The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-06-03

Others in this section have more Or lsss
cassava growing.
Some Of the old peach trees in Orlando
are now Holding such burden of fruit
as to bear the branches low down. There
is one in the Magnolia Hotel yard and
another in The rear of the Western Union
telegraph office that are worth going q
mile to look at. In the grounds of T.
A. Lewter, in the north part of town, is
one which he thinks win yield five bushels
this season.
Ocala Banner: Ocala's patriotic celebta-
tons have all been memorable events and
her celebration this year is to cap q e
climax. She Is going o Guido herself. shs
is going TO put the big pot in the little
ones and make 1t day Of hurrah, tumu I
and noise. Low fares. free ice water, red
lemonade all manner OF games ana races,
dazzling prizes. parades, music and era
tory galore, will figure in the days's
amusemeuts.
Phil II. shafer, young man OF family,
who operates a rip saw in the rim ard
spoke factory at Oeala, was seriously in
jured Thursday afternoon. He was saw
Ing a piece of hickory, when II was caught
foul by the saw, and hurled with great
force against Mr.. Shafer's chin and jaw,
breaking the jawbone in several places
He was taken 10 DR.. Newsor's office, end
the doctor set the bones g s best h CO I'D.
and placed mould on the chin 10 hid
il in place. While the wound is very Sc
rious, il is not considered dangerous.
Fort Myers Press: Probably more pro-
duce has been shipped from Sanibel Is
land the present season than any o,he-
like area in the state. Tomato shipments
began there in the latter part of Ocioa,
Inn Il IN Ia
the present time, and still vegetables ar
going forward. In the past weak the
watermelon crop has begun TO move. and
this Will last a month or six weeks longer.
so that the shipping season will nave
lasted over eight months. The vegetable
crop will reach 1900 crates, while The
watermelon yield will add many carloads
to this.
Jacksonville Times-Union and Citizen:
There now seems 10 be no doubt that the
city of Jacksonville through its Board
of Trade, win entertain the delegates to
the Democratic State Convention with all
the hospitality that has given the city
good name wherever 1t is known. The
enjoyment of the Seaboard Air Line ban
quet on Thursday evening seemed only
to give new zest to the work of soliciting
additions 20 the fund yesterday, and be-
fore night il had been raised TO within
Few pOlIllS OF Inc 9oUJO mark IL tue
membership of the Board of Trade com
mittee the name of r. Fl. Bishop has
been added, and yesterday he Joined forces
with the rest in working.
The jury in the Hewitt brotherse muir
der case on trial in Jacksonville, arrived
at a conclusion at 10 O'Clock Friday morn
ing, and brought in verdict of murder
in the second degree, as to Lum and
Dick Hewitt, and found Moss Hewitt
guilty of being an accessory before the
fact. The punishment in each case is life
Imprisonment. A large crowd gathered
to-day to hear the result. Many were
disappointed as those who heard the evil
dence fully expected a verdict of murder
in the first degree, without The recon-
mendation of mercy. Hon. j. E. Hart
ridge, one of the attorneys for the ac-
cused, said that he would move for new
trial, and if he failed, would take the
matter TO the Supreme Coup. j. T.
johnson, the murdered man, on Saturday,
May 49, 1898, married Miss Alice Johnson,
a sister of the Hewitt boys. The brothers
were chagrined, and assaulted Johnson
shortly after the marriage. They threat
ened TO kill him, and Lum Hewitt bor-
rowed a gun from L. j. Scarboro a short
while before the murder. The locks OF
this gun were found with Johnson s
bloody necktie in a gallberry patch near
by. Johnson's body was found in the
bottom of a creek the next morning
weighted down by a heavy iron carbox
The state, in every particular. made out
a clear case against the prisoners, trac-
ing every detail to the Hewitt brothers.