Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-23
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COTTON CROP ENRTCHES ATLANTA
LATEST
NEWS

A plan for the widening of West
Peachtree street from Baker to
Hunnicutt streets was adopted by
the City Council Thursday after
noon. The project incorporates
the widening by ten feet--five
feet on each side Of West Peach
tree for the six blocks indicated.
The plan will be submitted to
the Aidermanic Board, where its
promoters believe il will pass
without difficulty. Then the work
will be pushed with all speed.
COLON, PANAMA, Oct. 23.-
An earthquake shock of fifteen
seconds duration was felt here
o-day. Houses were rocked, but
no damage to property nor to the
Panama Canal was reported.
The unduIations began at sos
a. m. and were apparently from
cast to west.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. o.
A Government commission was
appointed to. day to study effect
Of the new American tariff law
upon Russian exports.
NEW YORK, Oct. 23.-Mrs.
Frank Wibourg, wife of a Gin
cinnati, Ohio, multi millionaire,
who was formerly an assistant
secretary Of commerce and labor,
pleaded guilty before Federal
Judge Hunt o-day to smuggling
good into this country. She was
fined $1,750.
CINCINNATI, Oct. 23.-Presi-
dent Charles w. Murphy, of the
CHICAGO Nationals, who is in Gin
einnati, denied to day that Roger
Bresnahan had been traded to
Brooklyn and would succeed
William Dahien as manager Of
that club. Murphy said there
was absolutely no truth in the re-
port.
CALUMET, MICH, Oct. a.
Seven deputy sheriffs were in
jured, three seriously, to day ip a
riot at the Mineral Range depot,
at Rcd Jacket. The officers were
escorting strike breakers to the
mines in that locality when they
were attacked by paradins strik-
ers and women, armed with
knives and clubs.
CHATTANOOGA, Oct. 23.--It
WAS stated to day that November
-
upon as the date for the celebra-
ton Of the completion of the So
000,0O0 lock and dam across the
Tennessee River at HaIes Bar,
Tenn. Many members of Con-
sress, including the Senate Com
mittee on Rivers and Harbors,
will attend.
MEXICO CITY, Oct. 23.-Word
was received here o-day Of the
massacre of so residents of Cho-
ran Atxieurin, in the state of
Michoacan, and the destruction
of the town by bandits posing as
rebels. The residents of the town
took refuge in the church and
fought until their ammunition
was exhausted. The town was
then burned.
NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 23.-At 3
o'clock this afternoon it was es-
timated that 80 lives we're lost
and 200 injured in the cyclone
which struck Louisiana early to-
day. The death list follows: At
Thibod eaux. 2; Luling, 8; PLAGUE
mine, I; Madison Parish, 8; Alb
hey, 3; Strose, 9.
TRINIDAD, COLO, Oct. 23.-
Fire broke out this afternoon in
the old No. 3 shaft of the STAG
Canon Fuel Company's property
at Dawson, and may spread to
shaft No. 2, where nearly 300 men
were caught by an explosion yes
terday afternoon. Revised figures
at o'clock this afternoon show
% men rescued alive, six bodies
recovered and 284 missing, and
perhaps dead. Dozens Of bodies
are said to be in sight, but can
not be recovered.
SWINDoN, ENGLAND, Oct.
<5.-Hepiylng TO a deputation of
suffragettes, Chancellor David
Lloyd George, Of the British Elk
chequer, predicted to-day that the
next session of Parliament or the
one Immediately following would
grant the ballot to women.
BADAJOSE, SPAIN, Oct. 49,
ION the Portuguese Frontier. t.
hundreds Of Portuguese refugees
arrived hero to-day, fearing an
outbreak OF civil war in Portugal.
They contradicted the reassuring
utterances Of the Government,
saying that the nonarehist revolt
was we'll planned, and that it had
not yet been quelled. Several
towns in Eastern Portuoal, they
said, have been seized by the roy
alists.
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