The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-06-05
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.

Governor Haskell Of Oklahoma, has
signed the famous hotel inspection bill
commonly known as the ..nine-foot
sheet" bill, because Of the provision
that the upper sheet on all hotel beds
must be long enough to turn back IL
feet over the other covers.
Judge Burnett in circuit court at
Salem, Oregon, sentenced j. Thorn
burg Ross, the Portland banker, to
ave years imprisonment and to pay
a fine of $576,094. Ross recently was
convicted Of wrongful conversion Of
school funds.
On the Delaware river at Philadel-
phia, Pa, an explosion occurred in a
launch which killed one and Injured
fifteen.
John S. Leach, who succeeds c. A.
Stillings as public printer at Washing
ton has arrived from Manila, where
he has been director of printing for
seven years.
In collision at sea, off the North
Carolina cost, the fishing schooner
Fame was sunk by the Dominion At
lantic lines steamer Boston. The
Fame carried a crew of nineteen men
Of which number seventeen were
drowned.
Wright Brothers Of Xenia, Ohio,
have signed contract with the Unit
ed States government, to furnish a
flying machine that will be able to
attain the speed Of forty miles an hour
in a still atmosphere and to carry two
persons. The trials to take place at
Fort Meyer
Cholera has apparently taken a Sc
rious foothold in the Philippines. -Four
cities, including Dagupan, are infected
and the bureau of health is planning
to stamp out the disease. Cholera is
also rife in the province OF Capiz,
where 231 cases have been reported
since January in RIAL and Zambales.
There is fear of a general epidemic.
Editor J. K. Burkhalter of the Tat
nall Times and Congressman Charles
Edwards came to blows on the rear
platform of a Searboard Air Line train
at Collins, Ca, Monday. Congress
man Edwards took exception to some
articles appearing in Burkhalters pa
per and the quarrel resulted.
Eugene Jepson, aged 80 years, of
New York, leading man in a vaude-
vile sketch at Ksith's theater, at
Cleveland, Ohio, dropped dead of heart
disease in mis- dressing room Monday,
when an alarm of fire was sounded.
Entangled in the folds of a large
American flag, which he had waved
while making parachute drop of
1000 feet from a balloon at Hillside
park, near Passaic, ~ j., Frederick l..
Wood, an 1S-year-old aeronaut, of New
Haven, Conn. fell helpless in the Pas
sale river and was drowned.
Four boys were arrested at Great
Falls, Montana, and confessed to par
ticipation in a hold-up Sunday Of pas
sengers on Great Northern train.
Former President Grover Cleveland,
who has been confined to a Lakewood,
n j., hotel for two months with an at
tack of rheumatic govt and acute indi-
gestion, had sufficiently recovered
from his illness to leave Sunday for
his home in Princeton.
The pupils in the eighth grade at
Washington school at Fon du Lac, Wis
consin, must wear their ordinary
clothes on the closing day of school if
they wish to receive diplomas on that
day. They were informed that vanity
and education did not work together
and if any of them put en- their Sun
day suits or dresses they would be
obliged to call at the back door on
the following morning to get a certi-
ficate.