Fort Pierce news. (Fort Pierce, Fla.) 190?-1920, 1909-11-19
Some State Happenings
Florida Items Gathered from Our Exchanges.

J. Tag Day" in Tampa last wee
netted l,275. 13 for the Childten's Hon
a Daytona's city waterworks plant ha
p been accepted and now plans for a fir,
department are working successfully,
t Jerry Ward, white carpenter, fel
i from a scatfold he had erected while
e working on building iu Jacksonville
and broke his neck.
= Two valuable lots have been bought
= in Jacksonville on which the Ancient
, Accepted Order Of Mobiles Of the Mys.
tic Shrine will erect a splendid temple.
In dispute over a hoe at the home
Of Mrs Wm. Robinson, near Marianne
last Sunday, John Daniels crushed the
skull and killed John Preston with the
hoe 10 dispute,
With Hilburn out Of the way, Frank
( Clark road TO reelection is entirely
free from Instructions and he will no,
have to employ "pathfnding carr
Tampa Tribune.
Deputy Sheriff and Deputy Game
[ Warden Brown, of Homosassa, is outof
his two jobs on account of killing OF
game out of season and has been fined
500. He didn't "stand in"
Construction work on the Tampa *
Gulf Coast railroad, which will connect
Tampa and Tarpon Springs is progress
ing rapidly and it is expected to have
trains running by January l.
VIM. Price, of Nell ose, has been SELL
ing canned tomatoes at Waldo and else
where which were put up at his can
merry He put up $4,000 cans Of toma.
tees and peaches last season.
Downed by the county commissioners
and the circuit court judge in his last
effort to call a wet and dry election in
Putnam county Thomas R. Heating
will not stay downed, but is out again
with another petition for signatures.
While returning with fishing party
from the Gulf, last Friday, Mr.. Aiken
Caruthers, a prominent young man of
Oxford, was drowned while trying TO
swim the Withlacoochee river to get a
boat His wife of three months was in
the party.
BY the will of Mrs. H. B. Plant. |
widow of Florida's West Coast de-
veloper Mrs. B. w. Wrenn and her
three sons receive amounts aggregsting
$4,000. Mr.. Wrenn was for many
years passenger traffic manager OF the |
Plant System.
In difficulty at Oak Hill, Saturday
evening, County Commissioners s. B. |
Owens, turpentine operator, shot and |
killed w. P. Robinson, a saw mill man.
after being severely cut in several
places. At the inquesta verdict of
Justifable homicide was rendered.
AT the meeting of the Board of Par.
dons Friday anu Saturday at Tallahas-
see there were forty applications for
clemency, outof which II received con-
dltlonal pardons, one of which was Ben
Moore, white, who cut man to death /
on the streets Of Miami this summer.
a colonization company has secured
$4,000 acres of land near Ocala and will |
have an experimental farm to feature
the new fruits and vegetables Of Bur-
bank. The spineless cactus will be
raised for forage and the scheme should
prove Profitable to the entire State, II
carried out.
Mrs. j. Patton Anderson, the aged
and honored widow of Major General
j. Patton Anderson and honorary pres.
ident of the U. D. c. of Florida lies
seriously Injured at her home in Pa.
latka with dislocated hip joint, caused
by missing a chair she attempted to Sit
on. Though suffering greatly she has
maintained a cheerfulness that is sur.
prising, says the Palatka News.