The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-12
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
Mayor Gaillard of ST. Augustine has
published a call for city election to take
place al the various polling places on the
second Tuesday in June, to elect alder
men.
F.. w. Codington and ]. y. Hooker hav-
ing resigned as members of the board Of
trustees for the Summerlin Institute, at
Barlow, Warren Tyler and Z. G. wilson
have been chosen to fill the vacancies.
Mai Brooks house caught on fire at
Winter Haven Saturday afternoon from
the stove. The house and contents. in
Guiding his watch, so in money and some
checks from the sales of tomatoes, were
burned.
The steam grist mill and gin of Prmus
Lamb was burned at Tallahassee Satur-
day. 1t was beyond the reach Of the fire
sparks from the smokestack. Loss, $1,000,
with no insurance.
A small vote was poHed in the municipal
election at Belleview Saturday, with the
following results: For mayor, R. H. Nc
Kee; clerk and treasurer, G. I. Trash;
councimen, Guy Eaton, }. j. Nelson, u.
T. Strobe and c. n. Hart; tax assessor,
William Abshire; collector F. d. Waite.
The democratic executive committee Of
Calhoun county met on Tuesday and cali
ed the county convention to meet at
Blountstown on May 30, to elect delegates
TO state and congressional conventions,
and to elect delegates to the senatorial
convention for the Twenty-htth district,
and TO elect new executive committee
st. Petersburg is unanimously in favor
of B. c. Graham for state superintend-
ent of public instruction. For county SUI
perintendent the incumbent, Prof. l.. w.
Buckholz seems to have little opposi-
ton. Among those mentioned for
the state legislature are Mr.. Mccall,
tot fxr md
for the Senate.
At Greenwood Saturday night Tom
James, under the influence of whisky
commenced picking at a boy named Frank
Wynns and finally drew a knife on Wynns.
AS Wynns backed off he picked up stick
and struck James a blow on the head,
from which death ensued in about an
hour. A corOner's jury rendered a verdict
of justifiable homicide.
c. A. SNOWFALL, chairman of the demo-
cratic executive committee of Nassau
county, has called a meeting of the COM
mittee at Yulee on May IA at 10 a. m. The
executive committee of the so-called
"straightOuts" met at Callahan on Mon
day and passed resolutions in favor of pri-
maries for the nomination of county Off
GERS and delegates to the state and nation
al convention al dates to be hereafter
fixed.
Saturday night Harry Wilson, who lives
about three miles from Madison, was met,
while on his way home from work, by
five men, who opened fire upon him. He
was shot in the back receiving painful
but not dangerous wound. Wilson says
he knows his assailants and that he will
tell the sheriff who they are. Wilson is
negro, and he says the men who shot him
are negroes No doubt there is a negro
band of regulators operating in Madison
county, as this is the second attack made
in two weeks The first was upon negro
boy, who was taken out, tied to a tree
and given whipping.
Sheriff w. F. Higglnbotham of Nassau
county says that the report
Of the death of Nichola
was recently shot in the leg at Callahan,
by Deputy Sheriff Hogarth, while re-
sisting arrest, is not true. The sheriff
states that he was informed in Jackson
Vile by one of Cahrboye's friends, Mr..
Jose, who keeps a fruit stand on Bay
street, that Cahrboye has entirely recov-
Sheriff. Higginbotham insists that the
charges brought against his deputies are
in the nature of malicious prosecutions
The deputies, when brought before JUS
tice Pickett, at Callahan, waived eXamin-
alton, and were held each under bond
of $500
The First National Bank of Tampa was
ten years old last Wednesday, and the re-
ports rendered on that day shows some
interesting facts. The amount OF aValla-
BILE cash exceeded 100000, deposits We're
in excess of $155,000 while loans and dis
counts were less tnan St0,UUu, the caplIdl
has not been increased but the surplus
has grown to $110,951, which is more than
20 per cent. of the original capltal-net
earnings of more than % per cent. a year,
besides dividends declared during that
period. The deposits are now S546, 629, near
ly four times what they were ten years
ago, while the loans and discounts amount
TO 435717 almost six times their volume
on the opening day. The available cash is
>-l5, 1873 showing the same conservatism
and regard for safety in the management
hat was so prominent in the beginning.
The balance sheet is Sll8,S3O, or three and
a half times what it was in the earlier
statement.
In the United States court at Jackson
vile Saturday, Judge Locke sentenced
two colored men and one colored woman.
recently convicted of violating the laws
Of the United States The two men were
sentenced to three years each in the
Kings county penitentiary at Brooklyn,
N. Y, and the woman was sentenced to
pay a fine of $1,000. The first sentenced
was James Anderson, the negro convicted
of breaking in.3 and robbi--g the post
q.Ice at WelbOrn. James Williams, alias
Harrison Mccoy, was the next. He was
convicted of stealing a mail pouch from
a mail car on the Florida Central and
IenlnSular railroad a LaNilla Junction,
asst December, and stealing a letter there
rom and opening the letter and stealing
certain warrants of Lake county. The
rlrd prisoner sentenced was Anna Maria
JACKSON, alias Anna Maria Ramsey. an
y.l colored woman. She was convicted
.l making A false claim against the gov
0'Hment for pension. In the Indictment