The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-07-24

cuItle broker Oh Culpeppef county,
g Va, who mysteriously disappeared
J., from Baltimore Christmas eve, 1901,
has been heard from. His father, S.
NJ. Newhouse, member of the gener-
: al assembly, was informed that
I letter had been received by Mrs.
NewhOuse in Culpepper from
i Charles, saying that the young man
q was in Cape Colony, South Africa.
The first trackless trolley in Amer
lea will be in operation at Franklin,
l n. H., the City Council having
: granted permission to u company to
erect poles and wires for the system
9 between the railroad tat ons.
i, Work on the new line is to be begun
/, at once. In Germany line of the
sort has been in operation for some
time from the old fortress of Konig-
stein through the Biela valley, the
cars running over the highway and
street pavements. s.-Eleetricity.
The auditors office of the United
States military government of Cuba,
which remained at Havana in order
to check the accounts up to May 10,
has finished its work. The final
balance certified over to the new
government May 10, was $l,6l3,8O8,
of which $685., 10 was in the treasury,
the remainder being in the hands of
the disbursing officers of the island.
About 100000 has been debited to
the military government on account
of estimates or possible claims.
A new religious sect has broken
out at Macon, Ga. A band composed
of fifteen negroes and four white
men have been organizing an invisi-
bic church. They wash each others
feet, and the women kiss each other
and the men kiss the men. They
claim that the fundamental law of
Christ is to have no color lines or
racial distinctions. They claim to
fight sin in every shape and to en-
courage people to be honest and
honorable. they have no member
ship rolls and pay preachers moth
ing for preaching.
The charge of grand larceny that
was formally made at police head
quarters by May Yohe, against ex-
Capt. Putnam Bradlee Strong, who
has mysteriously disappeared, has
been withdrawn. May Yohe's law
yer notified the police that his client
wished to formally withdraw all
charges against the missing man,
and that the reward of 81, 900 offered
| for information as to his wherea-
bouts was withdrawn. The lawyer
would only say that the charges
were withdrawn for the sake of the
family.
The free delivery system inaugu-
rated in Memphis by the Illinois
Central and the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroads as the extension of
| the fight originating in Louisville is
spreading.
Effective July 81, the Kansas City,
Memphis and Birmingham, h e
Eastern branch of the Frisco and
the Southern will adopt the free
dryage system. The Frisco will not
adopt the policy west of the river
and for this reason the likelihood of
the other Western roads taking a
hand is minimized.
A report received at Washington
says that as Bishop Moore of the NJ.
E. Church was en- route to the town
of 500 Won, COrea, about June 10 to
dedicate church, his party was at
tackled by Japanese coolies who were
building the railroad from Seoul to
Fusan. With the bishop We're his
young daughters and Messrs. APP
penzeller and Swearer, and all of
the party suffered, the bishops he'll
met alone saving his skull from d
crushing blow, while Appenzeller
was struck down by blow from
club and Swearer, the other mission
ary, received cash on the forehead.
Commonwealth Attorney, ]. G.
Tilton, has instituted suit for $4,000
against the Virginia-PIlot Publish
ing Company of Norfolk, Va, for
publication and circulation of an
alleged libel. The suit grows out of
certain articles in which Tilton was
criticised by the paper relative to the
position he took in declining to hold
Osborne, the alleged double wife
murderer for trial in Norfolk on the
charge of killing his wife in that
city, instead of turning him over to
the Oklahoma authorities to answer
for similar crime there in 1895.
The State Department has taken
active steps to save the life of DR..
Russell Wilson, young Ohio physi-
clan, who is held under arrest at
Blrefields by the Nicaraguan mill
tary authorities. Wilson was q
member of a filibustering party
which made landing near Monkey
Point, about four miles from Blue
fields. Most of the party were cap
tured, owing to the inability of the
commander of the expedition to land
reinfOrcements on account of heavy
weather and among the number was
Wilson.
One of the richest farmers in the
Kansas wheat belt is John I. Stew
ago, says the Chicago Chronicle.
He borrowed $50 from a friend, rent
ed a quarter section of land in Sum-
ner county and began work. To-day
he is worth $2,000,000 and had an in
come from wheat in 1901 of $4,000.
He is known as the wheat king of
Kansas. There are twenty-three
milliOnaires in Kansas, fifteen of
whom are farmers living on farms
and running them as an Investment.
Perhaps they have not all of their
fortunes invested in land, but q
goodly portion of it is.
"The way to gain good reputation is
to endeavor to be what you desire to ap-
pear" That is pr' cisely the manner in
which Chamberlain's Cough Remedy has
gained its reputation as a cure for
coughs, colds, Group and whooping
cough. Every bottle that has ever been
put up by the manufacturers has been
fully up to the high standard Of excellence
claimed for it. People have found that
it can always be depended upon for the
relief and cure Of these ailments and
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