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The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
ENORMOUS DAMAGE
CAUSED BY FLOODS
GREAT SUFFERING AT LOUIS
VILE, KY, AND AT CINCIN-
MATT, OHIO.
MANY HOUSES UNDER WATER
Hundreds of Families Are Forced to
Leave Homes in Those
Cities.

Cincinnati, Ohio.-The Ohio river
passed the 60-foot stage here and
continued to rise steadily at the rate
of two inches an hour. In the lower
parts of the city and in Dayton, New
port and Coyington, suburbs have
been made temporarily homeless by
the invading waters. In the Ken
lucky towns, school houses and
churches have been thrown open and
are filled with refugees. The prop
erty loss will reach into the thou
sands.
Cincinnati commission merchants
and warehouse owners, whose places
of business are along the river front,
have suffered heavy loss. In some
buildings facing the wharves the Wa
ter is up to the second story.
The Panhandle and the Louisville
and Nashville railroad freight houses
are half buried in water, and all the
trains running into the Grand Central
station are being re-routed into the
Wy ClSollDOdl lldlllC Ou lHG river
has been practically abandoned, the
water being so high that many of the
boats are unable to pass under the
bridges. The swift current is a bar
to upstream traffic.
The Licking river, which divides
Newport and Covington, and flows
into the Ohio opposite Cincinnati, is
out OF its banks. Many factories
along the banks of this river have
been put out of commission by the
food.
The government forecaster predict
ed that the rise would continue.
Louisville, Ky.-Between seven
hundred and a thousand families have
been driven from their homes along
the water front here by the rising wa
tiers of the Ohio. The stage at this
point, according to the local weather
bureau, was 35.S, with a rate of rise
of 2 feet an hour. A stage of 3S
feet was predicted.
The cellars and first floors of a
number of storehouses and business
houses along the river front have been
flooded
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
JUDGE ARCHIBALD
IS FOUND GUILTY
THE JUDGE WAS IMPEACHED ON
FIVE OF THE THIRTEEN
CHARGES.
TRIAL BEGAN LAST SUMMER
He Cannot Hold Any Public Position
OF Honor or Trust Under the
Government.

Observation-Disclosures w. Archibald
OF Scranton, Pa, for twenty-nine
years an occupant of judicial posi-
tons upon the Pennsylvania state
bench and the United States com
merce court, was adjudged guilty by
the United States senate of high
crimes and misdemeanOrs, was strip.
ped of his office and forever disquali.
fed from holding positions of public
honor or public trust.
The conviction and judgment came
as the conclusion of the impeach.
ment trial that has been pending in
the senate since last summer on the
charges that Judge Archibald had been
guilty of misconduct and mlsbehav-
ior as a judge and that he had cor.
ruptly used his judicial power to fur
Their the private interests of himself
and his friends, in the acquisition of
coal land properties in Pennsylva.
mia.
Upon five of the thirteen separate
charges brought against him by the
house of representatives Judge Arch
bald was found guilty. Upon the 9TH
er eight the senate voted him not
guilty, the majority in some cases
being against him, but failing of the
two thirds necessary for conviction.
Any one of the five verdcts of guilty
was enough to bring about the pun.
ishment imposed upon him.
The end of the long-fought struggle
in the senate came when the vote
was taken on the first article of i'm
parchment. With gallery doors lock-
ed to prevent the movement of spec
tatirs, and an unaccustomed hush pre-
vailing through out the chamber, 6S
members rose in their places as their
names were called and pronounced
the word guilty in almost maud.
BILE tones.
OF the ten men who have been i'm
peached before the senate since the
organization of the government,
Judge Archibald is the third to be con-
victed, and the only one convicted
who appeared to make personal de-
Tense against charges.
The legal fight before the senate
was in the hands of seven members
of the house of representatives as the
prosecutors, and Judge Archbald's at
torneys, who had the personal advice
of Judge Archibald throughout the
trial.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
THROUGHOUT THE STATE.

