The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-05-03
FLORIDA


FLORIDA.
The Lacrosse public school has been
closed for the second time on account Of
measles.
Dr. C. N. Gunnels OF Wnliston died at
his home recently Of congestion of the
stomach He was 50 years OF age.
The shipments Of phosphate from Punta
Gorda last month aggregated 1852 tons.
All Of 10 went across the Atlantic.
The primaries to elect delegates to at
tend the county democratic convention. 10
Dc held at Orlando. June 10. viii take place
Saturday, June 6.
Tarpon are being caught daily at Fort
Myers. The season is very late. No FISH
were taken 20 any extent until within ten
days. The river Is now fun Of them and
fine sport can be had.
The tobacco industry. which some time
ago was so promising, is a total failure at
Hallistcr. Those farmers who have been
successful with their seed beds have been
unable 10 set out their plants for want Of
rain.
At Palatka Friday the jury in the case
of j. F. Carleton, charged with burning a
building IN the nighttime brought in a YER
diet of guilty with a recommendation for
mercy. Carleton was rcmanded for sem
teuCe.
Eddie Corea. aged s years died at the
home Of his parents at Jacksonville Fri
day from the effects Of burns received a
day or Two ago. when the child took a can
OF gasoline and poured some of the Ii
quiz on a fire.
Or. r. d. Murray. the well known yell
low fever expert of the United States
marine hospital service, has been re
EeVed from duty at Dry Tortugas and
placed I'm charge of the government quar-
autine station at Ship Island.
A. Ismat was arrested at Tampa Friday
on warrant preferred by DR.. J.. W. Wee
don, for whom Ismat was a clerk in drug
store in Ghor city. II Is charged that
ISmaat personally retained percentage of
All the sales that he made. He was placed |
under $500 bond TO await trial.
Nearly a hundred persons have been
naturalized at Pensacola during the pres
ent term Of the circuit court, and the list |
is expected TO reach nearly two hundred |
before the court shall adjourn. Ths large |
increase in naturalization is due to the |
new erection law as many Of those who |
are now applying for naturalization have
been voting during the past Twenty-Five |
years.
Wash Smith. the convicted murderer
Of Emanuel Barfield will not pay the
death penalty, according to sentence, but
instead he VIII spend the remainder of his |
Ire IN the state convict camps. This de-
cision was reached by the state pardon
ing board Smith killed Emanuel Bnrfield
at Bayard on May Is, 1895, at a negro pic |
mic. The trouble between the two men |
grew out of the selling of a pistol by |
Barheld. Smith claiming that the pistol |
belonged to him.
The bicycle path now being built from
Ocala TO Silver Springs will be named the |
Plant cycle Path, in honor Of President |
n. B. Plant. Mr.. Plant has taken a great |
deal or interest in the plans Of the bicy-
cllsts, and has been of much assistance |
financially It is expected that the track |
viii be completed in about thirty days A |
comm ttee consisting of II. f. Bugbee, r. |
J.. Spar ana Joseph f. Chaille. will SUI
pernrend the work. About 500 has so far |
been subscribed to the fund.
The lumber shipments from the port of |
Fernandina in April were very encourage |
ing, and the phosphate shipments good, |
though not so heavy as in March, when |
they Were more than 24,000 tons. The lum- |
per shipments for the month Were 1 ll4,COO !
d6eL the phosphate shipments, 1873 tons !
The FIRST entire cargo of cypress lumber |
ever sent from Fernandina was taken to |
Patchogue n. y, by the schooner Robert |
counted in any of the foregoing are 1877 pill
ing shipped to Philadelphia.
Judge Calls divorce mill at Jacksonville
ground out another divorce Friday, the
complainant being ARENA Terrell and the
defendant Anderson Terrell Jr. Judge Call
his former wife the custody and control
of her separate statutory property The
property consists of a lot and house, three
horses one tWO-hOrSe surrey, a set of dOu-
BILE harness and about $500 worth of house
hold goods Mrs. Terrell alleges that these
were bought with her own money.
Senator Thomas A. Darby. a member
of the Florida legislature, registered at
the Hotel Marlborough at New York last
Monday and was assigned 10 room ON
f1a C faHf IA a 4 IN h f1nr
senator left his room for half an hour
and when he returned found that some
one had entered it in his absence and had
taken away mis- coat and vest, his gold
watch aud chain and two cardcases, one
of which contained Sl20. Louis c. Block,
travelling representative of q Denver BIZ
cycle mandatory, was arrested on sus-
picion. He denies that he is guilty.
The burning of the West Tampa box
factory has destroyed one Of the busiest
establishments in the city and thrown a
mum Der of employees out of work The to-
tai loss on the building and contents was
about $4,000. with $500 insurance. TINS
fire may have quite a serious effect upon
the insurance rates in West Tampa, or
there is absolutely no fire projection in
that little city. About two weeks ago a
fire destroyed ten cottages there, and the
damage would have been very serious had
it not been that the Tampa department
was able TO lend assistance by stridgIlg
out a long line of hose.
Hamilton Disston, whose death in Phila-
delphia was announced in Fridays Morn
ing News, was born Aug. %, 1874. During a
tour in Florida in 1877 Mr.. Disston became
convinced of the practicability of reclaim
ing waste region of that state to agricul-
ture by draining Lake Okeechobee through
a canal opening to the gulf. He formed
the Disston Land Company, consisting
principally of William c. Parsons VII
liam L. Elkns, William II. Wright John
j.. Hill. William $. Stokley and J. COryell,
which acquired from the state of Florida
1000, 600 acres of land. In this undertaking
Nir. Disston invested $500 900 of his own
funds The vast tract was drained and i'm
proved under Mr.. DisStons personal direc-
ton. Soon after One-half of the land was
sold to an Englih syndicate and the re-
mainder was thrown open 10 settlement.
kissimmee City owes its existence TO the
enterprise inaugurated by him. With the
exception of former Postmaster General
Wanamaker, Mr.. Disston is said TO have
been the most heavily insured man in the
United States. Policies on his life aggre-
eating 100000.
Tallahassee correspondence Morning
News The state board of pardons at a
session Friday. disposed of the following
eases. Ben Burney of Hilisborough coun-
", convicted of murder in 1890, and SEN
fenced TO state prison for life; pardoned