The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-06-21
ROUND ABOUT IN FLORIDA.
The News Of the State Told in
Paragraphs.

tho SvnFNctols u part OF when mas been sub
scribed.
A Z. Drought Of the recently assigned T1is-
simmee City Bank was arrested Monday night
on warrant sworn out Dy Mr. Leslie who
alleges that on the night before said assign
ment Drought received from him a deposit OF
5000 after the assignment papers had been
drawn.
St Andrews Buoy. W G. Stevens, who
was supposed to have left Pensacola for some
part OF South Florida. about August last has
never been heard OF since that time. and his
brother, John Stevens of St Andrews would
be very thankful for any information as to
MS whereabouts. He was about 20 years old
and unmarried at that time.
Ten carloads of pineapples arrived at Cocoa
on the steamer Santa Lucia Thursday night
Saturday they passed through st. Augustine
over the Jacksonville st. Augustine and
Indian River railway on their way north
most OF them going to Chicago. This is the
largest shipment of pineapples ever made
from Indian river at one time, Some of these
ptneapples are magnificent specimens of what
tuesday night row took place at billiard
mil, ten miles west OF Jacksonville on the
Savannah Florida and Western railway in
which white men were involved. man
named Brown is said TO have been the insti-
gator of the trouble, which was the result of a
dispute. Brown was under the influence of
liquor and suddenly pitched into the crowd
with knife and severely cut five of the men
before he could he OvePpowered. The
wounded men were brought to Jacksonville
for medical treatment. Their wounds are not
fatal
Ocala Capitol: -Four banks for Oeala The
new one has been organized and will soon be
In operation. The Ocala Building ana I'm
pFoVemept Company is to be absorbed by the
new institution. IL will be known as the
Oeala Warehouse and Banking Company,
capital 100000. The leading men in the city
are Stockholders The object Of the new in
stitution Is to aid our cigar factories to pro
cure supplies of tobacco and the same will be
kept in warehouses subject to call Then
this hank will make af
on bills OF lading and discount all bills pre-
scented.
Between 7 and 8 o'clock Tuesday night as
Mrs. Josephine Bettelini and family were sit
ting on the front piazza OF their residence at
Jacksonville, a thief entered the house
through the back hall door and went upstairs
and entered Mrs. Bettelini's bedroom and
took her pocket book, lying on her bureau,
drawer he found an old purse, and, thinking
1t contained money, took 1t also; but Mrs.
Bettelini says, the purse had nothing in It but
some keys belonging to her desk. On the
bureau where the thief found the pocket book
containing the money. were two diamond
rings and gold watch and chain, but IL seems
that he was afraid to carry off the jewelry.
A few days ago a well-appearlng man walked
into the store of Hess, clothier at Jackson
vile, and purchased some goods. He gave in
payment check for 81 Us on the First Ma
ttonal Bank OF that city, signed by H, L.
Bowling & Bro. and Endorsed 1t with the name
of w. @. Nichols. When Mr.. Hess carried
this check to the bank for deposit he was
told that there was no such account on It's
books. He knew then he had been swindled.
Henry Fritot the cigar dealer, was also vic
tlm1Zed to the extent of So 80 by a similar
check. Nichols has been stopping at BETH
hnt's European hotel, where he registered
under the name of Honeysuckle. His real
name is supposed to be Britt and his residence
North Carolina.
For the last half dozen years George B.
Dickinson Of Orlando has been considering
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valuable submerged muck deposited for past
ages at certain points on the st. Johns river
and its tributaries, might be converted into
portable and available form for furnishing
the much needed humus to our naturally thin,
and now almost exhausted, cultivated pine
lands in South and East Florida This object
seems to be now in fair way of accomplish
ment The special charter incorporating
THE East and South Florida Muck
Mining and Improvement Company" is
one liberal and ample in its provisions, 1t
gives life of twenty years to the company
and the sole right over an extensive area
about 800 miles, TO mine muck, with all of
the necessary powers for putting it into com
mercal form from its crude state or in combi-
nation, with rights of transportating the same
etc. BY analysis this product of the rivers
is worth from "a to Is per dry ton. The de-
mand is great for such product and it is be-
neVed that % 900 to so 600 tons per year could
be sold in Florida and other nearby places in
Georgia
Orlando Reporters After several weeks of
confusion and unpleasant wrangling the mat
ter of reeeivership of the KisSimmee City
Bank is now likely to be settled. In order to
give a thorough understanding of the case we
will have to go back as far as May 26, upon
which date Mrs. Drought, by her attorney, @.
i, N. AXtell filed bill in the United States
court setting up the assignment Of her son,
a. Il. Drought, to George r. Newell of this
eitywho failed to give the requisite bond ask
ing for trustee to carry out the trust. Sat
urday, May q, Beggs & Palmer filed bill for
the Hanover National Bank of New York,
asking for a receiver of the Kissimmee City
Bank, partnership existing between A. K.
Drought and j. B. Watson; first, because
Drought had attempted to assign property
of the partnership; second, because the
failure of the assignee to make bond had
rendered the assignment void, ana for other
reasons. On this bill Judge Broome Of the
circuit court appointed G. A. Carson of Kis-
simmee as receiver, who took charge. II, $.
Chubb, about II o'clock a. m. of the 27th, which
was about the time Broome appointed Carson,
demanded possession of the goods of the bank
by the sheriff, said sheriff being in possession
OF the goods by attachment. The sheriff asked
time of Chubb to confer with his attorney,
which was granted. In the meantime Carson
was notified OF his appointment as receiver
and was given possession by the sheriff, The
attorneys who brought the bill for the re-
ceiver claimed there was no conflict OF lurls-
diction between the courts as Judge Swayne
appointed trustee for the property OF A. Il.
way mention the property of the
bank, nor does the order or DILL IN the United
States court make the creditors of said bank
parties On the other hand, the bill before
Judge Bfoome asks for a receiver for the
partnership goods known as the kissimmee
City Bank. The attorneys for parties in the
United States court and the attorneys for
parties before Judge BrOome met in Orlando
Monday afternoon, and in order to save ex-
Dense and prevent a clash of Jurisdiction of
the federal and state courts, 1t was agreed
that Carson should ask to be relieved as re-
ceiver and that Judge BroOme be requested
to appoint w A. White of this city and e. N,
Fell of Narco0ssee as eo-recelyers of the
bank property One of the conditions of the
agreement was that the proceedings in the
federal court he dismissed and all questions
be left for the state court to decide. Chubb to
withdraw and the bill for his appointment to
be dismissed,
AS stated in a dispatch from Pensacola in
the mourning NEWS of yesterday Robert e.
b. BurfOrd. the murderer of Deputy United
States Marshal L Estrange voluntarily sur
rendered himself to Sheriff Wilkins at Pensa-
cola Tuesday afternoon and is now in the
county Jail. He has furnished the following
statement; my name IS Robert K, b. Bur
ford At present / claim citizenship in Hud-
son, Paseo county, Florida. L have been
citizen of Florida eleven years Previous to
the month Of May, 1890, I was n clerk In the
sixth auditors office of the treasury depart
ment at Washington. About That time
separated from nay wife She became pos
sessed of al my money and yaluables, the
only thing left to me being S450woTth of build
ing and loan stock which l was enabled
TO convert into money. Desiring
n 1paVa WASHINGTON rendered