The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-11-30
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
The Starke Telegraph is to be issued
as a daily.
Henry Tyre is on trial al Jacksonville
charged with numbering Edward Register
Sept. 1.
The trial of the ex-treasurer of Brevard
county, accused of embezzlement has been
postponed to the April term of court.
At a special meeting of the city council
Of Pensacola Saturday night it was unan-
imously voted to create paid fire depart
ment for the city.
Friday and Saturday there were in the
neighborhood of twenty cars of oranges
shipped from Tampa, the greater portion
of the fruit coming from the Manatee
section
The editor and proprietor of the New
Smyrna Breeze, C. B. Kendall, has pur-
chased the Times-EIerald of Palatka, and
will in future conduct the publication of
that paper.
J. T. Finingim, member OF the board
of county commissioners of Escambia
county was accidentally shot and seri>
ously wounded by a friend while hunting
| wild turkeys near his home, at Bluff
| Springs.
Madison. reports that thousands of dol
lars worth of cotton are brought there
| daily for sale from Brooks and Lowndes
| counties, Georgia, and Hamilton, Suwan-
| nee, Taylor, Lafayette and Jefferson coun-
ties, Florida.
The latest project for Orlando is a cam
phor farm 1t is reported that three WELL
known citizens have entered into an ar
rangement to plant about sixty acres in
camphor trees on an eligible tract of land
| about two miles southeast of town.
w. H. Holden. an, old resident of Orange
county, expresses the belief that the cork
oak tree of commerce can be profitably
cultivated there. A few of these trees
are growing in the state, and they seem
to find congerial conditions in soil and
climate
The pecan crop cuts quite a figure in
Madison county, thousands of pounds hav-
ing been produced. There are hundreds
| of young trees all over the county, many
of them just beginning TO bear. They
! give promise of future abundant annual
| harvests.
Since the fish law has stopped the work
of the fishermen so far as mullet are
concerned there has been a great increase
| in the shipments of bottom fish from Tam.
| pa and red snappers predominant in this
catch. Saturday about 10000 of those fish
were shipped.
AT the Windsor hotel at Jacksonville
| Saturday Capt. j. w. Fitzgerald, SUPER
intendent of the Plant steamship line, was
| presented with handsome silver tea set
1 10. ~. l.. 49,,
of the many acts of kindness Capt. Jim
! has done them.
Mrs. Alice Screws, wife of H. P. Screws,
proprietor of Hotel Escambia, at Pensa-
cola, died Saturday morning, after long
illness MIR Screws is a brother OF Maj.
| W. w. Screws, editor of the Montgomery
Advertiser, and was the late assistant
postmaster at Montgomery.
People from st. Petersburg announce
that a large area of tomatoes will be
planted out in that vicinity this season,
especially in the Lehman settlement, which
| Is well-known as one of the most prosper
| Gus in the state The crop is to be planted
| under a guarantee of 81 a crate for all to-
matoes that may be delivered at the depot.
Mercer and Mobley, two prisoners in the
county Jail at Arcadia. who are
under life sentences for the
murder of John Lowe, together with five
others, have escaped. Some of the pris-
! oners, confined for lesser offenses than
murder, made a key from a case knife.
unlocked the doors of the cells, scaled the
wall and escaped.
News has been received at Jacksonville
that the murderer, James NJ. Kelly an
ex-policeman, who was sent to the cor
vict camp last June to serve out a term
| of life imprisonment for the murder of
| James B. Talent on Christmas day OF
| 1896 had planned to make his escape from
| Meals camp, near Lexington, by the use
| OF a pistol which he and another convict
| had secured from the wife of one of the
! prison guards, but being discovered in the
| plot Kelly was placed in irons and the
| pistol taken from him.
In the city election at Punta Gorda for
officers for the ensuing year only about
! 50 are qualified to vote out of $50 or more
| voters For mayor, @. w. McLane, the in
! cumbent, is running Independent for re-
! election: Charles Davis is the nominee Of
the citizens meeting. The remainder OF
the ticket nominated at the meeting has
no opposition. For marshal. Richard
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