The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-02-27

deaths are the result.
John D. Long, Secretary of the
Navy, has determined to retire from
the presidents cabinet.
The presidents son has sufficiently
recovered from his recent illness to
be removed to Washington.
Cortez, second in command to the
insurgent General Malvar, has been
captured in the suburbs of Santa
Cruz.
Miss Ellen NJ. Stone, the American
missionary held in captivity by brig
ands since Sep. Sd, last, has been re-
leased.
Arthur H. Noyes, judge of the sec
ond division of the United States
District Court for Alaska has been
dismissed from Office.
The Philippine tariff bill has pass
ed the Senate by a strict party vote.
The senators from South Carolina
were not allowed to vote.
The average depth of the Texas
spOuting oil is a few feet more than
thousand, and the height to which
the oil is elected so to 200 feet.
England has given the United
States consent to construct an 18TH
mian canal. In other words the
Hay-PauncefOte treaty has been rati-
fed.
I The president withdrew his invita-
| tiOn to Senator Tillman to attend
the official dinner in honor of Prince
Henry. Tillman is mad all over
now.
Rev. DR.. Chas. f. Lord, congrega-
tionalist, well-known in theological
circles, died in Newburyport, Mass,
last week aged So. Mr.. Lord was
the author of many books on the
ology.
Two republican members of the
present house of representatives
were delegates to the republican
national convention of 1854, which
put in nomination the Lincoln and
johnson ticket.
Quail are becoming so scarce in
Europe that France and Germany
have joined in prohibiting the kill
ing of the birds, and even the trans
port of dead quail across their re-
spective territories.
The growth of Dawson City is in
dicated by the fact that the First
Methodist Church of that city has
called to the pastorate Rev. James
Livingstone of Windsor, Ont, at a
salary Of $1,000 year and a parson-
age.
Prince Henry of Prussia, brother
of the German Emperor, arrived in
weeks stay in the United States. |
The president gave an official din
ner in honor of the visiting prince
on Tuesday night.
A piece of virgin gold weighing
2.lS onces troy was put in the melt
ing pot of the United States assay |
office at Helena, Mont, negotiations
for its preservation in nugget form
having failed because of the impos-
sibility of an exact assay.
Miners have been forced to leave
the Tenant Coal Co.'S mine at Tur-
ner, Ind, on account of the intense
heat caused by the burning coal more
than 100 feet underneath the ground.
1t is believed that the mine will
have to be flooded and abandoned.
In Hayti a new species of tobacco
has been produced by cross fertiliza-
tion, which grows from five to seven
feet in hight, bearing leaf twenty
five inches long by fifteen in width.
Three or even four cuttings can be
made from one plant between No
vember and March.
An instrument has been perfected
by a jamestown, N, Y. man for sig
mailing between trains on the same
railway track. 1t is based on the
wireless telegraph principle, and
signals automatically when two
trains are within 1000 feet of each
other. 1t also indicates in which di-
rection each of the two is running,
or if one of them is standing still on
the track.
nous family of artists, aud one of
the pioneer photographers of this
country, who did much important
work for the United States govern
ment in the earlier days of the
science, is dead in New York. Mr..
Moran made the first pictures of the
original route of the Panama canal.
He was the chief photographer of
the expedition sent out in 1871 to OBJ
serve the transit of Venus.
Artists in Chicago are circulating
a petition praying the president,
and the bureau of indian
affairs to reconsider the recent or
der requiring the red men of the
west to cut their hair and abandon
the custom of painting their faces.
1--WE protest against such an order,'
says the petition, "as being a meas
ure calculated to stamp out the dis
customs of a people who now
one of the most vividly
and truly artistic ele-
ments of our western country"
Senators Tillman and McLauren of
South Carolina got into a fight in
the United States Senate last Satur-
day and knocked the dignity of that
body into smithereens. They were
each other in true pugil-
istic fashion, and had drawn blood
when they were forcibly separated
by the sergeant-at-arms and two
built senators. 1t was
the most disgraceful affair ever wit I
messed in the senate, and the partic-
ipants are now held in contempt
and cannot address the senate until
the contempt has been purged.