The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-01-25
: LATE STATE NEWS.

JIlub DtHcI anu tilbuSdIluS Dl NlSllbTs
are present from all parts of the
country.
The costliest dining car in the
world now runs into st. Augustine
The car was built by the Pullman
company for exhibition at the St
Louis exposition.
Over 400 citizens of Daytona and
vicinity attended meeting at the
Armory in that town last week tC
discuss the matter of a division OF
Volusia county and to organize for Il
campaign to that end.
A. J. Russ, u New York man EN-.
ployed to manage the roulette wheel
in Smiths saloon, ST. Augustine
dropped dead on the streets of that
city Tuesday. Heart disease.
j. NJ. Sheeney of Orlando, the
United States district attorney fol
Florida, says that 'he alone is re-
sponsible for instituting the O'Hara
peonage case and that he is willing
and proud to assume the responsible
ity."
The Lake City Chautauqua, OF
which Rev. DR.. H. M. Wharton is
the platform manager, will open next
Sunday, the 9th inst, and continue
until February Sth. There is an in
teresting program for each day with
prominent lectures, musical and
other literary features.
The census of Pensacola which has
just been completed by the city eani-
tary inspectors gives a total popula-
tion to that city of 22640, an increase
of over 80 per cent since the govern
ment census in 1900. The population
is almost equally divided between
the races.
The Florida East Coast Railway,
through Vice President and General
Manager j. r. Parrott, has generous
ly offered to pay one-fourth the cost
of the Ponce de Leon celebration at
st. Augustine, transport the state
militia free of charge and give re-
duced rates to visitors.
Jacksonville, Gainesville and other
cities In Florida ought to be good.
No sooner does one revivalist get
through reforming the natives than
another begins. In Jacksonville.
particularly, the revival seems to be
continuous performance with pro-
fessional evangelists in the leading
role.
The new state board of trade has q
department to induce immigration to
the state of Florida. For the benefit
of this department it may be stated
that there are few more Jews in
Russia than are needed and it is pos
sible that the Russian government
might assist the Florida board i'll
securing some of them for turpentine
and logging operations.
The criminal libel suit instituted
by Ex-Governor VIM. s. Jennings
against Alfred st. Clair-Abrams and
A. X. Taylor the cartoonist, will
come on for II hearing in the Jack
sonville criminal court next Monday.
Very many prominet citizens of the
state have been summoned as wit
nesses, and leading attorneys have
been retained on both sides.
The Jacksonville authorities wired
Sanford's chief of police to arrest and
search a man who was suspected of
being q safe blower, and who would
get off an A. G. l.. train at that place.
The Sanford chief did so and wrote
back: II have carried ont instruc-
tions, but as there was not sufficient
evidence among his effects to war
rant his detention, he was released.
The stranger had only, n couple of
dynamite sticks, some caps and fuses
and a few tools, so was allowed to go
his way"
Safe blowers dymamited the safe of
the bank at Green Cove Springs
shortly after midnight on Monday
and got away with the contents,
consisting of 81 800 in cash and
negotiable paper. The bank building
was wrecked by the force of the eX-
plosion. The town was aroused and
every effort made to capture the rob-
bers, who could scarce get far away
owing to the fact that all avenues of
escape were guarded. Al noon Sher-
itf james Weeks with one deputy,
came upon the safe blowers in the
woods five or six miles west of Green
Cove Springs, OH the Starke road.
There were four of them and all hap
pened to be sleeping between two
lbRSs IlE t''t
recovered thestolen money. One OF
the robbers who showed fight was
shot through the shoulder.
From New York comes the state
ment that the Southern Fruit Co. of
Jacksonville has made an assign
ment for the benefit of its creditors.
1t is also stated that the creditors do
not like the looks of the failure and
are ready to throw the whele thing
into involuntary bankruptcy. The
concern gave its libilitips rs $4,000
and its assets as $4,000. About ST.
0N0 of the latter comprise, book ac-
counts which will not pay out 80 per
cent. 1t is most likely that the ad-
vprtising agencies, magazines and
other periodicals of general circula-
tion will be struck heavily, az the
Southern Fruit Co. since hast Octo-
Der has been trying to carry out Il
system of selling oranges and grape
fruit direct 20 the consumer and it's
ads have appeared in all the promi-
nent magazines, offering the fruit at
So n box delivered to any part of the
country.
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