The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-10-16
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.

The orange crop at Fort Ogden is
estimated at 25,O0O boxes.
SelTner has shipped it's first car
load Of oranges for the season.
Tampa is building boulevard be-
tween that city and Hillsboro bay.
st. Johns county is out of debt and
there is II balance to the credit of
each of the county funds.
The long drowth at Miami has
been broken by II heavy ram which
visited that section on the llth.
The race course at the State Fair
grounds was christened this week.
1t is the pride of all horsemen who
have seen it.
The republicans of Leon county
have decided to run w. q. Hodges, Il
young attorney, for the senate
against Judge Geo. p Raney.
Senator Mallory is speaking in va
rious parts of the state, and incident
ally getting better acquainted with
the people.
There is great improvement in
agricultural conditions at Ocala.
One dealer has already sold over 100
harvesting machines.
Tampa cigar manufacturers are
looking for IL heavy business this
winter. All the factories are now
working heavy forces.
u. Simmons who formerly ran a
store at West Palm Beach was
Il in, AInnGn
son, in the Klondike region, recently.
The executive committee of the
board of trustees of Rollins college,
Winter Park, have elected DR.. w. +.
Blackman, of Yale college, presi-
dent.
Harry Cordes, aged q years, a
Jacksonville bartender out of en-
has committed suicide by
taking carbolic acid. He was a ma
tive German.
The steamer Frederick DeBary has
arrived in Jacksonville from the
north and after being put in shape
will resume it's regular winter run
on the st. Johns river.
Charles Brand of st. Augustine
has confessed to the larceny of the
steam yacht "FrOlic.h He said he
came to st. Augustine for his health |
and felt that an ocean trip would do
him good.
jacksonville is to have a branch !
of the Anheuser Busch Brewing Co. |
"a brewery with an annual capacity |
of $4,000 barrels. Beer drinkers |
the state will now be eX-
pected to increase their capacity.
The celebrated Chaves murder
case at Tampa is now on trial.
Chaves it will be remembered was
discovered in the Allen home with |
Mrs. Allen, and when her husband |
Chaves shot him.
An old church worker named AL
fred White, of Fernandina, a man
who always carried his bible with
him, has suddenly left the town ow-
ing many debts. Other actions
while there prove him a hypocrite
beyond dispute. There are others.
The schooners White Scud and
White Squadron We're found lashed
together in White Water bay at the
extreme south end of Florida last
week. Not a soul was on either
boat. A lot of 81 caliber empty gun
shells were laying on the decks, but
no other evidences of fight was
found. Mystery.
The organized democracy of Pen
sacola and Escambia county are up
in arms because Gov. Jennings saw
fit to appoint man to vacant iudg-
ship in that county without first con-
sulting the county executive COM
lnittee, as he was in duty bound to
do, provided he intends to abide by
his prediction platform.
The steamers Aapche and Iroquois
of the popular Clyde Line met in col
lisiOn In Charleston harbor last week
before daylight. The ac-
cident was the result of mistaken
The boats came together
with great force, and both steam
ships were badly damaged. The |
IrOquois struck the Apache on the |
port side cutting great hole into |
which the water rushed. The cap
tain headed the ship for the sand
bars where it sank in % feet of wa
ter. The injured Iroquois kept on to
its dock, badly stove in. The pas
sengers were all gotten off safely. |
The Clyde have chartered steamers
to take the places of the disa-
bled boats aud traffic will continue
without Interruption. |