The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-08-27
GEORGIA and @
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augurate along the West Florida coast.
In street car collision IN Tamua
Thursday, one Of ,oe coliiIing ears was
wholly wrecked No one was hurt.
Capt. James W Harris. brother Of DR..
J. V. Harris Of Key West and son of CT.
James W. Harris o. Columbus. Mss. did
TUESDAY night at the residence OF MT Vim
ing Harris, AGED l3 years.
col T. J. Appleya.d for many years ed
itor OF the Sanford Chronicle ana one of
the best known men among the Florida
journalists has purchased The Key W,st
Gulf
Levy Times-Democrat: Deputy Sheriff
Walker brought in John Sashe Tuesday
on a charge of luuacy Sashe has been
good. quiet citizen. and his reason APP
pears TO have been dethroned since he sat
on the Williams murder case
TWO new engines. or rather two recon
structed engines, are just being competed
for the Florida East Coast Railway. They
are of the very latest pattern and will be
famous on the line this winter season.
They are known as Nos. 30 and 81. They
VIII cost s25 eco when completed
Large numbers Of cattle are beng shin
PED from Gainesville now Twelve cars
were loaded Friday, and something in the
neighborhood Of that many Ia .e lire4ly
been loaded tbs week. The c4t1c are for
the Cuban market and are bringing fancy
prices. They seem to be plentiful IN that
seatiOn
Lieut.. Pike has finished his work in
Gainesville, and closed un his recruiting
TO the muster roll, Wednesday the lieu
tenant and his new men departed for Fort
Mcpherson, Ga where they viii remain
until ordered to Manila. Lieut. Pixies
numerous friends there regret very much
to see him leave
Pensacola News: Another good sign of
Pensacola's progress and prosperity is the
announcement that The Pensacola Electric
Terminal Company win soon put in a first
class electric lighting plant, double their
power and extend the electric lines to Pal
mettO Beach, where a first-class pleasure
garden win Ne laid out and ready for
patronage next summer
Jasper News: Judging from the state
press it looks like the Hon. D. II. Mays
Of jefferson county has got the bulge"
on the other gubernatorial candidates thus
far. How things viii appear this time
v.
but Mr.. Nays is a strong man and a good
man for the place and his strength. we be
heve, will increase as time passes.
Miami Sunny Land: As we have been
requested to say that the Hon Robert w.
Davis win not be a candidate for guberna-
torial honors, we repeat what we said two
weeks ago: The talk of the Hon Robert
W. Davis becoming a candidate for Cover
nor is wrong-dead wrong He can ana win
do us far more coed in the HoGse at
Washington. Miami fully appreciates his
efforts in her behalf.
Tampa Tribune: Jacksonville. which IS
always getting big schemes into it's noddle,
now proposes 20 capture the next Demo
cratic national convention, and to build a
$4,000 auditorium for its accommodati lion
The Tribune would be glad 10 see the
Bryan hosts march down into Florida next
year. but must confess that it is about as
improbable a prospect as ever rose before
the eyes of optimists
On Friday in the Circuit Court at Jack
sonville, Judge Gail passed sentence Of
death on Frank and Moses Robertson, Pat
Thomas was sentenced 10 twenty years
in state prison. The Robertson brothers
were convicted of shooting and killing
Deputy Sheriff Sadier and Dennis jenkins
and killed his son, Noah Thomas, north of
the city, on June Z.
Gainesville Sun: II. r Dutton &, Co. are
going 10 have a magnificent exhibit at the
Omaha exposition. They of course, VIII
make a special exhibit of their cotton
business. W. G. Robinson, manager of
this department, was busy yesterday Sc
Letting samples to be sent on. They win
he "a oh 4
made as SNOWY as possible. There should
be made at this exposition an exhibit of
the other products of the soil. Alachua
county can make a fine exhibit If she only
will.
Tampa correspondence Times Union and
Citizen: Another lot of forty cigar makers
arrived on the steamer Yesterday after
noon from Havana and Key West These
men are coming bn3k gradually, and il
will not be long before they will begin 10
make some showing. The lactnrl-s are ali
still in need of more men, and a thousand
cCufd get work Ecfe 10 morrow f they
were to present themSelv.s THE ~ tees are
satisfactory and tbe stock is so.I Zach
r4n is allowed to make M he can during
the day, provided he does good work.
Old time visitors to Hotel Ormond. Or
mond win hardly know it the coming win
ter. a large addition Of from $50 TO 200
rooms has been added. a new kitchen
erected, the Old house remodeled, electric
lights and bathrooms furnished pine
trees and shrubbery on the grounds clear
ed off, and the land graded and set out in
palms, towering shrubs and grass witch
walks and drives, making il a place of
beauty and a charm to the weary. There
are 40S men working on the Ormond Hotel
and grounds, and the semi-monthly pay
roll win amount 10 nearly 5000
POLITICS IN GEORGIA.