The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-10-05
BRIEF NEWS NOTES
FOR THE BUSY man
MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS or
THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN
CONDENSED FORM.
WORLDS NEWS EPITOMIzED
Complete Review Of Happenings OF
Greatest Interest From Al
Parts Of World.
Southern.

The condition OF cotton on an aver
age date OF September %, as ascer-
tanned from the replies of 1900 spe-
ciaI correspondents OF the Journal OF
Commercial Bulletin, is 70.S per cent.
afiainst 1916 per cent. a month ago,
or a decline Of is points for the pc
Rod under review. Texas is conspic-
nous as being the only state showing
an advance, gaining Az points All
other states lost from / to nearly s
points Insects are reported as In
juring cotton.
The convention OF the Sea Island
Cotton Growers, scheduled to be held
at valdosta, Ca, was indefinitely post
poned, owing to the absence Of Mr..
Charles s. Barrett, president of the
Farmers union. Delegates who had
gathered here reported that the en-
tire crop of sea island cotton had
opened at once, and is nearly out OF
the fields, although usually 1t is not
all gathered until after Christmas.
Italy has declared war on Turkey.
1t declared that the two countries
were in a state Of war beginning at
half after two O'Clock on the after
noon of Friday, September 49,
Representatives Of cotton buyers
and cotton exchanges Of New Eng
land and the Southern and Southwest
ern states, in conference in New
York, entered In general discussion
as to the best methods of buying and
selling the staple. Methods of adjust
ing differences which may arise be-
tween the Southern shippers and the
New England buyers are being consid
cred, and 1t was stated that as soon
as some definite understanding Is
reached statement would be issued
Forcing their way into the Desha
county jail at Dumas, Ark, between
nifty and one hundred men, members
OF a mob, formed SO quietly that the
authorities had not the slightest
warning, overpowered the deputies In
charge and took Charles Malpass, ST.,
white, to d water tank and hanged
him. The mob then dispersed with
out demonstration. None of It's mem
bers is known to the authorities, ac-
cording to their statement
Approximately 10000 clerks and
shopmen of the Illinois Central EN-
ployed south, of the Ohio river are on
strike, the number being augmented
by the walkout of 400 shopmen at
New Orleans. This was in addition
to the ESQ clerks who went out at
first. AT Memphis all the clerks went
ont and were followed by the shop.
men, in all about 1,1O0 men striking.
AS a result OF the decision Of the
internal revenue department to en-
force the law requiring duty on all
manufactured cigars. whether consum-
ed in a factory or elsewhere, Tampa,
Florida, is again threatened with a
disastrous strike of its $4,000 cigar
makers. The effect OF the decision Of
the revenue department has been to
discontinue practice in the Tampa
factories, which is as old as the clear
Havana cigar manufacturing business,
the giving of smokers to the work.
men.
L. w. Boykin and John Bell Towel,
former members of the state liquor
dlspensary board; w, o, Tatum, for
mer commissioner Of the dispensary;
X. A. Goodman, a liquor salesman, and
Dennis Weiskopf, Cincinnati bust
ness man. were placed on trial at Co
lumbia, S. G., on charge Of conspir-
ing to defraud the state. The case
is what is known as the dispensary
scandal, and has been on the docket
several years. 1t is alleged $4,000
graft was paid the defendants,