The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-02-13


The cotton crop of the year 19O1-'Oz
will reach nearly l0,8O0,OOO bales.
Prince Henry may postpone his
visit for short time owing to the
serious illness of the presidents son.
Rev. Madison G. Peters, of New
York, has accepted call to I'm
manuel Baptist tabernacle, Balti-
more.
Two members of the Ninth caval-
ry, a negro regiment in the Philip
pines, have been hanged for deser-
tion to the enemy.
Lillian Nordica has cancelled her
engagements for a time, owing to the
effects of injuries sustained in rail-
road wreck in Georgia.
A permit has been issued for the
terminal station of the Lake Shore
and Rock Island railroads in Chica-
go at cost of $2,000,000,
Lord Kitchener had DeWet, the
Boer leader, in trap again last week,
but when the trap was sprung the
willy Boer had escaped.
The great Paterson N. ]. fire of last
Sunday cost but two lives. There
were 63 injured and they are being
cared for at the hospitals.
Hon. Charles Parker, first mayor
Of Meriden, Conn.,, and one of the
leading manufacturers of Connecti-
cut, is dead, aged 93 years.
The annual report of the depart
ment of buildings, just given out,
shows the cost of building operations
in New York city in 1901 was $780,
072,657.
Ira NJ. Collins, of Hackensack, N.
j., has been accidentally drowned
in the Philippines, where he had
gone as teacher in the government
employ.
A dispatch from Canton, China,
announces that the Berlin Mission
ary Society's buildings at Fayen,
have been burned by an anti-Chris-
tian mob. The missionaries escaped.
President and Mrs. Roosevelt have
been at Groton, Mass, the past few
days at the bedside OF their son,
Theodore, jr., pupil at the Groton
school and who is ill with pneumo-
mia.
In caucus to consider alleged dis
franchisement of voters in the south, |
several southern republicans want a
strong federal election law, rather
than a reduction of membership
from the south.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee lectured at the
Chicago Auditorium Monday night |
under the auspices of the National
Union, a fraternal patriotic order.
His subject was "Peace and war in
the United States and Cuba"
Wallace Downey, president of the
TOwnsend-Downey Shipbuilding Co.
of New York, which is building the
yacht Meteor for Emperor William,
estimates that there will be accomo-
datiOns for about 800 people at the
Thos. d. Robertson, pioneer
banker and lawyer of northern Illi-
nois, is dead at Rockford, aged "a
years. He was one of the founders
Of Beloit college and Rockford col
lege for women. His estate is esti-
mated at $750,000.
Rep. Lacey of Iowa, has introduced
4 resolution calling for a reproduce
ion of $4,000 Photographic fac-simile
copies of Thomas Jefferson's life
md Morals of Jesus of Nazareth ="
The only volume in existence is in
Jhe Smithsonian Institute.
1t is intimated that President
Roosevelt will recommend to con-
yress that the grade of vice-admiTal
he revived in order that it may be
bestowed upon Capt. Clark of the
Oregon, who will represent the navy
vt King Edwards coronation.
Prof. Leopold Mabilleau, the noted
French sociologist and lecturer, will
to the French govern
nent that Chicago be selected as the
Ocation for the French school of
commerce and industry which is to
De established In the United States.
The senate committee on public
and grounds has author
zed Senator Fairbanks to make a [
favorable report on his bill provided s
or the erection of a new state de-
,artment building on the site of the
Id COrcOran art gallery to cost ST. ,
100, 900.
Gov. Taft of the Philippines re- {
,eives $40, 900 a year salary and the |
,ther commissioners $4,000 a year
zach in gold, and yet they say they !
,annot get along on that money as
he Philippine ladies like to be en- .
and of course they must be '
right.
Gen. Wood, military governor of {
cuba, appeals for n reduction of 33
3 per cent on sugar coming into the {
United States, which, he says, will l
rive an average profit of 4S cents on I
zach 800 pounds of sugar produced,
md that such reduction should be !
no minimum.
Mrs. Mary McKittrick, who lived {
llone in a dingy home at Greenwood,
Y. Y, and who for many years was
by charity, died few !,
lays ago. Now various sums of
money, amounting in all TO $4,000, :
lave been found secreted about the 4
rouse, much to the delight of the :
leirs. :
The London Globe expresses indig- V
Iation that the ministers permitted
heir wives and children to be de- c
.raded by bowling to the infamous {
Iowager empress and receiving dec c
rations from her blood-stained +
Iands," adding: 1.-THE necklace she T
laced on Madam Conger should i
ave been spurned as the gift of muir S
erers chargeable with the torture I
nd death of American Christian 7
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