The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-01-16

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D cOlOred, two miles from Johnson
station, Miss, has been burned by
whitecaps.
' Gen. Samuel Thomas of New York,
/, once president of the old K. II. V. &
> q. and the Memphis d Charleston
= Railroads, is dead.
! The coal famine in the north is
/ working great hardship particularly
/ during the zero weather of the past
r week. The poor are suffering in
/ Chicago and other western cities.
Edward J. Dunning Boston bank
er has been arrested charged with
fraudulently obtaining $4,000 from
the late Francis A. Brooks, for years
q leading member of the Boston bar.
: Henry f. Youtsey, serving a life
sentence in the penitentiary on con-
: viction for completely in the murder
of Gov. GOebel has agreed to tell all
he knows about the alleged conspi-
racy.
Mrs. L. Roller of Palmyra, Wis,
hanged her two children aged and
3 years on Saturday and then COM
mitted suicide. Mrs. |. Roller was
a high roller" and had been talked
about.
The bondsmen of b. D. Green and
John F. Gaynor fugitives from JUS
tice in connection with the Savan-
nah harbOr frauds are preparing to
pay up. The bond amounts to $780,
900.
VIM. H. Lewis, a fast black, has
been appointed assistant U. S. dis
trict attorney for Boston, and there
hasn't been a kick raised about it in
the entire south. We can't answer
for BawstOn.
Cornelius Vanderbilt since he was
taken down by typhoid fever has re-
ceived over 1000 letters from persons
entirely unknown to him, all express
sing sympathy and the hope that he
would soon recover.
The Minister'S Union has lined up
against the Sunday baseball idea in
Montgomery, and it now seems like
ly that the peace of the Sabbath in
the Alabama capital will not be dis
turbed by the loud roars of the root
ers.
The Methodist Episcopal church
has just completed raising it's Twen-
tieUh Century Fund. This fund
amounts to $2l, ,00O, 900 and will be de-
voted to educational purposes. Ib
addition to this the church raised
over l2,0O0,000 more with which to
| build churches.
w. r. Wright, who was prime min
lister of Santo Domingo under Presi-
dent JimineZ, is a native of La
fayette, Ind, and was at one time a
lieutenant in the United States Sig
nal Service and later newspaper
correspondent.
AS the kid king of Spain and the
dowager queen mother We're return
ingfrom church last Sunday with
lot of other court people in carriages,
some crazy lunatic fired a pistol. No
one was hurt, but the entire outfit of
rOyalists threw n fit just the same
and ducked for fear of anarchists.
The. emperors of Germany and
Austria will defy dago anarchists
and visit Italy. The emperor of
Austria, it is said, will try to SO con-
duct himself as not to give otfense
to the pope, who had threatened to
eXcommunicate any Catholic sOver-
eign who came to Italy and did not
call at the Vatican before going to
the Quirinal.
Church sold for $1,000 ,OOO-The
trustees of the Madison Square
Presbyterian church, New York, of
which Ilp Do rIy h Il,
voted to sell their church building to
an insurance company for 81 100000,
part of which was TO be the property
on the northeast cornor of Madison
avenue and Twenty-fourth street, di-
rectly opposite the church. Here a
new church will be erected.
Mrs Ella Carson, teacher of
telegraphy in the Congratulations
Business College, Macon, Ga, shot
and instantly killed r. A. Rigsby,
professor of penmanship in Laniers
Business college on Monday because
Rigsby circulated a report among
the students that Mrs. Carson was
not of good character. Mrs.
Carson emptied all five chambers of
her revolver, and four shots took
effect.
A national convention has been
called to meet in Washington for the
purpose of impressing upon President
Roosevelt the urgent need for imme-
diate relief from the stringency of
the coal situation. If the president
reads the papers he is probably
aware of the fact without the aid of
the convention. The Washington
convention will be devoted largely
to the presentation of charges that
Attorney General Knox has failed to
grant the relief that the laws make
possible.
The late Baron de Hirsch was
once a guest in a well-known Ger
man nobleman's mansion, where he
met Prince Halberstamm, noted as q
fierce anti-Semite. The prince
treated the baron with marked dis
respect. AT dinner Halberstamm re-
marked how he had been in Turkey,
and was favorably impressed by two
of their customs. "Al Jews and
dogs that are caught are immediate-
ly killed" The guests became pale
with CONSERVATION, but Baron de
Hirsch, maintaining his composure,
turned to the prince, with the retort,
How fortunate you and / don't
live theren'-The Jewish World.
In five column editorial, James
Brake Ford, editor of the Yorkville,
Is. GD Yeoman, announces that
rather than continue living with his
wife he will adopt one of three
courses-suicide, whisky or divorce.
He says his respect for religion COM
pels him TO relinquish the idea of
suicide. hnd respect for himself will