The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-01-21
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punta Gorda shipped 292'oo0 pounds
of fish during the past week.
Fifty carloads of bananas formed II"
cargo of fruit steamer from Honduras
to Tampa.
West Florida tobacco growers per-
fected an organization at a meeting
held at Quincy,
Four thousand shade trees are being
planted along the public road leading
from Orlando to Pine Castle hy the
commissioners of Orange county.
The Democratic executive committee
of fernando county has come out nat
footed for the State convention as
against the primary method Of nomlnat-
ing candidates.
With few votes to spare Wildwood
won the county seat election in Sumter
from Sumtervilo. Bushnell was third
contestant in the race and came out
second.
/ The bank clearingS in Jacksonville
for the week ending Saturday are shown
to amount. in the aggregate, to 50, $685.
I vs. 40, the greatest of any single week
in the history of the city,
President Taft has appointed John
NJ. Cheney, of Orlando, as United
States Attorney for the Southern Dis
trict of Florida. and John |. Horr, of
Appalachcola, as marshal for the same
district.
All machinery in the machine shops
on the terminal dock is being prepared
for shipment to Boot Key Harbor, and
by the end of the month, all machinery
and work that has been on the terminal
dock since the beginning of the East
Coast extention to Key West will have
been moved. Miami Metropolis.
The county commissioners of the
forty. six counties of the State have
been requested to meet at Tampa for
the purpose of organizing a State AS
ISOLATION of County Commissioners.
The local board at Jacksonville have
passed on the invitation and voted that
it be accepted, and that all or portion
of its members should attend.
The Merchants and Miners Steam
ship, Chatahm, plying between Balli-
more and Jacksonville, went on the
rocks at the mouth of the st. Johns
river, while entering the jetties last Sat
urday, and became total wreck. The
Clyde steamship Mohawk, which was
lying outside awaiting daylight took
the passengers to Jacksonville. The
Chatham was one of the finest vessels
in the cOastwise service. During the
Spanish war she was the scout cruiser
T Vulcan.
A Triby dispatch to the Tampa Times
says: j. w. O'Berry was assassnated
in his butcher shop here about O'Clock
last evening by an unknown party or
parties. He was shot in the head as
he stood with his back to the window of
the establishment. 1t is not known
whether one or two shots were fired but
some of those near by say there
were two reports, so close together as
to be almost inseparable. O'Berry was
talking to his thee sons and two other
men who were in the room with him.
They were discussing the weather.
Suddenly there was loud explosion
from the outside and O'Berry, without
word, fell in heap on the floor
He was dying when his sons reached
his side. A load of turkey shot had en-
tered the back of his head, tearing
their way through his brains.
President William H. Taft, who is
deeply interested in the Panama Canal
Celebration, to be held at Tampa from
February II to 26, of the present year,
will this week hold an important co fer.
ence with Col. 7. J. l.. Brown, head of
the celebration movement, and men,
bers of the Florida Congressional dele.
cation, with reference to the govern.
ment's part in the celebration, which
has attracted the attention of the entire
civilized world. The government will
be represented by warships. detach.
ments from the regular army and
many noted statesmen and President
Taft may make flying trip to Florida
in honor of the occasion. A large
number of foreign diplomats will also
visit the city, having accepted invita-
tons from Colonel Brown, who is at
present i'm Washington. and foraiun