The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-01-23
CONDENSED WORLD NEWS.

mavor of New York and representa-.
i've in congress from 1874 to 1887 is
dead, aged 81. 81 49,.
CLARA Morris, celebrated actress
bnC heep compelled to cancel all en-
Clements m" owing to a break down OF
ReT nervous system.
There have been 107 deaths from
+ba nlague at Mazatlan, Mexico,
since @ January 1st. Most of the
hIgher classes have left the city.
senator Thomas G. Platt has been
nominated for the office OF U. 5, Sen
ator from New York by the republi-
can caucus, which is equivalent to a
reelection.
Congressman A. J. Hopkins of
Ininois was on Tuesday elected
United States Senator to succeed
"Billy" Mason, who couldn't get
there again.
Chas. F. Kelly former speaker of
the st. Louis municipal council has
been convicted of perjury in .conntc-
tion with suburban street railway
deal and sentenced to seven years i'll
the penitentiary.
Peter Doelger a wealthy New York
brewer found bomb on the steps of
his residence last Muesday. 1t Was
made of gas pipe and loaded with
powder. The bomb had been ignited
but had gone out.
United States Minister Bowen has
arrived in Washington from Caracas,
Venezuela on board the dispatch boat
Dolphin. He is to act as the repre-
sentative of President Castro in the
arbitration proceedings.
At the annual convention of miners
in indianapolis last Tuesday Presi-
dent Mitchell was presented gavel
made of wood from the house of
Patrick Henry, author of the "Give
me Liberty or give me Death saw.
American residents onythe Isle of
Pines have refused to pay taxes to
the Cuban government. They are
relving on the text of the Platt
amendment which leaves the owner
ship of the island to future treaty.
The grand jury at Jackson, Miss.
has indicted 27 citizens of Alfalfa
county for lynching the negroes Hal
lum and CASTOR short time ago.
Eleven of the indicted men have been
arrested and placed in jail; the 9th
ers have fled the country.
Gen, William Booth of the Saliva
ton Army spoke to ten thousand peo-
pie in the Cleveland Theater last
Sunday. Three services were held.
One hundred and fifty converts were
made as the result of the generals eX-
hortatiOns. An important army con-
clave is being held in Cleveland this
week.
Profoundly impressed by the sor-
rows and calamities which affiict my
people, and bearing in mind the good
intentions which have inspired the
acts of the civil commission, is the
way Emilio Aguinaldo prefaces his
petition to congress for the small
loan of $20,000,0O0, and credit OF
$SO,OOO,O 900 with which to start bank
in the Philippines. This is one pa
triot with nerve, and he should be
on Wall street instead of Manila.
Forty-five coal operators and re-
tailers doing business in Chicago
have been indicted for conspiracy to
do an illegal act injurious to public
trade. The jury found that there
existed in Chicago and in Illinois, as
we'll as in neighboring states Ger
tain combinations which seem to be
cOnspiracies or combinations in re-
straint of trade within the meaning
of the statutes. The indictments are
against both corporations and indi-
viduals. Bail was fixed at $l,5OO.
Naval Constructor Richmond P.
HobsOn, the hero of the Merrimac
sinking in Santiago harbor, has been
refused the privilege of retiring from
the active list of the navy, and he
must now go to work or resign from
the navy altogether. HobsOn claims
he is unable to work by reason of an
eye trouble, but two naval eXami-
ming boards have failed to find him
physically disqualified for active
service. Hobson has been assigned
to Puget Sound to take charge of
naval construction.
Reed Smoot of Provo, Utah, has
been elected United States Senator
from Utah in place of Senator Raw
Inns whose term expires March 4th.
SmOOt is one of the IL apostles Of the
Mormon church, but up to the pres
ent time he has followed Bill Nye's
motto of lone country, one flag and
one wife" Women in all parts of the
country are uniting in petitions to
the Senate asking that Smoot be not
allowed to take his seat. These wOm-
en- should read the constitution OF
their country. So long as a man obeys
the laws he is qualified for office, no
matter how many kinds of fool he
makes of himself on the subject of
religion. Religion has never cut
much ice in the United States Sen
ate, anyway.
n. G. Gonzales, editor of the State,
Columbia, S. c., was shot by James
ID. Tillman, lieutenant governor OF
South Carolina, on the streets of Co
lumbla on Friday of last week.
Gonzales fingered until Monday,
when he died. The murdered man
was one of the most distinguished
editors in the south. During the
primary campaign last summer he
made some severe structures on can
didate Tillman, and though the men
had met several times since, nothing
had passed between them until last
Friday when Tillmrn met Gonzales
on the street and opened fire. The
1rst shot took effect, passing through
Gonzales body. AS he staggered for
support against building, he said to
Illlman, "shOot again, you coward. "
He was not armed and Tillman did
not shoot the second time. After his
arrest it was found that Tillman car
rled two revolvers. The murderer is
IN jail. The feeling in Columbia is
that it was au unprovoked and cow
ardly murder. James H. Tlilman is
brother of Senator Tillman, and is