The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-12

The fees having been taken away from
the police OF Apalachicola, their salaries
VIII hereafter be $50 per month each.
the two police 20 make the house TO
house inspection and also Hight the street
lamps.
The strange disappearance Of Edward
". Jarvis. a young printer % st. Angus
tine. has given rise 10 the report that
DE has committed suicide. To strengthen
this theory. a combination OF circum-
stances are Ia evidence.
While J. " wIthrow Of Apalachicola
was handling a Winchester rifle in Van
horn & Montgomery's shop last Wednes-
day, the gun was accidentally discharged,
the ball passing through eight planks
overhead and lodging in the ninth
Fort Myers News: The steamer Law
renee after being stuck on a sand bar
for several weeks. finally got OF last
week. and reached her dock here on Fri
day noon, none the worse for her expert
ence. She resumed her place on the Pun
Ia Gorda run Monday morning.
jacksonville Press correspondence. Aug.
2: The republicans Of Florida received
shock yesterday when 1t was announced
that Hon q. " Robbins. the nominee
OF the party for justice OF the supreme
court, had declined the nomination and
would support Bryan and SewaH. Mr..
Robbins says that he has been lfelong
republican, but that the party was be-
trayed at St. Louis into the hands OF
the moneyed class, the trusts and cor
pOratiOns, and that he cannot support the
platform adopted OF the candidate who
stands on #.
l.. A. Bell, the western passenger agent
OF the Plant system. with headquarters
at Chicago, has been in Tampa and vicin-
ity several days He IS In charge of sew
erai prominent Chicago and Northwestern
capitalists who are contemplating locat-
ing in South Florida, and IL is understood
that they have already purchased some
valuable lands from the Plant system.
They express themselves as being well
pleased with South Florida and with the
climate, which they had been led to sup
pose was very warm there In the sum
mer. Mr.. Bell Will remain with the party
several days.
Fort Myers News: J. J. Baston arrived
here few days ago from ST. Louis Park,
near Minneapolis. MINI. and has pur-
chased four acres from Mr.. Beall and
ten acres from the Lacey tract. a few
miles down the river, upon which he in
tends to plant a grove and engage In
truck gardening. Mr.. Baston was mem
Der of the last Minnesota legislature.
representing the Thirty-fourth district Of
his state. Although he arrived here dur
ing the hottest spell OF weather that we
have experienced here this summer. he
SAYS no does not ma the neat so ODpreS-
sive here as in the northern states.
Tallahassee Correspondence Morning
News. Aug. Il: Sixteen of the forty-fve
counties in this state have reported for
the scholastic year ending June 80. The
totals for these counties are: White
schools. 81; colored, 139 White enroll
ment, 1912; cOlOred, 6673. Average at
tendance OF whites, II IA. colored, 46l5
BY comparison with 1928 these figures
show the following gains: In white
schools, JOG; colored. 9. Enrolment of
whites ], 1854; enrolment OF colOred 63i.
Average attendance of whites, 64l; of col
ored 449.-Miss Sallie Harley of Thomas
VILE who has been visiting friends here
for the past month, left for home to-day.
Tampa Times. Aug. s: United States
Marshal Mckay arrested Peter McCray,
negro, this morning on the charge Of
sending obscene matter through the mails.
The black scOundrel has sent insulting let
ters to several young ladies' Of the best
families in the city, and Capt. Mckay
caught him by sending him a decoy reg
istered letter, arresting him as he was
signing for II. He will be given a prelim-
mary examination before United States
Commissioner Crane this afternoon and
will doubtless be held for trial, as the ev-
idence against him is positive. He should
be given the full extent OF the law when
tried Otherwise, he may continue his ev-
ident purposes and figure some day as the
principle object at a lynching bee.