The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-08-19
GOINGs ON IN FLORIDA.

orlando is getting ready to inaugu-
rate free mail delivery.
Leon county will hold its wet, - or
dry" election the last of the pres
ent month,
A company has been formed to es-
tablish wholesale liquor store at
Green Cove Springs.
The Southern Baptist Witness will
hereafter be issued from the office of
the Orlando Reporter.
The Gainesville Furniture Com
pany has been organized with $50,
900 capital, $1,000 of which is paid in.
Sheriff Fennel is still arrestine
"blimd tiger dealers in Alachua
county, though the county has been
dry" for over year.
The f. A. Fisher cOmpany's store
ut Lawtey was burned to the ground
Wednesday morning before day.
lnccndiary, and total loss.
Mrs. Herman the pretty insane wild
ow who last week smashed the st.
Augustine gambling house, is now
safe in the Chattahoochee asylum.
The Bank of Alachua has been or.
ganiZed ut that town and l.. o, Ben
ton of Monticello, Ga, is its presi-
dent. The bank has $4,000 capital.
Hon. J. NJ. Barrs has generously
donated the use of his cottage at
DAHL, ~ tl,, old lnIiac U,hD r,ci5l, in
the Jacksonville Home for the Aged.
The mayor of Jacksonville in CO.
operation with the Germania Club of
that city will try and get German
war vessel to participate in Gala
Week this fall.
w. R. Hines, agent of the Sea
board Air Line Railway at Cedar
Key. committed suicide at / O'Clock
Monday afternoon by shooting him
self in the head.
J. r. McAbee, one of the Oldest en-
gineers of the Atlantic Coast Line
R'y, died at his home in Tampa Sat
urday morning. He had friends in
all parts of Florida,
T. J. Appleyard denies the state
ment that he will not be candidate
for secretary of the coming state SEN
ate. Says he is already as good as
elected, having the promise of all
the votes necessary.
Col. John w. Sackett of the First
infantry has been selected by the
adiutant general to command the
Florida State troops to be sent to
Virginia to participate in the maneu
vers near Manassas.
Fred w. Ordway, postmaster at
Carrabelle, committed suicide by
shooting himself with a pistol at the
post office on Thursday the 18th. He
originally came from Portland, Me-,
and leaves a wife, two daughters and
one son. Ordway was 90 years of age.
The bodies of Clarence Ross and
Pomeroy Jones, colOred, were found
laying alongside the road five miles
from Lake City Monday afternoon.
Both bodies We're warm when found
and both had been filled with buck
shot. Shots were heard in the vi
cinity at noon, but cOrOnOr's jury
has been unable to fix the cause OF
death.
Frank Gordon of Biscayne bay
has been adiudged insane at Jack
sunville, and sent to the asylum at
Chattahoochee. He had been in
Jacksonville for two months, and
during that time walked the streets
day and night. He was a victim OF
the drink habit. He is son of the
late Gen. John b. Gordon.
The big frame cotton warehouse OF
Mays d Partridge at Monticell" was
destroyed by fire at midnight Satur
day. Caught from a spark from pas
sing locomotive. The loss on ware
house is $1,000 on which there was
81 600 insurance. There were three
bales of cotton in the building at the
time, two of which were saved. The
warehouse will be rebuilt.
Stephen Cook, II years old, of Ar
redondo, Alachua county, was blown
TO atoms by the explosion of Il blast
ing cartridge last Friday afternoon
The boy was employed in the quar-
ries. He had placed a cartridge
with IA long fuse in his shirt bosom
and while the cartridge was there he
lit cigarette. His remains were
scattered over ground for severa
feet.
The labor unions of the state will
make an effort to secure pardon FOL
William Sylvester, now serving 4
life sentence for the murder of Ed
ward Burton of Fernandina Syl.
vester was, prior to that time, a prom
inent figure III organized labor II
Fprnandina. He was sentenced tt
be hanged, but in response to IA nu-
merOusly signed petition his sentence
was committed to life Imprisonment
DeSoto and Manatee counties com
nrise one senatorial district, and the
counties have taken turns by agree
ment in sending a senator. This Is
Nanntee's turn but DeSOtO has bro
ken the agreement and nominated j
II Humphries: Manatee has nOmi'
mated Dr.. J. c. PelOt. There is nc
chance of settling the difficulty
Each county will select It's own can.
didate-then, one will be taken ano
the other left.
A Sanford naptha launch filled
with young people ran into II sunker
wreck two miles from shore, and
hole was stove into the bottom of the
launeh which caused her to fill. The
iaunch carried small skiif capable
of carrying two, but the six young
Indies were crowded into it, while
Will Hand, with single oar got
them safely to shore. The men stooc
in the water up to their necks unit
Hand could return with larger boa
and rescue them.
vTOI .FNT ATTACK OF DIARRH0EA