The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-09-27
FLORIDA.

The fish and oyster trade at Tampa ID
twice as large as it was at TINS time lesl
year
The reunion Of the state firemen's asso-
citation will be held in Tampa on Oct q, p
and %.
About SOS, 900 in Improvements will be
scent shortly on improving the Winter
| Park hotel.
Fernandina had small riot Monday
night between the police and parties that
they were trying to arrest.
The Seminole Canning Company Of Fort
Myers shipped last week 425 cases or $50
three-pound cans Of guavas to Mobile.
Many Key West cigar manufacturers are
leaving for Havana every steamer TO pur-
chase tobacco for their houses. The bonded
warehouses are full TO overlooking.
Lake Butler is broadening out since the ad-
vent of the railroad. Two large store build
! ings are going up, besides several dwellings
making the little village noisy with saws
and hammers.
Barlow Courier In formdnt: Drs. Wilson
and Hawkins, Rev. Thrower and Uncle
Billy HAWKINS spent last week in the woods
on a camp hunt. They succeeded In killing
two large bears.
Macclenny Sentinel: William Thompson
killed a RATHER last Wednesday, over in the
seven and half feet in length, and having
eleven rattles and button.
Democrats Of Wakulla county last week
nominated the following ticket: John L.
Lavender for representative, c. J. Terrell
for assessor, w, G. Rouse for collector,
w. w. Giles for county judge and w. G.
Tully for county treasurer.
Work on old Fort Marion at ST. Angus
tine will be commenced in a few days.
Places IN the old fort that have gone TO
decay will be repaired and men will be put
to work Transforming the old fort green
into something like park.
Two prisoners, one white and one colored,
escaped from the Hamilton county jail at
Jasper Wednesday. They asked for water,
and when 1t was handed to them rushed
past the guard and made good their escape.
Both were in for house-breaking,
During a heavy rain storm at Barlow
last week lightning struck large pine tree
near the market house, frightening quite a
number of persons, and knocking little
Willie Hicks down. The little boy was
stunned for few minutes, but received no
permanent injury.
George f. Abbott at Macclenny is en-
deavoring 30 raise $3.50, that a suitable
monument may be erected over the grave
of the Rev. C. 8. Snowden at that place.
Rev. Snowden's heroic devotion to duty
during the yellow fever epidemic at
Macclenny cost him his life.
At Barlow last Sunday, while Mrs. S.
l. Pearce was sitting in front of the fire in
her room, loaded shotgun shell, that had
accideptly been thrown into the fireplace,
exploded, scattering the ashes around the
room and the shot struck her In the leg,
making a very painful, but not necessarily
dangerous wound.
g. w. Papot Of Orlando has sent in the
order for special machinery with which to
manufacture the orange boxes, which he
has recently invented. The machinery will
have a capacity Of 2. 900 boxes per day, and
he Is expected to have it running in about
four weeks, in time to supply the demand
for the coming crop.
Orlando Record: A bright young lad,
about years old, living near Orlando. has
adopted a novel use for a steel trap, COM
monty used for catching rats and other
small animals. The boys house is near a
lake, and after batting the trap in the usual
manner, he sets it in the water for the pur-
pose of catching turtles, and has succeeded
In trapping several in this original man
ner
At Pensacola Wednesday Jerry Moloney,
a youth about II years Of age, VIII lie visit
ing at the residence of his sister, the widow
of the late Capt. Thomas H. Stokes, on East
Iutendencia street, was seized with con-
vulsion and fell down the stairway leading
from the second story to the first floor He
fell to the bottom of the steps aud received
severe scalp wound ON the back of his
head.
w. II. Bennett was shot from ambush
near Okahumpka Tuesday night. The par.
ticulars Of the shooting are as follows: Mr.
Bennett and his son Henry were driving
home from the formers store, when the
horse SHE'D at white object standing upor
the railway track. Immediately the dis
charge Of a shotgun awoke the stiffness OF
the approaching night. one ball passing
through the coat sleeve of the younger Ben
nett. Both occupants looked In the direc
tion from whence the fire came, when an.
other shot was fred, this time five buckshot
entering the elder Bennett, two in the head
and three In the right arm. The unfortu
nate man fell between the seat and
dashboard and was driven home by his son
with all possible haste. The physicians say
the wounds, though serious, are not neces-
sarily fatal. The bullets in the head have
been extracted