The Palatka news and advertiser., 1903-04-10
People in the
News of the Week.

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Senator Allison says the issue of
the campaign OF 1904 will be the tar
if.
Golden Rule" Jones was on Mon
day last reelected mayor of Toledo,
Ohio
President Roosevelt is roughing it
on horseback through Yellowstone
Park.
A. G. Spalding, ex-base ball mag
nate, has joined theOsophist colony
in Point Lorna, Cal.
Michael Davitt is now 81. He has
been jailed three times for speeches
offensive to England.
Tom L. johnson, democrat, has
been reelected mayor of Cleveland,
o., by several thousand majority.
j. d. Huerner of Los Angeles, Cal,
has elected dogs and installed two
big gray geese as guardians of his
home.
John d. Rockefeller. Jr., is travel
ing in Mexico, and is reported giving
So gold pieces to all the beggars he
meets.
Hamilton Fish is doomed for the
republican nomination for governor
of New York His father held the
job in lS4S.
Geronimo, the famous Apache In
dian chief, is to be the chief exhibit
IN an Indian exhibition to be held
next summer in New York.
Prof. H. S. Eckles of Philadelphia
has invented new embalming fluid,
and to prove its efficacy carries
about with him from city to city a
human body preserved by it.
Mrs. P. A. Valentine has just COM
pleted building in Oconomowoc,
Wis, to house her dogs at cost of
$1,000. 1t is rooted with imitation
bark and is heated by steam.
Rev. J. L. Leilich of Salt Lake
City, recently called Senator Reed
Smoot of Utah, a polygamist, has
lost his job in consequence. Now he
says he'll prove it.
Rev. Gustave Tupper, divinity
student in Northwestern University,
Chicago, has been expelled just be-
cause he peeked into the girls DOR
mitory windows on one or two even-
ings and scared several cO-eds almost
into n spasm.
Rev. G. NJ. Sheldon of Topeka,
Kas., says that after he had married
a couple not long ago the bridegroom
fumbled in his pockets nervOusly
without producing anything and
finally admitted that he had neg
lected to provide for the clergyman's
fee. But" he added Frightening
up, Il can show you how to fix your
gas meter so that 1t won't register
When President Roosevelt started
OF his 1000 mile outing he took with
him but two secretaries, one doctor,
three stenOgraphers, three messen-
gers, two secret service men, one
poet-naturalist, representatives Of
three press associations, representa-
tives of three illustrated papers, one
official photographer, and two tele-
graph operators, and will make but
POO speeches.
james Mcneil Whistler, on whom
the University of Glasgow is to con-
fer the honorable degree of LII. d.,
is an American artist. He is an Off
Ger in the Legion of Honor, a menu
Der of the SOcieti Rationale des
Artists Francais, of the Royal Acad-
emy of st. Luke, Rome, of the Royal
Academy of Bavaria, of the Royal
Academy of Dresden, u commander
of the Order of the Crown of Italy,
and a chevalier of the Order of st,
Michael. At present Whistler is
living in Paris.
Clark Butler Whittier, one of the
professors of the new 100000 law
school of the University of Chicago,
has the distinction of having had a
nine months leave of absence from
his duties as professor for DR.. Har-
per before he was ever present or
had performed a minutes work for
the university. He accepted a call
from the big university nine months
ago, but was attacked by typhoid
fever, so that he could not take his
chair. He was Immediately granted
an indefinite leave of absence by the
university at full pay until he could
recover.