The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-09-25
LATE NEWS NOTES.
General.

General
Efforts to obtain information in
Georgia as to graves of men who
served in the Revolutionary war, or
were old enough to have served in it,
are being made by Daughters of the
American Revolution, in order that
list of them may be published and
personnel record kept of them, and
that unmarked graves of Revolution
airy soldiers may be provided with
marble headstones (Which are furn-
ished by the United States govern
ment), and proper attention given to
the graves when needed. All persons
moving Of such graves are requested
to communicate with Mrs. John M.
Graham, state editor Daughters OF
the American Revolution, Marietta,
Georgia.
| Reports that the great Mexican oil
well fire near Tampico has been ex-
tinguished were brought to New Or
leans by passengers on the steamer
| City of Mexico from Tampico. The
blaze, which has been compared to
lake of fire, was put under control,
the passengers said, by the use OF an
enormous piece Of sheet iron, which
so reduced the volume of flame that
it could be smothered with water. A
high embankment is said to have
since been built around the well to
contain the flow of oil until storage
tanks can be erected.
I Two hundred men were trapped in
the Windsor end of the Michigan Cen
trail tunnel at Detroit with the tim
| bers of the tunnel ablaze between
them and their only exit, fought in
mad stampede for life and air, dash
ing through thick smoke toward
greedy tongues of flames to life. TWO
men, safely out once, went back down
into the inferno of roaring flame and
swirling smoke, hoping to rescue some
of their fellows who might have been
suffocated or trampled down in thc
rush for aid. Those men died an aW.
full death as a result of their vain, but
splendid effort to save their fellows.
! The rest of the men escaped,
A pacificatory note was sounded at
4 the opening session of the states gener-
al at The Hague when in reading the
message from the throne on behalf OF
| Quenn Wilhelmina, who is too i'll to
leave the palace, declared Holland
was doing everything possible to bring
about an amicable settlement OF the
Venezuelan trouble. A large part CT
the message dealt with the financial
condition of the country. The mes
sage was received enthusiastically
he remarkable success achieved
| by Orville Wright in his record .breaN-
ing airship flights at Fort Myer are
looked upon by French writer's on aYl-
alton as the forerunner or beginning
of the practical navigation Of the air.
! Columns are devoted in the newspa-
pe1s to the records Of the American
inventor, and it is unanimously pre-
d1cted that within a comparatively
short time the prize Of $50 0GH offer
ed bv the London Daily Mail for a
flight. from London to Manchest T will
be captured W the Wr'Gllts.
Alabama pig iron manufacture : an
nounce the sale of iron for delivery
1 during the first quarter of 1909 at $14
per ton, No. 2 foundry, which is from
fifty cents to one dollar per ton above
the prices which are now prevailing
for immediate delivery. All furnace
companies are quoting this year iron
at S13 per ton and car lots, delivery
within the week, bring $3.50 per ton.
No. 2. foundry. The aggregate of sales
for delivery during the last quarter
of this year is so large, it is given out,
that there is necessity for blowing in
all of the furnaces which are about
in condition.
An electric truck, it's movements abb
solutely controlled by wireless cleo
trio waves, has been installed in the
yards of the Union Pacific railroad at
Omaha, where its operations startle
the uninitiated. Many people are
startled to see the motor truck, at
tached to several other trucks, heay-
ily loaded, start along the tracks or
suddenly stop without any apparent
cause, making it's way through the
big yards unattended.
BY the terms of the will of H. L..
\ Hewitt filed at Alpion, N Y, the bulk
of the estate, valued at $4,000, was
left to foreign and home missions, un-
der the control of the American Bap-
fist Home Mission society and the
American Baptist Mission union.
In a boiler explosion in the Laura
mines at AK La Chapelle, France,
five men were killed and score in
| jured
Washington.
Surgeon General ORiley of the