One of the pleasant little incidents
of the Inauguration of Governor Tram
nell and which evidences in more
ways than one how the American peo
pie adapt themselves to the result OF
elections, was the placing on the desk
of the governor in the executive
chamber just before the inaugural
ceremonies of a magnificent basket of
pure white camelias. A card was
found among the flowers with this
written on it: From the vanQuished
to the victor-with every good wish.
The bouquet was the gift of Judge
William C. Hodges, lately Progressive
nominee for governor, against Mr..
Trammell.
Now that it is about determined
that the citrus crop of California is
about so per cent. killed by frost,
Florida growers expect to profit to
some extent by the shortage that nee,
essarily will exist in the Northern
markets. Already jobbers and deal
ers are declaring that there will be
no increase, but that is their opin-
ion. The grower may have some.
thing to say about the filling Of the
demand with the supply, which real
ly regulates prices when the crop
is short. Dealers manipulate when
the crop is great, and there is a
surplus, but when it is short the
growers fix the prices at which they
will sell in the orchards.
Because five of the six firms bid
ding for the proposed issue of $175,-
600, recently voted for by the citizens
of Dade county, failed to comply with
the law. all bids were rejected by the
board of county commissioners. In
three instances there were no accom-.
panying bonds or certified checks, as
required by law, and in the other
two cases bids arrived too late to
comply with the statute.
At the meeting of the board of COM
missioners of Nassau county, it was
stated by the commissioners that if
they found that the voters and tax
payers of the county wanted an elec.
ton for county bonds they would make
the call A committee of citizens
waited upon the board and asked for
an election for the purpose of voting
upon county bonds to build roads
The sum mentioned was $4,000.
Senator Arthur e. Donegan, not
contented with being president of
three banks in South Florida owner
of vast land areas and Interested in
the cattle business, has added to his
holdings by picking up three or four
lumber mills in that section. He has
concluded a deal whereby the Osce.
ola Carnage company was transferred
to Col. S. B. Aultman.
The Jacksonville police are stirred
M over two crimes which were COM
mitted in that city one night wherein I
a young lady was attacked on the
street and a bell boy was killed in
one of the hotels.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
PAID THE DEATH PENALTY
9 DAYS AFTER CRIMINAL ACT
First Legal Hanging in Florida on
Any Other Day Than Friday for
Many Years.

Tallahassee.-On Saturday, January
5, negro named J. J. Johnson, COM
mitted a criminal assault upon a
white lady near Citra, in Marion
county. Johnson was arrested the
following day, indicted on January
Z, tried and convicted on the Sth and
sentenced to suffer the death penalty
The certified copy of the record Of
his conviction was received by Gov
ernor Trammell on the morning of
January 10. The governor immedl'
ately read this record carefully and
promptly issued his death warrant di-
recting the execution of Johnson on
Wednesday, January Is. This tlend,
therefore, paid the death penalty nine
days after the commission of the
crime. This is probably the first le-
gal hanging in Florida on any other
day of the week than Friday for
many years-if not the first in the
history of the state.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
99O Taken OF Boat.

Halifax.-The steamer Uranium of
the Uranium Steamship company,
bound from Rotterdam for Halifax
and New York City, stranded on a
reef during thick weather near the
Chebucto headlight station, nine miles
below Halifax, and is still held fast
IN the grip of the rocky shore. Her
$50 passengers, 100 in the cabin and
the rest in the steerage, were taken
off the steamer by the government
steamer Lady Laurier and a small
feet of harbor craft and were safely
landed in Halifax.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
NEW HOSPITAL WILL
COST ABOUT $4,000.
viii Be Fireproof Throughout, Mod.
eled After Spanish Type of
Architecture.

