The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-28

FLORIDA.
Mrs. c. b. Ivey died suddenly at her
home at Green Cove Springs Friday.
The Daughters of the Confederacy will
hold state convention in Jacksonville
July il.
At Fernandina Friday Sailor Martin
Johnson, in running a line from the
schooner Florence Leland to the dock. fell
! overheard and was drowned. Johnson was
q years old, and was native of Norway
First Lieut. A. G. Hartridge of the
Jacksonville Rifles has rendered his resls-
nation to the company, owing to the
pressure Of his professional duties, which
keep him out Of the city for seyerc
months in the year
The jury in the case Of O'Halloran Bros
VS., f. A. salomonson for $4,000 damages
on trial at Tampa, has returned a verdict
IN favor Of SalOmonsOn The suit was for
alleged damages, resulting from a state
ment made by SalomonsOn regarding the
financial condition OF the O'Hallorans.
A new enterprise, which win be known
as the Southern Ssehool Teachers Blu
reau. with Prof A. Lee Humphreys as
manager and +. b. Stephens as secre.
tary, has recently been opened at Ft.
White The object will be to furnish
white schools colleges and families with
teachers free Of charge, and teachers
schools at nominal cost
The 1O-year-old daughter Of Mr. and
Mrs. w. A. Robertson, living a short
distance north Of Plant City. was fatally
burned at about 8 o clock Thursday nigh.
A short time after the little victim had
retired TO her room for the night screams
were heard and the family found the
room in blaze and the daughter badly
burned. The best medical attendance
a nd "a fr,ar
leviate her sunerlngs, but she expired
at O'Clock Friday morning.
Arthur Scott, colored, u years old, was
placed in jail at Pensacola Friday for at
tempting TO wreck passenger train on
the Louisville and Nashville railroad 80
miles north of Pensacola He placed pine
knots on the track, which were discovered
by the track walker in time to prevent a
wreck. After his arrest the boy acknOwl-
edged his guilt before a magistrate. and
said that he placed the distractions on the
track because the conductor OF a train on
whieh he was stealing ride put him off.
A sensation was created in police cir,
cles al Jacksonville Friday, when an an
nouncement was made that woman well
known in the city had left under peculiar
conditions. An Investigation by the lieu
| tenant Of police developed thar d woman
well known in Hebrew society circles, and
who halls from Washington, also being
| Well known In several Of the large cities
or the country, had suddenly left t'ne
city, leaving behind her a number Of un-
| paid bills, the largest being her noard
bill. Her landlady states tina, the wo-
| man arrived at Jacksonville some time
ago, and boarded at her house Her bills
kept increasing, until finally the woman
agreed to give her written guarantee
that in the event of her leaving the city
she would leave her trunk, with its con-
| tents. She accordingly gave the guGran-
tee, and, as developed Friday. also keDt
her word. She left her trunk but the
amazement of her landlady was intense
when she examined and found that il
was empty, not even a scrap of papar
being left in it. The woman's where's
abouts are at present unknown.
A. Granday, the former chief cook in
the household of William X. Vanderbilt
is in the manufacturing business at Kew
| West. Mr.. Granday was for long time
a well known caterer in Paris, and came
TO this country to take charge of one of
the largest soup canning adjustment,
IN New York, and afterward served the
| Vanderbilt family. Being an expert in
| the manufacture of turtle SOUPS. ana
| finding the market price Of turtles in New
| York too high to be profitable, he went
| to Key West He found the field here so
| inviting that he shipped out an extensive
| canning plant, and is now engaged i'm
| preparing for market the highest grade
| of soup on large scale. He has a mar
/ ket in New York and Paris for all that
| he can manufacture. His factory pre-
! sents busy scene, and 1t is recognized
as one of the permanent institutions OF
! the city. Key West is widely known as
/ a turtle market, and thousands of the
/ finest specimens found in the eastern mar
/ kets are shipped direct from there The
| species Of turtle are various but the
green turtle is generally considered by
Granday makes only the green turtle
| soup.