The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-06-25

overcome by gas, while digging a
well Miss Doris Lppman, a girl scout
Of Savannah, was awarded prize
Of $50 by the National Red Cross
Society. This is the first prize the
society has ever awarded girl scout.
The government scored another
victory and the scope of the Inter-
state commerce commission was en-
larged when the supreme court sus-
tanned the action of the commission
on the so-called intermountain rate
orders and the long and short haul
clause, which was vigorously attack
ed by the tran-continental railroads.
The supreme court has decided
that oil pipe lines across state lines
are common carriers and are there
fore within the jurisdiction Of the
interstate commerce commission.
This places the STANDARD Oil com
panys pipe lines under Federal con-
troll
The department Of agriculture is
sued bulletin in which it was de-
.clared that there would be bump
err, crop Of apples and peaches this
year.
The United States Supreme court
has adjourned until October, after
deciding a number of important cases
before them.
Twenty persons were, injured and
eight houses we're destroyed at Wash
ington, Pa, as the result of lightning
striking an oil tank. 1t was neces--
sary to dynamite several houses in
order to prevent the entire town
| from being destroyed
The strained relations between Tur-
key and Greece were noticeable in
| Washington when the representative
of Greece called at the White House
to urge the sale of two battleships to
his country and few minutes later
the representative of Turkey called
upon the president and entered for
NAL protest against the proposed
sale
The senate banking committee is
busy searching the records Of the five
men who have been nominated as
members of the Federal Reserve
Board. Friends of the administra-
ton, it is said, will urge an early con-
firmation Of the appointments
Nine men met horrible death
when a balloon and an aeroplane col
lided in mid-air during mimic war
held by the military in Austria.
The latest reports from the mine
disaster at Alberta, Canada, brings
word that 95 of the bodies have been
recovered There remains more than
a hundred bodies in the mine.
A bill proposing to provide an addi-
tional revenue from whiskey in the
IeYent that the Hobson amendment fails
to pass the house, has been introduced.
A theatrical manager was killed and
partly devoured by six lions when he
entered their cage during a perform
ance in Chicago. In the excitement
that followed one Of the lions in an
adjoining cage escaped and created a
reign of terror until captured.
Carranaa has sent word to the medi-
ators at Niagara Falls the terms upon
which he will enter into the discussion
of the peace conference Among the
things he. expresses as futile and de-
sires not to discuss are the proposed
armistice, military movement of the
Constitutionalists, the agrarian ques-
ton and the designation of provin-
cial president for Mexico.
The convent gardens estate of Lon
don, England, has been reported sold
for $500, 900, according to dispatches
received in New York.
A terrific heat wave has swept the
West, and particularly Kansas Re-
ports from the farming sections of the
state say that the farmers have been
unable to work in the fields owing
to the fact that their far1d hands
have been unable to stand the heat.
A London author is now claiming
that Adam was the author Of a pam
phlet and that it was printed two thou
sand years before the creation OF the
world, according to dispatches from
London
When a resolution was offered at
the state meeting of the New York
Democrats proposing that the conven-
ton go on record either for or against
Tammany Hall, no action was taken.
on the motion, the convention refusing
to go on record.
Uncle Ike Stephenson, the Oldest
senator, celebrated his eighty-fifth
birthday by wearing red carnation.
Announcement has been made that
the industrial interests of Great Brit
ain will have an exhibit even more
elaborate than any that the govern
ment might have given at the Panama
Pacific exposition.
No attempt was made by the
agents Of Carranza and Villa in an
nouncing that Villa would not resign
as leader of the Constitutionalists
army, to explain the cause of the
break with Carranza, or the selling
of Carranza's appointees in Northern
Mexico. 1t was said that the reports
of the disagreement between the two
robe1 Ioodore wae Greatly exagqeraf-