The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-05-17
, LATE STATE NEWS.

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TAMPA.-There is to be new
steamer line between Tampa and
Cuba.
PENSACOLA.-Work has been
resumed on the new sewerage sys-
tenn. 1t will cost the city when COM
pleted 100000.
GAINESVILLE - Graham Lang
was shot and killed near Newberry
Friday by Samuel Sapp. They were
brothers-in-law. Sapp made his es-
cape and has not been captured yet.
GREEN COVE SPRINGS.-At a
meeting of the town council last
week, the proposition of A. A. Kind
of Jacksonville to furnish the town
with an electric plant and a water
system was accepted.
LIVE OAK.-By a majority Of
thirteen votes, Col. j. B. johnson OF
Live Oak, defeated Hon. w. a. Tison
of Wellborn, in the senatorial cleo
ton held in Suwannee county last
Thursday to fill out the uneXpired
term of the late Senator Newlau.
JACKSONVILLE.-On Saturday
afternoon, while gathering beans in
the garden with his mother, Elroy
Rivers was bitten by snake sup
posed to be a moccasin. Although
medical assistance was simmedi-
ately rendered, the little fellow died
early Monday morning.
JACKSONVILLE The twelfth
annual convention of the Florida Di-
vision, United Daughters of the Con-
fedeTacy, came to a close at the
Windsor Hotel and auditorium dur
ing the early hours of Saturday.
Tallahassee was decided on as the
next place of meeting, in May, 1908.
PERRY.-About 2:4O o'clock Sun
day morning the Calhoun house with
contents was destroyed by fire. The
! flames spread so rapidly that many
of the guests lost all their clothing.
The Calhoun house was one of the
handsOmest in Perry. Ii was built
about one year ago by w. +. Cal
Eoun, The loss is about $4,000,
partly covered by insurance.
DAYTONA-The steamer Uncle
Sam was destroyed by fire while at
anchor on the Tomoka river We'd
nesday of last week.-At a meeting
Of the executive committee of the
Florida East Coast Automobile as
sociatiot last week, it was decided to
hold next years races between the
10Th and Both of March, the exact
time to be governed by the daylight
tides.
TALLAHASSEE. - Major Jacob
Gumbinger, Florida state troops, re-
tired, has been commissioned ordi-
nance officer with the rank of major
and assigned to duty on the staff of
Brig. Gen. j. w. Sackett.-E. H. My
ers, for the past several years clerk
III the comptroller's Office, died sud
denly of heart failure Friday evening
at the home of his brother, Hon.
Fred. 7. Myers.
JACKSONVILLE.-Judge Morris
A. DziaIynski, for the past twelve
years municipal judge of Jackson
Vile, died in that city last Sunday
night. He was stricken with paraly-
sis at the ball park last Friday after
noon. Judge Dzialynski was candi-
| date for reelection to the Office OF
municipal judge, which office he had
| filled so satisfactorily that no one
would become a candidate against
| him.
TAMPA-F. I. Howden, general
manager of the Prairie Pebble Phos-
phate Company of Mulberry, was
convicted Tuesday afternoon of Pc
onage by jury in the United States
court after two days's trial. Judge
Locke reserved sentence. Court i'm.
mediately proceeded with the trial
of w. G. Sprott, marshal of Mulber-
ry, on similar charge. Complain
ants in the case We're Brodsky and
Boreski, Russians.
Observation-Disclosures of pine
trees over this portion of the state
are dead, and in some places oaks
are dying as a result of the long
drought. If rain, aud good supply
at that, does not soon fall the
results will be hard to foretell. How
orange trees and vegetables have
stood the drought is wonderful.
Nearly every square yard of ham.
mock, pine land and marsh has been
swept by fire some time during the
past few months, which may have
something to do with the trees dying.
-Leesburg Commercial.
PENSACOLA.-Joe Stanley and
w. G. Smith are under arrest charg-
ed with having committed one of
the most atrOcious crimes in the his
tory of Florida. May the l4th, 1906,
the entire Alderman family of man,
wife and seven children were muir
dered at their home about ten miles
from Milton, Santa Rosa county.
and the house burned to cover up
the crime. Shortly after the inquest
Stanley and Smith left the county
and detectives working quietly have
secured information which led to
their arrest.
Young men Of today who are looking
for soft jobs" or figuring how they
may get something for nothing should
ponder well these words of HOrace