The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-09-18
CONDENSED WORLD NEWS

Ounudy laSJ was the annlVGfSHf
of the death of President Mckinley
Gen. John H. Forney, a major
general in the confederate army dur
ing the civil war, is dead at Jackson
vile, Ala.
William j. Bryan addressed al
audience of over 1000 people in Ton
JOhnson's tent at Toledo, Ohio, las
Saturday.
President Roosevelt received hi,
| friends and neighbors at Oyster Bay
last Monday. He shook hands will
5000 of them and never balked.
Even Kentucky shows an occa
sional spasm of righteousness. Al
injunction is to be asked for to pre-.
vent the Corbett-McGovern fight al
Louisville.
BY the explosion of gas and pow.
der in a coal mine at North Fork
w. Va, Monday morning II miners
lost their lives. Eleven bodies have
| been recovered.
Most Rev. Diomede Falconio has
been appointed by the vatican as pa
pal delegate to the United States.
He now serves in that capacity for
the Dominion of Canada.
Disastrous forest fires have been
raging the past week in Washington.
The town of Lewis River was de-
strOyed There has been an i'm
mense loss of property and over 70
lives.
Justice Horace Gray, retired JUS
tice of the United States supreme
court, died of paralysis at his home
in Nahant, Mass, on Monday. He
was appointed by President Arthur
in 1881.
Lieutenant r. F. Peary the Arctic
explorer sends dispatch from Lab
rador that he is on his way home on
the relief ship Windward. 1t is not
stated that he has with him section
of the north pole.
Horace Jackson of Birmingham,
Ala, a negro, has been sentenced for
murder in the second degree for par
ticipating in the lynching of another
negro who had murdered a woman
who refused to marry him.
The body of Harmon Smith, who
died at War Ridge, West Virginia,
was buried the other day. He was
the father Of 33 children. Twenty
seven sons and three daughters at
tended the funeral.
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
is in session at Des Moines, Iowa
with nearly 10000 in attendance.
This order has total of l2,792 subor-
dinate lodges, and LOOP .272 members.
The amount of relief distributed dur
the year amounts to $3,939, 1865.
The republican executive commit
tee of Alabama has decided by a
vote of II to 10 to bar negro delegates
from attendance at the state cOnven-
ton. The negro is indeed in hard
lines in Alabama when his political
saviour goes back on him.
The Methodist Episcopal church
of Wisconsin has called
upon the president to refute the re-
port that he has asked the vatican to
appoint Archbishop Ireland a cardi-
llal, on the ground that such inter-
ference violates the spirit of the
which requires the COM
plete separation of church and state.
Lieutenant John R. Morris, U. S.
N, was found dead in his stateroom
On the United States ship Olympia
by fellow-officer Monday. He had
committed suicide by shooting with
a revolver. The Olympia is an
chored off the navy yard. Lieuten-
ant Morris is the second officer of the
Olympia, Deweys flagship, to
commit suicide within five days,
Chaplain Morrison having shot him
self on Thursday last.
The application for a charter made
by the First Church of Christ
Philadelphia, was refused
On Monday by Judge Arnold in the
Common Pleas Court on the ground
that the court had no authority to
grant charter for corporation for
profit, that is, business corpora
lion. Judge Arnold said the So
called church was corporation for
profit organized to enforce the sale
Of Mrs. Eddy's books.
The great anthracite coal strike
IS still in progress with no sign of
The entire congrega-
CATION of the First Union Presbyter-
ian church, New York, last Sunday
night at the service voted on and adj |
opted II resolution calling upon the
coal operators and miners to end the |
strike. The resolution read in part:
I'VE demand of the contending par
ties a recognition of the rights of the
community, and we earnes ly re-
quest, in the interest of the general |
welfare, that they at once endeavOr |
to adjust their differences; and we
recommend that if they are unable |
TO come to any agreement among
themselves they submit the matter |
for final and peaceful adjustment to
arbitration" Rev. DR.. Geo. c. Lor- |
inner, pastor of the Madison Avenue
Baptist church, said the refusal of
the coal operators to listen to arbi-
tration would awaken the people to
speedy action. The entire American
people, he declared, should compel
the operators to arbitrate, whatever
the COST
Camp Faulkner, United Confeder-
ate Veterans of Montgomery, Ala,
has passed the following resolution:
''We, the members of Camp Faulk-
ner, United Confederate Veterans,
in special meeting assembled, take
this, the earliest opportunity, of eX-
pressing to General Terrence. COM
of the Grand Army of the
Republic, our heartfelt appreciation
Nf I,fc raoaOf anA rranornnc not Of
kindness in appealing to all the peo-
pie of this country for help for the
home at Mountain |
Greek. The appeal of General Tor
renee was unexpected and unsOlicit-
ed, and came from heart that is
big enough to take in all rren that