The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-07-17
GENERAL NEWS.

zen ERAL NEWS.
One hundred men began work last
week by electric light to cut the levee
from the Mississippi to Harvey's
canal, Jefferson parish, La, to purge
the canal of the plague of dead fish.
Capt. J. T. Curtis. veteran of the
civil war, is dying at his home near
Morrison. Va, aged Is He is the
father of 30 living children, % by his
second wife. Twelve of the % are
twins.
H. r. Hall and Marshall Brooke,
both under sentence to the peniten-
tiary, escaped from Jail in San Diego,
Cal, beating the night jailer, l.. A.
Foster. with stove leg. They took
with them woman prisoner, Mrs ID.
f. Grosch.
DR. Edward DellnO, who poses
as an "Indian medicine man." with
long hair and big, fierce mustache,
and pretty Gussie Terry, a young girl
of Cincinnati. O.. We're arrested in
Columbus, o., for clipping. Miss
Terry was sent home.
Outdoor labor has almost ceased in
the country surrounding Angleton
and Alvin, Tex, owing to the prey
valence of mosquitoes. Many cattle
and horses have been drowned i'm the
slOughs and watercOurses, where they
have sought refuge from the pests.
st. Louis and eastern capitalists
will build a bridge over the Miss
iSsppi river at st. Louis, extensive
terminal on the river front, an ele-
waited road to the Worlds fair site,
and Il new depot in the city. The
total investment aside from the cost
of the bridge, will reach $l0,000,0O0
or $l5,0O0,0OO.
James S. Mcdonald, once q well
known real estate dealer in New
York, and Il miner in the Klondike,
was killed by a jab in the eye from
an umbrella in an alteration with an
unknown assailant. He was accus-
toned to get drunk one day and one
only in Il year. Tuesday was his
day, and being intoxicated he was
quarrelsome.
The fourth annual conference of
the Association of Roman Catholic
Colleges opened in Chicago. Bishop
Tomas J. COnaty, rector of the RO-
man Catholic university of America,
Washington, ID. c., presided. Rev.
John w. Poland, of st. Xavier's col
lege, Cincinnati, read "a paper oppo-
sing the kindergarten tendency and
the craze for atheletics.
American Roman Catholics have
been invited to raise funds for a ma
tional memorial church at Alder
shot, England, in honor of the Cath
olic dead who lost their lives in the
British service in the South African
war. OF the total number of 22,O69
officers and men who lost their lives
in the BOer war 5000 and possibly
more We're of the Roman Catholic
faith.
: Geo. d. Mcmahon, a son of Rev. J.
II. Mcmahon of Brooklyn, a mission
AIRY in India, mysteriously disappear
ee 10 years ago. He cruised on the
great lakes, was a music teacher, car
conductor and machinist in Chicago,
travelled all over the west, served
the war with Spain as first
sergeant in cavalry regiment. Not
until he had made fortune did he
return home recently, surprising his
widowed mother and four brothers
in Brooklyn.
In the Church of Our Lady of Help
of Christians at West New York, n.
j., Sunday, Joseph Franz did pen
ance for being married by justice
of the peace. He read an apology
aloud to the congregation and
assuring the congregation that his
was one of the most serious
that good Catholic could be guilty
of. He eloped with Miss Emma
Heinzius six months ago and was
in Manhattan. Mrs. Franz
is protestant.
The garden party given last week,
night, by Mr.. and Mrs.
John Sloane in honor of Gen. Horace
Porter, United States ambassador to
France, at Wyndhurst, the country
residence of the Sloanes in LenoX,
was the largest out of doors affair in
LenoX since the Sloanes entertained
President Mckinley during his first
administration. About $50 were pres
ent, including LenoX cottagers and
guests who remained over from the
wedding.