The Palatka news and advertiser., 1903-04-03
STATE NEWS.

ANllu ivy . ilO" lOC pltlllb ID llCdl
ly ready to freeze water.
The big Tampa Bay Hotel ha
closed its doors for the season.
Ex-Governor Asa S. Bushnell O
Ohio has been sojOurning at Tampa
The electric lighting plant at Plan
City has just gone into commission
Citizens of Blountstown will vot,
on proposition to incorporate mex
Monday.
A car load of tomatoes was shipp
ed from Miami to California early il
the week.
The Hotel Royal Palm closed tn,
most successful season in its history
on Monday.
The strawberry season at Plan
City has been n failure owing to con
tinuous rains.
st. Augustine has a new l0-incT
artesian we'll from which will bC
drawn the city's water supply.
The Green Cove Spring urges the
claims of Senator G. Fabian Law
for the district attorneyship of his
circuit.
Capt. w. c. Valentine a prominent
citizen of Fort Lauderdale was
drowned near his home on the night
of March 28th.
The Hashim Opera pany
stranded in Jacksonville, has been
given a benefit in order to take them
home on the cars.
f. p. de Medicis of st. Augustine
killed a black bear on Anastasia is
land Tuesday morning. The beaI
weighed 225 pounds.
Starke is now lighted by electrici-
ty, and has water system in course
of construction. The people have
gone Starke mad with delight.
G. A. Baltzell, prominent citizen
of Mariana, an old Confederate vet
eran and tax assessor of Jackson
county died at his home last Sunday
morning.
Geo. w. Colby q spirituallst lee
turer from Lake Helen has been en-
gagged to interview spooks for the
benefit of Jacksonville believers
during April and May.
Fourteen car loads of Strawberries
were shipped from Lawtey for the
week ending March 26th. The ber-
ries shipped on Saturday alone
were worth $1,000 at the then pre-
vailing prices.
Letters patent have been granted
at Tallahassee for the Central FloIi-
da q Indian River Railway to run
from Melbourne to Orlando. The
capital stock of the new road is S..
100000. 1t hasn t all been paid in,
One of the leading industries of
J[issimmee is catching and shipping
cat fish to the northern market.
These water scavengers are mostly
sent to Kansas City, where they are
canned and sold-presunably as sal
mon.
The port of Fernandina shipped
during the month of March $4,000
barrels of rosin to foreign ports and
81 barrels to coastwise ports. The
same port also shipped over l70O0,-
600 feet of lumber in the same
month.
Two United States marines be
longing on board one of the warships
in Pensacola harbor held up citi-
zen of the city at a late hour last
Saturday night. They knocked the
man down and robbed him of $l1
One of the marines was arrested.
]. f. w. Grip, native of Sweden,
was drowned in Pages Lake, two
miles east of Apopka last Sunday
morning. He had gone fishing.
Two companions rescued him from
the water and tried to resuscitate
him but without avail. They lost
their Grip.
DR.. Carradice a woman physician
formerly enjoying large and lucra-
tive practice in Jacksonville, died in
wretched poverty from heart disease
in the outskirts of Tampa last week.
She was addicted to both the whisky
and morphine habit and has been
an eye sore for years.
The circuit court at Ocala impan-
eled a jury. examined witnesses ana
heard argument pro and con in a
case and got verdict from
the jury all in one day. The verdict
was not guilty. State VS.. Jim Heller
and Arthur Hope, charged with
killing John Graham at a church
festival.
The special election held in Jack
on Tuesday for the purpose
of recording the wishes of the peo-
pie in reference to proposed changes
in the present city charter resulted
In an almost unanimous demand for
a new charter. The vote was also
emphatic in favor of the election by
the people of the Boards of Bond
Trustees and Public Works, as well
as large majorities in favor of the
election of City Attorney, Health
Officer, City Engineer, etc. In fact
the people are in favor of local self
and the election of all
officials nv direct vote