The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-25


q and continue to June 20, inclusive. The
/ comm programme Is most inter
/ esting one.
/ Monday. the nth inst. at e:S0p. m. West
/ Palm Beach received her first regular mail.
! W. II. Parkin mailed the first letter Mr. Rat
| clin. the new manager OF the ice works, re-
/ ceived the first letter.
! Drs. F. G. Renshaw and W. f. Anderson
/ successfully removeda an ovarian ibrOid tumor
/ from Mrs. NJ. Gilmore. who was carried to
| Pensacola from Milton wednesday. She is 46
/ years OF age and has been an invalid for
/ twenty-five years.
| Mr.. Chapman. who bought from the state
/ over s0l0 acres OF land on Key Largo. is a
/ member of the Wall street banking ihrn OF
1 Moore & Schley who are said to represent
1 Senators Briee. Mcpherson and others in
| sugar trust speculation.
Tuesday afternoon William Luttrell OF
| Bushnell Sumter county. stepped on a rusty
nail, which penetrated his foot to the depth
/ OF more than an inch, and he was soon after
| seized with lOckiaw which has probably
! proved fatal before now.
Manatee Advocate: a. W. Jones went TO
Manntee county last week to regain lost
health, and visit relatives. Feeling the time
hanging heavy on his hands, his father gave
him an acre OF land to cultivate for his own
benefit. He put IN a crop Of vegetables, and
cleared from the crop 500 besides earning
$50 in carpenter work. This made a profitable
visit, and, no doubt, helped in his complete
restoration TO health
Fort White Herald: B. A. Faruell gigged
strange species Of the finny tribe Tuesday
night. The fish was eighteen inches in length
and weighed one pound and half; its head Is
shaped like that Of the alligator at the top;
its mouth is shaped like the mouth OF
sucker FISH and was under Its head, about
TWO inches from the end Of its snOut; its body
is boneless and its hide has no scales on 1t,
and resembles the hide of the alligator. All
Of the old fishermen say this is the first OF
the kind they have seen, and do not know It's
species.
Titusvllle Star; The Indian River Bottling
Works were sold by w. E. Booker on Mon
day to H. Sewell OF Punta Gorda. The latter
Was a partner in a bottling plant with MT.
Booker at Punta Gorda and has come over
here to manage the business since having en-
tire control Of It. The reason OF the transfer
is that Mr.. Bookers health has, for some
time past prevented him from giving the
business the necessary attention that il de-
mands. He will remain here right along and
assist MI Sewel, the new proprietor in the
business OF manufacturing.
Palm Beach Gazetteer: Mr. Ingraham Mr.
tlagers general manager, says that work on
the streets and water works will be com
meneed right away and pushed through to
early completion. Our water works system
is simply the raising OF and piping the water
OF the fresh lakes a half mile to the westward
OF us, part In fact OF the famous Everglades.
through West Palm Beach, where the mains
are tapped and the town supplied; thence
across Lake Worth to the Royal Poinciana
hotel The water has no superior in purity
The possibilities are that if an eucampment
OF the Florida state troops is held this year 10
will be at Pablo Beach. Gen. T. D. Lancaster
expresses himself in favor of the camp being
held there, and that it be made the permanent
camp. ground. 1t Is understood that GOV.
Mitchell stated after the encampment last
year at Ocala, that he would never again or
der an encampment to be held near a city, on
account OF the many temptations and the
seeming disposition OF men TO have a big
time. instead of going there for instruction.
Already the military boys are showing inter
est in the encampment. as the time when it is
usually held approaches and they seem to be
in favor OF either Magnolia Bluff, near Pensa-
cola, or Pablo.
Fort White Herald: A shooting ARRAY oc-
CURED between Tom Pitts and a negro man
at Pittston, Wednesday afternoon, which
came near resulting seriously Mr.. Pitts,
who is foreman OF the Pittston Hard Rock
Company mines, discharged the negro ana
ordered him to leave the works, and the negro
cursed him, whereupon Mr. Pitts procured a
shotgun and forced him to leave In the af-
ternoon the negro armed himself and re-
turned to the mines Mr. Pitts again ordered
him TO leave, and the negro drew his revolver,
so did Mr. Pitts, and they began firing on
each other at close range; the negro fred six
shots, two bullets grazing Mr.. Pitt skin. Mr..
Pitts fred four shots without effect The
negro fed and has not yet been captured.
Pensacola News: Capt. F. A. Mahan of
the United States engineer corps, in charge
OF the government work in Pensacola haFbor,
is confident that with reasonable appropria-
tfons depth OF thirty feet can re obtained
and kept on our bar, and that with the COM
pletion Of the Nicaraguan canal Pensacola
would soon grow into great city with the
best harbor south of New York. Capt Mahan
is member of one Of the celebrated families
of America. His father was for years pro-
fessor Of engineering at West Point and
wrote the nrstAmerican treatise on the science
Que which has been translated into all Ian
guageS, and is now "a text book in India Capt.
Mahan, Of the United States cruiser Chicago,
who has lately received so much honor In
England, is relative and "Mahan on Forti-
gineer.