The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-03
LATE NEWS NOTES.


Knickerbocker Special at Paris, H.
after he had saved scores OF lives by
preventing the fast Big -Four passen-
ger train from crashing head-oA into
a row of freight cars. Friend turned
the switch in time to swing the pas
senger train ON to- side-track, put pot
quickly enough to get out OF the W'y
of the engine. He was decapttated
and has body dragged several hundred
yards before the engineer was able 70
stop the train.
Consul General Richard Guenther OF
Frankfort, Germany, advises that, as
cording to press accounts, negotiations
are now going on between the cotton
spinners' associations of England and
Germany, having for their object an
agreement to regulate-that is, limit
the production of cotton yarns in the
two countries.
The board of health of the city Of
New Orleans has plan by which they
hope to exterminate a large number
of rats, with which the city is oyer
run. They secured fifty large rats and
inoculated them with virus that will
produce fatal diseases and turned
them loose in different parts of the
city The experiment is being watch
ed with great interest by other cities
similarly afflicted.
Former Alderman William S. Cliff
ford of New York City who pleaded
guilty to bribery, was sentenced in the
superior court to pay $1,000 fine or to
serve 1000 days in imprisonment. 1t
was said that friends would furnish
the money for Clifford.
Upon information made by National
Bank Examiner Folds of Pittsburg,
Pa, j. w. Tiers, discount clerk of the
First National bank Of Pittsburg, is
under arrest with $51 1000 on the wrong
side of the balance.
The property, franchises and entire
rights Of the Brooklyn Ferry company,
said to be worth $4,000 600, were sold
at public auction for $4,000 to the
New York Terminal company 1t is pre-
dicted that all but two of the com
pany's seven ferry lines will be shut
down because they are operating at a
loss.
Jackie" Clark, the Australian bicy-
Gle rider lowered the worlds three
City, riding the distance in 5:49 "a.
An offer by DR., Hamilton Fisk Big
gar, John d. Rockefeller's physician,
to kiss any woman who would give
500 to the propaganda fund, created
the merriest time of the Homeopathic
National convention at Kansas City.
The fun continued for thirty minutes
and $4,000 was pledged, enough of it
by women doctors to keep DR.. Biggar
busy trotting up and down the aisles
trying to catch the givers and fulfill
his part of the contract.
A list of pensions granted by the
English government in the past year
for services to science and literature
include $3.50 yearly to aul Foun-
tain. an American traveller and writer,
"in consideration of his contributions
to literature and his strained circum-
stances"
While temporarily insane, Mrs. Au-
gust P. johnson of Ida Grove, Iowa,
drowned her four little children in the
cistern at their farm house.
A special dispatch from Corunna,
Spain, says that the Spanish steamer
La Rache went on the rocks near
MurOs 1t has been ascertained that
| the number of passengers and crew of
i the La Rache totalled $50. Sixty-five
persons are known to have been saved,
| but the fate of the other eighty-five is
not known, and it is feared that, most
of them persisted.
The law passed by the last Texas
legislature taxing BARRIERS has been
declared unconstitutional by the
courts Of that state, inasmuch as it
makes class distinction
The will of Benjamin Hart, an Amer
lean millionaire, who died in Paris,
which has been filed in New York and
I which left his entire estate to his
housekeeper, has been attacked by
his adopted daughter on the grounds Of
undue influence
AS the result of an explosion in the
plant of the Babst Chemical company
at Chicago five women were burned
! to death and more than a score of 9th,
ers seriously injured. T%,.;
Following prolonged negotiations
| both at Toxic and Pel1in on the gener.
al subject of the commercial depart
ment Of Manchuria, the Japanese gov
eminent instructed its charge DAT
flares at Pekin to notify China that
| Japan would throw no obstacle in the
way of the development of Chinese
territory in Manchuria.
Washington.