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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-11-04
ATTEMPT AT TRAIN wREcKINe
Obstruction Placed on Tracks of Geor-
ola Central Near Columbus.

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An obstruction was placed on the
track of the Central of Georgia raul
way ON the Macon line, four miles
from Columbus, Wednesday night, pre-
sumably for the purpose of wreoking
either the regular passenger train
Arom Columbus to Macon or else a
special train returning from the state
fair. The obstruction was discovered
in time, and wreck was thus FORUM
ately averted.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-11-04
Costly Cotton Blaze in GAINESVILLE.

Costly Cotton Blaze in sarnesViIIe'
Fire in the warehouse of Baird e
sappington, at GAINESVILLE, burned be-
tween 600 and 700 bales of cotton.
The tin shop Of R. E. L. Hawkins and
the store of Charles Bailey were also
burned. For awhile it seemed as II
the whole town was threatened and
Griffin was wired for help, which ar
rived at Ii o'clock The fire was then
we'll under control Only the thick
are walls saved the remainder of the
city. The cotton was the property Of
farmers of the vicinity and was COY
cred by insurance.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-11-04
FREIGHT Rate Cases Postponed.

The. hearing of the petitions of tie
various railroads for injunctions
against the railroad commission Of
Georgia, to prevent the enforcement
of circulars sol and 3O2, which reduce
freight rates between Atlanta and Ger
tain cities and which reduce the rates
on syrup between South Georgia
towns and Atlanta, was continued un-
til Monday, November 2Sth, by Judge
Newman Friday.
The reason of the delay was the
filing at the last moment by the rail-
roads of volumes of new injunctions
and volumes of amendments to origi-
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The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-11-04

Three Bound over for Murder.
Ben A. Penney, Reuben knight, and
William Knight, the young men charg-
cd with the killing of Mamie Carter
a young merchant at Naylor, five
weeks ago, have been bound over az
Valdosta to the superior court under
the charge of conspiracy and murder.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-11-04
vloIatlna EIaht.Hour Day Az.

Special Assistant United States At
torney General w r. Leaken has re
turned to Savannah from Washington,
where he received instructions to in
stitute proceedings in the United
States court against any persons gull
ty of employing labor to work upon
government contracts for more than
eight hours day.
The United States grand jury will
be asked TO indict under the eight
hour law, and Mr. Leaken says that
he will prosecute without fear or IA
for.
1t is said that army officers at Fort
Screven and elsewhere in the district
will run risk of indictment, as they
have, it is alleged, contracted for la
borers to work more than the eight
hours allowed by the federal laws.
The officers will be indicted as indl-
vidusls, if Mr.. Leakin's plans are car
ried out, as will, also, the contractors
There is much government work
going on at Fort Screven, and in the
city the marine hospital is under con
struction. It is said the eight hour
law has been violated at both places.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1904-11-04
"Bob White" Can Now Be Shot.

bob White" Can Now Be Shot.
The period from November l to
March 10 is the open season for quail,
partridge, pheasant and wild turkey,
but doves, marsh hens and snipe may
be killed from July Is to March Is,
while the open season for summer
duck, wood duck and woodcock is
from September 1 to February 1, and
the open season for deer is from Sep
TENDER 1 to January 1. For the next
two months at least, practically every
thing in this line is legitimate game
to the hunter.
There are several points in the new
law which may be of interest to those
who love a day in the field with gun
and dog. No person is permitted to
kill more than forty doves in one day.
No one can kill any game for the pur-
pose of selling it, except on his own
land, unless, of course, he obtains eA-
plicit permission to hunt on the lands
of others. POT hunters" as those
who kill game for the market, are
generally known, must pay a license
fee of $25 to the ordinary of the
county before they can do business.
IL is strictly against the law to ship
any partridge out of the state, no mat
ter where or by whom they are killed.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-04-22

voice or the newborn babe. At this
little human voice, born of sorrow and
sin, born to suffering and to knowl-
edge, born to life in all it's wonders
and to death in all it's mystery-the
elements perchance relented and avert
ed their fury Not yet was there to
be punished sin, or wrong, or doubt
or weakness. Not at once would jus.
tice punish the parents of this babe
and blot out at once the record of their
fault. Storm and lightning, darkness
and the night yielded to the voice OF
the infant and allowed the old story
of humanity and sin, and hope and
mercy to run on.
The babe walled family in the ST.
lence of the night Under the hearth
log there still endured the fire. And
then the red west, seeing itself con-
quered, smiled and flung wide it's arms,
and greeted them with the burgeoning
dawn, and the voices of birds, with
sky blue and repentant, sun smiling
and not unkind.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-04-22
CHAPTER XIX.
AL LARGE.

