The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-06-25
Brief news NOTES
What Has Occurred During the Week
Throughout This Country
and Abroad.
EVENTS OF IMPORTANCE.
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Of sincere regret on the part of the
United States that anything should
have occurred to have narred the
friendly relations between the two
countries. He said, further, that the
memorandum Of the peace treaty
made during the Taft administration
and was defeated, contained the words
honest regret
What is believed by those in close
touch with the peace conference at
Niagara Falls as the court Of last
resort has been reached, when the
mediators will attempt to bring the
delegates, representing the Huerta
and Carranza factions together in an
effort to restore peace in Mexico.
It has been proposed to the presi-
dent to name the Culebra cut after
Col. David Deb. Gilliard, the army
engineer who contracted a maIady
while working on the cut, which caus-
ed his death.
In letter to president H. B Joy,
of the Lincoln Highway Commission,
President Wilson expressed wish
that the Mason and Dixon line should
be forever abolished.
President Wilson expressed himself
as elated with the tone of the letters
he has been receiving from business
men over the country at the condition
of business. It seems to be the gen.
eral opinion of those who wrote the
president that the proposed antitrust
legislation in congress is having little
effect on business conditions and that
the outlook is bright for improve
ment.
Europe is breathing easier, for re-
ports have come from the capitals of
Greece and Turkey that both OF these
countries have come to some form Of
an agreement and that war has been
averted.
Decks have been cleared in the sen
ate this week for action on the anti
trust legislation now before them. It
is predicted that the senate will not
adjourn until the entire program has
been acted upon.
Henry Lincoln Johnston, recorder of
deeds in Washington, an Atlanta ne
gro has handed in his resignation, fol
lowing an active campaign on the part
of Southern senators to have him
busted. A white man has been APP
pointed in his place
George T. Marks of San Francisco
has been selected by the president as
the new ambassador to Russia, and it
ds expected that he will be nominated
in the near future, according to adj
vices from Washington
Another mine catastrophe has been
reported from Alberta, Canada, when
over two hundred men died following
an explosion in the mine.
United States delegates announce
that they will stand firm in the Sc
lection of a successor for Huerta, and
that they will consent only to Con
stitutionalist sympathizer.
Dallas, Texas, was chosen as the
location for the new Methodist I'm
1versity. This decision was reached
by the commission, which has been
appointed by the Methodist confer
ence to handle the situation, growing
out of the break with the Vanderbilt
university
A resolution was passed by the
board of directors of Vanderbilt I'm
iversity announcing their intentions
of withdrawing from the influences of
the Methodist church and filling the
vacancies in the board, caused by the
recent disagreement with the church.
Controller of the Treasury, Dow
ney, announced that the banks, who
are members of the Federal Reserve
Banks, will be assessed in order to
create fund to pay the officers and
members of the Federal Reserve i
Board.
The Huerta delegates in attendance
at the peace conference, at Niagara
Falls, Ont, gave out statement in
which they denounced the attitude of
the United States in the selection Of
a successor to Dictator, Huerta. In
their statement they asserted that
the United States would foster fraud
and violence at elections if they sue
ceeded in having a successor to
Huerta appointed who would be a
Constitutionalists sympathizer They
strongly urged that only man Of
non-partisan views would bring about
the desired resolutions.
Information has reached the United
States, from the agents of Carranza
and Villa, that thedifferences between
these two Constitutionalist leaders
has been patched up and that the
campaign against Huerta will be
pushed as vigorously as heretofore.
The United States Supreme court
has recessed until the latter part OF
June
One of the most important matters
brought before the National Photo
graphers, while in session in Atlanta,
was a resolution requesting the Post
office department to permit the pas
sing Of photographs through the IN
tied States parcel post mails.
The reign of terror which had been
going on in Rome, Italy, has quoted
down considerably, and it is expected
that peace will be restored in a short
time now that the strike on the ma