The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-05-21


The Interstate Commerce Commits
ators TO make speeches, Senator Kern
the vanished millions belonging to
the stockholders Of the New Haven
Railroad.
According to statistice read in the
House Of Representatives there were
more men killed In accidents in the
Panama Canal Zone between May /,
1914 and March 81, 1914 than were
killed in the war of 1872 and the
Mexican war combined, the total be-
ing 2.19O-
II Is said that the ENJOYS represents
ing the Mexican Government have
stated that no man of military prom
inence can succeed Huerta. This
win eliminate Carranza and villa as
well as Huerta President Wilson
has sent word to the Peace ENJOYS
that It is peace in Mexico rather than
the insult to the American flag that
he wants to be the chief aim of the
conference,
After being adrift 10 days without
food and scarcity Of water, four
sailors from the freight ship Column
bian, which was burned at sea May
3, were picked up by the Revenue
Cuteer Seneca, forty miles south Of
Sable Island. Eleven Of the crew had
persisted from starvation and ex-
posture. Their bodies were thrown
overheard.
In a speech before congregation
at the Free abernacle, in New York
city Sunday, Ex-President Taft ex-
pressed himself as doubtful of the
success Of the Peace Conference, but
added that the fact that meditation
had been asked for by the Mexicans
and accepted by the United States
would accomplish much in the solving
Of diplomatic troubles betweenA for
eign countries in the future.
Because he is said to have alienated
the affections of a wife from her hus-
band and married the woman after she
had secured a divorce, Lloyd B. Field,
Presbyterian minister formerly Of
Macon, GA, has been unfrocked, ac-
cording to advices from Pine Bluff,
Ark.
1t was proposed by committee OF
the conference of the Methodist Epis
copal church, South, in session in
Nashville, to prohibit any young man
who uses tobacco from entering the
ministry.
In a word of farewell Past Imperial
Potentate Irwin said that Atlanta had
set the pace in the manner in which
she entertained the Imperial Council
of Shriners. ITS the best meeting the
Shriners have ever had" said Imperial
Potentate Smith.
Eight inches of snow fell at Pine
Lake, New York. Lake Pleasant re-
ported four inch fall and snow storms
were reported all through the Adiron-
dacks.
Huerta's administration is doomed,
and it will be only matter of few
days before he will be forced to fee
to Puebla. according to reports from
Vera Cruz. Mexico City is in a state
of anarchism and the assassination OF
Huerta is hourly expected is the word
brought by refugees
Charles Becker, the former police
lieutenant of New York City is again
on trial for the murder of Herman Ro-
seminal, the gambler.
w, H. Smith, aged 20 years, bar
Der Of Calhoun. Ca, was instantly kill
ed when he was mistaken for burglar
in the home of J. j. Edwards in Allan
ta He had gotten into the wrong
house.
President Wilson was the chief
mourner at the ceremonies attending
the arrival of the bodies of the sailors
and marines KILLED in the taking Of
Vera Cruz,
Secretary Of State Bryan is very
much agitated over the continued con
finement of Vice Consul Silliman and
his clerk, Joseph A. Marchani, by the
federal commander at Satillo. He has
threatened that something would be
done If they were not Immediately re-
leased, but would not say what action
would be taken.
IN eablegram to Washington Rear
Admiral Mayo explained the taking Of
the lighthouse on Lobos Island, by say
ing the Mexicans in charge had de-
serted lighthouse and that the de-
stroyer Dixie was maintaining it for
the good of navigation,
Germany is alarmed over the num-
Der Of students who are committing
suicide because Of their failure to pass
examinations There have been a
number reported in Berlin alone,
From London comes the information
that the drink bill for the British EN-
pire shows an increase of $25,OO0,OOO
this year. However, there is a decrease
in the per capita consumption.
The six hundred refugees from Mex
leo City are safe and sound aboard
the steamship Esperanza according to
a message received in Washington
from DR.. Edward R, Ryan,
An aviator's fatal plunge in his BIZ
plane was witnessed by his mother at
Utica, N. Y, when Percival Van Ness
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