The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-14
LATE NEWS NOTES.


ture Of two millions of dollars
Pittsburg, Pa, district for i'm
ments.
After saving her husbands
wrenching a hammer with viii
had been beaten into unconsciol
from the hands of her brother
Ira Cody, and knocking him
ground, Mrs. Wade Riggan wa
and killed by Cody at Cox's
Mississippi.
WILDER Wright Of Dayton,
made a successful fight with hi
oplane at Lemaus, France. TIL
chine covered 2.17 miles and
fetal time of the fight was on,
ute and forty-six seconds.
Becoming angered at his wife
Goolsby, a well-to7do farmer, {
ford, Mississippi, knocked her
and while she was lying prostra
urated her clothing with oil. H,
set fire to the clothes, and sh
badly burned before the flames
extinguished by neighbors.
The Pittsburgh ashburn Flou.
ing company has been placed
hands of a receiver. This Is
the largest flour-making conce
the world.
Hundreds of the Turkish &
ment officials of the old regin
scurrying to the other side
frontier. They are loaded wit
lions of which they have been
dering the country for year.
is estimated the graft has col
million dollars.
Godfriend Probst, a worker /
Brooklyn restaurant, has been d
that he and his sister are join
to an estate of nearly sixteen |
dollars, left by their uncle, VIII
interstate in Bombay, India.
Seth M. Richereck, a former
apolis banker, who absconded /
ago with something over hi
thousand dollars of depositors
ey, has been located at Johanna
South Africa. He is living uni
assumed name and is doing a b
business.
The Missouri Pacific railroad
sued an order for the reopenina
locomotive shops in st. Louis, !
Fort Scott, Atchison, Osawatom
Soto and Barring Cross. The REQ
will provide employment for
than one thousand men.
Notice has been given to th
dents Of Argenta, Ark, by the S
is and Southwestern railroad, Il
less suits for $4,000 damages,
ed to have resulted from the co
ton of about a mile of tn
through the principal street
city, are dismissed, the track
torn up, and all orders for ID
mems, including depot to cos
900, will be annulled.
A tornado which struck Dj
Nebraska, a town of 1000 /
ants completely destroyed, al
phone and telegraph lines in tn
and surrounding country. TT
nado laid waste to many VI
farms and several large buildi
the town were blown down.
The American Tobacco Cd
has declared a quarterly divid
2 IL per cent and IL pc
extra on the common stock
compares with 2 IL per cent
per cent extra three months
2 IL per cent and 2 IL per q
ira six moaths ago and nine
ago, and 2 IL per cent and Z
cent extra 9 year ago.
! George H, Sommers "a condu
the Baltimore and Ohio railroa
arrested by United States
charged with violating an act
gress in carrying a passeng|
while in charge of his train.
held under $1,000 bail.
Mrs. Ethel Gaylord of
mond, Va, has been
ed that he r husband, who1
though she had buried in Jacks
Fla, year ago, had turned
and was searching for her. II
buried in Jacksonville was
floating in the ocean at that q
was identified by Mrs. Gaylord
husband.
Twelve hundred mechanics
ed by the Canadian Pacific !
are out on a strike. The en-
and t1remen are in sympathy 7
mechanics and may call SYM
strike. Owing to the fact til
anese laborers are being u:
strikebreakers, feeling is runni
and serious trouble may result
Japanese are not discharged.
Washington.
China has formally accept
date, January l, next, and tn
ton of the city Of Shanghai
time and place for the holdins
meeting Of the International
commission. The commission
make a preliminary Investigate
the general question of the Opt
fc. 1t has no plenary powers,
make recommendations for fu
ton by the various countries.