The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-09-16
so Years of Cures.

Company is using 10000 feet of lumber
week filling orders.
Enoch Doyle was hanged on Tuesday
morning in the Duval county jail yard for
the rape of Priscilla Youmans, one and
half miles from North Baldwin, in Aug.
1895.
Pensacola has had guards placed
at every ferry on the Perdido river, the
dividing line on the west between Florida
and Alabama to keep out refugees from
the fever districts.
Ocala has an alleged colored girl incen-
diary who is said to have thrown a lighted
lamp on a bed and thus set fire to and
destroyed a house which was occupied
by an unfriendly woman of her own color
About ninety operatives of the Ell Mo
delo cigar factory at Jacksonville, which
has recently been purchased by C. II.
Cato, are out on a strike because ten of
their friends could not obtain work in the
factory.
The inquest into the death of j. s. Al
exander, who was reported drowned at
Fort Meyers showed that Alexandra
neck was broken, and from the peculiar
position in which the body was found the
circumstances lead to a suspicion of foul
play.
Liberty County Observer: Fullers earth
is becoming quite an article of commerce
Near River Junction there are hundreds
of acres of it, and a local company has
erected a large and extensive factory to
grind and refine it for commercial pur-
poses.
Z. N. Waldron of Daytona says the
cactus leaf makes a splendid poultice for
thorn and other flesh wounds Prepare
the leaf by passing 1t through a fire TO
scorch the thorns, then peel the leaf both
sides and edge and apply. 1t will keep
moist and warm longer than any poultice.
Aloe is also good.
The fight between the city authorities of
ST. Augustine and S. s. Leonard, begun
in ST. Augustine Aug. 81, about an over
hanging balcony on a street to a building
the latter was erecting has been trans
ferred to Jacksonville, and each side to
the issue are relating the facts to Judge
Call circuit court chambers.
Twenty-nine petitions to sell liquor have
been granted so far this year by the com
nlissioners of Hillsborough county. This
means about forty licenses thirty-hye OF
which Will be in Tampa and suburbs The
state ana county will realize about $4,000
from these licenses and the city about
$4,000. The new license year begins Oct. l.
Pensacola News: Pensacola's increasing
growth in commercial Importance has jus
tihed the Louisville and Nashville rail-
road TO make this port the shipping point
for vessels to Bremen, Havre and per
haps Japan. The steamship line to Bre-
men Is thing of the near future, and not
far behind Is the line to Havre This
will make the fourth steamship line oper-
ated here by the Louisville and Nashville
Gainesville Sun: The Tampa Tribune
SAYS ex-senator Call has evidently
shaken the sand of Florida off his feet
is now in the state. and the ex-senator
vass every nook and corner in the state
next year in his own interest for Sena-
tor Pasco's seat. 1t is understood here
to meet him on the stump, and that Col.
FiIdes has accepted the challenge. So look
out for a lively campaign in 1898.
Fort Myers Press: The Seminole can
ming factory has used 100 barrels of SUI
gar this season in the manufacture OF
guava jelly. Last week the Gardners nut
up a Florida beef ia the form of stew
which has been pronounced excellent by
judges. A Tampa wholesale house has
tried this canned beef and is so well pleas.
ed with il that they are figuring with the
Gardeners to see how prices will compare
with the canned goods brought from the
north, and If the comparison Is satisfac-
tory, the Seminole factory will likely get
a very large order for canned goods