The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-12-06


state has all the time contended that Tay-
| lor Delk was in the house and gave the
order to fire when the sheriff was killed.
FLORIDA.
Mrs. Simpson, wife Of Capt. /. a. simp-
son. died at Kiesimmee Friday after a
long Illness.
| Several hundred laborers, report says,
will be employed at once to work on the
fortihcatons at Key West and at Tor
tugas.
Cigar manufactures at Key West are
| taking on new hands every day. orders
are plentiful, and the outlook for steady
work is good.
The 1000 bales of tobacco that was exc
pected to arrived at Key West on the Oil
vette last week. did not come. weylet
! is said to have prohibited its expectation.
A meeting of the citizens of Osceola
county was held at Kissimmee Thursday,
the object being to organize an associa-
ton for protecting the game and fish of
the county.
The Hotel Biscayne, a large brick struc-
ture with accommodations for upward of
100 persons has just been completed at
Mcclure & Mcdonald.
The vegetable shipments from Plant City
have been the largest this fall ever known
in one fall before, but the shippers have
realized but little net, as the market SEEM
ed to have been oversupplied all the while.
A. A. Wood, who claims Mount Vernon,
ILL.,, as his home, was arrested at PEN
sacola Friday, by the city marshal on sus-
picion that he is the man who blew open
and robbed a safe in Fischer's law office
Tuesday night.
The following shipments of phosphate
rock were made from Punta Gorda dur
| ing November: Steamship Resolute,
Reavely. Harburg, Germany, 2,150 tons
foreign; schooner Charles l.. Davenport,
Watts, Norfolk, Va, All tons domestic.
The contested election case of r. F. Sa-
bate against E. H. Reynolds to the ONCE
of superintendent of public schools in ST.
Johns county, will not be argued before
Judge Call at present II was decided to
open the case Friday, but the attorney for
the petitioner has concluded to let the
case rest before jury.
The appraisers who were appointed by
Judge Locke of the United States court
at Jacksonville on Thursday to place a
valuation on the steamer Three Friends
finished their labors Friday and filed their
| report with the court during the morning.
The result of their labors was the decision
| that the vessel was worth the sum of
$4,000.
County Commissioner T. l.. Hughes of
Polk county. has been sued for $4,000 for
defamation of character by Mrs. E. G..
| Borzim. The suit is said to be brought
/ ia
| zim from getting further assistance from
| the county, on the grounds that from
what he had heard she was believed TO
be unworthy of help
The Hart-Lucas Line will begin to run
| one steamer a week on the Ocklawaha
river about the 18th. The steamer Meta
mora Is being fitted up and reprinted for
| the winters business. Col. r. H. Thomp-
son, manager of the Hart Line, has ar
rived, and will at once begin to get Tho
| Okeehumkee in trim. Both Capt. Lucas
| and Col. Thompson expect a large tourist
travel between Palatka and Silver Springs
| this season.
Judge Call has rendered a decision in
The numerous suits against the East Flor
ida Land and Produce Company, formerly
doing business at st. Augustine, to the eff
feet that workmen employed in the mill
a
company of whatever description, includ-
ing 10000 acres of land. To this decision
the First National Bank of Jacksonville
joined by Middleton & oliver, both credi-
tors of the company, have entered an ap-
peal
The statement is current that the Flor
ida East Coast railway will at an early
date, make Lemon city transfer point
for the schooners between there and the
| Florida keys. II the project shall be car
ried out the entire crop of fruits and veg
etables of the keys will reach the north
ern markets via Lemon and the East
! Coast railway, thus enabling the produc.
| ers to put their products In market within
five or six days from the time of ship
ment, which will be about five days quick.
err than the time that has been made.
Doc Herring shot and fatally wounded
Nanny Horne at Tampa Friday night.
! Herring and Horne we're az Norman's
saloon, and Herring told Horne TO take
! scme ice upstairs. Horne refused, and
scme words passed between them, Horne
| striking Herring in the face. He then
went behind the bar, got a club, and ad-
! vanccd on Herring, and was shot by tire
latter. The ball struck him IN the right
| side OF the abdomen, and passed complete.
| ~ through the body. Physicians pronounce
the wound necessarily fatal. Herring was
arrested.
The county jail at Barlow was cleared
OF al its occupants on wednesday night.
Lea Holland. who was convicted OF MUIR