Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-02-16
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The discovery that little Lena Swift
contracted the white plague that
caused the death of her mother, Mrs.
jacques Bradley Swift, month ago,
was the actuating cause for bringing
the child from Washington to Allan
ia, according to Mondays dispatches
from the National Capital. The little
girl was brought to Atlanta by her
grandmother, Mrs. Lena Swift Hunt
ley, after lung specialist is said to
have declared that the baby could
not live in the winter climate of
Washington.
SAVANNAH, GA, Feb. 16.--The
people of Statesboro have sent tele-
graphic Endorsement of J. Randolph
Anderson, president of the Georgia
Senate, to Governor SIaton, asking
that he be appointed for the unex
pired term of Senator Bacon. Mr..
Anderson said: at is very gratifying
to me. Several of my friends have
spoken to me about it. | do not, of
course, know what will be DONE"
CAPE HAITlEN, Feb. 16.-Gov-
eminent troops to-day continued their
advance on this port. The rebels un-
der the leadership of General paVil-
mar Theodore have suffered two de-
feats, one at Plaisance and the other
at Port Dc Paix. The forces sent
north by President Zamor are rapidly
overwhelming the revolutionists.
BOSTON, Feb. 16.-News reached
Boston to-day by wireless of the
laundering of the three m asted Bos-
ton schooner John j. Hanson, in the
Al & =
crew of eight men by the freight
steamer Coamo, bound from New York
to Porto Rico.
TRINIDAD, COLO, Feb. 16.-A
breaking off of friendly relations be-
tween the Congressional subconarit-
tee which began investigating the coal
strike conditions here and the mill
tary authorities of Colorado was
threatened to day when {. p. COST
gan representing the striking miners,
demanded that the committee sum-
mon "Mother" Jones from San Rafael
miners. Major Boughton, Judge ad-
vocate of the Colorado National
Guard, declared the military authori-
ties would resist any attempt to COM
peI them to surrender her.
ASHTABULA, OHIO, Feb. TO-
Thirty two men are in peril aboard
the Marquette Bessemer No. 2 car
ferry, which is fast in the ice two
miles off this port. The BIC ship has
been stuck since Saturday afternoon,
and at noon to-day had not been re-
leased despite the use of large guam
titles of dynamite in an effort TO
break the ice.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 16.--The
crew of the Old Dominion liner Mon
roe had been on the vessel only tive
weeks and had held only two per-
functory boat drills between Decen,
Der %. the day they were shipped, and
January 80, when the Nantucket sank
the Monroe off the Virginia capes, ~
persons being drov ned, and the ere"
had never lowered the lifeb bats to the
water. These facts were brought our
at o-day's session of the government
investigation of the collision.
PROCTOR. ARK, Feb. 16.-Armed
guards We're to day placed around the
county Jail at Merton, Ark, to prevent
the threatened lync':ins of negro
med w. L. Campbell, lumber
| worker, accused of killing william
Mackey, a lumber buyer from Spring,
| field, Mo. Mackey's body was found
| in a pool of blood about midnight
Saturday. Six hours later blood
hounds traiIed Campbell two miles in
to the country, where he was found IN
| bed with four others. The dogs
picked him out of the crowd.
BRIDGEPORT. CONN.,, Feb. TO-
Driven insane by the sight of thrones
of richly attired women while she
faced the binding snowstorm without
money or proper food and in scanty
attire, Mary Mccormick, of Westport,
| Conn.,, drew a revolver from her
pocket on the street here to-day and
threatened to kill Ethel M. Francis
unless her demand for money was
complied with. William w. Roberts,
hearing the demand, snatched the err
volver away. A policeman saw the
scuffle and took the woman in charge.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 16.--Japanese
| Amb assador Chinda to- day conferred
with Consul General humane, of San
Francisco, and Consul General lIijima,
of New York, over the Japanese sit.
uation in California and other West
| maintained by the diplomats, but it
sioner Csminetti's recommendation
that Asiatic imm grafton should be
prohibited were under discussion.
WASHINGTON, Feb. t6.-The
House to-day passed the Lever hog
cholera bill approx risting 100000 for
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