The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-08-19
WORLD NEWS.

The Knights of Pythias conclave
is in session this week ut Louisville.
The democrats and pdpulists of Ne
braska have fused and nominated a
Joint ticket.
DR.. John II McAden, bank presi-
ideut and wealthiest man in Char
lotte, n. c., is dead.
Senator G. f. Hoar of Massachu-
setts is lying at the point OF death at
his home in Worcester.
BY the flooding of the Barringer
gold mine at Gold Hill, n. c., last
week nine miners were drowned.
Frank Sirmans of Clinch county.
Ga, has ten acre corn field that
will bear 80 bushels to the acre.
The Czar has abolished corporal
punishment throughout Russia as
an act of grace Signalling TIE birth
of an heir to the throne.
The Standard oil company de-
clared "A dividend of 50 per share last
MOnday--the third Of like amount
this year-Or 2S per cent.
The boiler in the saw mill of j F.
Arnold near Senoia, Ga, exploded
last Monday afternoon, killing four
men and injuring several others.
Ten persons We're drowned by the
capsizing of IA naptha launch while
watching the regatta on the Potomac
river opposite Georgetown last Sat
urday.
George Hill, a seventeen year old
boy sent to the chain gang in Angus
ta, Ga, for disorderly conduct. has
attempted suicide by eating broken
glass.
The Chicago packers have refused
Mayor Harrison offer of mediation
in the strike situation Oh the ground
that they have already won the
strike and had no reason to meet the
strikers.
The Grand Army of the Republic
is holding its annual session in Bus-
ton this week, The feature of the
week was Tuesdays parade of 26,-
600 old federal veterans.
Mrs. Florence Maybrick is on her
way to this country. New York Off
,.ials of the Bureau Of immigration
have been instructed to give her
every courtesy due an American
citizen and to facilitate her landing
as far as possible.
The legislature of Georgia has in
creased the salary of the governor,
the six Judges of the supreme court
and "A Judges of the superior court
but has adjourned without making
any appropriation to meet the eX-
cess payment.
The coastlng steamer Penguin has
been wrecked off the coast of Natal
and % persons drowned. The Pen
| guin was chartered to search for the
"Kruger millions alleged to have
been sunk with the steamer Iululand
three years ago.
A son and heir to the Russian
throne was born last Friday. The
event was announced by the firing of
a salute of l0l guns. The kid will be
christened Alexis. All the other
children of the Czar are girls but
girls don't count when it comes to
an heir for the throne.
Charlie Pitts and his wife, negroes
of DeKalb county, Ga, attended a
big negro meeting in the country last
Saturday night. BEFORE going they
locked their four small children in
the cabin for safe keeping. When
they returned the cabin and childrt II
were burned up.
The postotiice at Indianola, Miss.
which figured cOnspicuously last
wear in a race trouble on account Of
the then negro pOstmistress, and
which was closed for months by or
der of the president. has been re-
duced from presidential to an office
of the fourth class.
Gov. Jennings. has appointed a
military board to investigate the ac-
cident by which Private Leonard of
the jacksonville Field Artillery was
manned and otherwise injured by
the premature discharge ofa tieldgun
while assisting at ii Sunday exhibit
ton of the Battle of Port Arthur
The Supreme court of Connecticut
has rendered decision adverse to
the claim of VIM. j. Bryan for 500
600 from the will of the late PhilO 5.
Bennett, of New Haven Bennett
left Il sealed letter directing the wild
ow to give Mr.. and Mrs. Bryan $40,
900, and the court holds that this let
ter was not a part of the will.
In attempting to sneak out of Port
Arthur harbOr last week five Rus
sian battleships Were greatly dis
abled by the japanese squadron un-
| der Admiral Togo, who was lying III
wait, and gave the Russians battle
AS they were Oh the run. Rear Ad-
miral WithOtt and many staff officers
of the Russians We're killed, and the
battleship Czarevitch was put out OF
commission.
Paul Reed and Will Cato, colored,
were burned at the stake near States
boro, Ga, Tuesday afternoon. They
had been legally convicted of the
murder of Henry Hodges, his wife
and three of their children, six miles
from StatesbOrO three weeks ago
Cato was tried, and found guilty OH
Monday. Reed was tried Tuesday
morning, found guilty, and both
were sentenced to be hanged Sept
9th. The Jail was guarded by two
companies of state troops, but the
troops had no ammunition. The
mob soon discovered this and over
powered the troops. The men con
fessed duplicating others in what Is
known as Before Day Club of ne
yroes for robbery and murder o
white citizens.
/ TAKEN WITH CRAMPS