The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-01-16
DOMESTIC NEWS.

Samar FlllplnOS are SAID to be
showing more hostility to Americans
than ever.
Admiral Schley and wife were ac-
Orded a grand ovation in Savannah
last week.
Gen. F. j. Heron, who was with
Grant at Vicksburg, is dead in New
York, aged So.
Commodore E. E. Potter, retired,
dead in Belvidere, ILL.,, served with
Schley in the civil war.
Hobson, it is said,. is to leave the
navy and make dash for congress
from the sixth Alabama district.
John L. Sullivan ex-champion pug
gilist is playing the character of
''Legree". in an Uncle Toms Cabin
company.
PHILIPPINE commission, Manila, is
reported preparing to order cOmpul-
cory smallpox vaccination through
out the island.
Adelaide Smith gets $5,400 from
the estate of the late eX-President
Hayes in Ohio, because Hayes's dog
bit her some years ago.
Arthur Pue German has been I'M
animously named for United States
Senator by the democratic caucus of
the Maryland legislature.
University if Chicago experts are
dissecting the brain of Frank Collier,
famous deceased lawyer, to learn
what caused his insanity.
"Prince" David Kawanonokoa, of
Hawaii, was married last week in
San Francisco to Miss Abigail Camp
bell, by Archbishop Riordan.
T. B. Thiele, Chicago, gets a silver
medal from Pope Leo Sin recogni-
tion of his services in propagating
the Catholic faith in America"
The ice bridge now in the gorge be-
low Niagara falls appears substan-
tial structure in every way and there
are prospects that it will remain sew
eral weeks.
Roland B. Molineux will not be
placed on trial for a second time in
N6W Olh lOl UiC llulNcl VI MIS-
Catherine j. Adams until the begin
ming of March.
Pretty Bessie Currier, aged 13, is
accused of being a witch by neigh
bors in Elkhart, Ind, because uneX-
planned rappings have been heard
when she was around.
F. HI. Peavy, Minneapolis million
aire, left $1,000 in his will to j. l.
Brewer, Chicago, 'for being kind to
me when q boy" and a generous be-
quest to all his employees,
Sidney Lascelles,Ta promi n n
swindler who as Lord BeresfOrd"
has served terms in the New York
and Georgia penitentiaries, has again
been arrested, this time in Boston.
Edmund Peck, retired Methodist
aged 80, and his daHgh-
ter Mary, aged 30, were burned to
death early last week in fire which
destroyed their home near Bethany,
Conn.
Two local trains collided in the
New York Central tunnel that bur-
rows under Park avenue, New York
last week. Fifteen passengers were
killed and twice that number in
jured.
w. K. Vanderbilt expects his
the duchess of Marlbor-
ough, to pay visit to Idle Hour,
Oakdale, Long Island, shortly after
the coronation of King Edward next
summer.
Bryan told Clevelanders recently
that he wasn't a candidate for any
thing, and thought it a trifie early to
name Tom l.. Johnson or anybody
else as the democratic candidate for
president in 1904.
Mrs. Jack Wilmerding, grand
daughter of Commodore Vanderbilt,
is reported again insane in New
York. She was once confined in an
asylum and is divorced from her
husband. She is wealthy.
There never was time when the
wealthy men of New York have Civ
en- so much attention to the trotter
as now. In the last two years half
a dozen of them have bought and
stocked farms near that city.
Ambassador Choate has withdrawn
from the New York law firm of
Evarts, Choate & Beaman, with
which he has been connected for
nearly 80 years. Duties as ambassa-
dor to England claim his time.
Jacob H. Schiff has purchased a
site in New York on which II has
been reported he will build a home
for the New York Jewish theological
The seminary now has 30
students. 1t was organized in 1886.
Rev. 1. Garland Penn of Atlanta
called on President Roosevelt recent
ly and arranged for the reception
Jan. Is, of a delegation
who are to invite him to a young ne
groes' Christian congress in Atlanta
next August.
The open air treatment for persons
in the early stages of consumption,
is shown to have been eff1cacious to
the extent of about 81 per cent of the
cases treated during the past year
in the Massachusetts, state SANTA
rum in Rutland.
Gen. "Joe" Wheeler in Cleveland
last week; "There will be no pOliti-
cal break in the solid south by any
party which tries to interfere from
the north through the medium of the
politicians with the solving Of the
color problem by the south.H