The morning news., 1894-11-01

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There are a great many Of the regular
! season tourists who have already engage!
/ rooms at the Ponce de Leon and CordOVa
] hotels for next season.
/ The operatives in S & F. Fleitas' fac
4 tory at Tampa, went to work Tuesday
/ morning. The discharged cigarmaSer re-
. fused to return TO work in the factory, so
/ the strike was declared off.
| Judge Philips has issued an order for
/ the sale Of the property of Juan Padlla
1 & Co., at Tampa, attached by T. ]. Knight
/ & Co, on the ground that il is perishable.
The property consists of hides and live
stock and viii be sold on three days notice.
The Southern Express Company made
two large shipments Of cigars from Ocala
Saturday; one lot represented 1900 and
the other 1900. The former was from
the LaCriolla and the other from Morales
& Co. factories. Most of these goods
went west.
c. C. Burns, one Of Tampa's leading
furniture dealers, leaves to-day for Oliv-
er, Ga, where he will wed Miss Lily
Morgan. After a short bridal tour the
couple win return to Tampa, where MIR.
Burns has provided a beautiful and COM
Portable home.
While three soldiers were out sailing at
st. Augustine Tuesday in the government
yawl boat a stiff gust from the west struck
soldiers clung to the sides until it turned
upside down; then they held on to the
keel until they were tOwed to shallow wa
ter.
Edenheld & Jetton have the contract
to build two stores for DR.. p Guichard at
Tampa. One on Fourteenth street in the
rear of his drug store will be 40 by 50 feet.
and one on Seventh avenue viii be q by 33
feet. They will be one story frame build
ings the contract price for the two being
$1,000.
A negro woman entered a prominent
dry goods store at Tampa Saturday night,
and asked for a pair Of No, ladies' shoes.
The clerk handed them out, but she
couldn't get her toes in them. He kept Oh
increasing the size of every pair shown
her until she found a snug fit in a mans
shoe No, IL.
The case of J. H. Calvin VS.. the city of
Jacksonville ct al. came up for a hearing
in the United States court at Jacksonville
on bill filed by Bisbee & Rinehart, coun-
sci for the complainant, asking for the
appointment of receiver to take charge
of the $i,0000O0 bonds claimed to have
been issued by the city.
Edenfield & Jetton have just secured the
contract for seven new cottages in Ybor
City Four are for Mrs. Matilde Cadova of
New York. They will cost $3.50 each. and be
located on Twelfth avenue and Thir-
teenth street Three are for Gray g. Car
ney, and they will be on Eighth avenue in
the Denis subdivision They will also cost
si00 each.
The Copley mill at PanasofflIee has
been compelled to shut down on account
Of difficulty in getting logs to the mill.
Their steam skidder has proved a failure.
They will now build a railroad through
the swamp, which they claim will be a
success. Two hundred men are out of
employment. The mill will run in about
six weeks.
c. J. Clements, the agent for the Flor
ida Central and Peninsular railroad at
Panasoffkee, has been compelled to re-
sign. The trouble is said to have arisen
from a trunk that was put at Pana-
soffkee in the middle of the night, when
he was not expected to meet the train.
II was stolen, and the company required
him to pay for the trunk, which he re-
fused to do.
John @. Myers, a dairyman of Orlando.
had a narrow escape Friday from serious
injury by reason of a tussel with an infu-
rated bull. Mr. Myers was attempting to
secure the animal with a rope, when 1t
rushed at him and caught his body be-
tween its horns, tossing him fully twelve
feet into the air. Fortunately the horns
Of the bun did not penetrate his body.
The only injuries sustained were some se,
rious bruises resulting from the fall.
Clearwater is to have a hotel Ground
has been broken for a building 93x65 feet
and three stories high. The lot belongs TO
the Gould &c Ewing Company on Har-
rison avenue. The hotel is being built
by stock company, consisting of Messrs.
Gould and Ewing, Col. Yocum and others
of st. Louis, Mo, and s. S. Coachmau
and others Of Clearwater. The build
ing is to be erected by S. S. Coachman of
{c tO ha Fn~
cupancy by Jan. 10
C. H. Berkey, a furniture manufacturer
of Grand Rapids, Mich, and brother-in-
| law Of Newton Phelps, who died at the
Merchants hotel at Pensacola last
Wednesday night, arrived Tuesday The
body had been embalmed, and was taken
by him on the ;35 p. m. train Tuesday
to Grand Rapids for burial. IT was learned
from Mr.. Berkey that Phelps was a sin
gle man, the son of a large lumber manu-
facturer of Michigan, who has been dead
several years. He was Of a rowing dis
| position and had an annuity of 81 200 from
his fathers estate, which accounts for
! the large sum Of money found in his bed
| at the hotel
The citizens Of New Augustine, headed
| by the marshal of that city, are search
| ing for two tramps who insulted two
! young ladies and attempted to hold up a
resident there Monday night The ladies'
were walking long King street when the
/ men stopped them and used insulting
| language. One of the ladies slapped the
! foremost man in the face, and then, with
/ her companion, ran away. Soon after
! the men attempted TO stop James Skeu-
! per- who was driving by in his carriage.
! The young ladies told of their experience.
and the marshal and a few others were
! soon hunting for the tramps. but after
a long search they failed to find any trace
! of them.
A difficulty arose between two negroes
! named John Hill and Peter Mathews at
| Lakeland day or two ago on account
of the too great familiarity of the former
| with the latter's wife which caused them
TO separate Hin has, Il is alleged, threat
ened Mathews life on several occasions.
| and on Sunday Mathews met Hin and
they quarrelled, Hill again threatening 10
| shoot Mathews. The latter went into
his house a short distance away. and
| got his gun, and coming back met Hill
! on Main street. Hin had a pistol I'm his
hand, and Mathews fired at him, the load
| taking effect In his breast and caueiuu
| instant death. Mathews az once pro.
| ceoded up town. and gave himself up To
! Policeman C.. II. Timer. and was locked
/ up. A coroncr's jury was summoned