The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1911-10-12
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 All
Parts Of World.


The mystery of the disappearance
of Alfred Stiles, the Savannah negro
who was supposed to have been bat.
tened in the hold OF the steamer Pa
than just prior to the departure of
the boat for Liverpool, has been clear
ed up by the receipt of telegram
sent by Stiles to Henry Bateman, col
ored, asking for $15 to get Stiles back
from Norfolk, Va. The theory that
stiles fell asleep after loading cotton
in the Pathan and was carried to sea
is borne out.
The Manufacturers Record says a
$SO,000,OO0 consolidation Of iron and
steel and coal interests in Alabama,
''of great magnitude and far reaching
Importance bringing into the devel-
opment of that district great financial
forces, lisa now rapidly materializing
through plans which have been work
ed out for the anal completion of the
merger of the Alabama Consolidated
Coal and Iron company and the South
ern Iron and Steel company.
Following the granting OF re-
straining order by Judge Sheppard at
Valdosta, Ca, in the Georgia and Flor
ida railroad case, conferences were
held at Douglas between citizens, Of
ficials of the road and representatives
of the strikers. What the form Of
arbitration will be is not now known
here, except that the president Of the
road has wired General Manager Tur-
ner to agree to arbitration under the
Erdman act. Information, though UNI
official, is to the effect that progress
has been made toward satisfactory
settlement of the strike.
Suit for the recovery of 100000
damages was filed in the United
States court at Jacksonville, Fla,
against the Seaboard Air Line rail-
way, the Knickerbocker Trust compa-
ny OF New York, Charles II. Keep,
Francis Henderson, r. v. Matthews,
G. w. Lucasand Frank Q. Brown of
New York, and H. Reiman Duval Of
New Jersey, the plaintiffs in the suit
being the Florida Railway company,
of which Frank Drew of this city is
president George NJ. Powell, a stock.
holder in the Florida Railway com
pany, instituted the suit by fling a
praecipe. conspiracy being charged to
the defendants.
The operation Of trains on the
Georgia and Florida railway met with
the first material resistance from the
striking flremen and sympathizers at
Augusta, Ca. when two freight trains
were stopped by mobs and the train
crews oyerpowered, Four employees
of the company were seriously injur-
ed, one of them sustaining a fractured
skull. A train leaving with supplies
for way stations between Augusta and
Douglas was stopped just outside the
city limits, on the belt line, and was
abandoned by the crew. The other
was train OF freight cars, being
transferred from the Augusta yards
70 the Hamburg yard of the Southern
road, and was held up near Schultz
Hill on the Carolina side OF the river.
-Four more state militia companies
and troop of cavalry were ordered
to McComb City by Governor Noel
of Mississippi They are companies
at acksonJ, Greenwood Macon and
shubut and the cavalry troop at Ma.
con.
Probably the biggest demonstration
OF working men that New Orleans
has witnessed in many years, was
held there when 1t is estimated that
six thousand men formed in line and
marched through the business sec.
tion Of the city to Elks Place, where
a mass meeting of laboring men was
held, The parade and mass meeting
We're held as protest against the
methods alleged to have been EN-.
ployed in taking the Mcnamara bro,
theirs from Indianapolis to Los An
geles.