The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-18

Inc case OF the state against JAKE DltIh,
Ccolored) for killing Wash Sweeney, col
Ored) was taken up ut Tampa on Tuesday.
The DeI.and Rifles are making arrange
ments to give an entertainment at an early
date for the benefit OF their uniform fund.
The Thomasvile, Tallahassee and Gulf
Railway Company's saw mill, near Apa-
! lachicOla, will loom up with electric lights.
The Cadets from East Florida Seminary
at Gainesville will go to Jacksonville to
attend the Sub-Tropical Exposition on Feb.
%
One hundred quarts of Strawberries were
shipped Northward from Gainesville
Wednesday. They will probably net 75c.
| per quart.
Never before at Tampa, at least in the
memory of the Oldest citizen, did the orange
trees give promise Of such heavy crop
! next season.
Emilio Garcia, recently acquitted of muir
der at Tampa left for Key West Monday
night. He was escorted to the steamer by
the Cuban band.
Plans for the cigar factory of Lozano,
Pendas q Co. at Tampa have been ac-
| cepted. The building will be frame, and
will cost $4,000.
May & Hibbard, Of DeLand, have just re-
ceived an immense lawn roller Weighing
| 1000 pounds. This will be used for leveling
groves ard lawns.
Wednesday Mr. Courser, proprietor Of
the San Juan Hotel at Orlando, was obliged
to turn away twenty people for want of
room to accommodate them.
Apalachicola is not much of dry town
as long as there is plenty of Orange Mint in
town. A party of gentlemen got away with
ten bottles of this mint Thursday.
A son of N. c. Eunice at Fairview, Or
ange county, aged about years, met with
a serious accident Wednesday by breaking
both bones of one leg below the knee.
Gen. w. p. Hazen and w. A. Orchard,
correspondent Of the Western Reserve
Democrats published at Warren, O., were
in Tampa last Friday and Saturday.
At Tampa, tombstone will shortly be
erected to the memory Of the two priests
who died there during the late epidemic,
Rev. Charles Peterman and Rev. Felix
Swembergh
Thieves entered the premises of Miss Josie
Nancy at Tampa last Friday night and
robbed her of fifteen chickens and numer-
Gus valuable articles of clothing which
were hanging on n clothes line in the yard.
w. A. Morrison left Tampa on last Thurs
day in a sail boat to attend the sculling race
at Trabue on Friday and Saturday. Head
winds grabbed him and he did not get there
until Tuesday, two days after the races were
over.
This week Past Dictator B. A. Brown, of
the Knights of Honor lodge Of Tampa, re-
ceived two certified checks from the Sureme
Treasurer for 81, 600 each respectively for the
benefciar es of NJ. w. Ordway, and Charles
} R. Shockley.
At Gainesville day or two ago an esti-
mable lady undertook to get up subscrip-
ton for a very needy person who is quite
sick and in stringent circumstances. She
canvassed all day and secured only 81 80,
add 81 of this was from one party.
The Messrs RJge, of Apalachicola, re-
ceived by the last mail letter from Jacob
Walton. He was then in Brooklyn, N. Y,
and preparing to ship on vessel bound for
China. He is wanted for a murder com
united at Apalachcola several months ago
S. A. Jones, W. N. Conoley and Hugh C.
Macfarlane will go TO Washington, D. c..
shortly as representatives of the Tampa
Board of Trade, to work for the interest
, of the city before the committees of
Congress i'll harbor, customs and other
matters.
Secretary Carruth, of the Board of Trade
of Tampa has forwarded several specimens
of fish taken from Tampa bay to the South
} Florida Exposition being held at Sanford.
The fish were put up IN large glass jars by
, the Tampa Fish and Ice company and
: make handsome display.
A party of 80 men from AlSace, being
r very much dissatisfied with political affairs
5 in their native land, were induced to come
} to America by Mr. Stone, of the Gadsden
! County Tobacco Syndicate, and have set
> tied at Quincy to cultivate tobacco for the
, syndicate. A much larger party is expected
to arrive soon.
Friday evening, while negro woman
who lives near Bonds mill was returning to
her home from DeLand, she was, while
near the cemetery, assaulted by three
tramps. She repealed their unwelcome
attentions with great vigor anda lightwood
} knot, disabled two of her aSSailants and
; beat off the whole crowd.
G. d. Shafer, the stone cutter who had
the contract for cutting the marble for the
Presbyterian church at Gainesville, struck
Thursday because the building authorities
wanted him to rub the stone, which was not
a part of the contract. The striking force
of wOrkmen is not numerous, but as there
; are no others to be had at present it is
7 causing some Inconvenience to the brick
/ layers.
AT Pensacola Wednesday Mamie Har-
baugh, five years old, fell from a second
story window to the ground, distance of
twenty feet, striking on her right jaw,
breaking the latter, the piece of detached
bone being driven down and making a
CHASTITY cut in the tieshy part of the chin I'M
derneath. The jaw bone was dislocated,
anu ueT lace anu lllnDS were severely
bruised
Aderholt, cripple decorator who has
been in Sanford for the past few days, was
) requested by the Mayor Thursday to leave
town at once, for the offense of "liftingn a
) gold pen from the establishment of A, j.
Phillips. Aderholt is said to be IAN old
bird, and has weakness for laying hold
to things that belong to other people, as
well as for signing other peoples names to
notes, drafts, etc
One of the crying needs of Tampa and
the entire west coast is railroad connect
ing the two. Such a road, notwithstanding
the fact of the completion of the Orange
Belt, would do a handsome and lucrative
business, and would furthermore stop the
agitation on the question of dividing Hills
borough county, as the only complaint the
people of the west coast urge on that point
is the inaccesSibility of the county seat.
Several of the wealthy residents of the west
coast, and particularly of Sutherland, are
talking up the matter.
Circuit Court at Kissmmee adjourned
Thursday. A large portion of the time of
the court was taken up with the trial of the
now celebrated cabbage case,n which oc-
cupied five days in trial. This is a case of
A. $, Kinsman against the Okeechobee
Land Company, better known as the Dss-
ton Co., for damage in the sum of $25, 900
for failure TO transport his crop of cab
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