Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1898 — PANIC IN FLORIDA. [ARTICLE]

PANIC IN FLORIDA.

Near Approach of War Cauaea the People to Clone Up Bualness and Flee to the Northward. Jacksonville, Fla., April 9.- -Alarmed by the imminence of war, large niimbers of people have been for the. last few days closing up their business connections in various Florida towns and hastening northward. First the movement was confined to the tourists. Then the people of Key West got the war fright and the population of that city began to be rapidly depleted. The fever spread. Towns? throughout the

southern part of the state were infected with a renal-panic and men, women and children, old and new residents, people with large interests as well as the floating population, began to hurry northward. The scare has become more acute, and now even Jacksonville people have become alarmed and families are packing their effects and preparing to remove to various points further north just as soon as possible.