The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-04

ioN9 MINUS. Inc money Is expended In
lile Improvement Of the streets and roads.
AT the Polk county fair, to be held in
Lakeland next March, there will be prizes
offered for the most successful base ball
team. Besides a cash prize there will be
a silver cup offered to the winners of the
series
The turpentine manufacturers of Alach-
| ua county are experiencing a great deal of
| trouble in keeping fire from the woods
where they operate. Their lands are
closely watched but despite this precau-
ton, much damage has recently been done.
Numerous letters and kilograms to the
Jacksonville Times-Union and Citizen.
| show that Florida sustained no damage
| whatever from the present cold snap. IN
| spite of the fact that oranges were bud
| ding and in bloom. There were few places
IN the state where the temperature was as
low as freezing.
The Electric Light and Water Company
is to furnish Lake City with twenty
arc Nights, to be run every night from sun
| down until midnight for the sum of 500
| per month, and also another arc light on
| the east side of the court house square. for
an additional 81 per month"; making a to-
| tai OF I,224 per year for twenty-five
| nights. The city agrees to exempt the
| light and water company's property from
| taxation for period of two years.
Two hundred and eight bales of tobac-
| CO. weighing in the neighborhood of 3d.
600 pounds, arrived Wednesday in bond for
r F. Carcaba of st. Augustine. The to-
bacco was bought by Mr.. Carcaba during
| his recent visit to Cuba Mr. Carcaba
| has brokers in Havana, who have been
! gathering the tobacco in small quantities.
and, while the shipment is not as large as
| Mr.. Carcaba hoped for, it is sufficient to
keep his factory going at full time for :.
/ number of months.
Monday afternoon, Grace Beasley. a
young white woman who is an inmate of
a disorderly house at Tampa made the
| third recent attempt to take her life She
went out TO the power house of the Con-
sumers Electric Light and Street Railway
! company and swallowed morphine but
| prompt medical attention saved her life
| She claims that she has been deserted bv
! her lover, who works out at that place and
| that she has nothing more to live for and
desires to die at his feet. The efforts 50
far to end her life have been unavailing.
Daytona Gazette News: The value of
! the fish law to the Hillsborough and Hal
! flax rivers is shown by the results at
| New Smyrna. In the Hillsborough they
| have had four seasons protection The
| tourist and home people have found that
! the fish are more plentiful. New Smyrna
! has every house and hotel full of people
| who have come to help the citizen catch
! the trout, bass, sheepshead and other fish
| The fishing with hook and line in the Hal
/ flax is improving steadily. and another
! season OF protection to the fish will fill
| the river with fish as it was some years
| ago, and will bring more dollars to the cit
| liens.
The preliminary trial of the young men
| charged with criminal assault on a band
of rowing Polish Russian gypsies as they
were leaving the island on Jan 49, was
| held before Judge Y. A. Hall of the County
| Court at Fernendina Wednesday. The
| prisoners pleaded not guilty. Jacob Rim
! itri the chief man of the gypsies. took
Bible oath, his faith being Christian, and
! he ana his wife and a young woman one
! of the chief sufferers at the hands of the
! gang, told a straight forward story. Judge
| Hall discharged Charles Ferrera held
| Swearingen and members of his family in
| $1,000 bond each, and Middleton and Sye
! the colored men, in the sum of 81, 900 each
A horrible find was made at Pensacola
! Wednesday afternoon on Senator S. R.
| Mallory's sloop yacht Frolic When the
senator left Pensacola for Washington,
during the latter part of November he
| placed his yacht in charge of Robert
| Hickey well-known boatman. The
yacht has been kept at anchor since that
| time, Hickey living on board Wednesday
afternoon number of boys, in a small
| boat, passed by the yacht and discovered
| a horrible stencil. They notified parties
on shore. and Coroner Jones soon went
out to the yacht on opening the cabin
door. the body of Hickey was found in
horrible state of decomposition, he having
| been dead probably ten days. On inves-
tgation, il was found that Hickey had
! light fire In a charcoal furnace, and
the supposition is that he was asphyxia-
| ted by the fumes of the charcoal In his
| commissions he had rolled against the fur.
| mace, which was overturned and his body
was horribly burned. Hickey was about
40 years of age, and had no family.