The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-10-04
FLORIDA.

There were only three deaths at Palatka
last week.
Work on the new town hall at Macclenny
has been begun.
The Citrus Star reports lunacy on the in
crease in that county.
The police made fifty-four arrests at st.
Augustine last month.
The work upon the new passenger depot
at Orlando is progressing finely.
Rudolph c. Bacid of Chipley has been
granted a patent for q hoId-back.
The Orlando public school opened Tues
day with an attendance of III pupils.
Col J. E. Hart has resigned the presi-
dency of the board of trade of Jacksonville.
The state press generally indorses the
proposition for convention of the county
commissioners.
1t will not be very long before the 8. F. &
w. Railroads new warehouse, at Month
cello. is completed.
Some of the furniture for the st. Elmo.
at Monticello, has arrived aud is being
placed in the hotel.
Hinton J. Watson has been appointed
postmaster at Mariana, Jackson county,
vice j. E. O'Hearn removed.
Fernandina has a new paper called the
Ne,US. 1t will be issued tri-weekly. The
Mirror will also be issued tri-weekly from
now on.
The saw-mill of Dallon & Russell has been
at work cutting out the lumber for the
schoolhouse at Welaka, on which work will
soon begin.
George Domas, a colored fisherman of st.
Augustine, speared III founders Tuesday
night from Bird island, the largest meas
uring two feet.
About 700 colored people left st. Angus
tine Sunday morning for the camp meet
ing at Sweetwater. Several thousand peo-
pie were on the grounds.
The section hands of the o. w. & P. rail
road are at work grading Ollie avenue at
Winter Park, from the Seminole hotel to
the o. W. g. P. passenger station.
J. e. Robson is now in Jacksonville con-
ferring with the manager of the Florida
Central and Peninsular company in regard
to extending the line to Fort Meade
The election that was to have come off at
Madison Wednesday, for the extension of
the town limits, failed to take place. 1t
will probably be held a month from this
date.
At Kissimmee the commitment trial of
James Yates, Jr., for the murder of
Mitchell was completed Tuesday, and the
prisoner was remanded to Jail to await the
action of the grand jury.
said he was en- route to Tampa, to arrange
for the erection of hotel that will te the
| largest in the state The hotel, he said, was
to be built by Chicago capitalists.
Sheriff Stevens of Volusia county
arrived at Orlando Tuesday, having in
charge Editor f. H. Benjamin of DsLand.
charged with murder, who was turned over
to Sheriff Anderson for safe keeping.
Lieut.. Col R. h. Jackson will arrive at
the barracks at Jacksonville on Oct. a
with E and G batteries of the Fourth Artil-
lery, which are now at Atlanta, Ca No
band will accompany them, as this will not
be headquarters
United States Deputy Marshal Ellerman
hbeled the bark Ormus at Fernandina last
Monday for about $4,000 advanced by the
Bank of Fernandiua. Her owners will
have hearing before the United States
court at Jacksonville on Oct. A.
Thomas Il. Stanley. living about twelve
miles from Tallahassee, was before United
States Commissioner Philip Waiter, at
Jacksonville Wednesday, charged with
illicit distilling. The evidence was so ex-
cessively gauzy that he was promptly dis
charged.
About Oct. 20 the United States en-
gineers will begin the construction of a sea-
wall on Anastasia island, beginning at a
point near the Casa Marina. Another will
De quilt ON the north beach. This work Is
preliminary to the contemplated deepening
and improvement of st. Augustine bar and
harbor.
William Henry Yates was arrested at
kisslmmee Tuesday for shooting at j. G.
Strickland and son while they were at work
in their field. Yates has not been Of very
sound mind for some years, and his neigh
hors considered him dangerous to be at
large. He was sent to the asylum last year,
but did not remain long.
At st. Augustine Capt. H. NJ. Snow, who
originally ran the transfer business and
sold out to Messrs. Burbridge & Miller, has
repurchased and now has entire control of
the freight delivery business. Capt. snow
sold out last January to the new transfer
company, Of which l.. A. Colee is manager.
The right to control the delivery of freight.
formerly carried by the transfer company,
now rests in Capt. Snow.
Tampa Net0S: In the case of the state
VS.. Lucius Stark, charged with carrying
concealed weapons, the jury brought in a
verdict of guilty, but recommended him TO
the mercy Of the court for the reason that
80 many persons, eminently his superior in
every respect, 60 UNPUBLISHED for the same
oifense, which verdict was rejected by the
court, and the prosecuting attorney in
structed II draw two verdicts for the Jury.
one of gu y, another not guilty. and they
Slgued the verdict of guilty