The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-08-13

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FLORIDA.
The bluest kind of blue laws are being
! enforced at Tampa.
The postoffice at Tampa Is to be enlarged
/ and greatly improved.
Tampa Heights is being rapidly i'm
proved by hrst-class people.
The examination of the public school
| teachers OF HillsbOrough county takes
/ place Sept 6, at the graded school in
| Tampa.
Moonlight excursions on Lake Monroe,
| near Sumterville. are of nightly occur
| ence and are greatly enjoyed by the
| young people.
The South Florida Foundry and Ma
| chine Works at Orlando will furnish
| lot Of iron work for the bridges to be
| built on the extension OF the East Coast
! Line.
The Empire State Phosphate Company
at Inverness is reported TO have sold out
to another company, which Will reopen
the mines shortly. We hope this report
may be true.
wealthy Tampa Cuban handed a street
car conductor on the Franklin line $40
gold piece the other evning by mistake.
thinking 1t was quarter. 1t was prompt
ly returned.
A. v. Manson of st. Augustine has let
the contract for the erection Of a l0-room
residence on North Charlotte street 10
Lewis Leonardy. The new house is to
! be built on the site of the old home in the
burned district.
At st. Augustine preparations are being
made for the construction of a large ma
chine and repair shor for the East Coast
Canal Company, on New river q. Trevor
river to Miami will be completed by De-
cember.
At Tampa Saturday. Willie Harden.
while around collecting coupons, in en-
terlng Mr.. CTomWelfs yard was attacked
by dog which bit him on the nose and
wrist. While the youth was much fright
ened his wounds are not supposed to be
dangerous.
Mr. Young master mechanic Of the
Florida division of the Plant system, with
headquarters at Sanford is in Lakeland
looking for "A site upon which to erect
sheds for the engines. From ten TO If
teen engines are kept there regularly.
They run on what Is commonly known
as the High Springs division. This neces-
states a provision for protection against
| the weather.
At Tampa. Aug. H. the family of Paas,
! the Franklin street tailor, was poisoned
! by eating a can Of corroded sardines. The
| can had been opened the night before and
| left in that condition until morning. Mrs.
! Paas and two of her children We're Violent
ly i'll for a while. Paas doesn't like sar-
| dimes and escaped without internal corro-
sion. DIR. Oppenheimer was called in and
the patients are out of danger
At Carrabelle on Aug. II, the steamer
Howard Z. Simmons, which belongs to
the Carrabelle, Tallahassee and Georgia
railroad, sunk at night, about fifteen miles
above Carrabelle, on the Carrabelle river,
loaded with 10 barrels of rosin and 135
watermelons. The bow is IN two feet of
water and the stern in twelve feet. The
tug lola. with pile-driver, has gone up to
try TO raise her.
Sunday night at Mariana John Millions
| barn, containing a large amount of forage,
| was consumed by fire. The alarm caused
| the entire town to turn out and by the
efforts of the young men the fire was
confined to the one building, except a
| fence between Il and the residence. The
origin of the fire is thought TO have been
| from the careless smoking of some one OF
| his employees The loss Is probably $780,
with no insurance.
Friday evening at Tampa the fishing
sharpe Cavallo was fired upon from the
shore near Hunters Point. She was on
! her way to the city with a load of fish,
| and thirty shots are said TO have been
! fired. The guilty parties are supposed to
| have been certain North Carolina fisher
| men, who have taken umbrage at the
employment of colored fishermen by Mr.,
| McIlvaine. Twenty-Five dollars reward
! has been offered, and no pains will be
tee. 70 D''lS Inc Su'''' persons 10 JUS
AS the big pile that burst the main at
| the Lafayette street bridge at Tampa was
! making its way to the bottom of the Hills
borough river last Friday a big buck ne
gro was seen clasping the log in his ex-
| tended arms for the purpose of steadying
| 1t. When the pile struck the main a great
! jet of mud, water and slush spurted high
! in air II took the astonished darby full
| IN the face, and, blowing the mess from his
| big mouth. he turned around to the spec
tators and exclaimed: Boss. Yves done
struck 'tesian water down dere. suah."
At Tampa, on Aug. y, q daring. theft
! was committed at the South Florida dry
! goods store about 10 O'Clock at night.
| While the clerks were engaged in waiting
| on customers, negro slipped in the rear
| door and entered the cashiers compart-
! ment, which was empty just at that mo-
| ment, and took that part of the cash
drawer which contains the paper money.
ne did not touch the silver, evidently
| noise While at the drawer one of the
clerks attention was attracted in that
direction. The negro, with the cash draw
| engaged in, but the thief escaped with
Jacksonville Citizen: The arrival at Fer
nandna Saturday of the large three-mast-
| ed schooner Benjamin A. Cromwell is at
tended with sensational rumors. And
those old tars who were approached for
their opinion as TO why the Cromwell
should be nearly 1900 miles out of her
| course, shook their heads and smiled. The
schooner Benjamin Cromwell sailed from
the Island of Curacao, off the northern
coast of Venezuela. bound for Turk
| Island, short distance north of HaVti
I She, IL is said, was on her way to Turk 5
Island for cargo of salt and the proper
! way for a sailing vessel to get there from
| Curacao is through the Mona channel be-
tween Hayti and Porto Rico, or through
| the windward passage to the east end of
y Cuba. That would be a direct route Tor
any vessel travelling from the locality
| that the Cromwell came from, and bound
! for Turks Island or vicinity. Instead of
this the Cromwell has circumnavigated
the coast of Cuba come through the straits
Of Florida, Travelled 1900 miles out OF her
| course, and comes into this port without a
bin Of health. also, 1t is said. with other
| defects in her papers. Capt. York is said
10 be one Of the oldest and best navigatOrg
| on this coast, and II Is hardly possible
| that he should make the great mistake OF
| getting so far away from his destination.
| Sea captains who were interviewed 70.
| day say that there is no possible reason
! 10 far as the elements are concerned wnv
Dc should find himself OF Fernandlna IA
/ Is the impression that the Cromwell took
on cargo of arms and ammunition for
the cuban insurgents from Curacoa 81
| vicinity ana succeeded IN landing them Oh
/ the Cuban coast.