The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-02-20

lanta, died Monday afternoon.
The presidents son is now out of
danger and the president is again in
Washington.
The president has recommended to
the senate special legislation looking
to the retirement of naval construc-
tor HobsOn.
VIM. H. West. the well known
minstrel is dead at Chicago. He
was of the original firm of Barlow,
Wilson, Primrose d West.
All of thenortheastern states were
buried deep in snow on Monday.
Boston had foot of wet snow. At
lantic City had eighteen inches.
Labor unions throughout the coun-
try are sending petitions to congress
to have warships built in the navy
yards instead of at private yards.
The ransom for the detained Amer
lean missionary, Miss Stone, has
been paid to the brigands, but they
have not yet delivered the goods.
Senator Pritchard has presented a
report urging, the appropriation of
$5,00O,0O0 for the creation of ma
tional forest reserve in the South
Appalachian region.
Gov. Mcbride, of Washington, has
announced his intention to dismiss
any state employe who accepts pass
over railroad and declares he will
crush out the lobby.
No work has yet been done under
the contract made a year ago to re-
move the wreck of the Maine, which
today remains in the same position,
and is menace to shipping.
A republican newspaper controlled
by Americans will be established at
Manila, it is said. 1t is probable
that one or two pages of the news
paper will be printed in Tagalog.
Forged paper sold sby the defunct
Platte Valley bank, of Bellwood, |
Neb., has already reached an aggre-
gate of $l50,000, and it may largely
exceed this. Cashier Amos Gould is
in jail.
Earthquakes at Shamaka, Russia,
has destroyed the town, and two |
recovered from the fissures. The |
Red Cross society is active in the
work of relief.
Prince Henry has sailed for Amer
lea. He will be given state dinner
at the White House, which consider
ing the complexion of former guests
at that board is no great thing under
the present administration,
Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait has been
reelected president of the National
Woman Suffrage Association for the
ensuing year. Susan B. Anthony
and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were
elected honorary presidents.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis appeared be-
fore the Mississippi legislative COM
sell Beauvoir, the old Davis home at
Biloxi, for $4,000, to be used as a
home for INDECENT Confederate veter-
ans.
For using an old United States flag
as a bag in his business of collecting
rags, Meyer RatZman was fined 500
in the municipal court in Boston
recently the charges being "con-
use of the United States
flag"
H. B. Grant, aged So, is dead in
Laurel, Miss. He was a civil engi-
neer and West Point graduate. Dur
ing the civil war he was captain of
engineers on Gen. Beauregard's staff
and was the engineer of the new st.
Louis bridge.
Frank Fennell, a Great Falls,
Mont, porter, shot and killed Annie
Johnson, a domestic, and sent bull
fects of which he died a short time
later. He fred five shots into the
victims head.
The heaviest snow storm sine 1888
fell in New York on Monday. Broad
way was piled high with snow hills
and traffic was difficult. The harbOr
was choked with ice and the war
ships were cut off from cOmmunica-
tion with shore.
A furry was created in the senate
Friday over the employment since
the beginning of the session of a
score or more of extra clerks and
to committees, some of
whom, 1t is charged, have not had
in years,
Miss Helen Gould with q party of
friends in her private car spent Sun
lay in Atlanta. Like good girl she
went to church in the morning, and
declined the use of carriages in the
afternoon on the ground that she
mi ttNrr / ,
In the will of Morris Reiman, filed
in the probate court in Chicago re-
gently $1,000 is left Ito the Boston
company of Boston,
Mass, for the purpose of distribu-
ling. Robt. G. Ingersoll's lectures
among Christians, in order to civil
ze bhem.'
Resolutions have been adopted by
The New York Academy of Medicine
against the decision of
5he treasury department classifying
pulmonary tuberculosis with 'dan-
gerous contagious disease" by which
afflicted with the disease
are barred from entering the country.
The great Kellogg Sanitarium, of
the Seventh Day Adventists, at Bat
tie Creek, Mich, was burned to the
ground on Tuesday. There were
over 400 patients in the buildings at
the time of fire but all got out with
out loss of a single life, and with
but one accident, that of Mrs. HI. G.
Daniels of Eldora, Ark, who jumped
from the fire escape on the third
floor and broke n lep Tha loss is
about 100000 with insurance of
s14s,5O0. The Sanitarium will be re-
built at once, /