The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1884-06-18
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The Senate has increased the Army
bill 1895, 900.
A heavy white frost at Port jefferson,
L. l., Saturday night, ruined nearly all
the crops.
Capt r. w. Anderson, who has walked
from South Carolina to New Haven, has
left there on his way to Boston.
The House and Senate conferences on
the DINGHY shipping bill are as yet una
BILE to agree on the free ship and subsidy
clauses.
An application has beenmade On
tario from Kentucky to allow whisky to
be sent there and thence to New York
as ex-warehoused, the ostensible object
being to pay the duties in New York in
stead of Kentucky. The application was
refused.
A quarantine has been established and
armed guards posted between Matamo-
ras, Mex, and Brownsville, Tex, be-
cause Matamoras has neglected to enforce
the twenty days quarantine against Vera
Cruz. Both Brownsville and Matamora8
are at present healthy.
MEXICAN ELECTION.
CITY OF MEXICO, via Galveston, June
15.-The national elections passed off
quietly yesterday. The results have not
yet been announced. 1t has usually
been the custom to leave two sets Of bal
lots having ON them the names of the
Presidential electors at each dwelling in
the city on the Friday preceding the cleo
ton, but this time this fOrmality was
omitted, and it is believed that ballots
were sent in bulk t. the polling places to
save the voters trouble. Therefore few,
if any, citizens voted.
AMERICAN CONSUL SHOT.
BORDEAUX, June ga balloon ascen-
sion drew together large throng of peo-
pie in Place Quincane yesterday. Among
the number were George w. Roosevelt,
United States Consul, and his wife.
Suddenly French soldier aimed his pis-
tOl at the American and fired. The bull
let passed through Roosevelt's hat, con-
fused his head and knocked him over
The wounded man pointed out the sol
dler who fired the shot, but the latter
with two companions escaped during the
excitement. 1t is supposed that the sol
dier mistOok the consul for an officer in
civilians dress against whom he had a
grudge. General Dumont, commander
Of Bordeaux, has ordered an inquiry to
be made.
JUSTICE FIELDS DETRACTORS.
SAN Francisco, June 15.-The Alta
California says editorially this morning:
ut ought to excite a sensation of shame
among the detractOrs of Justice Field in
his own State to find him spoken of in
terms of such unvarying commendation
by the leading newspapers of the Eastern
States" Abiding to the action of the
Democratic State Convention, the paper
says: 'The ebullitiOn of passion to which
some gave way they will live to be
ashamed Of. For his personal fame JUS
tice Field can afford to appeal from
Philip drunk to Philip sober, from the
excited political convention to the delib-
crate Judgment of his fellow-citizens
when the present temporary craze shall
have passed away"
FRORsT IN NEW ENGLAND.
Boston, June 16.-Reports from vari-
GUS parts of New England state that the
heavy frost of Saturday night caused
considerable damage to growing crops.
The Cape Cod district reports that the
prospect for a cranberry crop is entirely
ruined. Hundreds of acres were blighted
involving a loss of many thousand dol
lars. Potatoes and corn. and vines of all
kinds were seriously affected. Much of
the corn will have to be replanted, and,
owing to the lateness of the season. short
crops will be the result. In Norfolk cOun-
ty, Mass, entire crops of vegetables
were destroyed, and farmers who make
a speciality of early produce will suffer
extensively. In nearly all sections
growth of the crops was retarded.
SCARED SPANIARDS.
NEW YORK, June 16.-M. Rubiera, edi-
tor of the Cuban newspaper La Separa-
tista, was arrested to-day at his office in
this city by a United States Deputy Mar
shal on :, charge preferred by the Span
ish Government that he was engaged in
shipping a quantity of dynamite by the
schooner Arega. which left this port this
afternoon for Key West. The presump-
ton was that it was shipped with the in
tention to forward the dynamite to
Cuba, where it was to be used for revo-
lutionary purposes. The United States
authorities found, however, that the sub
stance in question was ordinary gunpow-
der, and having no proof that Rubiera
had any connection with the shipments
they consented to the prisoners dis
charge when he was 3rraionpd before