The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-02-06
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.

uOiiiiS III %AldCuud COuILy, Is nOW ulS
appearing.
Turpentine operators near Osteer
have sustained much damage by
forest fires.
Frank Wood a negro awaiting trial
for burglary has escaped from the
BlOuntstown Jail.
Five hundred and twenty-seven
cases of cigars We're shipped from
Tampa last week.
An old man named Morse living at
Greenwood was thrown from an OK
cart recently and killed.
Winter Park is the latest Florida
town to lay claim to oil indications.
They are boring for gushers.
Horn & Petteway, turpentine oper-
ators near Gabrielle, have suffered
the loss of 12,0O0 boxes by forest fires.
Prof. Westlake of Lake Helen will
lose an eye by reason of having a
stick he was splitting fly up and hit
him.
St. Augustines annual Catholic
fair opened in Bishops Hall yester-
day and will continue until Saturday
night.
Fire in a brush pile near the rail-
road track, ROckledge, spread to
orange groves and did considerable
damage.
During the month of January just
closed over 5000 more people visited
the east coast towns than in any for
mer January.
A Dutch gunboat is anchored off
Palm Beach, but there should be no
on the part of Floridians,
for Dewey is there.
Thomas F. King, prominent attor-
ney of Gainesville, and at one time
Judge of the Fifth Judicial circuit,
is dead of heart disease.
Five hundred cigar makers struck
work in Tampa one morning last
week. but they settled their differ
ence and got back to work the same
Pensacola's carnival has attracted
an unusually large crowd of crooks
and fakirs, and there is large sup
ply of the queer in circulation in
H. Clay Crawford the new secre-
tary of state has appointed John F.
DOrman of Suwanee county his chief
deputy. Mr.. DCrman was sergent-
at-arm of the late legislature.
Pensacola is in the enjoyment of a
street fair this week. Miss Daisy
Hyer was chosen Floral Queen, and
led the floral parade. Her corona
ton took place in the opera house.
Two Polk county legislative candi-
dates have announced their willing
ness to immediate themselves on the
altar Of their country bein' as there
is to be some fun next year at Talla-
hassee.
The adjutant general of the state
has disbanded company c., lst In
fantry, state troops for falling below
the standard Of efficiency. The
have been honorably dis
charged.
The Episcopal convention for the
diocesan jurisdiction of
South Florida, assembled in Tampa
last Wednesday at 1920, at st. An
drew's Church. The body was COM
posed of about one hundred dele
gates.
In what is known as the canta-
Ioupe belt of Florida in Putnam and
Alachua counties, a carefully COM
piled census of the probable acreage
to be put in melons this year shows
that there will be about 2,700 acres
planted.
w. G. jackson, a Gainesville attor-
ney, married two weeks ago to Miss
of Greenville, Madison Co.,
died at Washington last Sunday of
while on his wedding
trip. His body will be inferred at
William Perpall st. Augustine
walked into his moth
er's home Monday and told her he
was dying, and he was, for he lay
down and expired Immediately.
Hemorrhage of the lungs.
The "wet and dry" campaign in
Alachua county is now fairly opened
and warm time may be expected
from now till the election is held to
settle the matter. The first meeting
was held at Waldo, under the aus
pices of the W. G. 7. U.
The trustees of the Baptist orphan
or ok A rao1fn II
plans for new building to be erect
ed Immediately on the forty acres of
land donated by the town. They
have purchased 40 acres additional
and will set out an orange grove.
An eight year old boy of Orlando
set fire to the grass in the orange
grove of E. F. Sperry and before it
could be put out the trees were dam
aged to the extent of several hun
dred dollars; and Sperry can't even
spank the subsequent end of the boy.
Infant daughter of Mr.. and Mrs,
A. ]. Stewart of Bowling Green, fell
in the fire place last week and re-
ceived fatal injuries. Little Thurs
ton Baggett Of the same town was
playing with an ''unloadedn gun
when it went off and shot him in the
foot.
A. S. Kirk, of Dover, Del, brother
of Edwin S. Kirk, prominent Jack
sonville druggist, is dead. Deceased
was of the firm of James Kirk &
Sons, Dover, and stood high in mill
tary circles in his native state. He
was lieutenant colonel until 1895,
when he resigned.
Will J. Taylor, well-kuown travel
ing salesman for Swift & Co.'S Jack
sonville branch was run over and
killed by an East Coast
train at Palm Beach last Saturday
night. He attempted TO board a
moving train and fell beneath the