The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-11-02
FLORIDA.


DR. e. NJ. Alba, Of St. Augustine, died Sun
day.
Florida is the only southern state without a
brewery.
The Belleview phosphate mine started
up Monday, under management Of M. l.
smith
There were 90 deaths at Jacksonville last
month. % whites and 81 negroes, There were
"a births.
During October SO mortgages and SO deeds
were filed in the county clerk 5 office at Jack
SOnYille for record
Last week nearly 1000 boxes Of oranges
were shipped from the Manatee section, $500
by Saturday steamers
Girls from the White Mountain hotels will
he employed in the dining room of the new
Royal Ponciana hotel, at Lake Worth, this
winter.
Judge j. G. Speer died suddenly about $50
Tuesday afternoon at his home on Lake John
just south of Oakland. He was in Oakland
and apparently all right at o'clock.
During October the business OF the munich
pal court at Jacksonville, consisted of 100
cases; fines imposed, $3.50; paid, &l67; re-
mitted. g215; prisoners sent to county author
tiles, 10; committed to Jail, 81; discharged, 3d.
At Orlando Tuesday the jury in the Marot
murder case agreed upon a verdict, after being
out about twelve hours. Hardy A. Blocker
was found lilty. as indicted, but was rec
ommeuded to the mercy of the court. This
win send him to prison for life. George A.
same crime Louis MarOt was murdered at
Mcdonald station on April last.
According to the National Economist.
final survey of the ship canal across the
Florida peninsula will soon be made The
canal will be about 300 feet wide and about
100 miles in length. 1t will shorten the dis
tan from New Orleans to Liverpool / 900
miles, and vessels win save the dangerous
voyage around the Florida keys and BAHIA
mas with the high insurance rates now ex-
acted. The canal viii link the south and
west, enabling the products of the former
section to shipped direct TO Eu-
rope without expensive railroad trans
portation across the continent. The canal
will cost about S5,001000. There will he a cut
of seventeen miles from st. Augustine to the
St.JOhn's river, which will be followed sew
eral miles, Then a cut will be made to Or
ange Lake, in a heavily timbered yellow pine
district where a ship repair and naval ward
VIII be established The canal will 20
through Alachua county to the gulf. Judge
James +. peneer, of New York. is president
of the new company, Senator Jones of Ne
vada- and II. M. Flagler are interested in the
enterprise.
orlando Record: Tuesday morning about 4
o'clock Oakland had her second fire of any
note. Thomas Menefee, who was occu-
prlng room just over the small building oc-
tupied by j. a. Asher in the upper story
over J. w Clarke's store discovered the fire
and gave the alarm Mr.. Asher kept a little
fruit and confectionery store on Smale scale
served meals lee cream. etc, and it was in
this building that the lire originated. Every
thing was clear loss to him, In fact, he was
the heaviest loser by the fire. From this
building, the store occupied by j. w. Clar e
as grocery store caught fire and was soon
consumed. Next came he store doth two
story bu1ldlngsJ occupied by MeSsrs. Brock &
Homer, as a general grocery store, and it
soon went up in smoke. The city market was
attached to the rear of J. w. Clark's store and
was consumed with The fixtures. The uild-
ing occupie1 by J. W. Clarke was Ownel by
Jos, Henschen. The one occupied by Brock
& T dinner was the property of Judge Speer
and j. H. Sadler. NO insurance on either
building The losses were COmparatiVely
small outside of the buildings as most OF the
goods were gotten out. Mr.. Asher saved
nothing as the building was small and every
thing was consumed before help arrived.
fortunately for the other buildings on the
main street, the wind, what little, there was,
blew in an opposite direction.