The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-10-20
NEWS BRIEFLY told
"A CONDENSED RECORD OF
EVENTS OF THE WEEK.
SEVEN DAYS NEWS AT A GLANCE
Important Happenings In All Parts Of
the World Summarized for
the Busy Reader.


The 35 cigar factories at Tampa,
Fla, which have been closed since the
inauguration Of the tobacco workers
strike on July rs, were thrown open.
Probably 100 men returned to work,
and this entering wedge will, it Is be-
lieved, end the strike. Forty automo-
biles with more than 200 business men
sworn in as special officers patro.ed
the streets of West Tampa and Ybor
City, dispensing gatherings of strik-
ers and preventing meetings The fac
tories were opened under open shop
rules.
The Greenwood opera house and Of
ace building at Gainesville, Ga,which
was completed a few months ago,
caught fire and is total loss. The
theater building cost $4,000.
Judge Evans, in the United States
court at Louisville, KY, dealt severe
ly with violators OF the oleomargarine
law. He gave four men, all promi-
nent dealers In Louisville, stiff Jail
sentences, and fined them heavily.
Five persons were killed and seven
teen injured when trains Nos. and
3 on the Charleston and Western Car
olina railway crashed together at full
speed about two miles south OF Nc
Cormick, S. G. ALI of the dead and
seven Of the injured were members
OF the two train crews.
After inquiring into the circum-
stances surrounding tne death of
Earle e. Barksdale of Tampa, Fla,
coroners jury in Albany, Ca, return.
ed a verdict holding Jesse Hudgens
of Tampa, former employee of
Barksdale, responsible for his death.
The body of BarKsdale, according to
evidence adduced, was found in an
abandoned well in cotton field near
Newton. Ga.
Based on reports from correspond
ents throughout the cotton belt, the
New Orleans Times-Democrat makes
the following report OF cotton crop
conditions. Taking the belt as a
whole, moderate deterioration has
occurred. The boil weevil has done
extensive damage in parts of Missis-
Rippi, Louisiana and Arkansas, and
there are complaints of other insects
In some sections. The ultimate out.
come is still largely dependent upon
the date OF killing frost. Farmers
seem disposed to sell enough to pay
their debts and hold the remainder
From now on the nookworms which
are thriving in Alabama soil will have
a hard time OF 1t, If 1t Ii at all posi-
BILE for DR.. w. w. Dinsmore of De.
catur, Ala, to put into effect some
Of the ideas that he has regarding
the eradication Of the parasite. The
physician has taken up his headquar-
tiers at Montgomery as head Of the
Alabama department OF the Rockefel-
Ter hookworm commission, and is now
throwing out lines which are aimed
with the end in view of permanently
Kidding the state of the life-sapping
pest
Gen. Charles H. Grosevnor of Ohio
delivered the annual Grafton before
the Society Of the Army Of the Cum
berland at Chattanooga, Tenn. The
general told his hearers it was high
time to quite waving the bloody
shirt that the war is over, and that
we are all Americans now IAN In
dissoluble union OF indissoluble
states" was the omission from the
constitution OF the United States,
which caused the war OF the sixties,
was the declaration of General eros
venor