The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-20

Of Melbourne for the purpose of Smelling
and otherwise improving the streets.
A stock company has been organized
to erect and operate a 15O-room hotel at
Melbourne. 1t is to be opened on Dec. l,
1897.
The conference of the Woman's Mis-
sion and Parsonage Aid Society of the
Methodist Episcopal church, south. is in
| session at Monticello.
In the circuit court at Gainesville Fri
day bill was filed by Achelle Laurent
of Paris to foreclose mortgage against the
Florence Phosphate Company for $4,000.
A lien for machinery has been filed
against B. Arentz & Co.'S mines in the
western part of Alachua county by the
Ocala machine works. The amount in
litigation is $2S9.2O.
The Pensacola News is informed that
throughout Western Florida the outlook
for immigration this winter exceeds any
thing of the kind known before in the
history of that section.
If guaranteed sufficient patronage, it is
the intention of Capt. Allen Wood to run
a steamer between ST. Augustine and
to accommodate a limited number of pas
senGers.
Henry Pecha, who died a few days ago
at San Mateo, willed his property, both
personal and real to Fred A. Beach of
San Mateo Pecha was a Frenchman and
left no relatives in this country. Mr..
Pecha left considerable property.
Jesse Bumby, a farmer living three
miles southwest of Orlando, estimates
that his crop of eggplants will yield as
much as one hundred barrels, provided
the frost does not injure them. He is
shipping quite freely.
Mr. Stetson has decided to put $4,000
addition to Elizabeth hall, at Stetson Uni
versity at DeLand. north and south
wing, the former to be used as a chapel
with a seating capacity exceeding 1000,
the latter for the Sampson library. Work
on these wings is soon to commence.
Perry kirkland of Lake City accident
ally killed himself at Benton, twenty
miles from Lake City, Thursday. The
accident occurred while he was out hunt
ing. He stood on a stump looking for
his dog. and accidentally dropped his gun,
which was discharged. the balls pene-
trating his stomach and heart, and caus-
ing instant death.
In the circuit court at Tampa Thurs.
day, the case of Mrs. Mary II. Gale VS..
the Tampa Tribune Publishing Company
was tried on a suit for $4,000 damages.
The plaintiff alleges that the defendant
injured her by publishing an article to the
effect that she was suing certain parties
and that her case was nothing but black
mail. The jury returned a verdict assess
ing the damages at $3.50.
The schooner Nathan F. Cobb. ashore off
Sea Breeze, hoated clear Thursday even
ing. The owner. c. A. Bouliough. claims
that with the assistance of a tug or two
the vessel can easily be gotten off. AS the
schooner is not an abandoned wreck, she
is well worth saving. The owner has two
of the sailors, who were aboard of her
when she came ashore, in charge and he
expects to get her off in a short time.
Orange City correspondence Jacksonville
Times-Union: A E. Sussex, the ex-treas-
urer and clerk and collector of Orange
City is reported by the finance committee
Of the new council to be short in his ac-
counts from SOS to $3.50. He was clerk and
treasurer, and the council about
year ago made him also
collector. This gave him full
control of the finances of the town He
ange City Times. Some time ago he
left Orange City for a few days stay at
Miami, but it is said, went to Jackson
Vile, instead, and from there to Savan-
nah. He is now said to be in New York.
In the collection of railroad taxes, it is
alleged the Florida East Coast railway
paid on the Atlantic and Western division
the sum of $210, and that Mr.. Sussex gave
i receipt for that amount. The stub,
however, it is alleged, shows only $14O.75,
and the amount in the treasurer's account
credited to the town is said to be $40.
The dairymen of Tampa are among the
latest to propose an organization for pro-
tective purposes, and it is likely to bring
about a tempest in a teacup, as it were
To judge from the tale of woe that some
of them are telling, people are selling
milk at the ruinously low price of % cents
a gallon, and there are others who are
of the opinion that man cannot sell milk
for less than 40 cents and make any profit
unless there is considerable water used
Therefore some have banded together and
propose to organize a dairymens union
for the purpose of keeping the price at
40 cents, and to make a vigorous fight
on any one who shall sell milk at the
low price of 25 cents. The union win then
ask the city to appoint a milk inspector.
whose duty it shall be to see that no
one uses water. There is a city ordi-
nance against selling adulterated milk,
and the union will ask that this inspector
be appointed to see that the law is en-
forced.
An accident occurred at the Center
street crossing at Fernandina Friday. in
which Thos. Mccall. a switchman of the
| Florida Central and Peninsular railway.
/ was killed, being terribly mutiiated by
moving freight cars. An eyewitness gives
| the following description of the accident:
| The switch engine was backing up a string
/ of boX-cars at the crossing in order to cou-
/ pie to another car which was just on the
other side of the street. As Mccall ran to
| the moving car to take out the coupling
| pin he hit his foot on one of the crossing
| planks and stumbled. Before he could
| straighten up, the moving car struck him
| and Knocked him across the track. He at
tempted to roll out of the way, but the car
| caught him and passed over his body.
completely cutting him in half. The wheels
| passed just across the lower part of his
chest, and the lower part of the body was
then caught by the brakes and dragged
about fifteen feet. Another pair of trucks
| then passed over The limbs and lower part
| of the bOdv grinding all Of that mart IN N