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Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-04-10
RAISED FROM A slck BED.
After Being an Invalid with Kidney
Disorders for Many Years.

John Armstrong, Cloverport, Ky.
says: II was an invalid with kidney |
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-04-10
PROBABLY HE WAS.

Doctor-Can't you put your tongue
out little further, Mrs. Mugg?
Mrs. Mugg-Are you one of those
people, doctor, who believe that there
Is no end to a woman's tongue?
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-04-10

The ancestor Of every action IN Q
hought.-Emerson.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1908-04-10

Assist yourself and heaven will as
sist you.-Latin.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
ociIIa pecIared county sea-.

According to decision handed
down by the state supreme court,
OcIlla will be the county seat of r.
win county instead of Irwinville. the
old capital Of the county.
Following an act passed by the last
legislature new county, named Ben
Hill. was created with Fitzgerald as
the county seat. out of parts Of the
county Of Irwin and adjoining counties.
Irwinville was at that time the county
seat of Irwin county, and was left
in the old county, A petition was got
ten up, signed by the required number
Of tax payers, seeking to change the
county site from Irwinville to DELLA,
also in the old county On the face
OF the returns DELLA won. Proceedings
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
RAILROADS WANT MORE TIME.

Seek to Stave OF Enforcement of the New
Nine-Hour Law
Conferences Of particular Importance
to all the railroads of the country
were held in Washington by the operat-
ing vice presidents Of twelve or fifteen
great lines of American railways with
President Roosevelt, and subsequently
with the interstate commerce commits
sion.
The railroad officials presented re-
quest that an amendment giving more
time be recommended to congress to
the nine-hous pct, ito promote the safe
ty of employees and travellers upon
railroads AZ limiting the hours OF SER
vice Of employees thereon"
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
crime Decreases il Atlanta.

Here is the record of Atlanta's first
month under prohibition. It speaks
for itself:
Total number of cases tried in police
court in January, 1907, 1868.
Total number of DRINKS, 341.
Total number of cases tried in Jan.
uary, 1908, 1853.
Total number of DRINKS, GA.
The first month under the reign Of
prohibition shows a slump in police
court business of e95 cases. The de-
crease in the number of cases of
drunkenness. is even greater than in
the total number of cases:
The police court acts as splendid
barometer and gives a good idea of
the effects of the dry reign.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
Postal CLERK Yransferred.

Twenty railway postal clerks and
about $4,000 year in salaries spent
in Atlanta will be taken away as a re-
suit OF changes recently made by the
Southern railway in its train SEIZED
ules. Orders to this effect moving
away from Atlanta this number Of men
have been issued by L. M Terrell,
superintendent of the United States
railway mail service
Under the schedules as changed
there was no other alternative for Su.
perintendent Terrell, and he was COM
PEELED to have twenty clerks transfer
red to Washington.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
AppeaIs % stase supreme Court.

B. G. Sloan. son-in-law Of the late
Rev. Sam P. Jones. has appealed from
the decision of Judge Fite, in which
he awarded the little grandson of the
great evangelist to his grandmother,
Mrs. Sam Jones, at Gainesville, for
five years.
In an effort to obtain possession of
the baby his wife waived her claim to
the boy to her mother. Mrs Sam P.
Jones, and Judge Fife. after reviewing
the case. ordered the child to the care
of Mrs. Jones, its grandmother
It is from this decision that Mr..
Sloan appeals to the supreme court
OF the state.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
OLD FOOD LAWS sUPERcEDl
Georgia Attorney General Says New
utes are Of Repeating Nature.

