The morning news., 1899-12-30
FLORIDA.

Dan Deane, young while man, went
on the warpath Tuesday evening in West
Tampa. He shot at j. B. Thompson. then
mrs thompson, and then their boy. Fail
ing TO hit any one of these, he fired at
passerby and missed him. About this time
ne was arrested and taken to Tampa and
placed in jail. Warrants were sworn out
against him charging him with assault
with intent to kill.
Master Spencer Lainhardt. who imper-
sonated Santa Claus at a Christmas tree
celeDra1on at Palm Beach Wednesday
hlSht' came in contact with the candles
with which the tree was lighted and in
an instant his inf1ammable clothes were
III brisk blaze. The young st, Nicholas
ran, screaming, from the scene. The fire
was extinSuished as quickly as possible,
but not until he was badly burned about
The face, hands ana limbs.
The father of Charles Perkins commit
ted suicide Saturday e. ening near De-
Land, by shooting himself through the
heart with a pistol. MIR. Perkins and son
nave been living near town for some time.
OUT last week were preparing to return to
their Northern home. After bringing in
load of goods in the afternoon the son
returned home, where he found his father
lying on quilt dead with the pistol by
his side. An inquest was deemed unnec-
essary.
Jacksonville Call: AS matters now stand
Capt. Garner viii not have an opponent
in the coming Board of Trade election of
officers for reelection as president at the
meeting, which will be held on Jan H.
The nominations must close on next Sat
urday evening. For the position of first
vice president L. FuTchgott will have
rival in ]. II. Norton, and from present
indications w. S. Ware will have oppo-
sition TO his position as second vice presi-
dent. For the three vacancies on the
board of governors there are six aspir-
ants: H. B. Philips A. F. Perry, Charles
A. Tremere, j. H. Crosby, Jr, r. D.
knight and D. U. Fletcher.
The latter part of last week Mr.. w. T.
Rhodes, a turpentine operator at Sneads,
received an insulting and threatening note
from negro, who had been in his en-
ploy. and who had been causing much dis
satisfaction among his hands. On Satur-
day Mr.. Rhodes and the negro met, and
after some words got into an alteration
in which the negro continued his threats,
and made a break for a shanty, presuma-
bly, to carry out his designs, whereupon
Mr.. Rhodes shot him once with a revolver.
The negro was shot through The hip, in
fiicting what was considered a flesh
wound. He died, however. on Tuesday, but
as he was given heavy doses of morphine
by other negroes, ii is not known whether
he died of the shot or of too much NOR
phne.
Jacksonville Metropolis The famous tug
Three Friends of this port is again going
into Cuban waters, but not on missions
as heretofore, to carry munitions of war
to the insurgents, but to tow three large
new scows built in this city by the Merrill
Stevens Engineering Company, one of the
substantial industries of this state. These
scows are feet deep, 27 feet wide, and
100 feet long, and are constructed of yell
low pine lumber grown in Florida, and
sawed at Henry Clark's mill, in this city.
They were built for the United States
government, Department of Havana" :"
They cost about S12,000 and are TO be de-
livered by the company in Havana Mr.. A.
r. Merrill will go to Havana with the
scows. Capt Montcam Broward, captain
of the Three Friends, said to-day it would
require about a week to make the trip.
He will not stop at Key West, but pro-
ceed straight to Havana. These scows
are to be used for conveying garbage
from the city to the deep sea, and have
been recommended by the Marine Hospital
Service.
His many earthly joys forever over,
Capt Fed. Fine. one of Tampa's Oldest
citizens, died suddenly and alone Wednes-
day night. His dead body lay for some
time unnoticed on the sidewalk at the in
tersection of Tampa and Jackson streets,
where. il is presumed, the veteran marin
or fell, early in the evening, the victim of
a stroke of paralysis of the heart. Mr
Henry Krause, on his way uptown for
a lunch, stumbled over a PROSTATE body
at that corner, about o'clock. He struck
a match. and readily identified the famil-
lam features of Capt. Fine. The victim
of manv' rnisfortunes in life in death the
old man had not been spared the heart
less indignities of some passing ghoul
Policeman Sheriff., who arrived on the
scene shortly after the discovery was
made noticed that the face of the de-
ceased had been smeared with axlegrease,
evidently taken from nearby wagon
and that other insults had been offered
the unreplyiug remains Some persons,
rarhaps thinking that the old man had
fsIlen in drunken stupor, had commit
ted fhe indignities upon the body that
y,ould have been an insult to the living and
certainly were a crime against the dead
cont Fine was about 60 years of age
re served as a sea captain for many
t,ears He was town marshal when Tam
"a was only fishing village, and there
are few who do not have some kind Word
to say for him.