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THE LEE COUNTY JOURNAL.
VoL X.
GEORGIA NEWS
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Epitomized Items of Interest
Gathered at Random.
Bee Keepners to Hold Convention.
Several hundred bee keepers are ex
pected in favannah from Georgia and
neighboring states on July 5 and 6
to attend the annual convention of
the Southern Bee Keepers’ Associa
tion. The territory from which tae
members are expected extends to the
Chio on the north and the Missis
;sippi on the. west,
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Bonds Carried With a Rush.
In an election in -Monroe to de
termine the question of issuing bonds
for erection of a system of water
works, the bonds carried by an over
whelming vote. Jt will be remem
bered that only two month ago bonds
were voted for erection of an electric
light plant. Plans are already per
fected looking to the establishment of
a system of public schools. Monroe
has enter=d a period of progress hith
erto unknown.
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‘To Attend Great Baptist Conference.
Thirty delegates from Georgia have
" _already completed arrangements for
. attending the Baptist World’s Con
.gress to be held in London, July 11
to 18.. This gathering of Baptists
from every portion of the world is cer
tain to he one of the most important
events in the religious history of
modern times, and it is expected that
accomplishraents for the good not only
of Baptists alone, but other religions
as well.
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Town Will Build Railroad.
The board of trade of Carrollton
unanimously decided to build a rail
road from Carroliton in a westerly di
rection to traverse the section includ
ing western Carroll and Heard and
Randolph counties and Cleburne coun
ty, Alabama, a section not yet tra
verseq by a railroad. This road will
be built to preserve the Carrollton
trade and commerce in western terri
tory which has bheen a source of large
“income to Carollton for fifty years,
and which is about to be traversed
now by th 2 Bremen and Southwestern.
The line will probably be one of the
best paying short lines in the world,
as the resources of the large terri
tory are vast at present, and will
stand much development.
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Reward Offered for Negro Woman.
At the request of Judge S. L. Moore,
ordinary of Bullock county, Governor
Terrell has offered a reward of $lOO
for the arest of Caroline Reddy, a
megro woman, who is charged with
the murder of Joe Doughtry, a white
man. The woman is alleged to have
shot and killed Doughtry on June
‘3d, without provocation.
The case is probably the only one
on recorq where a negro woman has
killed a white man, and state house
officials are unable to understand how
the woman escaped after the shoot
ing. : l
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- Enraged Father Shoots Son.
A. G. Spillers, a farmer living about !
three miles from Roberta, shot and
painfully wounded ‘his son, William.
Miss Spillers, a gyhwn daughter, was
assisting her father in packing peach
‘€s, and asked that she be allowed |
50 cents. Her father became angryl
and threatened to slap the face of
the young woman, whereupon her bro
ther told the father he could not do
#so while he was present. This so
enraged the elder Spillers that he
knocked the son down with an empty
crate, get his gun and shot him. For-’
tunately, the shot were smal]l and
the load entered the young man’s left
arm, one or two entering the breast.
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To Enlarge University Campus.
The University of Georgia has taken l
a skep forward that means the great- |
est |development in her history. The
a]uénni of the institution at the an
nuaj meeting of the Alumni Society,
't’nez;past week, set themselves on rec
ord! as being in thorough sympathy |
Witfil the movement recently in-augu-l
rated to oxtend the limits of the cam
pus so as to make the entire camjus
over 500 acres in ome body of land.
The $40,000 of the alumni fund goes
first as a Joan- to the trustees for
two years to help purchase the re
quired land for the campus extension,
and at the expiration of that time
'comes back to the society to be used
for the new Young Men’s Christian |
lAssociation and gymnasium building
lt’nat is to be erected with that{
’mone‘y and $35,000 that is to be raiseqd 1\
by the alumni of the institution and
the Young Men’s Christian Associa—“
ticn peopie of the state. : |
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Editors Had Great Meeting. l
The Georgia Weekly Press Associa
tion closed one of the most succsss
ful conventions in the hisiory of the
association at Cordele. Hartwell wag
elected as Lthe next place of meeting,
All the old officers were re-elected,
except J. W. Bivins, in whose stead
C. C. McKenzie of the Cordele Sen-l
tine] was made second Vice president.
Mr. Bivins was made an honorary
member of the association.