sonville.-Permits for six two
story concrete buildings, to be erect.
ed by st. Luke's Hospital association,
which structures will aggregate in val,
uation over $4,000, were issued from
the office of the building commits.
sioner.
The new hospital, which will con.
sist of several twostory buildings,
will be located on the Boulevard, be-
tween Eighth and Tenth streets, and
will be splendid improvement to
that portion of the city.
The excavating and preliminary
work for these structures has already
been completed and two or three of
the buildings are well under way.
The architects plans cal for an ad'
ministratlon building, a private pavil'
ion, public pavilion, service build
ing and a powerhouse.
The administration building will
contain the offices, reception rooms,
operating rooms, laboratory, electro
pathic and hydropathic rooms and liv-
ing quarters for the chief members
of the resident staff.
The public pavilion, to be erected
through the appropriation Of the city
council, will be exclusively for the use
of patients under the care of the res
ident physicians and will contain sep
arate wards for the male and female
patients, the sugical cases being To-
Gated on the ground floor and the
medical cases on the second. Each
floor will have its individual balco'
nies.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
prooressives only Under Wilson.

Trenton, N. J.-Governor Wilson,
for whom the majority of the states
ia the Union officially cast their cleo
toral votesf or the presidency, pro
claimed in a speech to the New Jer'
sew presidential electors that he in
terpreted his election as the distinct
expression of the progressive impuls'
es of the country. Il shall not be act
inc as a partisan when pick out pro
gressives and only progressiyes to aid
me" the governor said, Analysing
the spirit that he said had produced
his election.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
Bandits Rob and Hang Man.

New Orleans.-A crime wave Whlch
struck New Orleans two weeks ago
reached a climax when two highway
men held up a negro on a prominent
street robbed him of $275O and, af'
ter tying his hands together, strung
him nm to a telephone post. The rob-
hers held revolvers on the negro I'M
III they had disappeared around cor
ner when his cries for help awaken
Cd white man, who came to his
rescue. The negro was strung up
with a rope tied around his waist
and was dangling in the air
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
MILLIONS FOR WATERWAYS
Appropriations Measure Is Reported
After a Stormy Session.

Appropriations Measure is Reported
After Stormy Session.
Washington.-The first pork bar
rel" measure of the present session
of congress was reported to the house
when the house rivers and harbors
committee brought in its annual APP
preparation bill providing $4O,SO0,GOO
for the improvement of rivers and
harbOrs throughout the country. The
committee agreed on the measure af-
ter a stormy session that lasted sew
eral hours.
The largest single appropriation In
the bill provides $6,000,OO0 for the i'm
provement of the Mississippi river
from the head of the passes to the
mouth of the Ohio. Other MISSISSIPPI
pi appropriations are:
One million dollars for improve
ments from the mouth of the Ohio to
the mouth of the Missouri to Mime
apolis, and $1S5,O0O from st. Paul to
Minneapolis. For work on the Mis-
souri, rver, $2,3OO,OOO is provided; ST.
0OO,O to be expended from Kansas
City to the mouth of the river; $780,
600 from Kansas City to Sioux City,
and $15O,OOO from Sioux Sity to Fort
Benton.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

London, England-Th British sec
rotary of state for foreign affairs, Sir
Edward Grey, and the ambassadors
of the powers have made representa-
tions to Rechad Pasha regarding the
projected departure of the Turkish
delegates, which is equivalent to
definite rupture of the peace negotia.
tons for which Turkey is considered
responsible In reply Rechad Pasha
said that he was not responsible for
the suspension of the work of the
conference. which was decreed by the
allies, without asking his opinion.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
$1,000 600 Scattered in LOBBY.

Waco, Texas.-Checks, drafts and
money orders aggregating 100000
were found scattered about the lobby
of the Waco postoffice and search is
being made for a 19-year-old boy,
whom. the police believe, riAed num-
her of mail boxes. So far as can be
learned little, if any, money, was Sc
cured and practically all of the pa
per taken has been recovered.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
Lightning and Concrete,

The effect of lightning on concrete
which has long been a matter of dis
pute, has been observed by leading
member of the American Society OF
Civil Engineers, who has reinforced
concrete water tank on his country es.
tate. This was struck by lightning
which caused no injury, but changed
the texture of the concrete in places
from granular to vitreous. The tank
was heavily reinforced.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
Wanted a VARIETY.

