The morning news., 1899-12-21
FLORIDA.

FLORIDA.
one or two of the business men of Or
iando have taken stock in a recently or
ganized Porto Rico Cooperative Fruit
company, of which Mr.. Arthur f. Odlin
an old Orlandoite, is attorney. Mr.. Od-
I'm mas been at San Juan for a year. and
Is greatly pleased with the outlook.
The aggregate value of exports from
Pensacola to foreign ports last week was
$ooI 5SS, distributed as follows: IivernooI
$l46 2o9; Dunkirk, $75,SSO; Venice, s6S 959:
London, S25 42O; Antwerp, $1S,2OO: Rio de
Janelro, SR,74S; Buenos Ayres, Sl2.726.
Cette' Tl2S; Dieppe, $3.50; total, 1857 1893.
The big east coast hotels are preparing
TO open for the winter season and the
tourist travel promises to be heavier this
season than ever before in the past, eclips-
ing all previous seasons. Nearly all the
principal hotels in st. Augustine will be
open within few days and the travel
eaher than usual, is already beginning to
be felt
Notwithstanding the drought last sum-
mer, the recuperation of the frozen orange
groves around Interlachen has been re-
mafkaple, many of the trees making a
growth of seven to eight feet in hight with
corresponding lateral dimensions With no
damaging frosts this winter, fair crop
" VI iaHSes may pe expected from the re-
stored groves of Interlachen next winter
On last Saturday afternoon, at Haw-
thorn, while playing around the well. the
I-year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs Sam
Batter of this place fell into the well She
seemed TO start down head-first, but when
found was standing in the water straight
up and unhurt. The water was about two
ieeC deep. The frightened mother gave the
alarm, and soon the child was out and
ready for play, not hurt in the least.
Jacksonville Times Union and Citizen:
Work on the st. Johns bar and river i'm
provements is likely to be under way In
short time, after having been suspended
for nearly or quite four years. Capt. r.
G. Ross said to a Times-Union and Citizen
reporter yesterday afternoon that his offer
for the work had been promptly accepted.
and he is now in the city making prepara-
tlons for beginning the delivery and plac-
ing of rock at the jetties.
Wiley Worley, colored man who lived
at Lunday Station, on the Plant System,
about three miles from Palatka, met with
horrible death Sunday night. He was
run over by freight train while on his
way home, Worley's body was strewn
along the track for 100 yards or more, his
limbs being torn from his body. II is sup
posed that Worley was on his way home
and was intoxicated, and lay down on the
track and went to sleep. Justice Rowton
viewed the remains, after they had been
gathered up but decided an inquest I'M
necessary. The dead man was an employe
of Wilson's mill.
st. Augustine Record: Florida, while
not one of the infant states of the Union
is yet in its sWaddling clothes, In point
of development. as compared with the
certainty that rests in It's future. Every
all k1I
Is the most agreeable and healthiest ON
earth, and in this the Floridian is eminent
ly correct, but it has been only lately that
the outside world has been brought to the
realization that Florida in summer is as
much a sanitarium for she invalid as Flor
ida in winter. This fact was unquestion-
ably exemplified in the summer of 1S9S
when the different military camps In this
state showed smaller percentage of sick
ness and mortality than those in any 9TH
er section of the country although the
men were for the most part, wholly un-
acclmated.
With his back a mass of blisters and the
flesh in manner of falling off in spots,
Martin Kelly, a British sailor, applied for
and was admitted to the Emergency Hos
pital at Jacksonville Monday, and the
tale of his suffering is terrible one. Kel-
ly, it appears left his vessel in New Or
leans and in company with friend start
ed to walk to Savannah. Friday night
they camped near Waycross and early Sat
urday morning Kelly was awakened with
his clothes on fire and before the fire could
be extinguished he had been burned se-
verely from his head to his knees. His
suffering was intense, but ne managed TO
walk 90 Waycross, where he applied for
admittance to the Plant System Hospital.
but the same was refused. One of the
nurses, dressed the burn, however, and
he was looked after until Sunday when
he went to Jacksonville seeking aid, he
just having money enough to pay his
passage there.