The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-09
LATE NEWS NOTES.
Washington.

providing funds for taking the census
Of 1910.
Following a policy of retrenchment
there are to be no further increases
in salaries In the custom service for
soma time to come A number Of sal
aries were to have been raised on
july 1, the beginning Of the fiscal
year, but Secretary MacVeagh has de-
cided that these increases will not be
made until the treasury department
IS able Ia make a better financial
showing. The secretary is said to
believe thAt his department should
make the lrst response to the de-
mand for economy which is constant
ly coming to President Taft. Other
wise, the secretary is put in the atti-
tude OF declining to raise the salar-
les OF employees in other departments,
but allowing hts own officials to re-
ceive promotions.
Secretary Nagel's determination to
remove clerks in the department of
commerce and labor ought not to af-
feet those from southern states. A
table prepared shows all of these
states have far below their quotes,
Alabama under fair apportionment
would be allowed one hundred and
eighty-three. The state has but one
hundred and thirty-six. Arkansas
quota is one hundred and thirty-one.
1t has ninety-eight Kentucky has one
hundred and ninety.fve out of the
TWO hundred and fifteen to which it
is entitled. Texas two hundred and
eighty-four out of three hundred and
i've; Mississippi one hundred and
tWenty-three out of one hundred and
fifty-fiYe; Tennessee has its exact
quota, two hundred and two.
General.
The Rev. G. r. Robbins, pastor Of
the wealthy Lincoln Park Baptist
church in Cincinnati received an in
fernai machine, accompanied by
note decorated with skull and cross
bones, and saying he would suffer if
he did not stop his talk against the
Black Hand.
Qmcial orders have been issued pro-
h1biting any United States circus
from parading on the streets of Win
nlpeg, Manitoba, unless it flies O
British instead of an American flag.
Two trains met accidents in Col
orado as result, apparently, of the
intense heat, which is believed to
nave twisted the rails. Eight persons
were hurt.
The Turin, Italy, Gazetts publishes.
under a New York date, the state
ment that the Duke of Abruzzi's
marriage to Miss katherine Elkins
has not been abandoned, but will &C.
cur after the dukes return from his
Hlmalayan expedition.
When a street car conductor was
convicted of pilfering from the com
pany in Brooklyn, it was shown by
his own diary that his profits had
ranged from $3.50 to $11 a day. He
was started for> Sing Sing prison,
where he must serve two and half
years at least.
r. S. Ellis, a prominent capitalist
and ranchman of San Antonio, Tex,
who has been lying at the point of
death, was operated on for an abcess
of the throat A parlor match was
removed. which had lodged immedi-
ately above the vocal chords. Mr.. FL
lis, during hearty laugh, had swal-
lowed the match two months ago.
aged thirteen, sons of Contractor Val
Walter Wellman and the other
members of the expedition that is
planning to reach the north pole
this summer, by airship, left Tromsoe.
Norway, on the steamer Attic, with a
large quantity of material for the re-
building of the balloon shed at Spitz-
bergen. The balloon shed was de-
stroyed last winter by storm.
Joseph Junet, who farms a ranch
near Alton, ILL.,, has trained his flock
of ducks in a novel manner. Just
now Junet is enjoying an income Of
$15 day from fifteen ducks. He put
them in pen and fed them on pota-
to bugs exclusively until they were
accustomed to the diet. Then he turn
ed them loose in his potato patch and
they went through it like a neighbour
hood scandal, entirely clearing it of
the bugs The ducks are in great
demand on the farms in Junet's neigh
borhood.
Before the war" prices were re-
ceiyed on the floor of the Houston,
Texas, cotton exchange when the first
bale of this season cotton sold at auc-
ton at SAYS. The bale came from
Mercedes, Hidalgo county, and weigh
ed two hundred and sixty-eight
pounds.
The first newspaper ever printed in
balloon was received in Butler
county, Ohio, when a balloon from
Dayton passed over the western part
of that county. The balloon was
equipped with corps of newspaper
men and a printing press by a Day.
ton, Ohio, paper and as it scared over
the towns, miniature copies of the
paper, printed in the balloon basket,
were thrown to the ground. When the
balloon reached Woods Station, eight
miles east of Hamilton, copies were
sent down telling Of an exciting ex-
perience at Darrtown, four miles from
Woods, when farmers fired at the bal
loon with rifles.
.Thn snnnnd human heinr known To