The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-07
FLORIDA.

The firemen of Orlando will leave to-
night in special car for Jacksonville, to
attend the state tournament
The Cubans of Tampa have adopted res
olutions reciting that Cuba should accept
nothing from Spain short of absolute indie
pendence.
1t is said that the Plant steamship line
will be one of the bidders on the new
mail line to Jamaica. The service is for
three months.
At st. Augustine Friday. Alonzo Cofield
assaulted Shade Demps, first hitting him
with club and then chewing one of his
ears nearly off.
An army of men are now employed in
the work around the Tampa Bay hotel,
getting the many improvements there In
shape for the season.
Dyal & Lain of Callahan are purchasing
and leasing large tracts of timber for
turepntine purposes, and are preparing to
cut great many boxes during the COM
ing season.
J. Brannon, living near Spring Warrior
was fired upon from ambush by unknown
persons Thursday night as he was driving
buckshot entered his back, and it is feared
that he cannot recover.
A tramp was discovered in the store of
Mclean & Co. at Lady Lake Thursday
night, and when he attempted to escape,
was shot in the thigh. He gives his name
as Henry Smith, from Australia, and his
occupation that of sailor.
About eighty sponge vessels are lying off
jug Island. They report the water fine,
and the catch the best for a number of
years. The number of vessels will be i'm
creased to over 100 in a very short time,
and the season at these banks will last
three months.
Capt. John H. Welsh of Welshton, who
recently returned from the capital, ex-
poets an important foreign appointment.
The postoffice at Welshton was formal
ly turned over on Monday last to A. r.
Cross, the new appointee, with w. H.
Firth as assistant.
MIR. Cross, a practical farmer of Welsh
ton, produced this season at the rate of
forty bushels of corn and 600 bushels of
onions on common pine land, using only
! home made fertilizer-muek, beggarweed
plowed under, and soft (marD phosphate,
which cost only the hauling.
From the best obtainable information.
Florida will ship 100000 boxes of oranges
next year. This, considering that but Co.
coo boxes were shipped the year after the
great freeze, and but ga, 900 the following
year. indicates that before long orange
growing will be again an important in
dustry.
AT Lake Ogden, small station on the
Florida Central and Peninsular about
four miles west of Lake City, Thursday.
| Charlie Williams, a negro brakeman on
\ the local freight, was struck in the head
| by passenger train No 2, which was go
/ ing TO Tallahassee, and probably fatally
! Injured. He was asleep on the track.
Last Monday was pleasant day to Mr..
and Mrs. Ivey of O'Brien, being the birth
J day of Mr.. Ivey. Mr.. Ivey came to Florida
/ during the Seminole war, in 1885, and did
some active service fighting the Indians.
! He was too old to conscript In the war of
| secession. Mr.. Ivey was born In the year
| 1914, hence on last Monday he was SO years
of age. He was married at the age of 4e.
A census of Pensacola just completed by
the health authorities. shows gain of
nearly 10 per cent In population since the
state census of two years ago. The report
! also shows that Notwithstanding the gen
| eral cessation of business on account of
! yellow fever in some parts of the south,
| 147 new buildings are now in process of
construction within the city limits
In jumping from a train at Dupont, Ga.
a few days ago M. Baggott OF South Car
| DINA stumbled and fell, the sharp end of
| his umbrella penetrating his neck about
| four inches, where 1t broke off and was
| sull sticking when he arrived at Ocala
The physicians, after considerable work,
succeeded in removing it. Friday the
patient was able to be out, and, while
throat is getting along nicely.
Titusville Star. Quite large sum of
money will probably be raised on this river
to test the question before the courts OF
this state whether mullet can be taken
during the closed season from the 18th