The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-10-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK
LATE NEWS or ! He WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
SOUTH, EAST, NORTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
out the Nation and Particularly
the Great South.


I'd Suddeth, negro, WAS shot TO
death BY mob Of Coweta, Okla,
citizens, who had armed themselves
following q battle between blacks and
whites. In which Suddeth killed ]. d.
Beavers. city attorney, and wounded
Carmen Oliver and Steller Thompson,
white men. Both men have little
chance To- live. Coweta Is terror
stricken, and It is feared an outbreak
is inevitable. There are 1900 persons
in Coweta, one-thitd negroes The
county is populated largely by me-
groes, and it Was said that II the
blacks we're organized they could
bring 1000 men into town Negro EN-
issaries have hurried out TO surround
ing settlements with the ayowed in
tention Of bringing enough men to
wipe the town of the map They
declare they will set fire to every
house.
United States Senator John H.
Bankhead Of Alabama has issued q
statement urging the nomination of
Congressman Underwood OF Alabama
rs the Democratic presidential candl-
date, saying: Mr.. Underwood entered
the house Of representatives in 1884
without influential friends to aid him.
challenge any one to point to pub
Tic act or utterance Of Mr.. Under
woods that can be criticised. His pri-
vate life and character are In accord
with his public record.
It may be that the main events
il the cotton market this week Will
about balance each other. The first
real cold snap Of the season has
spread over the cotton belt since the
market closed last week, and com.
pIete returns regarding its severity
ought to be available on the opening
session OF the new week. Against this
as bullIsh factor will be- the expec.
tations regarding the census bureau
report on ginning to be given out
That the Southern states issue
bonds for the valorszation Of cotton,
in the same manner as the Brazilian
government has done with the coffee
crop Of that country. Is suggestion
which Theodore n. Price, the New
York cotton operator will make to
the conference OF cotton state gov
ernora which will meet In New Or
leans October 80. Mr.. Price, In a
letter to the government, points out
that the Brazilian COMMITTEES, by the
valorIzation plan, had advanced the
price Of coffee in two years several
cents a pound.
Eugene Ely, the world-famous ayl-
ator, was killed at the state fair
grounds at Macon, Ca. when his ma
chine refused TO rise from q sensa-
tional dip and plunged with him fifty
feet to the ground. He fell, in the
presence Of nearly eight thousand
people, the middle Of the Enclosure Of
the mile track, almost clearing the
machine BY desperate leap that he
made when he realized his peril. His
neck was broken and he died eleven
minutes after the fatal fall,
The intinerary Of Presidents Tafts
supplemental tour was completed,
and the date Of his return to WASH
inglon was fixed for November IL.
From Cincinnati the president VIII SO
10 Louisville, KY, to spend November
s. He win be at Frankfort, KY, No
vember Q, and Hodgenville, KY, No
vember 10. On November II Mr..
Taft will pay hurried visits to Nash
willie, Tenn. SeWanee, Tenn, and to
Chattanooga. From the latter city he
win directly to Washington.
Florida's law prohibiting the ship
ment OF immature fruit Is to DE car
ried to the United States court on
the ground that the law. as applied to
interstate shipments is violation Of
the commerce clause Of the constitu-
ton Of the United States This state
ment was made at Jacksonville BY Q.
II. D. Floyd. counsel for Fred Fee,
following the receipt Of telegram