The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-09
FLORIDA

The election for tax collector Of Kissim-
NEE will be held Saturday, Aug. 10.
The Hamilton county farmers have
adopted resolutions against annexation.
The Sanford Daily MdScOtte has sus-
pended publication for the summer. The
weekly edition will be continued.
Fourteen citizens of Orlando pledged
themselves to give the city the sum of 1905
if that town gets the Borden prize.
The disputed marshalship of DeLand
will have TO besettled by the supreme court.
Charles E. Kirk still claims to hold the
Office.
Thieves entered Mr. Kleinschmidt's room
at the hotel at Starke one night last week,
and took about $25 in change from his
trunk.
The dry goods firm OF Menefee & Shuler
of Orlando has been dissolved, Mr.. Menefee
having purchased his partners interest in
the business.
Two men are under arrest at Sanford on
suspicion of having robbed the bank at
Apopka. One is white and the other black.
They acknowledge everything. They had
81, 500 in money and three sachels of goods.
The Monticello Constitution says: Maj.
Partridge has been the conductor on the
branch to Drifton for twelve years and has
is the best record of any conductor in the
state.
Carl Warfield has been appointed by the
Orlando Building aud Loan Association to
act as secretary and treasurer of that corpo-
ration in place Of Charles F. Young, who
has resigned and is going north for the
summer
AT Sanford, Sunday, j. W. Veronee, one
of the editors of the Sanford Daily Journal,
Il. ~ - III, l.. a nd
Of the defunct Daily Mascotte, on accou 1t
of libelous publication in his supplement
to the Argus Alliance Of July 5.
There is a grape vine of the early dawn
variety on Central avenue, back of the
Magnolia house, Orlando, which has borne
this season fully 1000 punches. The vine
is about years old, and the only fertilizer
it has had has been burned bones.
D. S. Driver, white, shot and instantly killed
James Stone (colored), at Welborn Saturday
Driver and Philip Stone, son Of tue deceased,
had some words during which the old mau
| took the sons part Continued quarreling
led TO blows Finally Driver drew his pistol
and fired with the above result
At Tallahassee, Saturday, the supreme
court reversed the Judgment in the case of
Benjamin against the state and remanded
| the cause for investigation as to whether or
not it is bailable. Mr.. Benjamin is the
| DeLand editor who killed an antagonist at
that place few days ago, as he claims, in
self-defense.
The Leesburger learns that proposition
| is under consideration looking to the re-
moval to Ocala of the plant and business of
the Florida Produce Manufacturing Com
pany. The inducement offered is an
increase of capital stock, which would en-
large the facilities and consequently the
business OF the company.
Two young negroes engaged in a prize
| fight on the lower end Of Palafox wharf at
| Pensacola Saturday. One of them put up
81 against the shoes on the feet of the other,
that the latter could not stand before him
| for four minutes. They went at it. ham
mer and longs and the fight lasted four
minutes without knock out Consi6era-
bly, bruised the barefoot received the stakes
A. A. Parker, cashier of the Bank of
| Tavares, spent several days last week in
| fernando, Citrus and Pasco counties, with
a view to the establishment of new bank.
After looking the ground over thoroug hlY,
he decided in favor Of Dade City, the
| county seat of Pasco county, situated on
the line of the Florida Central and PENN
sula road, and in a section of great agricul-
tural possibilities.
Rev. Father de Carriere, pastor of St.
| Louis Catholic church, Tampa, had a mar
row escape from serious injury one night
last week. While returning from Ybor
| City, where he had been to officiate at
baptism the wheel of the carriage in which
he was riding ran into gully, and he was
violently thrown out. One of the wheels
passed over his chest, but strange to saw. he
was not seriously injured.
The survey of the Tampa and West Coast
railroad will be commenced Monday under
charge of Capt f. b. Carter, civil engineer
The survey will commence on the west side
| OF the river at the railroad bridge, and will
! run direct to Sutherland. After that line
| is ,mpleted another line will be run via
Nebraska avenue, Horse Lake and Key
stone. The line via Keystone will probably
be from five to eight miles longer, but
traverses q very rich section.
The Shine Guards of Orlando realized a
| little more than $40 net from their Fourth of
| July excursion. With this they intend to
| cancel such small indebtedness as they have
/ in town, and apply the balance to the note
held by the First National Bank. With
the 500 due the company from the state
they Will be able to pay the entire note and
be free from debt. The company has in-
CURED an Indebtedness of over 81 800 dur
ing the past two years, and is now in O
situation to cancel the entire amount.
Material is being got out and machinery
ordered by the Okeechobee company for a
new dredge 80 feet long, S5 feet beam, and
feet deep, to cut a canal from lake Hart
northeast to Ekonlockhatchie river. This
canal will relieve that section from large
quantity of water which now finds its way
into lake Tahopakaleiga. w. s. Douglass
has the old dredge, No. 5, well-nigh dis
nantled. The hull will be thoroughly
overhauled and repaired and new machinely
put IN, making her into q bucket dredgs
and as good as new.