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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08
DEATH TOLL or
TORNADO SMELLS
Fifteen Persons Lost Lives In
Charleston Storm.
CROPS GREATLY DAMAGED

Property Loss in Charleston at Least
| $1,000, o0o-cotton and Rice Crops
Badly Damaged-Charleston Has
Begun to Clear Away the Debris.
The death list of the hurricane,
which swept in from the sea and
struck Charleston on Sunday night in
cludes fifteen names. Additional 80
ports from outside parts of the city
and from other points nearby has
swelled the list
List to Be Increased.
1t is regarded as almost certain that
when the more remote sea islands can
be heard from the list Of dead Will
be still further increased.
The bodies of Ida Morgan and Rose
Robinson were found today, buried
beneath their house, which had been
floated off in the storm, and the 9TH
er occupant, man, escaping. Five
persons, Mr.. and Mrs. Goodson, Mrs.
and Miss Rsichtsr and Lillian Stem
DER, lost thsSf liHSs whom the Wapoo
Mills, just across the Ashley river
from the city, were swept away.
Loss Fully 100000.
It is believed that the estimate
placing the total property damage at
$1,O00,O00 is decidedly within the
mark, though no man is able to judge
as yet with anything like accuracy.
No reports have come in as yet to
throw light on the damage to crops
In the region between Charleston and.
Savannah, and on the sea islands. 1t
is feared, however, that the cotton
and rice crops have been dealt stag
gering blow.
Charleston has begun the process
Of recovery Some of the debris has
been cleared away. The street rail
way system has begun operation
again. The city, however, is still
plunged in darkness, and there is no
telling when the lighting system will
be put into repair for use.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08
SOUTHERN INDUSTRIES.
Quite a Sum Spent In Establishing
New Enterprises.

'NS q wv" SPoHh III LSldplIshI19
New Enterprises.
Baldwin Lumber Company, Lafay.
cite, La, will clear and develop about
5000 acres of land for development
by cultivation; will plant sugar cane,
hay and corn, build saw mill, con.
struct IL mile railway, etc.
Corbitt Automobile Company, Hen.
derson, N. c., was organized with
$250,000 capital stock to build auto.
mobile works.
Exposition Cotton Mills, Atlanta,
Ga, awarded contract for construc.
ton of $4,000 loom shed and will in.
stall 10000 spindles with accompany.
ing looms, etc.
Southern Coal & Ice Company, Ma.
con, Ga, was organized and will build
plant with daily capacity of IS tons
of ice; awarded machinery contracts
at $4,000.
Crystal Ice and Ice Cream Com
pany, Lexington, N. c., was chartered
with $4,000 capital stock to manutac'
ture Ice and ice cream.
Hamilton Orchard Heater Company,
Wheeling, w. Va, was incorporated
with 100000 capital stock to manuiac'
ture orchard heaters.
Tomlinson Chair Manufacturing
Company, High Point, N c., awarded
contract for construction of two fac
tory buildings costing 100000.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08
PEACE is COMING.
So Declares Taft Before American
Bar Association.

So Declares Taft Before American
Bar Association.
Arbitration of disputes between ma
tons is coming slowly, but surely
coming" said President Taft in his
address at Boston before the Ameri-
can Bar Association. The president
briefly reviewed tie proposed general
arbitration treaties with Great Bri-
tain and France and made it plain
that in his opinion, the objections
made to the treaties were invalid.
President Taft declared emphatfcal-
ly that there is room for improvement
in procedure in the federal courts,
"and upon u.s." he said, falls the bur
den of initiating reform in that re-
spect." The chief justice of the
United States supreme court, he said,
has taken that matter in hand, with
his associates and the district judges
and has called a conference in Wash
ington, where they will formulate new
rules of procedure.
The president declared this to be a
great step in the direction of prac-
tical reform. He said that there was
need Of increasing judicial salaries
so that 'the best men of the bar"
might be secured for the various
courts.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08
$5,OOO,OOO SCHOOL.
Great Industrial Institution for White
Children to Be Established.

