The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-09-10


Sheriff Perry of St. Johns county has
just arrested at West Palm Beach Major
Robinson, colored, charged with forging
time checks to the amount OF 81 on the
! Florida East Coast railway.
Tampa Daily Times: on Saturday all Of
Manatee county will rally at Braidentown
! for grand political demonstration Blox-
| ham, Sparkman and other eminent speak
| ers win be on hand 10 explain the doc
trines Of democracy.
! Three citizens of Tampa are telling their
friends about a ghost they saw the 9TH
er night. 1t was a grave that appeared
to be ablaze from one end 10 the other. The
/ Tribune vouches for the fact that they
/ were in their right minds.
Orlando Star: The sportsmen Of Gaines
Vile are agitaung the organization of
! clubs to protect quail The law is being
violated. and sportsmen who are law
/ abiding citizens are believed to be willing
to help in bringing offenders TO justice.
Jacksonville Metropolis: w. r. Peter
son, of this city, populst candidate for
congress. left the city last night for Jas
per, where he will meet A. W. Weeks, OF
Vernon, populst candidate for governor,
and begin a canvass along the line of rail-
road from Jasper to Jacksonville, arriving
here next Saturday. A forlone hope fol-
lows these candidates.
Florida Times-Union: Mrs. G. w. Fos-
ter has presented the Bryan and Sewall
| Democratic Club Of st. Johns county with
a beautiful United States dag, which the
club will swing to the breezes from the
staff in front of headquarters, adjoining
Senator Genoyar's store, at St Angus
tine. The club is in receipt Of its certif-
cate Of membership from the National
League of Democratic Clubs.
Florida Citizen: Contractor b. s. Part
ridge succeeded in exploding another
charge of dynamite at the bottom of the
Springfield artesian well yesterday.
Twenty-Five pounds of dynamite was the
amount used. and it was exploded at a
depth of 800 feet below the surface of the
earth. The explosion was followed by a
loud rumbling sound that could be heard
for several blocks, causing a slight trem-
Bile. II sounded much like an earthquake.
Commissioner Of Agriculture wombwell
has just completed his census report of
70 principal cities and towns in Florida,
and they show a total population of 142,
1888. Some of the well-known places are
as follows: Jacksonville, 25. 1870; St. An
gustine, 4,l51; Gainesville, 3.152; Lake City,
1910; West Palm Beach, 1.614; Pensacola,
HOSi; Apalachicola, 1901; Jasper 1925.
Tampa, 1854. Tallahassee, 1881; Ocala,
1857; Key West, 1852; Fernandina, 2,5l1;
Orlando 1893; Sanford, 1,5l7; Barlow, 1881.
Milton, 1881; De Land, 1909, and Daytona.
1,425
Jacksonville Times-Union The board of
bond trustees of Jacksonville have sold
SIS 900 worth of city bonds and applied the
-
one of the contractors who laid a large
portion of the new sewerage system of
the city The sale was consummated Mon
day, the purchaser being the National
Bank Of the State of Florida. The board
received $4,000 for the bonds, but paid
the financial agent of the city, $3.50 com
mission, the usual az per cent for nego-
tatng the sale. The money received was
turned over to the city treasurer.
Florida Citizen: Miami is apparently
destined to become an educational center.
1t is reported that a Presbyterian uni
versity will be erected within two years.
A well known capitalist is said to be the
promoter and the originator of the pro-
ject. His object is to make Miami an inn
portant educational point. If this enter
prise shall assume tangible shape, the
building will doubtless exceed anything
of its kind in the state, If not in the
south. With the climate of TIE Biscayne
Bay country and other facilities becoming
equal, no other place in the country will
be so delightful for such an institution.
Tampa Daily Times: The so-caIled anti
ring democrats Of the Nineteenth senate
rial convention composed of Orange and
Oseola counties, met at Orlando Saturday
and was made up OF about twenty-five del
egates from the two counties and nomi-
mated for the Senate George w. Crawford
of Conway. After the adjournment OF the
senatorial convention the anti-ring demo-
Gratis OF Orange county met in county con-
| clave and proceeded to name county off,
GERS. Lake Maitland is divided in two
| factions. The gang that failed to get
any pie in the division of the spoils at
the May primaries seem to have taken this
method Of revenge.
Jacksonville Metropolis: What differ
ence there is in the course at present pur-
sued by Senators Call and Pasco. The for
mer is going over the state by himself beg
| ging people to keep him in the United
| States Senate, denouncing the state dem
ocratic convention, capitalists and devel-
| opers of our resources, and everybody
| and everything that Is not for his re-elec-
| ton. While the latter (Pasco) is in COM
| pany with Bloxham, Davis and others
speaking in behalf of the state nominees
| anu lOI All utiitCAdlS. ne SlNSS tlitttlui
obedience TO the state committees re-
quest, while Call declines to do anything
except for his own personal benefit.
Florida Citizen John Kennedy. who has
been for some time past connected with
the Cuban insurgents in the city. has
disappeared and his disappearance dates
from the evening upon which the Three
/ Friends sailed for Cuba. The belief Is
that he was a passenger aboard the boat.
! Mrs. Kennedy has been much worried
over her husbands departure, as he left
no word with anyone as to his intention.
/ That he has gone to Cuba there seems to
! be no doubt, as he was seen on the dock
! at the foot of washington street the even
I ing that the Three Friends sailed, and
| he has not been seen around the city
since then. Mr.. Kennedy was the man to
| whom was consigned the cargo that the
| steamship Bermuda carried when 1t sailed
from this port ostensibly for Port Cor
| tez on April q.
POLITICS IN THE STATE.