The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1909-04-30
LITE NEWS gIES.


S@4As $500
Whitla, who Is I'm Jail at Mercer, Pa,
has an offer to 60 into vaudeville. It
comes from an eastern >theatFical syn
dictate, which wants her to appear In
the afternoon and evening perform
ances, for which she would receiveI
$500 q week.
A band Of cut-throats, who have
been committing brutal murders, were
arrested In the village of MurchinO,
Russia. The principal culprits are
mother and her two daughters, who
kept tavern, assisted by two other
women In the village. They murder
ed travellers who stopped at the inn
for the night, disfigured the bodies be-
yond recognition and then threw
them into a stream that passed near
the inn. Many of these corpses have
been found.
In Brooklyn recently, Judge Dixie
sentenced man, who pleaded guilty
to attempted burglary and was indict-
ed as second offender, to forty two
years Imprisonment in Sing Sing. The
man had been out of prison only a
few months, and the police say that
he has been concerned in many rob
berries.
Great excitement was caused at the
navy yard in Brooklyn, NJ r., when q
fire was discovered under the bow Of
the $11,000,O00 battleship Florida, In
course Of construction. 1t was at
first thought that an enemy TO this
government might have started the
A5laze, but investigation revealed thai
the tire probably was caused by n
hot rivet which had been droppad by
a workman. A chemical fire extinl
guisher put out the blaze.
BY a coincidence the Confederate
memorial day, which has always been
held in Louisville on the last Satur.
day in May, this year falls upon Dec
Grafton day. Their observance bids
fair to be made q joint one, as the
graves in Cave Hill cemetery lie not
TAR apart and there has always been
good feeling here between survivors
Of the two armies. Il
The United States Steel corpora
ton, in it's report for the quarter end
ed March 81, just issued, gives it's
net earnings at@$22, ,268 as against
$26,225,485 for the quarter ended De-
cember 81, and $1S,229,O0 for the
corresponding quarter last year.
After suffering "a broken arm, u
broken leg, a mastoid operation and
severe scalp wound, Michael Kill
lGckie of New York City is preparing
TO recover and exist without liver.
Washington.
Secretary Of the Interior Ballinger
has issued an order to the director of
the geological survey to- ascertain
what power sites are In the public DO
main and not inside the national for
asts,s with "a view of obtaining legisla-,
'tlonffrom congress 70 control ana rsg-
ulate their disposition.
The Turkish ambassador, Hussein
Kiazim B9y, presented to the state
department formal notice Of the >ac-
cessiOn to the throne of Mehemed v.
1t is believed that the ambassador
viii retaln his post under the new
government.
Colonel Robert e. Lee, Jr, grand
son OF the noted general, former mem
Der OF the Virginia legislature and a
young lawyer Ct Fairfax county, Vir-
ginia, who has been prominently men
toned for governor OF Virginia in the
past few years, has announced that
he is not a candidate for the demo
cratic gubernatorial honors.
The supreme court Of the United
States Will adjourn on May 81 Sit
tings will be held May 3, IL and 81
to announce decisions and to hear
motions.
The body OF Major Pierre Charles
J. Entant, the French engineer officer
who served In the continental army,
designed the city hall in New York
where the continental congress met,
and who planned the national capitol,
was disinterred In Prince George
county, Maryland, where it was bur-
led In 1925, and was placed in the Ar
lington National cemetery. Brief ex.
ercises were held over the remains at
the capitol, with addresses by Vice
President Sherman and Ambassador
JusSerand. The remains were buried
with military honors.
Mrs. William H. Taft has received
an oRer from the mayor Of Tokyo,
Japan, Of one thousand Japanese. cner-
ry trees. to bs planted along the Riv-
erside drive in Washington, " alch rs
to beamaGe one tcf the holiday places
Of Washington. The offer was &C.
cepted.i One hundred of the trees are
available for planting at once. =
The original manuscript Of the
Star Spangled Banner" has been 10
Gated by the Francis Scott Key Me.
mortal association, which is endesv.
oring to secure possession of it.
While 1t is improbable that the owner
OF this precious relic, a baltimore
woman, will consent to permanently
part with it, the association hopes TO
be able to borrow the manuscript to
place on exhibition at the old Kay