The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-21
FLORIDA.

IlOn. "A. d. henry has Deeu elected mayor
of Lake City.
Work has commenced on the new market
at st. Augustine.
Key Vests state firemanic tournament oc-
ours on the 24th inst
The brick work on the new hotel at Lees
burg was flushed last week
Marion county has III public schools
open, which employ $50 teachers.
The Presbyterian parsonage at st. Angus
tine will be completed in February.
1t will take about three months to COM
plete the jetty off Anastasia island
Capt. Post will be on the st. Johns river
with the steamer Sylvester this winter.
Lake City is soon TO have another
journalistic venture-InStitute Echoes.
The South Beach railroad Of st. Angus
tine has as much work as it can handle.
There are now employed in the Lake
City knitting factory sixty-five young
women.
The steamer Crescent City has been put
on the line again between Jacksonville and
Crescent City.
There are seventy distinct families inter-
ested in the decision of the Fort Brooke
reservation case.
The United Friends of Temperance of
Green Cove Springs are receiving recruits
at nearly every meeting.
Five hundred tons of steel rails are being
hghIered to Green Cove Springs from Jack
sonville for the Western railway.
Marshal w. IT, Allison of Chipley has re-
signed. Mr.. Ball of Jackson county has
been appointed to fill the vacancy.
A lighter, loaded with new engine for
the log road at Middleburg, arrived at
Green Cove Springs on Wednesday.
Mrs. o. E. Stout has received her COM
mission and entered on the duties of post
master at Fort Myers Monday. Oct. H.
AS soon as yellow fever was announced ia
Key West last week merchants and butch
ers advanced the price on groceries and
meat.
Captain belong, of Chandler, has sold to
Mr.. j. P. Chute, of Battlefield, Indiana. a
four-acre, four-year-old orange grove for
$4,000.
New students have been pouring into the
Lake City college from all sections this
week, and the attendance has already run
up to 1876
Ex-Chief of Police Frank B. Quinley of
| Fernandina, who was indicted for criminally
assaulting Miss Dora Elsenheimer in that
city, was acquitted Friday.
| The last kiln of bricks which was burned
| at the Clay Company Brick Works-some
the new court house at Green Cove Spring.
The Clay county commissioners, acting
| upon a petition praying for the calling OF
an election on the queStion of local option,
have called an election, to be held Nov. %.
| ]. Sinclair, shoe merchant of Ocala, who
was compelled to go TO Boston a month age
| for treatment of necrosis or death Of the
frontal bone, returned q few days ago
cured.
While Mrs Becker Of Daytona was ont
driving the horse became frightened in
crossing the railroad track and ran away.
Mrs. Becker was thrown out and injured
| severely
The Tampa Water Works Company has
commenced operations at Magbee Springs,
preparatory TO removing its machinery,
etc, to that point and supplying the city
with water.
In digging out sand at Six-mile creek for
the purpose OF filing in the new depot
| grounds In Tampa, bed of fine coquina
has been unearthed. 1t appears to be in in
exhauStible quantity.
In an alteration at Haines City on Oct.
| "a, between Moses Braxton (colored) and
| Tony Salvati, an Italian, the latter was
dangerously and probably fatally injured
| by blow on the head.
Tom Kennedy of Tampa met with pain.
full accident last week. He was walking
| on the raining OF thorn-pointed iron fence
| and fell, running one of the points entirety
through the calf of his leg.
The Tampa Company Operative Cigar
Manufacturers, with a capital of SIS 900,
was organized on Tuesday night. The fac.
tory will be located near College Hill. The
work of building is to commence in ten
days.
Sam jefferson (colored) was up before
Judge Greer, at Green Cove Springs, during
last week, TO answer 20 the charge of ob-
tanning money from j. &. Bars under false
pretenses. Jefferson was bound over in the
sum of 500.
The fish are getting so numerous around
the docks at Port Tampa that they iumt
outof the water and land on the wharyes
A king fish weighing seventeen pounds was
captured by Capt. George Warner in thai
way on Tuesday.
a. N. Thomas brought into Green Cove
Springs, last week, one-fourth the product
Of one, 9t lyis pecan trees, and sold the same
for ~ ~ this Fate-s20 per tree--th,
pecan rlTsis the orange, or, ia fact, ans
other ffhft Tor profit
Grant Nixon leolored) Of Madison. having
passed an examination before the civil
ssrFioa commission, viii soon reoeiye a
commission a. railway mail agent he ex-
poets run on the western division Of tho
tiaridA Central aae hsalnsglar.