The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-08-05
WORLD NEWS.

are doing the Louisiana Purchase EX-
position in bunch. -
President Diaz OF Mexico states
that he may visit the United states
during the coming winter.
Thomas f. Watson of Georgia will
accept the Middle 'O-the- muck ~
popuist nomination for the presi-
dencY.
Judge and Mrs. Alton B. Parker
have accepted an invitation to visit
the exposition at st. Louis on New
York day, October 4th.
The wife of Gen. Nelson A. Miles
died at West Point on Tuesday of
heart failure. She was niece of
the late Gen. w. T. sherman.
Russia has another candidate for
mortuary honOrs and "A state funeral
| in the person Of Count lgnatirtf, who
will succeed Won Plehve as minister
of the interior
Gov. Durbiu of Indiana, Wepubli-
canJ says that discOrd in his party
and the election of ThOs. faggart as
democratic national chairman places
Indiana in the doubtful column and
makes it the battle ground in the
November election.
Germany has made demand on
! Venezuela for interest money past
due on the amount of award stipu-
lated in the protocols signed by H.
w Bowen, representing Venezuela
in 1903. If demand is not complied
with German minister will leave
Caracas this week.
The Chicago meat packers now
have plenty of men, and the stock
yards are active. Five hundred cars
were shipped on Monday. The pack
ers claim that over =, 600 strikers have
returned to work dispite the order
of the unions.
Mrs. Florence May brick, recently
released from British prison and now
with her mother at ROuen, France,
is suffering with nervous prostration.
The house is surrounded with news
paper reporters and some of the
more persistent interViewers have
made attempts to scale the walls that
surrounds her mothers house. Mrs.
Maybrick declares she will not br
interviewed, and asks police to make
the naughty men go away.
Ex-Governor Robert f, Pattison OF
Pennsylvania died at his home in
Philadelphia on Monday morning OF
pneumonia, though oyerwork at the
nation democratic convention.
where he assisted in drafting the
platform, is said to be the primary
cause. He was the most prominent
democrat in Pennsylvania and per-
sonally popular with all classes
III is record as governor of Pennsylva-
mia was the most brilliant Pennsyl-
vania ever had.
Galvrston's great sea wall was
completed last Saturday. Work on
the wall, which is three and one
fourth miles long and extends around
the eastern and Gulf sides of the
city, was begun October y, 1902. 1t
stands seventeen feet above mean
tide, is sixteen feet wide at the base
and five feet at the top, and is built
of solid granite and concrete. 1t is
protected on the gulf side by large
granite rip-rap extending out to the
water. The wall cost 81 800, 100, and
the funds were raised by the people
of Galveston by subscribing to the
bonds.
VIM. f. Breeze former president
and wrecker of the First National
Bank of Asheville, n. c.. haslbeer
:, sentenced to seven years iii the t. 5
penitentiary at Atlanta for misap.
propriating the funds of the bank
But--Breeze has given bond for al
appeal to the [. ). circuit court anC
, his Imprisonment will be postponed
if not set aside permanently. Breez,
has already had four trials. But he
is a banker and its no easy job to pu
banker behind the bars, and once
there he merely boards with thu
keeper, keeps his pants creased ant
receives his friends.
The latest news concerning th'
! Russian-J Japanese war shows tina
J after severe fighting on Sunday ant
| Monday the Japanese under Gen
} Kuroki have defeated the Russian
. forces in two separate actions a
I Yushulikzu and langzef Pass. 1t i
reported that Gen. kuropatkin'
! army is rapidly retreating before tn
Japanese armies. AT st. Petersburg
great anxiety is felt concerning tn
= fate of Gen. Stackelberg, whose di
9 9 vision, it is reported, has been Gu
: off from the main body by the Jap
I anese. His force OF 1000 formed tn
. rear guard and covered the retrea
: of the Russians from Liao Yang.
u President Nord the negro presiden
:, of Hayti has made an alarming ad
, dress in which he accuses foreig
u residents with plotting against TIN
Il government by putting up the rat
: of exchange and the prices on goods
: He made a threatning reference t
\ what happened in Hayti in 1904
II In January, 1904, after the power t
: the French ceased in the island {
d Hayti. the independence of the il
u land was proclaimed, and Jean Jas
e ques Dessalines was named govel
Il nor general for life, with full legisl;
tive and military powers and til
right of appointing his successo
Dessalines was a negro, and had I
% one time been IA slave, In March,
+ 1904, he proclaimed the massacre
e. all the whites, calling upon his pee
ie pie "to render war for war, crime K
81 crime. and outrage for outrage,
the European cannlbals, who hay
10 for so long preyed upon our race,
d AS n result of this proclanatlo
there was general massacre
: nearly the whole of the whites, II
=. :. Guiding aged men, women and chi
~ dren, numbering at the lowest est
= = mate $500.