The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-01
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" Q FLORIDA.


Is a beautiful country tropical fruits are
abundant, but he has had all he wants
of 1t.
Taylor Floyd, a negro, who is employed
by Johnson & Clarke of Martel, was shot
Wednesday while working in the woods
by two negroes named Moore and Hunter.
He was shot with turkey shot all over the
body, arm and head, one eye being shot
out. He was taken to Ocala Wednesday
night TO have his wounds dressed. The
trouble started over a game of skin last
Sunday.
Orlando Reporter: G.. s. Fish of Lake
Irma was in town to-day with branch
from one of his pecan trees which had on
TWO punches of nuts, a cluster of six, and
a cluster of five. Fifteen years ago, Mr..
Fish planted out this tree, and for the
last seven years he has been getting from
i've TO eight bushels each season. He ex-
poets 10 pick about eight bushels from
that tree this year. Last years crop
brought him 10 cents a pound. Since that
tree came into bearing Mr.. Fish has
planted out fifty others of the finest va
riety of pecan known. They will come
into bearing next year. He stated that a
pecan tree seldom if ever bears until it is
seven years old
Nora Virgins instituted suit in the Jack
sonville Criminal Court Thursday for di-
vorce from Hardy Virgins and alleges
that she married defendant April IT, 1895.
and lived together until Sept. q, 1898. Six
months after marriage she says her hus>
band began to beat her with his fist and
with sticks, and would curse her apply
ing all kinds of epithets, and he sup
ported her very Scantily. On Sept q she
says he knocked her down and beat her,
and then threatened 10 kill her, and she
fled to her mothers house for protection.
and she is afraid that he will kill her yet
One child was born to them. The wife
asks for divorce. care of child and her
separate personal property, and that he
may be restrained from interfering with
her, pending this suit. She also asks for
alimony and suit money.
Jacksonville Metropolis: An ingenious
method of defrauding business houses was
developed to-day when Teller Wheeler of
the First National Bank of Jacksonville
discovered two altered bills in deposits
from Harry Masons establishment and
that of the Wood Clothing Company both
doing business on West Bay street. 1t
required Sc to make $40. Two s. bills
and two 81 bills were cut diagonally in
two and the ends of each were attached
together in such a manner that unsus-
pecting parties did not notice them nor
Gid they discover the fraud. until they pre-
scented them for deposit at the bank this
morning, where the money was thrown out
by Teller Wheeler. The bills were passed
some time during the night, and it is
thought that the perpetrator can be To-
Gated, when he will be turned over to the
government authorities
J. B. Kertzienter, a German 40 years of
age, Of Jacksonville shot and seriously
wounded his wife Thursday morning.
There was no one present at the time of
the shooting, but from the particulars
learned by reporters it was evidently in
territorial though Kertzienter claims that
it was an accident. The shot, which was
fired from a SS-caliber blue steel Harring-
ton revolver, entered Mrs Kertz-
'enter's skull just above the
right ear protruding at a
point back of the ear, and entering the
right arm between the elbow and wrist
the bullet penetrating the arm, thus max
ing four wounds. Witnesses state that
only one shot was fired, but the revolver
when examined by the pohce, contained
two empty chambers. Immediately after
the shooting Kertzienter was taken priso-
ner by a squad from the Forty-ninth Iowa
Regiment. consisting of Corpls Haller
and Carmichael, and Privates Judd and
ingalls,, who Immediately notified the DO
lice, who took the prisoner to central sta
ton DR.. Smith, colored, was notified and
dressed the injured woman, whom he pro-
nounced not fatally injured. The doctor
describes the wounds as very singular. in
that one bullet made the four wounds and
had the bullet not struck the hardest por-
lion of the skull 1t would have proved
fatal. 1t is not known what caused the
trouble, though the police believe domestic
difficulties the cause. The woman is about
40 years of age.