The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-16
GOINGS ON in FLORIDA

I'i N'lllIS NHiHhE "l' HNlI' N'lhl''''
A savings bank will open. for busi
ness in ST. Augustine October LIST,
The Seaboard Air Line r, r.. will
build Il $5O,OOO freight depot at Tain
pa.
The Lake City base ball club won
a game from the S:arkr team by II
scoro Of s to 0.
Rev. G. Il. Baker Of Anderson, s.
C., is the new pastor Of the Baptist
church at Palmetto.>
The taN levy at West Palm Beach
has been fixed at 26 mills on an ass
cssrd valuation of S462 $50.
Thirty tons of cassava starch has
been shipped by the LAX" Helen com
pany to New England cotton mills.
The city council of Sanford has de-
cided to build public what ON lake
Monroe, one that all crafts can tie up
to.
y. B. Broward candidate for COVER
nor and the other state candidates of
the Florida democracy opened the
campaign at Daytona yesterday.
The Bachelor cypress mill at Pa1a.
Sutlkce was burnt d to the ground last
Saturday morning. All the lumber
in the yard was saved owing So the
rain.
Some ofthe colored people of Jack
Lsonville are irving to make trouble
tor Manager Burbridge OF the New
I Il. l.. 70, il
seats sci apart for the whites.
J. y. STRIPPING, [. 5. district attor
ury OF Jacksonville is in the mort H.
west getting evidence with which to
prosecute illegal business combines
! In jacksonville under the sherman
ntitrust law.
'raiiahassec's city council has
started to reform city matters by
cuttiu2 the mayor salary irom $500
to $50, that of the chief of poilc'
from $50 to $50 per month, and ordi
nary police from $5c t" $40.
The annual convention of the Tur-
ppnfiue Operators Association was
| hrld-in Jacksonville ON "Wednesday
and Thursday Of this week. Hon.
| Frank Clark addressed the asSocia-
tion on "Wednesday.
Thomas Jones, II welL-knOwn clti-
zen Of ApaIachieola, slaid at home,
but frisky when away. VAS touched
for $6j in Jacksonville last Friday.
He met Mary Young and Lula Gale
ON the street and they volunteered to
show him the city and give him
good time.
In the "wet" and ''dry" election in
Hamilton county the "dry's" won by
/ ia majority, but the canvassing
board by mistake placed the majori-
| fy on the wet side. The county
commissioners have decided to go
behind the returns III declaring the
vote-which is the proper thing to do,
]. 5. Bently of st. Augustine is the
owner of IA plumber of tax certificates
on Hastings farm property, some OF
which are on the best farms in
that great potato section. But the
present owners have all their tax re-
ceipts and will not be mOlested.
There had been double assessments.
Linton Bradley of Tampa had his
head crushed between the steamer
Manatee and the dock at St Peters
hnrp Sunday. He was leaning over
the rail as the boat pulled out and
his head came in contact With blg
piling and one of the boats Stanch-
ions. He may recover.
The Florida Banking and Trust
Company with a capital stock OF
from $500, 600 to 81 ,0OO,O will open
for business in Jacksonville the first
Of January. w. F. Coachman is to
be the president, and it is said that
w. :. Jennings will be rendered a
position in charge of. the trust aud
surety department.
Miss Mary Alexander, of Oviedo,
while asleep, got out OF bed III the
night and jumped out of II $, cond
story window. Her mother, who oc-
cupied the same room was awakened
and seeing what mad happened, ran
} down into the yard expecting to find
her daug hter dead. Butthe girl was
J scarcely awake when she reached
J her. and was uninjured.
Mrs. Sidney Herbert of Lake Matt
land had her left foot completely am
, putated and her ankle ,and leg badly
crushed in the Seaboard Air Line
wreck at Catawba river, n. e., las
FRIDAY. Her injury is considered
very serious. Mrs Herbert is thu
wife of Major Sidney Herbert for
mer distinguished journalist, and th'
vell-kuown authority on tonteder
ate war records.
During a fire which burned small
tenement house in Tampa last Mon
dnv, Clemente Jill, a l2-year old gir
rescued her five little sisters, rangin;
in age from babyhoOd to 10 years, by
picking them up one at Tune ahCC
rushing them out Of doors tHfouSl
the flames. This little heroine wa
herself badly burned in her work q
rescue and now lies in a precarlou
condition. Her act has eXcltedth
admiration of Tampa,
: The Duncan and Altman family o
i Baker county, between whom ther
o has been an cid feud, came togethe
on a passenger train out from Jack
E sOnville Monday night, and as re
4 snlt Jackson Duncan is dead, Mar
Ishal Duncan is badly wounded, thei
=. father is shot in several places, an
r other brother slightly wounded.
; negro is dead, and Charles and HI
e lary Altman, charged with the kill
O inr, are at their home defying arrest
:, Hillary Altman stepped on a ne
pro's foot in passing through a cal
The negro resented it and Altma
cnt his throat. jackson Duncan rt
proved Altman and then the famil
mix up began which resulted a
above. Fifty men with Wincheste
rifles are standing guard over th
Altmans at their home i'll BaXtel
Baker county, defying the author
ties to arrest them. Whiskey at bo
tom of it all.