The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-06
FLORIDA.

Several peutlOnS are DelH6 u CliAe' y. ~ - -
at Green Cove for signatures to nave me
death sentence Of Spencer Bell commuted
to one of life imprisonment
Councilman J.. l. Stephens of Jackson
VILE has declared war on the Sunday so
looms and the war, he says, Is gong 10
be fought to the very last ditch.
The Levy County Democratic Execu-
tive Committee has appointed Aug; q as
the day for holding the primary elecuoh
to decide on a sheriff for that county.
G. w. McClintoek a drayrhan of Tam
pa, owns an industrious cat that gave Dlrth
Saturday to a quartet of kittens Ihey
are all fastened together with hgaments.
Sheriff Spencer sold the drug stock Of
NJ. Arlund & CO. at Tampa Saturday af-
ternoon under attachment. II was bought
by one of the creditors, 1: l.. Lyons * CO..
of New Orleans, for slice
Joseph Rennick. a young man 10 years
old. was bitten on the calf OF his leg py a
large rattlesnake Saturday evening ABOUT
sunset, while at work in Frth's grove,
near Lane Park, and died Sunday morn
ing.
The statement OF mortality. of the, city
OF Pensacola for the month OF july SHOWS
seventeen deaths. OF this number twelve
were natives of Florida, two from other
states and three foreign: The dath rate
per 900 per annum is 1876.
Folir miles south of Houston Saturday,
Joseph Hogans son was thrown from his
horse and killed. He was found IN the
edge of a pond near a log, and 1t Is sup
posed that he was stunned anu uAOWAlcu
before he became conscious.
For the second time this season houses
at IJmatilla have been struck by light
ming The residence of D. 5. Turner was
struck Saturday evening, severely shoek-
ing him and scorching the hair on the
head of his son John. The bolt came In
on the telephone wire, and did no damage
except to burn out the wires.
Walter Campbell, a carpenter, met with
a serious accident Saturday. at Gaines
Vile which nearly cost him his life. He
was upon one of the gables of S. j. Thorn
as house, in the northern part of the
city, when he lost his balance and fell.
The distance was twenty feet and in de-
scending he hit two brackets OF the scat
fold, tearing the skin from one of his legs
and bruising his arm, He also came in
contact with the roof OF the kitchen,
which injured his back. 1t is thought he
will recover.
Robert E. Seaman, young white man,
attempted 10 give n rope-wallSing exhibit
ton at Gainesville Saturday afternoon,
which came very nearly resulting in the
loss of his life. The rope was stretched
from the opera house to the Porter block,
a hight OF about thirty feet. Seaman had
traVersed about half the length of the
rope, when, in making backward step he
lost his balance and fell. Fortunately,
he struck one of the guy ropes, which
broke the fall. He struck the rock pave
ment on his back, and was carried into
the opera house saloon. He sustained no
serious injuries.
Three million, seven hundred and thir-
ty-nne thousand, seven hundred and tif-
teen dollars and thirty-siX cents repre-
sents the loss to shipping on the east
coast of Florida for the past thirty years.
They are startling figures. The record
has been carefully kept by Capt. Thomas
S. Eells, the well-known underwater
agent. Jacksonville and vicinity come
within one of leading the list in the losses.
Most of the losses on the Jacksonville
bar were due to the constant changing
of the channel. These losses amount to
$494, $50. Since the building of the jetties.
the number of disasters has been greatly
decreased and the work has added mate
rally in increasing the commercial int
portance of Jacksonville. The losses on
the east coast are distributed as follows
Jacksonville bar and river, STA, 800 30: at
sea, 1874, $40. as; Fernandina bar and har-
Dor. S504 5000; St. Augustine, $25S 204. 90.
Cape Canaveral. $799 10000; Mosquito Inlet
1898 10000; Jupiter, $500, 100000; Indian river
$25 900 90; st. Lucie, 100000; Matanzas In
let. 20,00000; Lake Worth. S20.0000O; total
50. 7S9 T65. SO.
L. Stebbins of Orlando has for some
time been at work upon a new style OF
vehicle for road use, and at last il mas
so far perfected that it has made one or
two appearances on the street II is a
small four-wheeled vehicle designed for a
single person. The rear wheels are larger
than the front ones, and are the driving
wheels of the machine The front wheels
are on movable axle, like the regula-
ton wagon, and serve as steering wbee1s
These are worked by the feet