The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-17
GOINGs ON IN FLORIDA.

Pensacola is over run will: picB
pockets and sneak thieves.
The DeLand fire department has
purchased | 900 feet of new hose.
The tax levy in Columbia county
is l8 mills; that in Duval count is q
mills.
Trotting races at Pablo Beach last
Sunday drew a large crowd from
Jacksonville.
A G. Groom, jr., son of the state
comptroller, has purchased the Car
rabelle ice factory.
Apalachicola citizens have organ
lied and obtained franchise for a
street railway company.
The Methodist Episcopal church at
Minneola was struck by lightning
last Friday and totally destroyed.
Three colored men in Jail at Jack
sOnville under sentence of death for
murder will be hung on August 7th.
The Benedict Pinery company of
Orlando has made a large shipment
of pineapples to Amsterdam, Hol-
land.
The Jacksonville d Southwestern
Railway depot at Newberry was
struck by lightning on Saturday and
caught afire.
Col. JnO. A. Henderson of Talla-
hassee was taken seriously i'll on
| Sunday, and a consultation of phy-
sicians was held.
Estaban Rojo, a Tampa cigar
maker was struck by lightning last
Friday and received shock from
which he may die.
The Breakers at Palm Beach is be-
ing rebuilt as rapidly rs men and
material can be secured. The work
| Is now well under way.
The members of the First BAPTIST
church at Jacksonville worshipped
in their temporary church for the
last time last Sunday.
Gainesville has shipped this sea.
son seventy-fire refrigerator car
loads of cantaioupes, or 10000 crates
less than last season.
f. NJ. Gilmore, secretary of the
Jacksonville painters union has been
arrested charged with embezzling
5000 OF the unions money.
Chas. NJ. Brown, ir., of Ocala, has
purchased the Belleview News-Let-
ter, and will try and make u news
paper that is a newspaper.
The GUNNER Lumber Company at
Jacksonville will build factory for
the making of sash, door, orange
boxes and vegetable crates.
Jno. L. Morgan, state railroad
commissioner, denies that he intends
to resign to make place for Frank
Wolpole, late editor of the Tampa
Herald.
A Hearst club has been organized
in Jacksonville to advance the inter
ests of William Randolph Hearst
for the democratic nomination for
president.
A cOoperage plant is to be estab-
lished in Gainesville within the next
30 days which will employ twenty
men and have a capacity of 10000
barrels a year.
The East Coast Railway will re-
sumo its rock train in Dade county,
where the county commissioners are
engaged in building rock roads to all
parts of the county.
DeLand telephone franchise and
property recently sold by the sheriff
was purchased by u stockholder WHO
will reorganize the company and
continue business.
Bishop r. H. Weller of Fond du
Laos, Wis, preached in st. Johns,
Episcopal church, Jacksonville, last
Sunday. Bishop Weller is a son of
the late DR.. Weller, of Jacksonville.
BY "a decision of the supreme court
the widow of the late Judge S. Y.
Finley of Gainesville, will receive
$4,000 cash, amount of fees which
her late husband entered suit for six
years ago.
The date for the encampment of
the Florida state troops has been
postponed until the second week in
September owing to a delay in re-
ceiving the new uniforms and other
equipment from Washington.
r. S. d T. G. Hall have recently
bought 10000 acres of timber land
near Tampa. Hall Bros, now own
100000 acres of timber land in the
state, making them the largest indi-
vidual holders of round timber.
An oyster canning factory is being
built for S. S. Coffin d Son on the
San Sebastian river, St. Augustine.
1t is stated the factory will be ready
for business by the Ist of October
and that it will give employment to
about 20 hands.
The pastors of the Methodist, Pres
byterian and Baptist churches of
are holding union SER
vices for the summer, the pastors al
ternately preaching in one of the
churches on Sunday night, but never
in their own church.
F. M. Durrance and Miss Kate
Swearingen, popular young people
of Barlow went for buggy ride to
Fort Meade one day last week, and
while in the latter place decided to
get married. Then they went home
and made the announcement. Days
The carpenters, painters and stone
cutters at work on the new Armory
and st. Johns church, Jacksonville,
have quit work. The strike is not
over any disagreement with the con-
but solely for the purpose of
compelling the plasterers and brick
unions to join the Fedora
tion of Labor, that the Federation
may be the better prepared to fight
for an eight hour working day.
Sheriff Perry of st. Johns county