The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-01-30
CONDENSED WORLD NEWS.

John c. Spooner has been re-elect-
ed to the q. S. Senate from Wiscon-
sin.
Henry NJ. Teller, democrat, has
been reelected U. S. Senator from
Colorado.
There has been decline of two
cents IL bushel in wheat for May de-
livery caused by disappointing for
eign advices.
The bank of Steelville, ILL.,, was
robbed of $1,000 by blowing open the
vault last Tuesday morning, and the
robbers escaped.
The cotton yarn spinners at Char
Iotte. N. G. representing half the
spindles of the south, have agreed
upon u schedule advancing the price
Of yarns 10 per cent.
The Rome cotton factory at Rome,
Ga. will be sold to tie highest bid
der, February Sd. The sale has been
caused by the indebtedness of the
company. The plant cost $l25,000, is
equipped with 5,l00 spindles ard liz
looms.
The Royal Blue express on the
Central Railway of New Jersey,
westbound, plunged top speed into
the rear end of local train near
Westfield, n. j.. Tuesday night. 1t
is estimated that not less than 30
persons lost their lives in the wreck.
President Roosevelt was the prin-
cipal speaker at banquet in COM
memoration of the birthday of the
late President Mckinley at Canton,
Ohio. Tuesday night. The banGuet
was held at the Grand Opera House
una there Were 4Oi guesUs present..
Judge VIM. r. Day, late secretary
of state in the Mckinley cabinet was
toast master.
Fifty-two insane female patients
in the Jewish wing of the Colney
Hatch Asylum, London, Eng, were
burned to death on Tuesday morn
ing Fire broke out in this depart
ment and before it could be gotten
under control five buildings burned.
There were nearly six hundred pa
ticnts in the buildings at the time,
and all but 81 were safely trans
ferred All the victims were luna
tics.
Four men robbed the Citizens
Bank at Waterloo, Neb., early Tues
day morning, getting away with 3d.
800 in cash. When the safe was
blown up the noise attracted several
citizens who opened fire on the rob-
bers, which was returned. The rob-
Der guard called out that they had
come to rob the bank and were going
to do it. When the work was fin
ished the robbers escaped in the
darkness with stolen rig, amid a
fusilade of bullets from citizens.
Henry f. Youtsey, life prisoner in
Kentucky penitentiary for murder OF
Gov. Goebel has made confession.
He SAYS: "James b. Howard of Clay
county fired the shot that killed
William Goebel." The convited
man saws that he has made clean
breast of the details of the plan and
has told every thing he knows fully
and frankly. He says that the shot
was fired from the front window in
the private office of Secretary OF
State Caleb Powers, and that he and
Jim Howard were the only persons
inside the room. He named Will
liam s. Taylor, Charles Finley,
Caleb Powers, John Il. Powers, VIM:
II. Cullon, Wharton Golden and
VIM. j. Davidson as conspirators
with him.
Col. A. K. Mcclure the eminent
journalist of Philadelphia addressed
a full membership of the Pennsylya-
mia Legislature Tuesday in favor of
an appropriation, jointly with Vir-
rinia, for the erection of an eques-
trian statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee on
seminary hill of the battlefield of
Gettysburg. Col. McCluse said "he
did not plead the cause of the con-
fedcracy, but, on the other hand, he
pleaded the cause of the union-the
common union" He wanted to make
the battlefield of Gettysburg worthy
of the nation. 1t should in itself
tell its own story. He pictured the
monuments and tablets on Cemetery
Hill which tell in every detail the
story of the Union side of that great
battle Across the fields on Semi
nary Ridge, he said, the story of the
other side should be told in mOnu-
ment and tablet, They should not
be placed there as a tribute to the re-
bellion, but as tribute to the blue
and gray"
The president has again created a
social sensation by entertaining ne
groes at a White House reception,
last Thursday night. This is the
first occasion in the history of the
country that negro women have
ever been invited to White House
reception. The colored guests OBJ
iected to were of no special proml-
nence. John Gancy, who is em-
plOyed in the office of the recorder
of deeds of the District of Columbia,
brought a cousin with him, who was
u female and who weighed about 200
pounds. She is decidedly black. She
enthusiastically shook the presi-
dents hand and told him how much
she thought of him as president.
Several southerners present were
suddenly taken sick in the vicinity
OF the stomach and withdrew in dis
gust, among the first being S. HI.
Hardwick of the Southern Railway.
He had his daughter with him and
left the moment he saw the negro
women in the reception room. Lead
ing republican newspapers in the
north are more bitter in their denun-
citation of the president than the pa
pers of the south.
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