Great Industrial Institution for White
Children to Be Established.
Ragland, Ala, will get the five mil
lion dollar Industrial school for white
children which is to be established
by the southern bureau of education
with funds to be given, it is said, by
Rockefeller, the Russell Sage founda.
ton, Mrs. e. w. Hartman and others.
This was decided at a meeting in
Nashville of the board of directors of
the bureau. Ragland offered a five
thousand acre site, two hundred lots
in town, water power and other con-
siderations. The location is between
Birmingham and Atlanta, about forty
miles from Birmingham.
Propositions for the school were
made from Jasper, Ala, Bristol, Tenn,
Fayetteville, N. c., Tryon, N. c., and
Nashville.
Senator w. T. Brown of Alabama
was elected to fill the vacancy on the
board of directors caused by the death
of the late General George T. Cor
don, of Memphis.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08
THEATER A DEATH TRAP.
Pennsylvania Officials Are Investigat
ing the Fire at Canonsburg.

Pennsylvania Officials Are Investigate
ing the Fire at canonsburg.
That the Morgan opera house, in
which a senseless cry of fire and re-
sultant panic caused the death of 2S
and the serious injury Of 20 and minor
injuries to scores of others, on Sat
urday night at Canonsburg Pa, was
death trap is the startling result of
the investigation being conducted by
state officials.
Burgess w. H. Dunlap, Sr., said:
For years people had been saying
that something would happen at the
opera house. We have no building in
spectiOn ordinances and no building
inspectors, so the building was never
officially condemned. | might say that
the public had condemned it, but still
they attended the shows and other
gatherings in the building, which was
also used for school commandments
annually.
There were baby carriages stand
ing in the corridor outside the audito-
rum, but how much they had to do
with causing the death roll will have
to be determined by the jury"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08
LABOR AND CAPITAL.
Royal Commission of England is In
vestigating the Railroad Strike.


vestigating the Railroad Strike.
Labor and capital were placed on
trial together at London, for the first
time in English history. The occa'
sion was the first open hearing held
by the royal commission appointed to
investigate the causes of the recent
railroad strike.
Representatives of the union were
the first heard at the hearing in West.
minister. They presented in forceful
terms the facts that led to the walk
out, advancing voluminous statistics
to support their claims that railroads
in the United Kingdom paid starva-
ton wages and united to keep their
employees in q state of economic sub.
lection.
1t was shown that the average wage
of trainmen is about 81 per week, and
that there has not been an increase in
ten years, whereas the cost of living
has gone up to a great extent in that
time.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08
DeLAND ADVERTISING.

The Business Mems League of De
Land is encouraging the merchants
to mail literature advertising their
town in order that the postal receipts
will show a healthy gain when the
government appropriates the money
for the building of the new postoffice
The government has purchased the
lot, and will spend about $4,000 in
building the new postoffice, but if
the postoffice receipts can be in,
creased Postmaster Allen will try tc
get the government. to appropriate
$4,000 for the new building. The
business men of DeLand are doing
their best and with the Sigma M
Magazine, published and mailed from
DeLand, there is no doubt but that a
$4,000 postotfice will be built.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08

kilograms were received telling of
the death of Lindsay G.. Barlow, a
mining engineer, formerly of Bethania,
N. M, in the state of Chihuahua,
Mexico, last Friday. Beyond stating
that Barlow was killed while riding
on railroad construction train, the
message gave none of the circum-
stances of his death.
One man was killed and three wo-
men and another man injured in an
automobile accident near Greenville,
S. c. The name of the dead man is
s. A. Pruitt, of Hendersonville. N. c.
Mrs. Rodgers, Macon, Ga; Mrs. Hag-
aman, Black Mountain, N. c.; Mrs.
Meanly, Richmond, Va, and c. P. Bar
nette, Lake City, Fla, are the others.
Gen. George Chappell, 81 years old,
formerly commander of the Grand
Army of the Republic in New York
state, is dead at his home in New
York city. He was the inventor of
one of the first burners by which a
white light could be obtained from
kerosene. He was prominent Ma
son and wealthy.
Angered because his mother threat
ened to spank him, the 9-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. John NJ. Mitchell of
La Porte, Ind, attempted suicide by
swallowing a quantity of paris green
and shouted 'You won't have to spank
me-" The lad is in serious condi-
ton.
Seven bandits raided the Pedrazzini
mine, in the Chiapas district of Ariz-
pc, Sonora, and carried away money
and stores. Rurales are pursuing
the bandits. This is the second raid
bandits have made on the Chiapas
mines within week.
The report of the house commit.
tee investigating the alleged conspir-
acy in the department of agriculture
to GUST DR.. w. H. Wiley from his po-
sition as head of the bureau of chem.
1stry, will not be made until next De.
cember.
A last session of President Taft's
cabinet for several months to come
was held at the White House Monday.
Much of the time was devoted to a
discussion Of the presidents veto mes
sage on the cotton bill
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08
SITUATION IMPROVES.

