The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-10-14

day with little sign of getting
windcd.
Ten thousand boxes of oranges and
grape fruit We're shipped from Le"
county during the first week in OctO-
Der.
Five men connected with the L. $.
Navy yard at Pensacola were drown.
ed by the capsizing of saiIboat in
the harbor last Saturday.
Mrs. V. II. Gwinn wife of the Su-
perintendcnt of the state insane asy-
lum at ChattAhOochee, is dead. Her
death occurred III Virginia.
A 4O-acre farm at Hastings has
Just beer sold to E. f Durkee OF
Saratoga, n. Y, for 5000. Mr..
Durkee will, like all his neighbors
in that prosperous place, raise po-
tatoes
John Price, present sheriff of Du-
val county. and who, defeated for
denomination in the May primary,
| had decided t, run as an independ-
ent candidate, has changed his mind
| and will not run.
w. X. Halle has been elected King
of the Carnival at jacksonville by a
large majority. The carnival will
commence on Monday the "a inst
and continue until the 29th, the fol-
lowing Saturday.
Sheriff Perry of St. Augustine has
made application TO the governor Of
A Alabama for the $500 reward for cap
turing the murderer and safe-blOwer,
Frank Duncan. And as Perry alone
made the arrest he ought to have the
money.
A disastrous fire at Chaires station
on Saturday burned 30 bales of cot
ton, J. Fl. Patterson's cotton gin and
yrist mill, the railroad section house,
and Geo. w. Patterson's stables. 1t
was tire biggest fire in history of
place and the loss is heavy.
The one great frolic of the year to
all Floridians will be the grt al
jacksonville carnival which will be
: on from Oct. "a TO % inclusive
Every one in the state should 90
The railroads will sell round triI
tickets for the week at one fare plus
% cents
Garrett V. Chamberln II popular
Young deputy sheriff of Alachui
5 county was assassinated by an un
known negro while driving with hi
wife last Friday near his home a
Tacoma. He was buried at Mica
l nopy on Saturday. A few days be
fore strange negro was shooting ol
Mr.. ChamberIin's property and wa
i, ordered off. The negro was insolen
> and threatened with an oath to &c
= even. That is the only clue to tn
e assassin.
e The state democratic eXeCutiv
V committee has issued a 5000 wore
statement defending its action il
placing Jemmit Wolfe on the demo
. cratic state ticket as an indepcnden
candidate for Superintendent G
t. Public Instruction. The committe
- has certified Wolfe nomination t
= the secretary of state and that Off
# cial has ordered his name printed a
II regular nominee on the tlcke
: Democrats will now proceed to It
II buke independentism by voting TO
Holloway, the regular party nom
+ nee, or not at all.
t. JIG. North, teacher of the publ
"a school at Hastings, has been fine
$40 and costs, amounting to $50 IN a
Is for whipping a pupil, Gus Stevel
by name, until there was black an
lie blue marks on his back. The teach'
offered no testimony beyond his oW
statement in rebuttal of the eviden'
IN given by the boy and his family.
~ the teacher violated any of II
* rules of the board, he should be di
IA missed, if he did not, and If he wi
;" justified in administering merltt
y punishment to an unruly pupil
lg should be sustained by the board.
rs Prof. G II. Shriner of the Jasp
normal school has missed his ca
IS ing. Instead of teaching the youl
-, idea how to shoot toodles he shou
~ be writing poetry and slch II.
ef things. He is Il very bird~as wa
I'd bier. Listen to his latest, compos
& to be sung on the occasion of cane
date Broward's recent visit
Jasper. Lack of space forblds
DIS giving more than the first verse a
ny the chorus, To some, who have
ir appreciation of poetical genius, o
- verse will be enough. Here it is:
Twas in Cuba, far over the wave,
Where brave men dared the tyra
=, defy,
IL Asking aid from the land of the tr'
he Found freeman who dared
las reply.
-. Chorus
- Then hurrah, boys, hurrah!
IL For Three Friends as she skins o
OF the wave,
Bearing tidings of joy