The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-08
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA
Mr.. Samuel Rhodes, a prominent citi-
zen of Cocoanut Grove, is dead. His wife
survives him.
Y wesley casters, a young white man,
was arrested at Tampa Saturday after
noon on the charge of attempt 20 rape.
He was Immediately placed in jail The
attempt wos made Wednesday evening on
Marie Simmons, a little daughter of H.
b. Simmons. at her home. casters was
boarding there.
Gainesville Sun: The outlook for har-
monious action in the coming Democratic
State Convention is very encouraging.
The opposition to the denomination of
Mr.. Sheats for STATE superintendent of
schools will not be sufficiently strong to
disturb the deliberations of the conven-
tn, and it is not at all likely that there
will be any bad blood displayed by those
who are advocating the claims of any
of the candidates
Walter d. Cason, the engineer for the
Green Head Phosphate Company. was
rested by Sheriff Tills at Barlow, upon
wire from Sheriff Donaldson of States
boro, Ga, and upon the arrival of Sheriff
Donaldson 1t was ascertained that Cason
was charged with assault with intent TO
murder, upon one Barwick of Statesboro.
Ca. MIR. Cason is an excellent young man,
and has borne a good character since ne
moved to Barlow, some eighteen months
ago.
Mr.. Herman, the agent of the express
company at Fernandina, has received an
express package which ELECTED Quite an
amount of comment. 1t was an old over
all suit of an express messenger, stuffed
with straw, which started on its journey
from some point not known, and which
has Travelled TO almost every state in the
Union, and will go to Cuba; from there
TO the Paris Exposition; and then to South
Africa, to become a factor in the Boer
war. 1t was already covered with tags,
put on by the agents at the various STA
lions, al which 1t has stopped.
Sheriff Nugent, who is untiring in his
efforts to recapture the escaped prison
ers, made a neal capture Saturday, near
Weirsdale, in the person of Early Sim
mons, a United States postofice robber,
at that place. The sheriff suspected his
presence in that neighborhood, because
his folks lived there. A wagon load with
fodder happened to pass the sheriff. and
the thought came into his mind that il
would make a very convenient place of
concealment, so he poked his hand into
the fodder and seized the very man he
The Programme Committee of the
State Teachers Association was in session
at Tampa Saturday. The association
meets in that city in December and the
task of preparing the programme is a
herculean one. The committee is com
posed Of Prof. L. w. Buchholtz, Mrs. L.
b. Mathes, Prof. A 7. Williams. The
leading address at the meeting will be
made by Prof. NE. Benjamin Andrews, SUI
perin5enGent OF the public schools of Chi
cago, and who has just been called to the
CHARACTERISTIC of the Nebraska State Uni
versity He is regarded as one of the
foremost educators in the land.
The Board of Trade of Tampa has SET
tied on a definite policy in regard to Sc
curing a line of steamers 10 New York.
A committee has been appointed to cor
respond with the Mallory Line and see
If they will place a line of semi-weekly
steamers on between that city and New
York direct. If this cannot be done,
the board will at once proceed with the
organization of a company TO carry out
this idea. In the correspondence, the
Mallory Line will be given a fair idea
Of the amount of freight coming this
wav as well as a statement of the out
ward shipments, so that they may see
inst what they can depend upon in the
way of business.
Four solid refrigerator cars Of celery
left Sanford Saturday night for various
Northern cities. Since shipments began.
about two weeks ago, over twenty-eight
cars have been shipped. There are from
800 to 400 crates in a car. It takes from
| fonr to five tons of ice to properly cool
these refrigerator cars, and they are again
iced at Waycross. The cars are iced
usually the day before loading, so to keep
| the temperature even. Good returns are
1 still being received, although the market
| price is a little lower. A check for 500
/ was received Thursday by one grower for
llree hundred era les. Shipments will
| continue for several weeks yet. as some
| of the large growers have not as yet cut
! their crops. There have been some fail
ures and disappointments. but the result,
| on the whole, is satisfactory. There viii
be a large acreage planted next year, and
! the experience of this season will prove
! of benefit Some of the celery went TO seed
before it could be bleached, but many re-
/ ceived a dollar a crate for this, which
moro fhau maid QxDpuses.