The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-02-27
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| A4~h wv LbObCLb ID VIII
was the first governor of Alabam
after the reconstruction period,
dead.
A friend of the Tuskegee institute
whose name is not made public, ha
given $4,000 to the institute for
girls dormitory.
Gen. Fred Funston has entirely re
covered from the operation performet
upon him, and has been discharged
from the hospital.
Rev. Newman Hall, D. D., of Lon
don, former chairman of the congre
gational union, is dead. DR.. Hal
was born May %, 1916.
Commander Booth-Tucker of tn,
salvation army took the oath of al
legiance as a citizen of the UniteC
States in New York last week.
Mayor Jones, of Toledo, refused tt
send confessed beggar to "the poo
works" in that city on the grounC
that ''men have divine right tc
beg"
In regard to fiction in libraries
Andrew Carnegie says it might be
well for public libraries that they
buy no work of that character which
is not at least one year old.
Miss Lulu Conrad, aged 1S, OF
Wooster, Ohio, blind from age of g.
was injured about the face from q
sleighing accident, and when the
swelling disappeared her sight came
back.
The selection of Booker T. Wash
ington as commencement day orator
for the University of Nebraska next
June has caused some opposition,
and some of the students may pro-
test.
A mass meeting of citizens of
Portland, Ore, denounced the reso-
lutions adopted recently by the trus-
tees of the Chamber of Commerce
favoring the unrestricted immigra-
ton of certain favored classes of
Chinese.
At the sale of the library of the late
Thos. j. Mckee in New York, 81 700
was paid for Mai. John Andres origi-
nal manuscript prologue, written and
spoken by him on the occasion of the
opening of the John Street, theater
in New York on the evening of Jan.
8, l779.
"Rev." Moses Nye who claims to
be a converted Hebrew" an eX-
clothing merchant, but now a Bar =
tist evangelist, is doing time in the
Toledo workhouse for being too
flip" with Mrs. Poerkson, and mau =
ing the woman's husband when he
demonstrated.
DR.. Cornelius w. Larson, of Rim
goes, N. j., who braved the danger
of smallpox contagion caring for the
living and burying the dead alone,
has been attacked by the disease at
the house of patient. Two other
members of the family have also
been stricken down.
The Ohio legislature has passed
a bill aimed at christian scientists,
that any parent or guard
ian who shall willfully deprive any
sick child under the age of Is years
the services of physician shall
be fined from $40 to 5000 or be i'm
Drisoned for 6 months, or both.
Will Prince was found guilty of
in the fourth degree in
Kansas City, and sentenced to two
years Imprisonment. The special
charge was completely in the murder
Of Philip H. Kennedy, who was shot
and killed by his wife, Lulu Prince
Kennedy, Jan, 10 1901.
DIR Leonel De Peau, of Richmond,
Va, says that President Tomas Es-
trada Palma, newly chosen president
Of Cuba, ever lands on that island,
there will follow Immediately a rev.
Olution between the whites and
blacks there which will again tear
the island to pieces. Annexation,
he says, is the only solution.
The British ship Bankburn, which
sails from Victoria, B. c., is the last
Of the IL salmon ships which have
taken 679,247 cases of salmon, valued
ut $2,7l6,8S8, to Liverpool and Lon
Ion. With the shipments made by
The steamers, more than $3,000,000
VI IldNS DGCII
from British Columbia,
Commenting on the Danish West
indies treaty the st. Thomas Tribune
says: "There is nothing advantage
sous in it for the islands. The gene
al feeling is one of utter disappoint-
nent, There is not a solitary line in
Jhe document promising better times.
No compensation is offered for shut
ing off the islands from their sole re-
'Ource-a free harbor.
Claude Grouse, an Indianapolis
has broken the worlds rec
,rd as the fastest operator on the
linotype machine. He put up in Z
hours and 40 minutes 1920 ems.
rhe fastest record heretofore made
vas the same number in s hours by
IN Iowa printer. Grouse set $1,000 |
,ms. This included corrected proof. !
John l.. Vincent, IL years old, of
Lockport, ILL.,, accidently shot and
killed his sister, Anna Adeline, 8
years old, while playing with a re-
7olver. She died almost instantly,
hot through the heart. Stella, the
)aby, which she held in her arms
ell to the floor. The bullet had
,razed the little ones head just
lbove the ear.
At the recent session of the wo-
mans suffrage convention Miss Fem
ham, dean of the American College
or Girls in Constantinople, said the
general impression that Turkish
are shut up behind the
atticed windows of the harem and
lave little chance to go about the
iity, is far from correct. Polygamy
s fast giving way, not from moral |
on the part of the Turks,
'ut because of their lack of means to
upport large families, the Turkish !
wives Of this generation declining to
i've together under the same roof,