The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-07-31
LATE NEWS NOTES.



Several members Of the New York
police force have been indicted for &C.
cepting money from race track gamb-
lers. These policemen would fail to
make a case against any bookmaker
who paid for protection. One of the
bool1makers refusing to bride the POI
licemenawas arrested and he, In turn,
made charges, which led to the indict-
ing by the grand jury of several mem
bers of the police force.
Joe M Crib, so years old, commit
ted suicide at his home near Way
cross, Ga. Every preparation for the
act was made with minuteness, the
man even sending his 15-year-old son
to neighbors to- get some one to sit
up during the night with his body.
That all the steel mills throughout
the country controlled by the steel
trust, which since last October have
been operating only So per cent Of
their capacity, will be put into full
blast in the immediate future, was
the keynote of speech made BY
President VIM e. Corey at meet
Ing in New York of the presidents Of
the subsidiary companies of the Unit
ed States Steel Co.
Citizens of Natalbany, La, are very
much excited over the killing of
boy in that town by two Italians and
have ordered all Italians in the town
to leave.
A perjury plot against Frank ].
Gould, the muli-millionaire of New
York City, has been discovered.
Gould's wife is suing for divorce
and sensational evidence which was
given regarding Mr.. Goulds conduct
has been discovered to be false and
an organized gang Of blackmailers
4 have been arrested. i.
a Ia, bomb was. exploded in a tent in
which Governor Deh6en OF Illinois
was addressing political meeting
at Chicago No damage resulted
from the explosion and 1t is thought
the perpetrators Intended to take adj
vantage of the excitement to rob peo-
pie in the audience Policemen made
number OF arrests, but later all the
suspects were released.
The record breaking ships Maure-
tania and Lusitania will be laid up
until next January in dry docks. The
company which owns them having
decided that the winter travel beN
tween New York and Liverpool would
not warrant keeping these expensive
vessels in service. A big saving is
effected in coal alone, the bill per day
for either Of these leviathans Of the
Atlantic averaging $4,000
Congressman r. P. Hobson Of Ala.
bama and Mr.. Samuel P. Cadman Of
Brooklyn, N. Y, met in joint debate
at Marshaltown, Iowa, on the neces-
sity of greater navy and the Japa-
nese war situation. An immense au-
dience greeted the speakers and hon
ors were declared even at the close
of the arguments.
Joseph ]. Henry an ordinary sea
man and powder passer on board the
new battleship Mississippi was killed
during gun drill in one Of the for
ward eight-inch turretts. His necker-
chief caught iii the training signal Of
one Of the guns and drawn into the
machinery and his neck was broken.
AS the result of a terrific electrical
storm which passed over the Pennsyl-
vania National Guard encampment at
Gettsburg, Pa, six troopers were kill
ed and over two-score injured, some
of them seriously, by being struck by
lightning.
John 7. Burford Of Chattanooga,
Tenn, whose suit case said to have
contained $4,000 In stocks and bonds
was stolen at Chicago. recently, has
lirsco xsFesr his property ,;,si
Mrs. Sarah Elizabeth Stetson. Wild
lxowA Of the late millionaire hat maker,
@J0hn' F. .Stetson, waS married to
Count Santa Eulalia Of Portugal by
Monsigneur Turner's chancellor Of the
archdiocese Of Philadelphia. The
ceremony was performed at the
brides beautiful estate near Philadel-
phia. i,
The general opinion Of leaders in
the financial world seems to be that
thesdecision in the Standard Oil case
would result in reaction to business.
Washington.
Eight cadets have been ordered
home from aWest Point Military Acad-
envy for hazing a freshman BY MAX
ing him comply with the following
order: go out into: q company
street and pick up a hundred nice fat
ants, put them In your cap, and Ia
half an hour come back, count them.
and If any are absent, report accord.
inp1v IF all are nr6aent or oooo,,,,t q