The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-05-20
FLORIDA.


FLORIDA.
Gen. W. NJ. Ledwith is very i'll at his
home at Mayport and is not expected TO
live
Alfred Gibbs, colored, was hit over the
head with club by an unknown assail-
ant at Marietta Tuesday, and probably
fatally injured.
The corpse of awhile infant was found
in the suburbs of Jacksonville Tuesday.
A criminal operation was probably per-
formed at its birth. There is no clue to
it's parentage.
r. II. Appleby of Carrabelle, while I'M
der temporary alteration of mind. bought
a bottle of laudanum and drank the con-
tents, but by the strenuous efforts OF
Drs. Boykin and Covington 1t was pump
ed out and his life saved.
Circuit Clerk P NJ Colson was in Ala,
chua county last week, distributing storm
relief goods. He found many people al
most destitute. Many sawmills in the
storm-stricken country have abandoned
work until the sap falls off the logs. They
intend to saw heart only.
stiff northeast wind continues to GLOW
at St. Augustine and dangerously high
tides are the consequence. At 8 O'Clock
Monday night the tide washed over the
sea wall, and some parts of Bay street
were completely inundated. The San Sc
bastian river, on the west, also overlooked
its banks, and some OF the lower streets
on that side were under water for several
hours No serious damage has been done,
however
T. T. Edgerton of Green Cove Springs
died on Sunday of appendicitis and peri
tonitis. He was only sick a week. He
was conscious TO the last, and babe ali
his family good-by before undergoing an
operation. Mr.. Edgerton was 80 years OF
age and leaves wife ana one child,
aged 6 years. He was a brother-in-law
of Mayor Laud-Brown, and was one of
Green Cove's best citizens He was one
of the largest property-owners at Green
Cove Springs, and was until quite recent
ly in the mercantile business. He was also
proprietor of the st. Clair hotel.
w. E. Pabor of Pabor Lake was in
Jacksonville Tuesday. having made a
trip down the east coast in the interest
of securing a site for home for the Ma
tional Editorial Association. He reports
that the people of Melbourne are particu-
larly DESTROYS of having the home located
there. The East Coast Land Company,
sioner, has offered 100 acres of land near
Melbourne. Mr.. Pabor will go north
shortly to confer with the other members
of the committee, as it is desired to have
the home located before the annual meet
ing of the association next year.
Pensacola News: A few days since, while
a large congregation was attending one of
Rev c. L. Chiltons meetings in the Pala-
fox Street Methodist church. and the la
dies were arrayed in their new and beauti-
full Easter hats, all bedecked with artifi-
cial flowers, rivaling nature in beauty and
form through the exquisite art of the mil
liner a humming bird flew in through one
of the open windows and darted from one
pretty hat to another, seeking nectar
sweets from the flowers of art which had
deceived even it's keen instinct. 1t was
beautiful triumph of art over nature,
and for a minute every eye was diverted
from the preacher to the bird.
The trial of an important civil case was
entered upon in the United States court
at Jacksonville Tuesday, in which the
Memphis firm of Seesel, Ashner & Sugar
man brought suit to recover from the
Florida Central and Peninsular Railroad
Company $4,000 for damages arising from
an alleged failure by the defendant to
carry out the terms Of a certain agree
ed for the transportation by the defendant
company of a large amount of oranges
from points on the Manatee and Caloosa-
hatchie rivers to Memphis and New Or
leans during the orange season Of 1894-95.
The right of a jury trial was waived by
agreement of counsel and the evidence
was submitted TO Judge Locke.
Jacksonville Times-Union; In the cap
ture Of Thrasher Eaton, alias Thrasher
Mead, the police secured one Of the most
noted negro crooks in the country, and II
now appears that he is wanted In Geor-
gia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and
Texas, besides being wanted by the Unit
ed States government and the state Of
Florida. Deputy Marshal Smith carried
Mead before United States Commissioner
Eagan, who committed him to Jail In de-
fault of 81 900 bail, for robbing the post
Office at Alderman, Choctaw county, Mis-
sissippi on Oct. -, 1896. on the night Mead
robbed the postoffice at Alderman, Miss.
he also robbed "A safe Of the American
Express Company and secured about 81 900
Three days later he deposited $3.50 in the
First National Bank Of Englewood, H.
In November he was captured at kosciu-
sko, Miss. through the efforts OF Inspec.
tor speer. and was sent TO jail in Aber-
deem. Miss lie had not been in Jail long
when his woman, Ida Hamilton, Of Chi
cago, arrived in Aberdeen, and shortly at
terward Mead escaped He left a note
asking the taller TO have the damage to
fail repaired and charge II TO him Since
his escape there have been numerous safe
robberles IN Georgia. Alabama. Mssissip-
ri and Florida. and nearly everyone bore
the distinctive work Of Mead. He nearly
always used nitro-glycerine TO blow the
safes open. He has been In the habit OF
sending his booty to Ida Hamilton IN Chi
cago. He Is suspected OF being guilty OF
more than one murder. but there Is no
positive proof. Shortly after his escape
from jail he was traced to Artesia. Miss.
and the very night he was there store
was robbed and the proprietor killed. His
brother. w. l.. Easton, or Mead. was ar
rested hy Lieut.. BronKh az the same time
and Is now being held to await the result
OF the injuries OF Jim Baxter, whom he
shot in cutters saioor ,S>'i1 . Daantb sSn