The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-08-14
GoINGs ON IN FLORIDA.

Gainesville authorities are making
it "hot" for blind tigers.
A new military company is being
organized at West Palm b ZACH.
There are upwards of $50 workmen
engaged in rebuilding "Tke Break
ers, at Palm Beach.
The Little Bros. fertilizer plant at
Jacksonville has been sold at auction
to satisfy mortgages.
Columbia county will vote on the
wet and dry" proposition under the
local option law September 18th.
Pensacola is harboring a mysteri-
Gus highwayman who has been
guilty of several atrocious assaults.
Capt. L. NJ. Bell, the efficient tax
assessor of Alachua county died sud-
denly at his home in Gainesville at
midnight Monday.
The net earnings for the Seaboard
Air Line Railway for the year clos
ing June Both were 1887, 740, de-
crease of $47,S ,S46 from the previous
year.
Henry j. Sloan was instantly
killed at the power house of the
Jacksonville electric lighting COM
pany on Monday by coming in con-
tact with a live wire.
w. j. Bryan county solicitor OF
Duval county has given notice that
he will enforce the Sunday saloon
closing law in Jacksonville, and
there are those who say he will do
just what he says.
A delegation of Hastings farmers
appeared before the county board as
st. Augustine last week and COM
planned of excessive assessments on
potato land, much of which was as
sessed at $50 per acre.
The f.. o. Painter Fertilizer COM
pany will build a 100000 manufac-
turing plant in Jacksonville, and
will reduce its own phosphate rock
and treat it with sulphuric acid, in
stead of sending away for it.
Frank Robertson, colored, was
hanged in the Duval county Jail last
Friday for the murder of Deputy
Sheriff Sadler at Pablo four years
ago. The drop fell at 1922 a. m. and
Robertson was pronounced dead in Is
minutes He died game.
Mrs. Antonia l.. de Medicis, a lady
highly esteemed at st. Augustine,
and one of the oldest inhabitants of
the city, died last week after long
and painful illness. Mrs. de Medicis
was the daughter of Raymond Sa-
bate and was born in st. Augustine
August 25th, 1924.
The New Fort Dallas National
bank building at Miami will be
opened for business this week. 1t
is probably the most costly, artistic
and elegant bank building in the en-
tire south. The building is con-
structed of Indiana limestone, with
heavy granite base and entrance.
Miss Florence S. Allen, the soulful
widow of Chas. j. Allen who was
shot and killed one year ago by
Manuel Chavez, the young Cuban,
and who was herself the central fig
ure in that sensational tragedy, is
now an inmate of the Tampa Jail
charged with "lewd and lascivious
behavior. The warrant for her ar
rest was issued by the county Judge,
and sworn out by Chief Jones on the
advice of the states attorney. Mrs.
Allen has been held in the sum of
$780, refusing to give bail on the
ground that if she was free she would
be afraid of the mob. She must
have been NASTY"
By the explosion of tank car at
Pensacola last week, Clarence H.
Kramer, an apprentice in the l.. &
n. shops lost his life in a horrible
manner that afternoon. The young
man had been sent into the lank to
put on a patch, and as he could not
see how to work he was handed u
lighted torch by one of the workman.
AS soon as the torch was taken inte
the tank there was a terrific explo-
sion the flames shooting skyward 50
feet. Kramer got out more dead
than alive, his skin and flesh hang
ing in shreds from his body. He
was taken to the hospital and died
in great agony in short time.
A dispatch from Lakeland to the
Florida Times Union says: One of
the most notable acts of bravery
ever recorded in Florida was that OF
the little l0-year-old son of James @.
Ballard, living on Scott Lake, near
Lakeland, few days ago, under the
following circumstances: A picnic
was being held on the banks of the
lake, being participated IN by some
seven IdlnllleS, dIHOuS UueIH UHe
families of j. o. Stroud and NJ. Bal
lard. A crowd of little children, in
Guiding Alex Stroud years of age,
and Hiram Ballard, 10 years of age,
repaired to the end of a dock on the
lake, where the water was about six
feet deep, to play. Il little while
splash was heard by the children,
but as there was no outcry they were
not alarmed until little red felt hat
was seen floating on the water, and
which was recognized as belonging
to the little Stroud child. The little
fellow was seen to rise once and sink,
not rising again, when little Hiram
Ballard, without hesitation, jumped
into the water and dived where the
child had disappeared. He readily
found the body, but it was too heavy
for him to rise and swim with, so he
just raised it above the surface of
the water aud walked (himself I'M
der the surface) until the water was
shallow enough for some of the other
children to come in to his rescue.
discussed by unfriendly political
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