The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
LATE NENsNOIES.


/. H. Whaley of Knoxville, Tenn.
was struck and killed by J. w. Green.
a blacksmith. Green struck Whaley
under the Jaw with his fist and Whal-
ey's head struck railroad rail as he
fell. Whaley died an hour and half
later.
The national convention Of the
League of American Sportsmen, in
tenth annual meeting at Lawton,
Okla, was addressed by Geronimo,
the famous Apache chief, through an
interpreter. He deplored the slaugh-
ter OF American game by white men.
The jury in the trial of INLAND Gull
pepper at opelika, Ala, charged with
the murder of Mary ElVin Haden, who
was shot and killed near Phoenix
City. Ala, several weeks ago, by q
bullet believed to have been intended
for her father, returned verdict OF
guilty. Culpepper was sentenced to
life Imprisonment.
Six buildings were totally destroy
ed and number of others damaged
by a fire of incendiary origin at Olive
Hill, Carter county, Kentucky. The
loss is about $4,000.
D. O. Seaman, a farmer, of Colds
berry, Mo-, went to the district school
called out his two sons, aged 10 and
IL years, respectively, shot one OF
them dead, mortally wounded the 9TH
er and then shot and killed himself.
The cause of the tragedy Is not
known.
George Harold, of the Ell Paso. Tex
as, city detective department, who
worked up the cases there and in Chi
huahua against the Mexican revolu-
tionists, found a rudely constructed
bomb at the front door of his resi-
dence with a charred fuse attached.
Harold has received several unsigned
notes informing him that he is mark
ed for death.
Several girls were slightly injured
and one hundred more had narrow
escape from death when the ferry
steamer Ariel, running between Walk
erville, Ont, and Detroit, Mich, col
lided in fog with the small freight
er Energy. There were about one
hundred girls, employees of local fac
tories aboard the ferry, and a panic
reigned among them for few min
utes.
The store of the Merchants Gro
Gerry company at Mobile, Ala, was
Quilted when fire broke out in the sec
ond story among paper bags. The
building was damaged about $4,000,
covered by insurance, and the stock
is total loss amply covered by in
surance. Two firemen were injured.
The jenkins lumber mills plant at
Blaine, Wash, was almost complete
ly destroyed by fire. The loss Is es-
timated at 100000.
A freight engine on the Southern
railway exploded at Mayo, Va, killing
the engineer and injuring the fireman
and several of the crew.
One-half of the business portion
of Bonner Springs, Kans., watering
resort, twenty miles west Of Kansas
City, was destroyed by fire, causing a
loss of 100000.
After sixteen years Of divorced sep
aration, during which each had re-
married and had each been bereft
through death, an aged German cou-
pie in New York City, who were mar
ried in their fatherland forty years
ago, procured marriage license in
order to at once re-enter for their de-
clining years, the ties they had legal
" set aside so long ago. Conrad
Knubert's second wife died in New
York not long ago, and when he
heard that his formers wife's hus-
band had also died in Germany, he
wrote the partner of his young years,
asking her to come to New York and
marry him again. She cabled her re-
ply-that she was coming, and on the
next steamer, and when she reached
there the ceremony was performed at
once.
The women of Mexico have organic
ed a mothers congress, which Will
hold it's first meeting in December.
The president is Signora Luz Gonzal-
ez Casio de Lopez and the object is
to aid all mothers who need protec-
ton, advice or assistance.
Thirty-one counties with popula-
ton of more than million peaple,
have voted to go dry in Ohio in the
first forty-one days of the operation
Of the Rose county local option law
passed by the last legislature, and
within the next thirty days eight hun
dred and thirteen saloons and whole
sale liquor houses will have closed
as the result. There are now thirty
Ave counties entirely dry in the state.
Tho hattie of Guilford Court House
was reproduced at Greensboro, N. c.,
bv United States cavalry, infantry,
state MALTA and Calling gum The
result of the hattie, like that fought
in 1881. was In doubt, both sides
claiming victory. Colonel S. w. Miner
| ooror,anded the British. while Colonel