The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-05-11
Florida.

The Hillsborough Cypress Company Of
Tampa Is making large shipments of lum-
Der to the northern markets.
The creditors of the Bank of Leesburg
will be paid 80 per cent. of their claims
to-day. This is the first payment.
According to the opinions expressed at
the meeting of the State Horticultural So
ciety at Jacksonville, Thursday, only a
very small fraction of the orange trees in
the state were killed by the freeze.
One Of the interesting. rumors floating
around at Tallahassee Is that a move
ment IS on foot. which is soon likely 10
take shape In the house, the purpose or
which is TO investigate the state offices
from top to bottom.
Mathew Hays has sold TO George II.
Bruer, the cypress block mill in New Au-
gustne Mr.. Bruer Immediately leased
the mill to A. L. Hurd who will run II as
a wood mill and probably as a grist mill,
negotiations to that effect being In pro-
gress.
Edward Hudnall. the shoe merchant Of
Orlando, who failed about a month ago
and who claimed at the time of the as
signment that he was solvent, has nearly
completed arrangements with his credit
ors by which he hopes to be able to reopen
shortly.
Wednesday morning VIII Kitchen.
switchman in the Florida Central and
Peninsular yards at Tampa, fell before
an engine and had his left arm fearfully
mangled. Drs Lawrepce, Mathews, Petty
and organs amputated the arm just above
the elbow
Senator Tllman is in Levy county. near
Archer, where he is looking a. some farm
ing property he has there. He is OK
pected at Gainesville in a few days, and
win be requested to make a speech upon
either the financial question of the South
Carolina dispensary law.
j. s. Earman, the mayor of West Palm
Beach, was suspended from office by the
city council Thursday night, pending an
investigation into certain charges pre-
ferred against him by {. l.. Leon The
mayor is charged with drunkenness and
visiting a disreputable house
A. Rinaldi of Orlando shipped four
crates of beans to Cairo, Ill, ten days ago,
! that sold for $l.4O per crate, the express
| charges and commission amounting to
| SO 20. and he has Just received a check for
| the balance, $40. A week ago last Mon
| day he shipped ten crates to Jacksonville
| that did not pay freight charges.
! The largest and smallest man in Florida
| met for the first time in their lives al Tai
! lahassee Thursday afternoon The largest
| county who stands feet inches and
| weighs 275 pounds. The smallest man was
| Gen. Abe Sawyer of Key west, who is 3
| feet inches and weighs about 20 pounds.
The store belonging to STRIPPING & Crit
fin at Anthony was broken open Thurs
day night and robbed of about $500 in dry
tracked about half a mile to an old va
| cant house, where most of the goods were
found. No arrests have been made, but
suspicious rest upon some PARTIES VINO
are sojourning at Anthony.
The board appointed by the court to arbi-
trate the amount of damage to the Savan-
nah. Florida and Western Railway Com
pany, caused by the A. S. r. & G. rail-
roads crossing near Alachua, met at
Alachua Thursday and after hearing the
argument from both sides, was only a
short time in assessing the damages at
the nominal sum of 81.
southeasterly wind of a somewhat cy-
clonic nature brought the hardest rain
| of the season at Tavares, Thursday. to-
gether with hailstOnes some of which
were almost as large as marbles For a
| quarter of an hour the ground seemed
alive with dancing ice balls For fully
| two hours the rain poured down amid
flashes of lightning and peals of thunder
The mills of the Southern States Land
and Improvement Company at Muscogee,
| Escambia county, took fire at 4 p. M
| Thursday in the drying rooms, and 100. 0nC
| feet of lumber and the drying building
| were entirely destroyed. The Germania
| steam fire engine of Pensacola was sent
out by special train and the large mills
saved by the strenuous efforts of the fire
men.
petition has been circulated at Day
tona for the passage of a law prohibit
ing the use of gill nets in the coastwise
rivers, especially at the inets from the
ocean. 1t is said that a packing and ship
ping firm have been setting nets across
| Mosquito inlet, almost entirely barring
the passage of fish from the ocean to tho
river. The effect is to depopulate the river
of fish.
The schooner Leader, Capt James
Meredith, Of Fort Myers, arrived at Tam.
pa Wednesday morning without having
first compiled with the quarantine reglL
lations. The authorities learning about
1t, boarded her later in the day. and pre-
vented her from proceeding about her in.
tended business temporarily. However
} after consultation with DR.. j. Y. Por
ter, whose attention was called to the
facts she was not made to return to Mullet