The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-06

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long and humorous debate, has pass.
ed the mosquito eXterminating bill
Squads of minute men have been
ordered at Wetumka, 0. r., to pro-
tect the town from the Crazy Snake
Indians.
Andrew Carnegie has donated
100000 and Louis H. Severance, of
Cleveland, $4,000 for rebuilding the
Wooster, O., university.
Massachusetts legislature is being
besieged by the Daughters of 1912 for
the appropriation of 100000 to aid in
the renovation of the frigate Consti-
tuition.
The American consul at Liverpool
has been supplied with information
by the police as to the variety of
gold brick frauds by American
swindlors on people in England.
The British steamship Phaeton
which left Puget sound to search for
the missing sloop of war Condor has
arrived at Honolulu without having
found any trace of the lost vessel.
DIR. and Mrs. Hiram w. Thomas,
the former probably the best-known
divine in Chicago, was refused pass
ports to visit the South African con-
centration camps by Secretary Hay.
Announcement has been made by
the management of the Delaware,
Lackawana d Western Ry., that a
pension system was placed in effect
March for the benefit of employees.
The house of representative of the
Ohio legislature has placed itself on
record as being in favor of electing
the United States senators by direct
vote of the people, by vote of 70 to
%.
Arthur Eagan, the 17-year-old
Chicago boy who has saved 27 lives
in Lake Michigan, has been present.
ed with medal awarded by the
Royal Humane society Of London,
Eng.
Rev. J. B. Sheldon, the Kansas
novelist-preacher, has had religious
exercises introduced in the public
schools of Topeka. Now a worthy
citizen has begun suit to Overturn the
work.
Edward Butler, st. Louis's most
prominent democratic politician, has
been indicted by the February grand
jury for ATTEMPTED bribery in connec-
ton with the city garbage reduction
contract
John A. Bingham, member of
the New York Produce Exchange, is
dead at Calvana, South Africa, from
wounds received in battle on Feb. 6.
He had attained the rank of captain
in the British army.
Two more hotels will be construct
by the Yellowstone Park TranspOr-
tation Co. According to the officials
of the company, a recOrd-breaking
travel is predicted for this season,
hundreds of tourists having already
engaged transportation.
Great danger is apprehended from
the immense gorges of ice in the AL
legheny and Monongehala rivers.
The gorge in the Allegheny extends
without a break from Pittsburg fully
70 miles up the river, and varies in
thickness from to l6 feet.
John II. Davis and associates have
discovered mountain of arsenic in
a range 50 miles southeast of Tacoma,
Wash. This is claimed to be the
first important body of arsenic ever
found in America. The supply here
tofore has come from Cornwall. The
United States now import nearly ST.
00O, 600 worth yearly.
NEoeers uroI,0orans ond WaccaIC
of the Boer delegation, who arrived
in New York last week, will enter
into direct relations with the pro-
Boer committees in the United States
with view to mutual understanding
and organization and to audit on this
side of the water the sums received
from Boer sympathizers.
Ex-United States Senator w. d.
Washburn left Minneapolis last
week for Cuba, where he expects to
make careful study of the island |
and its commercial relations to this |
country. Senator Washburn said |
that if it were possible he would like
to see free trade established between
the United States and Cuba.
Another attempt to throw the es-
tate of A. 7. Stewart into litigation |
has been stopped by Justice Scott of
the New York supreme court. 1t |
was in the form of u motion for the |
of commission to take |
the testimony of a great many per-
sons at present living in Ireland as |
to the alleged relationship of the |
plaintiff to the dead millionaire mer-
chant.
A prisoner in Jail in Jackson,
Miss, under the name of J. L. Lee |
land, who is charged with burglary,
has been identified as one of the con- |
victs who escaped from the federal |
prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan,
last November. His real name is |
James Seymour. Seymour is also |
accused of stealing $1,000 from the
safe in the office of the sheriff of
Newton county.
Alice Roosevelt, who christened |
the Meteor, was at a fashionable ban |
quet in New York the other day. 1t
was very artistic affair. Cut glass |
and silver, flowers in profusiOn, pink
shaded candelabra, fountain trick
ling in the nearby conservatory, and
a stringed orchestra back of some
tall palms, made ascene fit for fairy
land. For each guest there was a
souvenir of a unique little teapot. AS
the girls took there places at the
dainty round table, Miss Alice spied
the tiny teapot bearing her name.
She caught it up, and with utterly
but unselfish impulsive-
ness, exclaimed rapturously, my,
oh-h-l Isn't that just the cutest thing
that ever was? And won't the kids go
wild over it when give it to them?"
The "kids," of course, are Baby
Quentin, Archibald and Ethel.