The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-05-25
FLORIDA,


Hon. ". K. Zewadski Of Ocala has an
county. He is member of the present
Legislature, and was one of the caudi-
dates for speaker Of he House.
Lafayette county has Instructed it's del
egates in the Stato Convention to vote for
Jennings. Sumter county selected a ma
jority of Jennings delegates, with instruc-
tons to vote as a unit. These were the
only two counties holding conventions on
the 18th.
One hundred and thirty ballots were
taken Wednesday in the Ninth Senatorial
Convention in session at Inverness, the
last ballot being as follows: DR.. Shelton
Stringer fernando county, 2 votes; DR..
j. F. Wallace, Pasco county, votes; Hon.
James Mason Young, Citrus county, 3
votes total of las ballots taken and no
choice.
Barlow Courier Informant: We are glad
that considerable acreage of velvet beans
will be planted this season for the pur-
pose of feeding beef stock this fall. Mr..
Jasper Summerlin will fatten four hun
dred head of beef cattle the coming win
ter on these beans, for our home use, and
says he would like to contract for 1000
barrels if he could. This is a crop our far
mers should give their attention as we be-
lieve there is big money in it.
In the naval appropriation bill, which
passed Congress last week, Key West gets
a good share of the appropriations. The
naval station gets 100000, which will give
considerable work 10 laborers; at the ma
chine shop the following amounts are en-
tered: Building and equipment, S47, 900;
construction and repair shop, $50 600; floor
in CHI norm RING
$500. Only a small number of men are
employed at present, but after the first
of July, the beginning of the fiscal year,
more will be employed.
Odet Grillon of Tampa has gone to Key
West and will run on the Plant steamships
between that city and Havana in the ca
pacity of customs officer This is done
so that there will be little or no delay for
the passengers. 1t is a custom which has
been in service for years, except that it
was discontinued last season. Mr.. Grillion
will be kept on that run until the quaran-
tine season closes. He is an immune, and
popular with all who have ever travelled
between Tampa and Havana. Owing to
the fact that the line now has three trips
a week, one man can only make this trip
by leaving the boat at Key West each
time.
Three very important land deals have
been made in Brooksville during the week
in which large sums of money exchanged
hands W. N. Camp, the well-known
phosphate magnate, purchased a large
amount of phosphate land, in which the
consideration was up in the thousands of
dollars. A tract of land containing 1900
acres was sold to Crawford & Lastinger
by the Florida Naval Stores Company
DR.. Hartshorn has leased his large phos-
phate interest to j. Buttgenbach & Co.
the consideration being $4,000. All of
these transactions were made through W.
8. Jennings, which proved that the genial
Judge never neglects a client, although
his time is now occupied by political at
fairs.
Mrs. Jack Weeks, a very pretty young
married woman of Pensacola, was taken
to the insane asylum at Chattahoochee
TUESDAY morning having been adjudged
insane Monday This is climax to a pit
liable case. Last Thursday morning she
was seen to leave her home in Pensacola
and wandered about in the woods for two
days and night in a melancholy state
She led her 6-year-old daughter by the
hand. They were found early Saturday
morning in the northern portion of the
city, half famished. After being given fool
the woman was taken to the police sta
lion and locked up for safekeeping. Her
little daughter stayed in the cell with her,
and Monday the mother became violently
insane making an attempt to murder her
daughter The child was rescued before
being badly hurt. The womans husband
was in Cuba during the war two years
Stree he is alleged TO have smueg ell rum
aud cigars on the cast coast, and because
of the husbands continued absence the
woman became melancholy. even in her
widest moments mourntully calling for
him. The child will like Fly be taken charge
of by charitab BILE institutions.