The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-04-03
GOINGs ON IN FLORIDA.

at Seville, is dead.
The Tampa Bay Hotel closed for
the season last Sunday night.
Orange trees about Manitee Sec
tion have put out a profuse bloom.
Evinston truckers are shipping
large quantities of lettuce and Eng
lish peas daily.
Ex-President Cleveland is at
Stuart, on the east coast, on a fish
ing expedition.
Lake Helen peach growers are
looking for an unusually large crop
of fruit this spring.
Six men were convicted of Illicit
distilling in the United States court
at Tallahassee last week.
The Bagdad sash factory, burned
down at Sanford last November, has
just completed its new plant.
Hon. Jefferson B. Brown of Key
West has announced his candidacy
for state railroad commissioner.
Rev. Sam. Jones has been engaged
to lecture before the Lake City Bap-
lists the latter part of this month.
A negro boy named Casters has
been arrested at Tampa for raising"
a 81 bill to the denomination of 500.
The Agricultural College and Stet-
son University base ball teams will
play game at DeLand on the 9th
inst.
The Tampa Electric Company will
build pleasure park at Ballast
Point, with a big pavilion over the
water.
The work of surveying for the new
Electric road which is to run from
Sanford to Kissimmee has COM
menced.
J. N. and Abram Sewell of Winter
Garden, have been acquitted at Or
lando as accomplices in the murder
of Sam Kicks.
Seville Baptists have become
alarmed at water and are giving en-
tertainments to build a new roof
over their church.
Sanford growers are now in the
midst of the celery shipping season.
The prices are netting shippers from
81 to slips per crate.
Micanopy people have been tempt
ed to drink by production of "Ten
Nights in Bar Room" by a travel
ing troup of transformers.
III. F. Dutton q Co., the cotton fac
tors at Gainesville have reduced
their original estimate on the coming
crop of sea island cotton in Florida.
1t has been reported that there are
several illicit stills in Alachua coun-
ty and United States marshal is in
the county making an investigation.
The state press association at Pen
sacola last week elected John NJ.
Caldwell, of Jasper, president for
the ensuing year. The next ses-
sion will be held at Sea Breeze.
During severe thunder storm on
Sunday Peter Low and AlonZo
Whidden two well-known men of
Zolfo, were instantly killed by bolt
of lightning at the home of Whidden.
While walking through his saw
mill near Greenwood last week q
tooth flew out of the fast revolving
saw and struck Mr.. Saunders Just
under the left eye, inflicting seri-
GUS wound.
An excursion of Texas bankers
and their ladies from Galveston to
Havana, stopped over at Key West
IN route last week and were given q
warm reception by the Banyan and
Elks clubs.
Said prominent farmer to the
News the other day, at doesn't
make much difference whom we
elect railroad commissioner; the
railroads will own him in short
time, anyhow"
The Peninsular Teleph one Co., has
completed its line between Tampa
and Manitee river towns, and to cell
ebrate the event gave banquet to
Manitee county people at Braiden-
town last week.
The union carpenters of Tampa
are agitating for an eight hour work
day. 1t is only within the last few
months that the labor organizations
of Tampa, by much planning, Sc
cured nine-hour day.
Nose Robinson, a negro, will be
executed at Jacksonville tomorrow
for the murder of Dennis Jenk lns, a
negro special deputy sheriff. He
, has embraced the Catholic faith
and calmly awaits his end.
One hundred mil es of wire fencing
surrounding the cattle ranches oi
DeSoto county have been cut by
some miscreants using wire nippers
The wire was severed close to either
side of the posts. The loss Is heavy
upon cattle men.
Paul Hardeway the young agent
of the Plant System at Lake Mary
who mysteriously disappeared sever
al weeks ago has written to his par
ents who live at Longwood, thus do
ing away with the suppOsition tha
he had met with foul play. His par
ents are not telling his present
whereabouts.
! st. Augustine is celebrating th.
landing of Ponce De Leon this weel
and an elaborate program of festivi
ties has been prepared. Admira
: Dewey has accepted an invitation Il
be present, as also has Governor Jen
nings and his staff. The Governo
will hold reception at the Ponc'
de Leon hotel today and in the even
, ing will be rendered grand ball q
the casino. Friday night there will
: be a masked carnival, and Saturda.
there will be water sports, including
water polo, ETC., at the casino.