According to an opinion by
ney General John c. Hart of CO
to Commissioner Of Agriculture
son, old laws under which count!
inspectors were appointed by Q
ries and municipal inspectors
city ordinances, have been super
by the general pure food law 81
in 1905 and effective August l.,
The effect Of this view Of th'
law is to take the appointment of
milk and other food inspectors
the hands. Of ordinaries and
boards, and to lodge this jurist
entirely In the hands Of the CO
sioner of agriculture.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07

cleaner, sMeeler things of life.
The climax came, however,
Mr.. Jerome denounced both Tha,
White in one breath and classed
as two degenerates quarreiing
woman" And the woman, the
ecutor declared, knew no mora
been taught no more by the W.
than to play one against, the
until in jealous rage, in blindest
in vengeance of IAN undeniably
wrong done to his wife," Harry
shot and killed the architeet.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
Must Continue conyers Train.

The railroad commission has given
Superintendent w. S. Brand of the
Georgia railroad and the people in
terested to understand that it would
not permit the discoutinuance by that
road of the daily accommodation train
between Conyers and Atlanta.
This announcement was made fol-
lowing the conclusion Of the hearing
on this subject
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
JEROME IAMBAsTs HARRY tn
Likewise District Attorney Severely
White in Summing Up.

White in Summing Up.
A New York special says: WI
Travers Jerome, representative q
people, made mastery plea q
day that justice be done in the
of Harry Kendall Thaw.
Vindictiveness, sneers, insinu;
all were lacking; logic, analysis
calm consideration of the facts
their substitutes.
1t was no blind appeal for the
geance Of the law that Mr.. Jeron
dressed to the jury, but ever al
ways there was the note of fail
even at times Of mercy.
The year that has elapsed sind
first trial had wrought a won
and startling change in the prose
No 60 attempting to shield
rs AFFORD White, he acc
| by Evelyn Nesbit
it the drugging al
fession to the jurJ
gs and mirrored /
uses described b
a miserable I'd
king Evelyn
uress, Mr.. il
Il because she
haGN any of the b
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
Georgia Briefs
Items of State Interest Culled
From Random Sources.

Comptroller General Wright has is
sued tax H. fas. against the Savannah
Electric company for $1l,596.SS; the
Crimson railway for s2979S, and against
the Western Union Telegraph compa-
NY for $42OOS. The executions were
issued at the request Of the tax col
lector of Chatham county for taxes al
legged to be due the county.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
County Liable for Debt.

In a decision handed down few
days ago by the state supreme court,
Butts county's liability to the Jackson
Banking company for money loaned
the county by tho bank is fixed
From February to October, 1906, the
Jackson Banking company loaned
Butts county about $4,000 on notes.
All but some $4,000 was paid, then
the county treasurer declined to pay
any more of the amount on the ground
that the county was not liable.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
sIayer d PoIleeman Doomed.

Andrew Johnson, the negro who kill
ed Patrolman Manner in Atlanta, some
months ago, will have to hang, accord
ing to decision of the state supreme
court, handed down last Friday morn
ing. The opinion was rendered by
Justice Atkinson (all justices concur.
ring), and affirmed the decision of the
lower court in refusing new trial.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
HANGING FOR ATTEMPTED R
New Penalty for Crime is Made By
latnre Of Mississippi.

The lower house of the Missi
legislature has passed a bslil p
ing the death penalty Of life II
onment for attempted rape, the
ishment to be within the disc
Of the jury. This places attel
rape in the same class with nj
Heretofore the maximum punisi
has been ten years.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
ROAD in HANDS OF Receive

A. B. Andrews Placed in Charge Of
lab Fails Railway.
The Tallulah Falls railway exts
through Habersham and Rabun
ties, Georgia, into North Ca
Franklin, N. g., being the preseI
minus, was Monday placed in the
of a receiver by Judge William =
man Of the United states district
at Atlanta. on petition OF the
ern railway, A. B. Andrews being
ed as the courts cficial.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07

we're begun by certain citizens to stop
the transfer of the county seat to
Ocilla, and in the lower court, ocilla
again won The case was brought up
for review, with the result that the
lower court was sustained, and Ocilla
won out again.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
Die Power company PROTECTED.

