The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-10-02
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.
Lawtey people are planting largely
in strawberries.


county, last week.
James Kittle, postmaster at Hast
ings, died last week at Baltimore,
whittier he had gone for his health.
The Florida State College at Talla-
hassee has opened with the largest
attendance in the history of the in
stitution.
| A. g. Crofts, an electrician of Eus-
tis, shot himself through the heart
with suicidal intent in Chicago re-
Gently. He died instantly. He was
20 years of age.
The Florida Methodist Conference
contemplates establishing an orphan
age at Lakeland, 40 acres of land
having been donated by McRae Bros.
OF that place for site.
Marion Tillis of Fort Meade has
been arrested and placed under u
$1,000 bond to appear before the Grim
mai court OF Tampa next term for
making murderOus assault upon
Capt. Carter of the Tampa police.
Rev. r. B. Templeton. the hust-
ling pastor of the NJ. E. Church at
MelbOurn is making extensive re-
pairs on the parsonage and church
in that place. Rev. Tempeton was
formerly pastor at Como, this county.
Tampa has accepted a proposition
to maintain the grounds in front OF
the Tampa Bay Hotel as a city park
at rental of $4,000 per year. The
hotel company agrees to keep the
hotel open in the winter season, and
to keep the grounds in order.
a Kissimmee firm is shipping large
quantities Of cat fish to the north for
which it receives five cents a pound.
After being dcOdorized, deb0ned.
blocked ana salted it is shipped back
to Florida and other southern states
rs boneless Goldfish from Bawston.
The first car load of oranges to be
shipped from Florida this season
went north over the Seahoard Air
Line Monday morning. The car was
shipped from Palmetto and was con-
signed to Charles Roth of New Or
leans. The car contained 500 boxes.
Mrs. j. w. Bronson OF st. Angus
tine skipped her home some time ago
with her little son. Mr.. Benson has
now located the wife in Valdosta,
living with George Mier, also of st. |
Augustine. Benson is willing his eX-
wife should have Mier, but will make |
an effort to secure the son.
One of the proprietors of an Ocala
hotel went to his room one night last |
week, turned on the gas, adjusted his
necktie, took IL graceful attitude on
the bed and went to sleep. His re-
mains were found next morning by |
the bell boy, as the deceased expect
ed they would be.
Joe Zeigler a base ball pitcher of
DeLand broke his arm while indulg-
ing in one of his swift curve pitches
last week. The ball was wet and
slipped from his hand while his arm
was making 'steen hundred revo-
lutions Il MINUTE, the momentum
being so great as to snap the bone
above the elbow.
The little son of a poor widow by
name Dixon, living at Winston, was
run down and killed by an Atlantic
Coast Line train near Lakeland on
of last week. The boy
was asleep on the track, and the en-
gineer did not see him in time to
stop the train. The boys head was
severed from his body. No blame is
to the railroad employees.
The DeLand Supplement Ito f.. o.
Painters fertilizer fOundry) contin-
uGs its ancient practice of purloining
matter from the columns Of this pa
per. While we are not disposed to
Mr.. Painters taste in the
matter selected, we could scarce re-
irain from paying homage to his su-
perb nerve. If in the work of "bOr-
rowing" ideas for the proper combi-
nation of those active principles of
he dung heap which go to make up I
MS fertilizers he uses that same nice I
discrimination which has character
zed his newspaper efforts, the prod
act OF his foundry certainly has
1 value.
William j. FriersOn an express
on the SeabOard Air Line,
living at Ocala, got off his train at
hat place ut an early hour on We'd 5
lesday morning of last week and {
vent to his home, expecting to find |
some one there without the formality
IF license. He had been given a ,
tip" On arrival at his home he
'attled the front door, then went
'Ound to the back door only to meet
Nose Brown, man of the town
out. Frierson opened fire ;
m Brown, which the latter returned.
Brown was killed, and Frierson bad
v wounded. The sympathy of the {
own is with Fri9rsOn. Mrs. Frier-
,on was formerly Miss Clark, and '
handsome woman. She was not {
Brown was buried in the
Hebrew cemetery the same after
loon.
Thos. G. Faircloth and Theodore !
smith, murderers of Mr.. and Mrs. l..
3. Lewis of Levy county on the night
If Aug. 30th, paid the penalty for |
heir crime on the gallows at Bron-
ION at noon Tuesday, just 30 days
rom the day the crime was commit ,
ID. 1t was one of the quickest eX- |
tmples of the legal punishment of
rhine in the history of any state and
las done more to solve the problem
If the lynching evil in Florida than
I'll the double-leaaed editorial dis
luisitions against the practice that
iave been written in the past decade.
Faircloth was baptised according to
methods of the Baptist denomination :
he day before, in his coffin box. He /
md Smith experienced large in
7oice of religion Immediately after
heir conviction and until their final {
cap seemed to feel cock-sure of a
inch on heaven. Spectators to the {
however, got the impression {
hat the eleYntor Shnt in the nnnnsite !