That is a good story of the charm
ing American woman, who was about
to partake for the first time of what
our English cousins call high meat. ~
Pheasant, l believe it was, was about
to be served and the butler asked
her: will you ave some of it stale
Or 'igh,' ma'am?" And the guest gra-
2iously replied: you may serve me
A little of both its tail and its eye,
please"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

1t has been remarked as a curious
circumstance that Bonaparte and Wei
lington were born in the same year
and that Burns and Hogg, the Scotch
poets, were both born on Jan. rs; but
1t is more remarkable that the two
greatest dramatic poets of modern Eu.
rope, Shakespeare and Cervantes, both
died on the same day in tbs same
year, April 23, 1916. 1t is further re.
markable that Shakespeare, like the
great Raphael and Sobieski, died on
the anniversary of his birth.-From
Fennell's Shakespeare Repository,
1859.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

"Poets are born and not made" said
the young man with the pale, interest
ing face and the long hair. Are they?"
replied his wife. "Well, I'll show you
that they are made sometimes. I'll
make you watch the baby while I go
shopping this morning or you shall
never have another dollar that my
father sends to me-"
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

In the National Museum, Washing
ton, there is a meteOrite weighing l.
400 pounds. In the Yale collection is
one weighing 1855 pounds, and one
at Amherst 437 pounds. Some sacred
stones, as the black meteorite wor-
SHIPPED at Emesa, in Syria; the holy
Kaaba Of Mecca; and the great stone
of the pyramid of Cholula, in Mexico;
owe their sanctity to the belief that
they had fallen from heaven.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
Liquors Not NeedAd

Fermented and distilled liquors are
never necessary for any purpose ex.
cept IN certain persons in whom the
habit has created a need of them
truly morbid. '-Royer.Co llard, M. D
A California boy of twenty-five has
married a woman of sixty-three wears
Old But then, that's his business-or
hers.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
JOY In Serving.

One has made a genuine discovery
when one has grasped the fact that
joy is thing that is fast linked to
service Then one will cease indulg-
ing in idle, feverish dreams of MIL
lions and prominence. For the man
who is not somehow serving humanity
invariably gets a dark brown taste in
his soul.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
His Recommendation.

A cook has been going around a
station in the south of India with the
following character" and is somewhat
surprised he is not engaged: Abdul
has been my cook for three months;
it seems much longer. He leaves on
account of i'll heaEh-my i'll health
Christian Advocate.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

saw NotnIn9 OF value IN FeaTis'
When the army of Galerius sacked
the camp of the routed Persians a bag
Of shining leather filled with pearls
fell into the hands of a private SOL
der, but the latter, while carefully
preserving the bag, threw away its
contents under the impression that
anything that could not be used for
Useful purposes had no other value.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
NEGRO Bandit Shot to Death

Tulsa. Okla.-An unidentified negro
was shot and instantly killed while
attempting to rob the express car
of st. Louis and San Francisco, No.
412, Oklahoma City to Kansas City,
shortly after the train left Chandler,
Okla. 1t is claimed the negro had
killed another negro before boarding
the train. The bandit was shot by an
operative of detective agency, who
was a passenger. - IN
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

When We consider the age of the
Chinese emperor and the alIaeed
statesmen by whom he is surrounded
1t is hard to refrain from the Thought
that Sun Vat Sen and his compatriots
are taking candy from a baby.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
sneotacuIar suicide BY Girl.

Arras France.-Angele Bienfaim'
girl Is years of age, mad from grief
over the death of her sweetheart
committed suicide in a spectacular
manner. She climbed a 5Ofoot pole
and threw herself into a nest of high
tension electric wires.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
Melody of Birds.

