The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-01
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Wilksboro, N. c.
The American bark Essex is at Port
Tampa loading with cypress lumber. This
Is the first cargo of this kind ever shipped
from that point, and is the beginning of
new business, which Will develop rapid
ly from this time forward. The Essex,
on its way here, stopped at Key West.
ond one of the seamen died of yellow fever
While coming up the bay The bark was
placed IN Quarantine and remained there
Ior more than month before it was al
lowed to proceed.
One of the large eight-inch rifles recent
ly taken to Pensacola from Jacksonville.
fell from a car while the train was passing
over trestle near Fort McRae, below
PENSACOLA light house and now lies bur-
led in the mud. The gun was intended
Tor the new battery near McRae and had
been brought TO Pensacola by rail, loaded
on a barge TO a government dummy line
TO be taken across a big lagoon, where it
lies in quicksand. and ii Will be a hard
matter to rescue it,
The adjustment of the labor troubles
around Pensacola is already proving bene-
fetal to commerce. There was consider
able activity in shipping circles last week,
NAiu NiiG ldyulSI put III a SOOd week 3
work, having an abundance of timber and
lumber TO load During the week four
steamships ten barks and one schooner,
OF an aggregate tonnage of 16,635, arrived
from foreign ports, and six steamships,
three banks and one schooner, of an ag-
eregate tonnage of 12,510, cleared for for
eign ports.
A big robbery. which has been kept quiet
several days in the hope of experimenting
the robber. has just come to light at Pen
sacola. Some time between Monday and
Thursday afternoon a thief entered the
home of Mr.. p. X. Yonge. manager of the
Southern States Lumber Company and
stole therefrom jewelry and valuables TO
the amount of $500. The thief was evident
ly well acquainted with the place as all
the valuables were kept in bureau drawers
upstairs. No arrests have yet been made.
1t was one of the boldest robberies yet
known there.
Tampa correspondence Times Union and
Citizen: The present labor predicament is
one that hardly has an equal in this coun-
try. For big, oveTgroWn town of % 900
inhabitants 10 be doinS business at night
with oil lamps and talloW candles when
there are all of the modern conveniences,
is something strange. There is no eXag-
geration when this is stated as a fact.
And it is all because not more than fifteen
men went on a strike last Tuesday A
committee requested the business men and
merchants 70 cease using the electric lights
furnished by the Consumers Company A
surprising number of them have already
complied and others are doing so as fast
as they can make arrangements for some
thing else. The union men placed large
number of vehicles on the streets, and
are running in hot opposition to the cars,
giving a service in some cases cheaper
than the car lines Every member of the
union is instructed not to ride on the street
+ cars.rand they will not enter and trade
in a store that uses the tabooed lights.
When it is taken into consideration that
there are five or six thousand cigarmak-
ers here, and that their weekly payroll
is over $SO,0 it will readily be seen that
the way they so business follows. The
struggle and final victory of these people
over the cigar manufacturers last July
are still fresh in the minds of the people.
They are a force not TO be laughed at
and beyond question hold the balance of
power here now.