The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-18

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I health and bad collections are the causes
I given
W. $. Wigntman Of Jacksonville has
/ been compelled. on account Of serious IN
/ health % give up business entirely for
the present aEd has made a voluntary
assignment 10 u. T.. Fletcher. who viii
close up The business Mr- Wightman has
Z been In the wholesale business in Jack
sonviIe for more than twenty years
Thus far the school board Of Escambia
/ county has selected but four teachers Of
the public schools. These hold drst-grade
certificates, and are ". =. Griffin. pr-nci-
pal. Misses Pauline Ruse and Belle North
I lngton OF school No J.. and J. ". Tate OF
FoWeiton. Other appointments VIII prob
ably not be made until after the close Of
The summer normal schools.
Barney Lenox. who has been employed
for several years as servant 10y ". G.
Robinson Of Gainesville. forged that gen-
tleman's name 10 checks in the sum Of
80 Tuesday, stole many articles Of value
from the room, and boarded On outgoing
train on the Plant system. The fraudu-
lent signatures We're discovered al the
bank only a few minutes after the negro
had leIt town. and kilograms were sent
out all over the state. He was located IN
Palatka, where he has been arrested.
Fire broke out at Green Cove Springs
Monday night in the twO-story store of
James c. Willie and soon spread 10 the
next building. owned by y. d. Louder. A
one-story building in the rear Of the store
caught about the same time. and the
flames seemed 10 be beyond control soon
after the IRE was discovered. Several
buildings we're burned. the value of which
is estimated 10 be about 5000 The value
or property destroyed viii be about 5000.
Both buildings and stock were unisured.
The origin Of the fire is unknown.
1t is generally understood that a mass
meeting will be held at Gainesville on
Saturday, June q, to pass resolutions
asking the new executive committee to
call a new election for the entire county,
10 make democratic nominations. As
there was no fraud or irregularity in the
recent primary, with the exception Of
Gainesville and Yular, the successful cam
didates will protest against this All are
willing to have a new election in the
Gainesville precinct, but do not want to
60 further. It Is not probable that the
election will be called.
The 200 OF more cigarmakers at Film
gers factory, IN West Tampa, are now out
of work. They declare that they are on
a strike, but the manager of the factory
says that the factory has simply shut
down. Last week an order was issued in
regard to the disposition of the scraps left
over from the days work. This order DID
not suit the men and the consequence
was that the order was revoked. Matters
ran along smoothly until saturday night,
when the moving spirits in the protest
We're discharged This greatly incensed
the remaining men. They held caucuses
and discussions and decided that they
were all to go to work Monday morning
and to work until breakfast time. and
then demand that the discharged men be
put back to work or they would strike.
Monday morning the men went 10 break
fast as usual, and when they returned to
the factory they found it closed against
them.
J. e. Ingraham has just received a letter
from the Danish agent of the East Coast
Railway at Chicago stating that he has
sold forty-four tracts of land, consisting
Of twenty acres each, TO parties throughout
the northwest. The deeds have been signed,
and the purchase money has been paid.
The agent who contaminated this deal was
IN Florida last season looking for a desira-
bic location for this colony. He was partic-
ularly delighted with the new town of Mo-
delO, situated about four miles below New
river He had the ground laid out and plats
made at once, and IL was from these plats
that the above sales were made. The let
ter states that the new purchasers, who
are all prosperous farmers and men of
means, are anxious to become located on
their new lands just as soon as possible.
With this object in view many Of them are
closing their business affairs in the north
Immediately, so as to leave for Florida the
first part of July.
The cigar manufacturers of Key West
have large quantities of tobacco in Cuba
yet that they are making arrangements
to have brought over. Gen. Weylerss re-
quirement that certain prescribed proofs
OF all orders having been purchased ante
rior to the issuance of his famous prohib-
tive order, is causing much uncertainty
among manufacturers. All tobacco has
hitherto been bought and stored by the
Cuban owner till IL should be ordered out
Invoices were made as each shipment was
made. None was paid for and no invoice
made till the leaf was shipped. The at
tention OF the state department has been
called to this Several hundred bales Of
leaf tobacco have been shipped from Key
West to New York In bond over the Key
West and Miami Steamship Line, and via
the East Coast and Clyde lines.
Obidiah A. Clough, through his attor-
ney, E. Spencer Miller last week begun
suit in the common pleas court Of Phil
adelphia against the Florida Land and
Improvement Company, Atlantic and
Gulf Coast Canal and Okeechobee Land
Company and the Kissimmee Land Com
pany. Ihe plaintiff states that on Jan.
-, 1886, he entered into an agreement
with the defendants whereby they were
to sell him certain lands in Manatee
county, Florida, and that 25 per cent.
of the aggregate price should be paid in
advertising, printing, etc. The residue OF
the price for the land was to be paid in
four notes. The plaintiff says that he
delivered his notes to the defendants
and did a large amount of printing and
advertising for them, which work it was
agreed should be accepted in payment for
tract of land to be purchased by him.
But after completing his part Of the
agreement the defendants declined and
refused to transfer to him the deed for
the land which he says is not now worth
less than 500 600 and he therefore brings
suit to recover that amount.
POLITICS IN THE STATE.