The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-06-28
LATE STATE NEWS.


mentS.
Miami had heavy downpour O
rain last Monday, the first good rail-
since last October.
The cantaloupe and melon ship
ments from Martin this season will
approximate 100 cars.
Archer is to have big Fourth o1
July celebration with Congressman
Frank CLARK as orator of the day
The Business Mems League of st
Johns county has decided to give q
county fair next November at St
Augustine.
An air ship was seen to pass over
Pensacola at late hour Monday
coming from the gulf and moving
due north.
r. L. Geiger OF Green Cove Springs,
a bright young lawyer, has been ad-
mitted to practice in the United
States Court.
The Tampa city council has in
creased the pay of it's members from
500 to $40 per month each, the in
crease to take immediate effect.
The st. Johns Light & Fuel Co. of
st. Augustine is to extend its cleo
trio trolley car system to South
Beach within the next two months
John S. Maxwell has been appoint
ed Judge of the Criminal Court Of
Record in Jacksonville by Gov
Broward in place of S. 7. Shaylor,
removed.
Mabel G. Brabham has been given
a verdict for $1,000 damages against
the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad at
Ocala. The plaintiff was injured in
a collision on the defendant road,
A stock company will be formed at
Orlando to purchase land and put up
an irrigating plant near that place
for celery growing 1t is said there
is excellent land for this purpose.
L. w. Powell 10 year old boy
prisoner in the county Jail at Tampa
and Robert Mcbride, another pris-
oner, were frustrated in an attempt
to hit the jailer over the head and
make their escape.
Mayor Sebring has issued an order
permitting meat markets to open on
Sunday mornings from to 8 o'clock
for the sale of meat. Heretofore
they have not been permitted to
open.
Hon. Sgd l.. Carter of Gainesville
has been chosen chairman of the
legislative commission to investigate
the |. |. Fund, and the commission
began its sessions at Tallahassee
Monday.
The Sunday base ball players at
Pensacola who have played their
games just outside the city on the
military reservation at Fort Barran-
cas-, have now been denied this privi-
lege by the War Department.
Eugene Masters, mayor of st. Au-
gustine, has been requested by the
ministers of that city to close the
saloons on Sunday. Mayor Masters
has declined, but says he will keep
sharp eyes on them and make 'em
behave.
James Bowman, the negro lawyer
OF Jacksonville who forged Judge
R. M. Calls name to u fraudu-
lent divorce paper, and who for
some time has been fugitive from
justice, has been apprehended at
Houston, Texas.
Capt. J. F. Jaudon has resigned
the captaincy of the Miami Rifles,
one of the best military organiza-
tions in the state. Capt. Jaudon
didn't feel as if he had been treated
right in the matter of promotion,
hence his action.
Florida Williams a colored woman
of Ocala places high valuation on
the life of her late husband. She is
suing the A. G. l.. R'y for $4,000
damages. She claims he was
killed owing to negligence of en-
ployes of that road.
The military companys of Jack
sonville will give an elaborate mill
tary celebration of the Fourth of
July in that city and military COM
mands throughout the state have
been invited to participate. Gov.
Broward will make the principal ad-
dress. There will be elaborate fire
works at night. The celebration
will take place at DiXieland Park.
A southbound train on the Sea-
board Air Line was wrecked by
spreading rails and 300 yards of track
torn up at a point three miles south
of Waldo at midnight Tuesday. The
train was we'll filled with passengers,
and although the coaches were over
turned, none of the passengers were
injured beyond slight scratches.
W. w. Barton carpenter of Jas
per, shot and almost instantly killed
his wife, three children and himself
last week. One child, five years old,
lived long CROUCH to tell that Barton
did the shooting. There was unhap-
py domestic relations. Barton had
left home; returning late Wednesday
night he found the doors nailed
against him. He battered them
down and then began his work OF
slaughter.
Gainesville is worried over it's
scarcity of water. The supply is in
sufficient to flush the new sewer sys-
tenn and the city council is being
called upon to secure the needed
supply. AT present the supply is so
low from lack of rain that the water
superintendent has asked the peo-
pie not to sprinkle their lawns or
use 1t for other than personal irriga-
ting purposes as a "chaser."
G. H. Raulerson formerly county
treasurer of Dade county and at
present a member of the Miami city
council has deserted his wife and alb
Quoted his three children. Some
months ago Raulerson was accused
with living with another woman in
Miami, and the two were arrested.
The woman was placed under 900
bond which she forfeited. 1t is be-
iieved Raulerson has gone to this