The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-10-26
BANERUPTS HAVE
MILLION IN DEBTS
OUT Or THESE LIABILITIES s251s
1866 IS THE AMOUNT or
ASSETS.
ANNUAL BANKRUPTCY REPORT
Total Involved in the Northern Dis
trict Of Georgia Ii
s1,221, 107.07.

$iy<&l, lUfsUfs
Atlanta.
-Four hundred and fifty individuals
and companies In the northern dis.
trict Of Georgia hled petitions in
bankruptcy during the government fls-
cal year that ended June 80, and de-
clared debts that amounted to s1,221..
102.O7. Out Of these debts, the to-
tai assets realized amounted to $751;
1896.
The annual report OF the bankrupt
icy clerk shows these facts:
The number Of voluntary cases filed
was S6S; Involuntary, 81; voluntary
cases adjudicated, S5S; involntary, IS;
voluntary cases closed, PA; invoIun-
tary. As.
Total liabilities in voluntary cases,
$59S, 97422; In involuntary casse,
$622,127.S5. Total assets realized from
voluntary bankrupts, $40,27S.18; from
involuntary bankrupts $21O,S71.SS.
At the end Of the year, 154 volun-
tary bankruptcy cases were pending
In the northern district Of Georgia
and 76 involuntary cases.
Following are the classes Of indi-
viduaIs who sought bankruptcy or
against whom involuntary petitions
were filed:
Farmers, 20 voluntary petitions, no
involuntary.
Wage-earners, 1O7 voluntary peti-
tions, no Involuntary
Merchants, SO voluntary, rs invol-
untary.
Manufacturers, s voluntary, IA in
voluntary.
Professional, ! voluntary, invcl-
untary
Miscellaneous, IS voluntary, 9 in
voluntary.
These statistics apply to the north
ern district Of Georgia, which en-
braces Atlanta and that part of the
state north of Atlanta.
Famous Criminal Escapes.
"Old" Bill Minor, the famous train
robber convict, who was convicted of
holding up the fast mail OF the South
ern railway some time ago. choked
guard at the state prison farm at
MilIedgeville into insensibility while
he told companion to hold a gun
+ at his head, took the guards pistol
and escaped.
With him escaped his companions,
Tom Moore, a life prisoner, and John
Watts of Pulaski county. and a life
man, convicted of killing man and
his wife,
Minor had recently advised the
prison authorities that he would re-
main in Milledgeville at the state
farm a while for rest. Night Guard
Bloodworth was overpowered by Mi
nor, who choked him and vowed he
would kill him If he resisted. He
told him that Moore had pistol at
his head. The men then took the
guards guns and escaped well armed.
The alarm was Immediately given
and posses started in pursuit. A re-
ward Of $50 for each prisoner has
been offered by Supt. ]. M. Burke.
Watts escaped some time ago, but
was captured in Texas and brought
back.
Bill Minor didn't take his capture
very seriously, not even after he had
the Georgia penitentiary. why. there
OF the common schools is being check
are no bars or chains or locks in
Georgia that could hold me-" the old
fellow permitted himself to say as he
was being led out of the court room,
State Medical Inspector Wanted.
v. H. Kriegshaber, one OF the vice
presidents Of the Atlanta chamber Of
commerce. has suggested that every
school child in Georgia be subjected to
medical examination It is thought
that the directors Of the chamber Of
commerce favor Mr.. Kriegshaber's
idea and that definite plans to have
the suggestion carried out will be
formed soon.
Mr.. Kriegshaber and Joseph Logan
have taken up the matter with the
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the results OF medical inspection in
the city schools and urging that this
be inaugurated in the rural schools,
Mr.. Kriegshaber is interested not
only In the schools Of Atlanta and
Fulton county. but those Of the en-
tire state, and believes that the cham
Der of commerce should advertise to
the state what has been done locally,
He has recommended that the direc-
tors Of the chamber Of commerce keep
compile statistics. setting forth in de-
tail the work OF the medical inspectors
10 both the city and county schools.
He hopes in this way to correct many
imperfections in the health Of the
children.
Macon The peach crop of 1912 is
Ia serious jeopardy as the result Of
conditions absolutely unprecedented
within the memory Of local fruit grow
ers Peach trees In nearly every or.