The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-05-29
LATE NEWS NOTES.


A cablegram received from kingston
Jamaica, from Minister.Ruiz of Colon
bia reports that a tornado has destroy
ed the port and town Of Santa Marta,
Colombia.
The New York znti-bucket shop bill
was made law Saturday when Cover
nor Hughes signed the measure pass
ed by the legislature.
According to a poll taken by New
Orleans representatives, prohibition
will carry thirty votes in the house for
state dryness and majority for pro-
hibition exempting New Orleans
A monument id memory of the late
Senator Marcus A. Hanna was dedi-
Gated at Cleveland, o., in the presence
of many distinguished guests and thou
sands Of spectators
The special train, bearing 500 stu
dents of the agricultural college to the
Oklahoma state field meet at Olxlaho-
ma City, crashed into a special car
near Ripley Conductor Allen was kill
ed and twenty Students severely in
jured.
The death is announced of Francois
Coppee, in Paris. He was a French
poet and dramatist and was born in
1872
The Globe (Ariz.) National bank,
which closed it's doors November 4,
after a. run, has re-opened prepared to
pay all depositors.
w. R. Davis, private secretary to the
late Governor John Sparks, died at his
home in Carson, New, Saturday.
Through the. death of Governor Sparks
and his secretary, business in the state
buildings has been bought to
standstill.
Train service on the Mississippi Cen
trial railroad from Natchez to Hatties-
burg was inaugurated Saturday. The
road is. to be extended to Scranton,
Miss.
The second section of Southern Pa
cific train No. 16, known as the Ore
gon express, was wrecked at Pinole,
Cal One man was killed and four in
jured.
Marshall, aged 9, and Derwood, aged
Z, the sons of Bay Cunningham, were
drowned in creek near their home,
two miles from Newburg, Texas.
The Frisco jury in the case of Abra-
ham Ruef, charged with bribery, has
disagreed, the jury standing six for
conviction and six fer acquittal
Montgomery has been selected for
the location of the Pythian temple in
Alabama and made the permanent
headquarters of the Knights of Pyth-
las of the state.
The diocese and council of the Epis-
copal church in Alabama unanimously
adopted a resolution, Bishop Beckwita
Concarring, looking to the division of
tie diocese.
Thirty-fNe thousand coal miners of
Missouri, Kansas. Oklahoma and Ar
kansas, members of the United Mine
Workers Of America, who have been
on strike since March l last, have
voted to return to work
Captain Samuel D. McAllisear OF
tle Thirty-eighth company of coast ar
tillery, has mysteriously disappeared
from his station at the Preside in
Frisco.
James Brimmingstall. aged 40, is un,
der arrest at Dowagias, Mich, charged
with six murders.
Following a personal difficulty, Mon.
roe NJ Harrell, a newspaper man, aged
81, formerly of Oklahoma City, was
shot and instantly killed in Ell Paso.
Texas, by ]. E. Mitchem, proprietor
of the FL Pase Evening News.
The graduate land tax bill, which,
by excessive taxation, seeks to pre-
vent the owning Of more than $40
acres of land by enc person in Okla
homa has been sent to the governor
for his signature.
The next annual convention of the
American Bankers association will be-
held in Denver during the week be-
ginning September q.
The Old Dominion paper mills, own
ed and operated by the American
Strawboard company, which have been
closed since November last, have re-
sumed operations with full force.
In the Elkhorn and Pocahontas coal
fields more than two thousand miners,
who have been idle owing to slack bus
mess, resumed work Monday.
The New York National CITY hank
has engaged $1,SOO,OOO gold for export.
This makes a total of $32,155, 600 en-.
gagged for export en- the present move,
ment.
Frederick Clark, Fl years of age,
Gertrude O'Brecht, 10, and her sister.
Bertha, 22 years old were drowned by
the upsetting Of canoe at Walkerton
Ont, which shot over dam in the
Saugeen river.
Washington.
A train on the Jersey Central ro1