The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-11-13
LATE NEWS NOTES.


as Franklin Kane, president Of the in
stitution. The students took the ef1gy
into the campus and threw it into the
flames, dancing wildly about it.
Further than that he was always
laughing; that he was always good
natured, and was known as Happy
Jim," no identification has been made
OF the man found murdered in one OF
the galleries connecting the tubes of
the Pennsylvania railroad tunnel in
New York city.
Twenty-six men in Craighead coun-
ty, Arkansas, arrested for night riding,
have been held for the grand jury in
bonds Of $500. A special session of
court conYenes on November 9 to try
the cases.
The English colonial Office, it was
learned, recently offered President
Roosevelt the freedom of the govern
ment shooting preserves in Africa.
Mr.. Roosevelt replied that he wished
to be treated only as private citizen,
ard that he did not desire special
privileges.
Jesse AXE a cowboy of Ell Paso, Tex
as, is being hunted on murder
charge. AS a Sante Fe work train,
loaded with Mexicans, was passing,
AXE lassoed Ramon Aragon, whom he
dragged from the train. Aragon was
killed in the fall, as the train was
running twenty miles an hour.
The four-master schooner Charles
F. Endicott, bound from Charleston,
s. c., to Baltimore, arrived in Hamp-
ton Roads, Va, bearing the body of
her deceased master, Captain Marvin
Bailey, Of Manasquan, N. j. The cap
tain was washed overheard from the
EGdicott while at sea off Cape Hat
teras. He was rescued, but died from
exhaustion and shock upon being TAX
en- aboard of his vessel again.
One thousand men were made idle
for several hours at the plant Of the
Algoma Steel company att Sault Ste
Marie, Mich, when deer ran into
the mill and jumped on the rolls
where steel rails are made. The deer
was so badly injured that 1t had to be
killed.
With $4,000 of bonds which she
had obtained from the firm Of Bah
cock, Pushton & Louderback, bond
dealers .ino the Rookery building,
woman known as Alice Cheney Brown
was arrested at the union depot in
Chicago and made to return the Sc
curities. The method by which the
swoman obtained the bonds was by
passing a worthless check on the bro
kers} for $19,720. The securities were
returned to Mr.. Babcock Of the broke
erage firm. Mr.. Babcock said the firm
would make no effort to prosecute
Mrs. Brown.
President Eliot of Harvard has re-
signed.
ATTACKED by a mob of small boys
soon after he landed in New York city
from Blackwell's Island, where he is
employed, Harry Roche, unable to de-
fend himself or to make policeman
hear his cries for aid, struggled to a
fire alarm box and turned in an alarm.
He soon had all the help he wanted,
for in~response to the alarm four en-
gines, two trucks and patrol wag-
on dashed UP to the scene, bringing
forty-five firemen and dozen police
men. His message for assistance cost
the city $685.
A revival of the war reports In
Belgrade, Servia, has been caused by
rumors that Russia is supporting Ser
Was position and the fact that the
Servian parliament sat with closed
doors. Troops have been sent to
strategic positions, and. the removal
of the capital to safer place Is being
discussed.
The Norwegian bark Mercur, lunl-
ber-laden, blown ashore by the gale
in. the Gulf of st. Lawrence recently,
has gone to pieces. Captain Madsen
and his crew were rescued with diff
Guilty. 81
Charles Truett, engineer Of the Cen
trail of Georgia, was killed at Opelika,
Alabama. He was on his tender look
ing after the water when he was
struck by an overhead bridge and in
stantly killed
Mrs. Harry W. Lynn, wife Of de-
partment manager of the Illinois Steel
company at Chicago, Ill, killed her
four-year-old daughter by cutting her
throat with a razor and then commit
ted suicide with the same weapon at
her home. No cause for the crime is
known.
Fire in former mail house at st.
Louis, Mo-, at the union depot did
$4,000 worth of damage and for a
time threatened the trainshed, bag
gage room and express Office.
The wonder chrysantenum plant of
the world, coming from the green
houses Of Hamilton NICK. Twombly,
at Madison, N. j.. is on exhibition at
the national flower show, in Chicago.
This flower is only nine months old.
only three felt high, has Ave hundred
blooms and is twenty feet in dame
ter.