The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-02-09
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
Two hundred and fifty shade trees have
recently been planted on the streets of
Anthony, Marion county
There have been shipped from welborn
this winter eleven carloads of seed cotton
and 442 bales of ginned cotton.
The report of State Treasurer James
B. Whitfield for the period from June 9,
1897 to Jan. 81, 1898, will soon be ready for
delivery.
Friday, at the logging camp of the At
lantic Lumber Company, in Bradford
county. during dispute Arthur Cathcart
shot A. o. Mooney in the breast with a
pistol.
An irate mother at High Springs last
week attacked E. r. Dickson, school
teacher, with a horsewhip. The teacher
had chastised her soma pupil in the
school.
Several farmers of Suwannee county
have discovered the fact that hay made
from the native grasses is a remunerative
crop, and they will harvest much of it
hereafter.
The following patents were issued in
Washington last week to John L. Man
ming of Barlow, on a pruning implement,
and to John M. Withrow, Apalachicola, on
| a weighing scoop.
Saturday evening while Mr.. and Mrs.
Jake Kelley were fighting fire at their
place near Mango Mrs Kelley's clothing
caught fire. burning her so badly that she
died from the effects Sunday afternoon
During the month of January Elder H.
v. Skipper, pastor of the Second Advent
| Church of Live Oak, has preached twenty
| two sermons baptized seven persons, or
ganized two churches and ordained one
man for the ministry
w. B. Wakinson Company of Kisslmmee
have 400 boxes of grape fruit in cold stor-
age in New York, which they are holding
for rise. The present price is $40 box,
but they expect it will go TO SIS. All this
| fruit was marketed since the freeze and
| came from down the river.
The case of Goldberg vs.. the Consum-
ers Electric Light and Street Railway
| Company of Tampa, suit for $4,000 dam
| ages, has been concluded with verdict
! of $3.50 in favor of Goldberg. This was a
case where Goldberg's little 3-year-old boy
| was run over by street car and his leg
| cut off.
A day or two ago Rev. J. E. Mcintosh,
the Gospel Wagon" evangelist, who has
been holding revival meetings at Forest
| City, Orange county, lost his tent and
much of his own and wife's effects by
| fire. while Mrs. McIntosh's hands and
| feet were burned in her efforts to extin-
guish the fire. The tent caught from
| fire near IT.
A prospectus and declaration of incorpo-
ration of the Demopolis and Pensacola
| Road was filed Saturday in Montgomery,
! Ala, in the Office of the Secretary of State
| by the incorporators, and books of sub
| scription were authorized to be opened.
| The road Is to run from Pensacola, Fla,
| through the counties of Santa Rosa in
Florida and Marengo, Clarke, Monroe and
Escambla in Alabama.
| Tampa Tribune: The free distribution
of food to the destitute continues in Ybor
| City through the generosity of Edward
Manrara. The following shows how
many people have been fed during the
| mast few DAYS: Sunday, Jan. &c. break
| fast. 473; dinner. 4S9; Monday, Jan. 81,
| breakfast, 479; dinner, 1856; Tuesday, Feb.
| l, breakfast, 495; dinner 499. Total num-
| Der fed for the six meals, 2,121.
L. W. Cartee of Dade City has sold his
| sumatra tobacco for $50 and $1.75 per
pound. His tobacco was betuned by one
| of the curing houses of that place. There
| is much tobacco at Dade city as good as
that of Mr. Cartee's. OF 1,165 pounds OF
Sumatra betuned for Col. f. NJ. Ray, there
| were 500 pounds of first-class wrapper.
| Mrs. G. H. Staley sold 2,30O pounds of
tobacco at 40 cents rer pound uncureq''
In the city election at Sanford Mon
| dav p. d. Barnes was reelected Mayor,
having a majority of 116 votes over NJ.
u Morey. d. B. Manly was reelected
| clerk and assessor and Joe Cameron
marshal The following were elected as
| aldermen for two years: George Fox, i.
| ]. Appleyard, NJ f. Robinson ana w. +.
| HAMPTON. Messrs Appleyard and ROBIN
son were reelected and Messrs. FOX ana
| Hampton are the new members.
Daytona Journal: A large bowler stone,
Grated and weighing half ton, was re-
oelyed Friday by Messrs. Anderson d
| price To the crate was attached card
| hearing the following: This stone is go
inc 10 Ormond Fla. to be set as a mon
| ument in memory of Freeman WateI-
| house of Portland, Me-, who lost ms ne
trying to save the crew OF me Naen .l.
| Cobb wrecked on Ormond Beach, Deceln-
| her '96. The stone is from his old nome,
| cane Elizabeth Me-, and is forwarded
| srae If charge by Portland Stone Packet
| comnany and Clyde line" The stone Will
be placed in position at once, and will be
a lasting remembrance of the bravery ana
eeIf-sacriice of him, who so nobly risked
and lost his life for the sake of others
Sunday night when the steamship DIV
cite arrived at Tampa from Havana
among her passengers was a courier from
he Cuban army, en- route for New York
taking with him important dispatches ior
the iunta. He brought the news OF lhe
promotion Of Pho Romero 10 heatenaHSs