The Palatka news. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1905-1908, 1907-02-08
LATE STATE NEWS.
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Adudul EuIlld Edtiles Will sing III
Jacksonville February the 9th.
Jacksonville is to have another ho-
tel The structure will probably be
thirteen stories.
About 10000 boxes are reported TO
have been burned by forest fire in
a turpentine tract on Deep creek last
week.
The pledges secured for the new
! building for the Y. Il. c. A. at Jack
sOnville have passed the 92,500
mark.
! Henry w. Day has been sentenced
to life Imprisonment for the murder
of Albert B. Wrenn, by Judge Minor
S. Jones at Tampa.
/ The first car load of celery this
season was shipped from Sanford
last Saturday. The crop is expected
to reach six hundred cars.
The office of the New York Life
Insurance company at Jacksonville
will be discontinued and moved to
Savannah about the first of March.
J. D. Mullaney, the new manager
for the Jacksonville baseball club.
has arrived in that city. He claims
to have selected a stroug team aud it
is to be hoped that he is correct.
The merchants of Gainesville claim
that they can no longer keep their
places of business open after sunset
owing to the exorbitaut rates charg
ed by lighting corporation which
has monopoly on both gas and
electric lights.
Congressman Clark has appointed
William Towne Appleyard of Lake
City, as principal nominee, and
Meinhard Harris Myerson of Jack
souyille, as first alternate for mid
shipman at the naval academy at
Annapolis, Md.
Gainesville wants a union depot. /
AS result of the petition from her |
Board of Trade to the Florida Rail- |
road Commission, Hons. R. Hudson |
Burr, \. a. Bletch and J. A. Morgan !
visited Gainesville this week to in /
vestigate her claims.
The Tampa Evening News. which
was a consolidation of the Tamps
Herald and the Tampa Globe, has
been purchased by a company to be
known as the Evening News Pub
fishing Company, application for
letters patent for which has been
duly made.
On February II joint meeting of
the Church club of Jacksonville and
the Florida Alumni Association OF
the University of the South will BE-
held. The Rt. Rev. {. K. Nelson OF
Georgia and Mr.. B. Lawton Virgins,
vice chancellor of the university,
will deliver addresses.
Maj. Geo. P. Healy. a we'll known
citizen of this state, has filed in the
clerks office of the [. :. court at
Jacksonville petitions and schedules
in bankruptcy. Petition claims to
own real estate in Volusia county
at 500; that he has wearipy
apparel and ornaments valued at
$3.50 and other assets worth 500. also
exempted property valued at $3.50.
Total liabilities S5,03O,l6: total as
sets 1890.
Orders have been issued directing
the removal of the office of the di
vision engineer of the SeabOard Air
Line railway from Savannah to
Jacksonville. Engineer Bagwell will
90 to the Florida city with a force of
six men. He exercises Jurisdiction
over the engineering works of the
oeaboard from Columbia to Tampa
aud from Savannah to MONTGOMERY.
The removal is to be made as soon as
possible.
Rev. James P. DePass, a member
1f the Florida Methodist Conference
'or the past forty years, and one OF
he best-known ministers of the Cos
pei IN the State, expired at 2:l5
clock last Wednesday morning: at
The residence of DR.. James NJ. Jack
son, In Miami, from cerebral hem 1
without fully regaining con- I
'clousness at any time after the at :
.ack, which completely paralyzsd !
MS limbs from the waist down and /,
he left arm.
The New York Packer SAYS: The
.op price so far on FlOridas sold H.
his city WAS 81 for boxes of Deer
leid grove sold at auction Tuesday
fhls Is a pineapple orange that ap- /
leals to some fancy caterers, and $
ICS Usually blu very SlTClg Tor 1t. I q
The bulk of the DeerfieId grove cal :
selling Tuesday brought from 81 to .,
$50. In the stores there has beer
fair movement of oranges thi. $
week, fancy fruit, when obtafnable.
ielling from s. to 81; choice from t
2 80 to $50. To bring these prices '
he fruit has to be free from frost =
The term of service of ]. Whitfield $
iibson, Ph.D., pastor of the NJ. E.
'hurch, has come to an end, and
mother is awaited to take his place.
speaking of this clergyman, it is not
known that he is a direct
descendant of John Brown, the COW
nanter minister, who was shot by 0
he cruel Claverhouse on the door
tep of his cottage in the Highlands. I
lie is also relative of Sir Colin
Iampbell (afterward Lord Clyde.) =
Eho won undying fame in the Iu-
lian mutiny. Miss Maud Mckenzie. Z
he granddaughter of Lord Clyde, I
5 now his guest.-NeW Smyrna Cor 6
10 Times-Union.