The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-08-26

Elihu Root has declined to be the
republican candidate for governor Of
New York.
The First National Bank of Ma
con, Ga. has paid its second divi-
dend-4O per cent.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick arrived in
New York ON the Red Star liner
Vaderland last Tuesday. She will
60 to the home of Dr. Emmett Dens-
more in the Catskils for long rest.
Booker Washington has a summer
home at South Weymouth, Mass.
On Tuesday his son. Booker jr., was
arrested and fined $l5 for riding his
motorcycle faster than the law al
lows.
The twin cities of st. Paul and
Minneapolis were visited by Il torna-
do last Saturday. Two hundred
buildings were wrecked, sixteen per-
sons killed, and the property loss
will reach S3,OOO,0OO.
The Japanese troops are close in to
Port Arthur and are even now uccu-
pying one fort which is in about the
centre of Port Arthurs chain of de
fenses. The Japanese are getting
ready to celebrate the fall of this
Russian stronghold.
Two car loads Of negroes picked up
in small Georgia towns left Chatta-
noOga Tuesday for the Chicago stock
yards to take the places of strikers,
What those plantation darkies think
of Chicago after their first week S eX-
perience would make interesting
reading
Dynamite consigned to mining
company exploded at the depot in
Nevada, Mo-, last Saturday, killing
two persons, fatally wounding two
others, and demolshing the depot,
The dynamite had been carelessly
unloaded and stood on the platform
three hours. One box projected over
the platform, and this was struck by
II passi & switch engine,
Judge Partridge of Selma. Ala,
has refused bail to special constables
Ransom, Stanfil and Cherry. Ed
ward Bell, negro, charged with
murder, was taken from these Off
GERS and met his death at the hands
of IA mob. The three cOnstables are
now in Jail charged with murder III
the first degree. They allege that
negroes took Bell from their custody.
Mrs. Lawrence g. Phipps, wife of
the Pittsburg millionaire, has arrived
in Chicago with her lawyer. 1t is
said that an agreement will be made
between the husband and wife
whereby the husband will be allowed
to procure divorce in Chicago, pro-
vided he gives up S6,OOO,O0O aud al
lows the wife to have the custody of
her children six months in each
year.
Fifteen citizens of'Colorado have
been depOrted by other citizens Of
the Cripple Creep district and warn
ed never to return. Had this out
rage occurred in Turkey or some
other foreign country, the president
would have called for an accounting
by sending warship and force Of
marines. But it was at home and no
attempt has been made to right the
wrong.
Secret service officers have arrested
a gang of counterfeiters at Atlanta
and have captured $4,000 Of the
queer" $40 bills as well rs the
plates. The queer money was being
made at night in the office of the Le-
HATTIE printing cOmpanyby employees
of that concern. The money was
cleverly made and readily passed
with business men and had been ac-
cepted at at least one bank. The
men have all admitted their guilt.
The completion of Galvestons
monster sea wall was celebrated on
Monday, when excursions trains
poured into the city from all parts OF
Texas, Gov. Lanham was present
and made an address. The Calves
ton sea wall represents one OF the
finest pieces of engineering work
ever accomplished in this country.
The wall is 1883 feet long, Is feet
wide at the base > feet wide at the
top and stands II feet above mean
low tide.
An attempt by unknown parties to
blow up the reservoir at st. Marys,
Ohio. was frustrated. The charge of
dynamite was not sufficient to de
strov the solid masonry The bulk
head is che outlet of Lake Mercer
into the Miami and Erie Canal and
holds back nine feet of water, cover
ing 1900 acres of land. St Marys
is u feet lower than the lock and
the loss that would have acCompa-
MED the success Of the attempt is
hard to image.
Mrs. Cordelia Botkin, the woman
who sent poisoned candy to Mrs.
John p. Dunning OF Dover, Del"
through the mail, and whose death
resulted from the eating, has again
been found guilty of murder at San
Francisco and sentenced to life i'm
prisonment, The judge III passing
sentence expressed regret that lie
could not inflict the death penalty.
The Botkin woman loved Mr.. Dun
ming with u sort of love- and took
this means of getting his wife out OF
the way.
Three national banks of Washing
ton. d. c.. have united in apetitiOn a
in bankruptcy against ThoS +. Wag-
gaman, a wealthy real estate man of
that city, aud best known as treas
urer of the Catholic university The
petition at the same time seeks to
set aside deed of trust recorded on
Monday on Mr.. Waggaman's proper
ty for approximately SS76,000 in favor
of the Catholic university on the
ground that it is void, as being an