It was weeks after the night Of the
great storm, and the camp of the voy-
ageurs still held it's place on the shore
Of the great Green bay. The wild
game and the abundant fishes of the
lake gave amp'e provender for the
party, and the little bivouac had been
rendered more comfortable in many
ways best known to those dwellers
of the forest The light jest, the burs,
of laughter, the careless ease of atti-
tude showed the light-hearted voya-
geurs content with this, their last
abode, nor for the time did any word
issue which threatened to end their
tarrying.
Law one morning strolled out from
the lodge and seated himself on a bit
of driftwood at the edge of the for
est's fringe of cedars, where, SEEM
icglv half forgetting himself in the
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-04-22

I the SOul-felt tOrtureS OF worlu. from
| the forest rose continuous rending
| crash. The whiplash of the tempest
cracked the tree trunks as child be-
! heads row of daisies. Piled up, fall
| ing, riven asunder, torn OUT by the
wind, the giant trees Joined the toys
which the cynic storm gathered in its
! hands and bore along until such time
as it should please to crush and drop
them.
There passed out over the black sea
of Michiganon a vast black wrath; a
thing horrible, tremendous, titanic in
organic power. 1t howled, execrated
menaced; missed its aim, and passed
The little swaying house still stood.
Under the sheltered log some tiny
sparks of fire still burned. omen of the
unquenchable hearthstones which the
land was yet to know!
Holy God! what was it? What was
that which passed." cried Jean
Breboeuf. crawling out from beneath
his shelter. Saint Mary defend us all
this night! Twas the great Canoe of
the sky! Mary Mother of God, hear
my vow! From this time Jean
Breboeuf shall lead better life."
The storm. baffled, passed on. The
rain, unsatisfied, sullenly ceased in it's
attack The waves, hopeless but still
vindictive, began to call back their
legions from the narrow shore. The
unsated in their wrath,
fiared and f1ickered on and out across
the eastward sea. With wild laughter
and shrieks and imprecations, the
spirit of the tempest walled on its
furious way. The red west had raised
its hand to smite, but 1t had not smit-
ten sure
In the silence of the night, in
the hush following the uproar
Of the storm, there came lit
tie wailing cry; SO faint, so
feeble, yet SO mighty, so conquering,
this sign of the coming generation. the
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-04-22
A Hard Struggle.
Many A Columbia
Citizen Minds The
Struggle Hard.

With back constantly aching
With distressing urinary disorders
Daily existence is buta struggle
No need to keep It up,
Doan's Kidney Pills will cure you
Column bia people enCorse this claim.
ID. l. Hoover, foreman Of the compos-
ing rooms Of the Maury Democrat,says
Being on y feet for hours duri n h g
day, and obliged to stoop over at my
work good deal of the time, undoubt
ly was he cause OF my suffering so
much with dull tired aching at times
and again sharp pains oyer my kidneys
In the morning the aching was often
times so severe and my back felt so
lame and sore that would hardly be
able to rise from my bed. There was
also weakness Of the kidneys which
was most annoying and distressing. l
had my attention called to Doan's Kid.
ney Pills and procured box at Adams
x Martins drug store. / used them as
directed and they helped me in every
way. My back felt much better and
stronger and the ditficu ~ with til
kidney secretions was nuch relieved
For sale by all dealers. SO cents. Fos-
er-Milbnrn Co.. Buffalo. N. Y, sole
agents for the United States
Rememb er the lame Doan's-sni
AXE no. substitute
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-04-22
tcopyrisht. 1909. by EMERSON Hough)
CHAPTER VIII CONTINUED.