President Coleman, before leaving
with the party of editors for Atlantic
Beach, Fla., said that the association
had never been entertained at any
city on such a scale of magnificence
as at Cordele,
There was a large number of prom
inent visitors on hand during the -con
vention. A banquet closed the meet
ing. The dining room of the Sewa
nee house was crowded. Hon Thom
as Hill, member-elect to the house
from Dooly, presided. Responses to
toasts were made by Judge W. V.
Whipple, Mr. Robbins and others for
Cordele, and by President Coleman,
'H. H. Cabaniss, ex-president = of the
‘Georgia Press association; Alfrpdi
‘Herington, Samuel Small, Senatori
Crawford Wheatley of - Americus;
Senator Fitzgerald of Stewart and
Hon. Joe Hil Hall of Bibb.
ROOSEVELT HONORED BY COLLEGES.
The President Attends Commencements of
Three Institutions in Massachusetts,
The zigzag journey of President
Roosevelt among the colleges of west. ‘
ern Massachusetts ended Thursday
with his departure from Williamson
after he had received from Williams
college the honorary degree of L. H.
D. His stay in the state, which was
of scarcely thirty-two hours duration,
was a busy onc. He attended three
college commencements, at two of
which he received high honorary de
grees, travcied several hundred miles,
and, besides delivering addresses at
eacii comitnencement, made a number
ot speeches from the platform of his
car to citizens who had gathered at
the statlons along the route.
MRS. ROGERS GRANTED A REPRIEVE.
Case of Yermont Woman Goes to Supreme l
Caurt of the United States.
A reprieve until December 8 for
Mrs. Mary M. Rogers, the condemned
murderess, was signed at Brattlebor~,
Vermont, Thursday afternoon by
Governor Bell and for the third time
the woman who was to have been
hanged at Windsor Friday for killing
her husband has been saved through
the governor’s power to stay the ex
ecution.
The reprieve was granted in order
that the case may be carried to the
supreme court of the United States.
TEXAS EX-GOVERNOR PASSES AWAY.
Frank R, Lubbock Dies at Austin and Event
ful Career is Closed.
Former Governor Frank R. Lmub
bock, one of the most interesting fig
ures in Texas, died at Austin Thurs
day night, aged 90 years. Governor
Lubbock suffered a stroke of parsly- |
sis some days ago, from which he
never regained consciousness. He
had been state treasurer and was
conspicuously identified with public
life in Texas, having risen into prom
inence since the battle of Jacinto. He
was on the personal staff of Jeffer
son Davis.
Last Squadron Off to Manila,
The third and last squadron of the
Seventh United States cavalry Ileft
Fort Oglethorpe,, Chickamauga Park, !
Tuesday 'a‘fternoon for Manila, I
LEESBURG. GA., FRIDAY. JUNE 30. 1905.
BOWEN FIRED
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While Leomis is Acquitted cf
Charges Brought Against Him.
MOST SCATHING VERDICT
Conduct of Erstwhile Minister to Vene
zuely Declared to Be “Espec
ially Reprehensible.”
The dismissal of Herbert W. Bowen,
for some years United States minister
to Venezuela, and the exoneration ot
Assitant Secretary of State Francis R.
Looomis of the allegations brought
against him by Bowen, are the outs
come of the Bowen-Loomis contro
versy, which has attracted wide at
tention for many months past. *This
disposition of the case is made by
President Roosevelt, in a letter ad
dressed to Secretary Taft, made public
Tuesday, approving Mr. Taft’s report
on his findings and conclusions in tae
case.
The bresident s_cathingly arraigns
Minister Bowen, declaring that his
conduct “is especially reprehensible,”
that Mr. Bowen asked one of his
witnesses to enter the employ of a
certain company for the purpose, “in
plain words, of stealing documents
which, he hoped, might incriminate
Mr. Loomis, and that Mr. Bowen has
-evidently, for many months, indeea
for the last two years, devoted his
time to hunting up scandal and' gos
sip until it became 4 monomania and
caused him to show complete disloy
alty to the country he represented.”
The president says he had hoped
to promote Mr. Bowen, as during much
of his service he had done good work,
but that his usefulness in the depart
ment is now at an end.
The president says he would direct
that Mr. Bowen’s resignation be ¥Ye
quested but for the fact that he
would consider a resignation an ad
mission of misconduct, and, therefore,
his dismissal is ordered.
