The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-10-13


The standard Oil company enrough
Its official pubIiclky representative, J.
l. Clarke, has announced that the
company mas inaugurated cam.
paign 10 increase the worlds con-
sumption of refined OIL and is low
ering prices Of kerosene in Europe
and the far east. This action follows
that OF August last, when the Stan
fined oil in tanks from ~ to 5 liz
in barrels cent 9 gallon from & 2-4
to s 3-4 cents at the refinery, and re-
fined oil In tanks from 6 IL to 51-2
cents a gallon In part the state
ment reads: "The Standard Oil COM
pany has inaugurated campaign to
increase the worlds consumption OF
refined oil. The level of prices for
refined oil today in the United States
is lower than at any time during re-
cent years, and as a direct result OF
these prices the consumption OF refin-
ed oil in this country is increasing.
The same policy is now being actively
pursued abroad"
Beaudette, Spooner, Pitt and Grace
ton, Mimi, we're wiped off the map
by forest FIRE. The bodies Of rs
settlers have been located, and it is
thought the death roll among the set
tiers win be upwards Of 800. Wagon
loads Of human bodies are being
brought into the railway station at
Beaudette. 1t is reported that many
settlers, crazed with grief at the loss
of families and property, are roaming
the woods and searching parties are
constantly going out looking for the
injured, the dead and the demented
A case of cholera developed in the
steerage of the Hamburg-American
liner Moltke which has been lying at
Quarantine, in New York City, as a
possible cholera carrier for, over a
week. DR.. A. H. Doty, health officer
Of the port, reported the case, with
additional information that another
cholera patient from the Moltke is
under treatment at Swinburne island
This makes three cases Of cholera
which have reached New York
Entombed by an explosion in a mine
of the Coleroda Fuel and Iron COM
pany at Starkville, Colo, at least 81
men are the objects of heroic efforts
of rescuers, who worked trying to
penetrate the black depths of the
mine in the hope some, or probably
all, of the imprisoned miners might
be rescued Above.
w, r. Hearst of New York City Of
fers $4,000 for fight in a heavier
than-air machine from the Atlantic to
the Pacific.
Frederick w. Mansfield of Boston
was nominated for governor of Mas
sachusetts by the delegates to the
Democratic state convention, which
met in Boston. ...4,.
Governor Hughes of New York has
retired to assume his new. duties next
week as an associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court. Lieu,
tenant Governor White was sworn In.
as governor.
AS a direct result of the critisms
OF the Vanderbilt cup race, which
cost the lives OF four persons and
the injury of more than a score of
others, the Grand Prize race, sched-
uled to be run over the same course
on October 15, was officially called
off by w. X Vanderbilt, Jr., the ref
cree. The race will probably be held
in Savannah, Ga.
There was an active demand in the
New York cotton market with prices
making new high records for the sea-
son on the strong showing Of the
English market following the settle-
ment of the Lancashire labor trouble
and reports that many Southern
planters were holding cotton for 10
Icents. The October contracts here
sold $1,000 bale above the closing
i price, @
Deluged by the heaviest continuous
rainfall in some places in forty years,
i a wide strip of country, extending
from eastern Texas northeastward
across the northern portions Of Lou
isiana and Mississippi and over Sec
tons of Arkansas, Tennessee, Ken
lucky, SOUTHERN Indiana and Ohio,
almost to Pittsburg, Pa, was verita-
BILE inland sea. Only two lives are
known to have been lost, Mrs A. J.,
Burchfeld and ner grandson being
drowned in .arapidly rising stream
near Dyersburg, Tenn,
Washington.