Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-16
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- WIFE, TWO CNIlUTCn ana IUC nlSU
cost of living combined in the down
fall of Minor Van orsdaIe, a small
saIaried bookkeeper of Tuiahoma,
Tenn, according to the story Van
Orsdale told at the Atlanta police
station Monday. According to de-
tectiVes, Van Orsdale has confessed
he erbezzIed about 81 900 from his
firm, the Tennessee Milling Compa-
ny. Van Orsdale fled from Tullaho-
ma about month ago.
ST. PAUL, MIMI, March TO-
No decision was handed down to day
in the Governments suit to dissllVe
the international Harvester Com
pany. It was expected the judges who
heard the evidence and arguments
will render a decision next Monday.
LEAVENWoRTH, KANs,, March
16-Lloyd n. Bitzburger and Bert
Adams, che latter having several
aliases, made their escape from the
Fort Leavenworth Military Prison
this morning by breaking the lock
off their cell door with a crowbar,
entering the prison chapel, where they
made rope of the chapel carpet and
then lowering themselves 40 feet to
the busiest thoroughfare of the army
post. They are thought to have
swan the Missouri River.
FORT WORTH. TEXAS, March is
Claude Cooper, of the New York
Giants, an outfelder, to day signed
contract with the Brooklyn Federals
at a salary of 5000 year.
WICHITA FALLS, TEXAS. March
t6.-Engin Ellsworth was killed to-
day when a Missouri, Kansas and
Texas passenger train jumped the
tracks near Henrietta. Ellsworth was
crushed to death in his cab when the
engine rolled into the ditch.
MINNEAPOLIS. March 16.-For-
rner President William H. Taft ar
rived here to day to deliver four lee
lures before the University Of Min
nesota law school. This will be busy
week for the former President. as
long program Of Iuncheons and ban
quets has been arranged. This aft
OF Charles A. Eillsrd, who was per-
sonal friend of the President,
KNOXVILLE, TENN, March 10
Robert Carr, employee Of a knitting
when his clothing caught in parts
of the shaftine. His body was
whired around, striking the ceiling
and floor until both legs and arms
we're beaten off and his head crush
ed before the machinery was stop
ped.
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND, March
6,-Sir John Murray, the famous
scientist, was killed and his daughter
was fatally injured in an automobile
accident to day. The machine over
turned and crushed both Sir john
and his daughter beneath it.
NEW YORK. March 16.-Tae
Twentieth Infantry U. S. A., sta
toned at Fort Jay, Governors Island
received orders this afternoon to 80
at once to the Mexican border. The
order was surprise to the officers.
SEATTLE. March 16.-Larry Duke,
son of Brodle Duke, the millionaire
tobacco manufacturer, was placed on
trial in the Superior Court this morn
ina charged with mansIaughter. The
action grows out Of the death Of Hem
ry N. FAIR, who was rundown and
killed by an automobile owned and
driven by Duke. The State alleges
that Duke was drunk at the time.
PARIS, March femme. CaiIlou>,
wife of the French Minister OF FL
nance, to niaht shot Editor Calmette,
of Figaro, five times because Of the
campaign which that paper has been
wagng against ar husband. the
editor is dangerously wounded, but
has chance Of recovery.
SAGINAW. MICH, March 16.-
Frank G. PaImerton. aged 50 years,
and worth upward OF a million dol
in the bathroom OF his mansion here
this afternoon. He was found by
his wife and Tired Morris.
GREENWOOD, MISS, March TO-
C. A. Tracy, a prominent cotton man,
committed suicide this afternoon by
shooting himself with a shotgun.
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, March
16.-cIaude &. Cooper, New York
Giants outfielder signed contract
to day to play with Brooklyn Fed
eral League at a salary, it was re-
ported, OF $1,000 a year.
NEW YORK, March t6.-A new
epoch in the construction OF sea
fighters was marked to day when the |
keel Of the batteshlp SO which will !
probably be named the Arizona or
North Carolina, was laid in the New |
York Navy Yard. She will be the |
most powerful warshp afloat, having |
a displacement OF g 500 tons. She |
will mount twelve i4-inoh guns.
WASHINGTON March t6.-The |
Supreme Court OF the United States |
to- day announced recess from |
March % to April s.