Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-12-24
General News NofeS

CHICAGO, Dec. n.-The ban has been
taken off of the Red Cross Christmas
stamp by the authorities Of England and
ireland.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.--on the recommend
alton of Secretary Of War Dickinson President
Taft today decided to appoint C. H. West, Of
Greenville, Miss. a member Of the Mississip-
pi river commission.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 2O.--Secretary Dickinson
has decided to appoint ]. P. Fyffe, Of Chatta-
nooga. Tenn, chief Of the 'aPnama canal zone
police. to succeed Gilbert Porter. The salary
is $4,000 per year.
NEW YORK, Dec. 21.-Mrs. E. L. Fer
nsndez. the first woman theatrical agent
In America, and mother of Bijou Fernan-
deg the actress. died today at her home
here after an illness of several weeks.
NEW YORK. Dec. 2O-A financial
"meIon" Involving $50 O00, 600 stock distri-
button ia said today to be planned, by
the Consolidated Gas company, the local
lighting combine.
n p. Grace, formerly connected with
]. e. & J. j. Maddox in a travelling
capacity, has been arrested in FL Paso.
Tex on a charge of larceny after
trust. while he was connected with tho
Atlanta firm.
LITTLE ROCK. Ark, Dec. H.-George
Bailey, a negro, was shot to death in his
cell here last night by crowds, who were
unable to break open the prison doors.
Bailey shot and probably fatally wound
ed Matt Todd, planter.
CHICAGO. Dec. A.-Courses of study
to prepare women for more remunerative
employment than that of teaching will
be urged for state universities as a re-
suit of a conference of deans of wo-
men of state universities now being held
in Chicago,
TOLEDO. Ohio, Dec. 2O-Judge BrOugh, in com
mon pleas court, today overruled motions to
ouash five indictments against Circuit Judge
Michael Donnelly Of Napoleon, Ohio, president
NJ the failed Ohio German Fire Insurance com
pany. The indictments charge perjury, embez-
element and obtaining money under false pre-
lenses.
NEW YORK, Dec. 21-A 800 pound plum
pudding will be the star attraction of the
Christmas celebration which the banquet
ers of the Consolidated Stock exchange
will hold on Friday afternoon. All the
employees OF the exchange will this year
receive as a Christmas gift a sum equal
to per cent of their annual salaries.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.--rhe states of
North Carolina and Tennessee are at va
rance as to the manner of determining
the boundary lines between them. and
the case is before the United States SUI
preme court The attorney general of
North Carolina would have commission
ers appointed to survey the line and take
testimony whereas the attorney general
of Tennessee thinks the appointment of
commissioners should follow the taking
of testimony.
ST. LOUIS Dec. 2O.-The case Of NJ. Dwight
Fortner the former real estate broker who was
arrested in Paris last summer on charge of
forging the Endorsement on $4,000 check was
called for trial today for the third time.
FORMER who came to st. Louis as hotel
clerk several years ago, married daughter OF
A. H. Handlan, father Of the divorced "ite OIL
william ]. Lemp, Jr
FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. @.-Ihe eoiaes
vvo.tbsr in five years was experienced through
ont the greater part of Texas today. At thi'
point the thermometer registered above zero
F1,,rries of sleet and snow are reported as Ia
soutb as FloresviIIe. Abilene reports TEN
parature of two above zero and at Galveston
| the freezing point was reached.
! Adyices from West Texas state thar catu'
are suffering from the extreme cold and thai
many are dying.
NEW YORK, Dec. 2O.-An echo of the hatre'
felt by Italian black handlers for Lieutenan
Petrosino. who was assassinated In Italy, is be
Iieved TO have manifested itself In bonn
outrage on the east side here today.
Thirty families were thrown into 4 panic
the early hours WaeR Oo TpIode9 n the lowe
hallway Of a Prince street tenement. The build
ing was badly damaged and Jagged hole se,. blow low
kent by Dominica Ambrose. The tenants, scan
tily clad fled to the streets and were care'
for in the houses of friends
CHICAGO, Dec 21.-Hwo fashionable
dressmakers were arrested here this ait
ernoon by federal authorities. They are
said by the government officials to bt
implicated in a 100000 smuggling con
spIracy.
The women arrested are:
Mary L. Weber, alias Madame Whit
ney, and Katheryn Schwarz.
! DULUTH Mimi. Dec A,-No tidings
have been received from the missing
steamship Berwind. Thomas E. Erwin
keeper of the Rock of Ages lighthouse al
Isle Royale, arrived in Duluth last night
and said that the tender Marigold. on
which he was brought from the light
house. had en- practically all over the
lake in the line of traffic and had not
sighted the steamship. The Berwind is
not a passenger boat.
! NEW YORK, Dec. H.-New high rec
! ords were made in the cotton market
today with January selling at 1870, or Il
points above yesterdays close and Al
points above the lowest figures touched
since the publication of the government
! crop estimates. The highest prices were
reached late in the day as result OF
renewed bull support, covering and re-
ports of a better demand from mills
| GALLIPOLIS, Dec. 20-Heavy foes ol
! ice in the Ohio river stopped navigation
! between here and Pittsburg today. Many
| towboats on the way to Pittsburg with
empty barges were caught near here and
/ forced to the shores.
| PARIS, Tex, Dec H.-Hugh Blackney,
of this city, a student at Columbia uni
versity, was found dead beside a railroad
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