The sun. (Jacksonville, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1906-01-06
SUMMARY OF THE WEEKS NEWS

to the recommendation of Third Assistant Postmas-
ter General Madden that the franking privilege be
abolished and that Senators, Representatives and
Federal departmental officials be required to use
postage stamps on all classes of mail, funds for the
purchase to be appropriated by Congress.
The just completed merger of the Pacific Mutual
Life Insurance Company of San Francisco and the
Conservative Life of Los Angeles, forms one of the
strongest life insurance companies in the country,
with insurance in force of $lOOOOO,OOO and assets
exceeding $lO,OOOOOO. The new company will be
called the Pacific Conservative Life Insurance Com.
pany
Wednesday the monitor Florida one of the finest
of her class in the United States navy, arrived ut
this port The Florida is in charge of Commander
G. w. Bartlett. The arrival of the monitor was
signalized by the proper courtesies and hearty well
come, followed by informal reception ut the Jack
sonville Board of Trade the occasion of the fes
Invites attendant upon the annual meeting
Charles +. Garner, for seven consecutive years
president of the Jacksonville Board of Trade was
reelected to Office at the annual meeting of the
board held Wednesday. President Garner read his
annual address. The other officers elected are: w.
A. Bours first vice-presdent; w. X. Halle, second
vice president; and Howard +. Harksheimcr and
Charles H. Mann, members of the board of governors
A collation. was served.
Henry Brody and Maurice Tableportcr, wealthy
merchants of New York and Brooklyn, are among
the prominent visitors at Tampa combined bust
mean much for that city. They contemplate the
purchase of large tract of land near Ballast Point
on which they intend erecting a large number of
handsome cottages for the purpose of renting to
tourists during the winter months, and also to resi-
dents of Tampa who desire to to quiet point
on the bay front in the summer months.
The hazing sentence is said to be final Although
the papers in the case of Midshipman Coffin whose
trial by court-martial the charge of hazing has
just been ended at Annapolis, will be forwarded to
the Navy Department for execution approval by the
superintendent of the sentence of the court is, by
law, final. The law of June %, 1874, provides that
ANY cadet, midshipman or cadet engineer found
guilty of said offense (hazing) by said court, shall
upon recommendation of said court be dismissed, and
such finding, when approved by the superintendent,
shall he final and the cadet dismissed from the
Naval Academy shall forever be ineligible to reap
pointment to said Naval Academy"
Subpenas have been served on the trustees of the
Internal Improvement Fund in an injunction suit
brought against the trustees by the Tallahassee
Southeastern Railway Company, which seeks to en-
join the trustees from disposing OF, paying out
otherwise appropriating any money now in their
custody or control arising from the sale of about
10000 of land situated in the counties of Tay
Tor and Lafayette sold by the trustees to the ITALIA
llaasee Southeastern Railway Company, deeds being
placed in escrow in the First National Bank of Tai.
lahassee. The defendants required to show
the 23d day of January 1906, before Hon.
John Malone, Circuit Judge at Quincy, why the in
junction as prayed should not be granted