Threatened Walkout of Chicago Pack.
ing House Transfers 10 Halted.
With the hating of the threatened
strike of teamsters for Chicago's ri.
gantic packing industry and confer.
ences in progress between officials and
union leaders of two railroads and
their employees, the strike situation in
the West is now clearer than for
weeks.
The promised strike of Hartman
railroad employees was halted when
word was received at the union head.
quarters here that Julius Kruttschnitt
vice president of the lines, would
meet the leaders.
Similar confabs are on between II.
linois Central officials and their men.
The latter strike. it was said, praoti.
cally is settled.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08
A Navel Einn

An Englishwoman in the Rivera
stepped on the footboard of a train,
intending to enter the carriage, but
found the door locked. The train
started suddenly and she recognized
that she would have to travel ON the
footboard until the next station was
reached. A man who saw her plight
crept backward ON the footboards,
stepping from carriage to carriage
with some peril and supported her
with his arm until the next station
was reached, half an hour later. The
woman was fined several francs for
Illegally travelling outside the train"
The rescuer disappeared without leav-
ing name or address.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08
OtheIlo,s Brain Stnrn,-

Was Othello mad as well as Ham.
letf The question was discussed In
the supreme court at Melbourne. Said
Chief Justice Sir John Madden: Then
from your point of view Othello was
not responsible for his actions when
he killed DesdemonaY' The witness
(Dr. Jones, inspector general of asy-
lums for the insanel replied: From
such evidence as the text of the play
affords, | should say Othello was suf-
fering from that species of mental dis
order termed paranoia. He became OBJ
sessed by decisions and thought them
realities"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08
POWERS OF EUROPE
PREPARE FOR WAR
Bellgerent Attitude Has Causad
Nervousness
POSTS ARE STRENGTHENED

From All Indications the E.s....
Hemisphere May Be Scene of Ho.
tllltles Before Lens-War Cloud,
Looming obviously.
War clouds hover ominouslv ovo,
continental Europe and military nron
arations are openly going forward IN
on gigantic scale.
The belligerent attitude of Franco
and Germany over Morocco has conUoS
intense nervousness among the otboa
powers. The warlike preparatiora
started In Belgium are adding to tbo
pessimistic hue of international cnn
ditions.
Conversations between France and
Germany were reopened in Berlin
and reports from the German con
ital indicated that a peaceful sottlo.
ment on the Moroccan situation wo,
near. However, 80 uncertain is tbo
course of the diplomatic negotiations
that official circles know full wall
how easily negotiations could como to
naught at the final moment.
Reports from Brussels and otbor
capitals intensified the feeling of an.
prehension. Lieutenant General
Hellebaut, Belgian minister of war
was actively engaged in making mil,
itary preparations on scale of sucb
magnitude as has not been seen in
decade.
Seventy-two rapid-fre guns have
been shipped to Nanur capital of the
Belgian province of Namur, from the
arsenal at Antwerp and other gawi.
sons. All military posts on the Ger.
man frontier are being strengthened.
Leaves of absence from the army
have been Cancelled and all military
engineers modified.
Belgium, France and Germany are
not the only powers of Europe which
are actually preparing or war. Italy
and Austria are making arrange.
ments for eventualities, being already
at loggerheads over a strip of border
territory.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08
NATIONAL

NATIONAL President Taft's mes.
CAPITAL sage vetoing the cotton
NOTES. bill was read IN tho
house at 2:O2 p m. As in the case
CT the wool and free list bills the
president based his objection to the
cotton bill largely upon the fact that
the tariff board had not as yet had
time to submit a report o n schedules.
He also declared the cotton bill was
adopted without any investigation or
Information of satisfactory charac-
ter as to its effect upon the cotton
industry.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08
G. O. P.'S FOR TAFT.
Republican State Convention Elects
and instructs Delegates.

