The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-10
news OF fHE WEEK
LATE NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
SOUTH, EAST, NORTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands Through
out the Nation and Particularly
the Great South.


UNFOLDING the sweeping advances in
rates on southeastern traffic. on many
cases and commodities, as justified by
the condition of the railroads and the
needed improved facilities, the inter
state commerce commission, in a di-
vided decision, dismissed the cases in
stituted by the railroad commissions
of Alabama and Georgia and the A. P.
Morgan Grain company Of Atlanta, Ca,
and others. The decision involves the
Atlantic Coast Line, the Louisville and
Nashville and other roads as defend
ants. A million dollars year more
in freight rates is what FIVE states
of the Southeast will have to con-
tinue to pay as a result of the de-
cision. And this decision, too, evil
IDENTIFY means that not only will the
South have to continue to pay this
million year increase, but that other
products win be put into effect, just
hs soon as the railroads get ready to
Issue the notices. So, the million in
crease that these FIVE Southern states,
North and South Carolina, Georgia,
Florida and Alabama, are now paying
Is, in all probability, only drop in
the bucket compared with what is to
come.
Ninety,nine years Imprisonment was
the sentence pronounced upon Ser
geant j. d. Manley, the national
guardsman who killed Louis Richen-
stein during President Taft's visit to
Dallas, Texas, ON .Octohe6. %, 1909.
Manley was attempting I'd hold back
the crowd when Richenstein broke
through the lines. Manley plunged
his bayonet through the man and kill
ed him.
Fire of unknown origin destroyed
Pineywoods Inn, the famous hostelry
at Southern Pines, N. C. There were
no guests in the hotel The loss was
complete, reaching $4,000, and the in
surance only partially covers 1t.
The plant of the Macon (Ga.) Daily
Telegraph was completely destroyed
by fire. The equipment in every de-
partment was totally destroyed, and
literally nothing was saved from the
flames G. Raymond Clay, a linotype
operator, was burned to death. The
loss will reach 100000. New equip.
ment has been wired for and until it
arrives The Telegraph will continue
to be issued from the plant of the
Macon News.
The Huntsville (Ala) hotel was al
most entirely destroyed by fire. The
total loss was about $4,000, with in
surance of $4,000. Several leading
business concerned were burned out
also. Guests of the hotel lost per-
sonal belongings aggregating $4,000,
A fire, early endangered an entire
retail business block OF Montgomery,
Ala, before it, was gotten under con
troll. The fine $4,000 stock Of John
u. Cobbs & Co. was damaged about
$6O, geo, the loss covered by insur-
Ancs. The Alabama. Bible society sus-
tanned loss Of about $4,000.
Five men were killed outright in an
explosion in the, Volande mines The
explosion was "a local nature in a
pocket. Only the men in the pocket
whore the explosion occurred We're
killed. 1t Is not known whether they
were killed by, the. explosion or by
falling slate The volande mines are
IN Tuscaloosa county, ~ miles from
Birmingham, and, j. b.. McClarin is
The president Of the company.
II. c, Prick, multi-millionaire of
Pittsburg, Pa, with party of CAPT
salists, arrived at the Caddo oil and
Eas feldenear, Caddo, La, to make in.
Sestigatlons relative to organizing a
corporation;to, pipe natural gas to St
Louis, Memphis and New Orleans.