The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-04-03
CONDENSED WORLD NEWS.

| from MdrCn II 10 ~, ana 1Our deaths
The city of Toxic has 800 public
baths, where some 100000 persons
battle daily at cost of about on,
half-penny each.
1t is estimated that by April I'll
fully 10000 employees in the southern
New England cotton mills will have
had their wages increased 10 pei
cent.
There is to be new Third party
composed of populist, socialists and
union labor, with other odd ele.
ments, and it is now in session al
Louisville.
A cyclone passed through Darling.
ton, Ala, on Friday completely de.
molishing the Methodist and Bap.
tist churches, doing damage to stores
and other buildings and wrecking
the depot.
Queen Wilhelmina and the prince
consort will shortly undertake a toul
of the Netherlands and the Dutch
colonies. During the queens alb
sence of four months regency will
De established.
The Catholic Laymen's association
of Chicago is to develop into a ma
tional organization. Chicago has a
membership of 10000. It's objects are
the promotion of purity and good
government.
James HI. Fairchild, the "grand old
man Of Oberlin." died last week, af-
ter an illness of several days. He
had been connected with Oberlin
college for 63 years, and was to Ober-
lin what Eliot was to Harvard.
The postoffice department is in the
predicament of having some jobs and
clerkships in some offices throughout
the country which it is having
trouble to give away, because the
salary is only $500 year.
Fifteen $1,000 bonds, the property
of the Jennie Clarkson Home for
Children, Westchester county, N. Y,
are missing. The securities were In
the care of George w. Lessels, who
acted as treasurer of the home.
1t is said to be the vatican's dc =
sire to adjust matters in the Philip
pines in accordance, with American
views and interests. Therefore, ii
has been decided to appoint no more
Spaniards among the new bishops.
The Coils P. Huntington estate,
now being inventoried by New York
states transfer tax appraisers acting
with the executors, will amount to
about $4,000, 900 or $29,000,0O0. The
transfer tax will approximate $780,
0OC.
A challenge for an airship race In
Chicago, to be held as a preliminary
event to the 100000 aerial steeple-
chases at the st. Louis worlds fail
of 1903, was sent to Santos-Dumont
at Paris last week by Theopolius
Williams of Chicago.
The government has decided that
a sub-treasury will not be located
either in Atlanta or Savannah. One
is not needed in the south, the ways
and means committee say ,and Secre.
tary Shaw has never seriously con-
sidered establishing one.
The trial of three officials of. the
vatican, charged with thefts from
the vatican treasury, aggregating
| El6,000. was concluded last week. All
official named Scotto was convicted
and sentenced to eight years impris'
onment, while the two others were
acquitted.
The supreme court of Californis
declare the trust clause in the will
of the late Senator James g. Fair in
valid, and the property will at orct
be distributed among the children o.
the deceased senator. 1t is estimat'
ed that the estate is worth upward o.
$40, 100000.
J. Steinman, the fellow arrested ii
Wisconsin, who declared that ht
was the accomplice of CzOlgOsz, the
assassin of President Mckinley
further said he was near Czolgosi
when the latter fired the shot anC
was ready with two revOlvers, load.
ed with poisoned bullets, to do the
work had Czolgosz failed.
A resident of Everett, Kan, wen
on the bond of ''jointkeeper" for
81 200 the other day, whereupon the
local paper printed the followinI
paragraph: "If this man is able tC
go on the bond of criminals he Ger.
tainly ought to be able to pay for hi
wedding Invitations which he got o
us few years ago. And we will
take fifty cents on the dollar for til,
account"
No matter what may be said o
Gen. Miles, he has won his figh
against the bill for the re-organiza
tiOn of the staff of the army befor
the senate committee on militar,
affairs. Gen. Hawley, chairman O
the committee says: tGen. Miles
criticisms are unanswerable, an,
unless Secretary Root is especial,
insistent for consideration of tn
measure, we shall not attempt t.
pass it,"
Ettrick, a small village in Virgins
had a genuine sensation last week
in the discovery that John Green,
person who has posed before tn
world for 80 years as married ma
and who has died, was a woman
The discovery was made by neigh
bors who were called in to prepar
the remains for burial. The wife i
the partnership survives. The wo
man came to the village from Raj
eigh, N. c., about two months ag
and belonged to the laboring class
The dead woman was 70 years old.
Because q new railroad will run Ii
front of his half million dollar man
sion which stands on a bluff frontin
Lake Superior at Marquette, Mich
John NJ. Longyear will take tn
house down piece by piece and NOV
~ fo prooE1fna n anburh of noafn