The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-24

Tallahassee. This company is organized to
purchase the mill property and continue
on largely increased scale the business
Of Curtis d Browning.
The residence Of W. II. Cordner, at
SJseks;oLiVi was entered Dyy
two suits Of clothes. one brown
coat and vest one gray coat, one pair
CT black trousers, gold watch and chain
and S35 in cash were stolen.
Commander Whiting OF the navy yard
on Pensacola bay put in an excellent sys-
TEN of water works and adopted meas
ures for the quick suppression OF fires on
the government reservation. The fire en-
CINE belonging al the navy yard is in good
order. and Commander Whiting has asked
the department for sufficient amount Of
good hose.
A short time ago. a Chicago man walk
ed into the office Of County clerk i. F.
Oliveros al ST. Augustine 10 search a
title, Mr.. OliyepOs let him have the use
or his private books, for which he was to
pay $ per day He finished his work the
first day, and gave Mr.. OliverCs a draft
on Chicago for the money, very gener-
ously adding 2 cents TO pay the discount
The draft cost the county clerk s. for
protest fees.
The question Of doing away with The
county treasurer in Alachua county has
been agitated for the last year The citi-
Zens of the county who are proposing this
plan contend that with collector 10 col
lect the money. bank TO keep it in, and
inc county commissioners TO ulSbufSe lue
funds, treasurer is scarcely a necessity
or a benefit At the next session of the leg
islature bill TO do away with this Office
will in all probability be submitted.
A declaration was fled in the office of
the county clerk at jacksonville Tuesday
in the case of G. Singleton and wife VS..
the Main Street Railway Company. The
suit has been instituted TO recover dam
ages from the defendant in the sum OF
$4,000 for injuries sustained by Mrs. Sin
gleton on Aug. 81 Of this year, on which
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was run into and made unconscious ard
severely injured in a number of different
ways
A new Industry has been developed in
the pine forests around Pensacola. The
forests abound in wild smilaX, an ever
green vine which encircles the trunks
Of the trees very much like bamboo but
is of much finer texture. Many carloads
Of this smilax have recently been shipped
to New York, Baltimore. Chicago and
other northern points for decorating pur-
poses, and ii has found ready sale. The
decorations for the famous wedding of the
helress, Miss Anna Gould, were largely
Of wild smilaX, shipped from Pensacola.
Last year J. J. Dymock of MOntclair
raised an experimental patch of cassava.
The result was satisfactory in every res
pect. Having more eyes than he needed
for Teplanting. Mr. Dymock offered them
for sale but was unable to find purChas-
ers. No one cared to bother with casa
va Ehs season Mr.. Dymock has raised a
much larger quantity than before, and
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are seeking them to plant by the acre, and
he will not have enough TO supply the de-
mand
In the Office of County Judge Harrison
at Tampa Tuesday an interesting case
was brought up for hearing. John Mich
OILS, a fruit dealer, received a carload OF
bananas over the Florida Central and Pen
insuler railroad last July. He gave his
check for the freight bill and $9f and re-
coipted for the carload of fruit, but upon
unloading IT, he claimed that a portion of
the fruit was very much damaged by the
manner in which IL was handled by the
employees of the road (who unloaded the
carr and Immediately stopped the pay
ment of his check. The railroad company
entered suit against him, and in the trial
Tuesday came Off victorious.
The most destructive storm that has Wis
tied West Palm Beach since the October
storm of 1898 was raging there Tuesday.
The damage caused cannot be estimated,
but in that vicinity the repairing of docks,
the replacing OF sailing boats, yachts, etc,
would cost in the neighborhood of S., 900 or
$1,000 All day Sunday the clouds were
thick, and the rain poured down in tor
rents. There was little change in the
weather until Monday, when a stiff north
east wind sprang up. 1t continued to blow
about ten to fifteen miles an hour until
late Monday evening, when the velocity
reached from twenty to thirty miles At |
o'clock the storm grew worse, Not until
then did its destructive work begin. By
midnight the waters of the lake We're mucn
above the ordinary hight and the condi-
ton of affairs became alarming. Boats
were tossed up and down, anchor ropes
were broken, and other damage done
Capt. Bravo of the steamer Santa Lucia
who had retired early in the evening, woke
up when the wind got stronger. He was
kept busy until the storm was at its hight,
when he sent for his brother and Capt
Sebate and the three were kept busy I'M
til 3 a. M, when the captain realized that
he must sink his boat to save her He
pulled the Santa Lucia up close on the
north side of the dock, where the water
sunk her BY doing that the captain saved
the boat from much damage. She will be
pulled out as soon as the water falls be-
low her decks. Around the town the small
tents and little frame houses Jared badly.
Few tents were left while the fierce wind
drove the water through every crevice.
From 80 o'clock few people slept. Many
We're out watching the storms work. The
hundred or more boats moored to the
docks along the lake front were tossed
about i'm the water like corks. one by one
the ropes broke. and the vessels were eth
er washed ashore and capsiZed or found
protection in the high grass. The waters
in the lake were very rough, more so than
they had ever been before, despite the fact
that the storm of 1898 was more destruc-
tive Outside of the destruction along the
lake, there was scarcely any damage done,
so far as known. There has been no COM
munication south of West Palm Beach,
but everything is supposed to be all right.
No damage whatever was done to the Ho-
tel ROYAL Poinciana or the Palm Beach
Inn. Only a few trees lately planted were
pineapple growers in that vicinity showed
that little damage was done to the pine
apple crop by the storm, only young plants
being disturbed.