The morning news., 1899-09-21

Charlottesville. Va. He went up with his
son, Lamar, who is taking a law course
at the University of Virginia, and from
there went to Washington for few days
visit among the departments.
F. A. salomonson of Tampa closed a
deal Monday for the sale OF 7,6i1 acres of
timber land to II. L. Covington. The price
paid was 81 per acre, and the land is for
turpentine purposes. There is an offer
standing for l2.0C0 acres at the same price
which MIR. Salomonson is considering.
Clarence King. the negro who killed his
sweetheart Saturday evening, was captur-
ed eighteen miles east of Pensacola Sun
day He was taken TO Pensacola and
lodged in jail. Sheriff Mitchell of Santa
Rosa county and A. H. Cowart. from Mil
ton, captured King. He admits having
committed the crime, but says It was
done in self-defense. The two were to
have been married Sunday night
The Port Tampa City Busy South has
been running weekly lnstallments of a
dlsquisition on the question. rs There a
Hell?' The last issue of the paper, la
boring under the yellow fever scare, and
the consequent exodus of three-fourths
of its subscribers announces: This is
the last issue of the He'll business. We
are CaLCning enough nStl mere III THIS illS
to leave the other existence to He who
doeth all things we'll"
Deputy United States Marshal W. H.
Mccormick returned from Palatka TO
Jacksonville Tuesday night with Jake
| Jones' a young white man, who was ar
| rested on Saturday night for passing coun-
| terfeit dollars on the merchants Jones
| was arrested by Officer d. G. Sanford,
| after he had worked off about $12 of the
counterfeit coin, by making small pur-
chases and receiving good money in
| change. This is the third arrest in the
| same case.
! Tampa Times: Judge Mcdaniel OF
Bra.dentown informs the Times that this
seasons orange crop in Manatee county
| will bring the growers more money than
| any previous crop. Some of the growers
| have already sold their fruit at 81. 81 per
get as much as S3 A great deal of this
money will find its way into channels Of
| business in Tampa, therefore we have a
personal interest in the prosperity of the
| Manatee fruit growers.
Tampa Tribune: Capt. Frank Waters
formerly of the Plant Line, but now OF
| the Ward Line. was in the city yesterday,
! having arrived on the Olvette Sunday
! from Havana Capt. Waters says the re-
/
leans at Havana of yellow fever are gross
| ly overdrawn, and that the stories about
| the wholesale designations of American Of
| ficials owing to the spread of the disease.
| are all bosh THE health of Havana, -
he said, is better now than ever before. -
No further details concerning the cigar
| syndicate have been given out The names
! of the concerns that will go into the syn
| dicate have not been announced, but there
are indications that number of the lead
! ing factories at Tampa will continue bus
mess, regardless of the combines. The
| syndicate list will not comprise more than
! eight or nine concerns from Tampa at
| the outside, IL IS thought. and this will
| leave a large number of heavy manufac-
turers. who have preferred TO stay on the
outside.
As A. w. Wright lineman of the West
ern Union Telegraph Company. was
| crossing Apalachico,a trestle on a veloci.
| pede, with a companion, on Wednesday
last, freight train No % came in sight
| around The curve. Mr.. Wright and hi.
! companion dsmouuted and endeavored to
| hang the machine over a projecting cap
| sill, but he stepped off the trestle, fail
| ing a distance of thirty feet His head
| and body were mbedded in mud but
| his companion, a Mr.. Mallard. climbed
\ down, laid Wright on log, and tagged