The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-01-18
LATE. STATE NEWS.
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session at Live Oak,
DR.. d. A. Watts, leading either
OF Lake City is dead.
Mr.. and Mrs. George j. Gould O
New York were in Tampa this week
The state federation of labor is il
session at Tampa, but the delegates
are not working.
There is movement on foot il
Tampa to extend the limits of tha
progressive city.
Three men at Mayo are in iai
charged with arson, one of whom
| was the owner of the burned building
Leading lawyers of the state will
meet in Jacksonville February Isl
to organize the State Bar associa.
tion.
Machinest Mcintyre of the United
States Navy yard was drowned in
Pensacola bay on Monday while
bathing.
Mullaney the new league baseball
manager for Jacksonville is promis.
Ing that city apenant winning team
this year.
A company has been formed at
Madison to build u $4,000 brick ho-
tel to take the place of the one de-
stroyed by fire 10 days ago.
Robert Thagard of Ocala was bitten
by a mad dog at Reddick Sunday
evening. He started at once for the
Pasteur Institute, Atlanta.
Mrs. Ruby Wilson Trammell and
Mr.. George Talbot Whitfield, promi-
nent Tallahassee people, were mar
ried in that city last Tuesday morn
ing.
Safe blowers dynamited the safe
OF the |. r. Rhoden Co. at Macclenny
last Thursday night and secured
81, 100 in cash and papers to the value
of $1,000 more.
Gov. Broward has called special
election for Levy county OH Febru-
ary 26th, to elect senator for the
Twenty-tirst district to succeed Sena-
tor N. R. Carter, deceased.
The public schools of the state
will observe Arbor Day, February
lst, and State Superintendent Hollo-
way has come to the aid of teachers
with the suggestion of an appropri-
ate program of exercises.
The Masonic grand lodge now in
session in Jacksonville has decided
to build new Masonic Temple in
that city at II cost of $l25,000. The
new building is to be seven stories
high.
Chas. Jones, negro of High
Springs, who has been Systematically
robbing A. 9. L. freight cars at that
place, was killed while caught in the
act by an officer to whom he resisted
arrest last Saturday night Jones'
pal was overpowered and arrested.
Capt. G. E. Garner, president of
the Jacksonville board of trade has
been named by President Roosevelt
as one of the commissioners to test
and examine the weight and fineness
of the coins reserved at the several
government mintS during the calen-
dar year, 1906.
Gainesville voted on an additional
$4,000 bond issue last Tuesday, but
as only seven citizens had qualified
by paying their poll tax, the voting
was done by the old men who are
exempt. The bond issue carried by
Il vote of SO for to against and i'm
properly marked.
Capt. w. B. Denham will resign as
manager of the Georgia, Florida &
Alabama r. r. to assume the place
of general manager of the Tampa
Northern, new railroad to be built
from Tampa to Atlanta. Mr. Den
ham was formerly superintendent of
the old Florida Southern and after
wards of the Atlantic Coast Lins.
Hon. Cromwell Gibbons of Jack
sonville has just returned from a six
weeks visit to Cuba where Gn Sancti
Spiritus) he has been engaged in a
law case involving suit against the
government for 100000 for alleged
damage to the houses and cattle of a
wealthy Cuban during the Cuban
Spanish war. The suit was original
ly against the Spanish government
a debt assumed by the United States.
The case is not yet settled.
1t is announced that Judge f. B.
Carter of the First Judicial Circuit,
Pensacola, will send his resignation
to the governor in a few days. 1t is
also announced that j. Emmett
Wolfe, private secretary to the gov
ernor, will be candidate for the
place. 1t would not be surprising
for Wolfe has been candidate for
most everything in the shape of an
office that has offered during the last
five years.
1t is writ large in the book of Fate
that the time is not far distant when
the man of bibulous tendencies in
this neck of the wood, who wants to
lounge up to the bar and nominate
his piZon," will have to hike out for
Pensacola on the west, or Jackson
VILE on the east before he can have
his wish. Every county between
those widely separated extremes is
now dry" except Gadsden, Frank
lin and Santa Rosa, and in the latter
county the prohibition spirit is ac-
lively at work. The Milton Star
says that petition is now being pre-
pared to circulate to call local op-
tion election there and the Star is
evidently all right to take sides
agalst the open saloon Live Oak
Democrat.
Crescent City Temperature.