its
highest pitch they seized the lamps ana
hurled them at each other The oil cs-
capped from the lamps as they flew
ing fluid splashed over both women and
they received severe burns. The row
broke UP by the Edwards woman being
thrown into the street
A petition has been filed in the county
judges court at Jacksonville by Laura
Hooper of Nassau county, through her
attorneys, Adams & LEngle asking tina.
the will of Evalina Ross, formerly Eva
lima RouX, who died in Jacksonville Dec
! /. 1894, be revoked. The petition sets
fSrth that the deceased left no children or
heirs, except the petitioner and sisters
and brothers. The petition further sets
forth that Enoeh II. Ross was her hus-
band and now claims to be sole heir OF
the deceased. but the petition further al
leges that Ross was never legally married.
as the deceased was a colored woman.
while Ross was a white man. Another
reason set forth for the revocation of the
win is that 1t is signed by only two Wit
nesses, when the law requires three.