The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-10-01

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described above.
FLORIDA
All the employees of julius Ellinger & Cos,
cigar factory at Tampa went out on strike
Friday morning.
J. L. Hampton and ]. r. Jaudon have pur-
chased the grocery stock and business of the
late E. Ives at Or ando.
The Mum groves, northwest Of DeLand,
among the charming grove properties of the
orange belt, will pan out about 5000 boxes
this year.
On last week Capt V. L. Hopson sold the
Ed Moore orange grove at Whitney to
Capt. E. b. Walker. The grove contains
twelve acres in trees, 300 IN bearing. Price
500
Councilman Blair of Jacksonville says
under the new arrangement for removing gar
bage from the streets 100 per cent. in cost will
be saved. 1t under contract cost he says,
$500 per year, and now under city control it
will cost less than $4,000 per year.
the trains south over the Jacksonville
Tampa and Kew West railroad, are crowded
every, day with people returning to their
llrida homes from the north. There is
complaint about the cars being so crowded
that passengers must stand up in the aisles,
DeLand News: S. Guchenheimer & Sons
of New York have garnisheed Postmaster
Howard, Myrtle Lodge X. of p. and w. A.
Allen s. Co to get rent from them in pay
ment of work done by the complainants on
the Bushnell building. The case will be heard
on Nov. g.
Tampa Times: A young white man who took
his clothes to the Chinese laundry on Tampa
street some time ago to have them washed
and irOned went after them Friday night.
The unsuspeuting Chinaman gave him the
bundle and the man bolted out of the door
with it, and although the Chinaman and a
policeman searched diligently for him last
night he has not yet been caught.
DeLand News: The firm of Ramsey & Co..
Philadelphia, purchasers of tax titles ali over
the county, is beginning suit through its at
torneys, Stewart & BLY,, for possession of
various properties. They entered suit against
| H. Swartengreen Of New Smyrna for a tax
| title held against him for 1887. Mr.. Swarten-
| green reciprocated by entering counter suit
| against the firm for clearance of his title,
| claiming that he had paid his taxes for that
year.
The Union Christian Endeavor Society Of
| Orlando gave an ice cream festival with a
night for the benefit Of the Brunswick suffer
| ers. Everyone went and spent money and
| freely enjoyed themselves. The supply OF ice
cream was exhausted or the results would
have been large. AS it was, about $40 net was
| taken in, and private subscriptions will swell
| the total so that the draft which will be sent
| will be for S55.
Leesburg Commercial: On Wednesday
| morning in the rear of the w. c. Wilkins res
| idence, on High street, 1ald eagle made an
attack on the little daul h ,er of the late Col.
j. S Hopson. The child was playing back of
| the house when 1t saw the eagle coming and
| ran quickly into the house and escaped injury.
! Jimmie Hopson. the little girl brother, was
| there at the time and shot the eagle. killing
| it. The eagle was very large measuring
! feet 10 inches from tip to tip of its wings, and
| its skin will be mounted. When shot. it was
on the ground with number of buzzards, one
| of which was also killed with part of the
| load that dispatched the eagle.
| The will of Frederick NJ. Robinson OF Jack
| sonville who recently died, was admitted to
PROBATE and record in the county judges office
! Friday. Mrs. Mary Robinson, wife of de-
| ceased, and Merritt F. Robinson, his brother,
| are named as executors. L he property CON
! sists OF money, mortgages and lands in sew
eral counties in Florida and some in Pensyl-
vania. He aso owned Riverside Place" in
! this city. The will was made June 6, 1891,
/ and at that time the value of the property
/ was between $50 900 and $4,000 Deceased
| directs that all debts first be paid and his
! grave be provided with monument He be
! queaths 800 month to sister. $500 to a
| cousin, 5000 to the education Of little boy,
| and the balance real ana personal, TO MS
wife and adopted son, W. s. Robinson. The
! ~ 900 life insurance to his wife.
At Pablo six years ago Master Phineas
! Stephens, son of Mr.. and Mrs L. l. stephens
/ of Jacksonville, stepped on piece OF broken
glass and cut the sole Of his foot severely. and
! for while it was impossible to stop the flow
! of blood. His father finally took him to Dr.
| r. o. Summers and the latter sewed mp the
! wound and it Su seQuently healed OF late
! Phineas has suffered eXcruciating agony in
that foot, and yesterday at the Florida Con
! ference College at Leesburg, where he is
I studying at present, the doctors concluded to
| cut the foot open to see what was the matter,
! as it was believed some foreign substance
! was lodged there, and so they put the lad
under the influence Of chlorofCr n, and judge
/ their surprise when piece of sharp glass
| nearly an inch square was found lodged near
| the bone 1t is wonder that the boy did not
/ have lOckjaw.
| jacksonville TimesUnion: James B. Crab
! tree one OF the oldest citizens in Jackson
Vile died at his residence in Spri G ield
| Friday noon of Bright's disease Besides his
! wife he leaves four children, James Willie,
( HOBART and jamie, and a host of friends to
! mourn his loss. Mr.. Crabtree was born in
/ this city in 1910, and only few days aSo
! passed his SD birthday He spent most of
4 his early uoyhood in savannah with his grand
I father. a memoer Il the Chatham Artillery,
/ with which he served during the war. He
/ was married to Miss Williams of Monticello
/ in 1867 and came to ia ksonvllle, but soon
Z after went over to Fernandina, where he was
. connected with the Atlantic Gulf and West
India 1ransit railroad and later he moved to
Cedar Key where he was connected With the
same road. He returned to ia onVlle
4 a out five years later, and during mis- resi-
/ dence here served as city clerk. Just pre-
! vious to the epidemic of 1888 he moved TO
] Trader Bill, where he had farm and had
] his residence there all during the epidemic,
/ mt du.i ~ that time acted as chief OF police
/ at Camp Perry. Shortly after the epidemic
! he returned to Jacksonville and since that
| time has been employed in the office OF the
/ county clerk.