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


Theodore Roosevelt made quick
trip through the Southern states, de-
livering speeches at Bristol and Knox
vile, in Tennessee, and at Rome and
Atlanta, in Georgia. While in Rome
Colonel Roosevelt addressed the pu-
pils of Martha Berry's school for
mountain girls and boys, and in At
lanta the ex.president delivered three
speeches-one to the Southern Con-
Bervation Congress, which was in SEES
sion there; one before an audience Of
5000 people, who had gathered to
raise funds to purchase memorial
for Joel Chandler. Harris (Uncle Re-
mus, personal friend of Colonel
Roosevelt. :, In this address the ex-
president repudiated the tariff plank
in New York Republican platform and
said that it was not of his making or
belief. Colonel Roosevelt later ad.
dressed negro audience Of about 700
members OF that race.
Jap Skein of Corpus Christi, Texas,
who 80 years ago made wager that
he would not have his hair cut until
the state of Maine again went Demo
cratic and kept the wager, has at last
had tae pleasure of squaring the bet.
Clifford Pinchot, deposed chief for.
ester of the United States, made a
speech before the Southern Conserva-
tion Congress at its meeting in. At
lanta and advised Southerners to save
the water power and forests of the
South for posterity.
With delegates from sixteen South.
ern states in attendance the Southern
Commercial Congress, which met in
Atlanta, adopted a.@constitution and
made arrangements for the spring
meeting Of the body in Atlatna in
March, 1911.
The second annual meeting OF the
Fourth Appalachian Good Roads as.
ISOLATION met in Knoxville, Tenn,
and adopted a number Of resolutions
advocating better roads.
Population statistics as enumerated
in the thirteenth census give Jack
sonville. Fla, 57,6ss an increase OF
29,270, or 1903 per cent. over 2S,429
In 1900,
General advances in freight rates
between New Orleans and points
north, west and east, which were to
have become effective on November
j, have been suspended by the inter
state commerce commission, pending
an inquiry into the reasonableness
and propriety of the increases.
or score or more Of insect prob
lens being worked out by the United
States bureau OF entomology, the de
struction, OF the boil weevil in the
South and of the gypsy and browntai
moth In New England have proved
most difficult, according to DIR. Il. o
Howard, chief of this division.
United States Senator Robert L
Taylor was nominated for governor
of Tennessee by the regular Demo
cratic convention held in Nashville
Indictments were formally an
nounced in the United States circuit
court at Aberdeen, Miss, charging ]
H. Miller, l.. G. Steele and II. g
Linde, members OF the bankrupt cot
ton firm of Steele, Miller & Co, o.
Corinth, Miss, with having misuset
the mails in the furtherance OF al
alleged plan to defraud through The
issuance of forged bills Of lading
A wage increase of approximate,
$500.000 per month for railroad EN-
ployees south of the Mississippi ant
east of the Ohio was brought to ligh
by the announcement that the Nash
vile. Chattanooga and st. Louis sys
tenn, at meeting held In Nashville
decided upon a wage scale, which add
ed to an increase, effective July
win add 100000 to the salaries of al
as employees. Practically all othe
systems operating in this section
have decided upon similar advances.