The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-04-15
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a warrant from Marion county, charging
him with forgery. He was turned over TO
the Marion county authorities.
Gainesville Sun: Fortune sturk, one of
the Oldest negroes in the state, was in
Gainesville yesterday. He lives few
miles from town, and despite the fact that
he is 81 years of age, he operates a good
sized farm, planting many acres of corn
and cotton.
Dade City growers are getting rich from
their Strawberries. One grower received
recently $500 net for sixteen bushels Of the
luscious fruit. The indications are that
the berries will still command excellent
prices because of the recent cold weather
higher north.
Palatka Advertiser: A gentleman in this
city who has followed the testimony sub
mitJed to the Investigating committee, has
drawn the line at any beef that is butcher
ed outside of Putnam county. This gives
the Western product a black eye and
scores a triumph for the much abused
Florida COW.
Tampa Tribune: Representative Frank
Clark of Duval county is evidently coax
ing bumps among the newspaper frater-
the legislature TO muzzle the press by
making it felony to publish anonymous
communications will no doubt be strongly
opposed by every newspaper in the state.
Mrs. Julia H. Fields of Tampa, aged Sc
years, dropped dead at the breakfast table
Wednesday of paralysis of the heart She
had not been feeling very well for several
days, but was able to get about. Mrs
Ionic Of
Tampa, having lived there most of the
time since the civil war, in which her hus-
band was killed.
AT Fernandina Tuesday Zachariah Nick
ola, who has lived at Old Town for num-
Der of years, fell from a high portion of
the phosphate elevator to the dock be-
meath, a distance of some sixty feet. and
sustained injuries from which ne died. He
struck the sharp edge of one of the old
shovels used in carrying the phosphate
which cut in two his cheek and jawbones
and the bone at base of skull.
Jasper News: There is no longer a case
of smallpox or any even suspicious case
in Hamilton county. On Wednesday Mr..
Robert Adams and the family who have
been in quarantine at White Springs, were
released, and Mr. Adams himself dis
rack DR.. Hanna, the efficient agent of
| the State Board of Health for the county,
says that all danger of.infection is past.
The long talked of visit of old Chief Tai
| lahassee to Kissimmee finally matured
! when the steamer Roseada tied up at her
| dock on Friday. Tallahassee was accom-
panied by Billy Bowlegs, who showed the
! greatest care for the old patriarch! With
| one horse between them, they made the
| trip from their Everglades home dis
lance of about forty miles, to Bassinger.
In their brilliant costume they attracted a
| great deal of attention, and their visit will
| be a long remembered one.
East Point Correspondence Times
| Union and Citizen: The little company
that floated down the Chattahoochee river
from Columbus, Ga, just one year ago
| and took up their abode on a forsaken
| and desoIate point six miles across the bay
| from the city of Alphabetical, are now a
| happy, thriving little people and during
| the year have made many Improvements,
| considering the many things there were TO
| be done, and the time they have had to do
| it in A dock has been built, such as no
| community need be ashamed of, with a
| good-sized fish house on It. A postoffice
| has beeen established and the suggestive
| name of 'Cat Point" changed to the more
| appropriate one of East Point" Tempo
| rary dormitories have been put up for the
| separate families. The school house has
been erected and school is now in ses>
| SION A lady from Washington, d. c., was
| sent for to teach in it, and she has twen-
| ty-ope pupils.