Republicans of Alabama held their
state convention in Birmingham,
elected Pope NJ. Long, state chair
man, selected new state committee
Endorsed P. D. Barker, of Mobile fOf
reelection as Alabama member of the
national committee, elected six dele
gates to the national convention next
year and Instructed them for Presl'
dent Taft for second term.
The administration of President
Taft was Endorsed. P. D. Barker
postmaster at Mobile, is in perfect
control of the party in the state
steam roller working splendidly,
The attendance was large, every
section Of the state being represented
Truman H. Aldrich was Endorsed LOT
postmaster at Birmingham. The other
delegates to the national convention
will be elected by the various dis
tricts later.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08

Thackeray often revisiteu US ,ocE.
school. always with well filed Po.r
ct, which was quickly emptleu. I'm
is Melville writes that AN OLD Ca' I ras
sian who once accompanied MN s n
related how Thackeray tipped Tue -.
lad he met with sovereign p,o'e .,ns
ed to empty purse and pUchet u ,n,.
for other boys and his resources 80
porarily exhausted, borrowed 80 s,.n
coin his companion had aDou, ,he
aud distributed these too WIZ" tars
result that, not having the 'u' ,salk
left, the two old boys had 70
home. "-London Graphic, ~z
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08
HELD FOR MURDER.
T. z. Gattis Went Under Assumed
Name for Ten. Years.

Name for Ten Years.
A Pensacola dispatch says That T.
2. Gattis, postmaster of Gattis, Fla.
and one of the wealthiest naval
stores operators of this section, is
Zach Marks, for whom there has been
a reward for the past ten years. be-
came known when Gattis is said to
have confessed to a North Carolina
officer who came to take him back to
that state to answer a charge of muir
der committed ten years ago.
The wife of Gattis is said to have
informed the officials of her husbands
identity.
Gattis adopted the assumed name
when he came to Florida, and start.
ing as a day laborer, amassed a small
fortune.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08
100000 PECANS PLANTED.
Estimated That Increase Around way

Estimates That Increase Around way
cross Will Reach so Per Cent
Pecan groves in the Waycross sec
ton will be largely increased as d
result of this years activity among
those now having groves. The plant
ing for seedlings alone has reacheu
$50 600, $4,000 being planted by one
concern near Waycross, the largest
single planting known in the southern
states.
An estimate of a peach grower gl'es
the acreage devoted to pecans at 'O
per cent increase this year, with plus
poets for the same or a slign'H
greater gain another year.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08

Eieven-year-old Paul SiIliman NAV
lose his sight, according to physicians
because he peered into an empty
WHISKY barrel into which he had lust
peiore dropped a lighted match at
louisville, Ky. The explosion of the
isnlteu gases blew the barrel to
pieces and scared the boys face.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08
A Gilded Fad.

Yes, papa is going to buy me bat
tleship."
Good gracious! I beg your pardon,
what fOr?"
Il want to use its deck for a dane
ing party."-Cieveland Plain Dealer.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1911-09-08
A Matter of Maasure-

He writes poetry by the yard"
That's probably why his verse is SO
poor. Poetry should be written by the
foot."-Birmingham Age-Herald.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-07-11
Where They Play Today.
q :: :: y :: :: y y u ;: Z: y :: ;: ::

