The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-19
FLORIDA.

The Tropical hotel at Kissimmee is to be
sold June 3. II is thought Mr.. Plant viii
purchase IT.
Hardy A. Blocker, convicted of murder
in Orange county, and now serving a
sentence, will apply for pardon.
Mrs. Eliza Ross, one of the oldest inhabi-
tants of that section, died at Pensacola
on "Wednesday night at an advanced age.
The Order Of Railway Conductors, now
in session IN Atlanta, VIII reach Jackson
willie. next Wednesday or Thursday, and
viii be entertained for one day by the
Jacksonville board of trade.
James Bolden, a colored boy about II
years of age, who lives at the corner of
Forsyth and Fifth streets, LaNilla. was
drowned Friday while in bathing near the
dredge at the Stockton place In Riverside.
Theodore Glimm, who so mysteriously
disappeared from Tampa on April 10, has
turned up at his mothers home in New
York in a demented condition. He still
thinks that he is at work in Port Tampa
city.
Capt. o. s. Wiley arrived at Tampa Fri
day from Mobile, where he has been to bid
adieu to his ship the McLane, and her
crew, After q few days at Tampa the
captain will proceed ITO Philadelphia. to as
sumo his new command.
Rev. S. D. Smith of Orlando, who made
a small fortune on his patent apparatus
for cooking and canning fruits, has just
secured a patent on a centrifugal water
lift, which he hopes will revolutionize the
irrigating business Of the country.
commissioners DeCOtteS ana KING OF
the board of public works have decided
that at least three hundred feet of the
Black Creek mari paving that has been
put down on Talleyrand avenue at Jack
sonville by ]. L. Bryan the contractor,
is inferior to the specifications. and that
Mr.. Bryan will have to make it good.
The Seminole Indians. who have not
visited Kissimmee for several years, have
been up to see the pale face brothers and
do some shopping Billy Bowlegs and
Tommy, from the camp in the Everglades
beyond Lake Okeechobee, walked to ks
simmee and returned the same day. Many
of the young braves are learning to read
and write.
Ben johnson shot another negro known
as Catfish" at West Palm Beach Thurs
day afternoon, the ball going completely
through the negro's cheek. The trouble
arose over money matters. 1t is said that
they were at the beach and stole money
and a watch from two excursionists. When
they went TO divide their booty a dispute
arose. johnson has not been arrested.
The patrons of the Hotel Alcazar at ST.
Augustine viii scarcely recognize the place
when they return next winter, so MANY
and great will the changes made in the
meantime. Workmen have been busy for
two weeks now making changes on the
first floor, and it looks like a wreck The
partition between the Office and dining
rooms have been taken out. These will
be thrown into one immense room. The
men are now at work in the upper part
OF the immense hotel putting in more
bathrooms, and making other desirable
changes.
The Abel block at Jacksonville was
struck by lightning Friday afternoon but
was not seriously damaged. Persons "a hc
were in front Of the Palmetto block saw
1ney saw ball of fire hit the artificial
stohe corn1ce at the northwest corner OF
ne bmldlng and then spread out in a
ehsee OF lame The stone was knocked