The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-06-18
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some castle hall in that city.
The ratepayers of Macclenny are
soon to vote OH proposition to bond
for $1,000 to install an electric lighting
system.
Hon. "Jeems" Alexander has stolen
march on his constituents by an
nouncing that he will retire to private
life. -Paatka News.
During the past week several coun-
terfeit bills of the ten and twenty
dollar variety have been passed on UNI
suspecting Tampa business men.
Winter Park held special election
Monday, to vote on bonds to the
amount of $4,000 for street extension
and improvement. The bonds carried
by good majority.
Lumber exports from the port of
Fernandina totaled 1858, 9S5 feet for
the month Of May. The total value of
all exports including lumber, naval
stores and phosphate amounted to
S55S, 238.
Captain w. B. Denham, of the Tam
pa Northern Railroad, who has just
returned to Tampa from business
trip to Boston, denies most emphati-
caly the rumor that he will resign as
general manager of the railroad.
The Pensacola Journal says it is re-
ported that frog farm is to be started
in Santa Rosa county, and adds it ought
to pay the promoters well. If the pro-
| ject proves successful Baldwin will
have an opportunity to realize on its
assets.
Maintaining his innocence to the
very last and mounting the scaffold
bravely, Otis Durrell Smith, 32 years
old, was executed in the Duval county
Jail Friday morning, eXpiating npon
the gallows the murder Of his sister,
Cora Belle Smith, whom the law says
he shot and killed in a rooming house
on West Adams street little over
year ago.
F.. Gatlin, who is in the sewing
machine business in Barlow as an
agent, committed suicide at Lake
Eloise last Wednesday morning at five
o'clock by shooting himself in the
head with pistol. Dependency over
the ill-health of himself and his daugh-
ter was the cause. The deceased was
fifty-six years of age and leaves two
daughters.
The St. Petersburg Trucking Asso-
citation will, among their members,
plant about 80 acres of celery the COM
ing season. 1t may be the acreage
will be increased before planting time,
as some of the members have not yet
decided definitely. Most of the crop
will be planted upon the muck lands
lying northwest of the city, and all
within radius of three miles.
Judge F. j. Titcomb, of Dunnellon,
claims to be the youngest soldier in the
Confedracy during the Civil War. Writ
ing of him Editor Bittinger Of the
Ocala Star says: "The judge is said
to BIZ the youngest soldier in the Con-
federate service. He did gallant SER
vice in the arsenal at Savannah when
only II years and eight months old, in
1862 and remained at it all through the
war and was present and helped to
load the ferry in Savannah just before
Sherman's army crossed over into the
city on Christmas day, 1864. If there
are any younger soldiers who did actual
service for the cause, we have not
heard of them. He was also present
in the spring of 1862, when Gen. Gil
more of the Union forces bombarded
and took Fort Pulaski, a scene this
writer also saw and participated in.
We went through the big gap made by
the shot OF Gllm0re's guns.
A special to the Savannah News from
Branford, Fla, near Fort White, un-
der date of Thursday, says: &c. M.
Murphy, a wealthy contractor and
planter, shot Paxton Carver, Murphy's
overseer, at his farm at Burlinton,
while the latter sat in the frst-cas.
coach ola passenger train as it stopped
here at noon today. Carver was
carried from the train to the depot
platform, where he died twenty
minutes later. He was shot through
the body. Sheriff Rickerson, of Live
Oak, Fla, who was on the train, ar
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