The Al'us baseball team blew up
yesterday and this may mean the end
o, the Texas Oklahoma baseball league
for this year. This has been a bao
year for baseball, especially smaller
leagues.
The TeXas-Oklahoma league started
the season with eight teams. After
-y weeks OF baseball, Gainesville
d,opped out and Lawton quickly fol-
lowed. neither of these towns sup
porting losing teams. A mee;:ng was
then held, at which schedule for the
six remaining teams for the balance
OF the season was arranged.
Altus got off badly in the second
series and It has been freely predict
ed for the past week that the team
would no. stick" through the season.
The Ardmore team begins a series a
, Wichita Falls this afternoon, playing
four games there. The team will come
/ home Saturday, at which time Gle
/ burue is scheduled to begin a series
Of four games. BY that time, it will
be definitely known whether the sea
son will be played out or not,
The present Ardmore team is the
hes that has represented Ardmore
this season and the fans have been
/ entertaining pennant hopes. Since the
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-07-11
Dispatches Tell the Worst.

Chicago, July lO.-Cable dispatches
received Monday by prominent Chi
cago financiers in La Sale street.
and by friends. indicate that John W.
Gates. steel magnate and former res
ldent of Chicago, is lying at deaths
door in the Hotel Meurice, Paris.
As evidence that the condition OF
the American financier has grown
worse. cable adyices state that an
other nurse has been called in, MAX
ing four the nunber in constant at
tendance on him.
It is known that consultations in
which the most prominent Ihysi
clans in Europe have participates |,
have been held in an effort to save
the life # Gates. He is s1ffern.; from
a tumoc n the aeck and from kidney
and othec ailments combined
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-07-11
JULY I'm HISTORY.

1450.-Jack Cade. an Irishman, who
headed a rebellion in England, was
slain near Lewes and his head placed
on London Bridge.
17il-Dattle of Aland, Russo'Swed-
ish Wars, between the Russian fleet
of thirty ships OF the line and $50
galleys, and Swedish fleet of about
one-third that size.
Blqckro"k taken by the Brit
ish who burned the barracks, block.
house and other buildings.
1S52-Teheran, the capitol OF Per
sia. destroyed by an earthquake.
1S5l-A new planet discovered by
the astronomer Hind, from the obser-
vatorv at Regents Park. London.
Confederate forces took pos
session of telegraph lines at Magno-
liza. Md, Intercepted dispatches from
Secretary stanton to General Cad
wallader. and temporarily shut off
communication with Washington.
lSS2-Battle of Alexandria, during
Alibus rebellion.
1SS4-Grover Cleveland and Thom-
as 4. Hendricks nominated for the
presidency and vice presidency at
the democratic national convention
at Chicago.
19Gt-Porfirio Diaz elected presi-
dent of Mexico, Ramon Corral, vice
president.
f9t0-Tire at Campellton, y. T.,
rendered 1000 people homeless.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-07-11
Prize Flower Gardener.

Mrs Arch Campbell evidently un-
derstands the principle of dry farm
ing judging from the success she has
made with her flowers this year. While
the sky was high and dry anc while
the sun shone hot and while the may
or was asking the people to desist
sprinkling their lawns, Mrs. Campbell
proceeded to raise flowers in abund-
ance. In lovely bouquet presented
to The Ardmoreite. We find red, cream
and pink roses. daisies, sweer vii
liams, geraniums and some foliage
plants that the boys IN the shop could
not name. Mrs Campbell has a yard
Of pretty flowers and they are in
bloom from the first of April until the
last days OF December.
Here is our very kindest thanks for
the remembrance.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1911-07-11

violating the prohibition laws, were
released yesterday afternoon. Lem
formerly operated a restaurant on
lower Main street. in the dive section
and It is said furnished the liquid
refreshments tc all who had the
price.
Asa Tedler. who was placed in jail
Yesterday on a charge OF larceny,
was released on bond today. Trotter
Mitchell. charged with horse theft,
was Jlso released on bond. rs was
Starkey Hunter, charged with yio-
lating the prohibition laws John
Nelson. VINO was convicted some
time past for violating the prohibi.
ton law and has been ont on bond
awaiting the action ot the supreme
court. was placed in jail Yesterday
to begin his sentence, the verdict
OF the lower court being affirmed by
the supreme court.
There are twenty-four prisoners in
iail.