The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-01-09
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.
The total bonded indebtness OF
Florida is 81 ,O32, 800.

The total bonded indebtness O
Florida is 81 ,O32,5OO.
The county commissioners o
Aluchua county nave decided tt
Guild 20 miles Of good, hard road.
The new Methodist Episcopa
church at Madison Mas 'dcdicatet
last sunday by Bishop A. Cox,
Smith.
William Sumpter and Rober
i5radlutu, two negroes, will be hang
ed in the Jail yard i'll Tavares today
lor murder.
Sir Wilfred Laurier, premier o.
le Dominion OF Canada, with Lady
Laurier are guests of Mr.. and Mrs
Henry M. Flagler at Miami.
A car load of 400 crates of lettuce
from Sanford sold in New York last
week for $l.2O0. Other returns show
sales of lettuce at from $3.50 to 81
per crate.
The fools are not all dead-in
Alachua county. Two of them re-
siding ut Alachua have Just been
taken in by New York green goods
sharks to the tune OF $2SU.
Jacksonville spiritualists get to
gether on Sunday nights regularl,
and talk with "spooks at least
think they do-under the medium
ship of Mrs. Minnie Brown.
This doesn't often happen: Charles
II. Leggett, clerk of the court for
Nassau county, has rendered his
resignation, and E. r. Williams has
been appointed by the governor in
his stead.
H. f. Cary, district passenger
agent of the Southern R'y. has just
returned from Cuba, where he has
been trying to promote travel to and
from this country and Cuba. The
Southern Railway issues high class
literature describing both countries.
Manuel Chaves IL rich young Gu
ban of Tampa is on trial for the
murder of Chas. 7. Allen. Allen
went home one day last summer and
found Chaves acting rather too
famiiiarly with his (Allen's) wife.
Hhe trial is one of great local inter
est.
The Elks are pretty swift people
when anything is needed for charity.
The order in Jacksonville is hustling
FOR Il charity fair to begin in Bur-
BRIDGES opera house next Monday
night and continue each night dur
ing the week. And they'll raise the
com, too.
w. w. Weeks Jacksonville gro
Ger whose store is on the shell road
running to Evergreen cemetery, was
struck by u negro foot pad New
Years night, and after remaining un-
conscious until Saturday died from
his injury IL fractured skull. There
is no trace of the murderer.
The Jacksonville criminal court,
last Monday morning, was opened
with prayer by Rev. V. w. Shields.
Then the judge proceeded to take up
a collection" by fining between 2OU
and 800 who had failed to pay their
license tax. | is not stated whether
the "benediction" was pronounced,
or not,
The state railroad commission
elected last November was organ
lied on Tuesday by the election of
Hon. jeff. B. Brown of Key West, as
president. Mr.. Dunn was reelected
secretary. The election of Brown
will surprise many of the politicians,
who had banked on Morgan for that |
office. The new president is un-
doubtedly the ablest man on the
board.
Miss Matte A. Race well-known
young woman of Jacksonville who is
a stenOgrapher at the SeabOard Air
Line office was attacked and robbed |
of her pocket book by negro foot |
pad at the corner of Main and First
jacksonville, at $50 O'Clock |
Monday night. The young lady was
knocked down. Her purse contain
ed a $50 check, on which payment
has been stopped.
Charlie Scott and Dan Carroll two
boys under ~ years of age |
stole bottle of whisky last week |
and got so drunk that they fell OIL
the track at railroad crossing
where they lay in the rain until a
fisherman stumbled over them. The |
llbHullSllJ lIOlll d COlIllllB lOCOlIluJlNC
revealed the fact that one of the
boys lay across the track, and had
he not been discovered and removed
by the fisherman, would have been
run over and killed.
Mrs. Mary Burk, of Tampa, wife
Of Jacob Burke former engineer of
The Beach d Miller Line of ST.
Johns river steamers, died on Mon
lay morning after II long illness
Mrs. Burk was we'll known in Put
nam county being II former resident
If Crescent City, where she visited
last summer as the guest of her sis
Ler-in-law, Mrs. j. l.. Burton She
leaves Il husband and three sons.
)ne of whom, Frank Burk, is tn
well-knOwn Secret S,rvice man of
New York who gained distinction
by his arrest of Green and Gaynor,
in Quebec last spring.