The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-11

| Association of Lake County was held at
| the court house at Eusts on the 9Th inst
There has been two deaths at McAlpin
this week.-Mrs.. u. Evers, 1903 years old,
ana H. II. Mosely, prominent farmer
and leading Mason.
r. N. Ellis. engineer for the board of
bond trustees, is getting out plans for
the new central fire station which is to
be erected at the corner of Ocean and
| Adams streets at Jacksonville.
Ed Berry, a young man in the employ
of the Crystal Ice Manufacturing Com
pany east of st. Petersburg. fell from a
small sloop near the dock Wednesday, and
was drowned The body has not been
found.
The Cypress Lumber Company at Apa-
lachicola, resumed work on Monday, Civ
ing employment to $50 men. Rue Brothers
Canning Company viii resume work on
Jan 2, and will employ more than 800
| hands.
At the last meeting of the De Land
board of trade 5000 acres of land was an
nounced as having been given for coloniz-
ing purposes. j. B. Stetson, O. J. Hill, and
| c. A. Miller were the principal donors Inc
subject of getting a starch factory located
at DeLand was discussed.
Frank E. Bond and his associates are
making a second survey of the line of their
proposed electric road from DeLand to
Daytona. They were granted franchise
Wednesday by the county commissioners
for the use of a part of the pubic ROAD
leading from DeLand to Daytona.
SO far the Everett hotel at Jacksonville
has not been leased. and the probabilities
are that the hotel will not be open this
season. There is a rumor that the owner,
Mr.. Webster, has under consideration
the conversion of part of the hotel into
an opera house and the other part into
an all-theyear hotel.
The United States cruiser Newark, which
has been lying off the Jacksonville bar
for the past several days watching for
flbusters, weighed anchor Wednesday
afternoon and sailed to the southwark
1t is not known where she is going, but
it is thought that she has gone for a
short cruise down the coast.
j. Frank and Dave Singer, who have
been before the courts several times charg-
ed with various offenses attributable to a
fight at West Palm Beach in july 1885,
in which Mrs. Carl Schrbnick is alleged to
have received fatal injuries, have been
bound over for the January term of the
Dade county court, charged with assault
and battery.
About fifty negroes employed by Flynn &
Co. in the turpentine and lumber business
at Phoenix, struck Wednesday for an in
crease of % per cent. on the present wages
paid to laborers. Several men went to work
as usual but the strikers went to them
with firearms and forced them to quit.
The negroes are not disposed to be trouble
some In any other way.
Monday stories of duel to take place
in West Tampa, at II o'clock, were cur
rent on the streets. The principals were
Cuban and a Spaniard, who had differ
ences over the Cuban question. Sheriff
Spencer dispatched deputies at once to the
supposed scene of the duel, but found no
| one 1t is said the belligerants got wind
of official interference and the battle was
called off.
John r. Thomas, a white man, was ar
rested at Tampa Tuesday afternoon by
| Deputy United States Marshal John A.
Mckay on the charge of counterfeiting.
| The warrant on which the man was ar
rested was based on information volun-
| teered by his wife, Mary L. Thomas. The
| woman claimed that her husband abused
| her and that she wanted to prevent him
from circulating counterfeit money.
The municipal election at High Springs,
Tuesday, elected more than ordinary inter
est The two factions were determined to
| win. The reformers were led by A. F. wy
man for mayor and the citizens ticket was
| led by j. NJ. Roberts, editor of the High
! Springs Sentinel A heavy vote was polled
Roberts had a plurality of 3, and w. X
! Lynn, for marshal on the same ticket was
elected. The reformers captured the city
| council.
Henry Mathews, who lives in Eureka,
| fell in love with Florence Wood, but the
| girls parents objected to Mr.. Mathews
| The young lovers were not willing to wait
so last Friday afternoon they met at the
/ school house, where the girl was pupil
! Mr.. Mathews put her in the buggy, drove
| TO Ocaia, and Notary Public barrymore
| married them. They then returned home
| to be forgiven. The parents objected be-
cause of the youth of the bride.
When Postmaster Calhoun Of Bay City
stopped to pick up the mail pouch which
had been dropped by train No 80 on Mon
| day night he was ordered to throw up his
| hands by a man who had on a mask on
| his refusal, MIR. Calhoun was shot at two
or three times. While his gun was being
/ brought to him from his store the bearer
was also shot at. The man escaped in
the woods. Mr.. Calhoun says that he
! thinks the would-be thief is colored
A tramp visited Carterville a few days
ago, and being unable to obtain food with
| out giving in return an equivalent. he
agreed with Mr.. Goddard 70 saw some
wood for his meals. Mr. Goddard noticed
| that the man wore three watches and car
! ried "a Winchester rifle, but no attention
was paid TO the discovery The man saw
| ed wood until Mr.. Goddard went out into
| a field to work. Then he entered the house
and looted IT from cellar to garrett and
| departed In a southerly direction The
man is described as being tall and slim.
| with red side-whiskers A posse OF citi
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