The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-07-23
m GEORGIA AND FLORIDA.
,,,ys OF THE TWO STATES TOLD
IN PARAGRAPHS


New Factories for Reynolds - New
River steamer Nearing Completion
O., AnaIachicOla-The Three Hewitt
urothers Removed to the County
J.u at Jacksonville for Safe
Keeping.
GEORGIA.
the Kicks brick building at Reynolds is
nearing completion and will be quite an
ornament to the town.
The State Colored Baptist Convention
convened at Macon Thursday and will re-
main in session several days.
Rains have been plentiful around Rey-
nolds recently and crops are looking well.
New cotton is expected about Aug. l.
A crate factory, together with other
manufactures win be built at Reynolds
soon. Electric lights and an ice depot are
in the near future.
Returns from peach shipments from
REYNOLDS have been very satisfactory, one
grower making a clear profit Of $4,000 on
a shipment of ten cars.
FLORIDA.
A colony of Orange county people, con-
sisting of six families, have removed to
the Thousand Islands on the West coast.
The Board of County Commissioners of
Raker county have added $500 TO the states
81 900 reward for the assassins of George
p. Canova of that county, which occurred
June 3.
AT Tampa Wednesday, Private Aims
worth of Company B, Eleventh United
State Infantry, was shot through the left
knee. the bail tearing the knee cap off.
Private Monroe was testing the magazine
of his Krag-Jorgensen rife, and in going
through a series of Traaspulations dis
charged the piece with serious results 10
Ainsworth, who will lose his leg. The
wounded man was carried at once to the
division hospital, where he is receiving
the best of care. Private Monroe will be
severely punished for his carelessness IN
handling The gun.
One of the new steamers OF the indie
pendent Navigation Company is about
completed at Apalachicola, and will be
ready for service within a few days. This
new steamer will be named the Three
States. and is about ninety feet long. The
work on the other steamer of the company
has just commenced, and it will be l40 feet
long. w DIX on dQOAn6f large river SledIu-
er, owned by W. A. Gains, has been COM
menced 1t will be $50 feet long, and will
be ready for service in about two months.
Two other steamers are being built al Co
lumbus by parties of that place, one of
them being 175 feet long.
H. A. Hewitt, C. B. Hewitt and c. R.
Hewitt, three brothers, whose home is
in Bradford county, are prisoners at the
county Jail at Jacksonville, charged with
the murder, about four weeks ago, of their
brother-in-law. They are lodged in the
jail at Jacksonville because the authori-
ties Of Bradford county feared an attempt
on the part of their friends to rescue them
from custody. The accounts of the crime
for which these men have been arrested
give a particularly distressing condition of
affairs. Their sister, against their wishes,
married a man by the name of Johnson,
about a month or more ago, and while
the party was returning from the place
where the ceremony had been performed
it was waylaid by the prisoners and the
bridegroom was killed.
Tampa correspondence Jacksonville
Times-Union: There are about a dozen
people in Tampa from Illinois who can
express themselves very eloquently con-
corning the management of the United
STATES Army. These men enlisted in the
First Illinois Volunteers and they spent
all their time in the service of the coun-
Try In camp at Springfield, Chickamauga,
ana at Picnic Island. A few days before
the regiment left this city these men were
told that they could not go TO Cuba, as
they were not physically able TO be fight
ms members of the regiment. But when
the time for embarkation came they were
marched on board the transports. Just
before the sailing, however, they were
marched off and left on the island with the
engineer corps from the same regiment.
They were here without means and with
out food, but when they We're left they
We're provided with several days rations
oy he quartermaster and left on the ISL
ana 10 sleep as best they could. Since
mat time these men have vainly endeav-
ofed TO get the officers here to give them
what they are entitled to-that is, two
months pay and transportation back to
te point Of enlistment So far they have
hoL been successful in getting these mat
@rs attended to, and the men are in a very
sorry frame of mind over the position they
are placed in. They are here without
friends or money, but they will get home
al last, as the Army and Navy Relief
league has taken up their case and will
give them transportation back to their
homes in Illinois.
IT q DAUNTLESS AT BRUNSWICK.