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



Hebrew immigrants will be divert
ed from New York to southern ports
If the plan OF Stanley Bero, represent.
ing the Hebrew emigrants' bureau
OF Galveston, Texas, are carried out.
Mr.. Bero is now making an inspec-
tion trip to southwestern Louisiana,
looking to the location Of large mum
Der OF Hebrew colonists from Ger
many and Russia
Walter Prescott Is in jail in Los
Angeles, Cal, serving q six months
sentence as the result Of his habit Of
talking In his sleep Prescott was
sleeping ON q park bench when a de-
tective came by and heard him numb
ling. Sitting down beside the man
the officer listened for while ana
what he heard led him to make an
investigation Prescott was arrested
and his picture and record were found
in the rogues gallery. A sentence for
vagrancy resulted.
Taking advantage Of the proposed
visit OF the ex-president to Atlantis.
y. u. Turner, Of the Admission, Ala.
One Hundred club, has written a let.
ter 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 Anriston, and it is believed
that the hunter-traveler-state
will look favorably upon the invita-
ton to visit the Model City OF the
south
One thousand drinking cups for
dogs will be placed III different parts
OF Chicago to lessen the danger OF
rabies during the hot months. This
unusual method OF combating mad
dogs il the scheme Of Dir. John j.
! Miller. He obtained the consent Of the
Judiciary committee Of the city coun
Gil to place the drinking cups.
The ghost which for two weeks
has terrcrized many persons at Paris,
Ill, has been laid, ard Is, as result
badly battered man. Alva KaIe, a gas
plant employe, had club when the
white thing came Ia 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 mis- battered charge was
a 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
will not let him be interviewed.
There is house in Cassaac, M j..
| in which three hundred and fifty men
made their home, according to q dis
covery made by d census enumerat0r.
The enumeration, who speaks eight
languages, had to use most Of them in
going through the house. The house
is occupied by 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-fve men are said to oc+
cupy three rooms.
Setting fire to the furniture IN his
| fiat, an elderly merchant In Paris
whose mind had become deranged sat
down to his piano and was playing
Chopin's funeral march when ne was
rescued by firemen.
President Schurmann OF Cornell
university has made public the schol-
arship records of the one thousand
and twenty students who belong to
various secret fraternities represent,
Gu there. showing that out of one
hundred and tnirty-lye students
dropped last term, fifty-nine we're ira
ternity men He warned the frater-
mites that they we're still on trial
and must set higher ideals in schoI-
arship