The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-24
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA
The annual meeting of the State Press
Association is to be held at De Land on
March p.
The sales of fertilizer tags for the past
week aggregated $3.50, representing the tax
on 2,4SO tons
The firm of Phifer & Graham, one of
the largest furniture houses in Gainesville,
has been dissolved.
The Kanapaha postofice is to be dis
continued unless some one is found who
will take the position of postmaster.
H. H. Livingston, a negro burglar, taken
back to Jacksonville from Savannah, has
been sentenced to five years in the peni-
Tertiary and to pay $1,000 fine.
The erection of the new Catholic Church
at Tampa has begun. The church will be
built of brick and granite, and it is esti-
mated that the cost will be about 100000
Capt. Samuel Dennette, of the steamer
Pope Catlin, plying between Jacksonville
and Mayport, fell from the hurricane deck
of the steamer Tuesday, breaking his right
al gashes in his face and head.
One of the most important real estate
transfers that has taken place at Kissim-
NEE this season is the purchase of Sum
merlin Island by Herbert Fleming of Ath-
ems, Ga. The property is valuable and
very desirable one, and will be improved.
The st. Augustine Country Club has
closed a contract with the noted bicyclists
now on the Gulf coast to give a series of
races on the one-third- track in the
Country Club Park. The date of their ar
rival has not been announced, but it viii
be within a few days.
At the election held at Orange Park
Monday, the following officers We're elect
ed: Mayor, Joseph D. PARROT; town clerk
and treasurer, William D. Ball; tax col
lector. Edmund n. Holt; marshall, Paul
E. Westcott; councimen, Thomas j.
Thompson and Earl K. Parrot.
Last Tuesday morning Capt c, L. Me-
Kinnon, while on his way to DeFuniak'
was struck by paralysis and fell off his
| horse speechless. A negro driver came
along presently, and found him lying there,
and. finding him still and apparently life
less, took him up, put him into the wagon
and took him to town to the residence OF
his brother John l.. McKinnon, where
| he died Wednesday.
The General Electric Company want to
sell out their electric lighting plant in
Ocala Offering it to the City Council of
that place for $13, 500. The Ocala Star says
that everything owned by the company In
| Ocale is embraced in this offer-the lot,
power house. engines, boilers, machinery,
| dvnamos, twenty-five miles OF wire on
| noles and connections. Under this offer
| the company turns over to the city large
established and well raying business.
Tampa Tribune letter was received
sunday night by j. V. Espinosa, an en-
ploye of T. NJ. Bush & Co.. in which his
| Havana correspondent stated that positive
Information had been received by him to
the effect that a conspiracy had been
formed by certain Spanlards to blow Up
the Maine, and now that the job was done,
| and the conspira tors had not been paid the
amount of money promised them they feel
disposed to expose who had hired them 10
do the dastardly deed. The letter was not
SIGNED, but the writer claimed that he Was
well acquainted with Mr. Espnosa.
The worst hail storm ever known at
I,ochloosa, occurred al 3:15 p. m. Saturday
Hailstones as large or larger than hens
eggs fell as thick as rain for about thirty
minutes, and the wind blew a gale. Much
damage was done to orange trees and veg
etables. The large barn of Fowler & Son
was blown down, and their fine buggy
horse narrowly escaped being killed. All
the smokestacks at the sawmill went
down, and considerable other damage was
done to the mill. The windows in every
house in town exposed to the weather
were broken and household goods were
greatly damaged by the rain. F. Z. VIII
lams e. Co had few dry goods damaged
bv water. The sloop Swan, belonging 70 Il.
b. stephens, was damaged some by being
driven against the wharf. Several small
buildings were blown down. No one was
injured.