The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-08-13

over the small Office named, which is an
Pasco county. Her Office was Investigated
by Postoffice Inspector Thomas II. Full
ler who made charges Of false entries
and false returns. After an investigation
Commission II. L. Crane decided that
the evidence was sufficient to hold her for
a hearing before the United States Circuit
Court in February, and the bond was
fixed at the amount stated. II was finally
given by Mrs. Shea and she was allowed
to return to her home. 1t is rather q rare
occurrence for a woman 10 get In the
meshes OF the law on such charges and
when the case is tried it will be closely
watched.
The Board of Public Instruction at Sc.
Augustine, at Its last meeting, set the
date for the opening of most of the public
schools of the county. The State Institute
for the Deaf and Blind win be opened the
middle OF September this year, which IS
two weeks earlier than usual. The nne
buildings of this institution have under
gone some necessary repairs during the
summer but Others win also be made be-
fore opening day Applications Tor schol-
arship are being received by the superin-
.andent In larger numbers than usual,
and the worthy institution will probably
enlighten more unfortunateS TINS term
than ever before. The grounds surround
| ing the building have been enlarged, and
a new fence is now being erected around
the addition. Most of the members OF the
| faculty of last year have been re-engaged
On Sunday, at Spruce Bluff, while part
of the family still sat at the table, Earl
Lees went into the kitchen TO build
fire. The kitchen was built separate from
the main house. Earl thought TO start
the fire by using kerosene, but there being
+ a little fire left In the stove, caused the
Ill 10 ,lola
| directions Earl with his clothing all
| abaze rushed out of the kitchen toward
| the creek. Mrs. Lees, seeing him, ran TO
his assistance, and tried to eXtingutsh the
| names with her dress. Some of the rest
| ran for blanket, but before reaching
| Earl his clothes were nearly burned on.
| strong wind was blowing, and by this
| time the main house was on fire. Mr..
| Lees entered the burning building, hoping
TO save a trunk containing some valuable
! papers. He was obliged to drop 1t and
crawl out, being severely burned. Earl
died next day. Mr.. Lees is improving.
Ex-CounciIman G. p. Han of Jackson
vile, who is with a party of fellow citi-
zens In the Klondike gold fields has writ
I ten hastily to Jacksonville friends under
| the date of July 30. Mr.. Hall was at Port
| Townsend, Wash, at the time and stated
! that his party had encountered many VeX-
! atious trials. They had just constructed
| a steamboat at Port Townsend and started
! for Juneau, where he asked that all his
mail should be sent. Things at first did
not work satisfactorily with the party,
| but the withdrawal of one contentious
| man made the party harmonious. The
only thing feared by the party was that
| the delay in starting would land them at
| Juneau so late in the season that little
work could be done before the severe
weather set In. The party consists of G.
| p. Hall, r. NJ. Saunders, Alexander Nc
| Lashlan, C. Grosser, O. L. Freeman, Fred
Broughton of this city, and four others.
The name of their steamer is the Mocking
Bird.
A few days ago Postonice Inspector
| Beaver who is making his headquarters
at Tampa, went down to Egmont Key to
take a look at postal affairs at that place.
| He found several tons of newspapers and
| more than 10000 letters laying there. He
| investigated the matter and discovered
that the mail arrived on the transport
Comal on Aug. !, and has been laying at
the detention camp since, and would have
been there longer. if it had not been for
his trip down the bay. There is no rea-
son to say that there was trouble at
| once, and some one will have to explain
why that mail was handled so careloesly
and delayed so long The captain of the
Comal claims that he made several at
tempts TO get the mail fumigated, so that
1t could be sent up to the city, but said
that he was not successful in getting the
matter attended TO. The mail Is now be-
ing rapidly forwarded to it's destination
as 1t has been properly fumigated
and sent to the Office at Tampa for distri-
button. The Porto tico mail Is still being
handled from Tampa, and large qualities
of il, too All mail for the Fifth Army
Corps addressed to Cuba, is now being
turned back to Montauk Point