The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-10-20
FLORIDA.


Braidentown News has an excellent ar
fist.
a bell Weighing 1,O25 pounds for the new
Catholic church now in course of construc-
ton in Palatka, has arrived.
The mother in Nashville, Tenn. of
Georgia Cook, the hayward girl, who re.
Gently died IN Gainesville, telegraphed the
marshal of the latter place to take care
Of the girls effects and she will pay all
of the debts OF deceased.
james E. Alexander writes the DeLand
Record from Tampa that he win be at
DeLand on Nov. j to open a law office,
and will devote his entire time to the
practice of law in future, leaving politics
eternally alone. He says that he is now
out of politics and expects to remain out
w. j. Johnston, son Of Capt. ]. B. john
ston, editor of the Dade City Democrat
who Is connected with the Western Union
Telegraph Company at New Orleans, and
who has stood manfully by his post of duty
during the prevalence of the epidemic,
was stricken with yellow fever last Sat
urday week. Latest reports are that he
Is doing well.
Raleigh Booth, the fireman from No. 2
station, who was in the laundry building
when 1t collapsed at Friday afternoon s
fire at Tampa, has perhaps received per-
manent injuries 1t is now feared that the
cut about the eye will render him an In
jury that will remain through life This
is the first serious injury a Tampa fire.
man has received in years.
Tallahassee Correspondence: Florida s
executive office looks neat and orderly
after a thorough renovation, being re-
painted and with a new carpet on the
fioor.-J. A. Gruber of Ocklockonee, a
forty miner" was at the capital Tuesday.
He was in California about twenty years,
is nearly three score and ten, and as ac-
tive and vigorous as the average man at
forty -five.-The Nolusia county tax book
makes a gratifying exhibit. The valuation
Of property is $3,097, 430, an increase of
Sl76,8SS; state tax, $l6,2S1.25; county tax
$S7 S20r; total taxes. $54,10l.42.
Alfred Rivers. a colored man living in
Riverside, was before United States Com
missioner Eagan at Jacksonville Monday
on a charge of opening and destroying
three letters addressed to one Laura Floyd
on last Tuesday, and he was held in 300
bail TO await trial. This is a case in which
the complainant alleged that Rivers open
ed her letters. and after taking some
money from them destroyed them. Rivers
alleges that the letters were eaten up by
a billygoat, and he introduced evidence
to prove that fact, though the proof was
not sufficient TO establish his innocence
and he was held in the above bond, which
he gave.
Jacksonville Metropolis, Oct IS: Cubans
in this city are on the anxious bench to-
day over an expedition which was to have
sailed yesterday and which they are not
sure has gotten away, owing to a storm
off the coast. On Saturday evening at z
o'clock three cars loaded with arms and
ammunition and one car containing about
twenty Cubans left on the Florida Central
and Peninsular train bound north. This
train was to go to Satilla, Ga, and there
connect with two tugs, supposedly the
Alexander Jones and the Dauntless. which
were to come up the Satilla river through
st. Andrews Sound, and then the NUM-
tons of war and the men were TO be trans
ferred to the vessels. The expedition left
here in charge of an attache OF the Cuban
junta named Giberga and man named
Planas, who recently escaped from the
Chafferine Islands penal settlement. That
the train reached Woodbine on the sa-
tilla river, according to programme on
Sunday morning at 2 o'clock, there is no
doubt but that all trace of the expedi-