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

Fire destroyed eleven stores along
the public square at Colquitt, Ga.
Sunday morning.
The Southern Nut Growers associ
alton will hold their convention al
Macon in October.
The overlooking of the Mississippi
has done $6,00O,0O0 damage. The
water is now falling.
Delaware apples are being shipped
to England. Uncle Sam is taking
Il hand in the shipment.
The beginning of the second hall
of 1902 sees the railroads of the
United States cross the 200,000-mile
line.
Thirty thousand dollars mysteri-
Ously disappeared from the vaults
of the Masonic Temple safety deposit
in Chicago last Saturday.
The coroner's jury has declared the
officials of the Daly-West mine en-
tirely blameless for the accident by
which 30 men lost their lives.
Town Marshal james Cockrill, of
Jackson, KY, was fatally shot from
Il second-stOry window of the court
house Monday afternoon by unknown
parties.
Democrats of Missouri met at st.
Joseph Tuesday and endorsed the
Kansas City platform special stress
being placed on the free silver Is to
| plank.
John w. Mckay, the last of the
Bonanza Kings" died in London
night of congestion of the
lungs and brain. Deceased leaves
an estate valued at $S0,OOO,OOO.
What will be the largest sea island
cotton gin in the world is now going
up at ValdOsta, Ga, and will be
ready for the fall seasons work.
The capacity will be 100 bales per
lay.
VIM. S. Byers, a leading lawyer of
lhe Westmoreland County (Pa.,)
BAR, and the democratic nominee for
has been arrested, accused
'f robbing Jacob Byers of nearly
;250,000.
Judge G. J. Campbell has been in
licted for felonious assault upon
Rev. G. H. Crawford, whom he
lorsewhipped in front of the court
house at Amherst, Va, at the June
erm of court.
The census bureau issues a bulletin
IN the subject of agriculture in the
United States. Valuation $l6,674,-
94, ,A7. Live stock, $3,07S, ,050,0 ,04l
$76l ,26l, $50; making a
otal of $20, 5l4,00l 1888.
President Roosevelt is in receipt of
} letter from Senator John l.. Nc
Iaurin of South Carolina declining
he protfered appointment to the va
ancy on the bench of the United |
states court of claims.
The fire in the Haywood oil wells, |
was eXtinguished Monday
fternOOn. Nine boilers of 225 horse |
ower did the work. One of the we'll
jumps was use to force the water. |
he flames had been raging for a
Ieek.
Two companies of malitia were
rdered by special trains to Rusk,
henderson county, Tex, for the pro-
nction of negro who is upward of |
evenly years old, who is charged |
18th criminal assault on the daugh-
ar of II planter.
The Philadelphia Public Ledger
Ias purchased Monday by Adolph
/. Ochs from George S. Childs-
'reNel and the DreXel estate, and
OssessiOn was at once given Mr..
'chs. 1t is stated that over $2,25O,-
10 is involved in the transaction.
William j. Bryan left Lincoln,
Jeb., Saturday night for an extend
d speaking tour in the eastern and
lew England states. The present
rip is understood to be the begin
ing of an active campaign on the
art of Mr.. Bryan during the sum-
Ter and fall months.
Being convinced that a stranger
Tho accOsted him was fellowtowns-
IAN, Frederick Hanson, a prosper
us business man of Fitzgerald, Ga,
'as led into trap in New York
'Om which he was able to get out
18th his money and valuables only
fter a lively fight.
All organized effort to capture
larry Tracy, the escaped Oregon
onvict, has ended. No further posi-
5 will start after him. The pur-
ait of Tracy through Clark, Cow
tz, Lewis, Thurston, Pierce, Kit
up, Snohomish and King counties
as cost these counties $4,000.
A general order has been prepared
t the war department retiring Mai.
EN-. John o. Brooke, who reached
he age limit of GA years on Monday.
With the exception of Gen. Miles,
en-. Brooke is the only officer on the
ctive list of the army who reached
lie grade of brigadier general during
he civil war.
A dispatch from Milan, italy, to
le Daily Telegraph, reports the ar
EST by the police at Bra, near Turin,
a young barber, from Paterson,
I. J. The prisoner gives his name
5 TOnetti, probably assumed, and
Dnfessed that he is an anarchist.
apers seized at his domicile indi-
lted his intention to assassinate
ing Victor Emmanuel.
The Navy Department has an
Ounced that the two battleships
hich are to be built under the
lthority of the last naval
ppropriation bill are to be named
he Louisiana and Connecticut, the
Itter to be built at the New York
ard, and the two cruisers the Ten
essee and Washington. The bat
eships will cost $4,2I2,OOO, and the
ruisers $4,659,0 900 each.
The special committee of council
ppointed to look into the matter has
that /