The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1905-11-24
GENERAL NEWS.

Clark Howell, editor of the Allan
ia Constitution, has formally an
nounced his candidacy for governor
of Georgia.
Theodore Roosevelt, jr., son of the
president, had his nose broken at
Cambridge, Mass, last Saturday in
a football game.
Dillon Wallace, New York law
yer, has successfully crossed Labra-
dor and is the first white explorer to
accomplish the fete
Prince and Princess Charles of
Denmark have been elected King
and Queen of Norway and will as
cend the throne at Christiania today.
Richard A. McCurdy, president of
the Mutual Life Insurance company,
has had his salary reduced from
$l50,000 to $75,0 900 per annum.-At his
own request.
Edward Mead has been sentenced
to two years in Sing Sing prison for
illegal voting in the recent New
York City election. Meade pleaded
guilty to voting twice.
Hayden Marquis, son of r. w.
Marquis, millionaire of DesMoines,
Iowa, has been sued for $4,000 dam
ages by Miss Ella Hamilton, from
whom he stole kiss.
Marshall Field, jr., son of Marshall
| Field, the Chicago multi-millionaire
dry goods dealer, was accidentally
| shot xyhiIo al
tory to going on a hunt last Wednes-
day. He will die.
Nixon & Danforth's cotton ware
| house was destroyed by fire at Au-
gusta, Ga, Wednesday night togeth-
er with 1000 bales of cotton. The
loss is about $4,000.
It. M. Emerson has been elected
president of the Atlantic Coast Line
Railway, to succeed r. G. Erwin,
resigned. Mr.. Emerson was fourth
vice president. He entered the rail-
way service in humble capacity at
the age of 16 and has worked his way
up.
Before leaving New York, Prince
Louis of Battenburg the English ad-
miral, went on a Summing tour
| through Chinatown. During his
trip the prince smoked two cigars
and pipe, drank four glasses of
beer and spent $4.25.
Senator Burton of Kansas is on
trial before the Federal court at st.
Louis, charged with rendering SER
vice as an attorney before the post
office department at Washington in
violation of the Federal statutes. 1t
is probable that the case will go to
the jury on Saturday.
Hugh G. Ryals of Jackson, Tenn,
was Instantly killed and Warner
Blackard of Paris, Tenn, seriously
injured Monday night by falling over
a bannister, while engaged in
friendly scuffle at the Southwestern
Presbyterian University. Both were
students and the sons of ministers.
James N. Strobhar, defaulting
agent of the Atlantic Coast Line R'y
at Gainesville, Fla, has been arrest
ed at Montreal on the charge of steal
ing 81 500. His real shortage is said
to be $4,000. Strobhar declares he
will not return to Florida and has
retained eminent counsel to fight ex-
tradition.
The Senate Committee on Elec-
tions, of which Senator Burroughs is
chairman, will probably report in
favor of vacating the seat now occu-
pied by Senator Reed -Smoot, the
Mormon apostle of Utah. If it be
decided that Smoot is already
member of the Senate it will require
a two thirds vote to unseat him, and
this can hardly be mustered.
The case of the six daughters of
Robert Gilliland against the Board
of Education of Buncombe county,
North Carolina, came up for trial in
the Superior Court at Asheville on
Monday. Jhe case is novel one,
the plaintiffs seeking to secure a
mandamus compelling the defendant
to admit them to the white schools
of the county. They claim to be
white children, but the board in ex-
cluding them held that they had me-
gro blood in their veins and are not
entitled to seats in the white schools.
The people of the county are intense
| ly interested over the case, and a
number of the leading lawyers of
Western North Carolina have been
retained in the case.