The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-16

u k Northey of Leesburg is shipping
from half an acre 125 bushels of onions,
which are pronounced the finest ever
grown in that locality.
lodge of the Benevolent and Protec-
tive Order of Elks was Instituted at Pen
sacola last night. The Mobile lodge and
mem bers of the Jacksonville lodge took
part in the ceremonies.
Large shipments of pineapples are now
being made from the Florida keys satur-
Gay the schooner Two Brothers and Lille
arrived IN port with fun cargo of fruit
Several carloads went over the Florida
East Coast Railway northward.
Great interest was manifested in Pensa-
cola yesterday over the announcement
that Mallory Kennedy, a nephew of Sen
| ator S. r. Mallory, had been secretly we'd
ded at Alexandria, Va. last December.
the bride being Miss Sadie Strother Logan
of Salem, Va.
A gold hunting expedition left ST. Peters,
burg Friday for Honduras on the schooner
Irene Alburg. Two St. Petersburg boys
were in the party-Claude and Glenn Pep
per. If their present bright hopes are
realized, they will be abe to amuse them
serves with coupon clipping when they
come back.
To-day the special city election will be
held in Gainesville for the election of an
alderman to fill the unexpired term of
Mayor Bartleson, who resigned to accent
the office he now holds. The election will
be held in the Porter block Some inter-
est has been excited, and both A. e.
Wittstock and S j. Burnett will receive
creditable number of votes.
Gainesville Sun: Mr. Thomas Goodwin of
Pine Hill, in Bradford county, and uncle
of Prof. ]. J. Goodwin of Alachua county.
died at his home Friday of typhoid fever.
He was As years of age, and leaves a wife
and five children. His remains were in
TERED in the Stephens cemetery at old
| Newnansville yesterday. The deceased
was one of the most prominent men of his
county.
Shortly before midnight Sunday night
bright reflection was seen in the sky di-
rectly west of ST. Augustine, caused by
large fire. of some sort. The reflection was
! evidently caused by large building on
| fire, but as yet no fires have been report
! ed. It is impossible to say how far distant
The fire was, but il appeared to be at Che
outskirts of New Augustine, or possibly
further out on the Moultrie road.
Glowing reports have been received
from the sponge fleet in the bay at Key
West. The water last week was unusual
ly clear and every boat on the bars made
good catches, in fact, it is said they aver
age, between 400 on 500 punches each
This together with what they have al
ready done will make the catches on this
trip the biggest for years. It is estimated
that there will be almost $4,000 worth of
sponge brought in by the fleet.
Circuit Court at Westville was in ses-
sion the past week, and the grand jury
found several indictments, among them
one against Early Reynolds for the muir
der of Young Whtehurst; one against
John Clemmons, for the murder of Bar
tom and one against Jesse Jones, colored
for the murder of John McDuffee. All the
prisoners were arraigned, and pleaded not
guilty. Their cases were all continued
and the prisoners remanded to jail.
Greene W. Hodge. member of Com
pany C, Third Georgia Volunteers, wAo
was arrested at Arcadia upon his arrival
from Cuba for the murder of Byrd last
June, sued out a writ of habeas corpus
before Commissioner Stanford, asking for
privilege to give bail He clearly estab-
lished an aibi, showing he was fifty miles
from the scene of the murder when ii oc-
CURED He was granted bail by Judge
Stanford, which he readily obtained.
1t will be of great interest to Fernandina
people, not only at home, but throughout
the country, to know of the wonderful inn
provements which have been made there
since the great storm of Oct. 3 last. To
review or go over the estimate made soon
after the storm, it is found to have been
close one, and the damage done was
fully as much as then estimated Re-
pairs since made and which are now be-
ing made, will reach a figure over 500 600.
Orlando Star: Albert Hurst. a sickly,
puny white boy, twenty years of age, a
semi-pauper, living in Marti City. secured
an entrance into Phil Shafers little gro
Gerry in the Frank Lyons store, near Fau-
sets and packed off nearly the entire
stock before he was discovered. FIe stole
part of every line of the stock and all the
cash, $3.50. When Mr.. Shafer returned,
search was instituted and most of the
goods were recovered. The boy viii be
given a hearing before DR.. Crawford as
soon as he can be arrested.
So lively has Alderman Frecker's fight
become against the police department of
Tampa that it is understood that he is
going 10, or has employed, counsel to help
him in his fight. This trouble started
over the fact that Chief Woodward placed
a newcomer in a position in the station,
which did not please Alderman Frecker.
He said so at he time, and has been say
ing so ever since. From that he has com
menced a systematic fight on Chief Wood
ward and the department There is
story to the effect that he has already an
nounced that the chief has to go, and has
assured another man that the place will
fall to his LOT.
1t is told of a certain bishop that while
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