The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-11-25
FLORIDA
Orange trees are making good growth in
Levy county.


Orange trees are making good growth in
Levy county.
The orange growers of Volusia county
are getting ready for Jack Frost by bank
ing their orange trees.
w. D. Williams of Gainesville has fif-
teen barrels of pears on his trees, and it
is the second crop this year.
A diamond back rattlesnake, nine feet
long, was killed last week at Mt. Tabor.
Columbia county. being the twelfth killed
there this month.
B. H. Yard of Spring Lake Beach, who
had the leasing of the Windsor hotel at
Jacksonville under consideration. has de-
cided not to take the hotel
]. E. Tuten detected negro stealing a
salt mullet from his store in Jasper last
week. and he then forced the thief to eat
the fish raw before he stopped.
c. L. Farnsworth of Mount Dora, Lake
county, has just finished setting up an ex-
tensive plant at Mount Dora for the man
ufacture Of guava jelly and orange mar
malade.
A hawk attacked black snake recently
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the snake coiled around the hawk and
held it to the ground. Charles Howell
killed the snake and released the hawk.
The grand jury of Hamilton county rec
commended the passage of a law recurring
a license to carry weapons of any kind.
and also to have the license tax paid for
selling liquor transferred to the fine and
forfeiture fund.
The new water works system of Clear
Water consists of over $500 feet of water
main laid and a $1,000 gallon cedar tank.
erected on a 75-foot 12-column steel tower
The water is obtained from a clear water
lake fed by springs.
Nearly all of the general offices of the
Plant system, which have been located in
Gainesville for the past year. have been
removedsto High Springs. The only offices
that remain are those of the freight agent,
the superintendent and the civil engineer
Saturday forenoon while watching the
saving at Burrows MILL at Green Cove
Springs RUSSELL the little son of Mr.. and
Mrs. l. c. Webb, fell through an opening
in the floor below, a distance of about
eight feet, sustaining more or less serious
injuries.
Mr.. McNair Of Wilmington, N. c., who
has bought the timber on the lands of Ar
thur T. Williams. comprising 5000 acres
in the eastern part of Levy county, has
been in Florida for several days past with
party of mill and turpentine men from
North Carolina looking over the lands
Ernest Burgess, a young man, COM
mitted suicide at Tampa Monday after
noon by shooting himself through the
right temple with a pistol No one saw
the shooting. Burgess was III for long
time with typhoid fever. and never fully
recovered. This is thought to have caused
dependency and suicide.
colored woman was murdered Monday
at the old mill site of the Bond Lumber
Company, about two miles northwest OF
De Land. She was the wife Of Henry Hen
derson, a colored man of good character,
who has been in the employ of F. E. Bond
for several years. The children, on return
ing from school in the afternoon, found
their mother lying on the floor with a
gunny sack over her head. On the removal
of the sack 1t was found THAI her head
had been crushed with some heavy
weapon. Robbery Is supposed to have been
the object of the murder. So far suspicion
points to no one particularly.