The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-05-15
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.

w. IL. ONell mas been fe-aDpOInt
ed by the president postmaster q
Orlando.
The government has deposite
; 100000 shad in lake TohOpekaliga, a
, Kissimmee.
The gr' nd lodge, Knights of Homo
of Florida, is in annual session il
Jacksonville.
j. b. Newman, white, a saw mil
man of Jacksonville, has been al
rested for beating his wife.
The United States Fish Commits
sion put 1000 shad into the Suwanet
river at Bradford last week.
The Florida State Horticulture
Society will hold its fifteenth annua
meeting in Tampa next week.
H. NJ. Flagler has presented tive
faithful employees each with II beau
tiful home in St. Augustine.
Senator James +. Broome, o
Quincy, has announced himself {
candidate for secretary Of state.
Gainesville will vote on an issue OF
$2O,uOO in bonds for municipal i'm.
provement the first Tuesday in July
Building contractors in Miami are
busy putting up new homes, and real
estate men are selling considerable
| property.
BishOp-elect Kenny of the Roman
Catholic diocese of st. Augustine
will be conSecrated in the cathedral
next Sunday.
The DeLand city election has re-
suited in the election of O. +. Fish
for mayor and the entire citizens
combination ticket.
Gov. Jennings has gone to Cuba to
witness the Inauguration of Presi-
dent Palma and the launching of the
new government.
The st. Augustine Rifles are going
to erect a monument to the memory
of its members who lost their lives
in the Spanish American war.
The fifty-ninth annual council of
the Protestant Episcopal church in
Florida is now in session at the
church of the Good Shepherd, Jack
sonville. Bishop Weed is presiding.
The commencement exercises of
Stets0n University, DeLand, will
take place from the 23d to 27th in
stants, inclusive. John Tempt e
Graves, of Atlanta, will deliver the
oration.
w. j. Bryan passed through Flori-
da on Monday Ell route for Cuba
where he will view the inaugural of
President Palma, and write an ac-
count of the ceremony for Golfers
Weekly.
VIM NJ. Sheats, state superinten-
dent of public instruction, has been
selected to preside over the twelfth
annual meeting OF the Southern Ed
ucational Society to be held in
Chattanooga, July IA.
During the year just closed Melrose
has shipped l38 bales of cotton. two
carloads of cotton seed and forty
boxes of oranges. Not much, but its
the best show since the '95 freeze,
and is but the beginning of better
times.
Owing to the yield being much
heavier than was anticipated, there
is II barrel famine in this county.
The barrel factories in and around
Hastings are working overtime to
supply the ditticiency.-St Augustine
Record.
For the second time there has re-
suited IL mistrial in the Tampa crimi-
nal court, of young man who is
charged with aSsaulting Il young
woman. The assault consisted III
the young mans kissing the girl
three times without her consent.
Twice has Il jury disagreed.
st. Augustine has granted a 30
year franchise to the Southern Bell
Telephone Company, in considera-
ton of which the company pays the
enormous price Of II crUSs-bar on each
pole for the free use of the police
and fire departments in stringing an
alarm wire.
Nothing of late has occurred
which promises IA more important
addition to the available resource of
this section of the state than the
mining of the vast beds of iron ore
whose existence has been known for
some time, but of whose value for
commercial purposes there has al
ways been doubt. The analysis of
the ore taken just as it was found by
competent and experienced chemists
who are employed by great COM
pany to make tests has proved it to
be Il valuable magnetic ore of high
percentage.-St Augustine Record.
There Is a mysterious poisoning
case at Key West, in which the en-
tire family of Lockhart Bethel, in
Guiding his mother, wife and eight
were poisoned. Bethel left
home early in the morning without
eating breakfast, and thus escaped.
All the parties were taken violently
ill soon after eating breakfast, and
vomiting probably saved them.
None have died, but all are in criti-
cal condition. 1t is supposed poison
was in the hominy. The cause of
the poisoning is mystery, and the
doctor gives it as his opinion that ar
senic was used.
At the Farmers Institute at Ocala,
last week, DIR. HE. Stockbridge, of
the Florida Agricultural College,
made a splendid speech which bris--
tied with predictions for the future
of Florida. He said the time is COM
ing near at hand when Florida is to
be the center of the meat interest of
this country. The beef trust must
count with us, because we will be the
producers of the product and its sell
Iers. He said he knew of men who
were buying 10000 acres, others 3D.
900 acres, and fencing the said lands
in which to place stock. He also
knew the Armours were coming to
Florida 10 select suitable land on
which TO plant the largest cattle
rAnpa In this eonntrv.