The melody of singing birds ranks
as follows: The nightingales first,
then the linnet, titlark, skylark and
woodlark The mockingbird has the
greatest powers of imitation, the robin
and goldfnch are superior in vigorous
Scientific Digest.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

Very few houses in the French
West Indies possess kerosene lamps,
candles being commonly used for
household Illuminating. The import
duty makes it impossible for the peo-
pie, who are poor, to use either kero-
sene or gasoline.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
Not Much Disconnected.

A workman on a building in New
York city was recently buried under
tons of earth. After being rescued he
shook the sand from his clothing and
announced that he was "all right" and
resumed work with a shovel.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

A Chicago man was fined IS and
costs because stenographer said he
rolled his eyes at her, and thus the
vanity OF some women grows more
costly every day.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
Useless Mecbapiep,

The New York inventor who has
perfected a machine to tell a man
when he is in love seems to be vast
ing his time and talents. The woman
usually has way ri arranging these
trihing details.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
Chance for an Inventor.

Our scheme of civilization will not
be perfect until somebody invents a
bureau which viii set fiat on the floor,
so that collar buttons cannot roll I'M
der it.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

The girl who tells you she thinks
no man is good enough for any woman
is merely trying to goad you into an
attempt to convince her that she Is
wrong.-Chicago Record-Herald.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

Sweet oil and limewater spread on
a piece Of cotton and applied to a
burn is very soothing Every medi-
cine closet should contain a bottle OF
this remedy.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

As a mans yes and no, so his chan
acter. A prompt yes and no marks
the firm, the quick, the decided char.
ecter; and a slow the cautious or
nmid.-John Caspar Levater
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
Amenities,

tive tust been introduced to Pro
fessor Smythe; such charming man
to talk to! He doesn't make one feel
a fool. in spite of his cleverness. "Ah.
my dear, but that's because of his
cleverness Punch.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

Thirty-five is a very attractive age.
London society is full of women who
Of their own free choice have remain
I'd thirty-flve for years,--The Taller.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

Quite often the meNpec'eu s,s
pens. A French aviator brohe "a
records the other day and dlu
break his neck.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

II Aviator Rodgers attempts IA
across the ocean he will have 10 n ;,
Awer landings than he did Wnsn
few across the continent,
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

On the ballroom floor the glass heel
promises to be no more popular than
Is the glass arm on the baseball field
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

First Wife-"What is your hus-
bands average income, Mrs SMITH"
Second Wife-"Ob, about midnight"
Judge.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17
Has No Remedy in Law

An English judge has decided that
a purchaser Of forged postage stamps
has no remedy against the seller.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

For each person in the United States
a dozen paper napkins and third of
a pound of tea are imported from ia
pan every year.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

AT the present price of golden but.
ter $4,000 isn't too much to pay for
a prize COW.
The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-01-17

Once in a while q submarine s, ,s .up
makss,s dix. kna t0rgass q
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06

every one. Our answer is that
the field of human endeavor is a
broad one, nourished and sustain
ed by the intellectual newspaper
like the world is nourished by
rain, air and sunshine. There is
an irresistible something that
draws us to this work, like that
great power which fills the heart
of the missionary and sustains
and cheers him in his work. The
latter is termed "a divine cal"
1t is neither blasphemous nor
frivolous for us to say that the
true newspaper man, with exalted
ideas and a clean sheet, is impell-
ed to his work by the same
power.
The Madisonian. (Richmond, Ky.) 1913-1914, 1913-05-06
THE STEAM ROLLER AT
WORK

The old steam roller has been
pulled out, oiled up and is doing
as much hard work under the
Democratic regime as it did und-
er the Republican control. Mea-
sure by measure of the tariff bill
is settled by one application.
When little rough place is met
with in the road, there is a pull
at the throttle by Chairman
Underwood, a culver shakes the
sides of the S. r. and away she
goes, f1attening out the opposi-
ton so smooth that it would take
an expert to find where it had
once held forth. This is business
methods up to date. Why should
a majority who have made up
their minds long ago, on what
they intend to have in the bill, al
low a little, hopeless minority,
delay and annoy them. Flatten
them out and go on with the
work of Congress.