The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-03-20


day and it wasn't very good day for
pensions, either.
Lord and Lady Pauncefote have
been guests of Geo. w. Vanderbilt
at "Biltmore," near Asheville, N. G.
They went back to Washington last
Saturday.
1T was degrees below zero at Bis
marck on Saturday and wind was
blowing from the nocth at a speed of
10 miles an hour so as to keep the
flies off people.
The rivers of Georgia and Alabama
were terribly swollen on Monday.
The high water mark of the dampest
season will be reached, and farmers
will be heavy losers.
Jose Diaz Alvarez, a young Mexi-
can has pleaded guilty of stealing
the $500 gold watch of former Gov.
Hogg, of. Texas, on Oct 2l in the
Waldorf-Astoria, New York.
Prince Hen-nery arrived at Ply
mouth, England on st. Patrick's day
in the morning. 1t is LO5 stated
whether he was welcomed by a
breakfast, a luncheon or dinner.
A written appeal by Geo. J. Gould
has been sent to Gov. Benz F. Odell,
of New York, for an appropriation of
$500, 700, to adequately represent the
Empire state at the st. Louis worlds
fair.
The senate has passed the ship
subsidy bill by a vote of AZ to 81.
McLaurin of South Carolina voted
with the republicans. Mr.. Mallory's
amendment was rejected by a vote
of 26 to 46.
There was a slight earthquake
shock at Bayonne, N, j. last Satur-
day. 1t was the fourth within
month, and the people are getting
dizzy and beginning to wonder where
they are at.
The will of Alfred Booth, the Chi
cago fish trust founder, disposes of
property worth $2,000,000. Mr..
Booth, it is said, was in the habit of
making q will every year before TAX
ing a trip abroad.
BY vote of.33 to 8, the Iowa sem
ate has passed the ways and means
committee bill for the taxation of |
railroad property on basis of stocks
and bonds, net and gross earnings
and physical condition.
Cornelius Van Ness, the octogena-
rian millionaire of Port Jervis, for
merly of New York, has gratified an
ambition of years by being baptized
in the River Jordan. He sailed for
the orient some time ago.
J. Pierpont Morgan and party was
water-bound on Jekyl island, oppo-
thanks be to hevins there was plenty
of champaign on the island and
every BODY knows j. Pierp has the
price.
The body of ex-Gov. John P. Alt
geld, of Illinois, who died suddenly
at Joliet last week after making a
rousing pro-Boer speech, lay in state
in the Chicago public library on
Friday and was buried the follow
ing day at Graceland cemetery.
The senate on Saturday passed a
bill appropriating $l50,0O0 to estab-
lish Il Marine hospital at Savannah,
and the people of that city are as
tickled as though Carnegie gave
them $4,000 for library with 10
ner cent maintenance clause thrown
in.
Dawson and towns adjacent are
excited over an important gold strike
made in February on tributary of
the Pelly river, between that stream
ot,I VpEOD Al r,,iIae, fFn,,, rEnpt Gal |
kirk. Outcoming miners say dirt
running as high as $700 per pan was
taken out.
President Green of the Texas Mid
land Railroad Co. has received pa
tent on his system of wireless tele-
President Green stated
that he will soon install his wireless
system on the Midland, which will
be the first railroad in the world that
will use the Marconi system.
Albert T. Patrick, on trial in New
York for the murder of millionaire
w. M. Rice, is probably going to get
clear. The physicians say Rice
didn't die of chloroform, and now
Patrick has been able to prove an
alibi the day and hour he is charged
with having given valet Jones the
1t is the theory of the police that
an organized band of negro women
and white men are responsible for
the recent Beaumont, Tex, murders,
after robbery, and the sheriff is MAX
ing arrests on that theory. He now
has a woman in the 'tsweat box"
~, Ialf 10 l,n fItaY nj |
and thinks that she will shortly con-
fess. :
Rev. jeremiah ]. Crowley, the Ro-
man Catholic clergyman who was the
central figure in sensational scene
in Chicago on Nov. 3 last, when the
lights in Holy Name cathedral were
turned out and the celebration of
high mass stopped in an effort to
enforce ban of accommodation
against him, has been restored to the
priesthood, celebrating high mass in
the church of the Immaculate Con-
ception last Sunday.
Senator Mallory of Florida has
an amendment to the ship
subsidy bill, depriving all vessels
from the benefits of the act whose
owners have been within the past
year parties to "anv agreement or
understanding of any kind with any
| son or corporation, the purpose of
which agreement has been TO control
ocean freight rates OF to control or
prevent competition in the transpor-
tation of the products of the United
States to foreign countries or the
transportation of the products of
foreign countries to the United
States"