The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-05-12

11SpI9W Immigrants VIII W NAtpFte
ed from New York to southern ports
II the plan Of Stanley Bero, represent
Ing the Hebrew emigranta' bnreaN
Of Galveston, Texas. are carried ont.
Mr.. BerO Is now making an insDec-
ton trip to southwestern I40uisianas
looking to the location Of large nuns
Der Of Hebrew cOlonists from Ger
many and Russia
Walter Prescott is IN jail In Los
Angeles, Cal, serving six months
sentence as the result Of his habit OF
talking in hts sleep Prescott was
sleeping on park bench when de-
tective came by and heard him mumb
ling. Sitting down beside the man
the Officer listened for q wnile ana
what he heard led him to make "a
investigation. Prescott was arrested
and his picture and record we're found
In the rogues gallery. A sentence Tor
vagrancy resulted.
Taking advantage Of the proposed
visit Of the ex-presidSnt to Atlantis,
n. L. Turner, of the Admission, Ala,
One Hundred club, has written 9 let
tor to Theodore Roosevelt asking
him to be the guest OF that organiza.
ton on his way to Atlanta or on his
return trip. The Roosevelt family
| have close relations and business in-
terests in Admission, and 1t is believed
that the hunter-traveler-stat eSnan
will look favorably upon the inyita
tion to visit the Model City Of the
south.
One thousand drinking cups for
dogs will be placed In different parts
Of Chicago to lessen the danger OF
| rabies during the hot months. This
unusual method OF combating mad
| dogs is the scheme Of Dr. John ).
| Miller. He obtained the consent Of the
! Judiciary committee OF the city cCnn-
Gil 10 place the drinking cups.
The ghost which for two weeks
has terrorized many persons at Paris,
ILL.,, has been laid, and is. as q result,
| badly battered man. Alva Kale, gas
plant employe, had a club when the
/ white thing came In front of him,
| and he used the club until the
| ghost begged for mercy. When
| Kale helped the ghost to it's feet and
into the gas plant he was astounded
to find that his battered charge Was
fellow-employe named r, T. Hale.
/ The latter has not explained his mo-
| tive In playing ghost, and, as he Is In
/ precarious condition, the physicians
viii not let him be interviewed.
There is a house in Cassaac, N. j.,
! in which three hundred and fifty men
made their home, according to a dis
| covery made by agcensusl enumerat0r.
! The enumeration, who speaks eight
/ languages, had to use most OF them IN
! going through the house. The house
| is occupied by a day shift and
night shift When the day men are
at work the night men use the beds,
and when the night men are busy
the day men take their turn at sleep
ing. Forty-five men are said to oc-
cupy three rooms
Setting FIRE to the furniture in his
fat, an elderly merchant in Paris
whose mind had become deranged sat
down to his plano and was playing
Chopin's funeral march when he was
rescued by fremen.
President S0hurmann OF Cornell
university has made public the schol-
arship records OF the one thousand
and twenty students who belong 20
| various secret fraternities represents
ed there, showing that out OF one
| hundred and thirty-five students
dropped last term, tifty-nine were fra
! ternity men. He warned the frater-
mites that they were still on trial
and must set higher ideals in schol-
arship.
Washington.
A new item made its appearance
in the daily treasury statement re-
ceipts on account of the corporation
tax. This, hereafter, will be q fea-
ture OF the statement The receipts
to date have been $2O7650. Assess
ments on return made under the law
amount to s24,627,O00.
Fresh from the meeting where 81.
| 100000 was raised to bring the expo
sition to celebrate the opening Of the
Panama canal to San Francisco, Gov
ernor Gillett of California and party
of eighteen are in Washington The
purpose of the trip Is to secure fed
eral sanction OF the exposition. Gov
ernor Gillett in arguing In favor OF
San Francisco declares thu. it would
lead many persons to take the trip
from the east via the new canal
A fourteen-yfar-ol boy appeared in
Washington before the senate COM
mittee and spoke against the propos-
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Of wireless telegraphy W. 70. ID.
Stokes, Jr., told the wise and reyer-
end senators that 1t would be next to
impossible to stop the young -idea
from conducting experiments in wire
less telegrapny aud that amateurs
would certainly continue to work
even II an unfair statute was passed
fOrbidding them the use OF the air as
means OF communication The Lad
suggested the establishment Of q
wave length standard for government
and commercial service, which would
not be duplicated by amateurs.
Estimating that the population Of
the United States on May Q was CO.,
10000, the treasury figures that the
per capita circulation of money on
that date was s3446 This is a loss
for the month Of April Of AZ cents,
and 1t Is explained By the large OK
ports Of gold during that month.
amounting 10 about s30.O0G,0O0. The
amount Of money in circulation on
May 2 was s2.1O4,547,273.
After stating the statistics as to
the mortality from different diaaaaaa