The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-02-13
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.

The wireless telegraph plant has
been established at Key West.
Strawberries have begun to move
,northward by express from Lawtey
and Starke.
The kaolin plants ut Okahumpke
are running double time in order to
fill orders.
The workmen of the Havana
American cigar company, Key West,
are out on strike.
Naval stores men in Florida ought
to. be making lots of money with
spirits firm at 60 cents.
The grand lodge Knights of Pyth-
las will meet in annual session in
Jacksonville March llth.
The cadets in the South Florida
Military Institute, Barlow, have or
ganized Christian Association.
The nineteenth annual encamp-
ment Florida Grand Army of the
R public is in session jackson
vile.
One hundred Virginia editors,
members of the Virginia Press AssO-
citation, are now doing Florida in
bunch.
A hard rock road, smooth us floor
is being buiIt to connect Palm Beach
and Miami, distance of siXt, tx
miles.
Judge G S. Hayden of Clearwater
committed suicide last Friday morn
ing by shooting IL hole through his
head.
White Springs is to have an cleo
tiOn soon on the question of bonding
the town to pave streets and build
sidewalks.
Rev. j. Forbis, pastor of the Pres
byterian church at Plant City has
resigned to accept a call to North
ACaroliua.
Rev. John Henry Brown of Tano-
pills, S. G. has been called to the
rectOrship of st. Peters Episcopal
church, Fernandina.
EX-President Grover Cleveland,
accompanied by his physician, is ON
IL fishing excursion down on Flori-
da's celebrated east coast.
There were Ills birth, 3.734 deaths
and 6,525 marriages in Florida dur
ing the year 1902 according to the re-
port of DR.. J. Y. Porter, state health
officer.
James b. Whitfield, state treasur-
er, reports that the balances in the
various state funds total 81 .096, ,O5l ,23.
What a picnic for the coming legis-
lature.
Dade county has awarded the con-
tract for building "a county fair
building at Miami and on the stone
pier east of the Hotel Royal Palm
grounds.
The Duke and Duchess OF Man
chester are at the Ponce de Leon, st.
Augustine, and Papa Zimmerman of
Cincinnati is putting up the swag
for their board.
Rt. Rev. Leighton Col man,
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
church, diocese of Delaware, Offici-
ated at St Johns church, Jackson
vile, last Sunday morning.
Chas. L. Frecker, convicted of
falSilying the public record as clerk
in the tax collectors office at Tampa,
has received full, free and abSo-
lutte pardon from the governor and
state pardoning board, and is now as
white as any lamb.
President John f. Forbes of Stet-
son University has began suit for
of the university, placing his dam
ages at the modest sum of $250,000.
Stetson has the money to pay the
judgment if secured.
The Earl and Countess of Padnor
and the Countess of LathOm, ''rlle"
bloods of England, are quartered at
the Ponce de Leon, st. Augustine
along with lot of American kings
and queens, and the latter have
made no kick, as yet
Two hundred town lots in New
Smyrna and several hundred acres
Just out of the town were sold at
public auction last week. 1t was
Knocked down cheap and most of it
was purchased by residents who will
put it on the market again.
Lawrence M. Morgan, 25 years old,
a society young man of Green Cove
Springs, committed suicide last
Monday by shooting. He left no eX-
PLANTATION for the rash act, and no
one dreamed that there was any
thing in his life to warrant the sacri-
fee.
There is fat plum open for some
good republican lawyer of Florida in
the vacant U. S. district attorney
ship of Pensacola. There is no bar
in republican circles on account OF
color or previous condition of servi-
tude. All cOon's look alike to Presi-
dent Roosevelt.
Five members of the Escambin
Rifles, state military company of
Pensacola, have been tried by court
martial and sentenced to pay fines
ranging from So to $50 on each count
for refusing to attend inspections
and muster. The acknowledgement
and the governor have approved the
sentences of the court-martial, and
the soldiers will have to pay or go to
Jail.
Eight fires were raging in different
portions of Tampa "Wednesday
morning and the department OF
green firemen had its hands full. The
biggest fire swept block of whole
sale houses on Whitney street, the
Cudahy Packing Co., Tampa Fer
tilizer Co., and other big concerns
were burned out and loss of $685.
600 entailed.
There is joint debate on at