The morning news., 1897-01-11


mill with that of the Bradford Lumber
Company.
Mine white and thirteen colored persons
died last month in Pensacola.
There is going to be big crop of straw
berries about DeLand this spring.
r.. r. Rawls of Hllsborough county
has 800 boxes of oranges on his trees.
Hundreds of bushels of sweet potatoes
are being shipped to other states from
Barlow
Hon. c. B. Collins, state treasurer, has
purchased two fine orange groves on tho
west coast.
Illicit distil.ing and selling of liquor is
said to be carried on at wholesale rate
in Osceola county.
There are over 300 cars of phosphate
in the railroad yard in Fernandina await
ing arrival of vessels.
The county jail artesian well in Palatka
was completed Friday. flowing 400 gal
Ions of water per minute.
There are only six prisoners in the
county jail at Gainesville, the smallest
number for many months.
Col II. S. Todd has just finished plant
ing a very fine orange grove or Ave acres
on his place near Kssimmee.
Twenty-Five mich cows from Union
Springs, Ala, were sold at auction in
Tampa Tuesday at good prices.
The little boat at Seabreeze which
brought survivors from the wrecked
steamer Commodore is being cut In pieces
by relic hunters.
The fourteenth annual state convention
of the Woman's Christian Temperance
Union will meet in Pensacola during the
last week in February.
1t is said that George Eugene Bryson, a
former Florida newspaper man. is now
receiving 5000 per year as Cuban CORE
spondent for New York newspaper.
Simon Crews of Jasper went coon hunt
ing in his chufa patch a few nights ago
and his dog treed thirteen coons up one
tree. He succeeded in killing every one
of them.
The St. Cloud sugar farm cane grinding
for this year will probably be completed
this week. The crop will amount 20
be shipped north soon to be refined.
Mr.. Rivero stated at Tampa Friday that
during the past month more than $5OOOO
was collected in Florida for the Cuban
cause and forwarded TO the junta in New
York, and between $4,000 and $4,000 of
this was raised in Tampa.
A. d. Taylor of Pittman. Lake county,
is gathering his second crop of LeConte
pears this season. He has thirty trees
from which he gathered $50 bushels in
July. The trees blossomed again in Au-
gust, and the second crop is now being
gathered.
DeFunlak has been mentioned as a suita-
BILE place for holding the annual reunion
of the Florida division of the Sons of the
American Revolution. Feb. % has been
named as the date. Hon Wallace Bruce
is member and is negotiating with the
proper parties to have DeFuniak selected.
Nathan Williams and A. Jernigan were
run over twice by a wagon attached to
two horses on Tuesday near Apopka. Will
liams had some ribs crushed, besides sew
eral severe bruises and cuts, while Jerni-
gan had his left leg hurt severely and sew
eral bruises inflicted about his arms, sides
and head
has left Kissimmee for a through trim to
Fort Myers. down the Kissimmee river
where he has an engagement OF proba bly,
month or two with David r. Day Of
Washington, ID. c., head of the United
States geological survey, and a party Of
ten engineers, to show them the inter
vening country between Klssmmee and
Fort Myers.
The marriage of Capt. +. w. Krause
of the Tampa Rifles and Miss Emma Bull
livant Of Stanwood. Wash, took place at
Jacksonville Friday night. 1t was quite
romantic, the bride having left her home
at Stanwood and travelled alone more than
1000 miles TO meet her hetrothed. She
was due several days ago, but her train
was snow-bound and she was delayed.
They had not seen each other for six
years. although a correspondence has been
kept up during the entire time.