The president states that it appears
Mr. Bowen, while minister, secured
the publication of attacks on Mr,
Loomis and furnished to the press
documents pending before the state
department for approval and that his
explanation is inexcusable and shows
his “entire unfitness” for the service.
Even if Mr. Loomis had been guilty,
says the president, Mr. Bowen's con
duct would be unpardonable. The lat
ter quotes certain correspondence and
testimony. The report of Secretary
Taft on the case on which the pres
ident’s action is based, is a volumi
nous document, reviewing the evi
dence taken.
In his report Secretary Taft says
that there was nothing in the trans
actions in which Mr. Loomis had fig
ured, but he was not discreet. The
report says that Mr. Loomis was not
Justified in becoming personally in
terested in any of the schemes either
with a mere nominal interest or a
substantial interest. He holds, how
ever, that Mr. Loomis has been “most
cruelly slandered,” commends him for
fhe self-restraint with which he niet
the charges and points out that Mr.
Loomis’ bitter experience in this case
makes it unnecessary to point out
the moral that a minister cannot af
ford, in the country to which he is
located, to make personal investments.
President Roosevelt, in his letter to
Secretary Taft, quotes at length from
the testimony to show that Bowen
was responsible for the charges
against Loomis; that he instigated and
secured the publication of the attacks
on Loomis by furnishing to the press
copies of documents believed to reflect
on the assistant secretary.
Spanish Cabinet Goes to Pieces,
The entire Spanish cabinet has re
signed and its resignation has bheen
accepted by King Alfonso, The resig
nation followed the rejection of a vote
of confidence in the cabinet.
ADDS TO SPLENDOR.
MEN. OF BUSINESS RECOGNIZE
ADVANTAGES OF ACETYLENE.
Famouns Summer Hotel, the Grand Union
of Saratoga, Has Installed ' This Best
of All Artificial Lights—Meaus In
creased Comtfort and Flealth,
Caratoga, June 27.—-The very name,
*Saratoga,” brings to every mind
health-giving springs, unsurpassed hos
tels and beautiful drives. It has been
for mang years the Mecea for all who
admire natwre, enjoy good living, and
,are searehing for healtiy, or are simply
taking a vacation.
The Grand Union, the largest sum
meir hotel in the United States, set
among green trees with its long wings
enclosing a court with fountains and
flowers. grass and trees, music and
light,is throughout the season thronged
with guests. With the progressive
spirit always shown by !ts manage
ment, the Grand Union has again add
ed 1o its attractivencss by introducs
ing acetylene gas to make still more
brilliant the evening bours. The genial
proprieiors belicve in furnishing their
guests with the Dest of everything,
and now, after investigating and find
ing that Artificial Sunlight can be had,
they have installed a complete acety
lene gas plant to produce it, and have
connected upwards of six thonsand
Acotylone burnors (in and about the
plant.
Like many discoveries of recent
years, which are coming into popular
favor, acetylene. one of the most re
cent, is very simply produced. It is |
adapted for use wherever artificial
light is needed and the necessary ap
paratus can be understood and oper
ated by any onec.
The generator in which Acetylene
is produced by the automatic contact
of carbide and water might be termed
a gas plant, as it performs all of the
functions of a city gas plant. The
acetylene generator can be purchased
for a few doilars and in ssly size, from
once adapted to furnish acetylene te
ten or a deozen burners for a cottage,
up to the large but still simple ma
china such as is now furnigshing Acet
yvlene for six thousand burners in the
Grand Union,
Outside of large cities the use of
Acetylenc is quite common. The own
er of the country homo now demands
running water, gas and other conveni
ences which a few years ago were con
sidered as luxuries, and acetylene gas
has met his requirements. and gives
him a better and cheaper light than is
ordinarily furnished in cities.
It is well known that rooms lighted
with Acetylene are more comfortable, |
because cooler, and more healthful be- |
cause the air is not vitiated.
The Minnesota Experiment Station
has discovered that the cow suffers
from the characteristic disease of
twentieth century civilization, nervous
overstrain. She has temperament.
She is over-civilized. - “The high
i strung cow has no place in the dairy
scheme; she should be eliminated,”
writés Professor Haecker. The Bt.
