The Palatka news and advertiser., 1903-03-13
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.

Thos. S. Harris has been appointed
postmaster at Live Oak
Chipley has new water works
system and has granted franchise
for electric lights.
The Ocala Fair Association has
been granted letters patent with
$4,000 capital stock.
The Grand Lodge knights of Pyth-
las of Florida is holding its annual
session in Jacksonville this week.
SandersOn is without either q
school house or church. Both were
demolished in the storm of ten days
ago.
Secret r. of the Navy Moody has
accepted an invitation from Senator
Mallory to visit Pensacola about the
25th inst.
William Audley, a negro, is in the
jail at Tampa charged with splitting
his wife's head Open:with an axe and
then cutting it off.
Senator Matthew Stanley Quay of
Pennsylvania is down at Fort Pierce
catching fish instead of being in
Washington catching-frOm the
democrats.
The Seaboard Air Line Railway
the first train entered that town last
week. There was great rejoicing
among the people.
The cassava starch factory at Stet-
son has closed down for the season
after very successful run. The
company is preparing to plant an in
creGs d acreage the coming season.
Rev. S. D. Paine, popular pastor of
the Congregational church at West
Palm Beach, has quit his job on ac-
count of the continued ill health of
Mrs. Paine They will seek rest in
European travel.
The Fort Dallas National Bank of
| Miami is going to erect magnificent
| twO-story banking office with dome.
! The building is to be of granite, the
interior, including fixtures, to be of
white marble.
The Pauly Jail Company of st.
Louis has just completed fire proof
vault for Levy county, which the
| county commissioners refuse to &C
cept on the ground that it is not up
to contract specifications.
The white man supposed to be ].
A. Johnson, murderer of jeff Ester
ling at Newberry few months ago,
who was arrested at Kissimmee re-
Gently, has been discharged. Those
supposed to know the real Johnson
failed to identify him.
T. Reyes, a prominent young Gu
ban living in Tampa committed sui
eide last Sunday. He was engaged
to marry a pretty Cuban bud and
had saved up q considerable money.
On Saturday night he patronized
another mans game, lost his money,
and concluded to die.
William Saltwater, young white
man doing time in Barlow Jail for
vagrancy, was accidentally shot and
killed $50 the officer says while re-
sisting the deputy in the Jail corro-
dor last Sunday night. Saltwater
was from Pennsylvania. He had
been troublesome as prisoner.
Frank Furman of Jamaica, Long
Island, committed suicide at the
boarding house of Mrs. S. S. Davis,
in DeLand, last week Furman shot
himself three times in the breast.
He was new student IN the busi-
ness department of the university;
was in i'll health.
Henry Thomas, negro, was lynch
ed at Parish, Manatee county, Sum
day night for an assault committed
on the l0-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Porter Keen. The negro
was captured several miles from
town, brought back and hanged to
tree, where he was discovered dang
ling by the citizens next morning.
The state Sunday school conven-
tion will be held at Tallahassee on
the 24th-26th inst. Besides many
noted speakers and workers from
Florida, Marion Lawrence, general
secretary of the International Sun
day School Association, covering
North America, will be present, as
also will the world-famOus leader of
song, E. 0. Excel, of Chicago. For
programs and other particulars, ap-
ply to w. N. Sheats, Tallahassee.
The New York and Florida limited
train of the SeabOard Air Line was
Evergreen station, few miles out
from Jacksonville last week Wednes-
day, two persons being killed as a re-
suit and eight others painfully and
seriously injured. 1t has since de-
veloped that Buddie Ryals, an eight
year-old boy, was seen to pry the
switch open with an axe only short
time before the wreck. Those who
saw him do it told him not to, but
did not bother their heads further
about the matter.
One of the attractions to visitors in
Interlachen is the Edgar kaolin
works, ten minutes ride by rail from
Interlachen. The manufacturing
processes by which the kaolin is
taken out of from twenty to forty
feet of water, being stirred up by
huge augers, worked by engines and
in puddled state pumped into reser-
voirs, from which it is run off
through troughs, the kaolin being
separated by its lighter weight from
the sand, passes into receptacles
from which it is pumped into inn
mense hydraulic presses, and the
water separated from them as far as
revolving carriers to the dry houses,
where it is made ready for transpOr-
tatiOn. We understand that some
twenty or thirty carloads week are
shipped to the various queensware
establishments in the north, where
it is manufactured into high-grade
ware. The quality of the kaolin
from these beds is said to be superior