The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-24
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train load for the north. The market for
this product is beginning to climb and the
| shipments are increasing. Irish potatoes
are looking well. but are In need Of rain.
! The crop is larger this year than 1t has
ever been.
Saturday afternoon about . o'clock, the
winter residence at Mt. Dora of G. G..
! Bolton of Cambridge, Mass, was struck
| by lightning and burned to the ground.
| Mr.. Bolton did not go to Mt. Dora this
| winter, and the building was unoccupied.
| There is no insurance, as far as can be
learned upon the house or furniture.
The st. Augustine Herald throws out
hints of a dastardly act on the part Of
several young men of that city, whom,
| the Herald claims, inveigled a young
white woman into a room, and, at the
point Of a pistol, forced her to disrobe.
| They then took full life-sized nude pno-
| tograph The Herald claims to have sUf-
| hcient data TO warrant its statement.
Capt. Broadbent of the life saving sta
ton near Tampa reports that two women
Of Tampa, one white and one oolored, were
drowned in the bay by the capsizing of a
sailboat during a squall Sunday after
noon. There were six persons in the boat
on a pleasure excursion all colored but
one. tOuT were rescued Dy tHc ne SdN-
ers The name OF the drowned colored
woman is Julia Hasties; the name of the
white woman has not been ascertained.
At a meeting held at Umatilla Saturday
the citizens organized the st. Johns and
Umatilla Transportation Company, for the
purpose of building and operating tram
way between the ST. Johns river and Una
tilla. Officers and directors were elected,
md he ~ con 7re1ft toe
A charter will be applied for at an early
date and work begun on the line. Liberal
subscriptions and donations were received
and the prospects for success are bright.
Joe Rice, aged about 10 years, was shot
through the hand and in the jaw by Tuck
er Tlllis, another boy, at North Gaines
vile hall Saturday night. The boys quar-
relied about some trifing matter and,
pulling his pistol, Tdllis remarked that he
would shoot Rice through the heart He
aimed the gun at the other boys breast,
but just as he pulled the trigger Rice
threw up his hands and dropped to his
knees thus saving himself from being shot
through the breast. The ball passed
through his hand and entered his jaw
Though the ball has not yet been found
It is not thought the boy is seriously hurt
A warrant has been sworn out for Tillis.
AL LNb last ltIAil VI AliG NiACuAI SOhAt az
Ocala, Carl Thalheim, the special Ameri-
can representative of the London office of
the Anglo-Continental date Ohlendorff)
Guano Works, of Hamburg, was tried on
the charge Of embezzlement and convicted
His attorney, Z. w. Davis, secured new
trial from the supreme court, and the cases
were set for Monday. He was under bond
in the three indictments for $1,000 each in
the first two and s., 600 in the third. When
the cases were called Thalheim's attorney
stated that he did not believe the defendant
would be present at this term of the court.
The court thereupon ordered that the
bonds be estreated. Thalheim was trust
ed emp.oye of the company, and the sum
stated to have been embezzled exceeds $40, =
Co., over week was occupied In the first
trial of the cases.
A lively meeting of the Escambla coun-
ty board of health was held at Pensacola
Monday. The reports of Drs. Porter and
Horsey, state health officers, made to the
governor were read. These reports Sc
verely condemn the methods of the local
board in connection with the smallpox,
which recently prevailed, and in effect
pronounce the local board to be incompe-
tent The ire of President Pitt of the To-
cal board had been stirred by the reports,
and he submitted a long reply, which he
declares the reports of the state health
officers to be unfair, and in many respects
untruthful, and draws a comparison be-
tween the action OF the board and that of
DR.. Porter with respect to the smallpox at
Key West, in which he aims to show that
DR.. Porter accomplished very little with
a big pile of money, and that the object is
to have the local board abolished.
Capt j. e. Chase of St. Petersburg and
his brother. Prof. A. J. Chase, of Boston.
are making an effort to establish can
| ming factory at st. Petersburg, to put up
| fish, sardines, and vegetables. They will
use as preserver a patent liquid, the
| invention of Prof. Chase, which has been
| proven superior TO anything ever used
for the purpose. There is one species OF
| the finny tribe in Florida waters, the
| MesSrs. Chase say, the value of which is
not realized by the average citizen, and
| that is the genuine sardine for which one
pays SO per hundred boxes imported from
| French factories. Prof Chase Is an au.
| thority on fish, and, after making a thor
ough investigation, he pronounces the
species found In Florida superior to those
| imported. He further states that the wa
| tiers are swarming with inexhaustiblC
| quantities of them. Prof. Chase is also
the inventor of the cold blast refrigerator
| car. thousands of which are in constant
use all over the country.
Charles A. Anderson of the Hotel Bis
cayne, at Miami, will relinquish his man.
agement on Wednesday and depart fol
the north with Mrs. Anderson. In refer.
ring to his recent $4,000 winning on T'itz.
| simmons, Mr.. Anderson said: Il am not
| ordinarily a sporting man. l do not drink
| nor use tobacco, and seldom bet. But
| happened TO be in Jimmy Waxelys place
| in New York when the late fight was an
nounced as arranged, and there were pres.
ent Wakey, John l.. Sullivan, Billy I'd.
! wards, Crofut and a few other well known
| sports. had in my pocket a $1,000 bond 81
! the city of Montgomery, Ala. Sullivan
was in one OF his bombastic moods and
said that Fitz wouldn't have a show with
| Corbett The others seemed to feel the
same way. / said that II Fitz stood out
| for four rounds he would win. Wakely
| said he'd bet 10 to he wouldn't. l asked
him how much he'd bet at that figure. He
| quickly responded ''Fn cover all you've
got" put up the thousand and in ter
minutes he had produced $4,000, part Of
which was taken by others. A memo
| randum of the wager was made and The
| stakes deposited in bank. Fitzsimmons
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