Bradford County telegraph. (Starke, Fla.) 1888-current, 1910-08-12


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a bronze tablet In memory of the l.se
Senator W. J. Bryan will be placed on
the new battleship Florida.
The strike Of the Tampa cigar makers
took on new phase Saturday night
when 50 per cent Of the men reuaininss
at work were notified by the mah6kso-
turers that they need not return totheir
work Monday. This action on the par.
of the manufacturers increased the nnm.
Der ont Of employment, By, virtue Of
walkouts and lay-ofsls ITO sdmewhere
in the neighborhood of g, 900 men, or
about 20 per cent Of the cigar makers
employed IN the city Of Tamps.
Two negroes, pleading vat, y for their
lives, were strung up by a tnfUriased
mob between Bombay and Dady last
Saturday afternoon and while they ware
dangling from the ropes were perfora,ed
by bullets Of from fifty to s9yenty.aye
white men Of the surrounding ,cbuntry.
The crime which caused the lIaohins i
one Of the most brutal eyerx sbHr q b
this county. The two neg1veS oonfessed
TO numbering little Bas ktorr;eon. he
ls-yesr-old danghts 1zrs. Nary Nor.
rison. who live - Efdy, IN the ar.
treme westszn fazl1es sountv.
whoOe body znoznih@ IA
Homestead an |.sS AZ En,t s.
The little gid bc,l FriSsv|
morning alone n }atirp 4 IA
of trRgedy ~ fsilad 10
come home in tbs az ton. AftSr
reasonable time had elapsed seaIB ling
party was formed and after quest last
ing well into Friday night, found the
mangled remains Of the girl in Hcol of
water IN q swamp near her home. Her
body mangled snd the shrubbery in HE
vicinity told Of the one-sided fight Of
the girl against the two negro hepds.
After committing the murder tha ne
groes dragged the body into a 6sarby
swamp whore it was found by the earch-
ing party. Later advices received from
Dsdy, where four negroes have been
Tnched f6r the murder, say that the
psse win continue searching thsSonn-
for negroes thought to have k16wl-
ede Of the crime. The blacks arg fee
in from the country. Sheriff Bel left
Bdifsy thus morning with posse and
WIN endeaxor 70 end the trouble.
Defuniak Springs, Aug. Following
the ly'fching Saturday night of negroes
chArs = with the ssiAnlt and murder Of
little assis Morrison ~ Dady, Fla, an
other negro whose name is unknown, is
reported tcsavs been shot 10 death late
to day fQr alleged inplication in the
crime. Telephone wires being down, it
is impossible 10 get full details d the
! lynching but latest reports are to The ef-
feet that the citizens OF Dady sre.gtestly
excited and contemplats forcing al me-
groes to leave te vicinity.
The quotations. on the spirits tprpen-
tine and rosin naye been.higher this sea-
son on q Legitimate trading basis than
the trade has evef known. Turpentins
has ranged between IS and II cents :
gallon the past week. dosing at 6s1
while the average Price for rosin at that
period has been bSut $3.50 per barrel
A decade ago, before the development
of the yellow pine lumber industry in
the south, turpentihe was selling for'one
third this puse, ith United market
whereas ron ss 30 cheap that it was
allowed to 81 waste around the stills
where great be6 of IL lay for years I'M
touched. The present price Of turpen
time represents, an increase Of more thar
item cents . gallon within the past month
while rosin has jumped more than enc
dollar . barrel In that period.
Bound hand and foot and gagged will
q card case fastened in her mouth, thres
ened with death il she attempted to re
lease herself or make even the slightes
CRY for help, Estella Barton. q white CIR
nineteen years old, Of jacksonville, wa
compelled to lay exposed In the hot sui
for more than four hours last Sunday
while Hamilton Lee, thirty-five year
old, barber and insurance agent looke'
on and laughed at her plight.
| A local doctor last week had strsng
case to diagnose. A man came up to hi
Office who claimed that he was full o
eggs and larve of insects that hatche
and came out Of him; according to nj
own report the man was "bughouse
uroper. In an excited manner he point
ed out TO che doctor little pimples on ri
| flesh where he said the insects had mad
/ their exit and then produced a bottle
alcohol containing an ant. mosquit
and n Rnst which he said bad come froi
, his head. The doctos asked how ne ne
captured them and be said he had suieal
ed his head, which was devoid Of hal
: BY the way, with sulphur salve and Il
, insects having to make their wa
i through thls mixture, got their wins
sSareasy and could not fiyawsy. The u,
? fortunate man said he had travelled q