The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-07-30
LATE NEWS NOTES


n General.
The royal train bearing King Victor
Emmanuel to his summer palace az
Racconigi ran down and killed dag
man at a crossing near San Vim
cenzo. The king ordered the train
stopped and, alighting, ordered his
secretary to see that the needs OF the
mans family were provided for.
Struck by bolt Of lightning as he
sat on his piazza at Broxton, Mass,
his hand resting on the brass-studded
collar Of his dog, George e. Bowman,
twenty-year-old artist, whose work
recently won him prize of $500 at a
New York exhibition, Is lying at his
home speechless and sightless.
On board the United Fruit com
pany's steamship Limon when sac
reached port at Boston, Mass, from
Port Limon, Costa RIGA, was no less
distinguished a parsonage than
King Alonzo Adams, skpreme ruiz
er and owner of Swan Island, situat-
ed in the Caribbean sea, and one Of
the most important strategic points in
the entire West Indies.
While exact figures are unobtain-
able, it is conservatively estimated at
Pittsburg, Pa, that a loss Of sec, 1000 is
incurred each day the steel car strike
continues. Nearly six thousand men
are idle. The plant has capacity
Of about one hundred cars a day,
which sell at an average price of
$1,000 each. The figures show that
the company is sustaining tremen-
dous loss while no product is being
turned out.
So fond OF jumping was Heather
bloom, the $4,000 worlds champion
jumping horse, that he topped every
fence built for paddock. He reach
ed his limit, however, trying the high
est fence ever placed around him,
aAd was so badly injured that, in
mercy, he was shot. He was owned
by Howard Willets, of White Plains,
N. Y, and Marlborough, Mass. Mr..
Willets refused $4,000 for him from
Barnum's circus only this season.
Heatherbloom had held the worlds
record, eight feet, six inches, having
made the record in Chicago, winning
from class of fifty horses.
Washington.
The figure heads, used for orna-
ments ON the battleship Alabama and
the cruiser Montgomery, will be given
to Montgomery, Ala. Such accessor-
les are being taken from all the war
ships and Congressman Dent has Sc
cured these two for Montgomery.
1t is reported here that prominent
American bankers are to refund the
public debt of Honduras at the pres
ent time, amounting to about $780,
100000. The firm of ]. P. Morgan &
Company is mentioned as among
those who have the matter in hand.
There is decided sentiment for
the adjustment Of the Panama canal
government as it now exists and for
the substitution of "one-man rule"
in the canal zone. In the opinion Of
members of congress who have look
ed into conditions in the canal zone
and who have examined the great
work of construction, there is too
great a division of responsibility and
authority under the commission form
of government as it now exists.
A special meeting of the cabinet
was held at the white house to dis
cuss further the matter of cutting
down the estimates of the various de-
partments for the coming fiscal year,
according to the statements of sever
al of the cabinet members before en-
tering the consultation room with
President Taft.
1t is clear that the widely published
attack on the estimate of farm re-
serves Of wheat on March / was with
out basis; that it was unjustifiable and
that its sole object was to enable
the SPECTATORS who made it to gain
personal profits at the expense of the
general public, was the summing up
of Secretary Wilson in a statement
given out in answer to the criticism
from several quarters that the depart
ment's estimate as to the amount of
wheat on farms in the United States
was entirely too high. The secretary
says that "the estimate was challenged
as being much too large, and consid-
cradle agitation was aroused by specu-
lative interests desiring to create a
public belief in serious shortage in
wheat supplies"
The conferees on the tariff bill for
mally adopted the corporation tax
amendment, as redrafted by Attorney,
General Wickersham, with practically
no amendment. The amendment re-
duces the rate of tax from 2 to / per
cent, eliminates the holding compan-
les and strikes out that part of the
original amendment which made
building and loan associations subject
to the act.
The city Of Panama is anxious to
have an officer 0f fhQ Anorioop orV,ov