The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-12-22
FLORIDA.


Jacksonville Times Union and Citizen.
AS result of a runaway accident Mrs.
sawyer, a woman past middle age who
resides near Talleyrand Place, On the rock
ROAD is ying in a critical condition at the
county Hospital, and the prospects for her
recovery are believed to be very small.
Roy S. Hanna received the appointment
as postmaster at ST. Petersburg Tuesday.
ms is quite a surprise 10 most of the
cl.lzehs as 1t was thought that one of two
others VINO mad been making strong eff
1orts, would receive the appointment. MIR
Hanna has been an earnest worker for the
party.
Maintaining solemnly and positively to
the last that w. H. Stafford was the man
who shot him, and making such statements
with the fun knowledge that each breath
might be his last b. F. Daniels, the vic
TIM OF a terrible crime, died Tuesday aft
ernoon at O'Clock at Tampa Stafford is
sun in jail, and it is said considerable
circumstantial evidence has been secured
against him
Mr.. Henry Rhine was testing with Rich
ard Stevens at Fort ogden the other day.
when the latter became angry. He struck
Rhine with a baseball bat, knocking out
ms teeth and breaking his jawbone. The
blow Knocked Rhine down, and Stevens
would have killed him had not CO.. C. c.
Morgan thrown him out of the store and
shut the door. Stevens then left for parts
unknown. A warrant was sworn out, and
an officer is hunting him.
News has been received in Tampa Of the
killing of an unknown white man at
Owensboro, north of that city, in Pasco
county. He was supposed to be tramp
He was found Monday morning shot
through the leg, an artery being cut, from
which he died. Before death came to him
he said he was shot by the Plant System
section master, named Lewis. Lewis ad-
mitted the shooting and said that he did it
because the man insulted his wife. Lewis
did not bear out this story, though, be-
cause he skipped at once, and has not
been heard from since.
The trial of Dentist B. B. Smith for MUIR
der was begun at Pensacola Wednesday.
A special venire of fifty men was ordered.
from which a jury win be secured. Up to
Y o'clock only two had been accepted, ami
it is thought ii will be several days before
a jury can be chosen. Smith killed William
Hollifeld last June, and has been in Jail
ever since, waving a preliminary exam
ination. He has a wife and three children,
his daughter being about 16 years of age.
She has been daily visitor to the place
of her fathers confinement, including Sun
days. Both victim and slayer were POM
inent people, and the trial excites the
greatest interest.
Ocala Star: C. T. Gaskins, an industri-
Gus farmer, who lives six miles southwest
of Ocala, harvested, this year ], 500 bushels
of corn, 500 bushels Of sweet potatoes, 1000
gallons of syrup, and off of three-quarters
of an acre of land, 500 pounds of cleaned
rice, and 325 barrels of Irish potatoes, to
say nothing of the garden sass" and
other truck he grew for domestic use. He
was so well rewarded in the way of pay
for his potatoes that he will double his
crop in 1900. All this was done with the
assistance of two horses and Herbert
Davis, who, though small in statue, is a
Hercules in strength, energy and activity.
Hence, a well-flled crib at Gaskins'.
The case of the state VS.. G. T. Kennard
murder, was called in the Circuit Court
at Gainesville Wednesday. The defend
ants attorneys pleaded in abatement. At
this iuncture they astonished the court by
making an effort to quash the indictment
on the ground that the actions of the
grand Jury were not legal from the fact
that the signature of the chairman of the
Board of County Commissioners was not
attached to the jury list as spread upon
the minute book Clerk Denton made af-
fdavit that the chairman's signature was
upou the original paper from which the
minutes were copied, but when search
was made for this paper ii had been taken
away, and no one knows what has become
of 1t. The matter will be argued before
Judge Hooker.