The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-01-29
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rs alleged, are Illegally detained by their
| mother in Fernandina.
Statistics of the phosphate business in
the United States for 1896 shows that Flor
ida took the lead with 4s9.O65 tons, follow
/ e. by South Carolina with 275,06O tons,
1 Tennessee, with 429ll tons, and North Car
olina, with 74lS tons
Daniel b. Gardner. who is now erect
ing what will be the finest office building
/ in jacksonville. has under consideration
| the question OF extending the hight OF the
! building up 10 nine stories instead Of six,
as originally planned
Truck farmers in Alachua county are
/ distressed because of the blight that has
/ recently been observed. The top root Of
! the cabbage is being cut in two by a small
/ cutworm. No remedy has yet been sug-
/ gested for it's radiance.
/ \. d. Tucker, the cattle king and one Of
/ the wealthiest men OF the county, died at
/ his residence five miles east of Dade City
| Wednesday. He had many cattle herders
! dependent on MIN for living. He leaves
wife and large family of small chill
| dren.
Capt. Henry Batcman Rogers and
Mrs Louisa Mitchell Thomas were mar
red at ST. Andrews Episcopal church at
| Hart officiating. Capt. Bateman is the
! commander of the revenue cutter For
| ward
Capt. Ackerly, who is to have charge Of
the maneuvers of the United States squa-
dron Of warships at Charleston next week,
| passed through Jacksonville Tuesday
| night with a party of naval officers en-
| route to st. Augustine and other points
along the east coast.
Private Richard c. Barlow of Battery
NJ. First United States Artillery died at
the barracks hospital at St Augustine
| Wednesday night with lockjaw, resulting
| from cutting his toe with an ak some
| three weeks ago Surgeon Ives received
the anti-toXine too late to have the desr-
ed effect.
The Florida Fertilizer Company have
engaged the services of E. w. johnson of
Lake City, an experienced tobacco grower,
| to take charge Of a large tobacco planta-
| ton near Gainesville. Col. j. b. Dell of
| Hague will also grow tobacco and has en-
! gagged the services of an experienced to-
bacco grower
Emanuel Fortune, one of the most prom
inent colored men in Florida, died
! Wednesday at his home at Jacksonville
| Of aneurism of the heart The deceased
| was DOil III MdIldnud Jan. D. 1900. RE
| was slave, and was owned by j. w.
Russ. Thomas Fortune, editor of the
! New York Age, is his SON.,
The Orlando Reporter remarks that the
! fact that the water hyacinths furnish ex-
cellent food for stock and poultry should
| not cause any relaxation of the efforts
/ that are being made 10 remove the plants
| from navigable streams. And that paper
| suggests that those who can make do
nestle use of the plants can always find
| an abundant supply in the lakes and
! lagoons
w E. Gunner, of the GUNNER Land
and Timber company, is in Alachua coun-
1 ty looking over the company's timbered
/ lands. Their large mill in Jacksonville is
nearly complete and the company will
soon have a large force of men at work
| cutting stock logs. 1t viii be necessary for
| them to build several tramways from the
! railroad to their lands. When they com
mence operations they win employ many
men. Their mill in Jacksonville is one of
| the largest in the south.
| S. S. Harvey, well-known fruit-groweT
of Escambia county, recently addressed
letter to Nicola Tesla, the electrician, sug-
| costing that a remedy for pear blight, the
orange scale, and other pests, might be
! found in the use of electricity. Mr. Tesla
| replied that in his opinion such evils could
| be so destroyed, but said that a method
| of applying the current that would avoid
| injury 10 the trees would need to be found.
| He promised to consider the subject The
! correspondence is published in the Pen
| sacola News.
The Plant system evidently has some
enemies in Hnlsborough county The
wreck just outside of the city limits of
| Tampa early in the month"; and which has
| proved fatal TO Engineer Finney, will be
| remembered and it was caused by
| crosstie being placed on the track. Mon
| day night some miscreant placed another
| one on the track near Lakeland, and il
| was only by good fortune that the tie was
! turned over on the fiat side, so that the
| pilot of the locomotive passed over It,
| and no damage was done, save tearing
| off the brakes from some of the cars.
Nearly all of Wednesdays session of
the United States court at jacksonville
was taken up with the hearing of the case
| of Anna Bell Robertson ct al. VS.. Henry
| Il. Sewall, suit for the recovery of 1900
| acres of land located in Dade county, in
which the plaintiffs claim $1,000 damages.
! The land in question is included in what
| is known as the Miles or Hanson grant.
| 1t occupies a frontage of several miles
/ along the Indian and ST. Lucie rivers, eX-
| tending back toward the Everglades The
/ complainants admit the defendants own
| ership of an undivided one-third of the
! property. The object of the suit is to dis
| possess the defendant of a portion of the
| tract on which he has established his resi-
! dence and an extensive pineapple planta-
! ton. The home of Mr.. Sewall is on the
point of land at the confluence of the st.
! Lucie and Indian rivers. The point is
! high above the rivers, and commands a
fine view of the ocean, which is about
| three miles away.
Henry l.. Jcwett Dead.