The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-08-28
LATE NEWS NOTES.



freed 551 prisoners at once. Bee
OF the wholesale arrests of ere
yeggmen and tramps in the CT
wave that has been sweeping
Massachusetts the police stations
city Jails have been packed to s.
cation. The men released We're
charged with minor misdemeanS
One man was killed and two
injured when a speeding automC
dashed over an embankment at
falo, N. Y, into an abandoned s.
quarry. James Wayland, chauff
was instantly killed; John Wake
and James Morrison were serio
hurt. The automobile was reduce
splinters.
Miss Blaine Golding, champion
man swimmer Of America, <defe;
three other fast women swimmer
a three-mbile race across the Hud
river from Irvington to Pierm
swimming the distance In the rem
ably good time of one hour and fc
five minutes.
The United States scholarship
ca has arrived at Corunna, Spain.
is the first vessel OF the Amer
government to call at Corunna S
the Spanish-American war.
BY the premature explosion of II
ty pounds of dynamite in an oil
near Santa Rosa, N. M, Will
Lane was instantly killed and
Doyle and William Wickstrom
Thomas Donnolly severely injured
OfRcers of the National Associa
of Life Underwriters were elected
Los Angeles. Charles Jerome
wards of New York was re-ele'
president and William A. White
Detroit, secretary. Louisville,
was selected as the place for hold
the next convention. Charles e. E
of Los Angeles won the first prize
and Ilf G.. Newell of Georgia the
and Alf q. Newell of Georgia the
ance essay.
The Evansville cotton mills
Evansville, Ind, have closed d.
owing to the inability to secure /
material. Several hundred emplo
are idle.
John A. Hiney, the captain Drey
of the knights Of Pythias," after
fering for seven years expulsion Fl
his lodge and a charge OF embezzl
half million dollars, has been e4
GRATED and reinstated.
SEEING a light on the second fl
when she returned to her fashiona
home on South Kings Highway bol
ward, st. Louis, Mo-, and believ
that the place had caught fire, n
Sophia Dunlop, 45 years of age,
rIed to the upper story to find hers
confronted by two burglars. T.
knocked her down, stabbed her in
right temple and escaped. Her injul
are serious.
Miss Lucia Dobbs, the divor
wife Of the bogus Lord Regin
Douglas, the most accomplished b
mist in the United States, who m
her way back to Virginia from Mex
practically on foot, after her de!
ton, a baby being born to her in I
as while en- route, has been led to
altar by Hubert Holloway, of Ralei
N. C.
In township No. Is, North Carroll
Logan Jones, in a rage declared
would kill his entire family, and III
attempting to make good his thrt
was shot down by his 15-year-old S
He was also attacked with an axe
another child. He died instantly fr
the gunshot.
A license has been Used at Ellie
City, Nd, for the marriage of
Rev. George S. Fitzhugh, aged 81,
Lulu v. Frazier, girl, aged
An explanation for the peculiar c
is said to be that the Rev. Mr.. F
hugh desires to make Lulu his heir
and that his object can not be alta
ed TO his satisfaction by the adopt
of the child.
While H. w. Schultz and w.
Fox of Colfax, Wash, were away /
vesting, their wives went to a thea
cal performance. Fire originating
a manner unknown, destroyed tn
house and four of the Schultz child
and two of the Fox children W
burned to death.
Surgeons amputated the leg of
G. Blair of Omaha, near the
while Blair smoked cigarette ;
''joshed" them about their blot
work. His leg was injured in a +
road accident near there. Surge
prepared to administer an enaest
tic, but Blair would not permit th
to do it. He insisted that if Il
would give him a cigarette he co
go through the operation without
ing put to sleep and he did.
Emperor Menelik, when told by
physicians that he had less thar
year to live has chosen his grands
Prince Yazon, to succeed him.
Washington.
At the point of pistol, three
legged thieves were captured in \
York by a policeman while they W
in the act Of robbing five sailors
the United States cruiser Prairie