The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-03-12

Cenera;

It's incorporation as a city, is dead IN
bloomington, Ill. She was born on
March 3, 1886, and was surrounded at
her birth by squaws. Her first bath
was taken in tub made from a hol-
low log. She was rocked to sleep in
cradle Of bark.
Alaska salmon packers are prepar-
ing to reduce the pack Of pink sal
mon about three hundred thousand
cases the coming season, as
the result Of which reduction num-
Der of canneries in the north will
not be operated. The run of salmon
on Puget Sound will start July 10.
Because he twisted the tail Of a
mule, a youth named Blackman is in
jail at Talluiah, La, with the charge
of manslaughter hanging over him.
An aged negro was riding the mule
when its tail was twisted He was
thrown from the rearing animal, and
sustained injuries from which he
died.
The Rev. Father Eras1n Ansion, rec
tor of the Polish church af st. Stanis-
saw at Newark, N. j., was shot and
almost instantly killed by three mask
Sewrztska, housekeeper for the rec
tor, who attempted to prevent the as
sassination, was slightly wounded in
the abdomen. AS there has been a
dispute among the leaders of the
church over its affairs, the shooting
is believed to have been the outcome
of that disagreement.
Ruth Bryan Leayitt, eldest daughter
of William Jennings Bryan, has been
granted divorce from William Lea
witt. She alleged non support. There
was no defense Mrs Leavitt was
granted the custody of the two chill
dren.
John w. Wilcox, Jr., ensign attach
ed to the American gunboat Scorpion,
and ten men from that vessel have
left Naples, Italy, for Reggie to assist
in unloading lumber from the United
States to be used in the construction
of huts for the earthquake sufferers.
Jimmy Sloan, formerly President
Roosevelt's closest friend and body
guard for the last five years, has been
rewarded, and will resign from the
United States secret service to be-
southern district of Illinois.
Emperor Nicholson of Russia has
signed an order abolishing the use Of
drums in the army in time of war.
Drummers in the future will be train
ed in Workmanship and in war time
will become combatants.
The engagement has been announc-
ed in Paris, France, of Muriel White,
daughter of Henry White, the Ameri-
can ambassador to Count Herman
Scherr Thoss, an officer of the royal
Prussian cuirassiers.
"A nurse at ST. Elizabeth's hospital
at Danville, ILL.,, felt something like
paper in the lining Of a shabby coat Of
Daniel Sheridan, a. coal miner who
died, supposedly a pauper, in that in
stitution. Investigation resulted in
the discovery of more than $20,0O0 in
faded bills in the coat and vest lining
and deeds to an eight hundred-acre
farm, and two hundred acre farm
near Worthington, Ind Other papers
were found disclosing that he possess
ed an estate worth 100000.
The British delegates to the Inter
udJlOudl 1QUGICulOo10 COuSlSSS uS4u Ill
Washington last fall has issued re-
port paying a high tribute to Ameri-
can preventive methods. They lay
stress upon completeness with which
compulsory notification is carried out
in New York and elsewhere and form
ed high opinion of the value of the
various day and night consumption
camps in America.
That the growing scarcity of oak
timber suitable for barrels threatens
the whtskey trade was the pronounce
ment by w. Palmer Clarkson, of st.
Louis, president of the National
Cooper's association, when that body
assembled for its annual convention
in st. Louis, Mo- He declared that
owing to waste and other causes the
price of oak had increased to 70 per
cent, and as no other wood was equal
to it in its effect upon ageing whis-
key, the distillers of the country were
facing a grave problem.
Washington.