The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-06-07
FLORIDA.


FLORIDA.
I'D to dark Saturday the government
had paid the soldiers at Tampa nearly
100000 and only about half the men had
received their money.
Lake Buffum cattlemen report having
discovered a veritable paradise for stock
bevond the Kissimmee river. Several CON
template moving there soon.
Camp Cuba Libre" is the name that
Gen. Fltzhugh Lee in command Of the
Seventh Army Corps. has given to the vol
unieer camp in Springfield, and 1t will be
SO known hereafter.
A. R. Creekmore was killed by lightning
late Saturday afternoon. while on horse
back riding into Live oak The bolt also
killed the horse. His body was found soon
after badly charred and burned.
Saturday Gov. Bloxham signed the death
warrant Of Edward Hinson, and fixed the
day for his execution on Wednesday, JULY
6. Hinson is the negro who was convicted
at the present term of the Circuit Court
al Jacksonville on the charge of criminally
assaulting a young white girl.
A swimming contest held in the Tampa
Bay Casino pool Friday night between
Sherman Miles, son of the general, and
Surgeon DAILY, was won by the former.
The contest was very spirited one. Man
ager Phillips of the Casino says that Mr..
Miles is one of the most expert swimmers
he has seen in the pool this season.
Saturday was the red-letter day OF the
season at Miami fer the shippers of pine
apples from the keys. Nearly $500 crates
were received. The pineapple growers on
the mainland are also beginning to send
forward some fruit but the mainland crop
viii hardly come in as a whole until the
key crop is gone. The long-contlnued
drought viii shorten the crop, and the
fruit will be much smaller.
Farmers at Marshallville are rushing
the cultivation of crops so as to be ready
for the peach harvest. fine oat crop
has been housed. Local rains have greatly
refreshed some sections. In a few days
fruit shipping will commence in carload
lots, and increase daily until as many as
thirty carloads per day will be shipped.
Daily large shipments of peaches, berries
and vegetables are being made
The Jacksonville Light Infantry of the
First Florida Regiment has had several
Of its members highly honored since going
INTO camp at Tampa. DR.. DeVeauX and
DIR. Monroe, who enlisted as privates have
pital corps, while Seton Fleming has been
made regimental sergeant major on the
staff of Col. Williams, and Clyde Cooper
buSier for the company, has been made
regimental bugler.
Company I of the Fiftieth Iowa at Jack
sonvlle might well be called the 'profes-
sional" company. Not that the men are
veterans in the service, but out of total
OF slNty-eight enlisted officers and men,
lhirty-siX Of them are students at the
Iowa State University of Iowa City They
are divided as follows: Thirteen colleg-
lates. six senior law students, three of
whom win be graduated this year:
SIX junior law students, five dental
students, five medical students and one
lawyer An effort was made by the stu
dents of the University of Iowa to organ
lze company, but this was opposed by
the management and also by Gov. Shaw
Ii being thought that the national guard
OF The state should be given an opportun-
lty to enlist first. Accordingly, students
TO the number named enlisted with the
Iowa company.
Company L of the Second Virginia Reg
lment, now at Jacksonville which is I'M
der command of Capt e. w owens, First
Lieutenant J. w. Leigh and Second Lieu
tenant w. r. Parrish, boasts of being the
ofueSt military organization in the state
from which it has come Capt. Owens
gave a short history Of his command Sun
DAY afternoon. He said il was organized
in II2, and has been engaged In four wars
tnal of 1872, the Mexican war, the civil
war and the present one. 1t was COM
inanded IN the civil war by Captain, after
wards Col. John C. Owens who met his
death at Gettysburg, and whose son is
now in command. He also brought out
from his trunk d flag which was presented
10 the company by the ladies' of Ports
month in 1898. 1t Is about five feet square
ana bears on one side the coat of arms of
me United States, and on the other the
ueVlce OF a palmetto, with a snake entwn-
Ne"
Fanasoffkee is suffering from a drought
Unprecedented in severity and duration in
me history of that portion of the state.
oH'y once in the last three months has
ram fallen sufficient 70 wet the earth to
the depth of an inch. The oat crop was
CUT short one-half by the dry weather. and
IRISH potatoes suffered severely being de-
Hcient both in quantity and quality. Gu
SumOerS squashes, celery. tomatoes.
melons and nearly all vegetables are a
partial or entire failure from the same
cause. In many cases corn failed TO germ
mate and where a stand was secured
Inere IS rarely much promise Of a harvest.
III rain comes soon, large areas of peas.
plndars and potatoes may yet be planted
but the food and forage crops Of the wear
cannot fan to be unusually short There
IS little fruit of any kind in prospoot
the foliage of the orange trees. In many
cases is badly curled. the trees have made
put little growth, and much of the fruit
has fallen.
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