The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1910-11-03
NEWS OF THE 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,


The New Orleans Picayune in its
report on the condition of the cotton
crop In Louisiana and Mississippi.
says: Now that the first heavy frost
of the season has occurred and in
many places the first freeze, the work
of accurately estimating the cotton
crop win soon be begun The crop,
1t is conceded, viii be somewhat
larger than was anticipated some
months ago. when it was thought that
frost would occur earlier and put a
stop to the maturing of the crop.
A dynamite explosion wrecked the
postoffice safe at Ousley, Ga. One
man reached the postoffice in time
TO shoot at a fleeing robber, VINO OBJ
tanned $500 and a quantity OF stamps.
A brick warehouse owned by the
Rochelle Gin and Cotton company
containing some six hundred bales
of cotton was destroyed by fire at Ro-
chelle, Ga.
Declining to assume Jurisdiction
and upholding the principle of
states rights" Federal Judge John
Z. Mccall ordered dissolved tempo.
rary injunction restraining the con.
tinuance in bushes Of ia saloon keep
ers Of Memphis, Tenn. Notwithstand.
ing the declaration of the Law En-
forcement League of Memphis, who,
through fifteen OF its members, ap
peared as compliments, that their
appeals to state and local authorities
for redress had been unheeded, Judge
Mccall held that prosecution through
grand jury indictments was the prop
'er recourse and was still open
The Lily White Republican con-
vention called by John G. Capers, ma
tional committeeman from South Car
dina, met in Columbia and formed
party organization, the prime object
of which is to eliminate the negro
from the councils of the party and
build up an opposition which will
have some influence in elections. The
convention decided not to put cut
ticket this year, but to nominate can
didates for congress in all seven
South Carolina districts in 1912 Cap
tain Capers stated that, while the
meeting was not called at the sug.
eestion Of the President yet 1t was
not hostile to the administration. It's
object, as he explained 1t, was to cast
out the shiftless negro who failed
TO qualify for the franchise. whom he
described as dead load on the Re,
publican party In the South"
For the first time since the weather
bureau was established in the South
snow fell during the month Of October
in Atlanta, The Thermometer regis.
tered SO degree when the snow furry
came According TO records the ear.
Hest snowfall in this portion Of the
country was November Il, 1904
Reports indicate singular phenom.
enon at Helm, Cleburne county, Ala,
which has attracted the attention of
the population of the entire country
side According to the reports an
incesant rain has been failing on
plot OF land at Helm no larger than
7 feet square for the past week, while
everywhere around the atmosphere
was perfectly dry.
Hugo Richards Garden, organizer
and captain of the famous Confeder.
ate Palmetto battery, died at his
home at Southport, N, c, Death was
caused by apoplexy. Mr. Garden was
20 years old and was born at Column
bia, S. C.
Five years in the Atlanta peni-
Tertiary Is the sentence imposed upon
Milton A. Carlisle, 20 years old, for
merly president of the Newberry Ma
tional bank, who was convicted in the
United States district court at New
berry, C., on five counts alleging
misapplication Of the funds Of the
bank.