The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-06-14

for a return 10 the sponge Iields for anoth-
er cargo before the waters shall become
muddy again A fair estimate places the
value Of the spring and fall catch this year
handled at Key West al S258os0 Buyers
are always here from New York. Philadel-
phla, ST. Louis and other points. and the
the highest prices are paid
An important suit was begun in the
United States court at Jacksonville FIJI
day. involving the possession OF more
than 1900 acres Of land. including some
OF the best pineapple growing property
IN the state OF Florida. The land is To-
Gated mostly in Dade county. along the
west side Of the Indian river. al It's COM
huence with the St Lucie- 1t IS included
In what has been known as the Miles or
Hanson grant. and Is divided by the
Florida East Coast railway, which has
located its station, Alicia, within the linn
It's OF the disputed property. The cases
were begun by II. H. Buckman, attorney
Tor the plaintiffs By fling a praecipe Cor
summons IN a suit Tor ejectment from the
1o,Uiy acres described; Mesne profits claim
ell. esl.VlJ, and in the other case by the
ming OF a praecipe for summons in "a suit
Tor eJectment from 600 acres, being one
third, more or less. of the entire tract.
Mesne profits claimed, $500. Both suits
are directed against Henry +. SeWau,
VINO is prominent citizen of Dade cOun.
~, and one of the most progressive and
Well-to-do pineapple growers on the entire
east coast of the state.
The Gainesville correspondent OF the
Jacksonville Citizen says it has developed
that certain ballot boxes in Alachua
county were stuffed IN the recent primary.
The Gainesville precinct meeting had been
advertised for Friday night, though TO
notice had been given until Friday morn
ing at O'Clock, when the notices We're
posted When the voters met Friday night
night they were angry with the Tillis fac
ton and were ready for anything. Two
sets Of tickets had been prepared for del
aSates 10 tne county convention. one
was favorable to the Tillis canvass. and
the Otner 10 the Fennell faction. The VO-
ting had just commenced, and among the
first to vote were c. StringfellOw. j. Brooks
and 4. DENLY. These men suspected that
something was wrong, and demanded that
the box be opened before a vote should be
placed inside. Evans Halle, who was
manipulating affairs for the Tillis faction,
was in charge of the box, and he had it
locked and held the key. When he saw
that the men insisted in seeing the box he
picked 1t up and started TO run. A gen
eral scufile, in which many took part, en-
sued. The box was taken from Halle by
Brooks and Jesse Goss, who broke il open
and discovered that it had been stuffed
with a great many votes which had been
printed, and which We're favorable to
Haile's delegation. Halle escaped, and
it was well that he did, for so Indignant
was the crowd that Halle would have
been mobbed if found. When the news
of this reached the executive committee,
they were not long in declaring Fennell
the nominee. Tillis was not pleased, APP
Ptl tllAlgs Win the turn Oh dudlEEs ana
made warm speech full of good feel
ing for Fennell, declaring him the nomi-
nee, and pledging him his support.
DR.. McKinstry, Jr., president of the city
council was present and made the state
mtdrb that as there Ryas considerable
talk about fraud in the late city election,
and as Halle had been one of the inspect
ors, he would call a meeting of the city
council and would ask them all to resign
in a body. The following resolution was
adopted unanimously, amid the widest
excitement and confusion: Whereas, up
on the assembling of the voters of Gaines
vile on the evening of the 18th the box
presented by Evans Halle as the recepta-
Gle of the votes for the democratic cleo
tors of said precinct was forced open ana
found to contain a large lot of prepared
ballots for delegates to the county con
Vention to assemble tomorrow. Resolved,
That we deprecate and condemn this
outrageous fraud, and call upon all good
democrats to earnestly investigate all of
the perpetrators of the outrage and pub
lish them that they may be known and
recognized as unworthy of trust" An
other resolution was passed as follows.
Resolved That Evans Halle, Charles
Perry, and others known to the people of
Gainesville, as the perpetrators of the
fraud at the recent city election, and the
attempted fraud tonight are entitled to
the contempt of every good citizen of
Gainesville, and that they be requested
to emigrate."