Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1909-11-26
Some State Happenings


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table and orange crop very much in
! the section around Welika.
The county commissioners of DeSoto
county have appropriated 80, 800 to aid
IN making war on the white fly,
! New Smyrna ladies have organized a
chapter of the Daughters of the Amer
/ lean Revolution and some of them are
publishing their pedigrees.
| Walter Isham, a young man, was
thrown from buggy during a runaway
in st. Petersburg and sustained fatal
injuries by his head striking a curb,
Daylona is preparing for an election
lOn $50 900 bond issue for sewerage.
Daytona is getting everything needed
to make her complete tourist resort.
Ed Sims, the negro that killed Mr. S.
NJ. Redd at Mulberry some time age,
has been captured IN Charleston, 5. c..
and vii! be brought back to this State.
JIM, Dayit, a young carpenter OF
Oferman, Ga. was nearly aSphyxiated
in ST. Augustine, one night last week
by not knowing how to manipulate .
gas jet.
c. b. Ashley, a prominent lawyer.
was shot and killed in front of his office
in Madison, Thursday, by j. A. Beatty.
OF Lee, Fla, on account of lawsuit.
Another case of insanity, we suppose.
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor and President
Perkins of the International Cigar
makers Union are the most prominent
visitors 10 Tampa at present and will
remain until about December l.
A Georgia lawyer was knocked down |
and robbed of 500 by two footpads in !
Jacksonville, says the Times U MON,
but We hardly believe it. Nothing can
down a GeoIgia lawyer. and 500 is
something they never have.
X. j. Kilcrease, probably the wealth
lest planter in the Milligan section.
was instantly killed last Thursday by
falling on his head In jumping from a
wagon while the mules were RUNNING
away. He was originally from Ohio
aid was Is years old.
Sanford says she profted $50, 900 by a
81 ght drop in temperature. 1t is a
wonderful State that can coin gold by
manipulating the thermometer Just a
few lines, and ii any competitor can see
us one better we have few more blue
to venture on the raise Times-Union
Plant City has a pretty custom that
might well be emulated by other Flor.
Ida towns. When a municipal elect on
IS over, no matter how hot a cam ,aion
was waged, the losing candidates "set
up" the yictors to a big spread and all
factionalism is forgotten until the nextI
election rolls around. Like a game of
ten-pins, they try to knock 'em out.
and then set 'em up.
The Ocala Star says the Supreme
Court OF Florida has affirmed the de-
cision of the lower courts in the case of
K. 81. Oven, charged and convicted of |
the murder of r. L. Smith and Joe
Musselwhite, in Alachua county sew
eral month"; ago, and he will he HANGED
II nothing interferes. The Inverness
Chronicle local man is betting that he
will not be hanged legally. Owens
must have pull.
After being confined in the Putnam
county jail since they were tried for the
m irder OF Special Agent W. G. Sellars
of the Atlantic Coast Line at High
Springs, convicted and sentenced 10 |
lie imprisonment, j. M. Kelley and d. |
NJ. Davidson have been separated, Kelly
Withdrew his appeal to the supreme |
court latelyaud has been sent to the ,
prison camps to begin his sentence
while Davidson win iemain 10 Jail pend
ing the decision Of the supreme court
in his case. Kelly recently made sfi- |