Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-09-10
STATE NEWS.

ful citizens,
A vicious boar attacked and killed
five year old boy nj Horne X Cos
camp near Willston last Monday, ano
then attacked several men who shot
and killed him
jacksonville wants the reformatorS
for juvenile criminals located in thai
city and has sent n committee to TAI
lahassee To confer with Governor
Bloxhum with the object Of securing il,
Lake comfy is making splendid head
way turning her sandy roads in to hard
clay roads. The Commercial says tina
by January lst, there will be 10 mile,
of hard clay roads leading out Ut Lees
burg,
Little Florence Mohr, of Tampy
was seriously fnot fatally burned lasi
week by playing with matches, All 81
her clothing was burned of of her, ana
her hands and body badly charred.
Two Gainesville negroes went dow
into Lake county, and pretending f.
initiate lot of their ignorant colorca
brethren into the secrets Of Masonr!
scooped about $500, for their service
and sailed out for greener fields.
Leesburg Commercial The idea
that fat hog would not be affected by
snake bite proved untrue in SuUano'
county last week, rs A. @. Johnson ga"
huge RATHER strikea fat hog of hi,
and it died within m hour after.
Ieesburg Commercial :----Fuilcrs
earth IL becoming quite an article u
commerce. Near River Junction thc"
are hundreds of acres Of it, and Iocg'
company has erected large and exten
sive factory to grind and refine ~ f..
commercial purposes.
Paine's prairie near Gainesville, which
suddenly filled up with water som'
years ago, and became beautiful lake
covering thousands Of acres OF wha'
had been rich farming lands, To dept
sufficient To float large steamboats,, l.
now dry again, and covered with In,
rass.
Tampa had another kerOsinc oil cN
plosion last week Quite Il crowd o.
children were around whore some %.
them were trying to start IRE witt
the oil, but fortunately not one was hi
by the shattered can, and MI of them
escaped the blazing oil
The snakes, il not the monkeys, seem
to be afterthe editor Of the Libert!
County Observer. He says:-Ley
Owens killed monster rattle snake IL
his field Thursday morning which
measured five and half feet, and had
II rattles and button He also killed
IS others not quite so large.
Pensacola News:--It has leaked on
that the United States gunbont Helena
which left this port last Thursday
morning under rush orders, went t.
Punta Gorda to investigate the story OF
filibustering expedition, which il l.
alleged left Cleveland on Pence river
and went ont through Charlotte llar-
Dor on the night Of August 2Sth,
The vacilating course OF Supcrintend-
ent Sheats receives the following RAJ
from the Tampa Tribune a few pa
pcrs with less influence than judge.
ment, are endeavoring 10 congratulate
Supt. Sheats upon his decision in not
accepting the presidency Of the Lake
City Agricultural College, because Il
pays more than the position he nov
holds. The Tribune IL inclined To con.
grntulate the college and the people
Of Lake City on Mr.. Sheats decision
Jacksonville Times.Union "A YER
dict was reached yesterday afternoon
by the coroner's jury, which has beer
investigating the death Of Edward
Register who was foully murdered al
his home, four miles northwest of the
city last Wednesday night, and as Q
result of the verdict, Mrs. Mary Regis
ter, wife Of The murdered man, Robert
Tyson, his adopted son, and Henry Tyre
Il neighbor who had been paying atteh.
ton to Mrs Register, are all held q;
accessories TO the murder but no one il
named as principal,