The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-25
FLORIDA.

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FLORIDA.
Welaka beat Palatka in the gun club
contest Wednesday.
The Baptists of Hawthorn will soon erect
new church edifce.
The st. Augustine steam laundry has
shut down for the summer.
The Clyde Line will run only two ships
week from Jacksonville after May /.
Saturday afternoon Henry E Styles died
suddenly Of consumption at Welshton.
The st. Augustine Street Railway Com.
pany will begin operations on San Marco
avenue
Col. Craighill and Lieut. Carter arrived
at Fernandina, Wednesday, to establish
wharf lines.
Hon. John F. Dunn has Joined the Pres
byter1ah church at Ocala as result of the
syivht NOW in progress.
Since the reorganization Of the st. Au-
gustiae-ilse Companies much interest is
taken u the department.
G. ]. Hopkins, Jr., has just sold to J. A.
Spencer lot, corner of Grenada and
Bridge streets, st. Augustine, for $1,000
Alfred Wilkinson of Syracuse, N. Y,
who is TO marry Miss Winnie Davis, daugh.
ter Of Jefferson Davis, Is a second cousin of
j. s. May Of DeLand.
John Bythwood, a colored barber Of
Ocala, committed suicide Tuesday night by
| taking laudanum Mental depression was
the cause Of his rash act.
| II. M. Flagler, Mason Young and others
went down the Florida Southern Wednes-
day morning to the Dunnellon phosphate
| works, in Marion county.
Efforts are now being made through the
| chamber of commerce TO obtain an appro-
| priation for public building at Fernan-
dina, for postoffice and custom house.
Arrangements have been made for the
reoperpng Of the Egmont house, Amelia
beach linear Fernandina, under the manage
ment of William II. Stewart Of the Hotel
Togni Jacksonville.
There will be- no lack of .hotel accommo :
dations ct st. Augustine this summer with
the sAlcazar, Barcelona, Cleveland. Her
nandez and Seaside open, besides the multi
tude Of boarding houses.
Az Kinds Of Suarez Bluff, Nassau, re-
received returns Wednesday from mis- last
shipment Of cabbages, which brought in
New York lS2 20 per barrel These cab
bages were set out about Christmas.
Two negro gamblers had shooting scrape
at Dupont on Monday. After emptying
their pistols at each other, one beat the
other over the head with pistol, leaving
him in a critical condition. The trouble
arose over woman.
At Ocala the evidence in the Timothy
Williams case. for the shooting of Hector
Aversham,s showed that the latter acted in
| self-defense Williams attempted to make
| mince meat Of Aversham with a carving
knife. The prisoner was therefore dis
| missed.
At Martin, Putnam county, Wednesday.
James johnson and Richard Bell, both col
| ored, fired on a boy named Green (colored,
| wounding him in the cheek. The shooting
was without provocation. The culprits es-
capped. It is believed that they are wanted
at Citra for killing negro.
The white republican element of Key
West are not supporting the colored appli-
| cant for the postmastershlp of that city
with the zeal they promised their colored
/ brethren. A mass meeting of the colored
voters was held last week, and a committee
appointed to go to Washington and work
for their man.
Joseph Avara, Jr., came near losing his
residence at Gainesville Monday morning
about o'clock. He was awakened at that
hour by the popping of matches and found
the inside Of his kitchen in flames Rats
had ignited a box of matches and the flames
had spread. In a FEW minutes it would
have been impossible to save the house.
Fernandina NeWS: Nothing further has
been heard regarding the collectorship, but
republican, who ought to be posted, says il
Is more than probable that a dark horse
will get it, and some one out of town be-
cause the asplrants are SO much at logger
heads that the President can cause less dis
satisfaction by disappointing all parties.
AT Gainesville E. G. Pound has closed a
contract with j. j. Burton for the erection
OF brick building 45x60 feet, one story,
on West Main street, between the st.
Nicholas hotel and the old Joseph corner.
he has also closed contract for the erection
of another building Of the same dimensions
on Pleasant street, opposite the property
owned by F. X. Miller.
At Tampa, Monday, Mr.. Lundgreen of the
firm of Peterson q Lundgreen, was danger
ously cut Immediately next to the left arm
| where it unites with the shoulder. An
alteration occurred between him and John
| Givens, Jr., a son of Capt. T. w. Owens.
Mr.. Lundgreen states that he WAS talking
to young Givens about some unbecoming
| conduct, and that Givens assaiied him with
a knife and turned and ran.
The supreme court has reversed the decis-
| ion Of Judge Hanson upon the Hillsborough
river bridge question, which had been de-
cided in the circuit court upon a technicality
| against L. B. Skinner and others, who took
the ground that the bridge was within the
corporation limits of the city of Tampa,
and was not the proper object for the APP
preparation of county funds. The case will
be returned to the circuit court.
The square block pavement laid at st.
augustine several months ago along Mr.
Fiagier's property, in the neighborhood of