The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-15
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.

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to the ground.
Tampa won it's first game of base
ball from the All Cubans on Sunday
by score of IA to 3.
Reports of good rains and i'm
proved crop conditions are coming
in from all over the state,
Miss Rebecca f. Hazeltine, mana
ger of the Barcelona Hotel, st. Au-
gustine, is dead of heart trouble.
Alachua county will vote on the
''wet" and "dry'' proposition at a
special election to be held June I'd.
The Congregational church at Key
West has installed new pipe organ,
and the whole town turned out at its
initiatory recital.
AT the June meeting of the county
commissioners of Columbia county
the question of wet" and "dry"
election will be decided.
Wash. Jarvis and Jonn WaldrOp,
cousins, of near Hamburg, Madison
county, had dispute over farm mat
ters last Sunday morning, and Jarvis
shot Waldrop dead. He claims self
defense.
The Florida Funeral Directors and
Embalmers association is in session
in jacksonville this week. They
will talk about "stitf subjects" and
sich like things.
q. w. Bean, mayor of Port Tampa
City is undergoing all the pleasures
and excitement of an Impeachment
trial on charges preferred by the
city council for nOn-feasance and
malfeasance in office.
Mayor Fletcher has notified the
owners of the big frame theatre at
jacksonville that the building must
come down. The theatre was erect
ed after the big fire on a temporary
permit which expired May 1st.
DR.. NJ, l. Alexander, leading
physician and druggist of Apa-
lachicola committed suicide last
Friday by shooting q hole in his
head. He was middle aged, pros
porous, and but two years married.
The South Florida Military Insti-
tute at Barlow will hold it's annual
commencement Tuesday, the 2Sth
inst. Bishop Gray will preach the
baccalaureate sermon and Congress-
man Davis will deliver an address.
The Daughter of the Confederacy
over at Gainesville have a little Sc
cession movement on hand that will
disrupt Kirby Smith Chapter, and
result III the organization Of a sepa-
rate chapter. The quarrel is over
an election.
Sam Jones lectured in Tallahassee
on Monday night. 1t is safe to pre-
sumo tnat he told his audience that
edge of the crater and that directly
over was hell" same as he does
every other town he visits.
Eddie Coleman, "bad nigger"
barricaded himself in u house at
Jacksonville Monday and resisted
arrest. Before he was finally cap
tured $50 shots had been exchanged
and Eddie had winged two police
men, one deputy sheriff and one
colored woman-all of whom were
wounded Eddie also got shot in
the face and right arm.
j. w. Cawthon of Quincy has been
held for the murder of w. H. Cramer
of the same place. The man who is
now dead, was drunk. CawthOn
was called in to quell a family dis
turbance. He thought he was a
deputy sheriff, but he wasn't, so
when he killed he didn't do it Off
cially and is now in jail. Makes a
difference, you know, who you are
when you slaughter humans.
At the convention of the Daughters
of the Confederacy in Madison last
week the following officers were
elected for the ensuing year: Presi-
dent, Mrs. r. G. Cody; lst vice
president, Mrs. w. l.. Parrimore;
second vice president, Mrs. Bes-
SAINT; third vice president,-; fourth
vice president, Miss Peter; cor. Sec
retary, Miss Sallie Holmes; record
ing secretary, Mrs. G. w. Lamar;
treasurer, Miss Leila Reese; regis
trar, Mrs. L. p. Lawrence; historian,
Miss jamie Brevard.
Last Sunday Pensacola people
"enjoyed" their second Sunday of
enforced piety. Everything in the
nature of business but the street
cars, was stopped. Braswell, the
transfer man, drove hack down
PalafoX street and was arrested by
the sheriff who, himself, drove up
in buggy. Braswell furnished
bonds for his appearance in court
and then continued to run his hack,
doing good business the balance of
the day, Some thought it little in
consistent in the sheriff to allow the
street cars to run and make the
hacks shut down.
Mrs. Annie Dill Lee of West Bay,
Washington county, is 81 years of
age She was born in Tennessee.
Mrs. Lee is the mother of IL chill
dren, seven sons and four daughters,
the oldest of whom is 73 and the
Youngest 48. She is the grand
mother of sixty children, the great
grand mother of los children, and
the great great grandmother of three
children. 1t is too late for her to
indulge in the trace suicide" fad,
and she probably wouldn't if she
could for she is a Missionary Bap-
tist. She has good family record,
for she says sin all my generation
there is not one that is deformed,
decrepit or imbecile, nor one that
has ever violated the law or been
imprisoned"
The Baptists of Florida are not the
only people on earth who would pre-
! fer to cover up a scandal. At the
SecSion Of the SOuthern RaOtiSt Com
vention in Savannah, Monday, a
clerical delegate, in a discussion of
the Diaz Cuban scandal, offered a
resolution that the Home Mission
board publish as much of this Cuban
affair as in their judgment will be
for the interests of the kingdom of