The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-01-30
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.

w. J. Witherspoon, postmaster at
Madison, is dead.
The State Federation of Woman's S
clubs is in session at Ormond
Morton +. Plant has arranged to
plant 20 acres more of orange grove
at Bellaire.
Great interest is taken in sailing at
Dunedin and there is a prosperous
yacht club.
q. Earl Gardner, mayor of Chip
ley and a rising young lawyer of that
place is dead.
The st. Augustine water works
will have It's supply increased by a
new artesian well.
A telephone company has been IN
corpOrated and will build a line from
TitusviMe to Miami.
Discipline is the odd name of a
town on the East Coast Railway
eiph miles south of Titusville.
Th"re has been a large exodus of
negroes from Leon county. but it is
stated that those leaving can well be
spared.
N. B. TroutmPn, a well-known
brick mason of Tampa suicided on
Tuesday morning, chosing the NOR
phine route.
Everett G. Whitney has an alliga-
tor farm at St Augustine. Mr..
Whitney rides on the back of one of
the largest.
The street railway company of Ft.
Meade has declared a II per cent an
nual dividend on its stOck-watered
and preferred.
Fire at Tampa on Monday morn
ing destroyed several small wooden
buildings all in one block. The loss
will reach 100000.
Ju lge Isaac A. Stewart of DeLand
has been relC ased from confinement,
for contempt of court, in the Tampa
Jail and is again in DeLand.
William BloXham Crawford, son
of secretary of state Crawford has
won the chief prize in the 0ratorical
contest at Lexington, Va.
Mrs. VIM. G. Beal of Fernandina is
suing that city for $4,000, damages
claimed to have been sustained by
fall on an unsafe street.
The kaolin plant at Yalaha is
soon to resume mining under the
of Edward Stevens.
who has been appointed manager.
DR.. r. Shine of Tallahassee, presi-
dent of the state board of dental en-
aminers has been invited to lecture
to the students of the Atlanta den
tai college.
DR." Woightnovel the abortion
ist of Tampa has been found guilty
of manslaughter. He was charged
with the death of Miss Irene Ran
dali of Quincy.
Ex-Gov. Bradley of Kentucky is
said to be in Daytona. Owing to the
recent visit of the bogus Gov. Beck
ham, it is likely that the Bradley
cI edentials will be well scrutinized.
The report of the state board of
health now nearing completion will
show that the year 1902 was one of
the best years Florida has ever ex-
perienced so far as health is con-
Dan Evans a white man living
near Westville, Holmes county, is
in Jail charged with numbering his
wife. Evans says he shot her acci-
lentally, but his l4-year old son con-
him.
Mrs. Margaret Masters is dead at
St. Augustine. Mrs. Masters was
one hundred years of age, was born
in st. Augustine before the state was
ceded to the United States and has
lived her entire life in the city of her
birth.
S. L. Lowry formerly of Palatka
IS the new president of the South
Carolina club of Tampa. The club
gives aH M. unl banquet, and when
there's nothing else doing the men,
)ers can get together and thank God
jhey are not built of the same clay
Us other folk.
One of the most interesting fea-
lures OF the coming convention of the
superintendent of public in
of the state. which will
in Gainesville, for three
lays, beginning February 4, will be
IN address by Booker Y. Washing
-on, the negro educator of Alabama,
who will be present on the opening
lay. The address will be delivered
in the opera house, and will no doubt
be largely attended.
The Florida Baptist Association in
Lake City last week unanimously
adopted resolutions of unbounded
in the integrity of the
trustees of StetsOn university; in
President Forbes as man of great
ability and a brother beloved for his
Christian character; called the at
tack on him by Mr.. Stetson vicious
and slanderous, recorded it's belief
in his established innocence, and
pledged him unqualified endorse
ment and enthusiastic support.
William Sauls, a white man of
who was arrested and
lrraigned in Judge Mason's court
upon a charge of cruelty to his wife,
and who was remanded to prison un-
der default of $500 peace bond, has
been released, his wife having with
drawn the charge and pleaded with
the Judge to reduce his bond to a
amount so that he could
secure same. The bond was reduced
TO $3.50, which was signed by F. M.
Ayers and r. B. Evans, and the
prisoner released, after a promise to
90 home and behave himself.