The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-08
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.

Judge Wellborn is the new editor
of the Sanford Chronicle.
From 20 to % carloads of Irish po-
tatoes are being shipped from Hast
ings daily.
The Florida division of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy is
holding its annual session in Madison
this week.
The sixteenth annual council of the
Episcopal church in Florida is hold
ing it's session in St. Andrews church,
Jacksonville, this week.
Senator TaliaferrO has appointed
Harry Mason of Jacksonville to a
cadetship in the United States Naval
Academy, Annapolis. Mason stood
first in recent competitive eXami-
nation.
The Interstate National Guards
Association at its session in Colum-
bus, Ohio, decided on st. Augustine
as the place for holding the next
convention. Adjutant-General Fos-
ter of this state is one of the vice
presidents.
The farmers, troopers and en-
ployes in the service of the Planters
Manufacturing Company at Lake
Mary indulged in grand barbecue
at that place last Saturday. Over
300 colored people and all the white
folks in the neighborhood attended.
Helen Wilmans-P Post, the mental
science" healer of Seabreeze, has ap-
piled to the U. S.supreme court for a
writ Of habeas corpus. Helen is in
the custody of the United States mar
shal on indictments returnable to the
U. S. district court in Florida which
charge her with the fraudulent use of
the mails to conduct her healing bus
mess. Unless the supreme court
grants the writ Helen will come up
for trial in Jacksonville the 25th inst.
A large party of Atlantic Coast
Line officials was in Fort Meyers the
past week, reviewing the work on the
new railroad In the party were j.
r. Kenly, fourth vice president and
general manager; E. b. Peasants,
chief engineer; Supt. PurdOn, Capt.
j. w. Fitzgerald and Mr.. Thatcher,
the last gentleman being we'll
know bridge contractor. They left
in hacks for Punta GOrda, going along
the new railroad line, Work on the
new railroad is progressing rapidly.
The 'inside men" of the Jetton-
Dekle Lumber Company at Tampa,
who were on strike demanding re-
ductiOn of hours from nine to eight
and an increase in wages, returned to
work Saturday morning. An agree
ment was reached and under it's
terms the company allows the jour-
neYmen an increase of 10 per cent in
wages, and the men are to continue
to work nine hours day. No in
crease is granted apprentices. The
men cOncede to the company the
right to give work to contractors who
are now on the unfair list.
The declaration in the suit of John
f. Forbes and Mrs. Lena b. MatheS
against John B. Stetson and Eliza
beth StetsOn, his wife, in an action to
obtain 81 100000 damages for alleged
slander and libel, was filed in the
United States Court at Jacksonville
Monday. The document contains
400 pages and is the most vOlumi-
u. S. court in this district. The doc
ument will have to be read aloud in
court by the attorneys for the plain
tiff. The case is not expected to go
to trial until sometime next tall.
The people of Pensacola "enjoyed"
what is known as the sabbath last
Sunday. Everything was stopped
but the street cars and trains, and
they would have been stopped had it
not been found that two sections of
the Florida law conflict. The fight
for a closed Sunday was begun by the
ministers. The citizens went these
good men one better, and made a
complete thing of it. No ice, no
milk, no bread, no papers, no meat,
everything was closed tight. The
people don't like that kind of Sun
day, and it is not likely they will
have many more of them.
Judge Augustus E. Maxwell is
dead at Chipley, aged 83 3years. He
was formerly secretary of state, at
torney general, member of the legis-
lature and state senator. In 1921
he was member of congress, and in
1862 a member of the Confederate
states senate. Under Gov. Walker
he was a justice of the Supreme
court, and under Gov. Drew judge
of the first judicial circuit. In 1885
he was member of the cOnstitu-
tional convention, and from 1887 to
1899, chief justice of the supreme
court. He was one of the ablest law
years in the state.