The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-08-12
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA
Kissimmee is soon to have a new
electric lighting plant.

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electric lighting plant.
The enarrow gauge railroad between
Sanford and Tilby is being made
broad gauge.
Congressman S. NJ. Sparkman is
the Florida member of the national
democratic campaign committee.
The telephone exchange at Quincy
was destroyed by fire Saturday
night, and the city can't talk with
the outside world.
The clergymen of Jacksonville
have united in petition to the city
council to pass and ordinance pro-
hibiting Sunday base ball.
An aged white woman named
Roberts living at Chuluota near Or
lando, was murdered by n 10 year old
colored boy last Monday.
Rev. r. H. Houston, a colored
clergyman, with his wife, are in the
Tampa Jail charged with the murder
of Robert Story, another negro.
The Florida East Coast Hotel
cOmpany's new electric lighting
plant for Miami was operated for the
first time last week, Illuminating the
city thoroughly.
The pay rolls of Tampa's cigar
factories for the week ending last
Saturday amounted to the enormous
sum of $3.50, so it is stated from
Tampa.
Prof. Jere NJ. Pound of Macon, Ga,
has been appointed superintendent
of the East Florida Seminary at
Gainesville. He was formerly presi-
dent of Gordon Military Institute.
Lee Johnson, a Gainesville boy,
travelling with street carnival asso-
citation through Indiana, was in
stantly killed at Muncie, Indiana,
last Sunday by falling from his
balloon.
Horse thieves who have been OPP
Grating in the western part OF
Alachua county have been captured
at Alachua. Several valuable ami
mails were recovered and the negro
thieves are in Jail.
The republicans of st. Johns coun-
ty think of nominating a ticket and
going after one or two county offices
that they specially covet. But the
democrats will meet them at the
polling booths and-we can see their
finish.
J. w. Terrill, IA merchant of Mid
wav. was shot from ambush while
on his way home from Tallahassee
one night last week. Four shots
were fired at him-only one taking
effect in the fieshy part of his right
thigh.
A Kissimmee man had two bot
ties with him il. his room AT an Or
landO hotel. One contained oil of
citronella to keep off mosquitoes. In
the night he woke up and wanting a
drink reached for his bottle. He got
the mosquito eradicatOr by mistake.
The doctors pumped him ont.
How soon are we forgotten when
we're gone The jacksonville Me-
tropois says ID. H. Mays of Madi-
son is at the Aragon.' But this dis
tinguished Monticello citizen did
live in Madison county i'll 1886, and
il may be that the Metropolis has
Just heard of his removal.
While walking leisurely along
North Pleasant street Saturday eve
ming at o'clock and humming soft
lv to himself that old familiar hymn,
''There is Rest for the Weary
George Morris, sixty years old, a
cOlOred brick mason, fell suddenly to
The pavement and expired before as
sistancc could reach him.-Gaines-
vile Sun.
Charles Driggers of Arcadia, while
drunk, shot and killed his father,
Mathew Driggers, last Saturday.
Charles had threatened his wife and
the old man demonstrated, where
upon Charles followed the old man
into the house and shot him. The
murderer is in the the DeSOtO county
iail. The brand of whisky used by
Driggers is known rs .blind tiger.
l.. L. Hill, IL New York orange
buyer, and whose interests lie i'll
making it appear that Florida is to
have a big crop of oranges this fall
has been in the state three weeks,
and now gives out the statement
that the crop of the state will
amount to So, 800, 600. Otherm who
are observers, and who have been in
the state three years, fix the crop at
9, 900, 600 boxes. The latter figures
are nearer correct.
Col, John A. Henderson of Talla-
hassee died at his home Tuesday af-
ternoon. Col. Henderson was one OF
the most emminent lawyers in
Florida. He was for years vice
president and general counsel of the
Florida Central d Peninsula Rail
road He had lived in Tallahassee
since 1875, going there from Tampn
He had been Il member OF the mouse
of representative and Il state senator
from Hillsboro and fernando coun'
ties. He was an old time leader OF
the Florida democracy.
Leroy Leonard member of the
Wilson battery of Jacksonville had
his left hand blown off last Sunday
night at Phoenix park. There was a
presentation of 1.-THE Battle of Port
Arthur" going on at the park and
the Wilson battery had been Ell
gagged to fire howitzer or two at al
| Imaginary gunboat. 1t was while
firing at this imaginary target that
Leonard's hand got in the way of the
gun. He was badly burned and
blackened with powder from his
face to his waist and his hand was
entirely blown off.
Rev. Silas Testament, a color6d
preacher of Half Moon, Alachua
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