The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-19
FLORIDA.

hotel clerk Of Jacksonville, died at London,
o., July 3.
The negro arrested at Madison as the
murderer OF Deputy Sheriff Taylor Of
Sanford, proves not to be the man supposed
| William Hansel.
The postoflce department has directed
! the dlscontinuance Of the following Florida
postoffces: Rosenhayn, Brevard county,
ann Uncle Jack, Nassau county.
Judge Lynch, receiver at the land Office
! at Gainesville, was taken violently Ill Tues
day. His family, which was expected, very
| fortunately arrived on the afternoon train.
Last Saturday the country between AL
! toona and Aston was visited by cloud
| burst, and the entire section was flooded
| The lake near Altoona rose four inches IL
fifteen minutes.
It is the intention Of the company which
| has undertaken to drain Sampson lake, in
bradford county, to take all the water out
OF the lake. II viii reclaim thousands Of
acres Of valuable land.
There is considerable disease among the
! chickens in and around Monticello. One
popularity Of the disease is that the fowls
30 to rOost apparently in perfect health
and drop off dead during the night.
The Gould divorce suit has been settled.
| Articles of separation have been signed by
both Mr. and Mrs Gould Mr. Gould deed
ing Mrs. Gould the family residence IN
saginaw, Mich, and giving her $50
cash
GaskinS, who is to be hanged at DeLaud,
! is q native Of North Carolina, aud mas been
a resident Of Florida for five years, the
latter two Of which we're spent in Daytona.
! lie IS now a protesting christian. Jacob
! hammond will be executed at the same
time.
At Peirce & Torry's mill, at East Apopka,
Spf .fiary l. n
| ing very heavy slab from the saw, his
foot slipped, causing him to fall under the
| log car lage, which ran over him, breaking
MS leg near the ankle joint The company
| will care for him until we'll, and keep his
name on the pay roll.
The board Of health of Bradford county
recently commissioned by Gov. Fleming,
| consisting Of Capt r. j. Burrin Of Lawtey,
| DR.. Sol NewsOm of Lake Butler, and Dr.
Tate Powell of Starke, held its first meet
ing Wednesday and organized by electing
Capt. Burrin president and DR.. Tate Powell
| secretary.
L. c. Miller of DeLeon Springs returned
| from Sanford to DeLeon Wednesday morn
ing and lay down under tree near the
depot lie remained there all morning,
and those who saw him thought he was
sleeping. but some one going up to him
found that he was dead The verdict was
|
excessive use of stimulating drinks
Dr. r. w. Hargis OF Pensacola sent Il
complaint in February to the surgeon-gen
eral OF the marine hospital service, com
planning of the action of the American con
sui general in Rio Janeiro in granting a
clean bill Of health to the Norwegian bark
| Enterprise during the prevalence Of yellow
| fever in that port. Monday morning he
received an answer from the departments
of state, to which the matter was referred,
stating that the consul general at Rio had
given satisfactory explanation, and that
Instructions had been given so that there
would be no reason for further complaint
A crowd of boys, provided with the neces-
sary tackle, congregate on the foot of Bay
len street wharf, at Pensacola nearly every
day for the purpose Of shark fishing, and
rarely do they go unrewarded. Tuesday
afternoon they landed two monsters, the
last within half an hour after the capture
OF the first, and there was some rare sport
in getting the big fellows up on the wharf,
viii h was not accomplished until several
men near by lent their assistance. The
sharks are seldom put to any other use than
serving the purpose of a spectacle, although
a very valuable oil in large quantities may
be obtained from their livers.
There was little stir in the court house
at Apalachicola last Wednesday Messrs
| BraytoTi aad Smith met as members of the
board of county commissioners, and sent
for j. G. Ruge, a new appointee Mr.. Ruge
declined to sit with them on the ground
| that they were not commissioners. Then
| Mr. BraytOn, acting as chairman, got out
a warrant and sent the sheriff after Mr..
| huge Mr. Ruge declined to recognize the
warrant, but said lie would go over to the
| court house through courtesy to Messrs.
| Brayton and Smith. When he got over he
still declined to sit with the two gentlemen,
and no meeting was held.
| Kew West Equator: The article that
appeared in our Geographic columns a few
days ago in regard to a number OF large
assures having appeared in the earth near
Matanzas, Cuba, has created considerable
excitement in this city among some of our
readers. 1t appears that they have asso-
ciated the word fisSure with terrible mon
ster, part fish and part animal, and are
amazed that such monster-600 feet long
"a feet wide and 30 feet deep-could spring
up out of the ground. They also have il
that this monster feeds on nothing but
human beings, and that it took half of the
population OF Matanzas to appease his appe-
tite at his first meal.
At Pensacola Tuesday night, lightning
entered the residence of T. K. Welles, cor
ner Of Gadsden street and Stoddart avenue
employing the telephone wire as medium
III new lnbO the SITTING room ana knocked
from the wall about square feet Of plaster,
pieces Of which were thrown into an ad-
joiningEroom 20 feet away Thence the
lightning skipped by way of the ceiling
into the bath room. tearing away a plank
in its erratic course. BY that time it had
enough of the house, and flying back to the
telephone wire, made a mad rush
up the avenue, splitting ten or a
dozen poles before it jumped to the
woods and spent itself. About an hour
after midnight one of the houses standing
in the back yard of the Simpson promises,
corner Of Palafox and Gregory streets. was
discovered to be on fire. An alarm was
turned in and the department responded
promptly. The fire was confined to the roof
and the loss to the house is immaterial,
About $500 worth of carpets, which the house
contained, We're ruined. The origin of the
blaze is attributed to the electric fluid A
horse belonging to William K Hyer, Jr.,
which was loose in the yard, became fright
ened at the display of heavens fireworks,
and, making break through closed gate.
struck his head, bursting blood vessel He
was found dead in the morning
A patent has been allowed Psof. H. N.
Felkel Of DeFuniak Springs on his improved
telIurian. The points of superiority in this
apparatus are: l. That it exhibits au-
tomatcaily, and at the same time, the re-
| IN of ba