The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-08-09
; LATE STATE NEWS.

or dry" campaign.
Claude L'Engle and Gov. Broward
are again at the capital, having re-
turned from New York last Monday
night.
The CaleXto Lopey y Ca cigar
mandatory of Havana, Cuba will
move to West Tampa. This factory
will employ over 700 men.
Howell Sheats, a son of Hon. w.
N. Sheats of Tallahassee, has been
signed to play with the Jackson
vile baseball club next year.
Hon. w. M. Holloway, state su-
perintendent of public instruction,
has announced that he will be a
candidate to succeed himself.
The acreage in Mango groves in
Dade county is being greatly in
creased and an effort will be made to
increase the market for this summer
fruit.
The authorities of st. Augustine
will soon erect a fine public school
building on the moat property which
will be formally transferred by the
government to the school board.
And now prohibition league is to
be formed in Pensacola and an effort
made to make Escambia county dry.
Petitions are already in circulation
asking the county commissioners to
call special wet or dry election.
The Srarke Tigers defeated the
Oak Halls of Gainesville at game
of baseball on Tuesday by score of 4
to |. The Starke club is about the
best amateur aggregation of ball
players in the state.
A bolt of lightning set fire to the
big fertilizer plant of the Armour's
in Jacksonville last Sunday and the
loss, including value of stock on
hand, is about 100000 The plant
employed about 200 men and will be
rebuilt
The acting mayor of Ocala has
fined local hackman $50 and costs
for driving team of hack horses
whose condition was unfit for work
This is the fourth or fifth case of the
kind that has been up in the Ocala
municipal court.
Judge George n. Bardin an old and
POPNNlul SltlLtil VI SldN COuIltN ulGu
ut his home in Green Cove Springs
last week of cancer of the stomach. |
He was county Judge at the time of |
his death. He had been 80 years in |
the public service in various offices. |
Charles Leidy jr., IA lad IA years
old, living at Panama Park was
killed by lightning on Sunday. He
with a party of half dozen ladies
and children had entered store to |
escape the storm. All were render
ed unconscious by the bolt which |
killed Leidy by breaking his neck.
j. X. Mcdonald, receiver of the
Fort Dallas National Bank of Miami, |
reports to the comptroller of the
currency that the total assets of the
bank amount to $667,1Ol, of which |
Sl37,7OO are good, $404, ,575 doubtful,
and $l34,S25 worthless. The total
liabilities, which does not include
capital stock, amount to SIT 076.
The railroads centering in Jack
Sonville have requested permission
Of the State Railroad Commissioners
to close their freight depots Satur-
day afternoons in order to give en-
ployes half-holiday. The law now
requires that all freight depots be
kept open from Z a. m. to 5 p. NJ.
each week day during the year.
Rev. M. p. Foley, d. D., Rev. T.
Moore, Rev. NJ. Maher, d. D. and
Rev. John O'Brien, all prominent
priests in the Catholic diocese of
Florida, were classmates in the
American college at Rome. Fathers,
Mayer, O'Brien and Foley have Just
celebrated the 10Th anniversary of
their ordination to the priesthood.
The big sawmill at Cornell, five
miles south of Ocala, on the Atlantic
Coast Line was burned Saturday.
The fire started in the roof over the
boiler and in few minutes spread
over the mill. Most of the mer-
charitable lumber was saved, but
about 25,000 feet OF other lumber was
burned, with the mill. The commi-
sary was saved. The loss was much
in excess of $1,000, with no insur-
ance.
Hon. w. H. Hooker, representa-
tive in the legislature from DeSoto
county, has just purchased four
thousand beef cattle of Capt. James
Hendry of Fort Myers for which he
paid 100000. Mr.. Hooker was re-
puted to be the wealthiest man in the
lest legislature, though he never put
on any Tugs" and was Just plain |
"Bill' Hooker to those who came to
know him well.
A report is current in Key West |
that Editor w. w. Thompson, of the
Key West Citizen, is in trouble in
Nassau, He went over there about |
IL month ago to straighten affairs of |
the Prudential Benefit Association,
of which he was president. Two |
weeks ago he was heard from, stat
ing he was having considerable |
trouble with the natives, who threat |
ened him violence if he attempted |
to leave the island, but nothing has
been heard from him since. He is |
accompanied by his wife and child. |
and some anxiety is felt for his Sc !
curity.
Careful experiments conducted |
during the past two months by the |
agents of the department of agricul- |
ture, following closely along lines of |
modern fumigating methods in use
in California have resulted in ac-
quiring detailed information regard !
ing the practicability of this line of |
treatment for the white fly. 1t is !
expected that in the course of a few
months there will be availa BILE a pub |
lication dealing with the subject of
fumigation as adapted to Florida |
conditions and giving specific recon-
mendations as to usage and methods |
of prOcedure,-Orlan6a Denocrat