The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-05-22
GOINGS ONIN FLORIDA.
Ocala has newly organized lodl
of Elks,


becoming a prosperous town.
The Catholics of Tampa are build
ing a new and magnificent st. Louis
Catholic church. A friend in New
York has just donated $4,000 for the
erection of an altar.
J. d. McDuffy a colored trucker of
Ocala, has sold the first car of can
taulOupes for the season. The car
consisted of 400 crates and sold for
81, 200 +. o. b. at Ocala.
The clerks of jacksonville have
succeeded in establishing an early
closing movement, all merchants
agreeing to close at 6 p. IN. except
Saturdays during the summer.
f. P. Thagard tax collector of
Marion county has resigned and the
county democratic executive COM
mittee has recommended f. l.. Car
ney to the governor for appointment
to the place in his stead.
1t is stated that there is over $500
acres of cantauloupes in the territory
between Gainesville and Ocala, and
that over 800 cars of 400 crates Gu
pacity each Will be required to move
the crop, the value of which will
approximate $540,000.
Candido BalliiO, a Spanish tailor of
9bor City, Tampa, catching an s.
year old boy in the act of stealing
some green peach from his tree, pull
ed the little fellow into his shop and
deliberately placed a hot iron on his
stomach. The doctors say the little
fellow may die. Ballijo has been
placed in jail.
Trouble over measIy wire fence
caused a double killing at Willow,
IN Manitee county last week. The
killing was done by man named
Burnett and the dead men are named
Saffold, father and son. They had
gone out after Burnett also with a
gun. The latter has given himself
up to the sheriff.
Judge Charles Swayne of the
United States court, setting in PEN
sacOla, has sentenced four moon
sinners to terms in the Federal pris-
on. One of the men had become
famous all over west Florida for
making Illicit whisky and his ability
to elude the officers. He has Oper-
ated II years successfully in Jack
son county. His sentence is two
years and 500 fine.
1t is stated that EX- Senator Will
kinSon Call has obtained $50, 900 from
}. Pierpont Morgan with which to
develop his OrtegH suburb to jack
sOnvllle, and that on the strength of
the raise he has purchased u now
suit of clothes, and that because of
his ability to warm money out of
j. Pierp., and the new suit Of clothes
he is again power in Florida poll
ties despite his three score and ten
years.
"Fuller's earth deposits of Florida
and Georgia" is Il discussion of the
Florida and Gergia deposits of this
mideral by Mr.. T. Wayland
Vaughan. Fuller's earth was first
found in the United States at Quin-
cy, Florida, in 1893. Since 1896 de-
tails regarding new occurrences have
annually appeared in the volume on
Mineral Resources published by the
United States Geological Survey.
Extensive deposits occur in Decatur
County, Georgia, and in Gadsden,
Leon, and Alachua counties, Florida.
The Mormon conference which
was to have been held in Jackson
vile this week had to be postponed
because the president of the confer
ence, after packing his grip in Allan
ta to start for the meeting, was
stricken with heart failure and died.
This sect of semi-religiOus hoo-doos
is making considerable growth in the
flat woods districts of the remote
counties of the state. The name
"mOrnOn' is not pushed so much rs
is that of the more sanctimOnious
title, the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter Day Saints, which does have
a more or less religious sound.
There has been a lynching at Madi-
son. 1t occurred on Monday night
when the Jail was raided and Wash
Jarvis, a white man, was taken out
and strung to tree. Jarvis muir
dered his cousin John WALDORF in
the Hamburg neighborhood on Sun
day morning the 10th inst. Both
were prosperous farmers but had be-
come involved in difficulty over
the employment of labor. 1t is said
that the lynching party was COM
posed of men from the neighbOrhoOd
where the men resided. Jarvis
claimed the killing of WALDORF was in
self-defense, but witnesses say it was
cold blooded murder 1t is not
stated whether the sheriff made any
to the mob or not.
The Jacksonville Metropolis of
Monday contains the following
story: Details of very
story have just been re-
ceived here from Perry, Fla. A
drummer named Nelson and his wife
were stopping at the hotel at Live
Oak, Fla, last week. A Mrs. GOrntO
and little daughter, aged II years,
We're at the same hotel, and last
evening Nelson was in the
hotel parlor with a number of other
people and was playing with the
child. In some way her dress was
torn, and she went to her mother
with a story about it, which caused
Mrs. Garnto to accuse Nelson of
improper conduct toward the child.
This he strongly denied. He left for
Perry the next morning, and Mrs.
GorntO had him arrested there and
put in jail. Shortly after his arrest
he saw from the Jail window large
party of people assembling on the
of the village. 1t was
picnic, but he thought it was mob
gathering to lynch him. He sent
post haste to the hotel for his grip,
wrote his will and sent note to his
wife explaining the situation and
her farewell Then taking
n razor from the grip, he tried to cut
his throat. A fellow prisoner over
powered him, but not before he had
inflicted two severe wounds on his