The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1902-1905, 1904-07-22
GOINGS ON IN FLORIDA.

The Dodge will case is going to get
into the supreme court.
A hard surface road is being built
to connect Evinston and Micanopy.
The Miller block in Gainesville has
been sold to c. A. Colelough for $50
900.
The United States gunboat Ma
chias is to be rebuilt at the PensacO-
la navy yards.
The st. Augustine Rifles, of the
State Troops, engages in target prac-
tice ON Sundays.
Dr. j. Denham Palmer a promi-
nent practitioner of Fernandina will
move to Jacksonville.
The Jacksonville base ball team
has been losing steadily the past
week and is now in third place.
The Jacksonville postotIice han
died 1862, 242 pieces of. mail matter
for the fiscal year ending June Both.
Merchants of West Palm Beach
have inaugurated the Thursday half
holiday system to continue until Oc-
tOber lst.
The first Parker and Davis club to
be organized in the state was form
ed at Lake City Monday night with
3S members.
Beginning with Sunday Micanopy
is to have a tent revival service con-
Quoted by Rov. Thos. Noteworthy, II
travelling evangelist.
The Mayor of Merida, Yucatan,
with ii party of MeXicans, was a
guest at the Aragom hotel, Jackson
vile, last Saturday and Sunday.
The leading republicans of the
state met in Jacksonville on We'd
nosday to lay plans for carrying on
an aggressive campaign in the state
this fall.
The Gainesville Sun states that the
Gainesville melon growers associa-
tion has shipped l3O car loads Of
melons from that section during the
season just closed.
The FIRST National Bank at Ar
cadia, organized in 1900, has just de-
CIared Il divident of ) per cent. The
bank has capital of 100000 and II
surplus of 100000.
The safe in the store of Bishop d
Stuart, at Anthony, was rifled by
burglars Monday night and several
hundred dollars Stoled. There is no
clue to the burglars.
The business men Of Jasper have
nearly all signed al agreement to
''cut their telephones out" because
of Il raise in the cost Of the service
from 81 30 to $3.50 per month.
Capt. Paul of the Salvation army
in Jacksonville, gave free picnic
excursion and dinner to the poor of
that city on Tuesday. He took the
party to Green Cove Springs.
Editor Setter of the High Springs
Hornet. whose buzzings are making
that town famous, has just purchased
the plant of the Alachua Hustler,
and will hustle for that paper in flu
ture as well
An express messenger on the At
lantic Coast Line train leaving
Tampa for Jacksonville last Thurs
day night, was robbed of "A package
containing 5000 in bills. He lays the
| theft to hObOs
Mrs Mary Ann Richardson of Or
lando is dead from an overdose of
morphine which she took to ward
off an attack of asthma. She was 4
member of the Baptist church, and
IS years of age.
/ The steel rails for the electric rail
way connecting Jacksonville with
/ Senator Calls's Ortege suburb have
arrived from New York via the
! Clyde line, and the work of laying
them will begin in a few days.
| The city council of Jacksonville
has passed an ordinance granting
the Postal Telegraph Cable Compa-
ny right to transact telegraph and
/ messenger call business. The Ordi-
nance was passed unanimously over
| the mayors veto.
! H. l.. Branch, popular young
man of Tampa and in easy 'ircum-
stances, committed suicide last Fri
day night by shooting hlmselfin the
| mouth. He left a note to show that
| no one else was responsible for his
| death. He was a consumptive.
John Beach an aged man OF
/ Gainesville was run over by an A t.
/ lantic Coast Line train at High
| Springs last Saturday. The old man
was hard of hearing and partially
/ blind. The train cut him in two
dragged his body several yards and
scattered it in fragments in every di.
rectiOn.
Geo. f. Tyle has been arrested in
/ Chattanooga and will be brought tC
Starke to answer to the charges OF
wife desertion and bigamy. He
married Miss Ida Alvarez of Starkt
in July last year, and afterwards de.
serted her. 1t is also said that lyle
has Il wife at Dalton, Ga. lyle is a
barber, and at one time worked ii
Gainesville.
NJ. b. Bartholomew has been ar.
rested in Jacksonville charged will
fraudulent use of the mails. He ad.
yertiSed DIR Hawks perfect vision
spectacles, g0ld-tilled, worth $3.50
sent free for six spectacle wearer''
names, with dime for postage
Florida Chemical company Jackson
Vile. Fla. To those who replieC
sending dime and names, he SEN
circulars advertising nervine. divine
healing, etc, and told the parties
that il they would sell so much bak
ing powder which he was manufac
turing, at certain price, the specta
cleS would be sent. Quite number
bit at his something for nothing
scheme.
CURED OF CHRONIC DIARRHOEl