The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-05-25
LATE NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
SOUTH, EAST, NORTH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands, Through
eut che Nation and Particularly
the Great South.
Southern.

a dozen men appeared before the
county Jail at Lake City, Fla, and pre-
scented bogus telegram to the cred
ulous 16-year-old son of the sheriff or
dering the release Of Mark Norris. Jr.,
Jerry Gusto and four other negroes,
who had been held for safe-keeping
on the charge Of numbering b. B
Smith, sawmill man. at Wadesbor-
ough, Leon county, and wounding an
other man, named Register, on the
18th of May. The men, who had come
from Tallahassee to Lake City in au-
tomobiles, carried the negroes, about
a mile outside of Lake City, compelled
the negroes to stand abreast, and
about ten men commenced firing with
winchesters and pistols, until every
one of the six had been riddled with
bullets.
Postmaster General Hitchcock, i'm.
pressed by the reports Of the success
full operation of the postal savings sys-
tenn, has decided to designate one hun
bred additional postal repositories
each week. Among postoftices select
ed as repositories, which will open
for postal savings business on June
10, are as follows: Gadsden, Ala;
Mena, Ark; Appalachicola, Fla; Co.
dartown, Ga; Catlettsburg, KY; Ham
mond, La; Biloxi, Miss; Lawton,
Okla; Darlington, s, c.; Dyersburg
and Humboldt, Tenn.
The continued progress OF the farm
ers of Georgia and Alabama is indi-
Gated by the records of the Southern
Bell Telephone company for the
month of April During the month of
April 66S farmers-296 in Georgia and
372 in Alabama-installed telephones
in their homes and connected lines
with the Bell system. Since January
1888 farmers in Georgia and Alabama
have taken telephone service. OF
these 1895 are in Georgia and LAS
In Alabama.
Macon, Ga, was chosen by the Uni
ted Confederate Veterans as the next
reunion city at the annual encamp-
ment OF the old soldiers in Little Rock,
Ark The following officers were re-
elected: Commanderin.Chief Gen. G.
w. Gordon, Memphis, Tenn. Depart
ment commanders: Army OF Northern
Virginia, Lieut., Gen. G. Irvine Walker,
Charleston, s. c.; Army of Tennessee,
Lieut.. Gen Bennett H. Young, Louis
vile, KY; Trans-Mississlppl Depart
ment. Lieut.. Gen X. NJ. Van zandt.
Fort Worth, Texas.
complete surprise was sprung at
the convention of the Southern Baptist
convention In Jacksonville, Fla, when
DR. p. G. Dargan, pastor of the First
Baptist church OF Macon, Ga, was
placed in nomination for president
against Joshua lowering. who had
been proposed for reelection to that
office, When the votes were counted
1t was found that Doctor Dargan had
been elected
With the ships band playing the ma
tional anthem and the blueackets with
rifles at present" the United States
battleship Idaho saluted the resting.
place of the old wooden United States
war sloop Mississippi Of Admiral Far.
ragut's feet, riddled and sunk by the
Confederate batteries at Port Hudson.
La, on the Mississippi river, during
the Civil war The success of the voy-
age up the river to vioksburg was as
Bured when the soundings at the
shoals near Waverly showed 81 feet
depth
Frank r. Hayne, the bull leader
startled the New Orleans cotton world
by bidding the market price for 1OO,-
600 bales each of May and July cot.
ton exchange quotations for any or ali
the spot cotton in this city. This last
bid Mr.. Hayne shouted out to the
member who had hurried to the future
ring, was open all day. Moreover, he
announced his willingness to accept
any grade from low ordinary to fair.