The Florida star., 1900-03-30
State NEWS ITEMS.
Bits Of Information About Various Events
Occurring at Different Florida Points.

painful accident at West Palm Beach a
few days ago by falling from the scaffOld-
ing of building, brnising his left side
and cutting cash in his nose and fore
head.
The opening of the railway repair shops
in Palatka seems now to be conditioned
upon the commencement of prospective
Improvements in South Florida and Cuba,
where important railway lines are being
planned by American capitalists.
Mr.. Faeler bought n strip of land at
Palm Beach last week adjoining the
grounds of the POinciana and Inn on the
south from +. NJ. Brelsford, which will
be used TO enlarge the golf course next
season. This will permit moving the
shooting grounds back about one hun
dred yards.
The first batch of prisoners ever sent
| from Duval county TO the state juvenile
reformatory left jacksonville for Mari
anna the other morning in charge of
Deputy Sheriff NInzant. This removes
nine juvenile prisoners who have been
occupying apartments i'll the county Jail
| for several months.
Messrs. McGuire * Mcdonald, of II.
| Augustine, will build the addition Ia the
| Inn, Ut Palm Beach, the coming summer,
and are already getting ready 10 begin
the work as soon as the season closes.
The plans are practically complete, and
provide for an addition of in the neigh
bOrhoOd Of 200 rooms.
The Knight of the Antilles, a new or
ganization, with headquarters and home
office at Key West, il soon To be organ
lied. Ii is IA iIaternal and beneficiary
order Of three degrees and uniform
rank. The order il to be extended into
the United States. Mexico, Central and
Sonth America, West Indies and the Ba-
hamas.
The good roads convention, which
was held in Orlando last week, closed
| Friday night, with an illustrated lecture
by Prof. NJ o. Eldridge, acting director
of di, ision of road inquiry of the agricul-
tural department. The meeting was a
most interesting one, and it is believed its
effect upon the road interests of the state
will prove highly beneficial.
W. l.. May, the white man Of Jackson
Vile who is wanted by the county au-
thorities on the charge of abduction and
forgery, mention of which was made in
TIE STAR last week, Is not in that city
a. was supposed but is now in Charles
ton, hut whether or not an effort will be
made To effect his arrest and brin. him
back there for trial Is not known.
Ocala banner: The case Of Elizabeth
jackson il at an end. II has been on the
docket for eighteen years. Ii has be-
come almost ~ famous ~ Dickens cham
Gerry ease, and occupies ii big place in the
judicial literature of Florida, having
been before the supreme court several
Times. The property at one time Was
valuable. but nnw II not worth even tine
SUM that ha~ been paid out OH il in AT
torLcy-' fees and court charges.
The jury in the Roberts inquest n
. pHyal. returned a verdict L. the effect
. that Tom ami Horace Hammond viii bc
held, ami that Tire three. mcmhcr> OF the
Roberts family met their death al the
hands nf ;.h as~a~-in ur a-SsIssin~, meet
ing their uurimrly end from the blows of
an ax and a pistol. Tie preliminary
hearing wlli take place -"mc time next
week.
The nest Democratic STATE, convention,
To- bee held in Jacksonville un the 18th
% LAY oi June, will -cr gathered there.
tine a--,Inb.,i hosts nf Fiouda's uutcrri-
d. l. 4 II