The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-21

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FLORIDA.
The Hunter & Taylor bloce. at Winter
Park, was burned Sunday morning. The
building was on the west side of the rail-
road track, and was occupied by the fam
lilies of the owners.
Two candidates for mayor of Pensacola
are now in the field-Mayor Anderson.
who seeks a reelection, and Judge Will
lam Kirk, who was mayor of the city
many years ago under the republican
regime.
A special from Cottage Hill, in Escam-
bia county, says that Alonzo smith, SUI
perintendent of the logging department
of a lumber MILL was knocked uncon-
scious and seriously injured by the slip
ping Of lacking stick on a log cart.
which struck him on the head with ter
rife force.
The special city election at Orlando
| for the purpose of deciding whether to
! borrow $500. for the purpose of better
equpping the fire department, resulted:
For the loan" "a; Against the loan" A.
Many citizens We're disfranchised for the
non-payment of poll tax. Injunction pro-
ceedings are threatened.
Work on the interior of the government
building at Jacksonville is progressing
steadily and the building will probably be
ready for occupancy by Sept l. The next
regular term of the United States court
for the Jacksonville division of the South
ern district Of Florida convenes the first
Monday in December, and will no doubt
be held in the handsomely fitted-up court
room in the third story of the new build
ing.
The preliminary examination of D. L.
Cooper of Gainesville. charged with being
an accessory TO the criminal burning of
the Cooper hotel at McAIeekin, came up
in County Judge CoXe's court at Palatka
Saturday. Wade Sheppard, a negro who
had been in CoOpers employ, testified that
he set fire to the hotel on being promised
S25 for doing so by Cooper Cooper failed
to pay him the $25. Cooper was boSnd
over in 5000 to appear for trial
G. ". Popst and Col. c. d. Shepherd
of Orlando are bringing out a patent
adjustable head-rest for the use of those
who have occasion to do much travel
ing in cars. The device seems equally well
adapted for the use of those who have
long drives to make and to that large
class of invalids who are unable to lie
down. 1t is a support for the head and
arms at the same time, or the arm rest
can be dispensed with if desirable. The
device is light and neat, and can be taken
down and packed away in a gripsack.
1t will cost less than a berth in a sleeper
for a single night.
Jacksonville has already sold about 1, 800
incandescent and 70 arc lights, to be
supplied from the city's electric light
plant. The arc lights are furnished for
$50 d year and the incandescent lights
at $3.50 a year for residences and 50
year for business houses. At an average
of Sc a year for incandescent lights, the
1850 lights will give an income of $1O,S0O
per annum and the arc lights an income
of $1,000, or a total from the lights al
ready sold of SIG, 400. Orders are still
coming in, and the prospects are that the
city viii soon be making a handsome
profit from the plant and be one of the
best lighted cities in the country at no
cost to the taxpayers.
At Carrabelle Saturday Fred Shultz, who
has been filing saws for the Franklin
County Lumber Company, made an at
tack on a man by the name of Acres.
He struck Acres three times with a ham
mer on the back of the head. Then think
ing that he had killed Acres, threw him
self into the river. He was rescued by a
colored man and in a few minutes he
again made dive in the river, and, when
COTTON out the second time, was nearly
dead Shultz and Acres are both alive,
and Shultz is held pending the results of
Acres injuries. ShultZ had been drinking
and. thinking Acres had hisjob sought
revenge with the hammer.
The steamer Alligator has arrived at
jacksonville from Mill Cove with a num-
Der of negro laborers and a. large number
of shovels, picks and other implements,
used in excavating the Indian mound,
where the men have been at work for
DR. Moore the explorer, for the past six
weeks The doctor was not on the boat,
but the men say that the work at the
mound is about completed. Fully a thous-
and skeletons were unearthed, and many
articles of pottery and things considered
of great value by Dr.. Moore were discov-
cred. He has secured some great treas /
llres out Of the old mound. and is more
thoroughly convinced than ever that It
was begun long before Columbus landed
on this continent
A very unique case came up before the
Justice of peace at Clermont last week.
Albert ]. Merritt sued w. d. Tucker and
John Stone. all of near Mascotte, for SIS,
claiming that these gentlemen had hired
him to cut open the dam across Pa |
latlakaha river, at Villa City, which was
built by the Clermont and Villa City |
Canal Company which is a chartered !
company by the state of Florida. This |
dam cost nearly $500 in building. Mr. |
Merritt said. under oath, that he and /
another man cut out the dam one night /
and that he wanted his pay and could not !
get it outside of court. Messrs. Tucker |
and Stone swore, on the stand, that they |
had never made any such contract with |
the said Merritt and only said in his /
presence that they wished the dam was 4
opened; that the backed water was mum /
dating some of their land. But nothing |
further than that was ever said or done. |
The jury rendered verdict in favor of
the defendants.