The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-02-16

FLORIDA.
W. J. Frierson returned TO his home on
The Alfalfa Wednesday. abandoning the
search for his brother, Sam =. Frierson.
T. NJ. Weir has sold o. J. Spanord's
residence on Twiggs street. at Tampa, TO
$3.50.
The Hotel Royal Poinciana at West
Palm Beach has more than seven hundred
guests, and the applications for rooms in
crease daily.
The first strawberries Of the season
were in market at Tampa Wednesday.
Some berries We're ripe Christmas week.
but the freeze checked them so that they
are just coming into market
The report of the chief of the Tampa
fire department shows that during 1894
there were forty-three fires, destroying
property to the value of @7625, on which
was insurance 20 the amount of S27. $50.
OF the fires three are charged to cleo
tricity, three to gasoline stoves, two 10
lamp explosions, three to incendiaries,
five to carelessness and six 10 unknown
causes.
About 400 representative men from all
parts or orange county met at Orlando
Thursday TO consider the advisa ability OF
asking the legislature to pass n special
law allowing Orange county to issue bonds
for the purpose of building county roads.
Oakland and Ocoee We're most fully rep
resented. ONiedO and Geneva held meet
ings and elected delegates opposed to
bonding. The meeting decided by an over
whelmlng majority against issuing bonds.
The schooner Mary J.. Crosby, which
arrived at Pensacola Wednesday from
New York with cargo of steel rails, had
an exciting voyage to Pensacola. When
three days out from New York she sprang
"a leak. and for tWenty-seven days the
crew was kept continuously at the Dumfs
She met the norther in the gulf and the
crew suffered severely. She is nearly full
of water, and the cargo is being taken out
as rapidly as possible.
T. NJ. Parks, the contractor building
the court house at Fort MVpa-e aH
eral hundred pounds of paint stolen a
week ago. sunday Capt. Tllet
in the mud by the side of a
boat which was hauled up for repairs. The
boat was owned by negro named Cole
man, who had used some of the metallic
paint on his boat Coleman was bound
over to appear before the grand jury.
A movement has been started at Lees
burg for securing reduced freight rates
on shipments OF vegetables to northern
markets, which promises to extend to
other Vegeta hle-growing sections of the
state, il the initial effort shall prove sue
cessful. The attempt is being made to
secure from the Florida transportation
lines a prOpOrtiOnate reduction i'm rates
and from lines from this state to the vari-
Gus northern points similar proportion
ate REDUCTION, which will enable Florida
vegetable growers to compete with the
large shipping points from here to Nor
folk. Va.
Al Tampa Seidenberg q Co.'S emnloves
did not go to work Thursday morning
They held meeting Wednesday night and
decided to ask raise of 81 all around on
all sizes OF cigars to conform to New York
prices and they are now out on that de-
mand r. Nome & Bros men are still
. out but the effort to organize general
strike has not been successful Tho West
Tampa cigarmarkers and a number of
Nbor City refuse 10 so out West Tampa
cigarmakerS replied to the COMMITTEES
that visited them that they were too busv
making money for Cuba liberia" to join
in a strike.
At Jacksonville about l o'clock Friday
morning j.. 5. O'Brien, chief engineer Of
the Wistaria, was about to enter by mis-
take carriage occupied by two men and a
woman. When he was partly in the car
riage, man said to be l.. ". Wallace. one
of the occupants, requested him to hand
him what cash he had in his pockets
Wallace placed the muzzle of a revolver in
very close proximity to Mr.. OBrien' s
nose Mr.. O'Brien complied with the re
quest, and after getting away notified
Police Lieut.. Minor of the occurrence
Wallace was arrested.
The weekly meeting of the city council
was held at ST. Augustine Wednesday
night The following petition was read:
I'VE, the undersigned merchants of St
Augustine, hereby petition your honorable
body to have removed from St George
street the shell placed there one week
ago. From the weeks experience we find
that the lime and dust arising from said
street is running our stocks, and il is Inn
possible to keep same in order. Asadorian
& Simonian, II. NJ. Snow, G. Solomon, c.
T. Sulzner, Miss Anderson, Miss l..
Braithwait. H. B. Paris NJ. J. Ponce,
Mrs. J. J. Krom. L. Alexander"