The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-02-26
FLORIDA.


A meeting of silverites is to be held al
Macclenny March Z.
March 2 and the Florida state Sunday
School convention convenes at Inverness.
One murderer and two thieves ESCAPED
from jail at Monticello last week by fore
ing the door open.
J. Ira Gore has left Tampa and gone to
st. Petersburg TO again engage in the
newspaper business.
s. Jones of Brevard county, on one
fourth Of an acre of land, made this year
$5lL4S on beans gathered and sold.
Archbishop Michael A. Corrigan of New
York has returned to the Inn at West
Palm Beach from his recent trip to Mas
sau.
Judge j. b. Shoenfelt, a prominent law
yer and wealthy mine owner. of Douglass.
Wyo., has recently purchased land near
Macclenny.
Mrs. Mary Baldwin, wife of DIR. A. S.
Baldwin, died suddenly at her residence.
at Jacksonville, Monday of Inflammation
of the brain.
On April Nassau county will vote on
bonding the county for $4,000 for the pur-
pose Of erecting a new jail and funding
the county debt
The cedar mill owned by J. H. Stephens
at Cedar Keys has been leased by Cedar
Keys men and will soon be in operation
again, with f. A Wolfe as foreman.
Several growers of sweet potatoes at
DeLand have shipped quantities of pota-
toes north as an experiment. and if they
sell for anything more will be shipped.
The work for retaining the Russell
tract of muck land, known as the Gin
cinnatus farms in Brevard county, will
commence as soon as the ten miles of
| railroad from Sebastian to their center Is
completed, the survey for which has Just
been finished.
The Baptist people of Plant City have
decided to sell their church as it stands
and erect new one at the earliest date
possible. The Masonic fraternity owns a
third interest in the building, which they
will probably dispose of to the church
people, and each erect a separate build
ing hereafter.
An adjourned meeting of the annual
meeting of the Indian River and Lake
Worth Pineapple Growers Association
viii be held at West Palm Beach March 4.
On this occasion certain amendments to
the present bylaws of the organization
viii be made, and headquarters for the
general agent and distributing point for
the pineapple crop win be selected.
Chipley Banner: There will be over 600
tons of guano hauled from Chipley this
season and at the price, 81 per ton, it will
cost SIG, 200. If cotton next fall will aver
age $50 per bale il will take $40 bales to
pay for 1t, besides it will take 125 farmers
raising an average of four bales apiece to
pay it. Now, if we should have a bad
crop year. some of the advancing mer-
chants will be well stuck on an average
Late Saturday afternoon while a log
train on the western road was about ten
miles from Green Cove Springs, one of
the cylinder heads blew out r. C. Cam
| oVa, Jr., was riding on the cow-catcher
and when the cylinder head blew out he
| jumped off in front of the engine and the
| cow-catcher struck him and knocked him
| down across the track and rolled him
| some little distance tearing the muscles
and flesh from one leg and slightly frac-
/ turing the bone and badly brusing the
/ other leg. The leg that Is so badly hurt
may have to be amputated.
The Key West Ocean Telegraph and
Telephone Company has just been organ
lied. with capital stock OF $4,000, with
| the privilege of increasing it to $500 600
| for the purpose of constructing. owning,
/ and operating ocean and overland tele-
| graph and telephone lines from Kew West
| to Jupiter in Dade county running through
| the counties of Monroe, Dade, Lee and
| De Soto, a distance of about 1000 miles
also telegraph and telephone lines in Key
| West. The president of the company is
| William d. Cash, wealthy and promi-
nent merchant; Ben McLendon, secretary
and w. B. Curry, treasurer.
The East Coast Publishing Company is
the name of a new organization at West
Palm Beach. The corporation starts with
capital of $780, with privilege of in
creasing. Its object is 10 publish one OF
more papers in Dade county. The princi-
pal place of business and first paper will
be at Miami, the paper TO be the Miami
| Monitor. The incorporators are Walter s.
| Graham and George NJ. Robbins, Titus
ley, West Palm Beach; Wesley M. Feath-
erly. now of Au Sable, Mich, but of Miami
after March l. The officers are w s.
vice president; w. NJ. Featherly secre.
tary, treasurer and general manager.
POLITICS IN THE STATE.