The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-13
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Waite, has been arrested, charged
with subornatiOn of perjury and re
leased on $1,000 bond. Two men tes
tilted that money was offered then
in Engley's office to swear to al
alibi in case against two men ar
rested for stealing from the Indepen
dence mine.
Odd Birthplace.-Mrs. Charles T
Root, of East Orange, N. j., went tC
New York the other day to witness
a performance of "Othello.n A young
gentleman decided to pay her visit
without consulting circumstances,
so she was hurried from the theatel
to Carnegie hall. The y. g. has been
named George Ignatz Paderewski
Root-in revenge, perhaps.
The postmaster at COlonia, n. j.,
a suburb of Metuchen, has made an
affidavit that he has destroyed by
fire uncanceled United States pos
tage stamps worth 5000 and other ar
ticles in the COlOnia postOfiice, val
ued at $4,000. The postmaster was
ordered by the health board to burn
everything in the building, owing to
smallpox in the postmaster's family.
Maj. Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy,
who confessed that he forged the
Dreyfus bordereau, has, according to
the Herald, been seen in New York
city. He is said to have spent two
hours in a Broadway restaurant in
animated conversation with a young
man and woman. EsterhaZy was
stability dressed and his features
were extremely thin
President Roosevelt has signed his
first veto, that declining to remove
the charge of desertion from the ma
val record of John Glass, who served
in the war between the states. The
president says: 1.-The names of the
veterans who fought in the civil war
make the honor list of the republic,
and | am not willing to put upon it
the name of Il man unworthy of the
high position"
Although Prince Henry is. under
stood to have drank and smoked and
banqucted his old friend, Admiral
Bob Evans, to standstill in the past
two weeks, unofficial information in
diplomatic circles is that the prince
himself is not entirely escaping. Ar
rangements have already been made
to have him upon his return to Ger
many go at once to famous SANTA
rum to "bOil out. "
The jury in the case of DR.. Orville
5. Burnett, who has been on trial in
Chicago, charged with the murder
of Mrs. Charlotte S. Nichol of Nash
vile, Tenn. returned verdict of
guilty and recommended that Bur-
nett be sent to the penitentiary for
10 years. Burnett and the woman
had agreed to commit suicide to-
gether in Chicago hotel, but he had
weakened and allowed the woman to
go it alone.
Walter Ramsey, of New York,
wants divorce because his jealous
wife put pepper in the hair of
young lady and accused him of clan
destine kissing when he sneezed.
Walter is butler to Banker Emerson
and his wife and the other
girl are employed in the same house
as chambermaids. Walter saws his |
wife once strewed pepper on the floor
just before Il reception in McMillen's |
house, hoping to catch her husband
and the other woman in q sneezing
snare. Instead, the aristocratic
guests nearly sneezed themselves to
death.
Missionary U. S. Grant Murphy i
located at Yokohama, Japan, told |
the Methodist protestant board of |
foreign missions in Pittsburg recent |
ly of the wonderful reform move
nent now in progress in Japan. For
many hundred years the fathers in
Japan have been allowed by law to
sell their daughters to disorderly |
houses. One of the girls escaped |
about year ago and took refuge |
with Mr.. Murphy. He made an APP
peal to the supreme court of Japan
and has just secured decision that |
the practice is virtual slavery. This |
decision liberates over 81, 600 girls and |
about ll,000 have already escaped |
from their bondage.
The New York Times tells this |
one: During his tour of the steerage |
aboard the Kron Prinz Wilhelm, |
Henry accosted man sitting on the |
floor, propped against a water butt. |
The German nationality of the man |
was stamped in plain characters.
why have you left the vaterland?' |
asked the prince-his customary
query. The man raised his massive |
head and glanced at the prince with
no softening of his unhappy counte-
nance. ~ left there because l am
q free man to do as l chOose,n he
said, with smliness. Then he
glanced significantly at his meager
belongings and added, sneeringly:
''The vaterland has not lost much!"
The princed flushed. mo country
can afford to lose a man who is con-
scious of his freedom" he said
quickly.
Worm has turned.-The Globe, of
Atchison, Kas., says: ellison Somer-
vest has served notice on all the
in this city not to sell
his wife anything from a bargain
sale. SOmervest says his wife has
fully 500 worth of stuff that she will
never be able to use that she bought
at bargain sales simply because it
was bought at $l.47 or 5000, or some-
thing like that. He says she is the
victim of the bargain sale habit and
is not responsible Time and time
again he has gathered up his poor
children and gone out with them to
hunt their mother, only to find her
in free-for-all over bargain coun-
ter. Somervest says if his orders are
not obeyed he intends to smash few
bargain counters. Women often
warn saloonkeepers not to sell their
husbands liquor, and he says it is a
poor rule that win not work both
ways.