The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-03


l,aa -earehed, and nothing eontraband
- ind on her.
Al meeting OF the board of public safe
.g a. I'ensaco.a Saturday the chief of the
.ua Ger department., John Baker. was
nously elected chief of the paid de-
r'n mt, ana all the subordinates were
,. members.
Liner. the champion cyclist of Germany,
who stopping at Belleair, and who chal-
1,i any cyclist in America TO a mile
r... 2npaced, TO be ridden on the Belle
.Ir eek Feb. J, has been taken up by
ii... Bad, champion of America.
Two young white men. Harry Anderson
a. H J. Branning, We're arrested at Tam
urday, the former on the charge Of
/ lS with intent to commit larceny,
/ ana he latter with larceny. The specific
/ charge against the men is that they rob
.t he room of Dr. J. l.. Head in the
lHHr MOTEL.
/ Ia he circuit court at Pensacola Friday
Lewis Smith, colored, who had been con-
u.l of murder in the first degree. was
s'rt'nced to be hanged on a day 10 be
IAt- by the governor. This viii be the
., hanging that has occurred in Escam-
Da "ounty in ten yeas although there
t.H. smell Donaldson, colored. also con-
tlr'i of murder in the first degree was
-laIted a new trial
Tampa Herald: There is. reason for he
ueyns that the larger producers of cigar
l"1t tobacco in South Florida are about to
s".nulhe ana make a move that Will relieve
the situation that colfronts them in the
absence of a market for their product.
There IS so little sale for our tobacco that
10 is drug on the market The suggested
method of obtaining relief is to make up
Inc product into cigars in sufficient guam
ujes TO thoroughly test the country.
A o.Il in chancery was filed in the office
Of the clerk of the Giro nit court at Jack
sOnvNle Saturday by d. T. Fletcher. at
toruey to foreclose me ,rtgage on the Ok
ford hotel property. loca te d at the north
east corner of Laura anC. DuVai streets. at
Jacksonville. The mortgage and notes are
for $50, and are made payable to James
w. Tufts of Boston, Mass, and were
given Jan. Is, 1885, and interest at 9 per
cent per annum was to loe paid. The suit
is Instituted against Grace Josephine
Hughes, Helen Longmoise Hughes and
Benjamin Abbott Hug ses of Maiden,
Mass, children of the la Mr. and Mrs.
Benjamin l.. Hughes
The kissirnmee Valley Gazette says:
Stockmen are repenting of the mischief
they wrought in transpla nting The water
hyacinth from the main channel of the St
Johns and EconlockhatcIle rivers into
their tributary creeks. hiding that the
cattle liked the plant ana fattencd on It,
they carried it up stream, and scattered
the pest until the upper waters became
choked. The cattle wade out after the
food. and numbers of them are being
drowned and begged in tha attempt to
reach it. Congressman IEavis now has the
support of the stockmen in his effort to
secure an>appropriation from the govern
ment to rid the inland waters of this
alarming growth.
Starke Telegraph: A retrospect of the
year 1897 can but be pleasing to the friends
of Starke. Not less than a dozen new
houses have been erected and many old
ones have been enlarged and improved
The Atlantic, Suwanee ISiver and Gulf
railway shops have bee enlarged the
number of operatives Increased and much
expensive machinery added. A handsome
new postotfice building has been erected
and new and improved fixtures ordered.
\ turpentine plant has been established
in the outskirts of town. giving at present
employment to fifty men. The Atlantic,
Suwanee River and Gulf railway, with this
place as its starting point, has added sew
eral miles of track to its line and has
about completed the SurV ey for the extern
sion TO the Gulf of Mexico. Two new mer-
camille firms have been added to our com
mercial interests, and not single failure
has occurred. Fifteen or twenty families
have been added to our population, and
very few persons have moved away The
New Commercial hotel has been remodel
I'd and greatly improved. Kerosene lamps
have given away to electric lights. A
board of trade has been organized, through
whose efforts the cult walton of tobacco
Will be naugurated anel the erection of. a
large curing house has been assured The
preliminary work has been done for the
establishment of a brick kiln. From evi-
dence now at hand il is perfectly safe to
say that the year 1898 will be a record
breaker in the line of improvement. Sew
eral persons are already formulating plans
for the erection of new houses, and MANY
other improvements are In contemplation.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The st. Helena Phosphate Company of
Beaufort has failed.
The Manning city council has given out
the contract for another artesian well.
The Greenwood court house is fact ae