The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-05
FLORIDA.

Strange to say he escaped IN the conIu-
sion and has not been seen since.
FLORIDA.
A gala week in Jacksonville is now an
assured fact.
The Winter Park horticultural fair will
be open to all exhibitors.
Pensacola had three fires last Sunday
night one was very destructive.
Preparations for growing Strawberries
are being made in various sections of the
state.
a fair orange crop win be made this fall
in the Island Grove section Of Alachua
county.
The lakes and wells have not been so
low in twenty years in the eastern portion
of Orange county.
The solicitor of the Duval county Grim
nal court is vigorously pros ecuing the
gamblers of Jacksonville.
Hon Geo. w. Allen has taken charge of
the custom house at Key West as collector
Of the port He is highly spoken OF.
The jurles to the present term of courl
in Duval county are kicking about the
sniallness and inconvenience Of the courl
room.
Tampa Tribune: With a tobacco jour-
nal, a tobacco exchange and a tobacco
flavor In the air Tampa ought soon to be
the center of Florida's new industry.
The store Of Mike Ross, at Panama was
entered by thieves Wednesday night and
everything in it was carried off. The
thieves backed a wagon up to the store
door and made a clean sweep.
Tampa Herald: The sale of revenue
stamps during August will largely ex-
coed that of July. which is a sure and I'M
deniable sign that the cigar industry is
constantly on the increase in Tampa. Dep
uty Stamp Collector Miller predicts that
September will see an increase over Aug
Ust
The fruit growers at Malabor are plant
ing large quantities of guava seeds, which,
in addition to the large amount of fruit
reised now, and the many pineapple fields
planted out this summer, will in the near
future justify a canning factory at Mala-
Dor. The people want one very much ana
will do everything possible to encour>
age it.
According to a legal advertisement APP
pearing this week in the Lake Worth
News, the land on which the town and
Gerry, the original owner of the land SUI
ing for purchase money or recovery of
the land. If the matter is not adjusted
those who have bought land and improved
it will be in a bad fix.
James Carnelrs guava factory at Cocoa
nut Grove is hourlshing. During the sea-
son that the guavas are ripe Mr.. CARMEL,
! by his method, will do the equivalent OF
| a years work He has already put up
over 2,2S2 gallons of Juice, which will make
over 24552 pounds of jelly. Mr. CARMEL
| extracts the guava juice and it is made
| into jelly as orders are received.
The finding of the court martial which
recently convened at Fort Barrancas for
the trial of Harry II. Taylor and Theodore
| Galloway, privates in the First Artillery
charged with deseruon and larceny, has
| been approved by the war department and
made public. They We're each found guilty
and sentenced to three years confine-
| ment in prison at Fort Mcpherson, near
| Atlanta. The two men have been sent to
that place to serve out their sentences.
At the last session of the legislature a
law was passed providing for the official
sampling of phosphate rock. To test this
law, John A. Chapman, official sampler al
| Fernandina, swore out warrant charg-
ing f. w. Bailey with violating the law
by sampling without authority twenty-one
cars of hard rock, shipped to Fernandina
by G. NJ. Hubbard TO be reshipped thence
to Germany. Bailey was released on S5OC
bail for appearance for trial in the circuit
court.
At the camp of Horn e Co. nearWillis.
ton recently. occurred one of the most
horrfying scenes ever witnessed in Levy
county. A negro boy, five years of age
while passing from one house TO another
in the camp, was attacked by a vicious
| boar, and before assistance could reach
the boy the boar had dis-embowed him
a wound six inches long was cut on the
stomach of the child by the tusks of tho
boar, letting out the intestines. DIR. Will.
was summoned and dressed the wound. bu
the child died a short time afterward.
Tampa Correspondence Jacksonville Cit
; izen; Information has been received il
this city to the effect that the Cuban expe
dition which left this city Saturday even
ing has safely landed on Cuban shores
and that Col Mendes and his men neve,
; had a more pleasant trip. According {,
information, the expedition landed some
where on the coast of Havana province
and evidently rather near the city of Ha
J vana. The message received in this cit,
! announcing the arrival was from that CITY
and was sent by member of the expedi
ton to a relative Ia this city.