A company has been formed in Jesup
with a capital of 100000, for the pur-
pose Of developing water power and
generating electricity for manufacture
ing purposes.
The company will erect cotton
mill and a cotton seed oil mill and
storage warehouses, and will build
and operate an electric railway from
Jesup to several other surrounding
towns.
Application for charter is now be-
ing prepared. The privilege of increas.
ing the capital stock to 100000 is
asked.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
Uncle Sam Issues Liquor Licenses.

OHCiS 0dm ISSUES Liquor LICENSES
From the records Of the internal
revenue Office in Atlanta, information
is gathered that since the first OF Jan
uary, 66 federal licenses have been
issued for the retailing Of spirituous
and malt liquors in the state Of Geor-
gia.
The purpose for which these licenses
are secured is of course not apparent.
With prohibition law operative in the
state, making illegal the sale of intoxi-
eating liquors or beverages, the num-
Der Of licenses issued by the federal
authorities, expressing the permission
of the national government for the
holders of those licenses to do I'll
thing which is prohibited by state la
becomes exceedingly interesting.
A perusal of the internal revenue
record of these licenses shows that
most of them were issued to people
who give Savannah as their place Of
business. Only four of the whole
number are charged to Atlanta, with
an additional license issued to fish
ing club located at Brooks Station in
Fayette county.
The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-02-07
Decision In FAVOR q state Falr.

Decision In Favor Of State Fair.
There will be a state fair at Pied
mont Park in Atlanta this fall. The
old machinery hall will be torn down
this spring. These two things were
agreed upon by the park board after
a three-hour session, at which a num-
Der of prominent citizens, including la
dies, were heard from There were ar,
guments against the holding of the fair
at the park SO all the old buildings
might be removed, and there were ar
guments for the holding of the fair
for commercial reasons.
The argument to tear down the old
machinery hall came in the way of
compromise, as this will give room for
the immediate identifying of portion
of the park which will not be used
for fair purposes.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
FACTS FOR FARMERS.

A mass meeting of cotton growers and
allied interests of the South generally
will be held in Memphis.
Rains in the winter wheat belt west of
the Missouri have improved the crop
prospects in that district.
New corn is being marketed freely in
the Southwest and heavy shipments to
Europe are being made from the gulf
ports.
Flowing has been seriously delayed this
fall in the heavy soils of southern Min
nesota by the drought In some locali-
ties wells were going dry before the re-
cent rains.
Under the law passed by the last Min
nesota Legislature. allowing cooperative
creameries to combine for the purpose of
nArketing their product, six creameries
have united in corporation, having a
capital stock of SO, 800.
The demand for vaccine for the inocu-
lation against hog cholera is so great that
State Veterinarian Van Els of North Da-
kota finds himself unable to fill all orders
The report that the disease was epidemic
in certain localities has excited breeders
of swine in all sections of North Dakota
Illinois grain dealers assert that they
are taking in wheat from farmers who
were unable to seed it because of the
long-continued drought and who were I'M
willing to take chances on getting a crop
by seeding now or later. Southern Hi
nois grain men are OF the opinion that
the winter wheat acreage in the State viii
be vastly reduced.
Discovering the railroad bridge across
Helm creek, near Wabash, Ind, in flames,
a farmer saw the peril of an approaching
east-bound Wabash fast freight train
Removing his coat, he dashed to meet
the train, tagging it. 1t is believed that
but for his timely discovery the train
would have crashed into the bridge and
been wrecked. The passengers and train
crew disnounted and assisted in fighting
the flames. Repairs were made that traffic
might be resumed. The farmer disap-
peared in the confusion.
In spite of the fact that there was no
racing this year at the Black River Falls,
Wis, fair the attendance numbered as
high PA 5000 10 one day.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
GUINNESS MURDER CASE.
Trial Of Alleged Slayer OF the Fam
lily Opens at Laporte.

