The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-04-02


located by divers. but all Of the bodies
of the drowned persons had been washed
out of the cabin. 1t is reported that three
of the bodies have been washed up on the
outer beach below the lighthouse, but
owing to the severe gale that has pre-
vailed, 1t is impossible to verify the re-
port.
f. A. Applegate is suing b. +. Dillon
at Jacksonville ia the United States court
for $4,000 damages for false arrest and
Imprisonment. The plaintiff was fore
man in charge of the building of the race
track and grandstand at Panama park.
He refused to allow the president and
board of directors of the Panama Park
Company to enter the grounds after the
work was completed and they had him
arrested, hence the suit for damages.
The Tampa Gas Company has just in
troduced the latest novelty in the shape
Of prepay-gas meter. This meter Is ar
ranged on the principle of a 'penny-in-
the-slot" machine coin the size OF
quarter is used, but it can be regulated
for any other coin desired. The money
as ii passes into the meter tips a small
ratchet beam, which measures off the
gas in proportion to the amount of the
coin. When this is burned out, another
coin dropped in the slot will furnish an
other supply Of gas, but If no money is
put in the gas is automatically shut off.
The legislature is to be petiuoned to
comply with the wishes of the people of
st. augustine by amending the city char
ter. The following changes have been
practically decided upon: That the city
council shall consist of five aldermen, one
from each ward; a city clerk who shall
also be ex-ofiicio assessor and city regis
a al
city marshal, each to be elected by a vote
of the people; TO abolish the board of po-
lice commissioners; to empower the mayor
to appoint and remove members OF the
police force; to abolish the office of munich
pal judge, and the fees, etc, 70 accrue to
the mayor who shall have similar judi
cary powers, the term of Office TO be one
year.
B. B. Herbert Of the National Printer.
Journalist of Chicago, chairman of the
committee and board of control on Home
and Resort for Editors and Writer'S. ar
rived at jacksonville Wednesday and met
| w. Il. Pabor of the Pineapple, Psbor
Lake, Fla, and j. w. White, vice presi-
dent Of the National Editorial Association.
The object of the meeting of the commit
| tee Is to select a site for Editorial" a
home for editors and writer's. The COM
mittee was appointed at the meeting OF
| the National Editorial Association at the
meeting in Galveston, Tex, in February
! They have left for Interlachen and will
| then go to Enterprise, as these places are
under consideration as possible sites for
the home.
Jacksonville Citizen: The contract was
signed in Jacksonville Wednesday by
| which that city will be connected with
! Waycross Savannah and Brunswick Ca.
by a telephone. The hacker Of the en-
terprise Is the Waycross Telephone Com
pany, Of which j. T. Bailey of that place
| is president 1t is said that the Waycross
| Telephone Company has ample capita
behind 1t to carry the enterprise to a sue
cessful completion, and 1t marks the be
| ginning in the south of long distance tele
| phones over Independent lines, that Is
| lines not connected with the Bell Tele
| phone Company. A movement Is already
| well under way to build line from Rich
| mond, Va, to Savannah, where connec
ton win be had with the system abou
to be constructed from Jacksonville there
A line will undoubtedly be extended from
| Richmond to Washington and the north
and the prospects are that before many
years It will be possible to converse from
Jacksonville to New York The Val
dosta (Ga.) Telephone Company already
has lines connecting with Townsville
Triton, Waycross and Lake City, and /
is proposed to extend the line to Brad
fordville, where connection will be ma,
with Tallahassee The new line to Way
Gloss will have connection with the Val
dosta service, thus giving communication
from Jacksonville to those points.