The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-20

The clay surfacing of the road between
Altamonte and Maitland will be finished
this weel
The docks at Fernandina are being filled
with lumber and the prospects for bust
ness in lumber promises good.
The West Palm Beach Sun will publish
a daily paper for the winter under the
caption Of the West Palm Beach Breeze.
All of the insurance company agents
arrested in Orange county on charge of
doing business without licenses have been
discharged
Neal Mcmillan, who murdered Peterson
Watson in Columbia county four years
ago, was found in North Carolina last
week and returned to Lake City to stand
trial.
F. w. Stanley and wife arrived in Lake
City Tuesday from Hastings, Mimi, hav-
ing driven the entire distance q 500 miles)
in a wagon. They are en- route to South
Florida
One hundred families in West Tampa
are suffering for the necessaries of life.
They are Cubans who are dependent upon
work in the factories, and that work has
been cut down.
Judge White has ordered a special term
OF the Circuit Court to be held in Lafa-
yette county to begin on the first day OF
March. A special term will also be held
at Lake City beginning Feb IA.
7. R. r. Cobb the Atlanta lawyer who
for several weeks has been confined to
II. hoa ,,,;4t q 1,,tn ,c,a,,lon;- 80 49, -
ter residence in Orlando of his father-in-
law, c. p. N. Barker is wonderfully inn
proved
Senator Munroe will visit Daytona this
week He is the senator in the Illinois
Legislature who recently introduced bill
exemptng from taxation all property of
women until they are granted the right
of suffrage.
Lakeland Is out of debt and has 5000
cash on hand A few years ago she owed
1890 Besides being out of debt $500 has
been spent in equipping the fire depart
ment; streets have also been paved and
no increase in taxation.
The big dredge boat at Port Tampa,
which has been doing such good work
there for the past year is temporarily dis
abled The work that the dredge has as
sisted in doing has cost the Plant In
vestment Company more than 100000.
For some time past il has been rumored
that ]. L. Bynum, principal of the Jack
son County High School, was guilty of
criminal intimacy with one of his assist
ant teachers. Tuesday committee of in
| dignant citizens organized and BY
mum skipped the town.
Lake City is to have telephone system,
and the work of stringing the wires and
placing the phones will begin as soon as
! the poles are placed in position. The
| plant win cost about $3.50, and the stock
/ will be held by citizens of Lake City,
from whom a manager and board of direc-
| tors VIII be elected.
shipment of strawberries, comprising
2S2 quarts, was forwarded from Galloway.
a station on the Plant System. Saturday.
Reports from that vicinity are very fav-
! orable in so far as they effect strawber-
| ries. There is plenty of green fruit on
! the vines, and no damage appears to have
been done by the freeze.
Jacksonville Metropolis: 1t is reported
that John Eagan of Pensacola has been
| appointed United States District Attor-
| ney for the Northern district of Florida
| The Eagans are certainly in it for federal
positions. Dennis Eagan is postmaster
| at Jacksonville. his brother district at
torney and his son deputy collector of
| customs at Punta Gorda.
L. f. Clair of San Francisco, Cal, will
make eight for the Segui millions in
Florida, which are claimed by Antonio Sc
| gui who asserts that he is a great-grand-
son of Father Segui. Spanish mission
airy TO FLORIDA The priest disappeared
! at the beginning of the century leayine
| $1,000 acres of land in Florida, now worth
| 100000. Clair traces his forefathers TO
the Seguis of Minorca and has a document
| showing that he is a direct descendant OF
| brother of Father Segui.