The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-08-15

ouDNUS tA0 udIuGs
o. FLORIDA
Titusville is working for a water supply.
Teodoro Perez Of Key West will open his
new factory at Tampa next Monday.
The dengue fever, which has been quite
! PreYalentfer some time at Palatka, is abst-
| Ing.
| Since March not less than 5000 people
! from Key West and Havana have located in
! Tampa.
| A batch Of over seventy prisoners appeared
at one time before the Jacksonville Recorder
| Monday.
! Miss Belle Ferguson Of Key West has now
sixty-six barrels OF pineapple vinegar in her
! storehouse.
w. c. Sapp of Oxford has just completed
two cottages on property recently purchased
in West Tampa.
A colored man had his foot badly crushed
BY the cars atEhren, near TarpOn Springs,
| on Monday last,
| The Lee county court house at Fort Myers
| viii be roomv, neat frame building, costing
| "a Go, and be finished throughout with hard
| oiled pine.
St. Augustine News: Cotton dealers say
| that while the acreage in cotton in this state
has increased on that Of last year, the crop.
| at this date, is 10 per cent. better
Rev. S. p. Pittman Of Ocala has found it
necessary to defend himself against the
charge Of disgrac NJ his calling as a clergy
man by playing base ball in short trousers.
". w. lurnpdW met Win painful acCl-
dent yesterday at saWmlll at TarpOn
| Springs Fla. He got his hand too close to
the Jig saw and 1t came down on his thumb.
severing II from his hand.
1t is stated that the Port Tampa end OF the
Louisiana Honduras Lottery is not paying
and that number of their employees have
been LAID of and are seeking situations else
where.
Henry Hubbard OF Florida, made ship
ment OF lady bugs to India last Saturday. A
small cOlOred boy has been employed to cap
ture a thousand or more of these bugs which
are wanted in India to destroy the scale in
sect.
on Friday night, while a party of logpers
were cooking supper in their shanty at Horse
landing near Palatka, a monster tiger cat or
catamont made his appearance on the scene
and kept them imprisoned for several hours.
They had no gun, and were indebted to the
strength OF the building alone for their lives
G. s Petty OF Tampa has established for
himself a unique private ONCE He was
greatly annoying by well-intended friends
dropping in end taking up his time, so he
moved to TIE rear of his spacious store and
erected stand six feet high. On this he
perehed his office, which is approached by
stairs.
Pensacola News: The British steamship
Akaba, Capt Carter, which sailed from Pen
sacola, May % for London with a cargo Of
over ,0O00O feet of lumber and timber be-
ing the second largest ever carried from this
port. arrived at London, DIS harged her cargo
and returned on July IS, making the round
trip in fifty eight days
The directors OF the Orlando South Florida
Fair Association have resolved to put up a
building on their fair grounds in Orlando in
which the eOlored people of Florida will have
an opportunity Of displaying their capabni-
ties and progress in practical and artistic
work. The sum OF $3.50 is offered in premiums
The exhibition viii be held from Feb 10 to
80 1895. -
At Tampa Friday evening about $40 or 9
o'clock. while Mrs Emma Ulses was return
EnOnDInU n pyun nv
tramp for block or more and as she
reached the corner of Tampa and lack streets
the tramp walked up, seized her and sue
eeeded in taking her packages and pocket
| book, with its contents some S. or ~. and a.
Of her receipts for house rent and furniture
The Weekly Argus, Pensacola made
! It's last appearance Monday. The plant
| mas been purchased by stock com
! pany, which will issue the Daily
| Evening Times, beginning publication
! next Wednesday. J. Dennis Wolfe will be
| editor, L. II. Vincent city editor and man
| ager and Ed NJ. Alderman superintendent Of
/ the mechanical department. These are an
nounced as proprietors of the new paper
/ C. II. Braman of Fort Myers is on his way
home from trip TO Philadelphia, where he
has had two surgical operations performed
one OF which was very risky. He suffered
With neuralgia for years, which was equal to
! death About four years ago he went there
| for treatment and had the carotid artery in
his face cut and piece of bone taken out
i a Owe his eve, but TO no effect This trip he
huu MS bhull tftpduubu a mole ABOUT Two
/ and half inches in diameter was made and
| the nerve cut of his brain. That was done
| abou. ten weeks ago and he is now about
well He is said to he the forty fourth per.
son who has had the operation performed.
| About five weeks ago he had his right eve
taken out and glass eve put in. He seems
TO be In good spirits and says he is all right.
Tampa Times: A one.story cottage in
stockton Court, belonging to Arthur Cuscaden
and occupied by 4. c. RoqUemore. the South
florida agent at Hbor City, was destroyed by
Tire saturday AFTERNOON about 4 o clock The
alarm was not ruRg in until the house was all
aolaze, and before the fire companies reached
the enc II was doomed. The hremen had to
lay ESQ feet Of hose to reach hydrant and all
tnaI could be done was TO prevent the spread
OF hames to the residences Of II. T. Line augh
and ii, =. Porter. which were almost dioin.
ing. The hre IS supposed TO have originated
by the carelessness OF a negro woman who
had been engaged to clean up the house she
I went away leaving fire in the wood stove In
the kitchen, from which, II is supposed the
4 house caught fire in some way. 1he house
ana entire contents were lost. There was SsOC
! insurance on the contents, but none on the
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