The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-01-23
GoINGs ON IN FLORIDA.

GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.
Bowling Green has shipped $1,000
boxes of oranges this season.
The residence of ]. w. Higgins of
San Antonio has been destroyed by
fire.
Arbor day will occur on February
7th by proclamation Of Gov. Jen-
nings.
The Florida Conference of the
Lutheran church is in session at Mel
rose.
Senator Taliaferro has been elected
president of the Tampa First Ma
tional bank.
Bishop Weed confirmed a class at
the Episcopal church, Melrose, on
Sunday the 18th.
Hon. John B. Stetson the patron,
saint of DeLand is expected to arrive
in that place this week.
A manatee, or sea cow, weighing
489 pounds has been killed ON the
CaloOsahatchee river above Fit.
Myers.
V. L. Hopson, well-known real
estate dealer of Lake City, well con-
nected in this state and Georgia, is
dead of paralysis.
Holmes county offers a reward of
$1,000 for the arrest and conviction of
the incendiary who recently set fire
to the court house.
Hon. D. A. Finlayson has been
elected mayor of Monticello. The
electric lighting plant recently de-
stroyed by fire will be rebuilt.
George w. Adams, widely known
citizen of Pensacola, has become
suddenly insane over domestic infe-
licity. He has been taken to Chatta-
hoochee.
Andrew Carnegie has given 5000
for public library in Tampa on the
usual conditions. There is now a
hot fight ON in the town over a pro-
posed location.
The House committee of public
buildings and grounds will report
favoring the appropriation of $780,
600 to improve the Federal building
at Jacksonville
H. 0. Snedeker of Melbourne,
Federal civil war veteran, has be-
come mentally unbalanced through
long illness and has been taken to
Chattahoochee for expert treatment.
The cotton growers of the state
have organized an association at
Gainesville, ]. B. Dell is president.
Hon. John McAllister, of Melrose, is
the leading member from Putnam
county.
Mr.. E. J. Coan, former prominent
contractor and builder of Winter
Park has committed suicide by
drowning while suffering temporary
detection. His body has been recov-
from the lake.
The Grand Lodge of Masons is in
session at Jacksonville. There are
l45 active lodges of the, order in the
state and the total enrolled member
ship in 1901 was 4,460. James Ger
hCll vi NILlOuu 10 GllC SIdHu HAS GSI'
William G Ewing, an ex-judge of
Chicago, is going to tell the peo-
pie of Daytona just what Christian
Science is, in a public lecture, and
good many people think he will find
it harder job than that of being
Judge.
Robt. McNamee, of Tampa, ex-
speaker of the state legislature, has
secured verdict of 100000 damages
against John Denham, of the Pensa-
cola Press. "Blood from a stone you
cannot so you carry the stone,
Robert, and, perhaps some time you
may be able to swap it off for mu-
tilated 80 cents. But maybe the ex-
speaker understands this.
There is trouble in the First Con-
gregatiOnal church, Tampa. The Of
fetal board is agin' the pastor, Rev.
f. M. Sprague, but the congregation
is with him, and declares that he is
conducting the affairs of the church
in most excellent manner both as
regards its spiritual and temporal
matters. Safest to bet your money
on the congregations judgment.
Mr.. Henry M. Flagler has supple
mented his $4,000 gift of last spring
to the state Agricultural college, by
second gift of $4,000. 1t is a most
generous donation and worthy of the
widest publicity as showing the in
terest Mr.. Flagler feels in his adopt
ed state, though he makes request
that he would be best pleased by
having as little said about the mat
ter as possible.
Rev. J. B. Anderson, one time pas
tor of McTyeire Memorial Methodist
church, south, Jacksonville, but for
the past 10 years cashier of the EX-
change National bank, Tampa, has
retired from the bank. 1t is thought
he will enter politics, having become
acquainted with the trough rider"
president during the Spanish-Ameri-
can war, it is said he now looks to
the president for Federal job.
The little two-year old son of Mrs.
]. L. Hollingsworth, of Barlow, fell
backwards into an open fire place
last week. Mrs. Hollingsworth was
in an adjoining room and was at
tracted by the screams of the baby.
She picked him up, put him in a
bath tub and turned the water on,
which extinguished the flames, but
not until the child was horribly
burned. Mrs. Hollingsworth was al
so badly burned on the hands. 1t is
thought the little one will recover.