The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-06-05

taxes, +. Vidal Cruz; councilmen, for two
years, Frank Murilo, Fernando Figuera-
do, Philip H. Collins; councilman for one
year, Jacinto Chile.
Col. T. NJ. Atkins died at Orange Home
of bronchitis a few days ago. He served
term as representative from Sumter
county in the lower house of the Florida
legislature, and also a term as door
keeper of the House. He was a Iirst
cousin of eX-Congressman J. c. Atkins
of Tennessee, who was Clevelands COM
missioner of Indian affairs during his first
term.
r. B. Mcconnell, president of the sus-
pended Merchants National Bank, Of
Ocala, who has been mysteriously MISS
ing for the past two months, turned up
very unexpectedly Thursday. He left
about the time the legislature took up the
charges against State Treasurer Collins,
and the rumor gained circulation that he
was hiding from the investigating COM
mittee.
At a meeting of the city council at
Gainesville Tuesday night the fun amount
of the shortage of ex-Clerk and Treasurer
Sigsbee, as claimed by the special com
mittee, which has examined the books and
accounts, was made known. The amount
is $500 in round figures, with several
hundred more in doubt. Mr. Sigsbee adj
mitted a shortage of 81, 400 disputing only
the minor items of the bill. There is an
important book missing, which may alter
the situation if it comes to light.
w. e. Hutchinson and wife, who live
upon one of Capt. c. F. Canes farms,
three and a half miles from White
Springs, disappeared very suddenly on
May Is. They were last seen on their
way home from White Springs. LAST
Saturday evening news was carried to
White Springs that the place was de-
serted, the house open and their horse
in the lot almost starved to death a
thorough search of the surrounding coun-
try is to be made. The Hutchinsons came
from Georgia.
Daytona News-Gazette: A fight to the
death between two snakes was witnessed
near Daytona last week. a black snake,
commonly called a gopher snake, five feet
long, had caught king snake by the neck
and twisting it's black body about the
squirming victim was choking it to death.
After the king snake had given up the
struggle and its life, the victor proceed
ed to swallow the vanquished in the ap-
proved style. The dead snake was only
six inches shorter than the victor, but
that did not keep it on the outside. for the
the last tip of the wriggling tail.
"On a little coral island some hundred
miles south of Florida, a townsman of
mine, Capt. Minor, lately captured twenty
four head of seals belonging to a species
that were thought to be extinct" said Sc
wall c. Cobb of Pensacola, Fla. to a
Washington Post man Friday. "They are
known as the monarch of the tropics, and
differ considerably from their brethren
found in northern waters One striking
feature is their docility; they make no eff
fort to escape capture, and appear 10 like
to be petted. have just disposed of a few
of them in New York and Philadelphia,
and the Smithsonian Institute here has
contracted for four. THE capture of these
seals was big surprise to scientific men,
who supposed that this species had been
eXterminated. They are of no commercial
value worth mentioning"