The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-01-15

-Four thousand dollars stick has been
subscribed 70 the foundry at Fernandina.
G. w. Bowen Of Lake Eldorado has just
finished setting out his first field OF tomatoes,
comprising 5000 plants.
Tie first train over the Peace River rail-
road went down Thursday as far as the
track was laid with railroad iron.
The Fernandina chamber of commerce is
arranging 10 send ship brokers weekly
reports of the condition of the bar.
Col A. G. Stewart formerly Of Waukon,
Ia, has succeeded the late {. G. Bantill as
seer starry Of the Florida Guantanamo.
Sanchez & Haya, clear Havana manu-
factuTers of Tampa, contemplate enlarging
their factory. This firm is now working on
largely increased scale.
The town council of Orlando has appro-
priated 800 to pay the expenses Of their
fremen while attending the tremen's mus
ter in Key West next week.
ID. W u. BouIly announces that he is
about to start a newspaper, at Lakeland,
which he will call the Florida Alliance
The paper is to be published weekly at 81
year.
The residence of w. B. Coggins of Ham
mock Pond was entered by burglars Sunday
night and his trunk piilaged Of $3.50, which
he had placed there for safe-keeping only
few hours before
The fra load of the shells to be used in
paving Lafayette street, Tampa. was
brought up and dumped in the street near
the bridge, Saturday, and the work will be
pushed henceforth.
The clgarmakers at Tampa Saturday
night celebrated the raise of wages granted
them by the manufacturers. Theg paraded
through the principal streets Of Dor with
fran tQrphlIulNg
panied by the band.
The Tampa Commercial Company has
withdrawn its steamship, the Lizzie Hen
derson, from the run between Tampa and
Mobile, and will sell her. The company
will hereafter receive its western freight by
the Plant steamship Juniata, and will ship
by that line.
Monday morning at Jacksonville, about
$50 o'clock, John Hall, l4-year-old boy,
while at WORK on the roof of Bowden's bath
house, in Lavilla, became dizzy and fell
through the rafters to the ground floor. No
bones were broken, but he met vita severe
internal injuries.
Daniel Burke. a resident of De Funiak
Springs for four years past, was arrested
Friday upon a requisition from Texas, on
charges Of arson and cattle stealing, and
committed to jail without bond to await
the sheriff from the locality where the
crime is alleged to have been committed.
The Peace River Phosphate Company is
pushing the work of building its railroad
to Peace river. All tue crossties and a
portion of the rails are laid, aud gang of
men are working steadily to have the road
finished within two weeks. The carpenters
are hard at work on the barges and storage
bins. nr
The railroad and steamship men en-
IT,, ,k,1 al,
taurant building and formed the Port
Tampa Experiment Company, limited to
thirty days." and propose to keep bach"
After thirty days, If they live through the
experiment stage, they will change the
name to the "Port Tampa Experience Com
pany." Ia
The cigarmakers Of three factories in
Jacksonville held mass meeting Monday
night at che Clifton hotel, and appointed
committees to wait upon the proprietors
and notify them that they viii in the future
demand the prices paid for labor in the fac
tories at Tampa and Key West. The
meeting adjourned to meet again subject to
the call of the president.
Sunday, as the morning train from
Tavares, over the Tavares, Orlando aud
Atlantic. was rounding the curve at the
upper depot in Orlando, box and two fiat
cars ran off the rails. The box car was
turned completely over, but the fat cars
simply left the tracks. Luckily no one was
hurt. A gang of workmen soon cleared
away the wreckage. causing no delay to the
regular schedule.
Shipmasters have much trouble with run
away sailors and sailors playing off sick at
Fernandina. Sheriff O'Neil locked up one
from the Thomas r. Pillsbury Monday
morning. They ship for the voyage at $50
a month, but $50 is paid a sailor for making
the run to New York when vessel is short
of a crew and is ready to put to sea. This
is quite temptation to them to secure a
discharge by feigning sickness, or else
taking French leave. Every few days the
police are on the lookout for runaway
sailors, and the profession of 'sailor-stealer''
is regular calling The notorious Moran,
now in jai1at Savannah for passing counter
seit money, which was coined at his lonely
nest on Pine Island, was said to be at the
head of this peculiar profession. There are
one or two more who are not in Jail yet.
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