The opening at Laporte. Ind, of the
trial Of Ray Lamphere for the murder
of Mrs. Belle Guinness and her three
children by burning them to death in
the Guinness house of a hundred
crimes" last April brought crowds of
farmers and their families to attend
the sessions of the famous case.
While interest in the country at large
is centered in such further develop
ments as the trial may bring out con-
corning the amazing career of the wom-
an who is alleged to have slain eleven
human beings, inhabitants of the terri
tory Immediately adjacent to that abode
of horrors. the Brookside Farm are
intent on the establishment of guilt or
innocence for Ray Lamphere, the OBJ
scure farm hand around whose person
atty has been built an extraordinary
structure of bitterness that involves the
whole of Laporte County. As a result
of the local feeling and of the wide
spread publicity given the case, 800
people had gathered near the court
house before the doors were open for
the first session
After the first week of excitement
the discoveries of the fifteen
bodies on Mrs. Guinness farm, where it
is believed twenty-five were murdered,
attention turned to the mistress of the
place and the various theories concern
ing her death or escape became the sole
topic Of discussion.
Nine persons out of ten decided that
she is alive, and to this day the major
ity of residents think she escaped after
setting fire to her home and killing her
children. So it remained for the States
Attorney to pick only jurors who be-
lieve her dead, or it would be impos-
sible to convict anyone for her murder
The most natural conclusion is that
Mrs. Guinness is dead. The body found
in the ruins of the farmhouse apparent
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19

ly was the same length as that of Mrs
Guinness, and later a gold plate, made
for Mrs. Guinness by LapOrte dentist,
and found in the debris, was positively
identified. Contrary to these facts, which
will form the basis of the prosecutions
contention that Mrs. Guinness is dead
the defense will introduce the statement
of one of the coroner's board of physi-
clans, which stated positively that the
body found was not that of Mrs. Gun
ness and the remarkable condolences
that the main identifying features of the
woman's body We're missing when the
corpse was taken from the ruins.
The body supposed to be that of Mrs.
Guinness was without head or right
arm when found. The woman's right
arm alone would have formed a posi-
tive Identification mark, as it was de-
formed
The State opened the case with ap-
parent confidence that the network of
evidence would prove so strong as to
leave no doubt in the minds of the
twelve men as to the completely of Lam
phere in the mysteries of the house of
horror" and to show that it was the
woman's former hired man who. the
morning of April %, set fire to the
house in which Mrs. Guinness and her
children met death.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
ELECTION AFTERMATH.
Wisconsin voted for an income ia,

Wisconsin voted for an income tax.
Vice President-elect Sherman an
nounces that his election expenses were
$500.
Thousands of Republicans in New York
City cut Hughes and thousands of Demo-
Gratis cut Bryan.
The next House of Representatives will
stand 21S Republicans to 113 Democrats,
a gain of Is for the former.
Ambassador Whitelaw Reid is one of
those spoken of as Tom Platt's successor
In the United States Senate.
A surprising feature of the election
was the fact that Taft came within about
5000 votes of carrying Georgia.
Missouri has elected Republican Gov
ernor-Hadley-for the first time in 80
years, the majority being about 1900.
Frank W. Hitchcock, chairman of the
Republican National Committee. will
probably be rewarded with a place in the
cabinet.
Norman E. Mack, Democratic national
chairman, said: My opinion is that Mr..
Bryan will be elected to the United States
Senate, and if he is he will be the. best
Senator the country has had in gem
Grafton"
Maryland's vote in the Electoral Col
lege is again divided-this time two for
Taft and six for Bryan. Four years ago
Roosevelt received one and Parker seven.
This division of electors results through
the vote of the illiterates. many of whom
placed a cross in front of the first one or
two names in the electors list. instead of
in the space at the top of the column.
They supposed that by so doing they were
voting for the straight Republican ticket,
whereas their votes counted only for those
against whose names they placed crosses.
Speculation is already rife as to Mr..
Tafts cabinet. Gen. Luke Wright ex-
poets to be continued as Secretary of
War. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
may be succeeded by Clifford Pinchot, the
young millionaire who at present is chief
of the forestry service. Arthur l.. Vorys,
who managed Taft's Ohio campaign,
wants to be Postmaster General. William
Loeb, Jr., secretary to the President, will
have a cabinet position, thus following in
the footsteps of Dan Lamont and Cortel-
you.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19