Now came the rain. Not in steady
and even downpour, not with inter-
mtttent showers, but in sidelong, ter
rifying torrent, drenching, biting, cut
ting lii it's violence. The swift weight
of the rain gave to the trees more bur-
den than they could bear. AS before
the storm, when all was still, there
had come time and again the warning
boom of falling tree, stricken with
mysterious mortal dread of that which
was to come, SO now, in the riot Of
that arrived danger, first one and then
another wide-armed monarch of the
wood crashed down, adding with its
downfall to the testimony of the as
sailing tempests strength ana Iury.
The lightning now came not only in
ragged blazes and long ripping lines
Of light, but in bursts and shocks, and
In bomb-like balls, exploding with ele-
mental detonations. Balls of this tense
Gurcharged essence rolled out over the
comb of the bluff, fell upon the shad-
ows of the water, and seemed to bound
from crest to white-capped crest, till
ut last they split and burst asunder
like some ominous missiles from en-
gines Of wrath and destruction.
And now, suddenly, all grew still
again. The sky took on lighter, livid
tone, one Of pure venom. There came
o whisper, murmur, a rush as of
mighty waters, a signing as of an army
Of the condemned, shrieking as of
legions of the lost, roaring as of all
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-04-22

Texas


An ideal country for rcheap
homes. Land at IS. $40. SIS per
acre grows corn, cotton, wheat,
oats, grasses, fruits and vege
tables.
Stock ranges 10 months in the
year.
Southeast Missouri, Arkansas,
Louisiana and Texas are full of
opportunities-the climate is mild,
the soil is rich. the lands are
cheap.
Low Home-seekers' rates about
half fare-via the Cotton Belt
twice a month-first and third
Tuesdays.
For descriptive literature. maps
and excursion rates. write to
w. G ADAMS, T. p. A.,
Cotton Belt, Nashville, Tenn.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-04-22
Were Stealing a Ride.

Jas. Pace and Joe Spaulding, two
Young white men, were arrested by
Constable William Goad and Depot
Policeman VIM. Craft, off of Passenger
Train No. last Friday. They were
stealing ride on the blind, " be-
ween the baggage coach and the mail
zach. They were taken before Esq
z. II. Guest and fined 81. 90 and costs,
md were placed on the work house
rang. One of the boys said he was
from Mobile, and the other one would
not say where he was from.
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-04-22
Non Residence Notice.
Mrs. A. e. Shirley, Exec, Com plainant
VS.

Mrs. A. K. Shirley, Exec, Complainant
VS.
John Andrew Shirley, ct al. Defendant
II appearing from affidavit filed in this
cause, that the Defendants, } ohm Andrew
Shirley. Sarah Ann Shirley. Riley Pill
low Shirley, Alexander Shirley, Eva
May Shirley and w. N. Shirley are non.
residents OF the state of Tennessee, it
Is therefore ordered that they enter
their appearance herein before or with
In the first three days of the next term
4 the Chancery Court. to be held at CO.
lumbia, on the End. Monday in Nay
1904, Rule Day Of this Court, and plead,
answer, or demur 10 Compliments
bill. o. the same will be taken for con-
fessed as to them and Il for hearing ex-
uarte; and that copy Of this order be
published for four consecutive weeks In
he Columbia Herald.
A Copy-Attest:
A. ". AKIN, CLERK and Master.
w. $ FLEMING, Sol'r for Complt.
SIT
The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-04-22
TO BE CONTINUED.
Buys weich Coal.

The Russian government contracts
yearly for $4,000 tons of Welsh coal to
be delivered at Fort Arthur before
July l.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-04

gram from Viceroy Alexieff, report
ing the japanese attempt to block
Port Arthur early this morning:
Il respectfully report to Your High
ness that a fresh attack was made
by the enemy last night with the OBJ
ject of obstructing the entrance to the
port and that it was successfully re-
PEELED.
"At O'Clock this morning five tor
pedo boats were perceived near the
coast from the eastern batteries.
Under the fire of our warships and
batteries they retreated southwark.
"At las O'Clock the first fire ship,
escorted by several torpedo boats, was
sighted, and we opened fire upon 1t
from the batteries and the warships
Three-quarters of an hour afterwards
our searchlights revealed number of
fireshps making for the entrance of
the harbor from the east and south
west. The coast defense vessels Of
vashni and Gremieshchi and the gun
boat Giliak repulsed them by a well
directed fire.
Altogether eight ships were sunk
by our vigorous cannonade, by white
head torpedoes launched from our
torpedo boats and by the explosion of
several submarine mines. Further,
according to the reports of the officers
commanding the batteries and the gun
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-04

