The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1910-04-15
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FIRE destroyed twenty or more poalo
and launches of the Jacksonville Power
Boat Club last Friday night The loss
is about $50, 600
Florida bankers are anticipating with
much pleasure the next annual meeting
of their association, which will be held
in Pensacola May 9th and It'll.
Over three hundred quarts of straw
berries were shipped last week from
Starke and Lawtey. Reports are that
the prices are right and the berries
large and of very fine variety.
Work was commenced Monday morn
ing on laying the underground wires
Cor the new lighting system that is be-
ing installed in Jacksonville on Forysth
street, between Main and Julia streets.
Geo. H. Mason. manager of the Ev-
erett Hotel in Jacksonville, has propos-
ed new twenty-three story hotel build
ing for that city. The building is to
stand on the corner of Julia and Forsyth
streets, where the Doty building is now
located.
The Sanford Traction Company have
received their gasoline motor car and
this week will see them connected with
Cameron City. The car was built in
Three Rivers, Michigan, by the Fair
banks.Mo Company, and has capa-
city of fifty people.
The Drew Railroad is now a certainty
and will run from Live Oak through
White Springs to Jacksonville and then
on to Fernandina, at which city the
company has secured valuab BILE water
front terminals. The work of constuc-
ton will begin at Live Oak and at
Fernandina this month.
There are several thousand people on
the island of Key West who have never
seen railroad engine and the arrival
of a work train, which is to be sent
over by boat soon, will excite much in
terest. The forces all along the extern
ton are being gradually increased and
from present indications, it is said,
the road will be completed into Key
West much earlier than was expected a
few weeks ago. A total of about |, 500
men are now employed on the road.
At recent meeting of the Trustees
of the Internal Improvement Fund, held
in Tallahassee the trustees decided to
withdraw from the market all State
lands until such lands have been care
fully classified and valued They also
requested the Acknowledgement to draw
up form of deed in which there shall
be clause reserving to the trustees IS
per cent value upon all lands sold upon
which shall be found kaolin, phosphates
or other minerals and 80 per cent of
those upon which oil shall be found.
The trustees have had numerous letters
lately advising them of the fact that
the State lands were being found to
contain these various commodities to
such an extent as to render them of far
greater value than has been supposed.
At West Palm Beach, last Saturday
F. V. Pierce shot and seriously wound
ed Mrs. o. w. Weybercht and fatally
wounded her little daughter, Louise,
then turned his pistol on himself, sent
a bullet through his own brains, from
which he died almost instantly. Louise
Weybercht is shot through the abdomen
and died next day. Her mother is
shot through the upper left lung, and
physicians say she has agOod chance to
recover. Pierce was young man 80
years of age, land came there some time
ago with companion selling patent
flatiron. He had been boarding with
Mrs. Weybrecht, who keeps the Hex,
a winter boarding house in this city, to
whom he was in arrears for his board,
and from whom he had at various times
borrowed money. Returning to the
house about noon he inquired for
his landlady, saying he wanted her to
endorse check for him. Louise, the
l5.year-old daughter, went upstairs to
call her mother, who was i'll in bed.
Pierce following her and burst into the
room. Just as Mrs. Weybrecht, hear
ing him coming. told her to close the
door, Pierce drawing revolver imme-
diately on entering the room, shot the
mother and daughter Instantly plac-
ing the revolver to his temple he shot
himself. 1t is presumed that the cause
of the tragedy was refusal of Mrs: Wey-
brecht to loan Pierce more money, and
also that the young man was mentally
unbalanced as the result of drinking.