The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-02-20
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under escort of Sir Howard Vincent
: M. p, visited both houses of Parlia
, ment in LondCn on Monday. H
created a sensation because of hi
great height, being seven feet ant
} seven inches high. He is the adver
! tising agent for an animal show nov
: doing England.
Former Atty.-Gen. Griggs saw
many thousand dollars worth O.
his bonds and valuable papers de
stroyed in Paterson, N. j., Just as hi
had seen them taken, still intact
from the ruins of the big fire Tht
safe was taken from the ruins anC
door pried open. Suddenly the pa.
pers burst into flames and were re
duced to ashes.
The United States Senate on Mon
day by a viva voice vote ratified the
treaty with Denmark ceding to the
United States, Tor a consideration Of
$5,000,0O0, the Danish West Indies
and thus, so far as this country is
concerned, consummated a transac.
tion which has been under consider.
alton since the administration Of
President Lincoln.
Frank James secured a temporary
INDUCTION in the circuit court at Kan
sas City last week, restraining the
atrical company playing at local
theater from presenting the play.
''The James Boys in Missouri" in
which the members of the James
family are made to represent train
robbers, bank looters and outlaws of
the worst character.
On the body of 5-year-old Marion
Weaver, of Chicago, 2l9 square
inches of skin have been grated.
The operation has taken five months,
as the surgeons could operate only
once each fortnight, owing to the
low state of the boys vitality. The
new cuticle covers injuries on the
patients chest, abdomen, back and
sides, caused by burns.
Clad in rich red robes, the skele-
tons of st. Magnus and st. Bonosa,
two catholic saints, who were slain
at the command of a Roman emperor
nearly 800 years ago, were buried
in st. Martins church in Louisville,
KY, last week. The bones were
found in the catacombs of Rome in
100 and were given to Rt Rev. Mgr
Francis Zabler, pastor of st. Mar
tins church last summer.
Because Judge Bennett of Mt. Ver-
non, N. Y, refused to pay gas bill
of $l.65, which he contended he had
never contracted, the gas company
turned off his supply three years ago.
He brought suit, and the gas colnpa-
ny carried the case to the appellate
division of the supreme court, which
has just handed down dicision af-
firming judgment for $4,000 in favor
of Judge Bennett.
1t is rumored that Miss Helena
Gorham Wild, an American resi-
dent in Paris, is about to marry
Prince Eugene of Sweden, if he gains
his fathers assent and arranges to
resign his right of succession to the
throne of the BernardOttes, as his
elder brother Oscar did when he
made Morganatic alliance. Prince
Eugene is a painter and has lived in
the Latin quarter for many years.
Gen. Chas. P. Eagan, of embalmed
beef fame, has been challenged to
fight duel by Col. Willis P. Har-
low, of Guayamas, Mex. Eagan has
been representing w. G. Greene in
his legal contest regarding the Cobre
Grande copper mines of Mexico,
whom Harlow also claimed to rep
resent. Eagan's rage knew no
bounds, and under his TRADE, Har-
low withdrew, but penned a chal-
lenge that was handed Eagan.
The air ship of Santos Dumont has
been wrecked at Monaco, and the
ship and motor lies at the bottom of
the Bay of Monaco. Dumont was
making a trial. When up in the air
the guide rope caught in the screw,
then squall burst and the doomed
ship fell by the owner pulling the
emergency cord. The daring air
navigator was rescued from the wa
ter by the Prince of Monaco, who
was in his yacht to witness the sail
ing.
Judge Lacombe, in the United
States circuit court in New York,
handed down an order in the suit
against Anna Gould, countess de
Castellane, reciting that certain
judgements had been found in Paris
against the countess and ordered the
trustees to pay over to the parties
mentioned in the orders as creditors
out of certain money that they held
as income of the Countess de Castel-
lane, certain monthly installments
until the judgements are satisfied.
A young chief of the Yuki tribe of
Indians is on his way from Mendoci-
no county to the University of CALI
fornia in order to help the ethnolo-
gists to record the manners, customs
and beliefs of his people. He is a
full bloodei Yuki, but speaks and
writes English fiuently. At one time
the Yukis were the fiercest Indians
in California. The language of the
tribe will be recorded and preserved
in the university by means of the
phonograph.
With the death in London of Adam
Worth, alias Henry ], Raymond,
known as "the Napoleon of crime"
the mystery of the recovery of the
celebrated stolen Gainesborough
painting was cleared up by VIM. A.
Pinkerton in Chicago. Worth gave
him written permission to reveal the
Gainesborough secret after he had
died. Wrapped in oilcloth the canvas
was handed to G. Moreland Agnew
one morning last April in Chicago
by Worth, who % years before had
cut the painting from its frame in
the Agnew galleries in London and
finally brought it to America, where
il was concealed for 10 years.
Lakeland points with pride to it's
first brick block now under construc-
tion as an evidence of prosperity.