Fort Pierce news., 1911-07-21

NEE overshadowed all other displays.
q Msjor-General James Douglas Math
eson, a no,ed Confederate soldier, die,
=, 10 Gainesville last week aged "a years
Eighty employees of the Ocals Irol
Works went out on a nine-hour strik
last Thursday. They had been work
ing ten hours.
County Demonstrator o. L. Mizell
U. S, Dept. OF Agriculture, is arrang
ing for blowing match TO be held il
Bradford county this fall.
The Lilly Whites" of the Republi'
cans IN this state had meeting in Pa
laika last week and agreed to endorse
Taft in the next convention.
In difficulty at Lake Butler last
Thursday Joe Hazen shot and instantly
killed Malcolmb Hazen, his cousin. A
jury Of inquest said it was murder.
j. F. Pierce, of Tampa, has lately
pstented a portable folding electric
light that can bs sold for less than two
dollars and carried in a vest pocket.
j. H. Reese, a we'll known newspa-
per man who opposed vaccination as a
preventative against smallpox is now
down with that disease as result of
his fight against science.
A canal 100 feet wide and 10 beet from
Sanford to Jacksonville via ST. Johns
River has been contracted for, and
canal connecting the upper ST. Johns
and Indian Rivers is contemplate.
IA Pensacola woman is divorcing her
husband because she can't tolerate a
shrimp" says the Journal. Some other
women would like to get rid of their
husbands because they don't like lob
sters.
A tribe of Gipsies camped near Ocala
lately did the Ordinary stunts about the |
city and helped out the police court for
fights and drunks. An American girl
with them is supposed to have been
stolen when a child.
Threatening that he would leave for !,
Panama aud never come back before he
would pay the alimony granted his
wife Engineer Gustave Harold Watson,
Of the S. A. L. road was Jailed in Tam
pa last lt'riday until he changes his
mind.
Raymond Stratton, bookkeeper for
saw mill at Youmans, stole a mule and
wagon and ran off with the pay roll
last Saturday week. The mule and
wagon we're recovered in Lakeland and
mis- trunk located in Jacksonville but
.he man is still missing.
While sitting on the beach at Pablo
With friend, last Friday night, Victor
Mccarthy, a young telegrapher, was
struck and seriously injured by an auto
iriven by Julian Prewette, of Jackson
Vile, who carried the injured man to a
hospital. People should learn rot 10
'bstruct the passage OF gentlemen out
ior Joy ride.
+ W. Funk, OF Eau Gallie, who
went to the Stissing Mountains, in New
York state, 10 keep cool, writes TO the
Record that the Thermometer there
'hoWed 80 deg. on July lst, 1O2 on July
d and ll2 on July 3rd. At Pough
Ieepsie, on July 4, it was ll6 in the
'hade and circus parade lost four
men and number Of horses from heat.
lie adds that il he lives TO get back he
will hereafter stay on Indian River.
Lewis Waterman, young man who
las heretofore borne good character.
8 held without bail at Ocala for the
murder of Mr.. and Mrs. Higgins, an
I'D couple, at Electra month ago.
tracks showed where the murderer had
un against jagged pine stump and
Faterman's knees and shins W ere bad.
Y skinned.
The amended plans for the proposed
ew depot at DeLand show only a
rame depot building and bids are be-
ng asked for its erection. Some Of the
usiness men would prefer to have the .
abroad company continue the use OF
he Two box cars which are serving for }
epot purposes at the old site rather 5
nan to have most expensive depot at !
ne new place. }
A few years ago the Metropolis told
bout man who sat on the porch and :
It oranges while his wife grubbed the