The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-10-03
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% 40 uoul, winch We're imme-
dlately brought 10 the city and distrib-
uted among those who wanted sometime
real good to eat. Experts with rod and
reel declare that fishing was never better
thah at present in the many lakes to the
north of the city
Ihe recent completion of the transfer of
all the Dsston Land Company holdings in
Florida, amounting to several million
acres, many of them around kissimmoe
10 Gen. Charles Miller and Col. e w
duidecoper of Washington. d. C.. means
a great deal to South Florida. and espec-
lally to kissimmee, which being the center
OF the great interest and at the head of
navigation, viii be much benefited bv the
improvement and development of the prop
erty.
Inc most important case tried at Wild
wood last week was that of Alev HAYS
who was tried for the killing of Alvs Pc
ters on May Z 1874. The state was repre-
scented by States Attorney Sid L. Garter
assisted by Clark & Hines. The defend
ant was repFesented by j. c. B. Koonce.
Inc jury found The defendant not guilty
and Alley Hays Walker walked from the
court room free man. This was the first
case that was ever tried in that county
for murder.
News has reached Tampa of the explo-
sion Of a turpendne stnl at Hudson. above
there, on the coast. The still belonged to
I. l.. Johnson, and the wreck was COM
plete. One colored man was burned in
terrible manner, while several others were
seriously scalded. Mr. johnson proposes
10 erect another still on the site of the
old one, and will more than double his
capacity. He is one of the most extern
siVe operators in that section. and the
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the timber section, and was doing large
business at the time Of the explosion of his
still.
AT Clay Springs Friday ten persons were
thought to be poisoned. Soon after din
ner they were all attacked with violent
pains in the inteStines, accompanied by
nausea, purging and abnormal dilation of
che pupils of the eyes Coffee being the
onIy substance that all the sick partook
OF, the cause was attributed to some I'M
known poison in the coffee pot While
there is no suspicion of foul play, the con-
tents of one stomach is being analysed TO
prevent similar accidents. Some of the
sick were taken home lying in the wagon
beds, and some were too sick to be re-
moved, but all are out Of danger now.
The Old Midland depot at Longwood
burned Thursday afternoon. Sparks from
the uorthbound freight set fire to the plat
form; the roof and sides of the building
were covered with iron. and the fire was
beyond control when discovered The grass
and palmettoeS around soon caught and
the strong east wind carried sparks to the
roof of the shed a hundred feet from the
fire, and it was soon in a blaze. The men
and boys about put 1t out bus discovered
another building across the street from the
shed to be burning; that. too, was oXtin-
Suished and the town saved Mr.. Meme
yer lives a quarter Of a mile from the
burned depot but when he went TO his
room at night he found piece of charred
single on his bed, evidently carried there
by the wind.
Il. S. Baton, section foreman on the
Plant System, living at Harvey. has been
carried to the hospital at Sanford i'm a
dangerously wounded condition The par
ticulars' of the affair have been suppressed
partially. Whatever trouble there was oc-
CURED Thursday night, and as a result
Baton is severely injured by knife
wounds According 10 the best infocma-
ton obtainable Baton was boarding AZ
Harvey with a man namcdNMcCord and
Baton claims that they hadjsome trouble
over a trivial affair He says that after il
was over McCord slipped up behind him
and stabbed him several times with a
knife, without the slightest warning of
what was to come. McCord has not been
apprehended yet and it is not known just
how serious BattonNs wounds are for liz
is cut in several places.
For The past twelve years Messrs. P. b.
Jaudon and Robert A. MFRS of Orlando
have been working out the horticultural
problem of producing seed.ess fruit. In
this they have evidently succeeded. Last