The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-07
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latter direction. This leaves only one line
of steamers on the river now.
A party Of thirty-fve prospective settlers
arrived at PaIatka Thursday afternoon
from the Northwest. The entire party
spent the day at Grandia, on the Georgia
Southern and Florida Railway, looking at
lands. Upon invitation of the Young Mems
Business League, the party were given a
drive over the city and vicinity.
Tobacco planters near Dade City are set
ting larger area of the weed than ever,
and the success of the cigar factory there
in its phenomenal orders has encouraged
the growers, who are now satisfied that
they can make as fine tobacco here as In
Cuba. A gentleman refused an offer of 30
cents per pound for about 5000 pounds re-
Gently and he is confident that he viii do
much better.
Titusville Florida Star: over two hundred
head of sheep and about go head of hogs
were shipped from this point the first of
this week by Mr.. X. b. Raulerson to
Miami, the stock to be reshipped from
there to Havana. The shipping Of cattle
and hogs from this section to Cuba Is be-
coming quite an industry and Is on the an
crease all the while. This Is the first ship
ment of sheep from this section to the Gu
ban market
Fort Myers Press: Mr.. Frederick
Franz. father of our esteemed citizen,
Mr. f. Franz, died at his sons home at
Estero, last Sunday April 30, of old age.
Mr. Franz was born in Prussia, Germany,
in 1903, and had therefore reached the ripe
old age of 90 years, almost rounding out
the century. He was raised by Butcher,
a cousin of the famous German general.
He came to the United States in 1853, and
settled in Cook county, Illinois. In 1894
he moved to Richmond, Va, and two
years later came to Estero with his son
with whom he has lived for the past TWEEN
ty-tive years. He was member of the
Lutheran Church.
Key West correspondence Tlmes-Uni
and Citizen: +. D. Stanford, special agent
of the United States land office at Wash
ngton, who has been in the county seven
or eight weeks securing evidence against
certain persons (mostly Bahama negroes,
who have been cutting wood off the govern
nent land on the keys, went before the
United States grand jury Tuesday, and
it is probable that many indictments win
be found. The keys where the depredatiOns
have been committed are Ramrod, Torch
Pine, and Johnson Some of the negroes
come from the Bahamas, cut the wood,
burn il, sell 81 at Key West, and then re-
turn to the Bahamas, although there are
a number in Key West al the present time
The Arcadia boys belonging to Company
c. Rays immunes, who were mustered out
at Macon, arrived at Arcadia Wednesday
night. The delight of reaching home was
somewhat saddened by the arrest of Green
W. Hodge for the murder of man named
Byrd, at Fort Thompson. Mr. Hodge was
the Oldest member of Company G, having
served in the civil war under the Stars and
Bars, and again going 10 war this time
under the Stars and Stripes. lie was in
dicted at the last term of court while he
was in Cuba. Upon the fact being made
public of his indictment, his friends werc
greatly surprised, as il is said, he can
easily prove an abb, being thirty miles
from the scene of murder when it oc-
Cured.
Ocala Star: w c. Jeffords startled the
Board of County Commissioners Monday
by appearing at the board with a monster
Irish potato, and cracked their credulity
by gravely announcing that it was only a
baby murphy. The potato came from
George Closes 125-acre patch, from which
he has been shipping for the past week,
One of the commissioners figured out the
result of Mr.. Closes crop. He said it
took $40 bushels to plant the 10 acres,
and if he received twenty for one planted
his crop would amount TO 1900 barrels,
and at 50 a barrel he would receive $22,-
500 for the crop Mr.. Close is some po-
tatoes, and the biggest in the Marion
county Hill. We wish there We're a thou
sand Closes; how Marion county would
boom!
The case of Tom Tiger. the Seminole In
dian. against Harmon Hun. of Orange
county, for obtaining his pony under false
pretenses, came up for trial before Judge
M. S. Jones, at Circuit Court, in Titus
vile, last Friday. The case was rather
lengthy one, as several witnesses for and
against We're put on the stand. The de-
PENDANT Huh, was arrested about two
months or so ago and lodged in Brevard
county jail at Titusville, it being sup
posed that the alleged wrong occurred in
that county. Judge Jones decided there was
no case against Hull, and instructed the
jury to bring in a verdict of acquittal.
Tom Tiger and his Indian friend Billy
Ham were much disappointed over the YER
dict of the jury, and on Saturday left for
their home in the Everglades to follow
their vocation of hunting the alligator,
deer and wild animals. Before leaving Tom
Tiger sald white man tell heap lies
and lawyer tallSee, talkee too much-all
time"