The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-10-09
GOINGS ON FLORIDA.

"A HCW DullK WlUu HZO,UUU cdDl GaI
has been organized at st. Peters
burg. John Trice of Tampa is presi-
dent.
Adjutant General Foster wants the
state to provide permanent encamp-
ment grounds for the Florida state
troops.
The Seminole hotel at Winter Park
will be rebuilt upon a much larger
scale than the one recently destroyed
by fire.
Rev. Thomas Dixon, author of the
new serial novel ''The Leopard's
SpOts,n lectured last week in Gaines
vile and Tampa.
The congregation of Trinity M. E.
church, Jacksonville, will build Il
new house of worship at the corner
of Monroe and Laura streets to cost
$3l 900.
The people of Cutler have gone into
the alligator pear business. 1t is
said that some varieties of this fruit
sells as high as one dollar a dozen OH
the trees.
J. r. Hinton of Titusville fell over
the bannister leading to his room
over Dosley's saloon and received in
juries from which he afterwards
died. He had been drinking.
Jacksonville is to have five sub
postal stations in the suburbs of thai
city and Senator Talliaferro stock
has raised several points by reason
of his work in securing the conces-
sion.
The little son of Mrs, Florence
Bailey II widow of Minneola had his
hands blown all to pieces last week
by the eXplOsio of dynamite cap
which he was trying to pick open
with a pin.
While driving into Ocala last Fri
day with her father, Miss Lynne
Mathews was thrown from the buggy
by the sudden fright of the horse.
The lady's collar bone was broken
by the fall.
Not only will nearly every county
in Florida be represented at the Fair,
but exhibits have been entered from
twelve other states and two foreign
countries, both of the latter coming
direct to our Fair.
R. &. Walker, a Pennsylvania,
is the moving spirit in building a
new and large sirup mill at Orlando
for the porpOse of making sirup from
the new Japanese sugar cane--a cane
which grows on high land.
The Consolidated Naval Stores
Company with $3,0OO,0OO capital has
nt
that city instead of Savannah will
be the headquarters for Florida ma
val stores in future. Big thing.
Mayor Mckay of Tampa is still
racing and betting money on his bob
tailed horse despite the fact that he
has lost every race in which his
horse has thus far participated, and
got himself under the ban of the
preachers and goo-goos of the city.
NJ. S. Booth of Ybor City, Tampa,
cashier of the express company, is
charged with being short in his ac-
counts 5000. Booth says he is the
victim of dirty work and while he
has put up the cash to make the
good, proposes to stand by
and find out who has been doing
him."
Rear-Admiral James f.. Jouett,
u. S. n. retired, whose home is at
Orlando, died at his former home,
Sandy Springs, Md, last week. Admi-
raj Jouett had gone there on visit,
was taken ill two weeks ago, and the
first the family knew of his fatal ILL
ness was the telegram announcing
his death.
Fernandina feels proud because
Edward Swami of New York, son of
Samuel A. Swami prominent busi-
ness man of Fernandina, has been
nominated by the democrats of the
Tenth congressional district of New
York for congress. This was the
district so long and so ably repre-
sented by the late Amos j. Cum
mings.
Teddie Massey a l4-year old girl of
Tampa was last week enticed away
from her home by a young Cuban,
son of q prominent cigar manufac-
turer, under promise of marriage.
He took her to house on the reser-
walton where he kept her several
days and until found by the police.
The father of the girl has not yet
killed the villain.
A daughter of J. G. Markhour of
Hog Pond in the western part of
Marion county killed herself and
child last Sunday. She gave the
child a phial filled with a liquid
which she told it to drink, which it
did. She then drank some of the
liquid, and before help reached them
the child was dead and the woman
unconscious, and she died very
shortly afterward.
The body of Charles Walls was
found in the st. Johns river at Jack
souville Monday. He was MEM
ber of the Tampa cigarmakers
union, and had been in the st. Au-
gustine Hospital for hemorrhage of
the lungs. From papers on his per-
son it was discovered that he had
children living in New York. 1t is
not known whether he was a suicide
or the victim of accidental drown
ing.
1t is now thought that Bert Hud-
son of Hastings, whose suicide was
reported last week, may not have
committed suicide at all, and his
body has been eXhummed and the
wounds carefully looked at by ply
sicians. 1t is rumored that only II
week before. his death his life was
threatened by man to whom he
owed money. No physician was
present at the inquest, and several
of the jurymen found it hard to re-
concile his wounds with the suicide
theory.
A. 7. Williams well-known far
mer residing one mile south of Talla-
hassee, while operating a moving