Fort Pierce news., 1911-07-21
STATE NEWS


The government is planning a hun
dred thousand dollar addition for tn,
federal building at Pensacola.
Dade and Palm Beach counties will
have an attractive exhibit at the Chi
cago land show in November,
A plant is proposed for Kissimmee
that is 70 manufacture orange wrappers
from saw grass and paper from palmet'
70 leaves, so they claim.
The agony over which way the gov.
ernment building for Miami should
face has been won by the church side
as against the Spanish club.
The brigade encampment Of the Flor
ida National Guard will be held during
the month Of September at Black Point
the state encampment ground.
Chapman Grant, grandson of U, S.
Grant, after week around Key West,
gathered l25 different varieties of fish
for Tn aquarium in New York city.
Work on skyscraper in Key West
is TO start in November and the cham
Der of commerce is going 10 run gamb-
ling out of the city, two innovations.
Quite number of carpenters are now
engaged on the new F. E. C, railroad
buildings at New Smyrna and since the
town has been made division headquar- |
tiers it is growing fast.
AT High Springs last Tuesday week |
lightning played many pranks, one of
which was the burning of a mosquito
net over the baby Of Conductor Burdett
without hurting the baby,
The Sloan-Terrill anti race track bill
is now effective, sixty days having ex.
pired since its passage, and it prohibits
all kinds Of betting and playing for
prizes, no matter how small
j, S, Johnson, Miami carpenter,
while returning home from his work at
Cocoanut Grove, last Thursday, was Sc
riously injured in a collision with mo-
torcycle ridden by NJ S. Studstill.
Editor A. P. Jordan, P. F. l., has
taken partner to help him inspect,
having quietly married Miss Sally
Green at Tampa last week With an
assistant the labor can be accomplished ,
with more ease and satisfaction.
The present pension law has been in
operation since July l, 1909. and be- $
tween that time and March /, 1911 '
there has been GAIA claims filed, OF !
this number 5,9O5 were allowed. OF '
The pensions allowed ST. Lucie county /
gets S3,674.99.
IL is now claimed that so many lives
have beeu lost by diving for sponges at
Tsrpon Springs that the Greeks are Sc ,
riously considering the idea of aban-
Joining that process. The 17th victim
vas hauled up last week after being
,nder water only II minutes.
While two automobile parties with %
aides driving we're riding near st. Au-
justine last Tuesday afternoon a gang
II toughs hidden by the roadside thre y
! house cat in the face OF one of the '
ady drivers and some serious scratches :
vas the result. 2he rowdies will be 8
.
Will Walker, the negro who mur- h
lered and robbed Sol Osterman, paid S
he penalty of his crime on gallows .
. Jacksonville last Friday without con.
essing. A legal battle for the money "
ie stole kept him from hanging for
ome time and then his lawyer failed in h
lis eager efforts 10 clutch it. I,
George z. Carroll and his 12-year old n
on we're rowing on Black Water river o
ear Milton, last Friday, when thun. I
er storm came up. Rowing TO the ri
cares bank they turned the boat over Y
wo stumps and got under it. A bolt |,
! lightning struck the boat and killed
lther and son instantly. -
Tallahassee is crowded with book II
gents OF every description who are il
here 10 persuade the text book COM b
llttee that their proposition is the one ri
adopt. The American Book Com d
10y, which threatened to test the law d,
trough the courts, has changed it's Il
ind and is well represented. IL
Archdeacon W. Il. Allen Of the Pen.
cola Episcopal church has rendered al
Z resignation as member Of the ca
ministerial association. Of va