The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1903-07-10
GOINGs ON IN FLORIDA.

dropped out of the recently organ
lied Southeastern League.
Gov. Jennings and family have re-
turned to Tallahassee after rest at
their old home in Brooksville.
There is SAID to be a good deal of
smallpox just over the Florida line
in Georgia, about Thomasville.
e. J, Rogers, "a negro living at Dins-
more, Duval county, was struck
by lightning and instantly killed
Monday afternoon.
The Socialists have nominated b.
P. Dunning Jacksonville mill
wright for governor. The Organiza-
will start a paper to spread its doc
trines and its-money.
Several counterfeiters, all white,
have been arrested at IIawtey and
taken to Jacksonville to await trial
in the U. S. Court. The dies and
moulds for making the money was
found in possession of the men.
The Jacksonville q Southwestern
Railroad which runs from Jackson
willie to Newberry, Fla, distance of
50 miles and was built by the Cum
mer Lumber company, has been pur-
chased by the Dutton Phosphate
company of Gainesville.
Prof. G. w. Vaughan of Eufaula,
Ala, has been elected principal of
the Gainesville graded and high
school in place of J W. Wideman.
Prof. Vaughan is about 33 years of
age, and is now taking post gradu-
ate course in the University of Chi
ago.
Conductor Singletary of the Sea-
board Air Line was shot and serious
ly wounded by Engineer Mattair at
Archer on Saturday evening last.
The wounded man was taken to
| Waldo for treatment. Mattair was
arrested at Bronson. The cause or
the shooting is not stated.
A camp OF Confederate veterans
was organized at Monticello on Sat
urday, the Fourth, with EX-U. 5.
Senator Samuel Pasco as comman-
der. The camp has been named
Patton Anderson Camp, No 5O, in
honor of Gen. Patton Anderson, who
went to the war from Monticello,
H. G. Clark and Timothy Bailey,
prominent citizens of Newberry,
Alachua county, have been arrested
on charge of breaking and entering.
1t is charged that after the county
went dry these men on several occa-.
sions broke into the closed saloon of
j. ID. Guthrie and appropriated
liquors. -... j,
Albert Frey a popular New York
travelling salesman was drowned IN
the surf at Pablo Beach Sunday af-
ternoon. Frey was young man,
well-knOwn in jacksonville, and 1t
is stated that he was the sole support
of widowed mother; further that
he was to have been married on his
return to New York,
]. w. Wood a young white man
has been arrested at Monticello on a
charge of bigamy and taken to Tam
pa. Wood was arrested at Tampa
last April, but made his escape while
out looking for bonds. He has been
at liberty since. 1t is alleged he has
wife in Jacksonville and one at
Palmetto Beach, near Tampa.
Fred Ewart of Key West has been
convicted of murder in the first de-
gree and sentenced to hang. Ewart,
who is young man, enticed Frank
Whitaker, carpenter, on board
schooner to eat CLAIMS, and while
thus engaged attacked him with an
axe with which he killed him. The
murderer confessed his crime. The
motive for the murder was robbery.
Rev. and Mrs. J. G. Ley of Mica
nopy celebrated their golden we'd
ding anniversary at their home on
Saturday the Fourth of July. Two
sons, one the Methodist pastor at
Fernandina, and another presiding
elder of the Methodist church at
Tallahassee, were present with their
families as also were many other
clergymen. Rev. Mr.. Ley is the old
est member of the Florida Conference
of the Methodist Episcopal church,
South.
A dispatch to the Metropolis from
Barlow says shocking accident oc-
Cured at the home of Mr.. and Mrs.
Will Stuart, in the Polk Lake settle
ment, by which they lost their IA
months-old baby girl. The mother
had been doing some work in the
ward and the little one was following
her about. The mothers attention
was called to something in the house
and she went in, leaving the little
one playing in the yard. In some
way the child managed to climb up
onto the side of tub of water in the
yard, and falling headlong into the
tub it was drowned.
John S. Bennett of Lawtey, chair
man of the board of county commits
sioners of Bradford county, has been
arrested on warrant issued by the
United States court charged with
cruelty maltreating an orphan girl
l6 years old who had been in his EN-
ploy for a month and u half. The
girl attempted to leave Benefits
house but he went after her and
when he got her home he beat her In
cruel manner with a stick, raising
great welts on her arms and body.
The girl is now in charge of Sis
ter Mary Ann at st. Joseph's Con-
vent. Bennett will be tried for peo-
mage.
Rev. Reginald H. Weller the vet
eran and well beloved Episcopal
clergyman of Jacksonville died in
that city at Z o'clock last Monday
morning. Dr. Weller was the son of
the late Rev. George Weller, of Phil
adelphia, where he was born April
l6, 1928, thus making him 70 years of
age last April. He was ordained a
priest in the Protestant Episcopal
Church in 1852, and he came to
Jacksonville in 1863, and assumed
the rectorship OF st. Johns Episco-
pal Church on June 18th of that year
and continued In that relation for