boat Giliak, two Japanese torpedo
boats were destroyed.
after 4 o'clock in the morning the
batteries and warships ceased fire, SUBJ
sequently firing only at intervals on
the enemys torpedo boats, which were
visible on the horizon.
IAN the fire ships carried quick firing
guns, with which they maintained a
constant fire.
Up to the present thirty men, in
Guiding two mortally wounded officers,
who took refuge on a launch, or were
rescued from the fireships by us, have
been picked up. The inspection of the
roadstead and the work of saving the
enemy's men were hndered by the
heavy sea running. We suffered no
casualties, with the exception of sea-
man belonging to the torpedo boat de-
stroyer Boevoe.
"On the appearance of the first fire
ship, accompanied by the enemy's tor
pedo boats, l boarded a launch and
proceeded to the Otvashni to take inn
mediate measures for repulsing the fire
ships With me were Lieut. Gen. "a
linski and Capt. Eberhardt of the naval
general staff Lieut. Gen. Stoessel
was on the fortiications at the same
time and Gen. Loschinsky, chief of the
defense force of the forts, was on board
the Giliak."
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-04
HILTON AND DODGE
LOSE THEIR YARDS
WERE SWEPT BY FLAMES.
LOSS ESTIMATED AT BETWEEN
100000 AND $4,000.

Yards Located Near Brunswick Took
Fire from the Dry KiIn-FIames
Were Quickly Communicated to "A
Nearby Lumber Pile, and Then
Their Spread Was Rapid-Bruns-
wick Fire Department Could Not
Cope With the Flames.
Brunswick. Ga, May 3.-The lum-
Der yards of the Hilton and Dodge
Lumber Company, a few miles from
this city. We're almost completely de-
stroyed by fire tonight. and the to-
tai loss is estimated to be between
$780, 600 and $4,000.
The fire originated shortly after 5
o'clock in the dry kiln, due to an over
heat in the boiler. The kiln was
quickly destroyed and a nearby lum-
ber pile ignited. A stiff northeast
gale prevailed, which famed the flames
from pile to pile. and in few minutes
the entire yard was ablaze, and it
is estimated that a million and quar-
ter feet of high grade cypress lum-
Der were burned, together with two
The city fire department went 20
the scene of the confagration. but
was unable to render any assistance,
owing to the inability to cross the
road on account of the severe heat
from the flames. So rapidly did the
flames spread that it was all the force
could DO to cut away the wooden
tracks to keep the fire from reaching
the large mill. After working until
10 O'Clock tonight this was done, and
there is no danger to the mill burn
ing. unless the wind changes.
The men at the mills could only
fight the flames with buckets, and all
the employees, with other men worked
heroically during the entire time the
! fire was burning to save the mill.
This lumber was estimated to be
worth about $35 per thousand feet. the
two dry kilns were valued at about
$1,000. 1t is all partly covered by in
| surance
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-04
RUSSIANS SANK EIGHT FIRE SHIPS
THAT TRIED TO BLOCK PORT ARTHUR
Two Japanese Torpedo


st. Petersburg, May 3.-Admiral
Togo made another desperate attempt
to block the entrance to Port Arthur
early this morning, but failed.
Viceroy Alexeff sent out a section of
the feet to meet the attack He re-
ported officially that the Japanese sent
eight fire ships and two torpedo boats
to block the entrance of the harbor,
but they were all sunk by the Russian
torpedo boats and the fire from the
land batteries, leaving the channel
clear.
The fire ships were discovered by
searchlights of the batteries and guard
ships creeping towards Port Arthur
from the east and southeast, shortly
after midnight. The torpedo boats
and torpedo boat destroyers were or
dered out, but none of the larger war
ships. Admiral Alexieff himself went
out on board the coast defense vessel
Otvashni. The guardships at the en-
trance of the harbor and the forts
opened a fierce fire on the fire boats,
which lasted until 5 o'clock in the
morning, when the fire ships went
down.
The Russians succeeded in saving a
few members of the crew of the fire
ships, including two officers.
High Admiral Grand Duke Alexis
has received the following official tele-
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-04
WOODEND ARRESTED.
Says He VIII Make n Statement
That Will Clear Him.

That Will Clear Him.
New York, May 3.-Dr. w. E, Wood
end of w. E. Woodend & Co., the
suspended stock brokerage firm, was
arrested at his home in this city to-
dav.
Woodend said he had not been far
away from New York. He return
ed home, he said, because on Sunday
he read in the newspapers that he
had been accused of grand larceny.
Woodend was held in $4,000 bond for
a hearing Thursday. He is charged
by E. H. Goodwin of Petersburg Va,
with the larceny of $500.
While in the court room, DR.. Wood
end said:
II will make a statement later that
will clear me of the charges made
against me. That is all l will say
now"
The safes in the Office of Woodend
e. Co., were opened to-day by a rep
resentative of Receiver Gruber, but
| little of value was found.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-04
KUROPATKlN'S ACCOUNT
OF THE FIERCE BATTLE.

