The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-21
FLORIDA

Monday the thermometer rose to So de-
grees in Tampa, the highest during the
month of March ever reached.
r.. II. Wright Of Orlando, held on the
charge Of forgery in Polk county. has
been discharged, the indictment against
him being quashed.
At Lakeland Monday night there were
twenty-nine hands at work until $3.50
o'clock packing and loading strawberries
into refrigerator cars.
The state pension board has granted
pensions as follows: Robert r. Skipper of
Madison, SOC a year, from April l, 1897;
James f.. Drew of Hamburg, $96 year,
from Aug. p, 1886.
The Winter Park Horticultural Society
has elected for the ensuing year officers
as follows: President, DR.. NJ. A. Henkle;
vice president, Henry s. Chubb; secretary,
and treasurer Charles II. Ward.
a teredo eleven inches in length and
ave-eighths of an inch across the head,
which had eaten it's way for more than
two feet into a board, was captured at
Tampa Tuesday. 1t is these worms that
do so much damage to piling, boats, etc.
The Palatka Veteran Association has
received 1900 badges, with a figure of a
union and confederate soldier upon it,
clasping hands. The badges Will be dis
tributed to all who attend the veteran pic
mic on April Z.
Oscar d. SundeI, a 13-year-old Orange
county boy, is issuing a paper which he
calls the Sentinel, that is printed with a
pencil instead of with type. The design
OF the head, the date line and all the let
ters which go to make up the words in
the entire sheet are done by hand with
an ordinary lead pencil.
Walter E. Ragsdale, manager of the
Highland hotel. at Interlachen. has closed
negotiations with the trustees of Lookout
Inn, on the summit of Lookout mountain,
Chattanooga, Tenn, for a lease, and with
open the hotel as proprietor as soon as
he can have it prepared for the resump-
ton of business.
John Pearson. white man, is in jail
at Gainesville, accused of highway rob-
berry, and the evidence against him Is
sufficient to cause his detention until the
next session of the circuit court. He
held up, 1t is alleged, a white man by the
name Of J. Moore near Melrose and the
latter charges that he robbed him of sopce
money and his bank book.
Vegetables, especially tomatoes, are do
ing fairly well at Clermont, in spite of the
continued dry weather. Beans will begin
to move next week The orange trees
have put on a splendid growth and the
groves look encouraging. Some of the
people are trying tobacco this year. The
soil is thought to be well adapted to the
growth of the finer grades. More corn
than usual is being planted.
At Ocala Thursday night the jury in
the case of Simon Sternberg VS.. the Cal
edonia Insurance Company rendered a
verdict in favor of the defendants. The
case occupied the best part of the last
three days and was a suit to recover
from the insurance company the value of
some property alleged to have been de-
stroyed by fire. The amount involved ac-
cording to the plaintiff, was between $500
and 500.
Seven houses were burned at West
Tampa Thursday. The city there has no
fire protection, and the flames had every
thing their own way. The houses were
owned by Alderman l.. l.. Spafford of
Tampa, and were insured for $1,000, while
they were valued at $2,700. They were to-
tally destroyed. The fire started in va
cant house, just as the big fire over there
few weeks ago started. and it has given
rise to the belief that it is all the work
Of an incendiary.
The Gainesville Sun says the negroes
in that section are in destitute condi-
ton While the negroes, as a race, can
live upon almost nothing, they will have
a most trying time for the next several
months TO keep body and soul together
for this early in the season, when the
cotton crop has just been disposed of a
few weeks back, many families in the
country are almost without food and cloth
ing. This condition Of affairs is due in
large measure to the extremely low price
for which cotton sold this winter.