The Palatka news and advertiser. [volume] (Palatka, Fla.) 1908-19??, 1913-07-25
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

premier ASqulLn promised the mouse
of commons that the government
would present to it next session its
scheme for the reform of the house of
lords.
The whole kingdom of Wurttemberg
was shaken by a sharp earthquake.
Many chimneys collapsed At Stuff
CART and Strassburg the frightened
residents rushed into the streets.
Twenty-Five thousand gallons of oil
was destroyed when lightning set it
aire at Ell Vista, five miles from Port
Arthur, Texas. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
A boiler explosion near Decatur,
Ala. resulted in the death of two per-
sons and the injury of three others.
The explosion demolished a grist and
saw mill.
Jackson Tinker, one of the veterans
of the corps of Washington CORE
spondents, died at that place, after
an operation for appendicitis. He was
forty-siX years old.
A sulphur mine near Castel Termi-
nal in Italy, caught fire while many
miners were at work There was a
terrible struggle to escape from the
deadly fumes and it is estimated that
forty Of the men were killed.
A victim of heat, Patrick j. Boland,
aged so, was found dead in his bed in
Atlanta, in the residence of Police
man Robert Braselton, where he was
rooming. Mr.. Boland was the head
baker at Rogers bakery.
Brigader General Carl A. Wood
ruff, U. S. A., retired, died at Raleigh,
N. c., aged " years. General Wood
ruff was born in Buffalo, N. Y, in Au-
gust, 1841, and enlisted in the artillery
branch of the Union army from the
District of Columbia, in October, 1861.
The locomotive of west bound pas
senger train No. IL on the Texas and
New Orleans railroad blew up between
Houston, Texas, and Beaumont, in
stantly killing the engineer and fire.
man. Several passengers were re-
ported injured.
By his flight from Paris to Berlin
Leon LetOrt becomes the nonstop rec
ord holder. The distance covered was
about $50 miles, which surpasses the
flight made April q by Eugene Gil
bert, who flew from Vilacoublay to
Vittoria, Spain. 513 miles, in eight
and one-haIf hours.
Richard Allen, aged IS, said to be
a prosperous farmer of New Madrid,
Mo, is in Jail at Louisville, Ky. He
will resume his journey to the state
penitentiary at Frankfort, to serve
two-year sentence, pronounced TWEEN
ty-siX years ago, for killing a deputy
sheriff
Julian Hawthorne, the novelist, is
pla- lg a I000-mile cross-country
walk from Atlanta to New York, to
begin late in July, when he will be re-
leased from the United States peni
Tertiary. His application for a parole
will be granted, it is announced from
Washington.
The bursting of a steam pipe on
board the battleship Nebraska at the
Charleston navy yard killed Charles
Agena, 10 years old, ordinary seaman.
and injured several others.
w. J. Maxwell, grand secretary and
treasurer Of the Order of Railway
Conductors, died at his HON. in Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, after an illness cf sew
eral weeks, He was 81 years old and
had occupied his position with the con |
ductors for fifteen years.
After enjoying a day in the surf
at Long Beach, N. Y, BROOKLYN
man, who wished to stroll the board |
walk, solved the problem Of how to |
avoid carrying his wet suit. He sent
1t home by parcel Tost.
The trial Of fifteen men charged
with the assassination of Ed Callahan.
former Breathitt county feudist, be-
gan at Winchester, Ky. 1t was said
three of the men had confessed, but
that the remainder deny the charge.
7. L. Beveridge, aged SO, said to be
a half-brother of ex-senator Bever-
idge, of Indianapolis, is said to have
committed suicide at LitchReld, ILL.,.
by cutting his throat. Senator Rev.
eridge and family are now in New
Hampshire.
Count De Kergorlay, of Paris, has
just won in court an order granting
$500 rebate from an automobile man.
ufacturer because the limousine the
count purchased had roof too low
to accommodate the high plumes which
the countess wore on her hat. The
judge ruled that it was the duty of =
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