The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-09-09
CONDENSED NEWS.

Emperor William of Germany VIII
visit England about the end of Dc
tOber, when it will be in order for
him to fall on the neck of King Ed
ward and kiss his royal whiskers.
A monument erected to the Con-
federate dead of the first battle OF
Bull Run by the Daughters of the
Confederacy was dedicated ON We'd
nesday Aug. 81, at GrovetOn, Va.
Governor Montague delivered the
address
A Before Day Club" of negroes,
organized to burn, rob aud kill, has
been broken up and the members ar
rested at Salem, Ala, One of the
members has confessed to the organi-
cation of the club, and its purposes
uf.h1lirder, arson and robbery.
Mr.. Kemp, cousin of General
Kemp, the Boer commander, has
discovered beyond SpeIonken in the
northern Transvaal, the treasure re-
moved from Pretoria before the en-
try of Field Marshal Lord Roberts.
| The value of the treasure is eStimat-
ed at 81 POO, 600, of which the govern
ment will receive half.
Joe Martin, colored, was lynched
by mob of 800 men at Laramie,
Wyoming Monday night. He had
attacked white girl. After the as
sault he was placed in jail. The
mob OverpOwered- the sheriff and
hung the prisoner to Il lamp post.
Laramie, Wyoming, is several de-
grees north of the Mason and Dixon
! line.
Rev. Whitley Langston, pastor of
| the Methodist Episcopal church at
Statesboro, Ga, has identified and
called by name many prominent citi-
zens of the place whom he testilies
/ took part as leaders in the mob who
overpowered the Georgia State
troops and took away the prisoners
Cato and Reed who were burned at
| the stake.
The city of Binang, in, LIaguna
province, Island of Luzou, has been
| destroyed by fire. One hundred per-
sons persisted in the flames and five
! thousand were rendered homeless.
| The loss is estimated ut 100000.
! The government is furnishing shelter
! anu lOON w. lLLC JtOPiC bVoll-
| tute by the fire. According to the
census of 1896, Binang had a p0pula-
ton of 1868.
/ Three masked bandits held up Pa
cific Express Agent Harding and an
armed guard, Merritt, at kenmerer,
| WvO., at | 80 o'clock "Wednesday
morning and secured $4,000 in silver
currency. The money was en- route
to Cumberland to be paid to the coal
miners. The robbers escaped. Mer-
rift was struck on the head with a
gun and beaten into insensibility.
! 4 posse is out making a diligent
search for the bandits.
A chip of the old block. Princess
/ Louise OF Coburg, daughter of the
King of the BrlgianS, whose relS-
tions with Kegleyich Mattaiitch, -the
| former lieutenant in the Austrian
army, caused a great scandal in En-
ropean royal circles seven years ago,
and who has since been kept under
the closest restraint, has vanished
from Bad Elster, where she had been
taking the cure. 1t is presumed that
the Princess is in the company of
Mattasitch and is seeking to gain an
asylum where she will be safe from
recapture. The escape of the Prin-
cess was accomplished in mysteri-
Gus and romantic manner. Ladders
and a swift automobile were brought
into play to effect her release from
the hotel where she had been i'm
INJURED almost MS II prisoner. and to
convey her to some refuge, the loea-
ton of which is entirely unknown.
Not the slightest trace Of the where
abouts of the pair has yet been dis
covered.