The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-17
GENERAL NEWS.

! A powder mill blew up at Birm-
ingham, Ala, on Saturday, killing
| four men.
! Pope Leo is still alive ON Thursday
morning, but growing weaker daily.
The end is not far off.
Gen. Cassius M. Clay the veteran
diplomat, soldier and duelist of
Kentucky, is the same age as Pope
Leo.
| Maud Jordan, aged II years, has
been arrested for the murder of her
two year old sister Mabel at Bloom
ingtOn, Ill. The baby's body, horri-
bly, mutilated was found hidden in
the bushes near the Jordan home.
The big tent in which the Chris
| tian Endeavor convention was held
at Denver was blown over in q storm
last Monday. Eight thousand peo-
| pie were in the tent at the time.
About 20 were injured-none fatally.
The Prince of Wales visited the
United States squadron at Ports
mouth, England, on Monday and
had breakf fast with Admiral Cotton
on the Kearsarge. The squadron ex-
pected to sail for Lisbon on Thurs
day.
The Dublin municipal council af-
ter a stormy debate lasting four
hours declined to present an address
of welcome to King Edward on his
arrival in that city. The motion in
favor of the address was defeated by
a vote of 40 to 81.
Sixty persons were killed and 1865
were manned on the Fourth of July
to make an American holiday
These figures were given out by the
Chicago Tribune. That is u larger
number Of killed and wounded than
the army of the United States suffer
ed at the battle of Santiago.
1t is said that the Servian authori-
ties have unearthed conspiracy to
avenge the late King Alexander A
lieutenant of IL frontier garrison has
been arrested, charged with making
threats against Col. Maschin. A
search of the lieutenant's quarters
disclosed evidence that twelve Off
GERS had formed league to take
vengeance upon the regicides.
The thermometer registered "a de-
grees in New York on Thursday of
last week and there were IA deaths
from heat prostration. On Friday,
during the middle of the day the
mercury stood at the same point for
three hours, during which time there
were thirty-siX death and 83 prostra-
tions.
On newly erected memorial stone
in Yarmouth appears this inscrip-
tion: I'm memory of -, who died
of disease contracted in South Africa.
The Lord be praised" Wiltshire has
this epitaph: Beneath this soil o
lump of clay lies Arabella Young,
who on the oath of May began to hold
her tongue
At Devon, Mingo county, West
Virginia, a negro preacher carried
l4-year old white girl to the woods
where he outraged her repeatedly for
three days. He was caught in the
act by party in search of the mis-
sing girl. A mob took the negro,
tied him to tree and skinned him
alive, after which the mob watched
him writhe and die.
DR.. James Young and George
Windsor of Sand Mountain, near
Gadsden, Ala, have been arrested
for counterfeiting. The country
whereabouts had been flooded with
counterfeit money for long time.
A search of the house OF these men
revealed a complete counterfeiting
outfit, spurious coin and many
raised bills.
Rosa Crawford, Columbus, Ga,
negro woman, has just returned from
II stay of thirty-eight years in Libe-
ria. She has been saving money for
years to return home and says others
would come if they could. She was
one of 200 Columbus negroes who
sailed for Liberia directly after the
war. She was married on the trip
to Africa.
A half dozen men worked all one
day in Greenwood, Me-, mill re-
Gently trying to get it started, and
two of them continued the next day.
In despair they took the engine to
pieces. Inside the cylinder were
several quarts of nuts, bits of bark
and other fine stuff. A squirrel had
gone in through the exhaust pipe and
had discovered an excellent place for
winter storehouse.
Bishop Isaac w. Joyce, president
of the Epworth League does not be-
lieve that the Christian Endeavor
suggestion made at Denver for the
amalgamation of the Christian En-
deavor, Epworth League and Bap-
tist Young Peoples Union is practi-
cable. Each, he says, stands for it's
own denomination, the Christian
Endeavor Society being COngrega-
tional. The Epworth League repre-
sents all branches of the Methodist
Church in America.