The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-23

Senator Call arrived at Key West on
Saturday at o'clock from Mama and
was met by a large number Of American
| and Cuban friends, with a brass band
| He made a snort speech at the hotel. He
! said that he was candidate for re-elec-
ton to the United states Senate. and
any one opposing him should be defeated
at the coming election.
The democratic nominees of De Soto
county, consisting of Hon. A. w. Gill
christ nominee for representative, and
| y. NJ Sauls, nominee for tax collector;
| A. l.. Pearce, nominee for sheriff; W. c.
| Lorisen, nominee for tax assessor. and a.
! r. Poser, nominee for county Judge, Wis
tied Fort Ogden recently on their county
canvass. and quite a large crowd turned
out to hear them.
The De Land city council has granted to
f. q. Band and associates franchise for
| the construction Of an electric railroad on
the streets of the town. For several
months this electric railway scheme has
| been under way, and a good deal of quiet
| work has been done IT is the intention
| Of the promoters to build the road to Day
| tona, thirty miles distant, on the coast.
More than 100000 has already been sub
! scribed.
A young Mr.. Marshal, son Of Dan Mar
shall, of Apopka. whites handling a COW
one day last week, struck backward with
| his right hand severing some of the ten
| dons in the large muscle connecting the
arm and breast and ruptured large blood
vessel. At the time he did not realize
that he was seriously hurt, but 1t appears
that he is dangerously injured, and that
the greatest care will be required to pre-
vent fatal results.
T,bp Hunter Of Wro1do bod avc;t{pr
experience with highway robbers near
Waldo recently. He was walking home
on the railroad and was met by negroes
who demanded his money. When he start
ed to run they gave chase, slashing at him
with knives, cutting his garments and
gashing the flesh in several places. They
caught him and, throwing him down, one
filled his eyes with stand, while the other
went through his pockets, securing $40, all
the money he had. He was unarmed and
could make no defense.
A handsome residence, built by Capt
E. A. Cordery few years ago, and sold
by him to Capt. Maude, a retired British
army officer, was burned to the ground
at Fort Meade Sunday. The house had
been occupied for some months past by
Mr. FigueredO, one of the experts of the
Cuban Tobacco Growers Company who
was asleep in the house at the time of
the fire. The flames had made consider
able Roadway before he discovered it, but
he was able to save a few chairs, beds,
bedding, etc. He lost some valuable fur
niture and tools.
Tax Collector Cato and J. S. McCreight
came to blows at Gainesville Saturday
over some campaign dodgers which, it
is claimed, McCreght was instrumental
in circulating. The circular over which
co affnh fvaa hoe f.nx ,,Ia s1
copy of an article which appeared in a
jacksonville paper some time ago, and
showed Mr.. Cato short in his accounts
to the amount OF nearly $4,000 This was
according to the report Of the expert
accountant and did not give Cato credit
for the money which he had in the bank
subject to the order of the treasurer. The
circulation Of the dodger in the face or
the fact that the county commissioners
have settled In full with Mr.. Cato, is IN
injustice calculated to make voters be.
l.eve that no settlement has as yet been
made.
Adde Lightfoot an orphan girl has
for several years been staying with the
family of Green Quick at Tampa. The
girl is of unsound mind and one side of
her body is paralyzed. Quick went away
from home one day last week and left
instructions for William Jackson, colored,
This jackson undertook to do, and in ac-
completing his mission, he is said to
have assaulted the girl brutality beating
her with a piece of wood and punching
her with a gun. Several very bad wounds
were the consequence. Several days
elapsed before the case became known.
The negro was arrested and held for
trial. At his examination Quick and his
| wife tried to shield the negro and Law
! yers Peoples and McFarlane scored them
numerically Quick threatened to whip
Peoples on sight When Peoples met
| Quick he sailed in and gave him the
| worst beating he ever had in his life
Notwithstanding the fact that there is
a large number of cigar makers in Tampa
out of employment and that Americans
are busy circulating subscription papers
| endeavoring to raise money to assist them
! in purchasing the necessaries of life, the
| operators of Gonzalez Mora & Co.'S fac
| tory, about 200 in number, have struck for
| higher wages, and on that account the
| factory doors have been closed all week
Some OF the strikers have made as high
as $40 per week, and the scale ranged from
$40. Sl2, SIS to 800 per week, according to
the grade of cigars that they made. Sat
urday night about a thousand operatives
| attended mass meeting on a vacant
lot in Ybor City and discussed the mat
| ter. While perfect order prevailed, they
would pay the price demanded. While
this meeting was in progress an enter
tainment was being held at Ballast Point
Tor the purpose of raising funds to send
to Cuba.
Col. cambridge. commander OF the
Third Artillery Regiment. U. S. A, has
received official notice from the war de-
partment at Washington to proceed with
! The batteries of his command, now sta
tened at st. Francis barracks in St Au-
gustine and at stations on the Atlantic
coast north of st. Augustine, to the posts
now occupied by the Fifth Artillery, un.
der command of Col. Graham, on the Pa
chc coast The orders require that the
! Fifth Artillery shall come to the head-
quarters now occupied by the Third Ar
| tillery, and that the transfer shall be
made as soon as convenient The troops
| at st. Augustine have been expecting
| the orders from the war department for
some time past and It viii require only
a few weeks for everything to be in read!-
ness rtr the transfer. In all probability
| Col. Graham will make St. Francis bar
racks regimental headquarters, which will
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