st. Petersburg, May 3.-The EN-
peror has received the following tele-
gram under to-days date from Gen.
kuropatkin:
Gen. Zassalitchs report, dated to-
day, on the fight of May l, says that
the battle was fought under the fol-
lowing circumstances:
The Twelfth and Twenty-second
Regiments and the Second and Third
batteries of the Sixth brigade of ar
tlllery were engaged in the battle,
which began with heavy cannonading
of our right flank by siege guns at
Wiju and field batteries in the dis
tance.
After a lull the fighting was re-
sumed with extraordinary violence
against the left flank of our main posi-
tion at Turenchen and our position at
Potietinsky. A fusillade was also be-
gun by small parties of Japanese
across the All river.
=" The situation of the defender s
position became increasingly difficult,
especially at Potietinsky, which was
bombarded on the front and on both
TANKS.
Thirty Japanese guns were pitted
against our battery at Potietinsky
which after having silenced the
enemy's mountain battery directed its
fire on Ehe Japanese infantry and
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-04
BY HEAVY FIRE OF THE JAPANESE ARMY
5000 TO 1000 RUSSIANS WERE KILLED
MORGAN TALKS OF THE
PANAMA PAYMENTS,
The Finnncier Tells How They Are
to BE Made.

The Financier Tells How They Are
to he Made.
Paris, May 3.-Having wound up the
details of the big financial transaction
connected with the Panama canal
transfer, j. Pierpont Morgan left Paris
to-day for Aix-Les- Bains. Before his
departure he gave the correspondent OF
the Associated Press the main points
of the final agreement as follows:
1.-The Panama Canal Company wished
to have the money turned over in
Paris instead of in the United States
and was willing to pay all the eX-
penses incident to the payment here.
In order to accomplish this the United
States has appointed the Morgan Com
pany in turn to make a contract with
the Panama COMPANY, whereby the
sac, 900 will be paid in Paris. This
contract specifies the Banque de France
as the depository and also the propor-
tion of payments going to the old and
the new Panama companies respec-
lively.
THE signing of this contract closes
the transaction, it only remaining for
the Morgan Company to carry it out
by making payments from time to time
to the Banque de France. This will be
done so as to cause no disarrangement
of the American or of the French
money markets"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-04
LILY WHITES WOULD
HAVE NO NEGRO ON IT.
Hard Struggle, Though Useless One,
Made by the "Black and Tans."

Hard Struggle, Though Useless One,
Made by the "BlacL and Tans."
New Orleans. May 3.-After a long
and hard struggle the leaders Of the
lily white Republicans in caucus to-
day decided against the negro and
agreed to send solid white delega-
tion at large to the Chicago conven-
ton, instructed for President Roose-
welt.
Collector of the Port Henry Mccall
and ex-Gov. Warmoth fought hard to
get a negro on the delegation, believ-
ing it would be beneficial to President
Roosevelt in the doubtful states, but
Chairman Frank B. Williams led
strong fight for an all-white delega-
tion.
The delegates chosen are Pearl
Wight, H. C. warmoth, W. ]. Beham
and l.. F. Suthon.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-04
RED CROSS REORGANIZATION
As Proposed by Plan Submitted By
Senator Proctor.

Senator Proctor.
Washington. May 3.-A plan for the
general reorganization of the Red
Cross to-day was submitted by Sem
ator Proctor to representatives Of the
parties to the controversy in that or
ganization which. If accepted, Will
reconcile the differences that now exist
In the organization and will put II on
a permanent basis of effectiveness.
THE nlan was drawn by Secretary
Foster at Senator Proctor's request
and contemplates the cooperation OF
the national government in the work
of the organization.
1t contemplates the issuance OF new
charter by Congress which shall vest
the control of the affairs of the organ
i1ation in central governing body OF
eighteen persons. OF these eighteen,
six are to be appointed by the Presi-
dent who also is to designate the pre-
siding officer. For the present the re-
naming twelve members are to be
chosen by the general association, the
understanding being that representa-
tives of both elements would be chosen,
but there is also a provision for sub
sidiary state organizations, which after
they are organized, are to be allowed TO
name six of the seven members. There
Is a requirement for an annual report
TO Congress and also for yearly audit
ing of accounts by the Treasury De-
partment. The plan, generally speak
ing is along the lines followed in some
of the European countries.
After the conference Senator Proctor
expressed the opinion that there was an
excellent prospect for success.