The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-01-23
DOMESTIC NEWS.

| is SAID Will return TO the tOOtllghtS.
Chicago auto men are thinking of
organizing the clubs of the country
and leaving out the New York club.
Prize fighting has been revived at
Memphis and the match-make there
has been looking around for suitable
talent.
The transport Grant with Governor
Taft, from the Philippine Islands, on
board, has arrived at the Golden
Gate.
B. F. Williams is suing Healer"
Dowie in Chicago for $4,000 for
alternating the affections of Mrs. Will
liams.
Gov. Van SAINT, Minnesota, and
Gov. Mcbride, Washington, proclaim
Jan. 80, McKinley's birthday, a
special holiday.
Priest Crowley, of Chicago, who
raised a fuss and was eXcOmmuni-
Gated, has been restored to Catholic
fellowship in Omaha.
A bill has passed the house unani-
mously to give Mrs. Mckinley the
free mailing privilege during the re-
mainder of her life.
The Isthmian Canal Commission
has reported in favor of the Panama
route, and the acceptance of the offer
of the Panama Canal Company.
One provision of proposed recip-
rocity treaty between United States
and Nicaragua is that Nicaraguan
sugar shall be admitted duty free.
Fire in the Globe yarn mills of the
New England Cotton Yarn Company
at Fall River, Mass, Sunday, dam
aged the plant to the extent of about
100000.
Gates & Brown, wholesale grocers,
Richmond, Va, were burned out
early Sunday morning. Loss proba-
bly, about $4,000, fully covered by
insurance.
Michigan has triplets, sisters, aged
u years, all hale and hearty and as
happy as any three persons in the
country. They are wives of promi-
nent men in the state.
The plant of the H. Wetter Manu-
featuring Company, of Memphis,
Tenn, one of the largest stove foun-
dries in the South, was destroyed by
fire Sunday. The loss will probably
reach $250,000, covered by insurance.
Every member of the Minnesota
legislature has received an annual
pass over the Great Northern Pacific
and the Burlington railroad systems,
which are about to be consolidated
by the Hill-Morgan interests, if this
same Legislature or the courts doSnot
interfere.
Secretary of War Root says the
army is necessary as a moral force
to maintain civil administration in
the Philippines, and that many Fill
ipinos are idle and conspirators for
that reason. Root doesn't think re-
duction of the military force in the
islands will be possible for some
time to come.
w. w. Wilke, John w. McCune
and Henry Hudson, veteran Penn
sylvania railway engineers of Johns
town, Pa, who were retired on PEN
sions some time ago, have received
checks for 500 each from Carnegie,
and it is understood to be Carnegie's
purpose to pension all trainmen yet
alive who worked during his super
intendency of that part of the road.
In Osceola, Pa, Martin O'Hara,
aged Is, and his sister Mary, aged 10
were drowned while skating on the
Youghlogheny. Their brother James,
aged 8, also went under the ice, but |
was rescued by men who were at
work near by. The home of the |
O'Haras is within sight of the river
and the mother of the children saw
them sink under the ice. She ran
screaming to the river bank and
plunged in after them.
The Schley case is now being con-
sidered by Atty.-Gen. Knox for the
purpose of discovering whether there
was any illegality in connection with
the court of inquiry. If he shall find
that the court was properly constitu-
ted and rules of law followed, it will
then be within the province of the
president to consider the case on its
merits. If the Encouragement de-
cides that there were illegalities as
claimed by Schley, the verdict of the
court would be vitiated.
"Padre," a big medicine man of the
Yuma Indians, who lives near Yu-
ma, Arizona, has been offered as
sacrifice to the Great Spirit in accor-
dance with their customs, and has
eXpiated the sins of the tribe, which
are held responsible for an epidemic
of smallpox The medicine man di-
vined the intent of the Indians sew
eral days ago and fed to the noun
tains, but in half-starved condition
wandered back to the village and
pleaded for mercy. He was prompt
iy bound hand and foot and conveyed
to Mexico, where he was bound to a
tree and cruelty tortured to death.
The State Superintendent of Edu-
cation of Alabama, has been inform
ed of the arrest of eight negroes in
Henry county, who appeared for an
examination with full list of the
questions and answers as prepared
secretly by the Board of Education.
County Superintendent Espy had
them arrested, and they claimed that
they had received the questions from
a negro preacher named Broken,
paying him five dollars each. Inves-
LEGATION showed that Broken had
procured the papers from Oscar Hall,
a negro teacher of Troy, paying fif-
teen dollars for them. All Of the
parties are under arrest except Hall,
who has escaped to Georgia.