The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-30
THE MORNING NEWS WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 80 1895.

Several thousand dollars worth Of garden
/ truck was lost.
watermelons are still plentiful at Jas
/ per.
The 1898 city. taxes of Tampa cannot be
I paid in scrip.
/ H. NJ Flagler has given the town OF
/ West Palm Beach a fire engine.
/ Two men in half a day last week killed
/ eignty-four snipe at Kissimmee.
Jasper is without a mayor. J. c. Reyn-
| ODDS, the mayor, has removed TO Way
/ cross, Ga
The Tampa Rifles haver aised S242 and
/ the city council contributed $50 more To-
/ wards procuring new uniforms.
Burkhardt Bros. have purchased a
naphtha laanch Of L. c. Oliver, late OF
/ Titusvlle. The price paid was $1,000
/ a serious con7agration was prevented
at West Palm Beach Sunday morning
by the early discovery Of fire in one Of
I the stores in Wingston's block.
4 Mai. Lewis Mclean, the contractor Of
I the Florida East Coast Line extension. is
I said to be seriously III at his home two
/ miles south Of West Palm Beach.
Fernandina expects to have added to her
I business this winter a saw mill. a rice
mill, tannery ana an increased lumber
shipment and deeper water in her harbOr.
A raft of cypress logs containing 49,. 600
feet passed out Of the mouth of the OCk-
havana river and passed Welaka Monday
billed for Palatka to the Wilson Cypress
Company. This is the largest raft of logs
that has ever put up at Welaka.
4 number Of citizens Of New Augustine
who have paid their city taxes contem-
plate making application before Judge
| Call at next circuit court for a manda-
mus compelling the city authorities to
enforce the municipal ordinances-par-
ucularly the one for the collection Of
taxes.
Judge Phillips has issued a mandamus
compelling the county commissioners Of
Polk county to issue licenses to the liquor
IL nNamr - ksanH til fNar
county went dry at the last election,
but 1t is claimed that the election was IL
legal and that the majority of the cleo
tors were in favor of saloons.
The executive committee of the demo-
cratic party has called a city primary at
Orlando for the nomination of candidates.
The primary will be held Nov. 2, and ne
groes will be allowed to vote. A white
but it would be difficult TO get a ticket
nominated at such primary on the OFF,
cial ballot.
Seventy-five pounds of blasting powder
was put in some hard clay at Sydnicate
mine in Citrus county last week, and
when discharged threw a rock weighing
sing through the roof, ceiling and side OF
John Hosseys kitchen. Mrs. Hossey was
in the kitchen at the time, and the rock
passed in foot or two of her head.
The United States revenue cutters Nc
Lane, Morrill, and Winona are now at
Key West and their duties of preventing
hlibustering expeditions and patroling the
coast of Florida in federal quarantin
duty are suspended for the purpose of
holding another board of investigation TO
try Lieut.. W. II. Hay for the hfth time,
on charges of conduct unbecoming an
officer and a gentleman.
Lake county is now in the throes of
wet" and dry election campaign, the
election being booked for Nov. %. and the
prohibition candidates have entered on a
very vigorous campaign. Some time ago
the prohibition leaders held a meeting at
Leesburg of what they then termed the
temperance league, but subsequently, at
meeting at Eustis, changed it to the
anti-saloon league of Lake county.
In one of the most hotly contested sights
politically ever in Titusville the old fac
tion was defeated by an average of thirty
votes. b. r. Wilson, for mayor, was beat
en- by W. w. NJ Brown; n. T. Titus, for
marshal. was beaten by l.. T. Cooley and
Joe Rogers, for clerk, was beaten by II.
}; Anthony, All three of the new fractional
aldermen, S. n. Gladwin, r. r. Hall and
r. l.. Brady, were elected against r. c.
Scritengeour and r. =. Paddison, e. l..
Rrady being on both tickets. T. G. Van
landingham was elected city assessor
A mass meeting was held at the Ban
fist church at Gainesville Sunday, and it
was decided to erect new church edific.
as soon as possible. The subscription
books were opened and about $1,000 was
raised in less than an hour. Besides this
amount, the treasury holds $500 in cash,
making a total OF $500. with which to
commence the MOlk NO one donated
more than 500 for the work. but ten prom
Used to pay that sum. 1t Is proposed to
erect brick edi1lce to cost between 5000
and $4,000. Ground will be broken by April
], If not sooner.
Drs. c. p Gowman and Charles w.
Bartlett of Ybor City have originated
the idea of establishing a sanitarium in
Hbor city. The plan suggested Is to
sell yearly tickets to any parties desiring
them at the rate of sl2 per annum, paya-
| BILE 81 a month. This will entitle the holder
to medical attention, competent nursing,
! board and bed in the dormitory of the
| sanitarium at any time that he may be
| sick during the time that he holds the
| ticket. Three hundred subscribers are
| necessary to make the project a success
| or to pay the regular running expenses
/ of such an institution.
Messrs. Neshitt and Bruer, with the aid
| of w. r. lvers, succeeded in raising the
| caisson cylinder Of the bridge draw pier
/ at St. Augustine Monday. The concrete
| weighing some forty tons, being consid-
! erably broken, permitted the iron cylinder
/ TO come up with little effort after the
/ by three divers, J. w. Blanchard, Henry
4 Jones and Black Diamond These were
colored men. who performed the danger
/ Gus work by diving to the bottom of the
river and remaining from eighteen to
/ twenty-five seconds under water, without
/ divers appliances, which is considered
to be quite feat of endurance especially
/ as the tide runs very strong and the wa
ter is over twenty feet deep.
The ordinance granting the electric rail-
road franchise at st. Augustine contained
the following clause: This franchise is
granted upon the condition that the gran
tees named herein. their associates or as
signs, shall, within ninety days after the
approval of this ordinance, deposit in the
First National Bank of St. Augustine to
| the credit of the city of St. Augustine the
4 sum of 1000 of lawful currency" An
l other clause reads as follows: Failure Ia
| make the said deposit of 81 900 within the
| specified time shall operate as a forfeiture
/ of the franchise" The ninety DAYS al
lowed for the deposit of the money ex-
pired Saturday. and when the bank closed
| at O'Clock, the money had not been de-
/
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