The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1909-08-06
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fernando county is tovote on bond
ing proposition for good roads and to
build a new court house.
Ten miles of the twenty-five miles OF
sidewalks to be laid by the city of Pen
sacola, have been completed.
w. w. Whlden, a former engineer
on the A. c. L., has sued the company
for $45, 900 for injuries received while
in their employ,
There is said to be $4,000 members
of the Farmers Union in this state,
and the officers of that organizatio" say
there will be over 1000 by the first Of
November.
Governor Glchrist, now that his
mother has gone away for the summer,
has given up the Governors mansion
and has a suite of rooms on the third
floor of the Leon hotel at Tallahassee.
1t is now claimed that a prehistoric
ruin is visible in St. Andrews bay be-
tweenJ c. Holly's residence and Dyer's
point A move is on foot to get the
Smithsonian institute to look into the
matter
Duval county has a white woman
citizen SO years old who has never seen
a railroad train. She is the mother OF
eight children and lives within eight
miles of jacksonville. but has never
seen the city.
A new steamboat line from Savannah
to Sanford via Brunswick, Fernandina.
jacksonville and Palatka is the latest
rumor and from present indications it
appears that the line will be establish
ed within a very short while.
The jury in the case of Will Moore,
charged with the murder of Scott at
Miami, returned verdict of guilty of
muder in first degree, with recommen-
dation to mercy. This was Moore's
second trial. the jury in the first trial
of the case having failed to agree.
DeFuniak Springs has just held its
annual wool sale when 80, W1 pounds
of the ''heecy staple" were sold at
3o4cents IA pound. which brought joy 10
the hearts Of the producers. 1t goes
to show that those who raise seeep in
West Florida ale by no means wool
gatherers' in the invidious sense of
the term, but level headed, practical
men with the dollar mark in their OPP
tics. Pensacola Journal.
The Tampa jury in the case of Cas-
tenge Ficarrotta, failing to agree, have
been discharged and a mistrial ordered.
The defendant will be free man as
soon as his friends furnish bond to the
IS. 0OO that bail being fixed by the
court as the jury was discharged. The
Jury stood seven for conviction and
five for acquittal, The prisoner was
charged with the assassination in West
Tampa, of Giuseppe FicarrOtta.
The st. Petersburg correspondent of
the Times Union, under date of Thurs
day, says: Yesterday afternoon the
rain descended in sheets and the wind
blew a gale. Mingled with the storm
was hail which fell in great quantities.
Some of the stones are said to be three
quarters of an inch in diameter. For
fully seven minutes they battered on
the roofs, walks and windows, and
popularity of the fall was that the
hailstones came dowa in the business
district of the city only. Small frogs
also fell with the rain"
During a blow on the Gulf Sunday
afternoon nearly one hundred drums
of gasoline were thrown overheard
from the schooner Reliance which was
en- route from Tampa to Key West.
Forty eight of these were picked up by
the Viola and brought to Punta Gorda
by Emmett Newer The gasoline was
the property of the Standard Oil Com.
pany and it is being held at Punta
Gorda pending instructions from the
United States marshal. As salvors,
though, Capt. McEver and crew will
be literally compensated. - Punta
Gorda Herald.
In the near future the Ponce de Leon
Celebration Association will be incOr-
porated and permanent organization
will be effected This is a step that
has been advised for some time and the
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