The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1907-11-15

from Tampa Wednesday to the King OF
Portugal
The Jacksonville authorities are On.
forcing the ordinance against splitting
on the sidewalk,
The examinations in Florida for the
Rhodes scholarship will take place in
Gainesville on thc Dist and end of
January,
The mid-winter exposition to be held
jn jacksonville this winter at Dixie
land Park will be one Of the best ever
held in the South.
Jesse Reddish. the young white man
who was shot by Bisbec DeSuc, me-.
gro ON the night Of October 3Oth, died
at Starke, Tuesday morning
\ young man, T. j. HIaizlp, of Eaton.
ton, Ga, was killed near Green Cove
Springs Thursday by falling from the
steps Of an Atlantic Coast Line passen-
ger train,
There will be an immense crop of
tomatoes grown on the East Coast the
coming season, and the prospects are
the grower will get the best price he
has ever received.
Everybody IS hard at work at Pom
PIANO putting in crops, Quite few
have cggplants, peppers and some to-
matoes out There will be the largest
acreage out this season Pompano has
ever known
a monster manatee or sea COW came
down the river with the high tide Tues
day ming and played about for some
tin Hder and near the Avenue ID.
bridge, its whole form being visible. -
Miami Metropolis.
Lumber shipments from the port of
Fernandna for the month of October
were lj,O29, 7Ol feet The value of ex-
ports for that month totaled 81 800, 04l.
These exports consisted chiefly of tur-
pentine, rosin and phosphate.
Deputy Sheriff W. T, Edwards of
Nouaia county, who was shot at Beres-
ford by a negro named Henry Richards,
Monday night died early Thursday
morning. Edwards was shot while
trying to arrest Richards. The negro
made his escape to Dead River swamp
near St Francis and his arrest is hour
~ expected.
The value of exports from the port
of Pensacola during the month of Octo-
Der showed an increase e more than
half million compared with shipments
in September The clearing of cargoes
of cotton for France and the United
Kingdom. together with shipments of
naval stores to Germany sweled the
valuation to total of 81, SAG, i6l.
There are many who are convinced
the homestead section of Dade county
Will produce as line tobacco as can be
grown IN Cuba and few parties are
making experiments along this line.
Among them is Hon. J. ". Watson
who has planted half an acre near Ma
RAMA and is having the experiment.
made in the best possible manner.
Early Saturday morning at Pensacola
Mrs. Marie Hickey wife of Patrick
Hickey, Of ApaIachicola, cut the throat
of hey husband while he was asleep and
then committed ra'..!a BY olashing her
own throat, Hickey is in a critical con-
dtion. 1t is said Mrs. Hickey has sew
cra times been an inmate Of a private
asylum and was only recently removed
from cNc by her husband The Hick-
cyS are said to he prominently connect
ed in Apaachc0la,
On the whole Forida's growth in the
five years between 1890 and 1905 was
remarkable. The increase in popula-
tion was about IL per cent, but a few
,ourles instead Of increasing in popu-
lation, decreased. They had fewer
people in 1905 than they had in 1900,
and in every instance, save one, these
which show this decrease have
beer constantly wet and yet there are
Some who will tell us that the saloon is
Necessary to build up county. Stats
tics prove that they build backwards.
Clay County Times.
Dock Mack. convicted of criminaly
lssaulting a young white woman in
Jacksonville last March, was hanged at
lO:24 o'clock last Friday morning with
n the walls Of the county Jail in Jack
3onvile. The negro walked to the
'caffold with firm step and displayed
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