The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-11-06
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.

Cedar Key has new paper called
the Gulf Coaster, edited and man
aged by A. l.. Price.
A mill firm of North Carolina has
purchased a tract of 10000 acres of
timber land near Chipley.
Services at the Episcopal church,
Mclrose, will be resumed next Sun
day. Rev. 5. FisoE will ohiciate.
The Alachua county fair began
yesterday and will continue through
the week. A fine exhibit is expected
to draw big crowds.
Rev. Robt. H. Morris pastor of the
Presbyterian church at Ocala has
resigned and goes to GAINESVILLE,
Ga, where he has accepted call.
Howard Gamble prominent citizen
of Tallahassee had his arm caught in
the saws and machinery at the cot
ton oil mill, that city, last week and
1t was cut into shreds.
G. Henry Symmes, ir. one of the
substantial business men of Tampa
was accidentally shot and Instantly
killed by G. H. Shelves while out on
i hunt some distance from the city
last Monday.
Mike Bass, deputy sheriff, and p.
Lamar Self, of Madison, exchanged
two pistol shot at each other last
Monday morning on the principal
business street of that town. Neith-
er was hit; both were arrested and
bound over for trial. Self began the
shooting.
Sheriff Fennell of Alachua county
has just captured Jim Roads, ne
gro wanted for a murder committed
in that county II years ago, and who
has evaded arrest all that time. The
arrest was made in Sumpter county.
A true bill was found for the crime,
against Roads, Jan. II, 1890.
The residence occupied by d. S.
Lake, superintendent of the Ameri-
can Kaolin Co. at Yalaha, was
burned Monday night and is total
loss. The house was finely furnish
ed. Mr. and Mrs. Lake barely es-
capped with their lives. The house
was the property of j. Kingsbury.
Miss Mamie Marshall young
lady Of Apalachicola, died suddenly
at West Point, Miss, last week from
eating oysters. The young lady was
attending a girls school and wrote to
her father at Apalachicola express
ing the wish that she was in reach
of the delicious Apalachicola oys-
ters. Her father Immediately eX-
pressed her a case of "proceSsed oyS-
tersn from which the young lady
made a meal and soon after died.
Two little girls, daughters of depu-
ty sheriff Hawkins of Live Oak were
burned to death under peculiar and
distressing circumstances last Satur-
day morning. The children were
left in bed while their mother was
preparing breakfast. She heard
them crying, but thought it was be-
cause they objected to being left
alone. Later she went to them and
found the bed and the children
wrapped in flames. They were so
badly burned that both died that
night in awful agony.
Rev. j. G. Porter, owner and editor
of the Florida Baptist Witness, is
lying critically ill at his home in
0cala. Two weeks ago Mr.. Porter
was operated on at the hospital by
Drs. E. Van and Walter Hood. One
of his ribs was successfully removed,
and he grew rapidly better, and last
SUNDAY he was moved to his home,
and it was thought that he would be
out in a short while. But on Friday
he became worse, and now it is
greatly feard that his death may oc-
cur at any moment.
Conrad Decker, large property
owner of st. Augustine has begun
suit of foreclosure against the South
Beach Railway Mr.. Decker owns q
majority of the first mortgage bonds,
amounting to $4,000. An effort will
also be made by holders of second
mortgage bonds to foreclose, but it is
likely that compromise will be
effected. The road is now IN the
hands of receiver, and it is thought
that the legal proceedings will result
speedily in a change of management
and more liberal handling of the
properly, as it is understood that
men of capital will soon be in con-
troll. 1t is iutimated that electricity
will be substituted for steam, and
that the road will be brought across
the bridge to the city and the prop
erty ON AnastasiR island improved.