The St. Lucie County tribune. (Fort Pierce, St. Lucie County, Fla.) 1905-1920, 1911-11-24
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The fire department of West Palm
Beach is now equipped with modern
automobile are engine.
jacksonville was selected as the next
meeting place for the southeastern
Medical Association at the convention
lust ended at Hattiesburg, Miss.
W. n. Camp, who has erected an
immense electric power plant near
Blitch's Ferry on the Withlacoochee
river, proposes to furnish the city OF
Tampa with light and power at about
one third of what the city is now pay
ing.
st. Johns county is to be compliment
ed. With three men on trial for MUIR
der and all convicted, the authorities
and citizens of St. Johns have estab.
lshed the fact that justice is still a
strong feature of that part of the
State. Can other counties say as much.
Letters patent have been applied for
by the Southern Bank and Trust Com
pany a new banking institution which
will soon begin business in Miami. 1t
is stated that the capital stock of the
company will be 100000 and the fol-
lowing well known gentlemen are the
incorporators: J. n. Lummus, F. 5.
Morse. j. E. Lummus, {. l.. Huddleston
and T. w. Sands.
To a Jacksonville woman belongs
the credit of an invention calculated to
eliminate The dangers attached to the
elongated hat pins now worn by the
fairer sex. Letters patent have been
received from the commissioners of
patents in Washington by Mrs. Sallie
Judson Macomber, wife of Ross A. Ma
comber, one of the employees in the
jacksonville postoffice. for device
that will relieve the deadly hatpin of
all its terrors.
Friends of F. A. Andrea, Bradford
county man who is temporarily living
at Dade City, will be glad to learn
that his inventive genius has brought
him good fortune. Mr. Andrea re-
Gently invented a device for planning
shingles as they are sawed. The de-
vice was at once recognized as having
such value that Mr. Andrea was paid
$4,000 for the patent and in addition
is to receive a royalty on the machines
as they are manufactured. -Starke
Telegraph.
Murder in the first degree, but re-
commentator to the court for mercy,
was the verdict returned by the st. Au-
gustne jury in the Carlton case against
Bascom Carlton. The verdict against
Dan and Marion Carlton was guilty in
second degree This makes the life
penalty sentence for each. 1t is i'm
probable that they have escaped yet
entirely, however, so far as danger Of
the death penalty is concerned, as the
indictment for the murder of Abe
Schneider still hangs over the three
brothers, the trial ending being for the
murder of Deputy Sheriff Guy White.
A deplorable accident occurred Sun
day by which Joe Conrad, a wellknown
young Miamian, and son of Alder
man Conrad, lost his left arm. A par
ty Of three was made up Saturday
morning to 60 on hunting trip up to
the north end of the bay. In the par
ty were Joe Conrad, Gilbert lotion and
another gentleman. The party hunted
all day Saturday and Sunday started on
on their return home. While return
ing in their boat and about opposite
Lemon City, in making shift of posi-
ton, that in some way that the party
cannot explain, one Of the guns used by
the hunters was discharged, the charge
entering Mr.. Conrads left arm above
the elbow, tearing away the flesh and
rupturing the veins of the arm in so
frightful a manner that the arm was
amputated.
When the batteship Florida goes to
Pensacola on the eighteenth of Deem
Der to receive her silver service, a
bronze tablet will be presented by the
Martha Reed chapter of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy, Jack
This bronze emblem will he
in commemoration of the late lamented
United States Senator William James
Bryan, of Florida, who died in Office at
Washington. and whose brother now