Gulf Coast breeze. [volume] (Crawfordville, Fla.) 1897-19??, 1897-10-15
STATE NEWS.

| Wholesale grocery house has bee
established in Tallahassee
Six new school houses are being bull
| by the school board Of Leon county.
| Leon county had fite weddings
in one day last week, and two the mex
day.
The West Florida Seminary opened
its forty third session with 1913 stu
dents,
The Florida Naval Militia are soon t.
be equipped with navy cutters and CUR
boats.
An improved hack line has been put
on between Punta Gorda and Fort
Myers.
Fort Myers will ship twenty thous-
and boxes of oranges to Schneider
Bros. ofPh iladelphia.
Apopka is growing velvet beans for
the honey. Bee keepers say that il is
equal to the best clover honey,
The Mobile steamer, Alpha is tied
up at Appalachicola waiting for'frost
to come and squelch yellow Jack.
One thousand head OF beef steers
we're sold recently by Mr.. Irwin Locklar
OF Lee county to two Cuban dealers.
J. w. Girvin, the Jacksonville man,
convicted Of gambling, has paid the
one thousand dollar fine and ia now
working out his time In the chain
gang, with very little, IL any prospects
Of getting o pardon.
Capt. James Mckay, of Tampa, is in
his glory again, Having chartered the
steamer Soledad, he has launched into
The Cuban cattle trade ils'deaii earnest,
ma WfsI3and y ~ No ~ .beef
cattle in Cuba during the next dozen
weeks.
Tall h SCIENTIFIC Young
Knight" is the name of new monthly
publication entered at the Tallahassee |
postofiice this week. II is the official |
organ Of the Young Knights of Amer
Ca an organization of Southern young
men which is spreading over the teri
iory intended with the vigilance and
Of prairie fire.
Miss Georgia Cook, OF Louisville, Ky.
accidentally shot herself last Sunday at
gainesville, where she is now visiting
'he picked up revolver, took out the
cartridges, and began swapping the pis-
oil, remarking a. she turned il towards
lerself, that was the way she would
ill herself some day As she said this
he pulled the trigger and the pistol
red, the ball entering her left side
nder the arm pit, and passing into the
ayity OF the left lung She says that
he thought she had taken all the car
ridges out Of the pistol
A thief was discovered about Sun
ay morning climing out Of the pantry
'indow at the boarding house OF the
lisses Argyle, and some Of the young
len Boarding there discharged their
istols at him az he ran away. Early
MS morning George Cummings, a not
4 negro gambler in the turpentine
amps, was found within two blocks
where the Shooting occurred at |
clock, shot in the side once and twice
the back. He gave the name of n
egro, whom he said shot him, but the
eneral impression il that he is the :
,ntry thief--Tallahassee Flori-
an.
Appalachicola Times. The schooner
airy Mac was wrecked in the bay near
est Pass during the recent heavy
Iuall OF last week, during which time
70 has drifted in shallow water
I'd pounded out her bottom The
ew escaped without injury. Mr..
leffield's boat came near hajng
rocked at the same time. 1.-THE
Gamer Flint, while above Cha no
zee on her down trip last week |k
rock at Kings Rock and sank ~
W moments in four feet OF water.
! prompt work on the part OF the
ew the steamer wac soon raised. and