The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-18

vile district Methodist Episcopal church
| and the jacksonville district Epworth
League convention viii be held in Grace
| church, St. Augustine. Nov 10, l6, H. 1897.
| The Jacksonville district extends from
| Jacksonville to Miami on the east coast,
| and takes in DeLand, Orange City and
| other places In the interior.
Joe Guyton, a negro boy, of Mariana,
| having had a falling out with his sister,
| took his mothers pistol from the mantel
| and killed himself. He was only ten years
! Old. He told his sister he was going to
| kill her, but in the attempt to pun the
| trigger back the pistol fired, the ban en-
| tering his stomach. He died early this
| morning, having lived but few hours.
Some of the small boys Of Fort Mccoy
public school had a remarkable game with
a large snake Friday. While playing at
! noon the boys found a cOachwhip under
| log. They surrounded 1t and began jump
! ing upon 1t with their bare feet. A lad of
| r. thinking the snake dead, put it around
| his neck for q necktie. The coachwhip
wasn't dead, and closed I'm on the boy
neck, but was finally pulled off.
A stock company is being formed In the
Zellwood neighborhood for the purpose of
| growing tobacco. As soon as the capital
| is subscribed a tobacco barn win be built
| A suitable manager will be engaged, and
| the process of manufacturing entered into
| 1t has been proved that the soil will grow
| the plant we'll Years ago the old-time
| farmers grew It, and were successful. If
any others out of the company wish to
| grow t. they will be allowed all facilities
for getting Information as to the way TO
| do it.
r. ]. Bolton, Los Angeles, Cal, is anx-
ous to locate in Florida, where educa-
! tional advantages are good. He wants a
| farm Of 800 acres, and requests printed
| matter with full information. william c.
! Cation of Beaver Falls, Pa, asks for re-
| ports pamphlets. etc, as to resources OF
| Florida. S. Hartman, of Wheeling, w. Va,
| desires information about lands in orange
! county. ]. c. Elliott Of Greenville, S. c.,
| wants Information on fruit, vegetable and
tobacco culture, and is anxious to come to
| Florida.
Lake City's tobacco fair, which will be
held in that city next week, promises to
| be an elaborate affair. Those arranging
the prehminaries are so sanguine of rich
| results from the tobacco industry in Flor
| ida that they are not inclined to stint the
affair by a lack of funds at the outset.
The Florida press has so literally adver-
| tsed the fair that a large attendance is
| assured, and the prospects for fine eXhib-
| its are such as to enthuse the fairs pro-
| motors to greater efforts. The Lake City
| Reporter extends a hearty invitation TO
| Florida editors to attend. and assures them
that Lake Citys best will be theirs with
out money and without price"
Jacksonville Times Union and Citizen:
The telegraphic report received from
| Brunswick Friday to the effect that a
| mi.
| Ing steaming out of st. Andrews sound,
and that shots were heard shortly after
ward is probably explained by the fact
| that the gunbOat Nashville was seen
| Thursday off the South Carolina coast by
the captain of the Algonquin. 1t is well
| known also that the crew of the Nash
| vile is about as well and as often-drilled
as any other in the navy The shots that
were fired in st. Andrews sound We're
most likely from the Nashville, and that
1t was one of the regular drills, instead
of an effort TO shoot ilibuster.
Eight negro stevedores, employed on the
Clyde wharf, at Jacksonville, were ar
rested Friday charged with breaking into
packages of freight and stealing articles
of wear and other things. The officials
of the steamship line had been at work
for a long time trying to apprehend the
perpetrators of the thefts, and it was only
by employing George Davis, colored as
a laboreT, with the understanding thai
he was to get evidence against the guilty
parties, that they were finally arrested
| Davis worked several weeks, and kept al
| account of the persons seen thieVing, anC
| at the proper time he was arrested as
| thief and gave the information gathered
to the police. Several of the negroes wer,
followed when they left the wharf, anC
were caught or seen with the property il
/ IL
George Davis, j. +. lie Grand, July Brown
Isaac Evans, T. Brown, w. c. CraXton
Joe Robertson, and James Fleming.
Key West Dispatch, Oct. Is: Some tim
ago James johnson severely beat a. woman
and the case was sent to the crimina
court. Before that court met, the cas-
was compromised by johnson paying ex
penses and the doctors bill for the wo
man, who was confined TO her rooms 70
some time, caused by the beating she re
ceived. Editor Walter Thompson of tn
Key West Herald wrote up the assault
! and called the attention of the crimina
court to the affair when it convened. John
son swore vengeance on the editor, an,
] after waiting about two weeks. assaulte,
him in a concert hall last Saturday even
ing, striking him from behind and knock
ing him TO the floor Editor Thompson
however, grabbed his assailant by tn
throat and would have shot him. but SOM
of the bystanders took his pistol from hi
, pocket before he could get at IT, Friend
] of the editor who were present mad
things warm for several minutes, and TIN
han was cleared of the audience by tn
doors and windows. The attack was a COW
= ardly one, and the police Immediately ha,
. Johnson arrested, and he was fined $40 an,
Z | costs for resisting arrest, and using pro
t | fame language while being taken to Jail
E The case of assault viii go to the crimina
| court.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Charlestons street cars are to be heatet
: by electricity
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