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

W EION EsHbWNll NH.NuNr'
A wholesale grocery hous has been
established in Tallahassee
Six new school houses are cling built
by the school bosrl of Leon punty
Leon county had five Seddinrs
in one day last week, and Nv fthe next
day,
The West Florida Seminary opened
It's forty third session With 1913 stu
dents.
The Florida Naval Militia n b soon to
be equipped with navy cuttef and gun
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 of!Philndclphia.
Apopka is growing velvet beans for
the honey. Bee keepers say that It is
equal to the best cloyer honey
The Mobile steamer, Alpha is tied
up at Appalachicoln waiting for. frost
to come and squelch yellow Jack
One thousand head Of beef steers
were sold recently by Mr., IRWIN L0cklNr
OF Lee county to two Cuban DEALER.
j. w. Girvin, the Jacksonville man,
convicted of gambling, has paid the
one thousand dollar fine and is nov
working out his time in Me chain
gang. with very little, il any prospects
Of getting apardon.
Capt, James Mckay, Of Tampa, is in
IFS glory again, Having chartered the
steamer Soledad, he has launched into
The Cuban cattle trade in dei,d earnest,
and will land $500 head of Florida beef
cattle in Cuba during the, eext dozen
weeks.
llahasse edn,--"The Young
knight" is the name Of new monthly
publication entered at the Tallahassee
Dostotlice this week. H. IL the official
prgan of the Young Knights of Amer
CA, an organization Of Southern young
men which il spreading over the teri
tory intended with the vigilance and
persistence of II prairie fire,
Miss Georgia Cook. Of Louisville, Ky.
accidentally shot herself last Sunday NJ
Gainesville. where she il now visiting
She picked up II revolver, took out the
cartridges, and began swapping the PTS
tOl, rcmarkng ~ she turned IL towards
herself, that was the way she would
kill herself some day A. she said this
She pulled the trigger and the pistol
fired the ball entering her left side
under the arm pit and passing into tn"
cavity Of the left lung She says that
she thought she had taken all the car
tridges out of the pistol
A thief was discovered about sun
day morning Ginning out of the pantry
window AT the boarding house Of the
Misses Argyle, and some of the young
men boarding there discharged their
pistols at him ~ he ran away Early
this morning George Cummings, n not
ed negro gambler in the turprntinc
cnmps, waa found within two blocks
of where the shooting occurred at !
o'clock. shot in the side once and twice
in the back lie gave the name Of ~
negro, whom he said shot him, but the
general impression is that he IL the
pantry thief lahassee flOfI"
dian
Appalachicola Times The schooner
Mary Mac was wrecked in the bay near
West Pass during the recent heavy
souull Of last week, during which time
she has drifted in shallow water
and pounded ont her bottom. The
crew escaped without injury. Mr..
Shefeld's boat came neur being
wrecked at the. same time. -. The
steamer Flint, lille above Chattuhoo-
chce on her down trip last week, struck
rock at KING Rock and sank IN
few moments in foor feet Of water,
by prompt work on the part Of the
crew the steamer Ms Soon raised ana