The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-10-20

AND the continent and up
CASUALTIES into British Columbia,
the secret service operatives have
captured Albert Leon, Russian Jew
and political refugee, as he was
about to leave New York for South
America. Leon is alleged to be the
head of an extensive counterfeiting
gang, which has flooded the Pacific
coast with spurious ten dollar bank
notes during the last year.
R. H. Detreville, who was presi-
dent of the defunct Acme Mills and
Elevator company was sentenced to
serve two years and a half in the
penitentiary of Hopkinsville, KY, fol.
lowing his conviction on the charge
of having unlawfully received divi-
dends from the mills when he knew
the concern to be insolvent. The
mills failed two years ago, with liabil-
tiles amounting to about 100000
The United States circuit court Of
appeals has handed down a decision
affirming the convictions in the low
er court of Charles R. Heike, former
secretary of the American Sugar Re-
filming company, and Ernest Ger
bracht, former superintendent of the
company's Williamsburg refinery, who
were found guilty of participating in
the under-weighing frauds.
In frenzy Of rage over domestic
difficulty at Chicago John Lonaschit-
ski shot and killed his wife, Frances.
shot his two-year-old daughter, Mary,
through the chest, probably fatally in.
Turing her, and killed an old man
named Gerlak. Loanaschitski is I'M
der arrest. At the police station the
slayer declared Gerlak had stolen his
wife from him and that he acted un-
der the higher law.
Thomas Kallum, lawyer and editor,
shot and killed Henry Whitaker, a
brother attorney, upon the main street
Of Pilot Mountain, N C. The homi
eide grew out of an old feud. Whtta-
ker is said to have been advancing
upon Kallum with a knife when the
fatal shot was fired. Both the slayer
and his victim were classmates at
Wake Forest college.
Safe blowers, believed to be pro-
fessionals, got into the safe of the
Peoples Investment and Banking com.
pany, negro concern at Birmingham,
Ala, and got away with over $4,000
w. S. Lauderdale, colored, president,
says the amounts stolen may amount
to double the sum mentioned. Detec-
tives are working on the case.
Maggie johnson, a negro woman,
was convicted of selling whiskey in
the city court at Sstatesboro, Ga, and
given twelve months on the states
prison farm. There has been more
cases against defendants for violat-
ing the state prohibition law at this
session Of the city court than there
has been in long time.
John w. Rucker a tenant on the
farm of Sam Rileys, committed sui.
eide by shooting himself through the
head with a shotgun. For some time
Rucker has ben affected with chills
and fever which doubtless caused him
to take his life in fit of momentary
insanity. He leaves a wife and sew.
eral children.
In the game, follow your leader"
4-year-old Grace Walsh was dared to,
jump over burning mattress in the
back yard of her home at Passaic, N.
]. She fell into the blaze and died at
hospital from the burns. Her moth.
er, Mrs. John Walsh, was also badly
burned in trying to save the child and
may die.
James r. Smith, of Atlanta, who
managed so successfully the first gu.
bernatorial campaign of Joseph M.
Brown, will be the manager of his
third campaign. He is already busy
with work in the interests of his
friend. Headquarters will be opened
soon, probably in the Kimball house.
Sheriff o. H. Florence Sunday aft.
ernoon captured Lon Reed, an escaped
negro convict, in Clay county, Ala.
bama, and brought him back to La.
Grange, Ga. Reed was in the chain.
gangs which are working Troup
county roads and escaped in July
last
Walter Maxwell, aged fifty, one OF
the most prominent merchants of
Oglethorpe county, Ga, and former
representative from that county, died
suddenly at his home at Crawford
He was in apparently as good health
as for some months past when he
dropped and died instantly.
The stockade on the jenkins plan.
tation east Of Americas, Ca, was de.
stroyed by fire together with its con.
tents. Four mules confined in the
building persisted There was no in.
surance. 1t is not known whether
the fire was of accidental or incendiary
origin.
A long distance telephone message
from Honeapath, So miles south of
Greenville, S. c., says that Will Jack.
son, a 17-year-old negro who assaulted
an 11-year-old white girl there, was
strung to a telephone pole by one
foot and his body shot to pieces by
a mob.
Orang Titan.
The large anthropOids of Borneo and |
Sumatra are usually called orang ou-
tangs. This form, it seems, is not cor
rect. Orang signifies man and outang,
or utang, debt, something swing; so