The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1919-06-20
Domestic

Before an audience that crowded the
immense auditorium to the doors and
applauded him to the echo time and
again, ex-President Taft delivered an
addressing Atlanta in defense OF the
league of nations as drafted at the
Versailles conference and brought back
to the United States by President VIII
son.
A telegram from Augusta, Ga, says
that it is announced that General Oil
yer Edwards, commander at Camp
Hancock, has received orders to dis
mantle Camp Hancock with the ex-
ception of small auxiliary at the re-
mount station.
Capt. Elsberry V. White, survivor
of the Monitor Merrimac battle IN
Hampton Roads during the Civil war,
died at Clifton Springs, N. Y, accord
ing to advices received by relatives at
Portsmouth, Va, aged 80 years. He
was a member of the Confederate en-
gineer corps, and was assistant engi-
neer of the Merrimac.
Henry B. Gray, former lieutenant
governor of Alabama and prominent
capitalist, died suddenly at his home
in Birmingham as he sat down to din
ner He had been down town and
was apparently in the best of health
and spirits. He was born in Georgia,
and had at one time been reporter
on the Atlanta Constitution.
AS soon as Mrs. Stella Abbott, who
shot and killed her husband, a fireman,
in Atlanta, Ca, makes bond of five
thousand dollars, she viii be released
from the Fulton county jail, where she
has been confined about two months
All the charges against w. B. Cody,
chief of the Atlanta fire department,
were dismissed and his administration
as head of the department found to be
efficient by the board of firemasters,
before whom his administration had
been thoroughly aired, and against
whom certain charges of inefficiency
had been filed.
The Texas state senate has gone on
record as being opposed to a reduction
in the cotton acreage.
The mysterious death in an Atlanta
hospital of ]. w. Hickman, who said,
before his death that he was from
brunswick, Ca, was cleared when G.
A. Black, an employee of the American
Shipbuilding company at Brunswick,
surrendered to Chief of Police Burgess
of Brunswick, announcing that he was
the man who struck Hillman the blow
that produced his death. He said that
in a dispute over a missing planer,
he struck Hillman. A later difficulty
ensued.
A Mitchell Palmer, the alien prop
erty custodian, said in formal state
ment that the resolution of Republi-
can Senator Calder calling for infor-
nation covering the operations Of the
custodians office was fully answered
in his report now ready for submits
sion to President Wilson.
Thirty-nine per cent of the army Of
ficers on duty November II, 1918, and
SO per cent of the enlisted personnel
had been discharged by February 10.
Mayor William Hale Thompson, Re-
publican candidate, was nominated for
reelection in the municipal primary
by an indicated plurality of forty-five
thousand over Chief Justice Harry Oh
son of the Chicago municipal court.
R. M. Sweitzer is the Democratic nom
inee by over seventy thousand plural
ity.
More than three hundred girls were
rescued by firemen. a score overcome
bv smoke and a dozen injured in a
spectacular fire which destroyed the
building occupied by Duff's Business
college in the heart of the business
district of Pittsburg.