Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-05

WASHINGTON, March 4.-By a
vote Of 302 to 8 the House late to day
PASSED the Booher bill to restrict the
Shipment of convict made goods IN
interstate commerce. The bill pro.
woes that any goods manufactured or
produced by convict labor shall be
SUBJECT to the laws of the State into
which they are shipped. Hafdwick,
OF georgia, voted against the bill.
"a ERSON, N. j., March 4.-Forty
persons were injured in d wreck on
the Susquehanna railroad this after
noon' according to a report which
reached here late this Afternoon.
some OF the injured may die, the re
port said, The wresk occurred at
here.
MEXICO CITY, March 4.-The first
naval battle of the present Mexican
revolution began to-day at TopoIa-
bamPoc,. according to reports Just re-
ceIVed here. The rebel gunboat Tam
Plco is said to have engaged with the
Government warshps Guerrero and
Morelos. The Tampico remained in
SIDE The harbor, while the Federal
boats were some miles away in the
Gulf of California.
CHICAGO, Ma CHI 4.-Eiqht youno
women, striking mattresses who were
picket duty for their union in front
OF Henrci's restaurant, were arrested
THIS afternoon. In a general riot Of
sympathizers and curiosity seekers
tn followed, several persons were
knocked down in the riot and it was
necessary to enlist mounted police
to charge the crowd and dispense il.
Miss Ellen Gates Starr, one of the
founders of Hull House, was in the
crowd that cheered the Mattresses as
they were carted away IN a patrol
wagon.
WARRINGTON, March 4.-That
the low duties of the Underwood tariff
act have not reduced the cost of liv-
ing, but have brought increased prof
its to foreign trusts" was the decla-
ration o-day before tho n ouse Ju-
dietary Committee by Horace Sterr,
a Philadelphia lawyer. Stern urged
an amendment to the anti trust bill
which would prohibit all foreign
trusts from maintaining exclusive
selling agents in this country.
ST. PETERSBURG. March Am
gered at the attitude taken by Cap
tain Won Stahl, chief of works at tine
Shrapnel Tube Factory of the Poul-
toff Armament Works, a foreman
seized an iron bar and killed the cap
tain to- day. The workman then COM
mtted suicide by jumping into the
machinery and being ground to death.
The tragedy was the result ct an or
der that the $1,000 workers partici-
pate in the celebration Of the emancl-
patton of the serfs. Then men re-
fused to obey the order and struck.
OMAHA, NEB., March 4.-Frank r.
Appleton, an electrician, was found
dead in his home o-day. A revolver
with one empty chamber was lying o.
the floor near his body. Mrs. Apple
ton, his young wife, was hysterical
and could give the police no account
of what had happened 4 not that
said he intended to end his life was
found, but the police doubt whether it
is the handwriting Of Appleton.
WASHINGTON, March Appetite
provision that the proposed Interstate
Trade Commission shall not begin an
investigation Of the affairs Of cor
poration until the commission has
around for reasonable bel ief that
the corporation has violated the Sher-
man act, will be inserted in the trade
commission bill by the Senate Com
mittee on Interstate Commerce, it was
learned o-day.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-The
new government of Haiti esta blished
after a months fighting and the for
chile abdication of the former PresI-
dent, has been formally recognized by
the United States, according to ad-
vices received to day at the Navy De-