The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-10-03
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FLORIDA
! Narcissa Puarez. Cuban cigarmaker.
| shot and instantly killed himself at Tampa
| Tuesday. Dependency was the cause
Five hundred tons Of steel rails for
| Central America railroads are being turn
| ed out at Admission, Ala, for shipment
| through Pensacola.
The New Granada hotel at St. Angus
| tine has been leased for term OF years
| 70 J. +. Champlin, proprietor of the
| Oc1n House, at Watch Hill, II. l.
The Trenton Phosphate Company Will
| soon commence operations. The plant Is
one of the most extensive in the state
and was recently purchased by new
| stock company
The boys at Minneola have been a good
| deal excited lately by the appearance
| of a large wildcat in the hammocks there.
| The dogs got after II a few days ago,
and ran It a little while, when il stopped
| and showed fight. Dave Persons dog
| got too near and was seized by the en-
ragged animal and literally torn TO pieces.
John Hooks was experimenting the
| bricking up Of his well at Minneola Tues
| day when the side suddenly caved in,
| carrying him down with the sand. The
well was forty feet deep, and but for his
! presence Of mind in graspng some scant-
/ ling which was around the well he would
certainly have been suffocated, The men
| threw him a rope and pulled him out
The new building which is being erect
| ed at the asylum for the insane at Chatta-
4 hoochee is rapidly reaching completion.
! w. II. Harris has charge of the work, and
! in a short while viii have II ready for
occupancy. A large force of workmen Is
| engaged. The building is 275 feet long,
| three stories high, and will have more
| than a hundred rooms. The contract for
the building was awarded TO 5. 5. Leonard
Of Pensacola, at $l9,500
Workmen found a onO.pound grape shot
In the ground near the Sanchez new
building at st. Augustine. The venerable
Nernancio Sanchez says that II is one Of
the many plugged into the Genoyar pal
ace, now the Herald office, on Hospital
! street, by Oglethorpe's batteries on An
| astasia Island and was carried by an or
| derby, in whose "buckler'' it was lodged
| beneath the Sanchez building when said
| orderly was inferred.
Thomas j. Childerson, foreman of the
paint shop at the Pensacola navy yard,
and discoVerer of the paint for killing the
/ teredo was in Pensacola Tuesday per-
! fecting his papers for obtaining a patent
/ through his attorneys, Messrs. Blount a.
| Blount. Mr.. Childerson has received an
order from Chief Naval Constructor Hick-
born at Washington to place two speci-
mems of his paint at the Pensacola and
Norfolk navy yards for official test.
The immense establishments of G. b.
Rumph at Titusville, Melbourne, Jensen
and West Palm Beach have been disposed
of to Simon Hamberg and another party
of Chicago. The deal was consummated
! Tuesday. Mr.. Rumph has also disposed
Of his orange grove and private residence.
| The amount paid for the business and
| other interests is not known, but the
| sum is known to be large. Mr.. Rumph
will settle in Atlanta for the time being.
DIR. Rhodes and several citizens of Tam
/ pa have prepared a petition, asking Judge
| Phillips to call special term of court
| in order that Singleton may be tried with
out delay. Ii is believed that such a course
would, in the present condition of public
| sentiment, do much to increase the respect
| for legal procedure in capital cases. and
that this opinion is generally shared by
&c tod NV Ia.
| Der of signatures secured for the petition.
While lumber shipping from Fernandina
has decreased on account of the nearby
supply having been exhausted, it remains
an important item, and during September
662, 296 feet were shipped to foreign ports
and 3,24S. 4l2 feet to domestic ports. or
| this amount only 100000 feet were shipped
by steamer, the balance having been ship
| ped in sailing vessels The phosphate
shipments for the month aggregated II 4S7
tons, valued at about $14 per ton. an in
] crease over September of 1898 of 9,047 tons,
! and compares favorably with September
l of last year.
The little town of Yular, on the su-
! wannee river, in the western part of Ala
! chua county, is rapidly developing into a
/ town OF Importance. 1t is now the largest
| place in the western part of Alachua
west of the South Florida division of the
! Plant system. The turpentine Industry
! has done a great deal for this place
! Among the new business enterprises is a
/ hotel and a store. The latter was erected
| by c. b. Easterlin and is well stocked
with general merchandise. The facilities
| of the cotton gin there have been en-
larged and every branch Of business is
Attorney A. NJ. Nicholson of Jackson
/ vile has prepared a petition that he will
| soon present to the supreme court at Tai
/ lahassee for a writ of prohibition. which
/ will act as a supercedeas in the disbar-
ment case that has been brought against
! him before Judge Call of the Jacksonville
4 circuit. Two questions will be raised in
4 the petition, one of them that of jurisdc-
/ ton by reason of the alleged per-
/ sonal prejudice of the presiding Judge and
| the other the want of Jurisdiction because
/ of the unconstitutionality of the law In
| the meantime, there is no restriction of
1 Mr.. Michelson's right to practice law, as
! some have supposed.
4 While excavating beneath the residence
I of his mother, Mrs. S. Frisbee, at Fer
| nandina Monday, James Johnson brought
! TO light an interesting relic of olden times
in Nassau county. 1t is a seal of the
/ Nassau county probate court and has
lain under this building for at least 81
/ years, as the house has been built that
long and the earth beneath it has not
been disturbed in that time. The probate
court was established in Nassau county
in 1915. The seal found was not in use
in 1876, for fire at that time DESTROYED
the records and seal then used The
old seal shows an eagle above the words
county Court and in the circle around
the edge the words state of Florida,
Nassau county"
7 Monte Vista enjoyed quite sensation
the Otner day one OF the ladies down
there went to the mother of some chill
dren and complained of their conduct to
some other lady and demanded that thew
| be chastised. She was told to mind her
own business, and let what did not con-
Germ her alone. She left, but came back
next day, and was told by the husband
of the mother that, as she had been
there the day before and had had some
words with his wife, he would rather she
would stay away. The lady said that
she had not said anything to his wife.
and that if she said so she simply told a
lie. The mother, who was standing bv
Immediately picked up a board and went
for her, breaking the board all to nieces
All is quiet now and they have made up
The affairs Of the defunet First National
Bank of Ocala do not seem to become