Paul Globe says: “We think some
body will strike a blow for this exotic
type of ecw. We have sufficient con
fidence in ‘the world to believe that
it is a respecter of even bovine aspira
tions, that a vulgar consideration for
cream and steaks will not militate
against the development of the aesthe
tic nature of the cud chewer, that she
will not become the victim of heart
less unrelenting science.”
The Oldest Nurse in Georgila. l
Mrs. 8. E. Kennedy, one of the oldest and
hest known nursges in Georgia, states that
in ali her experience with bowel troubles
and children teething, Dr. Biggers’ Huckle
berry Cordial ig the best remedy.
fold by all Druggists, 25 and 50¢. bottle.
’ Charit,y covers a multitude of sins, but
it doesn’t remove them.
AGONY OF. SORE HANDS
Cracked and Peeled—Water and Heat
Cauged Intense Pain~Conld Do No
Housework-" Very Grateful
to Cuticura,
“My hands cracked and peeled, and were
80 sore it was impossible for me to do my
housework. If I put them in water I was
in agony for hours, and if I tried to cook
the heat caused intense pain. I consulted
’ two doctors, but their prescriptions were
utterly useless. Now after using one cake
i of Cuticura Soap and one box of Cuticura
Omtment my hands are entirely well, I
| am very grateful, (Signed) Mrs. Minnie
I Drew, 18 Dana BSt., Roxbury, Mass.”
l In some parts of India shegep are
used as beasts of burden. i
Railway Rate Legislation.
At the biennial econvention of the
Order of Railway Conductors, recently.
held at Portland, Oregow, resolutions
were unanimousiy asdopted voiei
their sentiments as to the effect of p%
posed railway rate legislation on the
1,300,000 railroad employes, whom they
In part represented. These resolutions
“indorse the attitwde of President
Roosevelt in condemudngsecret rebates
and other iHegalitias, and comnrend the
attitude of the heads of American rail
ways, whe, with practical unanimity,
Bave joined with the President on this
gunestion.” Phey then respectfully,
point out to Congress the “inadvisabil
fty of legislation vesting in the hands
of a commission power over railway
rates, now lower by far in the United
States than in any other country,” be
enuse such reguwdation wowdd “result o
litigation and confusion and inevitably
tend to an enforeed reduction in rates,
irrespective of the question of the abil
ity of the railroads to stand the redue
tion, especially in view of the increased
eost of their supplies and materials.”
They further protested against such
power being given to the present Inter
state Commission Dbecause “the proe
posed legislation is mnot in harmony;
with our idea of American - juris
prudence, inasmuch as it contemplates
that a single body shall have the right
to investigate, indict. try, condemn and
then enforce its decisions at the cost
of the earriers, pending appeal, whick
is manifestly inequitable.”
The "couductors base their demand
for only such legislation, if any, as
would “secure and insure justice and
equity and preserve equal rights to alé
parties concerned” on the ground that
the low cost of transportation “is the
result of the efficiency of American
railway management and operation
which: have built up the country,
through constant improvement and de
velopment of territory, while at the
same time recognition has been given:
to the value of intelligence among em
ployes in contrast to foreign methods,
where high freight rates and lowest
wages to employes obtain.”
In pressing their claim against lezis
lation adverse to their interests, they
point out the fact that ‘“the freight
rates of this country average only two
per cent. of the cost of articles to the
consumer, thus making the freight rate
so insignificant a factor in the selling
price that numerous standard articies
are sold at the same price in all parts
of the country.”
MALSBY & Co.
41 South Forsyth St., Atlanta, Ga,
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Engines, Boilers,
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Saw Mills
AND ALL KINDS OF MACHINERY
Complete line Carried in stock for
IMMEDIATE DELIVERY.
Best Machinery, L.owest Prices and Best Terms
Write us for catalogue, prices,
etc., before buying.
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C] 22 Checks
That Checkered
Feeling
$l.OO at all druggists—or write for
sample bottle, free. Do this today.
Checkers Medicine Co. Winston-Balem, N. C
-1 P CENTS BUYS A
PACKAGE '
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ECONOMY BLUE
Makes Full Quart Best Wash Bluing
16 years on the market. Ask dealer, or we
will send by mail package upon receips of 10e.
In stamps o,ndJour dealer’'s name,
Bripars-McDowzLL Co., Louisville, Ky.
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