The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-15

selling Intoxicating liquor without Ii
cense.
A negro named Crimson was shot and
killed by j. f. Wimberly, in Madison
county, day or two ago, for abusive Ian
guage.
Mr.. Truss, of New York, while trolling in
Lake Fairview, near Orlando. Thursday
succeeded in hooking a bass weighing six
pounds.
The eighth annual fair of the Clear
Water Home, Farm and Grove Society
will be held in the sOciety's bnilding in
Clear Water, on Thurs lay, April 10,
Mr. Hampton, who lives a few miles east
of Kissimmee, has sold $50 worth of straw
berries from one-sixteenth of an acre, aud
Is not through picking yet. Over 1876 per
acre.
A club house Of thirty rooms, and with
all the conveniences, WILL the Gazette says,
be built at Mount Dora this summer. 1t
will overlook Echo Lake, and will cost
$4,000.
The people of Kissimmee have kept faith
with the county and offered, through Hon.
| j. NJ. Bryan, a site, free of charge, TO the
county for the location of the county
buildings.
j. F. Stewart, Of Jasper, had his applica-
ton for the appointment of Clerk Of Cir
cult Court Endorsed by the County Demo
cratic Executive Committee, which met on
Monday last.
At Pensacola Thursday, Lloyd's Agent,
| @. l.. LeBaron, employed Capts Shearer
and Kruger to make an inspection of the
Norwegian bark Mod, and she was pro-
nounced unseaworthy.
Capt. j. Z, Lucas, of Palatka, is in ne
| gotiation with a firm of boat builders in
| New York for the building of two naphtha
launches for use next season. One is to be
81 feet in length and the other so feet.
At Cedar Key, Friday, John Mitchell
| fatally shot John McGinnis. The ball
| lodged in the lat,er> spine. The difficulty
arose through some trouble in which Mitch
ellis wife figured. The parties are colored.
Strawberry shipping is assuming great
proportions at Starke. Every day the
depot platform is covered with refrigera-
tors, and at night when the shippers bring
| in their berries it makes things busy for a
time.
| W. S. Long, who has for several years
been connected with the Palatka Herald,
is on his way to Greenville, Mass, where
he will be connected with his cousin in the
publication of the Franklin County In
former.
At kissimmee R. Fl. Wooten has sold his
interest in the grocery house of K. H.
| Wooten q Co. to z. ID. Outlaw. Mr..
| Wooten has received the appointment of
assistant secretary of the Southern Express
Company.
The Baptist church building committee
Of Punta Gorda have a beautiful house
framed on paper, and are getting handsome
donations for its erection, which they hope
to begin at an early day. Outside subscrip
| lions are needed.
Kissimmee's military company now num-
bers about thirtyfve men, and some fifteen
i.el. -. sx.N.
! joining. They have obtained the second
story of Drought's furniture factory for
drilling purposes.
A Cuban lady was taken i'll at Ellinger's
factory at Key West day or two ago, be-
| ing seized with Mysteries or spasns. After
returning to CONSCIOUSNESS she was taken
to her residence by her friends apparently
in demented condition.
The residence of Charles Swayne, at Kis-
semmee, caught fire in the roof of the
kitchen one day last week, and for time it
looked as if the building would be entirely
destroyed: but prompt and efficient efforts
on the part of neighbors saved it,
The rumor that the Florida Southern
railroad refused to take the Eustis fire en-
| CINE to TavareS unless $40 was paid for its
| transportation and regular fare for the
| firemen, is without foundation. The road
would have gladly given every assistance
| possible.
Cincinnati capitalists are at Pensacola for
the purpose of examining that harbor, with
| the view of establishing a coaling station
there for ocean vessels. The scheme is, by
| no means, a new one, having often been
mooted, but this. it is believed, is the first
instance in which capital has taken it in
| hand.
The Catholic church of Sanford will be
| formally dedicated to-day by RI Rev John
Moore, ID, Bishop of st. Augustine,
assisted by Father Creed and other priests
of the diocese. Two pieces of beautiful
| statuary, direct from France, will also be
erected and blessed.
| Great excitement prevails in the neigh
borhood of the Wacissa river. A strange
disease is prevailing among the citizens
| from which six persons have died in the
last ten days. They have all had medical
attention, but it appears that the disease
will not yield. Seven other new cases are
reported.
The first Republican League in Florida,
| organized under the National League, is in
Tampa, and was organized last week, and
has quite membership. The officers are
as follows: DIR. H. R. Benjamin, President:
Paul Jones and J. Hirst, vice-P Presidents;
DR.. H. NJ Bruce, Cor. Secretary; c. N.
Brigham, Secretary.
In returning to the horse car from the
beach party last Friday evening, Mrs. Bing-
ham, of Ormond, missed her footing and
fell heavily ON the railroad ties iniuring
her left side and arm severely and sustain.
ing other injuries. The fall rendered her
senseleSs for time. She is now on the road
to recovery, and will soon be herself again.
Quite number of the members of
the Board of Trade of Tampa and
prominent citizens held IA conference in
the office of Macfarlane & Macfarlane
Thursday, with r. Nome, of New York,
in regard to locating another large cigar
factory there. Mr.. Nome is a manufac-
turer Of cheap cigars, and uses domestic to-
bacco.
Key West Equator: Register your city
scrip Immediately, else you will find that It
will be worthless after May 5. Yesterday
Mr.. William Curry had his, amounting to
about $500. registered. Attend to the
matter at once. As soon as it is registered
the city fathers will be able to declare the
Indebtedness of the city and then to take
steps to reduce it.
County Clerk II. j. Faulkner and Dennis
Freeman, Of DeIand, chairman Of the
Board of County Commissioners, together
with Commissioner Ross, were in DeLand
Thursday as a committee 70 select site for
the court house and temporary offices and
repository for the records The site decided
in trust was satisfactory, and an arrange
mout was made for storing norton of the