The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-19
FLORIDA.

The phosphate industry in Alachua
county is still active and shipments are
very heavy.
Cantaloupes shipped from Gainesville to
New York last week sold for 50 per bas-
keJ of two dozen.
At an election for trustees of the Live
Oak sub-district, held Wednesday, +. L.
Rees, J. S. McGehee, and T. S. Baisden
were reelected, and the fun 3-mill tax
was voted.
Hon. S R. Mallory of Pensacola has
been troubled a great deal quite recently
with his eyes. and has gone to New Or
leans, where ne Will consult leading Oc-
culist Of that city.
A new postofice has been established at
West Bay, Washington county, twenty
two miles south of Millers Ferry, from
which II viii be supplied by special serv-
ice. Perry y. Hutchison has been ap-
pointed postmaster.
James Tillman, young white man, was
carried to Gainesville Wednesday from
Orange Heights. He is a raving maniac,
and can be managed only by force. Just
previous to his capture at Orange Heights,
he made an effort to kill his mother and
set fire to the house.
Tampa Tribune: Charlie Pinkert, on
Franklin street, is engaged in rabbit
farming. He has a suitable ranch erect
ed in his back yard for the comfort of
the little animals, and has nine of them.
He finds profit as well as pleasure In
them, as he gets one dollar each for
every one he sells. They are large, weigh
ing from seventeen to twenty pounds
when grown, and their ears are quite
lengthy.
Barney Lenox, a negro boy, was taken
to Gainesville from Palatka Wed
nesday by Deputy Sherin War
rem. Lennox is wanted for for
gerry. He was recently employed by w.
q. Robinson, and, learning that the gem
tleman's checks We're as good as cash in
any business house, he drew several,
ranging in amount from 50 to SIS. He
secured considerable money, and left for
Palatlkn.
The kindergarten school building at
Pensacola. with its contents, was burned
about 2 o'clock Wednesday morning The
fire is supposed to be incendiary and, no
one being in the building, the flames were
beyond the control of the firemen before
an alarm was turned in. The building
was the property of ex-Mayor Pat Nc
Hugh, who had left the city for the OcaIa
convention the previous evening. The
school house is reported to have been
fully insured.
The dead body of a seaman was found
in Fernandina Saturday, and from the
position in which the body was found. 1t
is supposed he was endeavoring to climb
over a pile of large timber when about
dozen large sticks. measuring 14x16,
topped over, burying him underneath, his
body being completely crushed by the
great weight. The accident happened
within 200 feet of his vessel Yet no one
heard any cry. His death must have been
instantaneous, as his skull was crushed.
He leaves a wife in destitute circum-
stances in Boston, his home. He was so
years old and employed on the schooner
Ida z. Latham.
Miss Susan Butler, the eldest daughter
of Policeman J. L. Butler, of Pensacola,
who had bad case Of small poX, is con-
valescent, and aide 10 sit up in bed. Mr.
Butler ana two younger children are now
sick. however. DR.. r. w. Hargis, the
special physician of the board of health,
thinks that Mr.. Butler. viii have only
varioloid, and that the children will have
the smallpox in a light form, as all of
them have been vaccinated since the dis
ease first appeared in their home. No
case has been received at the peSt-house
for the last twenty days, and no appre-
hension is felt of a spread of the disease
in the city from the Butler home, where
it first appeared more than two months
ago,