The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-12-07
FLORIDA


Trade boats are getting to be important
Institutions on Indian river.
A A Wood commenced rebuilding his
cigar box factory at Ybor Tuesday.
The gardeners at Palmetto have COM
menced to ship ripe egg plants to market.
In row at Orlando, Wednesday night.
John Lewter stabbed Henry Dittmar twice,
but the wounds will not prove fatal.
In the burglary of Colyer's store, at Pa.
latka, last week, he lost about $500 worth of
new goods and clothes left for repairs.
1t is now said that Water street at Pa
latka will be opened to the river through
MIR. Whites place instead OF Front street
A Baldwin locomotive engine No u for
the ST. Augustine and North Beach Rail
way, together with iron for the ST. Sebas-
tian River, passed through Palatka Wednes-
day.
A cigar factory is soon to be erected in
old Tampa by the Plant Investment Com
pany. They will employ 200 hands. and
will run all the year. Four more factories
are soon to go up in Ybor City EAST
Tampa.
Capt j. E. Low of Green Cove Springs
has resigned as superintendent of TIE
Western railway, and will devote more of
his time TO the real estate business. He will
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and special lent.
j. E. Manucy was circulating subscrip-
ton paper at Palatka Wednesday for the
benefit OF the family of the late George
Turner, the policeman shot dead last Satur-
day. he raised $22 49, Manucy was sus-
pended as policeman on the ground that
he did not go to Turner's assistance
There arrived at Palatka Wednesday a
rosy-cheeked, handsome young German
woman, who came all the way from the
fatherland to meet her faithful lover and
future husband. Mr.. listen, of San
Mateo, met Der, and, with the aid of a.
license and Judge Baldwin, the twain were
made one.
Col. E. G. Wade, who is now at Cocoa,
has received a letter from E. w. Halford
President Harrison's private secretary, in
which ne expresses strong desire to visit
the Indian river. 1t is very probable that
PRESIDENT Harrison and Mr.. Halford, with
their families. will pay the river a visit this
winter after the holidays.
John Savarese has moved his Cedar Kew
f1sh and oyster house to Port Tampa and
consolidated it with his business there. ].
M. Rees, formerly manager of the Cedar
Key house, will have the management of
the Port Tampa business. MIR. Savarese's
Tampa house is now run under the name of
the Gulf Coast Fish Company.
The Georgia Southern and Florida con-
struction force has met with an obstacle at
the "prairie," about twenty miles from
Falatka, in the shape of quicksand, into
which all the filing material sinks The
contractors are now building a trestle
There, but as the piles sink out Of sight it is
necessary to place one on top of several
Edward N. Riley. who left Orlando about
TWO months ago with his wife for Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, was killed near there Mon
Gay evening, between and o'clock. He
was at the time working on freight train
"a the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas
Facific railway, from Chattanooga to
spring City. He was knocked from the
peen left hanging down.
wednesday afternoon a fire broke ont I'm
Lne colored settlement of Winter Parl-
6nown as Hannibal square, and before the
tlsEaes could be checked two buildings aud