taken to be a criticism of the govern
ment attorneys for the manner in which
they petitiOned for another hearing of
the appeal. The Federal lawyers were
not sparing in their caustic flaw pick
ing on the Appellate judges decision on
the appeal.
According to the judgment, the pun
ishment of the oil company could have
been properly based only on the settle
ments made to the Chicago and Alton
Railway, from which it was accused of
accepting concessions. There were
thirty-six of these settlements, and a
maximum fine for all these could have
been but $4,000 and the minimum
$4,000.
In answer to the governments objec-
ton that under the decision of the high
er court a corporation may use a sub
sidiary concern to commit crime, while
escaping punishment, the court adds to
the opinion as follows:
True it is that if one corporation
uses another corporation to violate law.
just as if one individual uses another
to violate the law, such offender ought
not, though masked, to go unpublished.
And there are ways, as old as the law
itself, to reach and punish him.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
MICHIGAN TO FIGHT FOR LAND.
Dispute with Wisconsin Over Bound-
ar To Go tn Federal Court.

w SNtT
arr to Go TO Federal Court.
las the State of Wisconsin been in
undisputed possession for fifty years of a
portion of the territory belonging TO the
State of Michigan? And if so. what is
the State of Michigan going to do about
it! There are possibilities of a striking
aspect in the situation presented by this
inquiry. II Michigan has been deprived
of d portion of valuable territory through
the error of surveyor, and the error can
be established, will the courts disturb the
boundary line between two sovereign
States? This is the question that is like
ly to reach the Supreme Court of the
United States, and it constitutes a hard
nut for that tribunal to crack. Two years
ago, largely through the interest taken in
the matter by the late Peter White of
Marquette, the attention of the Michigan
Legislature was called to the fact that
the government surveyor in 1871 did not
follow the instructions of Congress, and
that if he had done so a strip of territory
now assumed to be a part of Wisconsin
would constitute d portion of the upper
peninsula of Michigan. This strip COM
prises about seventy square miles, and If
the contention of the State of Michigan
is correct the city of Hurley, Wis, and
some of the iron mines south of the town
should be included in territory belonging
to Michigan. Attorney General John E.
Bird has had made a survey by Prof. j.
B. Davis of the Michigan university, and
will report the result of that survey to
the Legislature when it convenes in Janu-
airy. 1t is understood that the State of
Wisconsin, learning that in the new Mich
igan constitution an alteration has been
made in the description of the States
boundaries, is taking steps to defend its
title to the territory involved, threatening
the most vigorous opposition.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1908-11-19
DENY OIL REHEAR|NG
WITH SHARP REBUKE
Rejects Appellate Court Govern
ment's Petition in Case of the
Big Lands Fine.
RESENT CRITICISM IN PLEA.
Next Move Will Be an Application
for Review by United States
Supreme Court.

The petition by the United States
government for a rehearing of the APP
peal of the Standard Oil Company of
Indiana from the S29, 100000 fine of
Judge Lands was overruled by Judges
Grosscup, Baker and Seaman in the Uni
ted States Circuit Court of Appeals at
Chicago. In a brief opinion, delivered
by Judge Grosscup, the original opin-
ion of the court, reversing Judge Ian
dis decision, was upheld. The case
now lies in the hands of Attorney Gen
eral Bonaparte, and it is expected that
he will apply for writ of certiorari in
the United States Supreme Court in or
der to obtain a review of the big case
by the country's highest tribunal.
The contents of the petition for re-
hearing, which had the signatures of
Attorney General Bonaparte and Dis
trict Attorney Edwin W. Sims attached
to it, are almost wholly ignored by the
reviewing court, reference being made
to but two points of contention. Then
the opinion concludes with what is