The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-11
FLORIDA.

Two large sawfish were caught in a net
Off Cocoa a day or two ago after a. desper-
ate struggle
The Consolidated Phosphate Company of
Fort Ogden has sent to Savannah for
larger locomotives to haul phosphate. They
are doing large business in mining and
shipping.
Senator Matthew Stanley Quay of Penn
sylvania and party of friends passed
through Jacksonville Tuesday in a private
car en- route to st. Lucie, the senator's
winter home.
A new steamboat company is now being
organized at Jacksonville to run line of
steamboats, on the Indian river. Three
steamers have already been purchased, the
st. Augustine, st. Sebastian and Della
In runaway accident Or. Charlotte NJ.
Norton, at Merritt, Tuesday, was thrown
from buggy, and severely injured. She
was dragged some distance through the
bushes, and a wheel passed over her side.
In addition to bruises, her kneecap was
dislocated, and Internal injuries were in
hicted. She is doing fairly well.
The republican club of Tampa has in
dorsed the following candidates for posi-
ADMINISTRATOR:
marshal of the Southern district of Flor
ida they Endorsed Maj. S. A. Glenn; for
collector of customs at this port, Col. e.
r. Gunby. The question of postmaster
was deferred to the next meeting.
Monday night about midnight, the track
walker between Orlando and Winter Park
found a telegraph pole and a section of a
railroad iron lying across the track about
mile and half from Winter Park The
night mail train passes there at 1905
O'Clock, and the obstruction had evident
ly been placed there to catch this train.
Two of the ejectment suits Instituted
by the Bell heirs against squatters on the
old reservation property at Tampa were
settled Monday out Of court. Starbird and
Carruthers, who were fighting the claims
of the Bell heirs, have agreed to pay all
costs up to date and recognize the title
Of the Bell heirs, II no back rental is
charged against them.
A large acreage is now being planted in
melons and vegetables at Fort Ogden.
Orange trees are loaded with blooms from
top to bottom and the prospects are good
for large crop of fruit. r. G. NJ Boggs
has purchased the Simmons place of 100
acres as well as Mr.. Simmons storehouse.
He Will plant out thirty acres more in
oranges and grapefruit. f. A. Thomas
has been offered $1,000 for half interest
in his forty-acre grove.
The new slx-story Gardner block being
built on Bay street, at Jacksonville, is
climbing up like magic. the Knoxville
Building and Construction Company hav-
ing eighty men at work from sunrise to
midnight. besides an engine and crane, by
means of which bodies of wagons full of
brick or other material are lifted from the
street and swung into place. The contrac-
tors expect TO complete a story every four
days, and 20 have the building ready for
occupancy soon after May l.
The United States court at Tampa bus
led itself Tuesday with the case of Mrs.
Julia Cook VS.. the Plant Steamship
Company. The plaintiff claims $4,000
damages on the ground that she sustained
severe injuries Ia a fall she had In at
tempting to board one of the company's
boats. The case has been tried once be-
fore, Mrs. Cook receiving a verdict for
$500, but upon taking the case up to the
court of appeals that award was con-
sidered too much. and the case was sent
back for new trial.