The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-29


day, which win be kept up for some time.
The crop will aggregate about 5000 bar
| rels.
Reports from eapple-growers
| throughout Southeast Florida are 70 the
effect that the crop rhls year will be larger
by 30 per cent than that of any previous
year.
During the last conference year Rev.
L. L. Fisher, presiding elder of the NJ. f.
church, Jacksonville district, Travelled TO-.
$50 miles in order to meet his appoint
ments.
Frank Kidder, a wealthy and influential
citizen Of Des Moines, Ia, who has been
spending the past two weeks at West
Palm Beach, has decided to locate there
permanently and on Saturday purchased
from Col. J. II. Jones ten acres of pine
apple land south OF S. c. CLOVIS planta-
ton, the property fronting on Lake Worth.
A serious and perhaps fatal accident
happened Tuesday night at Orient, about
four miles from Tampa. VIII Cowart was
handling a pistol, and 1t went off acct
dentally and shot his hand off; the ball
then struck Bob Bunchare, who was
standing nearby in the back, near the
shoulder blade, iniicting a wound that
may cause his death.
Vegetable shipments still continue
heavy from Sanford. Irish potatoes, Gu
cumbers and beans are going forward now
and bringing good returns The celery crop
has been variable Hon. b. F. Whitner of
Fort Reid netted $500 this season from
little less than three-quarters of an acre
of celery His shipments all went to New
York and Philadelphia. Other shippers
have not been so successful.
About o'clock Tuesday night, while
Jackson Law, a negro fireman at the Ybor
City Ice Works, was going to Tampa, he
was shot and fatally wounded by I'M
known persons. The ball entered his back
and pierced his lungs He says that he did
not know his assailant and has had no
difficulty with any one. Law was peace
able, Industrious man. A negro answering
the description Law gave of his assailant
has been arrested on suspicion. He entered
the station house to see the wounded man,
ana was held.
Jacksonville Times-Union: A peculiar
case of drowning, and one which may
come up before the grand jury at the
coming term of the circuit court, despite
the verdict of the coroner's jury, which
exonerated the man who seemed to be
the cause of the drowning, occurred last
Saturday Hargrove Temple, a lumber
marker at Wade's mill on Fishwier creek.
and a negro hand, George Green, had
some words and Temple drew a knife on
Green. The latter became frightened and
to escape being seriously cut, as he
thought, jumped into the creek. Not be.
ing able to swim, he was drowned.
Live Oak Leader: Stockton of Duval
has introduced a bill requiring railroads
to publish list of passes issued. lie
ought TO have gone further and required
doctors to publish list of prescriptions
written; grocers a list Of sugar sold; bank
ers list of loans made, etc. 1t is Just
such adarned nonsense as Mr.. Stockton's
bill which makes it impossible for the peo-
pie and the railroads to arrive at a mu-
tual understanding. Give us railroad
commission that will be just to both the
railroads and the people, and leave the
railroads free to issue passes to every
shipper on the line of their road If they
choose to.
Tampa received it's first Knockout blow
Tuesday in the fight between the Tax
Payers Protective League and the city
government on the question of the city
tax assessment The case came up for a
hearing before Judge Phillips on a petition
from certain members of the league ask
ing that an injunction be issued to set
aside the assessment Of 1896, on the ground
that IL was made Illegally, a party having
been employed 20 do the work, contrary
to the charter. According to the charter
the city auditor becomes the city tax as
SCISSOR, and must make the assessment In
person. In this case the work was done
by an assistant employed especially for
that purpose.