The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-06-02


Daniel W Johnson's store at Island
I Grove. Alachua county. has again been
| opened, the attachment having been set
At Tallahassee Friday the legislature
I passed under waiver OF rules bill reduc-
/ Ing quarantine fees FOR Fernandina one
half
/ Thirty marriage licenses were issued
I from the office Of the county judge at
1 Jacksonville during the past month, .
I 10 white couples and p TO cOlOrcd people
Tuesday al a meeting OF the trustees Of
] Rollins College. al Winter PARK Charles
G. Fairchild resigned the presidency and
l Prof. j. II. Ford was elected acting Presi-
dent.
The furniture factory at High
Springs Is turning out some good
work. Their orders have been so large
that new machinery has been ordered and
Z they Will be enabled to meet the demands.
Application has been made TO the COM
mon council for permission to erect and
operate telephone lines in the town OF
DaytOna. The company proposes to run
the wires to Silver Beach, Halifax, and
Sea Breeze.
Trade is reported to be brisker in Ybor
City than IL has been for months. and, as
consequence the storekeepers are happy.
Every available cigarmaker Is at work,
and more could be employed If they were
there.
The total number Of births reported to
the city board of health at Jacksonville
for the month Of May was %. OF these.
and - females In May, 1894, the total
number Of births was 50.
TWO negroes. Jim Green and Henry
Bacon, were drowned last Tuesday even
river at DunnellOn. Both were en-
plOycd at the Alabama COmpany's phOs-
plate mine, and were going 70 town in
an old ana leaky boat, when the accident
occurred.
The records of the Jacksonville custom
house for the month of May show that
thirty vessels entered and thirty-One ves-
sells cleared during the month. OF those
entering from Coastwise ports eleven were
steam and eighteen sail The total. ton
mage OF the vessels was q, 93l, and the
men employed numbered J04.
The election to decide whether High
Springs should be bonded for $500 for the
purpose of securing a certain piece of
property for the Plant system is causing
considerable discussion. The election will
take place on June D. 1t Is thought
that II $500 Is not raised in some manner
Tor the railroad company they viii aban-
don the idea OF making this point the
division headquarters"
The bond of c. r. Smith assignee OF
r. b. Wolseley. has been accepted and
Mr. Smith has taken charge of the affairs
of the suspended bank of Daytona. The
amount, some $4,000, was made up at
Daytona with the exception of about 81
5~ from Fort orange. \ new bank, moor
pOreted under the state law, is an assured
fact and the stock already guaranteed.
Barlow Courier Informant. 1t was fear
Stroy a considerable portion of the tom1-
TO crop, but il now appears that there
was very little damage done, and the pests
have very nearly disappeared. The pres
ent prospects arc that, taken as a whole,
the crop Will be "A paying one in this COun-
~, despite the freezes and other set backs.
Henry Reddick. a colored man captured
a green turtle at West Palm Beach
Thursday night that weighed more than
800 pounds. This is the largest turtle
ever caught at Palm Beach. ana
probably one of the largest ever captured
anywhere. The turtle Is known as a trunk
back or chelonia midas and 1T had jus,
finished laying more than 400 eggs that
were found.
Sheriff Weeks has a negro in Jail at
Green Cove Springs whom he arrested
on May %, suspected of being one of the
parties concerned in the shooting ARRAY
at Williams camp on the night of May
p. This negro gives his name as DICK
Smith. He Is about % years of age, six
feet high and weighs about 200 pounds.
He is Of very dark ginger cke color, slow
spoken and has very slight scar under
his left eye.
Charley Aulick, who was turned over
to the state from the mayors court on
Tuesday, was to have his trial before
Judge c. Il. Harrison at Tampa Friday
morning on a charge of assault with in
tent to murder. j. r. Hickman and J. r.
Deem, contractors, for whom he worked,
stood his bond of 800. Shortly before
court convened Aulick left the court room
as he said to obtain lawyer. That is she
last seen OF MN, though the OTlCerS
searched diligently.
At Palatka Thursday morning while lit
tie Tom Ring a6m was up China tree
gathering berries to shoot in his pop-gun
he slipped and fell on a picket fence. one
of the sharp pieces striking him just below
the ribs and ranging upward
great distance. The boy hung on this hui
man rack for some time, being utterly
unable to extricate himself, when some
one hearing his feeble cries went to his as
sistance. DR.. WEIGH, the attending physi-
clan, says the little fellow will recover.
In the presence of the board of police
! commissioners, members of the city coun-
| ell, city officials the police force ana
| the public generally, Second Lieut.. James
| H. Minor was Friday afternoon present.
| ed by Mayor Fletcher, in the city counsel
| rooms. at Jacksonville with the gold
medal voted to him by the city council
as a token of appreciation for his bravery
| and fidelity at the time of the arrest
4 of Alexander Simms. the murderer of his
| brother Policeman Edward f. Minor.
| T. ]. Reese, a Jacksonville contractor
was moving "a by 80 feet section of Col
Bartola Genovar's "Mackey" building to
Spanish street at St. Augustine, Six men
| had thirty-siX jackscrews in operation
/ above ground when w. c. Williams ran
! his Jack higher than the others. This
! caused the other jacks TO cant and, as the
! whole weight was upon the jack worked
| by Williams, it burst and the building was
/ sent forward and down on the six men, all
! of whom, fortunately, escaped injury by
]
! which, with the six-inch stills, gave their
bodies eighteen-inch space.
A citizens mass meeting was held at
| the opera house at Pensacola Friday night
| to nominate peoples ticket for city offi-
| GERS. Nominations were made by COM
| mittee of three from each ward, and three
| at large, who reported as follows: For
! mayor, w. L. Anderson, the present in
| cumbent; for marshal, w. S. Hutchinson;
treasurer, f. c. Humphreys; tax collector,
/ y. W. Reilly. For councilmen at large
II. II. Boyer, A Med. Meyer, John Cos
| grove and Capt. VIM. Hayes For pre-
cinct counoilmen, 18th, L, b. Marzoni and
| George Brasnahan; 18th, A. M. Avery and
| c. ]. Heinberg; 14th j. Il. Gutmann and l..
II. Green 18th, John Burns and NJ. F.
| Gonzales.
The death record for the month. as
! reported to the city board of health of
| Jacksonville, is greater than in any month
since the yellow fever epidemic of 1888
The total number of deaths was 50. OF
these, q were white and 80 colored %
were males and s. females. The oldest
person to die during the month was 81
years of age and the youngest l hour
Thirty of the deaths were of infants
less than l year of age, 10 were between
I l and 10 years of age, were between