The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-16
LATE NEWS NOTES.


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red at Selma, Ala, when G. A. Nc
Kinnon purchased 5000 bales at an
average price Of 10 cents a. pound.
The rioting which occurred at Vel
ardena, Mexico. the big coal mining
camp in the state of Coahuila, recent
| ly, was more serious than at first re-
| ported, thirty-two men being killed
and many injured The trouble was
instigated by Father Valenzuela, the
| parish priest, 1t Is asserted, who lies
in a hospital lowering between life
| and death. Fourteen Of the rioters
nave been summarily executed by the
government troops, and many impris-
oned. Many Americans reside in Vel
ardena, the camp being controlled by
American capital.
Rear Admiral Gregorieff and Lieu
tenant Smirnoff, subordinate officers
under Vice Admiral Nebogatoff in the
/ Russo-Japanese war, have been par
doned and released from confinement
| at st. Petersburg, Russia. These Of
| ficers were sentenced to death for
having surrendered their commands,
but, in view Of extenuating circum-
stances, their sentences were COM
muted to ten years imprisonment in
fortress. They began serving their
/ sentences in 1907. 1t is reported that
General Stoessel and Vice Admiral
| Nebogatoff also will be pardoned
shortly.
Workmen in the Louisville and
i Nashville machine shops, in Louis
| vile, KY, missed Charles H. Wal
dron, aged SO years. They climbed
to the top of huge boiler in which
he had been working and saw him
| lying prone. 1t was found that
gas pipe leading to the big tube had
sprung leak and that Waldron had
died in the depths of the boiler.
Nearly 100000 more a year is be-
ing paid for school books by the
school children of Chicago than the
! prices charged for the same text
books in other cities. This is the
estimate of aggregate oyercharges
formed by special investigating
committee of the board of education
appointed early last winter.
George F. Heath of Ellenville, N.
! Y, who is believed to be the Oldest
| printer in the world in point of active
service, recently took few days
vacation before starting in for another
i year at the cease" Heath has spent
sixty-four years setting type, and al
though he is eighty-two years of age,
he is still able to do a good days
work on the local papers at Ellen
vile.
Denunciation of the principle of
protection and of the tariff legisla-
ton now pending in congress as a
pretense and a show, formed the key
note of the addresses at the annual
dinner Of the National Democratic
Club in New York City, in celebra-
ton of the one hundred and sixty
sixth anniversary of the birth Of Thos.
Jefferson. There were present a
number Of democratic notables.
Washington.
President Taft announced to an
Augusta, Ca, lady that he would make
Augusta his winter home in tie fu-
ture.
President Taft has declined to in
terfere in the case of Joaquin Segre-
ra, convicted on the Panama canal
zone of murder, and the sentence OK
death will be carried out on May z.
The case was called to Mr.. Taft's
attention during his visit to the ca
nal zone before he was inaugurated.
The United States supreme court
denied a rehearing of the Waters
y Pierce Oil company case, which it
recently decided against the com
pany.
Presenting a united and unanimous
front in favor of the movement, thir-
ty-seven out of the forty-eight COVER
nors of the states and territories have
written to Commissioner Mcfarland,
chairman Of the committee, to change
the date of Inauguration. Letters
will be written to the remaining IL
governors again bringing the matter
to their attention an drequesting their
cooperation. the committee is hope
full of getting action at the present
session of congress and are awaiting
future developments.
]. o. LaFontisse Of Jacksonville,
connected since last July with the for
estry bureau, was found dead in the
bath room adjoining his room at
Washington hotel. The gas in the
room was turn on. The coroner not
satisfied as to the cause of death, has
deferred giving death certificate un-
til after he can make more thor
ough examination Mr.. LaFontisse
was for a number Of years connect
ed with newspapers Of Florida.
The statement was given out from
the United States district attorneys
Office at Muscogee, Okla, that the
government had decided to abandon
any further prosecutions of Governor
Charles N, Haskell and six other
prominent Oklahomans, recently in
volved in the Huscogee town lot
cases.