The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-04-26
: LATE STATE NEWS.

SEVILLE.-The truck growers OF
Seville are marketing thier Irish
potatoes from the muck gardens
around Lake Louisa, and are getting
} from $500 to 800 per barrel net
Commission men from the north
have made offers of $500 per barrel
I. o. b. for the entire output, the
offer to hold good until May TO-
The crop is estimated at 1,500 barrels
| DeLAND-It is generally conced-
ed that the next crop of oranges will
fail short owing to the past drowth
OF several months. In the lower part
of the state there has been no rain
for seven months and many groves
are yet bare of foliage, the leaves all
dropping for want of rain.
BRAIDENTOWN.-Owing to the
nntiring efforts of the ladies of the
library association, Braidentown is
to have a library building.
JACKSONVILLE. - Hon. H. F.
Hitchcock, first assistant postmas-
ter general. arrived in Jacksonville
Sunday. His purpose is to visit the
larger offices of the country in order
to become more familiar with the
actual requirements of the same
Gen. Hitchcock intended visiting
several other offices in Florida, but
was called to Washington Monday
night.
KISSIMMEE.-In the past four
years l9036 there have been shipped
from Kissimmee 246S, $50 pounds of
fis h and Sl40,641.72 was paid to the
fishermen for the catch The bulk
OF the fish is catfish.
TITUSVILLE.-C Carloads of all
kinds of fish are being shipped from
Titusvllle daily.
FORT PIERCE S. e. Gray, a
machinist of Fort Pierce, was acci-
dentally shot at his home last week.
A rifle which he had placed in
chair slipped and fell to the floor,
the hammer hitting the seat of the
chair, causing the rife to fire, the ball
entering Mr.. Gray's right side below
the ribs and ranging upwards
Woods fires have wrought destruc-
tlon in several parts of st. Luce
county the past two weeks, the most
serious results being in the neighbor-
hood of Viking, Oslo, Vero and the
peninsula opposite Vero.
J A CT SON WILL E.-A severe
wind and hailstorm struck Jackson
vile at $3.50 O'Clock Thursday after
noon of last week, doing considera-
Bile damage. The tug Anna B. cap
sized and Capt. SlCan was drowned. |
me driver of milk wagon was |
killed by a live" wire. Glass win
dows on the west side of buildings |
were demolished and several build |
ings were unroofed. A dozen or |
more horses, lashed by the great hail |
stones, ran away, some of them |
crashing into and shattering plate
glass show windows and others going |
into the river. DiXieland Amuse-
ment Park suffered several thousand |
dollars damage. The hailstones were
of unusual size, some of them meas
uring one and half inches in diane
ter. Numerous small craft on the
river were either beached or swamp
ed. The Wheelman's Club house
was wrecked
PENSACOLA-The city of Pensa-
cola is to own the municipal water
plant. The water company has offer
ed its entire water plant for the sum
Df SlS7 800, and will turn over the
plant and business as soon as the CITY
IS prepared to place the necessary
amount in the bank to their credit.
JACKSONVILLE. - Mrs. Mary
Gardner. wife of Robert l.. Gardner.
lr Grand Crossing, and daughter of
Colon Thomas, of Duval county, was
shot and killed about O'Clock Thurs
lay morning of last week hv her
1ve-year-old son, who was PLAYING
With shotgun in the house,