The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1902-07-31
GENERAL NEWS.

A severe storm visited Michigan
Sunday afternoon, corn wheat and
oat crops were leveled. The upper
works of the Michigan Central cal
ferry We're completely wrecked at
Detroit.
Flood conditions in Texas so far as
heard from are improving. At Wa
co the BrazOs river began falling at
II o'clock Saturday night, and the
observation Sunday night showed a
decline of five feet. This was sutti-
cient to bring the river back within
its banks.
Berry Donahue, a justice of the
peace and well-tO-dO farmer, living
near Luttrell, Tenn, shot and killed
Sherman Dyer Sunday morning.
Both men attended a dance Satur-
day night, and while they were GO
ing home the tragedy occurred. Bad
feeling had existed between them
over the outcome of lawsuit. Do
nahue escaped.
DR.. Eugene Griscour, once well
known as an alienist and neurOlOgist,
committed suicide Sunday at his
sons home in Washington by send
ing bullet through his brain. Dr..
GriscOur had been detected and
mOrose for several weeks, and had
become physically and mentally
weakened from the use of strong
narcotics. He served on the COnfed-
crate side in the civil war.
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee says: II believe
that the crisis in Cuban affairs is
now. The Cubans We're promised an
Independent government and they
have it. Now they will have to
prove that they can give security to
property and maintain order in the
island. If they do not come up to
the mark the island must become
either a part of the United States or
Il dependency of this country"
During a severe electrical storm
which swep down the Potomac river
Thursday lightning struck one of the
small power houses at the Indian
Head proving ground and burned up
80, 000pounds.Of ''smokeless powder.
Rear-A Admiral O'Neil, chef of the
of the ordnance, stated that he has
not received an official report on the
but private advices are to
the effect that no persons We're in
jured by the accident.
Harry Tracy, the fugitive con-
Wet, who has been furnishing eX-
citement for the officers and news
for the papers, and who has killed
seven men and wounded ten others
since he escaped from the Oregon
was Il resident of Still
Pond, Md, about ten years ago. He
conducted Il barber shop there, and
when he left, took about everything
with him but the town. No wonder
he has had so many close shaves.
Frank Carlson and George Bald
win of Portland, Ore, each aged 10
years quarreled over two girls, to
whom both We're paying attention.
Carlson challenged Baldwin to fight.
The fight took place with bare
in the presence of relatives
and friends of both boys in an unfre-
quented part of the city. The fight
lasted about twenty minutes. At
the end of that time Carlson received
a blow in the stomach and fell to the
ground. When picked up he was
dead. Baldwin is in Jail.
Amos Bridgewater, colored, aged
l6 of Louisville, KY, can almost
cope with the average summer girl.
He ate IA gallon of ice cream few
days since and in "A hours he was
sent in irons to the asylum. He de-
violent symptoms immedi-
ately after eating the cream. The
examination as to his sanity de-
that he was the victim of
hallucinatiOns causing him to believe
that he was the Mayor, the Cover
nor, the police, Theodore Roosevelt
and a monkey.
Richard Meade, a night watchman,
on returning home in Brooklyn Sat
urday found his two little daugterS
dead from strangulatiOn, caused by
twine tightly tied around their
throats. A third child was uncon-
scious from the same cause, and his
wife lay in cOsmatOse condition on
the floor, apparently suffering from
combined with poison.
to the police, the woman
was of Incorporate habits, and the
supposition is that she strangled the
children while in a delirious condi-
ton.
Mrs. William Gebauer, wife of a
shoe merchant at
o., was shot Sunday and
died within an hour, the result of a
stray bullet FREQ by Homer Seek
ford, who was intent on shooting a
Mrs. Fleck, whom he was following
home from church. Seckford had
fired two shots at Mrs. Fleck, neither
of which took effect, both going wild
and the second of which struck Mrs.
Gebauer in the back. There was
much excitement after the occur
renee, and a crowd of men chased
into barn, where he was
rescued by the police.
A shooting affray over the theft of
a dime, followed by an accident to
an ambulance bearing one of the vic
Tins to hospital Sunday night, re-
suited in the death of one man and
the wounding of two others at Louis
vile, Ky. George SeabOldt is dead
and James Clark and William Sea-
boldt are wounded. Clark who is a
machinist, sent his boy to a store
with ten cents, but the lad was held
up and robbed by one of the Sea-
boldt's. Seaboldt was shot through
the right lung, but it is not known
whether his death resulted from the
wound or from the injuries received
in the collision of the ambulance