The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-12-18
FLORIDA.

A $50, 900 hotel is now being talked Of at
Orange City.
The Smith Orange Company of Orlando
shipped carload of oranges to Tacoma,
WASH, on Thursday.
The kaolin industry In fernando and De
Soto counties is growing into proportions
that bid fair to rival that of phosphate.
Mr.. Carcaha, the cigar manufacturer
from Cincinnati, is at ST. Augustine. FRI
day morning he gave the contract to fit up
the Drysdale building TO Mr.. Marlborough.
Gov. Fleming has accepted the resigna-
ton of Capt. Eugene Masters as commander
of the st. Augustine Guards and First
Lieut.. x. Lopez has been notified 90 take
command Of the company. The Guards
will elect captain in January.
The Tampa Bay hotel will be formally
opened for the season on Jan. 16, but it will
probably be ready for guests soon after
Christmas A large number of employees
arrived from New York this week and are
now busy getting the house ready for open-
ing.
Messrs. Stenhouse Bros, of ST. Augustine
have invented an orange box which is quite
a novelty aud will unquestionably be ex-
tensively used. 1t consists of a series of
trays just the hight OF an orange. Thus a
box of 12S oranges contains four trays Of
thirty-two oranges. A box of 200 contains
five trays OF forty oranges. The advantages
of this box are numerous. First, it Is a fine
arrangement for shipping fine fruit; it is
great convenience for the retailer, and the
one who receives box put up in this man
ner can take off a tray to present TO friend,
and nothing could be nicer. The firm Is
establishing good business as shippers of
Indian River oranges.
Last Monday night the night operator at
Beresford heard burglars in tho store of
Robert Boyd, which is only few yards
from fhs Ot,A ALL
man who was sleeping in the depot and
sent him to call Boyd, whose residence is at
some little distance from his store, and tell
him that he would watch the store until he
came In a short time Boyd came, and
not thinking what the results would
be called to the operator, when the
burglar appeared at the back door and
fired on Boyd with a shotgun loaded with
bird ahot, striking him in the thigh. Mr..
Boyd and the operator returned the shot
with shotgun loaded with buckshot, but
failed to bring down their man, and he got
away. Eighty shot have been removed
from MIR. Boyd's thigh. JEFF Kurtz's blood
burglar, but failed to follow 1t up.
Orlando Reporter: After the circus per-
Torrance Wednesday night one of the man
employed TO sell tickets for the concern got
into an alteration over the settlement of his
salary and high words ensued between him
and W ilnam Sells, one OF the proprletors OF
the show; finally the latter went into the
Magnolia Office and assaulted the ticket
man, hitting him O severe blow in the
mouth with his fist. The ticket seller, in
order 20 secure the money he claimed was
due him employed III. G. Garrett, who had
two OF the horses belonging TO the circus
attached. Bond was at once given and the
animals were released to enable them to pro-
coed to Kissimmee, where they performed
Thursday. After the assault at the Mag
nolia, Sells skipped and a vigilant search OF
the police officers failed 70 discover his
whereabouts. Some Of the circus people
said that, becoming frightened, be took the
north-bound train, going In the opposite
| direction to the rest Of the crowd.